What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- A humble objective
- 18 February
I've paid little attention to the Winter Olympics. In fact, I wouldn't have been aware of their existence if it weren't for accusations of cheating made against the Canadian men's and women's curling teams. Cheating at hairstyling, of all things. And with profanity to boot!
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sport- Old school biblical independence
- 17 February
Say there was a corporate takeover battle between two suitors vying for the same damsel-in-distress.* Say you favoured one suitor over the other, for which you have a hate-boner related to the owners' political alignment with a man in an elliptical office somewhere in Washington DC—1600 Pennsylvania Ave, for example. How would you open your article expressing your displeasure? Bear in mind that the motto below your publication's nameplate is:
(more…)Old School. Biblically Independent.
- culture vulture; politics
- A shorter game
- 16 February
Wizards of the Coast is rumoured to be rebooting its tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons, dragging it out of the mire it was driven into by chasing a
(more…)modern audience
.- culture vulture; pandering; random thoughts & brain farts
- SlopAI
- 13 February
Microslop AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts that most white-collar workers will be replaced by AI in eighteen months, saying:
(more…)human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks
that involvesitting down at a computer
will instead be done by what is essentially a magic black box. In his opinion, anyone working in accounting, legal, marketing, or project management might want to brush up their CV and learn a new skill.- artificial unintelligence; business; technology
- Sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll
- 13 February
Participating in music-making can be beneficial to the brain, particularly for those suffering from degenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Indeed, both the lead on the BBC News home page and the headline to Julia Hotz's article's tease:
(more…)The lifelong benefits of making music
.- gotta respect the grift; health
The latest updates to past woes
- Part of the union
- 11 February
So it turns out that the
(more…)female
assailant wasn't really a female in anything other than the most grotesque pastiche.- crime & punishment; politics
- Nicol…
- 29 January
Someone among the BBC News editorial staff felt the need to ask:
(more…)- answers to stupid questions; random thoughts & brain farts; what's in a name?
- Casting stone
- 23 January
Fortunately, or unfortunately, the Razzies have not followed the Academy Awards' lead by including a category for worst casting, otherwise Snow White could've added a seventh nomination to its tally of six:
(more…)- culture vulture; random thoughts & brain farts; rumour mill; what's in a name?
- Scott Adams: corporate Christian
- 14 January
It transpires that People's anonymous coward is in fact staff writer Victoria Edel. Her byline was removed in the wake of furious backlash.
(more…)- celeb; corporate cobblers; godstuff/religion; obituaries; oh, the fragility!
- Never mind the quality, feel the length
- 13 January
Going back to the
(more…)eke it out
files, for want of anything better to do, now that Wicked: For Good is nearing the end of its theatrical run I compared its box office performance with that of the first instalment. And it appears that the eke it out strategy might be a bust after all.- culture vulture; entertainment
