Cultural Imperialist

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2010

Archive for July, 2010

Balls to That: The Amoral Tyranny of Soccer

Posted in Feature Story, The Culturer on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 No Comments »

Soccer, or football, as the brownskins and limeys call it, is a full-throated attack on American exceptionalism, and if I ran U.S. Africa Command, Johannesburg would have been liberated before the first vuvuzela blew.

Lie Back and Trespass: Are Recliners Sinful?

Posted in Spats on Monday, July 12, 2010 No Comments »

The truth about Barcaloungers and La-Z-Boys is not that they are expensive and often oversized for the spaces they are put into, but that they inspire deep-seated debate between friends and colleagues. Do they lead to sin and vice, or are they the gateway to salvation? The Great Recliner Debate commences!

Explonanism: Fireworks as Imperialist

Posted in Imperialist of the Week on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 No Comments »

Cultural Imperialist salutes fireworks, those onanistic displays of jingoism. Never stop reaching for, and light-polluting, the stars.

Gaga for Bad En-anc-iation

Posted in The Culturer on Friday, July 2, 2010 No Comments »

Gaga has sold herself as the hippest and most counter-revolutionary of all artist, a fame monster unequaled in genius or industry savvy. But underneath is a scared cowgirl.

Slouching Toward Tenenbaum

Posted in Feature Story, The Culturer on Thursday, July 1, 2010 No Comments »

I'm starting to see more men with the "Luke Wilson as troubled tennis star Richie Tenenbaum" look; it is not the look of a man. It is the future suicide of Western masculinity.

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