Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Sep 21st, 2011
While Americans might waste time waxing nostalgic for a declining age (visions of mom-and-apple-pie and the inflated egotism of our car industry), I would like to point out something that is truly representative of our nation’s greatness. Although the history of macaroni and cheese does not begin in the United States, I’ll be a patriot [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 11th, 2011
The hotel: at once a space both public and private, each door along the anonymous hallway leading to the domestic security of consumer and business culture. As a guest in any hotel we are everyone, and never exactly ourselves. For the spy thriller, the hotel is a necessary trope: it is a meeting ground (accidentally-on-purpose) [...]
Posted in Reviews on Mar 7th, 2011
Congratulations grandma, you’re eighty, and you still bus into the city and take the subway. You wait in line, you walk (but never jog, never ever jog). It’s time. Time for you to look as mean as a bulldog and take advantage of senility. You like to guess where the bus door is going to [...]
Posted in Reviews on Aug 6th, 2010
The problem with the emergence of the 21st century hipster is how to decide what a “hipster” is. The characteristic schisms – my post-punk won’t date your jazz-age – tell us the qualities of hipster, not what makes a hipster. This has led to articles demanding the “death of the hipster” and for good reason, [...]