Sandy and The Meta-storm
For all the pandemonium Sandy spewed on New York and Jersey, there was one meme that spread as far as the arms of the spiral itself, and it was this: […]
Essays (et al)
Instant Eradification
All of those unshowered, vagrant conspiracy theorists– the 99 percent who claimed the system was intrinsically stacked against them, the ones the main stream and liberal media pigeon holed– were […]
Tellin’ It Like It Should Be
Discerning what’s real and what’s not in our increasingly byte-sized reality is becoming a savagely challenging task. Add a home address in Hollywood, CA. and it can become downright surrealistic. […]
Head In The Clouds
It is said that Anaximander, the legendary pre-Socratic thinker from Miletus in Ionia, student of Thales, and teacher of Pythagoras, was on the toilet dropping a deuce when he decided […]
Dining With Frankenstein
It’s like a Kafka story, really, but directed for our present day reality by the Wachkowski brothers of The Matrix fame. The scale of the conspiracy is that big. Except […]
Shopping In The Matrix
Surely by now you’ve heard about the 16 year old girl who started receiving pregnancy related coupons in the mail care of Target? The ads enticed with discounts on formula, […]
The Giants Inside Us
In 1964 a British evolutionary biologist named W.D. Hamilton postulated a theory that came to be known as Hamilton’s Rule and it goes something like this: when we find ourselves […]
2012, We Hardly Knew Ya…
So as it turns out, Michael Stipe had it more right than the Mayan calendar. Though rumors have been spreading about the prophesy of apocalypse due for release on December, […]
Time Flies When You’re Having None
Four weeks left in 2011….. Can that be possible? Where were we last New Year’s? Eating thirty-six oysters at the Mermaid Inn and listening to a phatass funk band at […]
Choosing A Financial Occupation
It’s a strange thing tripping through lower Manhattan these days. A few blocks beneath the rebuilding of One World Trade’s Freedom Tower, a project remarkably far along considering the glacial […]
The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks
The decades long rift between Greece and Turkey over the existence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has become a tumultuous hot-button issue in lieu of Turkey’s potential admittance to the […]
Hurricane of Hype: What does not kill us, makes us softer!
So all the fuss over Irene being a totally devastating experience ended up like most nights with overhyped women… A blue-balled dry humping. Granted, there was serious flooding, but hardly […]
Profits Before Life: Good Thinking!
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You’re An Idiot And It’s Not Your Fault
A slew of recent scientific studies have finally begun to shed light on the likely reason so many people are so astonishingly stupid. Not to worry, but the shocking new […]
The Hubris of the Penis
I am powerful. This is my penis. I am wealthy. Here is my wang, surrounded by gold and diamonds. I am way too old to still be considered attractive. This […]
We’re The Libyan Hit Squad
It was back in the early 1980’s when Muammar Gaddafi was truly terrifying… His bravado commando persona stood in such stark contrast to our bumbling, smiling, airy voiced actor-in-cheif. Or […]
Excito-toxicity: The Fatal Flaw of Mental Viagra
There’s one great myth regarding neuroscience that has been widely disseminated over the years: we only utilize about 10% of our brainpower. This may be true for those propagating this […]
Eva Franco: Beyond The Hemline
“Fashion requires you to multi-task,” says designer Eva Franco amidst the vibrant hum of her downtown L.A. studio. “We’re in production on the Fall 2011 Collection while simultaneously designing Spring […]
Charlie Sheen Meet Sean Penn
Charlie Sheen… Ungrateful waste of human DNA? Or someone truly ill? Why waste one more self-aggrandizing nano-second on the easiest target Hollywood has produced since Mel Gibson? After all, Middle Eastern […]
Any Requests, Motherf*%!ers?
In 1979, a fella with a guitar proclaimed, hey hey, my my, rock’n’roll can never die, and for all he knew, it probably held water, or at least a few […]
Things Fall Apart – The Inevitability of Social Entropy
One of this year’s Field Metal winners– a Nobel Prize equivalent bestowed upon scientists under 40– worked within the second law of thermodynamics to create a novel equation for calculating […]
More Real Than Real: Philip K. Dick’s Visionary Post Humanism
(Originally published in Strange Horizons Science Fiction Magazine June 27, 2011) “Being Human is aspiring to be human. Since it is not aspiring to be the only human, it is […]
We’ll Just See About That Won’t We?
America’s taken the lion’s share of ass kicking from the world at large as of late, and like all things American, it was extremely well earned, and most likely paid […]
The Great Indoors
According to a recent Pew Research Poll, the average American spends only 72 minutes outdoors a day. It is a stunning factoid when you consider two things: there are 1440 […]
The Magic Bowl Part 1
Private Ritual, Public Display There’s no better immersion into the vast canon of classical music than an al fresco, starlit night at the Hollywood Bowl. It’s a testament to Los […]
The Magic Bowl, Part 2 – Madness and Musical Creativity
Grand Tours, as they were known in the 17th Century, were responsible for educating and ultimately inspiring our most famous composers. The idea is believed to have originated in England. After an […]
One-Man Shows and the Woman Who Perfected Them
Even though I’ve been the only person on stage for five original theater pieces, I never tell people I’m doing a “one-man” show. There’s no faster way to turn […]
Note For Note
Honoring America’s Cultural Foundation It can be argued with some confidence that there are no American art forms more authentic and influential than Jazz and Blues. Not even baseball, which […]
Unlimited Austin – Part 1, Everything’s Bigger In Texas
It was amidst the torpid deluge of sweat from the predominantly under 25 crowd at The Coachella Music Festival where I realized, with unsullied clarity, just how much better the […]
Unlimited Austin – Part 2 Dionysus in Cowboy Boots
I’ve often heard it said that a band “hits the stage”. For those who weren’t ever sure why, see Gogol Bordello, an interracial myriad of gypsy troubadours who hit the […]