Revolting

The Eventual Thoughtlessness of the Homogenized Mind. Either by algorithm, lowest-cost architecture, or the crushing weight of American cultural hegemony, we are all being rinsed clean of original thought, encouraged to communicate in memes and enjoy things like “boneless” wings. Music pick of the week: Robot – Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans Stevil –Lady […]

The Revolting Biopic Starring Danny Devito and Pauly Shore. The Revolting biopic is a comedy and a cautionary tale, a bildungsroman and a French period drama. Sure, it’s got panache and style. The costumes are outstanding, but what are the lessons we’re meant to learn from it and why does the plot seem so incoherent? […]

For a Brief, Shimmering Moment We Were Gods. We may look like only slightly abnormal human beings, but oh, you should have seen us back in the day, or rather, on that one day, when we were really good at something, so good that we remember it and base some not insignificant amount of our […]

The Motivation is the Message. Marshall McLuhan, who was Canadian and had a great name, thought the “medium was the message,” but it was the ‘60s, and apparently he also thought a mustache was a solid move. Anyway, since then media has exploded into a million little messages, and it seems more clear than ever […]

Coup d’etat! Coup d’etat! It was 1984 and Repo Man was in the theaters, a couple of them anyway. The suburban United States suddenly became aware of a little LA band called The Circle Jerks. Forty years later, some large part of the US custom bike building community converges unironically on Portland, and a whole […]

How Heavy is Your Record Collection? You can measure it a couple ways. Raw weight. Number of Slayer albums. Quality vs. quantity. This is all really just an excuse to talk more about music and how we consume it and to express even more of our questionable opinions. Music pick of the week: Robot – […]

The Fine Print in the Social Contract. Just cause we’re introverted malcontents doesn’t mean we’re not on our second-best behavior when we’re out in public. Out there in the streets it’s a collaboration. Teamwork makes the dream transpire in a more agreeable fashion. So how do we get more people to understand there’s no ‘them’ […]

Excuse Me, Can I X-ray your Xylophone. We’ve both been back to places we might have come from to revisit our roots, and all the while you think you’re finding a deeper part of yourself, the connections are breaking down in time. Maybe you realize you’re just a random collection of genetically encoded dust, or […]

Caring Carers Who Care. We can all agree that it’s much better to not care than to care, but sometimes you have to, and more specifically, sometimes you have to take care of something or someone you didn’t expect to. This can be mentally and emotionally draining. Why is it so hard to care for […]

As Punk as Kettlebells and Scented Candles. When you’re just a pimply-faced teen trying to establish yourself as an iconoclast and quite possibly a voice of your generation, things are pretty simple. You pull on your bondage pants and your Chuck Taylors and show the world who’s boss. Then you get old as shit and […]