Generation Bubble
Archive for April, 2009
Bubble Baron: Pimp Bizkit
We at Generation Bubble proudly present Chip, our latest Bubble Baron. Chip’s thoughts are kinkier than his deeds. He put his finger in his girlfriend’s butt once when she was drunk — but not so drunk as to miss his nuts with her knee. Chip’s schemes are more remarkable than his aims. He used his [...]
Sartor Resartus: A Meditation on Lookbook
Artfulness is always gestural, always performative. It is remarkable in just how alien from nature it truly is, because the artful gesture or artfully turned object always diverts attention from its natural origins and toward the agent who has supervened to give the gesture or object its heightened sense of singularity, which this agent has [...]
All Hands on the Glad One: Cuddle Party USA
On Friday, May 8th, in Succasunna, New Jersey, twenty or so adults will gather for the expressed purpose of cuddling with each other. For this platonic group canoodle each participant will pay the modest sum of 20 dollars. Cuddle Party USA isn’t your usual gooey New Age, Esalen-inspired gestalt therapy rebooted for Info-Age neurotics; it’s something [...]
The Sum of All Fears (An Aversion Diversion)
We at Generation Bubble fear people who smile with their mouths open; they always look as if they’re about to bite you and seem pained at having to do so. * * * We at Generation Bubble fear people who measure one’s humanity by focusing exclusively on externals. The fat, mutilated, maimed and crippled are [...]
Bubblepalooza: Trippin' the Light Craptastic
Looks like Satan got a summer-tour act together (props to Sorry I Missed Your Party for the pic): Someone should toss this mésalliance in a (one- two-) three-lock box and send it to the bottom of the ocean. Maybe we could get the keyboardist in the cowboy hat and wetsuit to help with that. We [...]
Bubble Baron: Mirrorplay
Regardez moi. . . We at Generation Bubble are reminded of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who, in his landmark study, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” writes: The human offspring, at an age when he is for a time, however short, outdone [...]
H8 When It’s 2 L8 2 S8 Ur Urge 2 4nic8: Hipster Carles’s Libidinal Runoff
The folks at American Apparel have chosen to confine their politics to the unsexy abstraction of fair labor practices, which is unfortunate, because it suggests that a company’s laudable ethics will never in their own right be enough of an inducement to purchase its products. It must instead dive headlong into the wallow of pornographic suggestiveness. American Apparel may indeed be righteous, but it wants to remind us that it can be hip as well.
Bubble Living: McMansion Expansion Down Under
The Canberra Times reported last week that “Canberra can lay claim to being the new McMansion capital of Australia.” The capital now boasts the biggest new homes in the nation. In all shades of teal, puce and beige, the jumble of McMansions that cluster along Canberra’s outskirts introduce an element of cheap chaos into what [...]
Bubble Chubby: The Saint Louis Slinger
No bout of pounding dollar pitchers on The Landing, Saint Louis’s riverfront bar scene, is complete without the pre-dawn ingestion of the vaunted slinger, that last-call, mega-calorie manna which makes the city’s greasy spoons unique. Boozers throughout “The Lou” clamor for this gutbomb, whose ingredients are eggs, hash browns, a hamburger patty, Cheddar cheese, onion [...]
Animus Collective: Hipster Backlash Hits the Heartland
No longer the preserve of coastal metropoles, hipster resentment has hit America’s breadbasket. The St. Cloud University Chronicle recently featured the piece, “10 Ways to Spot a Hipster,” which adumbrates for otherwise oblivious Minnesotans signature features of this novel species, which has recently invaded the area. The piece’s author, Joe Froemming, offers handy tips on [...]
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