morphizm

I had a hard time the night before rapping with visionary author Alan Moore. I wanted to talk mostly about Unearthing, his new multimedia box set with Mitch Jenkins, Doseone, Fog, Stuart from Mogwai, Mike Patton, Zach from Hella and other fine talents. Politics, technology, poetry, deep thoughts. But usually most people want to hear [...]

So my excellent AlterNet editor and SoCal pal Jan Frel has been asking me to start muckraking rackets, and it’s been a hoot. I’ve already rooted out Red Bull and the stingy-ass telcos, so now it’s Sealy’s turn.

The mundanity of mattresses belies their insane cost and hyperreal price-jacking. Plus, everyone needs one, and most [...]

Remember when the plan was to pour a percentage of your hard-earned salary into a retirement account, usually supplied by your employer? Who then invested your money with the company’s into a series of funds, stocks and economic stratagems? Which were engineered for failure by rapacious banks, secretive hedge funds and other financial assholes gaming [...]

Stars Wars is no longer the haven of geeks who like to pretend they’re space-faring saviors. It’s gone viral for decades as a pop-culture cipher begging to be filled in by its fans, and their varied sensibilities. Which is why The Vader Project kicks so much ass, and why I built a gallery about it [...]

[Rob Swift]
July 8th, 2010 will officially go down in history as one of the most epic nights in NYC hip-hop. I mean, isn’t it obvious? It’s 10:00 am and I’m still wired from the energy I felt on stage at Brooklyn Bodega’s “Salute The DJ” event.

M. Night Shyamalan’s cinematic compression of Nickelodeon’s stunning animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender has serious fandom boots to fill. And it needs much more time to fill them.

Like the Fire Nation’s obsessive, disgraced Prince Zuko, Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, the first installment in a planned film trilogy, could use more patience and less tortured [...]