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#illuminatetheproject

March 13, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

mmm that makes sense. it doesn’t come out negative from him and I hope I don’t sound negative not really, but not warm fuzzies either – i know what you’re meaning, but I’ve realized recently

CVS To Stop Selling Cigarettes. So What?

February 5, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

The way that CVS was praised today you would think they had announced a company-funded initiative guaranteeing the end of homelessness, or maybe something slightly smaller and more achievable like paying their employees a living

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

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

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

#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

A Star is Born

January 14, 2014 Alibi Pierce 1

As the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” coverage becomes more heated and more inescapable, and local Democrat senators begin talking about impeachment; as the full gamut of MSNBC hosts gleefully celebrate the impending demise of the GOP’s

Chasing the Dragon: An Ode to Atlantic City

January 13, 2014 Fara Paige 3

Today, after 34 years, The Atlantic Club, the former Golden Nugget/Bally’s Grand/Hilton, closes its doors. In 1980, the then Golden Nugget became Atlantic City’s sixth casino to open after the 1976 legalization of gambling. Within

The Christie Conspiracy Theory

January 10, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

On Wednesday, I wrote about the now inescapable Chris Christie bridge story. It had been simmering for a couple of months, but hit full boil status when texts and emails were released implicating top Christie

Windows H8

January 10, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

Windows 8 launched in 2012 with a $1 Billion ad campaign, hyping the new operating system as the missing link between the endangered dinosaur PC and the computing devices of now and the future: Tablets

This Week in Shoegaze

January 9, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. We begin this feature with the latest project from Simon Raymonde, core member of the pioneering

True Detective

January 9, 2014 Alibi Pierce 1

Late last night, Slate’s television critic, Willa Paskin, published a review of HBO’s True Detective that confirms exactly what we’ve known all along: The show is going to be AWESOME. HBO seems to have lost

Nut Case

January 9, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

The worst thing about mixed nuts is that there are too many peanuts, right? That’s what I assumed, at least, when Googling for a few links to support my below statement. I assumed there would

Christie’s Bridge

January 8, 2014 Alibi Pierce 1

Back in early December, Rachel Maddow began to hammer on New Jersey’s governor and potential 2016 Presidential candidate Chris Christie for a burgeoning scandal in his home state. Basically, in September, New York and New

Welcome to The Stoner’s Journal

January 8, 2014 Alibi Pierce 0

Welcome to The Stoner’s Journal. Despite the name, this is not a celebration of “weed culture,” or a destination for weed news. We’ll leave that to the plethora of sites already out there providing such