Sentence of the year
David Redfern/Retna LTD.Dion is the Antichrist of the indie sensibility, an overemoting schmaltz-bot who has somehow managed to convert the ethos of Wal-Mart into sine waves and broadcast them, at kidney-rupturingly high volume, directly into our internal soulPods.
Sam Anderson
This is one of the finest sentences I've read this year. But embracing the bile, there are some fine theoretical points to be made: