Category Archives: New Post

How to change the subject (in a thoroughly incompetent way)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

The nitwits in charge of messaging for Building A Better Ohio (the GOP-backed proponents of State Issue 2 – which would limit collective-bargaining rights for Ohio public employees) have a lot of ‘splaining to do. It seems they lifted video … Continue reading →

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This is what democracy is SUPPOSED to look like

Posted on October 9, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Occupy Wall Street, the grass-roots, pro-middle-class protest movement that began on September 17th, has morphed. Owing to its success, the resonance of its message and its expansion to (so far) 70 other major cities, it has necessarily abbreviated its handle … Continue reading →

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When fame is fleeting

Posted on September 24, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

So Kate Gosselin is looking for a job. The former reality TV star (2007-2011) and mother of eight, currently unemployed, is reportedly fretting over finances and seeking a new gig. Prior to meta-motherhood and small-screen divadome Kate was a registered … Continue reading →

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Startling Proof!

Posted on September 17, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Currently on Ebay (for the totally reasonable Buy-It-Now price of one million dollars, plus shipping) is this rather awesome photograph – certainly taken circa 1870 in Tennessee, and maybe depicting Nicolas Cage: Coppola nephew and alleged actor. So what do … Continue reading →

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Just make something

Posted on September 11, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

One of the perversities of American culture, one that has lamentably spread worldwide, is the conflation of the terms, wealth and worth. As in, “What are you worth?” Asking that question is another way of declaring that one’s net value … Continue reading →

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A look back, for Labor Day

Posted on September 4, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Times being what they are, teachers probably no longer ask this question I remember being asked often, or at least once a term, way back in grade school: “Where does your dad work?” One at a time, we’d all answer, … Continue reading →

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Made in the USA

Posted on August 19, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Want to support American jobs? Buy a book. Printers, writers, booksellers, librarians, loggers, editors — these are few of the mostly domestic jobs your book-buying buck underwrites. I think this holds true for most countries, and I’m certain it’s true … Continue reading →

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This week in conspicuous art theft

Posted on August 13, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Isn’t it great when the thief looks directly at the camera? At about 6pm, on Thursday, August 11, the master criminal depicted above strolled into the Marc Ecko Gallery on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, and strolled out with $100,000 … Continue reading →

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27

Posted on August 6, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Is it a curse, or a coincidence? Why are so many bright stars extinguished, at the height of their luminosity, at the age of 27? Amy Winehouse is only the latest. Like with many who passed before her, our collective … Continue reading →

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The Call of Lovecraft

Posted on July 31, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

What does a writer want? No doubt there are as many answers to that as there are writers–as many writers as there have ever been, in fact. But throughout those innumerable answers, most of which probably revolve around fame, fortune … Continue reading →

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Bummed about Borders

Posted on July 19, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Goodbye Borders, and thanks for everything. Perhaps the liquidation of Borders Books & Music is good news for independent booksellers. And although the indies are personal heroes of mine, I can’t share in their joy. Borders might have been a … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch and the culture of sleeze

Posted on July 16, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of analyzing the cultural impact of News Corp’s phone-hacking scandal is its constant evolving nature. Conclusions we draw today might very well be rendered irrelevant by the admissions, revelations, resignations and indictments sure to come … Continue reading →

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The court of public spectacle

Posted on July 6, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

We try to keep it light here at the Deconstruction. Matters of child murder, and capital trials, are generally beyond our purview. But we were born unto a society that delves into such things, that anachronistically holds one or two … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, America

Posted on July 4, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider
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The end of all mankind! (for lulz)

Posted on July 2, 2011 by editor, facilitator, decider

You would think, wouldn’t you, that one of the primary tenets of the entertainment industry would be: don’t bum out your audience. But how then are we to explain the post-apocalypse drama? Each year, amongst the slew of sparkly vampire … Continue reading →

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