Funny Beliefs 4 | Stories
It’s hard to acknowledge when we’ve made a racist or sexist joke. It contradicts stories we tell ourselves; “I wouldn’t make a racist joke” or “I couldn’t be sexist.”
How Lava Lamps Made Sex Boring Again
Walker described the lamp as “Freudian” and evocative of the primordial ooze, because apparently no one bothered to take him aside and say, “It’s just a lamp, Ed.”
Reconcilable Differences: Unity and Division via Pearl Jam’s Gigaton
First off, it’s named for the unit of measurement large enough to record melting polar ice. Gigaton wears doom on the album sleeve.
Seeing and Believing 254 | Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth and David Dobkin’s Eurovision Song Contest
This week we review Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth and the Will Ferrell comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.
Run the Jewels’ “Ooh LA LA” Video Imagines Parties Instead of Protests
Though Run the Jewels’ vision of a world that is not dominated by division and greed might be imperfect, it is a vision of hope.
Funny Beliefs 3 | Beautiful, Horrible People
What can we joke about? How far is too far? Our answers tend to be personal, which makes it hard to discuss why some humor is offensive.
How a Global Pandemic Exposes Our Desire for Authority
COVID-19 forces us to ask, who deserves authority and how is that authority granted?
