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I write shit on boards for one of my classes. Most of the time it isn’t funny, but I liked today’s one because it’s a limerick and it’s relevant. There was a hacker very strange Who wanted to effect some change So he took a little peek And sprung a wikileak And–wait, you don’t pronounce [...]
Holy Jesus fucking fuck. Talk about a sleazy comeback. I come out of my self-imposed posting moratorium to bring you this, the least rock thing anybody’s ever done. Hell, it’s the least rock thing Soundgarden’s fucking done, and Chris Cornell released Scream. Holy fuck. I was a teenager when Superunknown and the other abum (you [...]
I wrote this for a paper and usually I’m not a big fan of academic writing, but Professor John Carroll is a chill dude and writing papers for him is always fun. Plus, this deals with the kind of stuff I like reading about in blogs anyway. So here’s an essay with special emphasis on some [...]
So I realized that I haven’t posted in a month, and I had two awesome posts gestating in my mind. But this last semester of graduate school’s been a bitch, so I’ll have to promise to post about South East Asian TV ads some other time. (It will happen this week though, I promise. I [...]
My homies know of my love for Bangla film. I’ve been asked by a Bangla magazine to write a feature on Bangla movie superstar Monowar Hossain Dipjol (for the unininitiated: a villain from the method school who was convicted for divers crimes and sentenced to 47 years in jail, broke out after a few months [...]
I have a soft spot for Radio Foorti. When I was a copywriter at Bitopi, I worked on the pitch team for the brand and I got an unrefusable offer (2.5 times what my salary was then) and I became the first fulltime employee for a station that had a name and nothing else. Working [...]
TLDR: The villaging effect is the transformation of a large population into what are effectively small communities tied by interests and locality. On the one hand, a mutual interest helps over-ride geographical limitations (by enabling you to order the best messenger bag online). On the other, these same mutual interest groups help you find the best offerings in your localities.
Microsoft fucks up, Alex Bogusky leaves advertising, I play a concert.
So many things, most especially humor, depends on cultural context and understanding metaphors. Someone slipping on a banana peel is funny to everybody perhaps, but it’s funny on a primitive, base level, and we’ve seen it so much that it’s not really all that funny. More complex setups get bigger laughs but depend more on a shared context.
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