Jacques Dutronc – Et moi, et moi, et moi (1966) from Jessica Johnston on Vimeo. Jacques Dutronc, obviously….. ———— Seven hundred million Chinese and I and I and I With my life, my little (more…)
Electric cars charged on coal powered grids pollute 3x a normal gas / petrol vehicle.
This is crazy. I always thought it would be the batteries that were found out to be the worst part…. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21636715-why-electric-car-may-be-much-dirtier-petrol-one-cleaner-what Sorta (more…)
Music as art vs commodity: The Free Market is definitely free from giving artists their proper royalties…
This kills me… about artists, licensing, royalties, etc. see attached. I have always been so curious about music as art, IE a personal compulsion that creates it vs desire to make money and be (more…)
I heard you liked blog posts. Here are some of mine to start the year.
So, since I just had my friend update this blog, and you can actually read it on more than a 1987 monochrome screen, I thought I would compile a bunch of some of my past faves that might get your mind (more…)
Anti-GMO is incredibly unscientific, based in opinion with no facts.
I have always been really cued into the public discussions that include a lot of opinion versus fact, etc. I am a huge skeptic, and big “science can save us from ourselves” guy. I am certainly not aggro (more…)
The Paradox of Choice, and MTV’s late 90’s revolutionarily prescient “Zoo-TV” #NOU2
The Paradox of Choice http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en Highly recommend that. Upshot: Old days: You went shopping for jeans. There was one type. They (more…)
There is no such thing as a Postmodernist Child.
“I hope that every time from now on, when you hear anybody talking about a Catholic child, or a Protestent child, a Muslim child, you will protest. You wouldn’t talk about a postmodernist child, or a Keynesian (more…)
The Peaceful People Are Irrelevant.
Apparently, she’s blowing up, and apparently, it’s totally controversial. I am not going to be pro- anything or pro- anyone in this article. I will say, I am generally speaking about any radicalized entity. I (more…)
The Myriad of Multiple United Americas.
I think a conversation about the two America’s would be healthy. Let’s stop pretending we’re one nation, undivided, when there’s this myth of a post-racial society, and a massive gap in how people view (more…)
You are using your phone because life has no meaning…..
I have a 2nd non smartphone flip phone that I take in place of the smartphone when I run errands, go to the gym, hang out with friends, etc. Unless it’s work, and I need a calendar, etc…. (more…)