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Bubble Culture: MC Hammer Flash Mob Proves Capitalism Is 2 Legit 2 Quit
A question we at Generation Bubble ask ourselves time and again is: When will Americans emerge into consciousness of their real situation? Each day’s news cycle presents a smorgasbord of recreancy, infamy, fraud, casual brutality and magnified trivia. Wars dribble on without ever petering out, wealth flows out of treasuries and pockets without ever flowing [...]
Upwardly Mobile Home: Clayton Inc.'s Pre-Fab(ulous) "I-House"
You’ve seen them. On the outskirts of town. Out the car window on some lonesome stretch of secondary highway. On Cops. Trailer homes. No longer the down-market domain of the under-32 set (teeth, that is), single-, double- and triple-wides are bidding for bourgeois-boho respectability. Rechristened “i-houses,” these charming abodes are sure to shake their rep [...]
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: May-Day Tidings from Generation Bubble
Secure at first food and clothing, and the kingdom of God will come to you of itself. – Hegel, 1807 The class struggle, which always remains in view for a historian schooled in Marx, is a struggle for the rough and material things, without which there is nothing fine and spiritual. Nevertheless these latter are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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