High-Mindedness

Entries Tagged as 'High-Mindedness'

Poo Critic Gets Second Wind on Twitter

June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Criticism, High-Mindedness, MISC

In this whirlywoo world of social networking, blogging, vlogging, Facebooking, Googly mapping, tweeting, twittering, twitting, twatting, and twanging, the role of the critic has been thrown into question. Why, the argument goes, should one bother reading 400 whole words from a film critic like Roger Ebert when that same one can get a nifty 140-character review in literally seconds? As media outlets continue to downsize, those few writers who can eek out a living as critics are asked to do twice as much work for half the money. But against all odds, one critic has managed to harness the possibilities of Internet to serve his critical impulses.

Like so many critics, Craig Whinerose’s beat is poo. A graduate of the journalism program at New York University, Whinerose quickly established a name for himself as one of the top poo critics in America, soon netting bylines in The Village Voice, Spin, Turd Aficionado, Better Bowls and Bowels, Shit! Magazine, American Defecator, Poop Scoop, and Harper’s.

Obnoxious Twentysomething Acquaintance Starts Getting It

May 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Bros, Criticism, High-Mindedness

In a development as unbearable as it is overdue, a local twenty-five-year-old acquaintance of yours starting getting it recently. Citing a newfound interest in punk rock music, Noam Chomsky, and the ineptitude of the Bush II administration as foundational to her new, gratingly mid-adolescent worldview, this friend of your roommate’s friend has been halting otherwise [...]

Why Yes, I Am Suffering – From Dia-READ-a

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · High-Mindedness, Literature

What’s that? Yes, I was just in the lavatory. Why?
What are you laughing about? What is so funny, I ask you?
Oh, please. Must we be so juvenile?

Wiseass video store clerk’s staff “recommendations”

June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Corporate Literature, High-Mindedness, Movies

A selection from Rick’s Picks: A Bunch of Flicks that Rick Picked, the staff recommendations of Richard Lalonde, junior part-time clerk of Montrose Video.

The Dark Knight (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2008): The understated prestige picture of last year which coyly pulls double duty as a cape-and-cowl action romp, this piece made a small splash at the [...]

Metacommentary Ruins Party

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Criticism, High-Mindedness, News

(New Brunswick, NJ) A perfectly good social gathering was spoiled Friday night when Rutger’s University sophomore Steven Conolly disrupted a party at a high school friend’s Bayard St. apartment. Conolly and several others were gathered at friend Andrew Temple’s bachelor apartment, allegedly streaming an episode of The Duel II on MTV.com, when Conolly let slip [...]

Quirky Fourth Grader Writes Confessional First Novel

February 8th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Babies and Small Children, High-Mindedness, Literature

“I’m a total dork,” Christian Glazner overeagerly blurts out as we sit down for roast chicken red pepper sandwiches and chocolate milk in the school cafetorium. That much was apparent. With his purple vintage Mario T, mom-meets-dad style fop top, and tie-my-shoe era Chuck Taylors, Glazner is not the type to be picked first in [...]

Monumentally succesful Canadian filmmaker still sitting at kids’ table during Holiday meals

January 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Babies and Small Children, High-Mindedness, Movies

(TORONTO, ON) Though his two-plus decades in filmmaking and dozen feature films have garnered critical acclaim, awards at the illustrious Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, something called a Dan David Prize for “Creative Rendering of the Past” and brought him one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon (giving him a Bacon Factor of 1), Canadian-Armenian [...]

Grad student’s ice cream flavours rejected by Food Network’s “Scoop!” contest

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Corporate Literature, Criticism, Food, High-Mindedness

To Whom It May Delight,
I am writing w/r/t your fascinating contest, whereby your speciality cable network has invited an openly democratic selection of the latest Haagen-Dazs ice cream novelty. As an applicant to the M.A. programme in Social and Political thought at York University with a B.A. (Honours) in General Studies at McGill University, and [...]

Global economics streamlined for college graduates

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business Solutions, High-Mindedness, Politics

Listen B.A.s, there’s a point between requisitely griping about rising petroleum prices and Wikipedia-ing the “Subjective theory of value” for the fourth time in a month that you just have to fess up to not knowing what the economy is. Just drop the act, shrug your shoulders, throw up your hands—palms facing skyward like those [...]

HOW TO GET A B- IN AN UPPER-LEVEL CRITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Advice, Criticism, High-Mindedness

Fourth Year. Senior Year. Year of the Rat; far from the first-year proles in the echoing cattle-chamber that was Introduction to Cultural Studies. Time to do good works, mind-trooper. You are now an epistemological apostle, teasing some practical application out of the grayer areas of political and philosophical morality.
Actually, fuckwit, your life is [...]

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