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A Cynic looks at The New Sincerity

Yesterday, I was catching up on last year’s South Park and a couple of the episodes caught me right in the gullet. Maybe I need to back up a little bit though. Even though the Manifesto for the New Sincerity surfaced in 2006, the term itself was in use back in the mid-1980’s, even showing up in Russian literary criticism, and the basic idea is nothing new whatsoever. To put it simply, it is honestly admitting to thinking and feeling whatever it is that you are thinking and feeling. No sarcasm masked under the misused name of irony , no fronting, no bullshit. You don’t get to say that you are too cool to get giddy over the ‘splosions in the new Transformers movie or that you’re too tough to cry when your cat dies. Own up to it, live it and be whatever the hell you are. Period. This is where I come in, as a member of a generation that spent pretty much all of our time trying to pretend that we were too cool for every mother fucking thing on the goddamn planet. I hate, hate, HAT...

A Notable Lack of Compassion

I’m sure several of you have seen the above quote from Penn Jillette before, as it’s been making the rounds. Before I say anything further, I want to make it clear that, by and large, I agree with the general sentiment provided here. If compassion is your concern, forcing people to help others does not display this quality in any way. Also, anyone who portrays themselves as open hearted when crusading for this type of government generated aid while refusing to help people they come across every day is a douchebag. I’m on board there. But that is also the point where I jump the train. My first issue is with the idea presented here lies in equating making people pay for something via taxes with robbing them at gunpoint . This is what we, in the business of words, refer to as hyperbole designed to get attention. I have never seen, nor heard of a situation where someone was shot for refusing to pay their taxes. Yes, you may go to jail (though the process for reaching that poin...

Zombies, Sex, Nihilism, and Murder!

OHMYOHMYOHMYOHMY I wrote a book. It has been published. This is weird as fuck. MEANINGLESS CYCLES IN A VICIOUS GLASS PRISON: SONGS OF DEATH AND LOVE Yes. I know the title is long as fuck. I spent too much time into early 00's metalcore and I adore absurdly long titles. Still, the book is cool. My mom says so, so you know it's true. So, here is the spiel: Images and ideas absorbed from Delamorte Delamore and reprocessed through my idiot fucking brain into a series of poems dealing with dead people and graveyard fucking and obsession and the monotony of modern life. Also some bits about a skull puzzle and the weird dude who lives in the basement. Oh, and some people get fuuuuuuucked up, but like, not in the "I'm high as fuck" way so much as the "little tiny pieces of goopy people guts" way. Lucy Snyder wrote the introduction. Steven Archer did the cover art. Linda Addison, Marge Simon, Pippa and Myk Pilgrim, and Donna friggin Munro had some nice things t...

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