It was 10:50 on a Wednesday night, and I was working at the cafe with my boss. By this point, he was pretty much burnt on owning the establishment. This night, he was uniquely irked. He was filling in for … Continue reading
The transformation of the "hipster" from straw man to bogeyman has been a gradual process: here's a first, incomplete draft of this supremely important cultural history.
At a customer service job I worked at for many, many years, we had one of those touchscreen register thingies that you see at tony restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts. On that touchscreen register, there was a button which read FOAD, … Continue reading
This is funny. It appeared in McSweeney's Gazette for Knowledge Workers with Ironic Sensibilites, though it could also have appeared in any number of boomer-oriented publications at any point during the past four decades, with only minor alterations. 'Those damned … Continue reading
I've been going through an internal debate lately about whether to keep Is Greater Than going--as any publisher (web or print), could have told me, the challenges of running a consistently-updated publication are many, and even moreso if you have … Continue reading