Category: Positive Cynicism

Aaron R. Davis Finally, it’s my favorite week of the year: the week leading up to Halloween. My favorite day of the year. Yep, I’m in as good a mood as I can possibly be. Well … almost. Like most years, I feel compelled to ask a certain …

Aaron R. Davis What a difference a day without the Internet makes. I was blissfully offline the other day when most of America came to a grinding halt in order to scratch their collective heads and watch an empty balloon float away while the Heene family pretended their …

Aaron R. Davis Last month, an absolutely wretched Ralph Lauren ad appeared on the website Photoshop Disasters, an invaluable site that catalogs particularly egregious retouches in advertising. The image in question showed a woman in Lauren clothing that had been so badly retouched that it was actually disturbing …

Aaron R. Davis By now you may have heard that new cast member Jenny Slate accidentally said the word “fucking” in her very first Saturday Night Live. One of the more immediately ridiculous aspects of American culture is our fear of the power of mere words. Sure, we …

Aaron R. Davis Because being on Blogger, Blip, a virtual football club and Twitter apparently doesn’t give me enough on the Internet to be ambivalent about, I’m also on Tumblr. For those who don’t know, Tumblr is another blogging platform, one that’s generally devoted to pictures and short …