From Jeremy Bentham to Michel Foucault, everyone is talking about this hot new architectural style. Here are a few great ways to spruce up your prison, workplace, or even your home!
1. There’s nothing like an original. Bentham’s Panopticon prison is still a classic, proving that you don’t need any bells and whistles to achieve perfect surveillance!
2. Just because you want to watch everyone at all times doesn’t mean you can’t take some time to enjoy the finer things in life. This grand Roman-style compound comes complete with 360-degree viewing tower, luxurious gardens, and a below-ground steam room!
3. Who says that form and function can’t work together? These back-to-basics panopticon prisons beautifully echo the rolling Cuban hillside that surrounds them.
4. Sick of round panopticons? Stand out from the pack with this elegant penta-panopticon! Comes in two sizes, and easily integrates with modular expansion packs to fit all of your surveillance needs!
5. Something old, something new, something borrowed, but you won’t be blue! This modern-rustic panopticon is perfect for newlyweds or for empty-nesters starting a new chapter in their life!
6. Studying hard or hardly studying? In this neo-classical library-prison, everyone will know! Kiss procrastination (and privacy) goodbye!
7. One man’s dystopia is another’s paradise. We’re all just leeches on the back of society, and this futuristic co-working space acknowledges that fact with a sleek design that can only be described as Ikea meets Steve Jobs!
8. Finally, a panopticon for the sports fan in your life. This brutalist gymnasium-domicile is the perfect way to bring together all of your fitness friends, regardless of whether they play pickup basketball, are crossfit devotees, or belong to an ironic four-square league!
9. Spice up your life with this elegant palace-panopticon in the classic Spanish mudéjar style. Pairs perfectly with a premium manchego and organic fig paste!
10. Are you equal parts mysterious and inquisitive? If so, this moody, atmospheric forest panopticon is perfect for you. Gaze through the enchanted fog to see the deepest secrets and fears of your enemies and friends alike!
11. This open-air panopticon is a real brain-puzzler. It simultaneously imprisons and sets free by combining sturdy cement pillars with a complete lack of windows, proving that the strongest shackles are in the mind!
12. Discipline AND punish drabness with this contemporary minimalist panopticon. No right angles means no wrongdoing!
13. I know why the caged bird sings, and you will too in this spacious, well-lit industrial-gothic prison/ loft space. Just because you’re serving a life-sentence doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy streaming sunlight, exposed brick, and iron-beam flying buttresses!
14. Screens, screens, screens, screens, screens, screens! With this fiberoptic Closed-Circuit TV network, any building can be your very own panopticon, regardless of what shape it really is!
15. More is more in this maximalist panopticon-museum. As you marvel at the many achievements of arts, sciences, and technology, the real exhibit is you!
So, you’re probably thinking that alcohol isn’t actually part of pop culture. It’s a drink. Well, you’re wrong.
Also, alcohol is useful to appreciating art. A lot of pop culture is just bad, but if you drink while you’re watching it, you’ll enjoy it a lot more. That’s why people play drinking games for movies and TV.
Is it just me, or were some of the so called great English writers the worst kind of incompetent hacks? The time has come to think seriously about our supposed titans of literary culture, the time has come for us to finally acknowledge that Geoffrey Chaucer couldn’t write. I mean, have you ever tried to read Chaucer? It’s basically gibberish. How anyone has ever been able to tolerate it I have not the vaguest idea. Shakespeare was bad enough, what with his obsessions with thees and thous, whereto and therefores. But at least he was somewhat comprehensible. I defy you, dear reader, to comprehend this nonsense, those ugly, ugly words with which our so-called poet was so enamored.
The Gutenberg printing press revolutionized printing, because before that it was just scribing. Printed books became cheaper than handwritten ones, so more people were able to read them. Some people still took them back to the library before finishing though.
Mad Men is a great show, but for most fans, there’s one thing we love about it more than anything else (well, technically two, but people usually don’t refer to them individually). I’m talking of course about Joan’s (Christina Hendricks) boobs! I don’t think any further explanation is really necessary, so let’s get right to the list of the ten best episodes of Mad Men, rated on the only criteria that matters:
10. Sometimes when you get a window-mounted air conditioner, you forget ahead of time to check if your house has storm windows. This isn’t a Franzen problem if you own the house really, because you can control the storm window installation and maybe take them out if it is a really huge issue. But if you are renting a house, this can be a problem, because nowadays window-mounted air conditioners are designed to catch at the top on your bottom sash while resting on your windowsill in such a way as to tilt the air conditioner out of your window without letting it fall (it helps to secure the air conditioner with a screw at the top into your bottom sash, but if you rent, again, this could be a problem).
My favorite Wikipedia page has always been whatever page talks about the Winged Dragon of Ra, a specific Yu-Gi-Oh! card that wasn’t actually a card you could play in the card game for a long time, but which featured heavily in the latter half of one of the seasons of the children’s cartoon, which I watched and enjoyed in my early-mid 20s (DEAL WITH IT).
Mozfarting is the new thing. It is like doing the Dougie, except now I will teach you how to do it cause nobody taught me how to Dougie even though I asked like a million times. Mozfarting is when Mozart is playing and you fart. It is like ghost riding the whip, except you are farting and the car is playing Mozart and the car and not driving it are optional.
Honorable Mention: Songs
