http://chaosoutoforder.com Where Megalomania Meets the Heart and Soul Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:43:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every high school athlete remembers their coaches sputtering motivational quotes at them. These quotes seemed only mildly relevant at the time and are downright worthless once you're old enough to realize that those coaches were just adults who were not particularly popular in high school and not particularly successful in ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/12/28/afraid-to-be-great/ This one speaks for itself. Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina (and mother of two), died of complications from gluteoplasty...or in other words, butt implants. You really can't make this stuff up. Nice that every once in a while a cause celebre comes around to remind us that vanity is ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/12/05/firmness-is-closer-to-god-liness-i-guess/ One salient aspect of America's collective anxiety over the financial crisis is, of course, the deficit. The nascent "Tea Party" movement has tapped into this anxiety and made it a central thesis of their supposed revolution. Leaving aside for a second the Tea Partiers' refusal to acknowledge the $5 trillion ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/11/30/the-deficit-and-hyman-roth/ Content creators have no shortage of troubling questions to answer, but media entrepreneur Edo Segal poses yet another one to them: Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold all movies and ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/10/31/apple-to-the-rescue/ [caption id="attachment_1340" align="alignright" width="300" caption="You're tellin' me this guy wasn't born to write for Melrose Place?"][/caption] Whoever you are reading this blog, I don't know you. Well, maybe I do know you, but whether I know you or I don't, I bet that you knew someone like Jon Caren during your ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/10/16/the-classics-of-the-90s-return/ Big Dodger victory tonight. To beat the opposing team's ace in Game 1 with Randy Wolfe scrubbing by...it's huge. This win is pretty evident of the 2009 Dodgers overall. They are solid all around. Since Manny (and his biceps) have returned back to earth, nothing particularly exciting sticks out about ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/10/07/bleedin-dodger-blue/ I always get a tingle when something happens that gives people a reason to have opinions and the Roman Polanski saga qualifies. The saga of the Holocaust orphan/philandering auteur/Manson victim/international fugitive has inflamed passions over the past 48 hours and forced us to confront concepts of right, wrong,  justice, and ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/09/29/polanski-the-litmus-test/ Most anamolies eventually become commonplace and accepted. One of these is the fact that Los Angeles (the 2nd largest media market in the United States) does not have a pro football team. It takes a whole helluva a lot for the city of Los Angeles to be collectively conscious about ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/09/19/anyone-recall-that-los-angeles-doesnt-have-a-football-team/ Chirping seagulls, PCH and Sunset, pina coladas with neon umbrella straws, sawdust floors, leftovers wrapped in tinfoil sculptures. Ahhh the cheesy splendor that is Gladstones. The seaside eatery has been a cultural landmark and the venue of every secondary holiday (i.e., mother's day) family get together of mine since the ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/09/06/the-nazarian-ization-of-gladstones/ Yesterday witnessed the most high-profile M & A action in quite some time as Disney made yet a further admission that it has no capacity to actually create appealing content and decided to purchase Marvel to do it for them. Disney CEO Bob Iger realized that a business model reliant ... http://chaosoutoforder.com/2009/09/01/theme-park-deathmatch/