Up at resident advisor. Quality beats, y’all.
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Lots of content to self-promote….
Comments on my Crystal Castles review for RA:
'Just a lil gothbaguette...'
“‘Or something’ indeed. This could be a guest post on Hipster Runoff.”
–stevemizek“This review is very pitchfork style – write as much as you can but avoid actually speaking about the music being reviewed”
–cavapower
Guys, I’ve finally arrived. *snif* You really like me!
For the record, the review was supposed to start this way, but got edited for (decency? coherence? de-jerkification?):
I never spend hours at work googling for pictures of Alice Glass. Never. I certainly don’t right-click ‘Save As’ pictures of the minxy raccoon-eyed glitchstress to use as desktop wallpaper. I’m on company time here and besides, I respect her as an artist.
I still count it in the win column.
+10 bonus memery: Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf disses chillwave! <<<@SDCityBeat!
Okay, first start here: the NYT’s excellent interactive explainer tool for the health care overhaul
This section blows my mind:
If you are refused coverage because of your health, you can get insurance from a new high-risk pool.
The pool will be established within six months and will operate until 2014, when insurance companies can no longer refuse applicants with pre-existing health problems. Annual out-of-pocket medical costs will be capped at $5,950 for individuals and $11,900 for families.
If I am reading this correctly, that little graf means that a person like me, who has been rejected from a number of buy-it-for-yourself plans like Tonik, suddenly has a chance to purchase affordable coverage outside of work. Think about that for a moment. Can it really work like that?
How many people do you know that work 8-6 jobs primarily to get good coverage? How many people do you know could and would make a living for themselves doing webdesign, freelance writing, childcare — whatever — but don’t because they have had past health problems that prevent them from purchasing affordable insurance? I know a ton. I consider myself such a person.
Many folks I know have stayed in jobs they hate in order to keep their coverage through health problems, knowing that preexisting conditions would prevent them from buying insurance and that COBRA would prove too costly, especially while unemployed.
The big question: will Obama’s high-risk purchase pool, offering a total out-of-pocket expense capped at $6K, cause a mass exodus of cubicle monkeys to unorthodox dream professions?
Lesser questions: $6K is still a lot and could clean you out if you didn’t make a ton of money in a year. Will more workaday kids do the startups they’ve been dreaming of but avoiding because of that persistent Lexapro/Ativan/Adderal prescription? Will Obamacare actually do some funky stuff to the economy because all the super-smart but immunodeficient people at jobs bail to work for themselves, opening slots up for the less-tight but healthy and currently unemployed people? Will there be a boom in registering URLs for PayPal sites selling vegan-friendly handmade messenger bags?
Far lesser questions: Is being chronically sick under Obama suddenly charming rather than terrifying like it was under Bush? Or was it always charming?
Discuss.
I was afraid this guy would not be punished for teaching cyclists a “lesson” with a couple thousand pounds of steel…but he did. Not sure if this is going to make me stop giving rude motorists the finger, but now I know that when one finally creams me, I’ll have legal recourse.
