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I’m beginning to think that my beard and I are going to have to part ways — not just for now, but for good. I have, in recent years, wanted to grow a big-ass, menacing beard. (This has less to do with any hipster tendencies on my part than with …
After a half-century of perceived American cultural hegemony, Europeans feel the need to get back at us in any way that they can. You really can’t blame them; after endless decades of ruling the world, here we come with our fat loudmouthed tourists and our Big Macs, ruining everything, and …
Advertising is pretty evil, and it gets even more evil the more abstract and detached from its subject it gets. But it reaches a certain point of abstraction where it transcends its sinister purposes and can go one of two ways: it can become art, or it can be so …
By this point — 21 years into their career, and six into their remarkably rewarding and productive stint with Southern Lord — you know pretty much what to expect from Earth. Droning, syrupy riffs delivered in a heavy-minimalist style, echoing guitars over a humming bottom, a crushing low end over …
I drink a lot of soda, because I am a doomed consumerist pawn. Occasionally I will review them in this space. And what better place to start than with Coca-Cola, the Platonic ideal of non-alcoholic beverages? The descendant of Georgia druggist John Stith Pemberton’s formulation for French Wine Coca is …
Along with all the other exciting and annoying content to hit this site in 2011, I am getting ready to kick off a special feature called The Sandwich Century. Over the course of the year, I will prepare, consume, and document a hundred different sandwiches, and you will follow it …
The other day, which by my reckoning could have been anywhere between last Thursday and Thanksgiving of 2004, I was talking with a good friend about the Daily Beast’s annual ranking of the smartest cities in America. Although my stomping grounds of San Antonio ranked 54th out of 55, that …
I cannot, and will not, overemphasize the importance of critical thinking. Language is a weapon, and what’s more, it’s really the only weapon we have against near-constant attempts to control the way we perceive the world. Approaching every sentence one encounters with rigor, applying keen analysis of every word thrown …
It’s time once again to see what Meetup.com mistakenly thinks might be sufficient to draw me out of my house this week. Join me for another exciting installment of Tasteful San Antonio: The Greetening, or, You Don’t Know Me, Meetup.com. – Explore Triple-Description Neuro-linguistic Programming at the San Antonio Center …
Okay, here’s the thing. Fiscal conservatives, usually those on the right-libertarian end of the spectrum, often claim that government should be run like a business. Now, I don’t agree with this; I think business should be run like a business and government should be run like a government, because they …
My contributions to the most recent Comics Panel at the AVC: Metalocalypse: Dethklok #1, JLA/The 99 #1, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking; and Genius Isolated: The Art and Life of Alex Toth. Stick around for a headache-inducing argument about Stan Lee in the comments section! …
I know you’ve all been waiting for high-larious chat transcripts about increasingly, and gratifyingly, obscure comic artists from Calamity Jon and myself. Well, wait nae langer. Jon: It’s not that Rob Liefeld is drawing a story about Zombies fighting Jesus which I found surprising. Because, come on, the intellectual dearth …
Jonah Goldberg is a complete joke; that’s no secret. He argues for a living, and yet he has the argumentative skills of a whoopie cushion; he is a professional writer whose writing skills never progressed passed being singled out in 7th grade as being a better speller than most of …
I’ve had a day job for most of my adult life, but right now, I’ve been freelancing full-time for about six months. I’ve worked from home before — I went a year with nothing to support me but freelance until the money ran out — and I far, far prefer …
Welcome to LudicLive, the new home of writer/personality/professional irritant Leonard Pierce. This new site will feature plenty of original content, including the PetardCast internet audio divertissement, as well as providing an aggregation of his other web-based offenses. Bookmark today for a better tomorrow.
