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7 Years On, The World Is Catching Up With Spike Jonze’s Her

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Like The Operating Systems of Her, Humans In 2020 Are Learning About Ourselves At An Accelerated Rate In the second scene of Spike Jonze’s xanax,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged commentary, her, midwest, pop culture, spike jonze, think piece, tommy hilfigger

9 Songs That Want It Both Ways (And Which Ones Pull It Off)

Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Art that conflicts with itself is – if judged solely on this quality – inherently more intriguing than art that does not. How successfully a

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged alice merton, bruce springsteen, lorde, mike posner, mos def, outkast, roger miller, sting, the police

An Oral History of The Pandemic: Month 6, Middle America

Posted on September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

For regular listener’s to Dan Carlin’s irregularly released podcast Hardcore History, Dan’s obsession with military history, especially ancient military history, is as familiar to them

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged dan carlin, oral history, radiolab

White People Love Us Some Sad Ass Cover Songs

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Spotify Playlist of Sad Ass Cover Songs That White People Like Leave it up to White people to take an upbeat, joyous piece of pop

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged acoustic guitar, bon iver, prince, sinead

The 1 Thing I Learned from Weezer, and the 1 Thing I Should Have

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

It must have been 6th grade. If my memory serves me, (which it does, in that it serves the motives of my present moment), I

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged brene brown, culture commentary, opinion, pinkerton, think piece, thinkpiece, vulnerability, weezer

Want to Advertise to Young People of Color? Why Not Have Them Dance!?

Posted on September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

“Hey Everyone, thanks for coming to our brainstorming session.” “I know we said this would be a free flow of ideas, but don’t worry, I’ve

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged ads, cultural critique, dance, get out, people of color, pitbull

Identity & Basketball in the Time of Corona

Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

For 15 years, I watched basketball from afar, keeping not much more than wandering eye on the NBA. I came back just in time. I

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged basketball, michael jordan, mj, nba, patrick eqing, sam cassell

Sad Is Not Only Specific

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Exploring The Nuances of Gladwell’s Assertions That Country is Better at Being Sad than Rock ‘n Roll In Season 2 of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged country music, dawes, malcolm gladwell, music, sad

Is America Really a Third World Country in a Gucci Belt?

Posted on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On Marr 22, 2020 @jasminetyon tweeted and birthed, very possibly, a new sentence into the American conversation. America is a third world country in a

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged america, America is a third wold country with a gucci belt, gucci, gucci belt, gucci gang, third world, third world country1 Comment on Is America Really a Third World Country in a Gucci Belt?

The Shared Universe of Springsteen’s Nebraska

Posted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Everyone knows Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is not a set of 10 separate stories taking place in an elaborately inter-related and overlapping shared universe.

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged bruce springsteen, nebraska
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