We Are All a Work in Progress

As a person who mindlessly soaks up every bit of cultural minutia, I read a lot of articles. Specifically, I reed cnn.com every day and I just read probably the one millionth article written about the mobile phone wars. The bottom line of every article is always exactly the same - it sums up earnings for whichever companies it is talking about and then speculates about their future earnings. Also, by the way, why are articles written every single week about what the top grossing movies are? Is it that obvious that the movie companies pay the newspapers to write about them? How symbiotic is the relationship between writers and industries that make a ton of money like cell phone companies? Also why is it so important that we (meaning me) who constantly keep up with whats going on are forced to be barraged with meaningless news and pointless rumors like this? I can barely comprehend why news media outlets aren't running more coverage of the billions of dollars spent every day on the...

Everything in NY is based around events. People are always asking you to go to this event or that event. All the papers and magazines like TimeoutNY or AMNY or the Metro are advertising the latest cool thing that you should be going to tonight or tomorrow night because chances are you don't have a group of friends that just sits around and does random shit together like go to Starbucks or watch a movie. Everyone here seems to think that's boring. All you have to do is walk outside even and you'll see posters up advertising Mexican Wrestling and Tacos, or a HOT97 concert in the park, or a reading at Barnes and Noble by a popular author or comedian that you didn't even know was an author. In fact, everyone you know in NY is dying to invite you to their latest event or thing that they are no doubt a part of. If you don't know someone that doesn't want you to come to their comedy show of some sort, musical concert, poetry reading, kung fu class, or theater piece, t...