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In response to Rosenblatt's essay, I offer this thought. The "Age of Irony" was captured brilliantly on Seinfeld, the funniest sitcom of the '90s. The last episode, so disliked by the show's many fans, featured jail terms for the four principal characters--a telling indictment of their ineffable...
Whenever catastrophe strikes in the United States or elsewhere, our government has the unpleasant habit of restricting Americans’ freedom to travel. Currently, our government has made travel to Cuba, Libya and Iraq illegal, on the argument that visiting these nations is ostensibly dangerous. The real reason for these...
Noise, in a word, says it all. The Noise movement began in the 1930’s as musique concrete, an attempt to blur the lines between music and ambient sounds, and to incorporate those noises we encounter on a daily basis into music. Today noise often shares a sound...
But it is, at the same time, very creative and on the cutting edge of music, forcing us to reevalute both the musical structures that dominate pop music, and the everyday background noise surrounding us. And sometimes it doesn’t suck. The short set format was perfect for...
Friday is the barrage. The lead is August?s unemployment number, expected to come in at an upticked 4.6 percent. Economic types will remember that unemployment always rises coming out of a slowdown as well as into a recession, so even an unpleasant surprise like 4.7 or 4.8 doesn?t...