You probably didn’t know this, but the main reason that anyone ever shows up to those anarchist rallies is girls. That’s right, folks, just like everything man has ever accomplished, anarchism is yet another way to impress the ladies. However, this is no ordinary I’m-just-doing-this-to-get-laid type of situation. A dedicated anarchist, like a 24 year [...]
Archive for the ‘americana’ Category
Anarchist Chic
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You Can Have Your Caviar and Eat It Too!
Posted in americana, new yorkishness on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times may be dying, but at least they are going out with aristocratic panache. This is only the latest installment in their covert series The Plight of the Overlords, in which they cover such broadly appealing and inspirational topics as womb rental (now priced to sell!), Wall Street housewives forced into the [...]
Behind The Times
Posted in americana, new yorkishness on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This article (see photo), that article (especially the part about the professional book club facilitator), and this column (weekly advice for people with a second home) make me want to barf.
Seriously, the New York Times should hire someone, whose full-time job will be to critique the patrician sensibilities of this graying, bourgie publication. Oh wait, [...]
the monday to end all mondays
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today in my cubicle, which is far less oppressive than it looks in writing, I overheard a co-worker describe this as the ultimate monday, sluggish from the feasts and family of Thanksgiving and aprehensive of frenzied shopping, planning, travelling, and loose-end-tying that mars the otherwise wonderful month of December. It was grey today, which gives [...]
Black Friday
Posted in americana, political free speech on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shopping! Consume Exciting, New, State-of-the-Art Products! America! SALE! BUYBUYBUYBUYBUY! Happiness! Shoes, Games, DVDs! Everyone will be jealous of your apparent prosperity! Presents for everyone! recession PLASMA SCREENS! U! S! A! X-Mas now 30% off! Family time: buy none, get none free! CREDIT CARDS!
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or you could read a book. maybe somebody on your christmas list could [...]
its a bird, its a plane, its a chinatown bus!
Posted in americana, frumious bandersnatch, tagged animal-slaves, musketry, pirates, revolution, the elderliest on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As my bus rolls through the skeletal forests of the midatlantic, I’m reminded of this ancestral, deeply patriotic idea that Americans are men and women who eek out an existence in a harsh world, yeomen who want only what they rightly deserve; Spartan farmers wearing French wigs and eating Indian grain and drinking English tea. [...]
