Generation Bubble
Archive for March, 2009
Yakk in the USSR, or How I Learned to Love the Bubble
A specter is haunting the bubble generation — the specter of negative job growth. America’s millennials, Emily Bazelon reports, cannot come to grips with post-bubble existence: Apprehension, with an enduring edge to it. That’s the general mood among the twentysomethings I’ve heard from during the last several weeks in response to a question I asked [...]
Bubble Sexy
Do you think with the bursting of the bubble, bad plastic surgery will become a thing of the past? One can dream, I guess. From awfulplasticsurgery.com: Related Posts:Vagina Splendata: Beauty-Obsessed Women Exercise the "Pubic Option"Formlessness Meets Functionlessness: Stefan Ulrich's Real Doll For The Creative ClassBubble Sexy: Love Land's Unfulfilled Eastern PromisesBubble Sexy: Funky Cold Edema
Goodbye Motherlode
Sometimes I’m sad the bubble burst. The age of lenders pushing jumbo mortgages gave rise to eateries pushing jumbo portions — The Cheesecake Factory, as well as my personal fave, Claim Jumper. A California chain famous for its obscene portions and California Gold Rush theme, Claim Jumper opened its doors in 1977. Its website promises [...]
Bubble Aesthetics
From engrishfunny.com: Related Posts:Bubble Culture: MC Hammer Flash Mob Proves Capitalism Is 2 Legit 2 QuitUpwardly Mobile Home: Clayton Inc.'s Pre-Fab(ulous) "I-House"Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: May-Day Tidings from Generation BubbleAnimus Collective: Hipster Backlash Hits the Heartland
Hugs for Generation Y
The Royal Gazette recently celebrated the virtues of of Generation Y, that anthropic manna from heaven which descended during the holy neoliberal protectorate of Ronald Reagan. An excerpt from the article: The members of Generation Y are sometimes referred to as the “Millennials” or “Echo Boomers”. I mention this because Deloitte, the professional services firm, [...]
Wacht Auf!
Looks like the first of the G-20 protests are underway. EuroNews 24 reports that the G20 march, which signals the beginning of a week of protests, started today: Thousands of demonstrators gathered to march through London on Saturday to demand action on poverty, jobs and climate change at the start of a week of protests [...]
Annexing Bohemia
Whither away the American intellectual? The American public intellectual didn’t so much disappear as was transformed, or was perhaps transmogrified, under an increasingly puissant regime of Capital in its post-industrial iteration, where emphasis shifted from production to consumption. Consequence: the expanding hegemony of consumerism gradually eroded the public intellectual’s function to such an extent that [...]
Shopping is better than sex.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a Jersey mall decree? Perhaps. The purveyors of America’s malls have not been daunted by the current economic crisis. Dubbed the “Xanadu Project,” the 5-story retail and entertainment complex built recently in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is slated to open summer 2010. It contains 4,500,000 square feet of retail, sports [...]
The Confidence-Man
I just chased a door-to-door, magazine-subs-for-charity huckster from my threshold. He somehow circumvented the tenant-controlled front door, knocking instead at my kitchen door, which leads to the fire escape! I remember my neighborhood in Tucson being lousy with such garrulous, darting fiends. They’d flagrantly ignore “No Solicitors” signs to pay me calls that, no matter [...]
"We All Float Down Here, Georgie!"
If you’re familiar with the work of Giorgio Agamben (he’s all the rage in lit-crit circles these days), particularly his concept of Homo sacer, you know that Homo sacer is a juridical designation that has its root in Roman law and applies to individuals who for legal reasons cannot be sacrificed. That is, they’ve been [...]
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