Roaming Charges: The Goldberg Variations

Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, oil on wood panel, 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photograph: Kimberly Willson-St. Clair.

Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

– Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing...