Compared To Generic

It can be tough. You try to get your money’s worth. You have to make decisions, and yet, the decisions, the options, they’re increasing daily. There’s a generic option of every thing. There’s Avatar: The Last Air Bender and there’s the generic Highschool of the Dead. With the first one, you may laugh, you may …

To Wish For Allergens

There is a misconception among most of us regarding allergies. Specifically: most of us don’t want them. We think we know everything, so we assume the allergies will make us miserable, coughing, sneezing, itching, and scratching. Usually, it’s how anybody reacts to their allergies, so it’s not an unfounded assumption. A few people in our …

Hyperculture II

One of the most fascinating, and possibly most ridiculous, consequences of hyper-culture is when pieces of culture get shared with ostensibly the wrong people. Dutch dreadlocks? Australians with a hunger for cajun food? Young white boys with lines shaved in their eyebrows? Romanians celebrating Cinco de Mayo? None of the borrowing or sharing is wrong …