Most Underrated: Nappy Roots
GOAT – Greatest of All Time If you spend anytime on hip-hop forums around the internet, you are bound to bump into the GOAT question. Who is the GOAT MC?…
WTF is the “free and open” internet anyways?
If you have spent any time on social media in the last couple weeks, you have surely seen the news that FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is trying to roll back…
My Aesthetic Imagination: Music
Series Introduction “The Ultimate Rule ought to be: ‘If it sounds GOOD to you, it’s bitchin’; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it’s shitty. The more your musical experience, the…
My Aesthetic Imagination: A Series
“De gustibus non est disputandum” (In matters of taste, there can be no disputes) -Ancient Roman adage “All life is a dispute about taste and tasting!” -Friedrich Nietzsche My wife and…
Some Thoughts on Charlottesville
Like many people, I’ve been very upset by the events in Charlottesville over the last weekend. Like many people, I feel like a should do something, but I also feel…
Dan Harmon or Slavoj Žižek?
The Hipster’s Guide to Godwin’s Law
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” -Mike Godwin (1995) Are you tired of comparing people to Hitler in order…
“Gotta Light?”
Like many, this week’s episode of Twin Peaks has me asking questions. Is David Lynch a genius who has perfected the art form of television, or is he a bullshit artist?…
Irony and the Organic Intellectuals of the Alt-Right
I first stumbled across the term “alt-right” during my dissertation research in 2014, specifically as I was slogging through the thousands of threads and comments about GamerGate. A variety of…
Review: Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book
“He said let’s do a good-ass job with Chance 3” I first came across Chance the Rapper a few weeks before his second project, Acid Rap, dropped back in the…