Wax Scrawls is an increasingly frequent feature here on Scrawled in Wax where I link to things that fall outside my ‘culture of technology’ schtick or simply stuff I don’t have time to blog about. Enjoy!
Mad Men Lighters. I know it’s wrong, but I kinda’ want one. By the way, if you haven’t seen AMC’s Mad Men, you should give it a go. I’ll probably write more on the show later, but what has initially struck me is that it feels like watching the birth of late capitalism. [via]
A defence of Family Guy. Not normally the sort of thing I’d link to (CNN?), but it’s actually pretty good. More important though is this sentence: “These are examples of the cutaway sight gags and comic asides booby-trapping “Family Guy,” making each episode’s story line feel hyperlinked to out-of-nowhere bits of foolishness.” See, when Joyce published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, everyone remarked how it borrowed ‘jump cuts’ from film. Is this something similar?
The Psychology of the Internet. This looks interesting – if nothing else, as simply a starting point.
Doug Saunders is by far my favourite columnist. This is a great example of why, where he looks at the shift in left-right politics in Europe and how it might affect an Obama presidency.
A discussion of the relevance of truth that, to me anyway, makes me think that cultural theory > philosophy.
And finally, since I linked to a piece on Nas last time, here’s track 1 off the new album. What’s neat here is the way he fucks around with rhyme/meter – it feels off-kilter in a very cool way.
