it's not surprising that we get bitter, that we cling to gun control
A social relation crystallized into something you can hold in your mouth.
Sunday Reading
"What is Sunday but a series of inspired follies?"
Let Us Eat Cake
"Its vagueness is its strength--anything more detailed would get in the way of the pastel and neon textures that animate the identity."
Sunday Reading
Extra Sunday. Today only!
Sunday Reading
Today only, with extra Sunday.
Sunday Reading
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Democracy's Bad Infinity
Nothing left of the word once we have declared politics to be also personal; if politics is anything, it’s everything minus the personal, so adding the personal back in—as we must—forces the essential meaninglessness of the word “political” to the surface.
The Young Mr. Lincoln
Since he wants so desperately to be nothing more than a humble man of the people, the movie functions as one long demonstration that no such thing as “the people” exists.
Sunday Reading
Sunday In The Park With Great Reading
Sunday Reading
"Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task / Does not divide the Sunday from the week." -- Marcellus in Shakespeare's Hamlet
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
If we think of censorship in purely negative terms, none of this will be all that interesting.
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...that tear in the discourse shows us the limit point of dads as master ideology; the one thing it can’t actually justify is murdering your own kid, and a 16 year old American kid is President’s Obama’s child.
Sunday Reading
"We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy. My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity" -- closing paragraph of Ch. 5, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"Want some food?"
"I'd cook some for you, but my kitchen is fucked up."