Michael Andor Brodeur

Writer, Lifter, Eater, Maker

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Surreality TV: Getting meta- with ‘Too Many Cooks’ and others

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Are albums the problem with the music industry?

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"But as useful as they all seem to be, apps still require use. That is, I still have to do stuff. How is that the future?"

"Automatic for the people: IFTTT, other automation services make big steps by cutting corners" – Boston Globe, November 1, 2014.

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"It doesn’t seem all that long ago that our glimpses into celebrity life lasted as long as a paparazzi’s flash, and our active engagement with the cosmetic comings and goings of stars was confined to our time in the checkout line. In the heyday of the print tabloids, their petty photos and cheap shots entertained us by exposing the foibles and flab of our favorite stars.

But the sustained celebrity surveillance offered by (and expected from) the Internet has extended those fleeting glances into something more like a creepy stare."

– "Whose face is it anyway?" – Boston Globe, October 24

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"Shoot first: How police recordings became a new subgenre of Internet video. – Boston Globe, October 18, 2014.

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Some of my viewers want details about my mustache — how long it took me to grow, how I groom it. Others want to know what that song is that I’m listening to. A user from Saudi Arabia with no profile picture and a screen name I cannot read claims to have fallen in love with me. Another person found my Instagram and informed me I look like a “bozo.”

"MeTV: Live broadcasters are finding an audience online" – Boston Globe, October 11, 2014

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"A Dream Deferred: 'Twin Peaks' returns to us; why we should return to it" – Boston Globe, October 11, 2014

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Poetry review: "ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness," CAConrad & "If The Tabloids Are True What Are You?" Matthea Harvey

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"It’s as promising a candidate for the next great social media lily pad as I’ve seen, and after a week on Ello, returning to Facebook for anything feels a lot like grabbing a bag of clothes from the apartment of a lousy ex. But once the gang’s all here, it remains to be seen if Ello’s alluringly clamor-free quietude remains intact."

– from "Is this Ello's time to shine?" Boston Globe, September 25, 2014

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"When I subtract all of the things that routinely raise my hackles on Facebook — the incessant promotional creep, the vortices of public bickering, the gratingly passive activism, the mess of unsorted news and clickbait, the bloating it has caused to our notions of friendship, and the precision-crafted identities it compels us to enhance and archive — I’m left with a small handful of functions that resembles something a lot like Snapchat."  – "Snapchat: Deal With It," Boston Globe, September 20

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on repeat: Hiro Kone, "Fallen Angels" (Geographic North)

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"We are all Walter the dog who likes water." – Thing Tank, Boston Globe, September 7, 2014. 

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