Category archives: koyaanisqatsi

I thought you were cool, Australia.

I generally knew Australia had some serious censorship issues. The ones that stick out most in my mind was the censored version of GTAIII (which notably removed the ability to recover cash from killing prostitutes the player had previously employed) and, if I recall, Manhunt 2 for reasons other than the fact that it sucked.
Later, […]

Unintended consequences, or why I’m glad I didn’t get that job at The Columbian

… although they didn’t have to be dicks about it and not call me back.
I probably wouldn’t have survived the first round of layoffs. At least, while I really don’t like my current job, it’s some money coming in. Even if I had, I would have found myself in their old grubby, modernist (think ’60s […]

Saturday Happytime: AIG

AIG: “I accidentally 71% of our loan from the Fed.”
Credit agencies: “ur fuct lolz!”

Handy tools: A cavalcade of financial fail

Whoo! Crises rule. This even has Tom leaving (select the text in the initial post to read it) his admittedly narrow news habitat. Also, you dorks should Plurk moar (or at all), the microforum concept is fantastic and way more fun than Twitter – too bad there’s no mobile phone action.
But, I digress. This post […]

ATTN Jacob Jones: The only House of Leaves reference you will see on the internet today

And anyone else who has read House of Leaves, I forget how many of you there are.

At least I think it is – I haven’t read the book, but I’m somewhat familiar with its postmodernarity.

World out of balance: Blah blah newspapers

I write about the media so seldom, I have decided it shall go into my koyaanisqatsi category.
Anyway, the good Dr. Mr. Monsignor Yelvington got all mythical, declaring a white peace (today’s vocab, suckas) in the print/web war, marking the end of the internetiers’ self-created sisyphusian efforts to make the internet work for newspapers. For management’s […]

World out of balance: Double bonus

Depravity reached a new high this evening when I mumbled the dialogue of an episode of COPS along with the TV.
It’s not wholly my fault – it was a catchy one. The police respond to an old woman’s house where some guys had just stolen a bunch of liquor she had kept on the premesis. […]

World out of balance: Barackroll

I’m just so very afraid.

Today’s world out of balance: I think I’m going to break up with This American Life

I’ve got three weeks of This American Life backed up and, for some reason, I can’t seem to focus.
My dependency upon the program is my biggest secret. I’ve been a listener since 2000, maybe earlier. It really has sculpted the way that I talk almost as much as the internet.
Everything pithy about me, every poignant […]

World out of balance: WSJ writes about 4chan.

And they call it modest. Those of you who aren’t familiar with how the internets work, might not recognize 4chan as that place where almost every durable meme began or got big. Of course, one of the features of 4chan that the article glosses over is its gigantic exotic porn collection – (true to […]