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Author: Joshua Glenn

Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Kingston, NY.

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Our favorite jackasshole.

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The greatest blog in the multiverse.

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Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

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The 21st century has the potential to become a new Dark Age.

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The generation born 1824-33 is the first post-Romantic one.

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Or is it “Plastic Man”?

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My bad about Austerlitz and the Place Vendome… The Emps fucked up my Rome.

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Somewhere is a man looking for a red-headed girl…

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Professor Cone’s device finally works!

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Pluperfect PDA (4)

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Ringtone: “Mull of Kintyre”

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Best science documentary ever.

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Uncanny masquerie.

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Midcentury ellipticism…

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The 1834-1843 cohort paved the way for Modernism.

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