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It’s a bizarro, dystopian nightmare where everyone is forced to wear a chip so that the big bad whoever can track their location in real time. If you ask many Gen-Z people, that’s not such a bad thing. Enter Apple, with Find My Friends, or Life 360. These are tracking apps. They’re like social media […]
I just heard Olivia Rodrigo. I live under a rock, got the same ten albums from high school on repeat. Now I had heard of her, who hasn’t? But I hadn’t moseyed over to YouTube to check her out. But I now have, starting with her video “Get Him Back,” and I’m going to declare […]
Muppets Music. Muppets are cool. Wow, way to come out of the gate with some controversy. Yes, Muppets are cool. They’re cool in a very transcendent way. I’m looking at the downslope of the hill if I glance back, I see me in front of the television, five years old, watching Muppets (actually, at three, […]
Singer-songwriter Cat Power has recently done the amazing. She has resurrected Bob Dylan. Yes, I know Bob Dylan isn’t actually dead, and what she resurrected was a famous concert of his. Powers hasn’t commented on whether or not she will resurrect Bob Dylan himself should that cloud one day darken our doorsteps. Bob Dylan doesn’t […]
Harris Wolobah died. Maybe I should say that first. No jokes, no cornspun stories, though those may come later. Teenager, tenth-grader. Basketball player. And while they don’t totally know the exact cause of death, it occurred directlt after Wolobah ate a chip. Not just any chip. This was a chip packaged all by its lonesome, […]
You come to us for a break from the hard stuff, the never-ending DEFCON 5 that the news media wants you to live your life at. We get it; they need ratings, and nothing leads like that which bleeds. But once in a while we have to report on the real news for our own […]
Okay, so there’s a lot to unpack here, and not one of those things in a beach towel. And since I need that thing for hitchhiking, what’s packed is all worth staying home a bit. (Douglas Adams, look it up.) Elon Musk. Here’s a guy everybody loves to hate…to love. He truly is an enigma. […]
Count how many horror and apocalyptic movies started with scientists on a research mission finding something. Now add one. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is just such a group of scientists, and they just found something in the Gulf of Alaska that they can’t identify. So its deets: a ‘golden orb’ about four […]
In keeping up with the tradition of us not telling you first, but telling you better, yesterday, the corner of Ludlow and Rivington on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was renamed “Beastie Boy Square. If you didn’t know, Ludlow and Rivington was the block featured on the album “Paul’s Boutique.” The city has a […]
Hitchhiking DAY ONE I wasn’t new to cities, I had learned how to survive in a couple of them, but Manhattan in 1982 would take everything I had learned from a year and a half of traveling and living on the street, chew it up, mix it with some depravation, cum and blood, spit it […]
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