Tuesday Thinkpiece: Millennials and the Power of Feel-Good Music

In case you haven’t heard (and you very possibly may not have), there are a lot of terrible things happening around the world. Economic collapses, civil unrest, mass kidnappings, disease outbreaks, amongst a plethora of other unpleasant situations. Yet the world’s vitriol hasn’t been aimed at any of these recently, but at an old racist saying cartoonishly racist things.

NBA: New Orleans Hornets at Los Angeles Clippers

Let’s not display any sort of lenience to Sterling- it’s an understatement that what he said was unquestionably wrong. However the fact that this story has become the top news headline, addressed by the president, and inspired a collective hand-holding campaign is kind of a joke. This should have been a three sentence blurb in the sports section, dealt with in private. That way at least we wouldn’t get the global back-patting everyone’s giving each other now that Sterling’s been reprimanded. HEY EVERYONE WE PERSONALLY DEFEATED THE EVIL RACIST! OUR GOOD VIBES BROUGHT HIM DOWN!

IT’S TIME TO FEEL GOOD.

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Plated

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Plated is a real neat food delivery service that brings gourmet ingredients right to your door so you can make like totally fancy food on your own! Close your eyes and imagine a box full of tiny chefs (probably either gnome or dwarf chefs) coming out and making a delicious feast for you and your friends. Now open your eyes and realize that there never were any tiny chefs, it was you all along. Plated makes it that easy. You have everything you need right there and instructions on how to make it as well. These are chef inspired recipes that sound like swanky millionaire food too. “Coffee Rubbed Steak with Roasted Pepper Panzanella”. “Fontina Polenta with Roasted Spring Vegetables”. Your friends will literally think you are an undercover chef and they will probably hold you to the ground and demand to know your secrets. That is, if your friends are anything like my friends.

Personally, my favorite aspect is that Plated use fresh, healthy, and locally produced ingredients only. Not only is it good for you but it’s good for the environment as well. And the box is biodegradable too. So you are helping the world with each bite of Plated food. Pat yourself on the back! But wait until after you are finished eating.

So like why are you even still reading this you should be ordering something from Plated right now. COME ON GO.

ok bye.

Album Grades 2014

Me and diatribes are like politicians and… diatribes. But in this post I’m just going to put the briefest of insight regarding records released this year. When I say brief, I mean it’s basically just a letter grade. If a record is particularly good or bad, that’s when I’ll start up my wordbarf machine and pump out a review.

Previous Grading Lists

2011

2012

2013

ALBUM GRADES 2014

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Peanuts 2000

You might have recently caught the trailer for the upcoming Peanuts movie. If not, here ya go.

A+ on the animation job, fellers. Really neat. The content itself is a little corny (the manic sidekick taking the attention away from the protagonist? Is this 1995?). That begs the question though- how are they going to make this decades-old comic relevant for millennials? Particularly since parodists such as the Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and like a hundred people on the internet have already mined the material and spoofed most of the aspects? Continue reading “Peanuts 2000”