Rice-T: Rap and Hip-Hop as Commodity Crop in the Post-Fat-Boys Age Our university's team from Monsanto deemed this the most productive of this year's presentations, but endowed professorships aside, we found the concept revolutionary: golden and green, with hints of jasmine and basmati, Frye-Dadi busted loose a torrent of intellectual irrigation that has us hungry for more. In other words, it was a wipeout: this human beatbox drove us nuts with an all-you-can eat smörgåsbord of cogitation. This presentation was the place to be. |
Forget About It, Jake; It's Chiatown: Late Nite TV and the Marketing of Futility, a Study in Media Incest From the plenitude of Frye-Dadi, we were shocked into despair by Rowe-Fone's depiction of "paid-programming" as a veritable Cosa Nostra of intrigue and double-dealing. The glad-handing was dismal, but the pitch we'll buy. |
Eggs Akimbo! Contemporary Physics and the Acceptance of Impossibility, a Study in Strings Once the province only of surrealists, sci-fi novelists, conservative politicians, and other fabulists, the impossible as a feasible place for study has now moved into mainstream science and, by translation, right into our hearts. The magic Frauchewski works with a simple egg kept us quantumly entangled in his spooky interactions. |
Upchuck Mangione, or Feels No Good: Smooth Jazz, Crossover, and the Existential Nausea of the Radio-Friendly Instrumental D'Benson wooed us with the sickening void of radio acceptability; tunes both catchy and terrible denote the paradox, and therefore, the hegemony of bourgeoisie: rule through sheer ubiquity, power through obviating all possible points of objection. |
Dupak Chakur: Eastern Philosophy, Gangsta Mentality, and the Power of Positive Rapping All life is suffering, as any Compton-based rapper will tell you. Yet with the shift in tone from the politically charged raps of the 1990s to the luxury brand-based spins of today, Syzygmund and Gyzygmund posit that hip-hop could use an injection of Buddhism. Also, Jay-Z and Kanye have totally messed up their qi. |
The Hindenburgers: Disaster Sitcoms and Foodie Culture, a Hydrogen-Powered Cook-Off Fiero's emblazoning of the connection between the hilarity of apocalypse of TV's obsession with food recalls Barthes' famous lists: certain doom through the apotheosis of the mundane. |