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Pop culture soothes and placates with a steady series of uncomplicated morality tales in predigested narratives where nothing ever really changes and so there’s no worry that the storyline will move in a way that hurts your feelings. Crowdsourced “content” is built on ephemerality.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Other bigwigs who have collaborated with Troma include South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Before they created one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history, Book of Mormon, their early film Cannibal! The Musical was released by the Troma Team.
Jeffrey W. Sass • Everything I Know about Business and Marketing, I Learned from THE TOXIC AVENGER: (One Man's Journey to Hell's Kitchen and Back)
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Flattened, algorithmically-driven, risk-averse, accounting-based reboot culture continues to win despite the incredible diversity and eagerness of the creator economy and its long tail of choice and representation.
But despite a firehouse of hot takes, nothing much has changed over the years. Perhaps it’s gotten worse ?
In 2024, all of the Top 15... See more
But despite a firehouse of hot takes, nothing much has changed over the years. Perhaps it’s gotten worse ?
In 2024, all of the Top 15... See more
Cultural Singularity & The Need for Friction: The Business Case for Thinking the Inverse
Last Night (1998)
Directed by
Written by
Don McKellar
To suggest that Last Night shows an apocalypse that is low key is almost doing it a disservice. In fact, I almost want to suggest it is a cozy end to the world. It's quiet, intimate and refuses to give into the spectacle of your usual end of the world story. It's worth mentioning that
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