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...cavern, I felt the pumping beats of the aged hip-hop. We were already pretty buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they’re typically 20 euro). An hour or two after we had arrived, Ashley had migrated to a table in the back VIP section. She was courting some French guy who was accompanied by a man with dark sunglasses?...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, | Title: French Toasted | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...about meaning all together. When you stop talking about meaning, you are left with only your visceral experience of a work, your gut reaction to it. And at this point criticism becomes nothing more than a dangerously arbitrary game of personal taste: whatever you like, whatever you think is cool...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, THE ANGEL OF POST-MODERNISM | Title: Some Problems with Meaning and Criticism | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...worse than some 19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what?...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, THE ANGEL OF POST-MODERNISM | Title: Some Problems with Meaning and Criticism | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...cavern, I felt the pumping beats of the aged hip-hop. We were already pretty buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they’re typically 20 euro). An hour or two after we had arrived, Ashley had migrated to a table in the back VIP section. She was courting some French guy who was accompanied by a man with dark sunglasses?...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Toasted | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Chris: Lucky Charms are cool because you know that each marshmallow in your bowl was individually harvested by a sweet leprechaun. Meanwhile, Marshmallow Mateys can best be described as “magically disgusting.” Perhaps most upsetting is the line-up of inexplicable shapes employed by this cereal. The marshmallows are a total mystery, but seem to include a dead canary, a penis and a pink stegosaurus footprint...

Author: By Nathaniel F. Houghteling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love It/Hate It: Generic Cereal | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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