We Are Scientists: With Love and Squalor – with “Inaction” video cover

March 10, 2014 Leave a Comment

Part 3 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me

In this very special edition of Beating a Dead Facebook Trend Over the Course of a Year but It’ll Probably Come Around Again So It’s Fine, we discuss a band who happens to have a new album out. TV en Français, released last week, is a long way from 2006’s With Love and Squalor, but the shift in tone had already happened in the intervening two releases, Brain Thrust Mastery and Barbara.

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I Write Blogs I Think are Keen / My Mailbox is a Time Machine

March 7, 2014 1 Comment

An official notification arrived in my mailbox last October, trumpeting the weekend liquidation of “hundreds of new and used cars, trucks, vans and SUVs” at a local dealership. Imagine my shock, then, when I received the exact same notice again this very week.

The obvious yellowing of the one on the left should be ample proof of its provenance.

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Hyperbolic Headlines are Worse than Hitler

March 3, 2014 Leave a Comment

TL;DR – Kids these days suck at journalism.

It’s no secret that Internet headlines are sliding toward “clickbait” – surprising, flashy, sexy phrases promising mind-blowing facts or crazy stories. That’s what headlines are for, right? To attract interest?

Sure. Then there are the ones that just lie.

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