After this recent incident, I’m forced to consider how many of my childrearing plans might just be my projecting my own nerdiness on to my children in a curious form of objectification.
Bringing My Four-Year-Old to “Wreck-It Ralph” Was a Total Parenting Fail
November 27, 2012 By 19 Comments
Science Explains Why We Love to Suffer on Black Friday
November 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
There are some people for whom the enjoyment of Black Friday is essentially hardwired into their physiology.
Hipster Bashing, Ironic Living, and Seeing the World Through the Eyes of A Child
November 20, 2012 By 3 Comments
We fear that we’ve become monotonous, boring, and irrelevant, and so we respond to that fear with irony in an attempt to imply that we don’t care, that we’re not bothered, that we’re not tired.
Grace Notes: Cheap Music from Amazon (November 2012)
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This time around, we’ll be looking at alterna-pop legends, the greatest post-punk band of all time, and the return of post-rock’s mightiest.
What Does Spotify Really Mean for Musicians?
November 15, 2012 By 10 Comments
The irony, though, is that those who benefit the least from these services are those who make the services’ existence, popularity, and even necessity possible.
Dads: The New Video Game Heroes
November 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
“How interesting would it be if video games turn out to be tools that challenge us and cause us to think about the role and impact of fathers in the lives of their wards?”
Recording & Recovering Childhood in Sam Billen’s ‘Places’
November 14, 2012 By 4 Comments
Jason Morehead explores the recollections of childhood memories found in the music of Sam Billen.
Sufjan Stevens breathes some fresh air into Christmas music with “Silver & Gold”
November 13, 2012 By 3 Comments
“By turns silly and serious, reverent and irreverent, traditional and experimental, Sufjan’s Christmas music handily transcends that schmaltz that so often passes for Christmas music these days.”
Nick Olson on the False Hope of Cryonics
November 8, 2012 By 5 Comments
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