What exactly is it about this country at this particular point in time -- what weird mix of postmillennial economic jitters, commodity fetishism, hype, boredom, bad manners -- that is causing people to freak out and riot over basketball shoes?
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
Fri, 02/24/2012 - 8:24am
What exactly is it about this country at this particular point in time -- what weird mix of postmillennial economic jitters, commodity fetishism, hype, boredom, bad manners -- that is causing people to freak out and riot over basketball shoes?