American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

People who know people

How to articulate this? Increasingly, I’m experiencing this problem of knowing so much about people I don’t know that I feel like I do know them. It’s worse than celebrity stalking because the people aren’t really celebrities. Why do I need to know so much about a couple of famous-in-blogland bloggers? But I do. So [...]

Mainstreaming Pop Art

So, even though it is called Pop Art, where the pop strands for popular, quite a bit of it still has not found its place in mainstream society. In fact a lot of developing pop art has not found a place in popular culture (which leads to the question, “is it still pop [...]

Bukowski

Some consider Charles Bukowski one of the greatest American authors of the the 20th century. In his 30 some odd years of writing he produced somewhere in the range of 100 books, including stories and poetry.
An article from LA Weekly discusses part of the legacy Bukowski left behind: Mostly his writing was about being [...]

O, Housing Bubble

Slow day, eh? Everyone’s already in holiday mode.
I went on a LOOOOONG lunch today and got to talking with a new friend about the follies shows we put on (most recently I posted about the Bloomberg parody video and Gawker picked up on it, too).
She asked how long it took me to write the song [...]

Fat Assed Americans

Forbes just published an article: America’s Most Obese Cities.
Unfortunately the news in this article isn’t that surprising. Americans tend to be obese, shocking. This obesity is caused, at least in part, by eating poorly and being lazy. Did I mention how shocked I was by this information. High poverty rates also tend to add [...]

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