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Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review
“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.
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How to Write a Pitchfork Album Review
Listen to two or three of the songs off of the album. Pick them from different sections, so it seems like you listened to the whole thing. Also, don’t call them songs. Call them “tracks” or (even better) “cuts” instead.
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Lester in Love
I: For a neurotic weenie you sure seem to be a man of action. L: Yeah, well sometimes.
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Slapstick
The toy’s full name was Slapstick: An Authentic Comedy Toy for the Whole Family!TM, Slapstick himself being a kind of flesh-colored kidney-bean-shaped almost-humanoid character with googly eyeballs and kind of oozy chunky rubbery skin (which was in fact made of rubber with chunks in it, but no ooze; eventually the ACTC (Authentic Comedy Toy Company)…
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A Not-Sonnet
Chamomile tea gets me off More than getting me off does See also: girls laughing at my jokes & 90s video games Can we go back to your place? Sure, but only if you’re down To smoke dope & listen to every Weezer album Chronologically. We’re all just monkeys with habits But I’m…
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Title Fight with Narcissism
Marc Maron seemed to me an incongruous choice for a Princeton lecturer. Having watched some of his standup, I knew him to be both raucously funny and intensely personal, traits which aren’t particularly in demand on this campus.
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Interview with Lester, Functional Humanoid
She looked at me and turned her thingie off. And said typical. And then turned over and kept vibrating.
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The National Enquirer’s Daddy Issues
About a month ago I watched a Netflix documentary on the founder of the National Enquirer: Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man behind the National Enquirer. As it started, I saw that the production was nothing special—mostly voiceovers and interviews while a historical slideshow played onscreen, like a decent History Channel movie for…