The American Crawl, or, Happy Pre-Election Day
This November morning, a three-day-old headline was still circulating above the fold on the website of the French paper, Le Monde. The French, or the French news industry at least, are rather...
View ArticleWhat If We Put the “Militia” Back in the Second Amendment?
The mass shooting that took place in Sandy Hook, Connecticut earlier this month, one of the worst in United States history and the seventh that took place in 2012, has brought gun control to the...
View ArticleErosion Revelation
Surface and Substance Veneer and Core Order and the Ad Hoc Materiality and Abstraction Sculpture and Craft On a brief surgical insertion into Venice, I experienced a series of insights caused by...
View ArticleThe World of Non-Dating: A Review of ‘The Gaggle’
The Gaggle: How the Men You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want, a self-help book on dating, relationships, and love by Jessica Massa, casts off traditional dating myths and lore by offering a...
View ArticleThe Real Life Survival Guide: Stuff
Words have meanings. “Stuff” is both verb and noun, and both its uses have a generically unpleasant sensibility. Beloved icons of past eras are neither “stuff,” nor do we “stuff” them anywhere. But...
View ArticleThe Free Work Debate, or, Poll: Would You Pay for The Mercurial?
There’s been a great deal of reporting on what I’ll call the peanuts phenomenon within the past week – people working for very small amounts of money, or for free, in order to advance their careers...
View ArticleTo Lean In or Not to Lean In: That Is, Indeed, the Question
Throughout history, the quest to define what it means to be a woman has been no easy task. The guidelines of femininity have forever been as unpredictable and fleeting as a New England winter...
View ArticleThis Week on the Information Super Highway – April 5, 2013
As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a...
View ArticleThe Umbilical Dilemma
Everyone of a certain age remembers “In Living Color” – the great 1990s weekly comedy TV show that helped launch the careers of the Wayans family – Kim, Shawn, Marlon, and Dwayne as well as Jim...
View ArticleOpera, Pressure Treated Wood and “The Truth”
-fine arts architecture has left the building One son loves opera, studies Italian to better appreciate it, and has sung it at the highest collegiate level (in the chorus). This spring he sang in...
View ArticleIn Defense of Luhrmann’s ‘Gatsby’
So many people have their vintage panties in a twist about the apparent lack of historical accuracy in Baz Luhrmann’s long-awaited interpretation of The Great Gatsby, the novel every high school...
View ArticleCicadas, Tebow, & Comet Kohoutek
When I heard that zillions of cicadas would emerge to greet the sun in June, have sex and, according to the journal Science, create a “nightmare” of unrelenting cacophony, I had a flashback – not to...
View ArticleNews Feed Anorexia
My laptop’s MSN home page is a revelation. I am so techno-lazy that I never select a homepage – I just go with what is there after someone in my office loads up my latest software vessel. But the...
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