Word: postmodernity
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...Strong Bad is a mysterious dude who brags a lot, wears a Mexican wrestler's mask and makes fun of Homestar. They and their friends act out spoofs, skits, adventures, music videos and fake ads, and just generally goof on their own surreal weirdness. It's like a postmodern version of the Peanuts gang. Or it's like a Saturday-morning cartoon by Salvador Dali. Or--look, it's too hard to explain. Just check it out. --By Lev Grossman
...Roll Indian and Surge Joebot), but if the band is full of ironic knuckleheads, at least they're ironic knuckleheads with talent. Tracks like She's White and Improper Dancing have a lunatic energy that starts with singer Dick Valentine, whose over-enunciated roar makes him sound like a postmodern Tom Jones. The music is guitar pop, but Electric Six are liberated or lazy enough to steal ideas from anywhere, so disco beats and power chords get sprinkled in. Most tracks sound as if AC/DC and the Village People got drunk together, especially Gay Bar, which has Valentine growling...
...article is also an example of what I call The Paradox of The Salient. Every piece in The Salient is written as though it alone clarified an issue previously obscured by all other debate. And yet the vast majority of articles are about as lucid as postmodern social theory written in old German. Moreover, it often seems you can tell which Moral Reasoning classes a Salient editor has taken—and which he or she has missed—by the author’s choice of philosophers...
Although the postmodern era questions everything else—the possibility of knowledge, basic morality and reality itself—critical discussion of Darwin is taboo. While evolutionary biologists test Darwin’s hypothesis in every experiment they conduct, the basic premise of evolution remains an scientific Holy of Holies, despite our absurd skepticism in other areas...
What is new, however, is the postmodern, introspective take on this classic story of heroism and manhood. The sets are minimal but evocative; in an interesting move, the set is surrounded by three walls of clear plastic which serve as the holding cell for the son and on which he writes large and open-ended statements and questions such as “I am LIFE,” “AM I scared?” and “Until my father comes...