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Camera Shy, Blah, Blah, Blah
My basic idea is that our times are weird times. On the one hand, they are superficially permissive. You get all the hardcore you want on the net, you can participate in orgies, blah blah blah. But at the same time it’s not even true consumerism. You have this obsession with ...

A Little Light Data
It’s hard to believe that at a distant time the US Congress exercised some legislative common-sense over ownership of media. The 1934 Communications Act codified diversity of ownership as fundamental to the public interest. Then, forty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that ...

Pistols for Two: Jay Rosen vs Thomas Frank
January 2013
Issue No. 12
Jay Rosen Writes: “At a time when the normal condition of the citizen is a state of anxiety, euphoria spreads over the culture like the broad smile of an idiot.” The critic Robert Warshow wrote that in 1948. Fifty years later, something similar appears to be on Thomas ...

Grating to the Oldies
January 2013
Issue No. 12
At Ed Debevic’s we’re proud to say that we were one of the first restaurants to incorporate our special brand of entertainment into the dining experience. Since we opened our first restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona in 1984, many other restaurants have come along to offer ...

Goblins’ List
January 2013
Issue No. 10
The following list is a menu of proposed and completed projects that The Goblins, a masked musical group, provides to record labels interested in working with them. The superiority of this method, as opposed to the traditional “demo tape,” should be clear. The Goblins ...

Extreme Spreadsheet, Dude!
January 2013
Issue No. 9
Excerpts from the prospectus for an initial public stock offering for VANS, a shoe and apparel company that caters to alienated suburban youth. As a result of [its] reputation, the Company has developed a strong brand image which the Company believes represents the ...