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Keep Your Goddamn Apocalypse Away From My Kids

Posted 1 year ago

I’m back. And I’m pissed.

If you live in New York, you’ve probably seen the signs on the subway for a food delivery service that promises to bring you anything, at any time. If you want sushi, they will fetch it for you, even if they have to go to the ocean to do so. In fact, the…

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Can We Die Online? Aspiring After Being

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

In the summer of 2001 – yes, the Time Before – I took a graduate course in web design. I had no real interest in the subject, but all students who took part would receive brand-new laptops, and I badly needed one. So I suffered through near-incomprehensible instruction in Dreamweaver, with…

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Hey BP: This One’s For the Birds

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

FYI: there are no dead animal pictures in this post, because I can’t bear to look at them long enough to post them. Since news of the BP spill — if you can call something gushing at 12000 psi a “spill” — my entire media experience has been organized with the sole purpose of avoiding images…

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