2010 :: Issue 6/Spring :: Micro Essays
The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America
(M–O)
Carlos Reyes
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There Will Be a Friend The Thich Sappho’s sisters to the rescue Ma |
A Talisman Inspires Confidence Remember Remember (forget forget) Charmed with a pencil BaM! a PhuD! |
This Is the Place Eppur si muove: Returning is turning Heterogenesis: Home homo home Tindbad the Tailor: No nostalgia Yes transgress |
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| Magic | From nowhere the goods appear on the shelves. | ||||
| Magical Unrealism | Buy one get X. | ||||
| Manufactured Minds | Gimme the latest model? | ||||
| Masculinity | Who was that masked man? | ||||
| Mass Market Individualism | American mythology. | ||||
| Master and Servant | Let’s play. | ||||
| Metaphor | The too easy slide of the metaphorical to the literal. | ||||
| Mickey Mouse | Mc’Mickey’s Я Us. | ||||
| Microwave | American cuisine. | ||||
| Middle East | UnAmerica. | ||||
| Money | The root of all. | ||||
| Morality | This means war. | ||||
| More Bigger | Karma. | ||||
| Movies | School of life. | ||||
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Monsterification ATHEISTS BAPTISTS BUDDHISTS COMMUNISTS CAPITALISTS CONSERVATIONISTS DRUGGIES DRAGQUEENS DREGS DRUDGES EVE EDGE ELITE EFFETE ERUDITE FUNKY FREAKS FUZZY FIDEL FUSSY FAGS GAWKY GEEKS GLITZY GÖDEL GYPSY GOLLIWOG GIGS HELPLESS HAVELESS HOPELESS HOMELESS HAPLESS HUSBANDLESS HARMLESS HAMMERLESS INDIANS INCANS IROQUOIANS IRISHMEN ITALIANS IBERIANS INDONESIANS IRANIANS INHUMANS JEWS JESUSFREAKS JERKOFF JESUITS JEHOVIST JEDI JEKYLL JEZEBELS JEERING JESTERS KINKY KAMIKAZE KIBBUTZNIK KIKES KAFKAESQUE KALASHNIKOV KICKBACKERS KOOKY KACZYNSKI KKK KAKA LA LOEB LOGIC LEOPOLD LOWLIFE LAYOFF LAPDOG LEECH LITERATI LBJ LURK LIBERAL MONEYNATION MILITARNATION MACHINATION MODERNATION MEDIOCRITIRADATION MOTHERATION MIDDLEAGERATION MURDERATION MYTHERATION MIXENATION MEXIFICATION MUSLIMATION MONSTERASIAN |
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| Naïve | Hungry for belief. | ||||
| Neighbors | Be kind to strangers. | ||||
| New | The spectacular success of advertising in habituating Americans to expecting the new. | ||||
| Next | Everybody’s waiting for it. | ||||
| NIMBY | See no evil. | ||||
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NY (See L.A.) |
Omnivorous velocity (with no public bathrooms). | ||||
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| Oil and Coffee | Number 1 and number 2. | ||||
| One Nation | 300 million hungry I’s. | ||||
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Ontology (See Epistemology.) |
Image is everything. | ||||
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