I’m wearing a tie, Phelps gets high, Fairey lies, MacAir bye bye, and other examples of assonance

well, i’m killing time in my college’s computer lab and i look rather dapper, as today i was at my lovely new internship at Boston Magazine. everyone here seems to be looking at me like i’m very important or something. well, I AM! gawker.com says that unpaid interns are the future! i hope they’re right.

in other news… have you seen this photo yet? every where i turn it’s there! yeah, it’s America’s golden boy (haha get it?) Michael Phelps ripping a bong. i don’t care about the circumstances of this debauchery, for it really doesn’t affect me. HOWEVER, it is pretty funny that he kinda sorta got 8 kids arrested for it. personally, partying with the Phelps-meister doesn’t sound all too thrilling. but if given the opportunity i probably would, just like if someone offered me human… i’d try a bite. what? you wouldn’t??

on a different note, i stumbled upon sony’s new Vaio P, which is their new netbook (that’s right, it’s not a notebook, people. we have a hip new word for these things now). and guess what! it’s only like 8 inches big. and it’s about as heavy as a banana. gizmodo informs me that while it may not be the best for streaming YouTube videos or using photoshop, it sure as hell is a pretty functional all-around computer. and that’s good enough for me. finally maybe people will realize why this piece of shit is.. well.. a piece of shit:

to wrap up: i can’t help but feel like this Shepard Fairey fella is a douchebag. i mean, firstly, he quite obviously stole that Obama image from AP for his now famous ‘Hope’ andywarhol-knockoff (gosh those college kids love their t-shirts). then he had the nerve to sue THEM before they could sue him. and then, when he was arrested and tried in Boston last week on grafitti charges, he plead not guilty. so… you’re a street artist? orrrr you’re not? own up to your shit, man.

that’s all. thanks for reading.

Who Will Survive (And What Will Be Left Of Us)?

I am an avid fan of crosswords. I do, on a regular basis, the crosswords of The Boston Globe, The Metro, and The Dig. I even save all the puzzles that i finish, which amount to about one a month, which is a big deal for me. So, when i read this article i said to myself, “OMFGZ! I totally noticed this recently, too!”

(From Politico.com) “Times puzzle is clueless about McCain”:

“Crossword puzzles heavily favor Democrats… According to the puzzle database maintained by Cruciverb.com, ever since that game-changing day in 2005, OBAMA has appeared regularly as an answer in New York Times crossword puzzles.”

I’m not even going to get into the “Crosswords favor Democrats” line (because let’s face it, Republicans do Sudoku, duh), but i have to say that OBAMA has definitely been an answer maybe a dozen times in puzzles over the past few months.

Oh, and “Wal-Mart to cut global plastic bag waste 33 pct”??? Really!? How’s about… Wal-Mart cuts exploitation of minority and underprivileged workers? How about, oh i dunno, Wal-Mart stops monopolizing and subsequently stops the systematic destruction of the small-business honest American workingman/woman? Plastic bags: great, let’s get rid of that shit. But in terms of human ethics… I’d say you got some other more pressing shit to reevaluate, Wal-Mart.

Also from the wonderful Politico.com, i found this gem that apparently “Students [are] encouraged to be involved in community“. I, after a thorough (yet cursory) glance at the article must say that no matter what party (or even if it’s both) is fucking urging college kids to be a part of the “community”, i have a heads up: WE ARE A PART OF THE “COMMUNITY”. WE’RE EDUCATING OURSELVES TO TAKE BACK THE COMMUNITY THAT SOMEHOW HAS BEEN LOST AND/OR TAKEN AWAY FROM US OVER THE PAST 2 OR 3 DECADES. And, yes, we’re drinking beer and having sex while we do it.

Bush urged students to find opportunities for volunteering rather than focus solely on pursuing a profitable career.

Okay, if this is true, which i realize is indeed somewhat factual, i think what a lot of people are missing is that kids are going to college to “pursue profitable careers” because of the way they have been socialized and taught to believe in the validity and necessity of global capitalism and consumerism when that has brought us, in essence, nothing but problems such as war, poverty, complete class division, and the deterioration of what was once referred to as the American Dream.

As the great Thomas Hobbes once wrote, “Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves,” we the students, the unappreciated scholars, the youth of the world will show and teach each other once again what it is to be a civil society.

Also, i heard someone mention something about a recession and/or economic crisis? I dunno about that one… sounds like a bunch of malarchy to me.