God-King Jeremy is the current ruler of the planet.  After wiping out Earth’s defenses, he set to work reorganizing the world’s social, political, information, and [...]

The other morning I woke up in the middle of an unusually vivid dream in which I’d somehow found myself trapped on the rotting hulk [...]

I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care.  Repo Men, [...]

Lately my friends and I have been making up fake words. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I used the word “fauxpen” around [...]

For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one time, though, that an actual disaster happened, I never saw it coming.

In honor of the new year, I thought I’d turn this column into a list of hipster predictions. Using some scientific data (i.e., a Google image search), I’m predicting where aesthetic hipster trends are headed in 2010.

I’ve wanted to write seriously about Chesnutt for years. I hoped one day to do a long interview with him for Verbicide. I figured that now that I was back in Georgia the opportunities to talk to his friends and family might present themselves and I could do an even longer piece. Why not? Even with his personal life in turmoil, his career was on an extraordinary trajectory.

I know what you’re thinking. You’ve been walking around your neighborhood for a while now, going: “Who are these cool kids hanging out on their [...]

One of my new favorite games to play is “that’s my indie band.” It’s kind of like “that’s what she said,” but less dirty. Here’s [...]

Moving to New York City three years ago was a little bit of a culture shock. All of a sudden I was confronted with things [...]

by conventional standards, we are broke, or very nearly so. But thanks for noticing now, Republicans; a shame it escaped your notice when you — that’s right, you — were busily bankrupting us.

It was around 3 a.m. when the rain started. At first it was just a fine mist beading up on the cracked windshield. But by the time we hit I-77 in deepest, darkest part of West Virginia it was coming down in steady black sheets. There was an ill-wind blowing and our little car, weighed down with life’s possessions, swayed ominously with each gust.

Phishing (fĭsh·ing) (n.) In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, [...]

When the first Gorillaz album came out, my first thought was that it was the end of music. And, no, I’m not a Gorillaz hater. [...]

It’s been a couple days now and I’m still buzzing from the two Green Day shows earlier this week [July 27 and 28]. I feel [...]