Brin sees his smartphone as “emasculating” not just because he has to stand still and touch it, and not just because “even girls” could use it, but also because his smartphone no longer signifies him as a member of the power elite. Conceptualizations of masculinity are inextricable from conceptualizations of power, and Brin’s privileged status comes to him from social class and professional identity as much as from gender. Cell phones were symbols of masculine power when only wealthy businessmen had them, but now that literally billions of people own them, the cell phone’s ability to signify status has given three beeps and vanished like a dropped call.

Status Flight and the Gendering of Google Glass » Cyborgology (via iamdanw)

I want to jump up on the table and scream, “Do you know how lucky we are to be doing this? Do you understand that the only way to repay that karmic debt is to make something good, is to make something ambitious, something beautiful, something memorable?” But I didn’t do that. I just sat there, and I smiled.

Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema

This is really good.

Braff had the brass to venerate his generation without an ounce of critique, and fetishize himself in the process: He’ll always be, first and foremost, the man who had Natalie Portman, playing an epileptic pixie next door, harvesting his hard-won tears in Dixie Cups. No pardon awaits him on the other side of the Cultural Styx.

Theater Review: Zach Braff Comes to the Empire State

Track:
Long Time

Artist:
Buddy Miller & Julie Miller

Album:
Written in Chalk

**Buddy & Julie Miller** - Long Time

You can feel another story leaking out here; adjectives from some other story spilling out from between the lines.

“that we had thought would be resolved by now”
“begrudgingly” 
“that he so greatly deserves”
“would love nothing more”

You can feel another story leaking out here; adjectives from some other story spilling out from between the lines.

“that we had thought would be resolved by now”
“begrudgingly”
“that he so greatly deserves”
“would love nothing more”