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What Happened to the Stop Button?

January 30, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

The stop button has disappeared. Once ubiquitous, these buttons with the solitary but powerful impressed square were seen on every device from the Walkman to DVD players. If a device played media, it had a

#sotu

January 28, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

on the very short drive home tonite ‘they‘ were talking about the #sotu and various political what-evers… these fuking talking heads.. anyway, (and all this should be said with a blah blah blah sort of

Frank Zappa

January 22, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

Frank Zappa didn’t actually say, “Politics is the entertainment branch of the military-industrial complex.” But he said something close. And, honestly, if he had said that, he would have been right. Goddamn, I love being

This Week in Shoegaze

January 21, 2014 Alibi Pierce 3

This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnoNsZsFLY[/embedyt] Carmen Villain, aka Carmen Hillestad, is a Norwegian former supermodel whose 2013 release Sleeper has

Wendy Davis Didn’t Lie

January 21, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

So this is how it works: The GOP is a bitter bunch, with a serious and well-deserved inferiority complex. They like to go tit-for-tat. So, back in 2008, when the McCain campaign was releasing attack

#ppl

January 21, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

I have a good memory for ppl. I can usually remember the moment I met someone, especially if they are important to my life now. I won’t remember your name, but… I don’t know what

Weed Roundup!

January 20, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

In our last Weed Roundup we gave you tips on where to go to find the news you needed to know about the implementation of recreational pot sales in Colorado. This go around, we have

#community dignity

January 20, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

my grandfather, as Captain (about to get Maj., retired LtCol.) in the US Army wanted to move his family back to the states. he had already been decorated several times over battling in foreign wars,

#ghettoblaster

January 20, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

stereotypes are observed / prejudices are manufactured. they create a circuitous feedback with many entrances and exits; in other words, they feed each other; and both are valid human tools for survival as long as

#civilrights

January 15, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

people look to the past, “well, we operated on the best knowledge we had at the time, we didn’t know oppression, etc.. was wrong, we’ve matured we’ve grown, we’ve become more compassionate..” romantically almost, like

Wilford Brimley

January 15, 2014 Alibi Pierce 2

Proof that advertising and product placement work: One minute I’m sitting on the sofa watching The Daily Show, hearing Jon Stewart reference Wilford Brimley. The next I’m craving a motherfucking oatmeal cookie. -Alibi Pierce

More Benghazi

January 15, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

The media is jumping on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent report with headlines today screaming the obvious: We could have done more to protect Benghazi, maybe even prevented the attack. Even supposedly liberal stalwarts such

#no place like utopia

January 15, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

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#experimental music

January 15, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

a musician or artist can create an entire “the new” based off one-notion of one-idea.. an audience needs a fully formed idea to understand ‘the new’ before it can be recognized as “the new” –

#postrock

January 15, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

what I enjoy the most about really good postrock is when it becomes very difficult for me to picture humans making these sounds, behind instruments in a studio, with headphones on listening to a click track somewhere

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