Tag Archives: Glenn Beck

grape nuts: birth of a nation

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Dave

grape nuts. marketing waste product to human chickens? There ain’t nobody here but us chickens. I’m o.k. but you’re not o.k. y’know just down there. Create a demand and fill it….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): Do you know what … Continue reading →

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will you stay or will you buy?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dave

Rock the Cashbah.The commodification of punk. Was it all about the look? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When these durn kids these days talk about punk bands, they always get all misty-eyed and slobbery over the clash. Yet, they think of the … Continue reading →

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cultural collision: fatal impact

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dave

The American dream, white picket fences and two cars in every garage…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) Magazine cover of the week!! Well, maybe the half century? When we think back on the 1950′s, the cliched vision we concoct is … Continue reading →

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CELEBRITY as COMMODITY FETISH: Recycle Those Tropes and Posers

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Dave

For better or worse….Celebrities are not diversions for our society anymore; they are the basis of our social and economic lives.The worship of celebrity, for many is a religion fabricated and patented piecemeal out of the hollowness of some foregone … Continue reading →

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ATHEIST-thetics of CHRISTMAS: Just be Merry?

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Dave

Is it presents or presence? Santa or Saint Nick, or that sly devil of a Krampus would be left rubbing their chinny chin chins over these. Drinking and driving a sled full of gifts is not recommended but….Its the Holidays, … Continue reading →

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FACING UP TO ELITISM: Not A Private Affair

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Dave

Are you an elitist? Does the phrase make you insecure, vulnerable? is it a metaphor for other personal fears ? Meanwhile, it is usually elitists that accuse other elitists of being ….elitists. Then how can they despise elitism? Can you … Continue reading →

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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dave

We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading →

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WEIMAR: “CREOLE LOVE CALL” on the Rhine

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dave

Everyone loves to throw around the Weimar metaphor, from pundit Glenn Beck to America’s anarchist in residence Noam Chomsky, and a contingent of microphone friendly snake oil salesmen in between…Crazy or sane, left or right, the analogies of fear mongering … Continue reading →

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THE WEIMAR “LAST TRANCE” CABARET: Escaping to Feed Your Head

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Dave

For Walter Benjamin, this was the real significance of the First World War, “an attempt at a new and unprecedented commingling with the cosmic powers.” He worried that mankind’s alienation from itself was deepening “to such a degree that it … Continue reading →

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DR. JEKYLL & MR. GARGOYLE : AUGMENTED REALITY

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Dave

… they only come out a night. Augmented reality has to be considered as part of the future of humankind. There are many ways for us to add data to our lives beyond the what is there physically.This could be … Continue reading →