The Significance of Nothing
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Steve Harvey Is Not a Real Person
When comedians deliver stand-up material, you feel like you get to know their actual personalities. Certainly more so than you do with a musician performing their set, or a painter at a gallery. Comedians explain their thought processes through everyday interactions, family and friendship dynamics, their failures, and their
Before the Algorithm, There Was Walter Winchell
A gossip columnist from the 1930s understood something platforms would later build into software: attention grows when news, personality, rumor, entertainment and power share the same stream.
Offensive Band Names and What I Think About Their Music, Part 2: The "Animal" Edition
If you missed Part 1: The "Political" Edition, give it a read here! If you'd like to listen along as you read, here are the ongoing Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube playlists for the music discussed in this "Offensive Band Names" series (where available)
A Six-Part Review of Kopi Luwak—The World's "Shittiest" Coffee
If you've ever seen the 2007 comedy-drama film The Bucket List featuring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, you may remember the scene in which Nicholson's fanatical character learns exactly what Kopi Luwak is. If you haven't seen the film or are unaware of