WHAT: “Cthulhu said it, I believe it, that settles it.” My H+ feature on the cephalopod meme, “Kraken Rising: How the Cephalopod Became Our Zeitgeist Mascot.” READ IT HERE. NUT GRAF: When the stars align, [H.P. Lovecraft’s monstrous squid god] Cthulhu will rise again to resume His dominion over the Earth, ushering in an age […]
I’ve got a “reported opinion” piece on the Orphan Works Act—a radical overhaul of Copyright As We Know It, brought to you by the The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombie Legislators—in the December issue of the graphic-design magazine Print. Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford lawyer who launched the Creative Commons movement […]
Prophesied to last a millennium, Adolf Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich lasted only 12 years, from 1933 to 1945. Scripted to end–if it ever ended–in the melancholy grandeur of triumphal arches wreathed in ivy, its tawdry finale turned out to be a self-inflicted bullet in Der Fuhrer’s brain, as Soviet tanks rumbled into Berlin. The Third Reich’s […]
Now that Fleet Street’s carrion-feeders have fled, The Department of Hitler Studies (chairman emeritus: Jack Gladney) wonders about the deeper meanings of this whole foofaraw. To begin, who hacked the hakenkreuz on Harry’s armband? Did the costume manufacturer attempt to inoculate the wearer against public outrage by defanging the infamous icon—shortening the bent part of the cross?s arms? (Hitler?s eye for graphic design insisted on longer, more symmetrical arms.)
Und so weiter…
Today is “Not One More Damn Dime Day,” when conscientious objectors to four more years of our fratboy-in-chief’s Excellent Adventure are supposed to rage, rage against the machine by participating in “a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.” (As opposed to, like, non-consumer spending. You know, consuming without spending, like those supermarket […]