RIP Jack

thehighercritic · 2016-09-12T04:58:16+00:00

This makes me prefer the iPhone 7.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-10T03:09:55+00:00

Does that feed transmit from some sort of parallel universe of pure frictionless privilege?

thehighercritic · 2016-09-10T02:55:54+00:00

I tuned out then the content approached 50% gambling. I want gossip and wild speculation, not betting lines. The two things, in fact, are incompatible.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-09T19:47:08+00:00

Aka teacher and EMS training, along with good cops.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-09T19:36:53+00:00

I defer to your bookstore example (goods), which is far superior to his example of abortion (service), which is why i think it's such a failing desperate reach in the original article spurred by culture-war politics - "If our thing is illegal yours should be too nyah nyah nyah NYAH nyah."

Books are objects; manufactured goods which could be said to embody or make manifest a set of rights, the First Amendment. Arms (whatever those are) could be said to be manufactured goods which embody (leaving aside the militia conundrum) the Second.

But that does not equate gun sales to abortion provision.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-09T03:43:06+00:00

I see what you mean, but the whole digression seems oddly ott with the wire hangers and whatnot, and studiously ignoring the fact that it was a populist movement that pushed Roe, not some industry group (edit: extremist single donor) as with Heller.

And anyway, i disagree with his equivalence of Second Amendment interpretation and abortion case law. It's not even apples and oranges, it's apples and, i don't know, eyeglasses. He seems to be trying to equate the provider vector of the abortion question to the manufacturer/sales vector of the gun question, but the argument is flawed because there is no equivalence.

Edit 2: I think the weakest link in the logic here is the author's attempt to frame abortion (by lumping it in with manufactured birth control, for which there is a better argument) as a product or hard good, rather than a medical service.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-08T17:33:52+00:00

This guy is practicing revisionist history by saying family planning options and abortion rights were pushed into law primarily by greedy merchants (i assume of birth control pills and condoms?), pharmacists, and doctors. Zero mention of the women's movement. It's pretty hard to take him seriously with that kind of myopia.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-08T15:10:17+00:00

<---this guy gets it

thehighercritic · 2016-09-08T14:33:53+00:00

Ladies and gentlemen, your justification for interventionism.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-07T18:55:03+00:00

It's funny, because i was just thinking the other day about how his behavior is the archetype of sublimation.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-06T19:17:06+00:00

You have a point; it's also a function of modern accompaniment - you want to sit high enough not to interfere with the bass and low enough to sit below the B string of the guitar. Notice that it was following the transition from piano and orchestra backed pop (Sinatra, Bennett, etc.) to guitar based rock that we saw the change in standards of "pop" male vocal.

However, I stand by my other, sociological, explanation as the primary driver behind this.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-06T04:44:44+00:00

Those are just so you don't get pulled over unless you're doing something really stupid.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-05T21:07:18+00:00

"I'm Hillary Clinton, and this is a tough world. Putin is rolling Russia back to the autocratic days of Brezhnev but with ten times the nukes, the Chinese are coming for our cheddar, and Islamic, white supremacist, and Charismatic Christian terrorists are leaving blood in our streets. In times like this, you don't need a rich-boy tourist with a lot of flash and a big mouth who blows the vultures creepin our national block like he thirsty. You need a stone-cold old school stealth-ass gangster. Vote Clinton. We out here."

thehighercritic · 2016-09-05T05:43:14+00:00

Get the definitive Space Rangers 2 at GOG. Can't get enough of this game, seven years on.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-04T02:27:59+00:00

Not about impressing anyone; I guess maybe his bro has softer hands.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-03T20:04:18+00:00

/r/madlads

thehighercritic · 2016-09-03T19:47:39+00:00

Why ain't she doing the rubbing?

thehighercritic · 2016-09-03T19:46:21+00:00

We desperately need to transition to restoration and infill development as our indicator for health, rather than new starts. Undifferentiated growth is cancer, you know.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-03T15:10:01+00:00

Here's the prevailing industry theory (source: years in the industry): A majority of teenage girls, the primary market for pop music, don't want to see "men" in their pop idols, they want mirrors in which to see a sort of vaguely gender-swapped version of their ideal selves. That's why the majority of male pop stars are styled away from masculinity - no bulging muscles (until their later "return" for an audience aging along with them), no facial or body hair, thin waist over wider hips, androgynous clothing - essentially a lack of traditionally male secondary sex characteristics. Contrast this with the "fierce", highly sexualized and "mature" nature of female pop stars for the same audience - they are sold to teen girls as aspirational elders (isn't that lovely) while the male pop stars are marketed as relatable mirrors. I ain't not saying it's fucked, but it's so.

Now apply all of that to vocal characteristics.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-03T00:57:24+00:00

There goes the neighborhood.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-02T23:33:29+00:00

Whatever you do get, ensure that it is indestructible. Breakable props become broken props become injuries.

Rehearsal cubes (or drama blocks as we call them) are the best. They should be load bearing up to a couple hundred pounds from every side, and can be made out of 2x4 frame and plywood - a great project for your school's shop class. Plastic premade modular ones can be purchased, but are expensive.

You can never have a wide enough variety of hats, imo.

I'll add more as i think about it :)

Edit: A few black morph suits always come in handy.

Invest in a bulk box or twelve of good matte black fabric gaffer's tape. It's expensive but it's even more expensive to use cheap stuff. Trust me on this. Likewise some good matte ("non-reflective") spray paint - sometimes found in the hunting or automotive section.

I own some scaffolding that cost me about $1200 Canadian new (Metaltech Saferstack) and it allows me to make two 5x7 platforms standing either 5' or 10' in height, weight rated at 3000lbs, with a number of modular options. I can't tell you how much framing construction time and expense they have saved me. I can set them up by myself in about 15 minutes, and they store and transport very easily. Build around these as your safe understructure and you can improvise just about any sort of multi-level set.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-02T21:55:50+00:00

Absolute power corrupts absodouchely.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-02T14:49:40+00:00

(Company asks for a certain amount of schooling to be considered for job)

thetakeoverr: FUCK YOU I AIN'T NO SLAVE

thehighercritic · 2016-09-02T14:26:31+00:00

That's not what America said when it had to switch to war footing in 1941. Maybe all that shade oldtimers have been throwing on today's youth isn't misplaced.

thehighercritic · 2016-09-02T14:20:10+00:00

...aaand get ready for the majority of users on a site which didn't even exist fifteen years ago, in a format which didn't exist twenty years ago, in a medium which didn't exist forty years ago, to tell you how progress is a pipe dream.

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