Or is he the George Lucas for sensitive types? According to Alex Balk, yes:
[I.e.] you are a child when you are first exposed to his stuff and because you are a child you think it’s incredible, but when you encounter more of it as an adult you blame the material rather than the fact that it was always hokey as shit, and it’s not that it got any worse, it’s just that you got smarter, but to acknowledge that would be to betray your own innocence etc.
Pearl Izumi, you might want to fire your ad agency—this is horrible.
All are bad, but these are the worst.
4. The Workaholic Feint
You don’t need to tell us that you’re “traveling for work” on Labor Day weekend. You’re playing beer pong at a barbecue. We know.
via NextDraft
This is perffff:
8. “Okay”: Used to signify that the sender hates the recipient, or, more likely, is simultaneously chastened and irritated by what the recipient has just said.
Glossary For Annotated Email Correspondence From 2013 via Coudal
“The explosives-heavy approach to humanitarianism has a lot of unpredictable side effects, sometimes backfires massively, and offers an extremely poor value proposition. So whatever you think about killing some Syrians this summer, please consider throwing a few dollars in the direction of a cost-effective charity of some kind.”
Matthew Yglesias: Military Strikes Are an Extremely Expensive Way to Help Foreigners – Slate.com
It started with Gawker. Now Slate piles on. Stay tuned for the backlash to the backlash.
