APP-ALLING: OVER THE COUNTER COUNTERCULTURE (A COMMERCIAL)

Young Indie Alt Media Star FKA Twigs appears in a Spike Jonze video, with the lacerating title “Welcome Home,” about the circular route, around the dead rituals of Capitalism’s cheese-in-the-maze worship, to schizophrenia. But can the schizophrenia be monetized? Spike Jonze, the upper class video director who specializes in the mental illnesses of Serfs, addresses this question. In the video’s conceptual top layer, a mouse (trapped in a post-Blade Runner rainscape denied even the decorative mercy of neon lights) returns to her HomePod. Where has she been? Working? Wandering the streets? We’ll never know.  “Safely” within her HomePod again, she … Continue reading APP-ALLING: OVER THE COUNTER COUNTERCULTURE (A COMMERCIAL)

From the Dept. of Pre-emptive Spin (Archives)

  “By March, more than one million leaked documents from governments and corporations in Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Bloc will be available online in a bold new collective experiment in whistle-blowing. That is, of course, as long as you don’t accept any of the conspiracy theories brewing that Wikileaks.org could be a front for the CIA or some other intelligence agency.” —-Time Magazine (that well-known lefty-radical rag), Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 Continue reading From the Dept. of Pre-emptive Spin (Archives)

Where Idiot Activism and Social Engineering Meet

“So the next time you have the urge to call your little girl bossy? Take a deep breathe and praise her leadership skills instead.” Except when she’s being bossy, you silly fucks. There’s a big difference between leadership skills and telling your friends (with emphatic gestures) how they should sing or eat their noodles. “Jennifer Garner, Beyoncé, Jane Lynch, and More Urge Ban on ‘Bossy’” Yes, let’s make all the booboos go away by getting rid of those mean old wordy-words… at the behest of semi-literate propaganda stars! Welcome to Orwell’s Disney! Erm, wait, is this so when Hillary is … Continue reading Where Idiot Activism and Social Engineering Meet