Fake Fake Things? Coffee Cup a Concession to Ugly Post-Modern World

This article was originally published by Technorati on 11 February 2010. To see all my Technorati articles, click Lifestyle in the Contents listing on the sidebar.

Are you kidding me? Has the world fallen in on itself? Something's gone haywire here.

The Daily Grommet has come up with a to go cup . . . that isn't. Called the I'm Not a Paper Cup and produced by Decor Craft, the ladies in a video posted to Shine on Yahoo! are fawning over this double-insulated porcelain replica of something you throw away as if it's just darling.

"Jesus" Help Me Find My Proper Place

Lou Reed and the Blind Boys of Alabama prove once again that, when it's heartfelt, there's no such thing as a bad prayer. Reed who wrote the simple song, "Jesus," first recorded it with the Velvet Underground in 1968.