Saturday Scrawl: The Ontological Import of Bacon and Katherine Heigl
Posted by Nav on March 1, 2008
When people buy clothes or beauty products, how often have you heard them exclaim “I’m not buying this to be like someone else, I’m doing it for myself”? Think about that phrase and then look at this pic of Katherine Heigl which, to be totally hyperbolic, explains everything that’s wrong with everything.
To continue on with the hyperbole, this time about bacon: This Youtube clip of comic Jim Gaffigan makes the inarguable philosophical point that bacon is the most awesome incredible thing ever. (Also, here’s the world-famous bacon machine from the blogTO Flickr pool).[Update: the link to Jim Gaffigan is dead, presumably because of takedown notice from NBC. Can't wait 'til we Canucks get our very own DMCA!]
To criticise videogames is forbidden. To call them racist is, like, even more forbiddener. (Seriously: go on to a gaming message board and do it and watch your ass get destroyed in a deluge of liberal-humanism). So it pleases me that Yahtzee had the guts to half-seriously call Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune a white supremacist’s dream.
Mainstream writing on tech is often half-assed, but this bit on Slate is by far the best and funniest response to the HD format war debacle I’ve seen. (Related comment: is it me, or has Slate become the de facto standard for online magazines?)
Most of the ladies I know are ambivalent about engagement rings - but something tells me my feminist pals will like this one with the stone set upside down (thus leaving a razor sharp point on the outside).
In typical holier-than-thou grad student condescension, I’m wary of the Obama hype train and its requisite belief that individuals can change social systems. So this Newsweek analysis of Obama as a brand - i.e. as a product of trends and systems beyond the control of one individual - sits well with me.
You know what’s nice? Pretty, smart art. Yeah. (The link seems a little wonky though, so you may have to wait).
