No war has ever been fought over the control of coffee plantations—at least, not yet. While oil remains the most valuable legally traded commodity on Earth, coffee comes in second.

If you believed what the media, let alone anyone in the White House had to say, in the run up to the midterm elections, the Democrats weren’t in such great shape for reclaiming the Senate.

Thirty years may be infancy in terms of art history, but in the history of video art, it’s ripe old age. This November, the Video Data Bank (VDB) celebrated its 30th anniversary with several days of screenings and speakers.

If you have ever taken a field trip during class to the art museum across the road, you’ve experienced that exquisite cross between embarrassment and pride.

“I was always interested in weird, fucked-up imagery and I always made ‘shocking’ little pictures,” Jacobsen says, “but it took me a while to really push it in a direction where it transcended ‘shock-art.’”

It has been a crazy month here in the F News Headquarters; mail has been piling up, and not even my bevy of mostly naked young men can sort through the chaos.