Archive for the “Social” category
The End of an Era
by dossfx on June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson, one of the last truly great pop music entertainers, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. Rather than remember him as the increasingly bizarre and controversial figure that he became, I choose to think back to a time when he (…)
I’m Lovin’ It!: Americans Willingly Seek Out a Heart Attack at Arizona Restaurant
by dossfx on June 15, 2009
It appears that in our exhaustion of ideas for novelty restaurants, we have reached a frightening point – we are now finding epicurean inspiration in one of our nation’s biggest killers. At the Heart Attack Grill, “sexy” nurses with uniform (…)
First We Got a President, Soon We’ll Get a Princess
by dossfx on May 12, 2009
2009 is shaping up to be a banner year for African-Americans: in January we got our first Presidential family (our beloved Obamas), then we got our first head of the Republican party (although I don’t necessarily like to give Michael (…)
Breaking News: The Twittersphere Exposed!
by dossfx on March 20, 2009
It appears I’m not the only one leery of Twitter. A webcartoon series called “SuperNews!” exposes the Twittersphere in its season premiere. In this scene, a man brings about the collapse of the Twittersphere (a place where everyone lazily floats (…)
Twittering Our Lives Away
by dossfx on March 17, 2009
“What are you doing?” In our current state of rabid social networking, one could assume that this question is completely unnecessary—we talk, we text, we instant message, we blog. Have we reached our saturation point? Twitter doesn’t think so. Now (…)