“Saturday Night Live” recently did a sketch that mocked Kanye West’s latest awards show-related apology, which came two and a half weeks after Kanye rose in protest at the Grammys when alt-rock legend Beck beat out R&B star Beyoncé for […]
Tag: Generation Y
Going to the movies at the “Everything Store”
What do you do when you’ve already watched all the good movies on Netflix Instant? Reevaluate your life, maybe? No, you move on to the digital movie library at Amazon Instant Video. Like Netflix, Amazon.com offers a subscription service for […]
The top ten videos of 2014
Last week, YouTube released its annual (I assume) list of the ten most viewed videos of the year. Each of the videos therein received tens—if not hundreds—of millions of plays in 2014, which makes the almost total banality of the […]
Do you already have Ebola?
By Brett Yates OK, deep breaths—don’t panic. I can say with at least 70 percent certainty that you show no signs of having Ebola. Still, it’s important to be wary of the deadly virus that is currently sweeping West Africa—and […]
Rating Bohjalian
There are a lot of similarities between me and Chris Bohjalian. We both grew up in the New York City metropolitan area. We both write fiction. We both additionally serve as columnists for Vermont newspapers: he writes weekly for the […]