Where the Hell Do You Think You Are?
...in miniature in one scene. Thirty minutes in, Charlie is chased through the ghetto by Nazi stormtroopers. Charlie’s sweetheart Hannah (played by his real life half-Jewish wife Paulette Goddard) comes...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...The last century comes to look different. If there is something worth saving in the acts and techniques that have been called cinema, then the century coming to look different...
Narrative of Fragments
...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...
Sunday Reading
...globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography" hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com T.F. Charlton: "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative. Interrogating the...
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Enigma Deviations
...14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do? (1:58:31 PM) [email protected] : Tired of being tired (2:17:29 PM) bradass87: ? (6:07:29 PM) [email protected]:...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
Open Wide
...them to music and turned them into a pair of successful albums in the 1990s. When entrepreneur Michael Birch was putting together social network Bebo.com in 2006, he reached out...
Cooking Class
...on his stomach. He also happened to have had compiled the first cookbook (or, at least, he and a number of wealthy men bearing the same name did so over...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...on living at LuxLotus.com. Glamour is the word, pertaining to me, that I hear most often from other people, and, in truth, the word I think of least on...
Natural's Not In It
...in the absence of pre-historic leopards. Grok, a 30-year-old hunter-gatherer, is upheld by marksdailyapple.com, a leading Paleo site, as a Paleo a role model. Grok, a caveman composite, is “simultaneously...
Sunday Reading
...they are not the center of everyone else’s universe" googlepoetics.com soundsjustlike.com adultcatfinder.com zunguzungu: Currently reading Lorraine Adams' Harbor. Whiteness and Tokenism on the Runway Collapsing Factories and the “End Death...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...Iranian sanctions proponents, take note. [Matias Spektor, World Politics Review] Nine years ago, as chief nuclear negotiator, [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani compared the controversy around Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...and heightens his sense of specialness. Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos. He "may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen." Photograph:...
Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
...Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Part 1: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/CharynMichaelFinalpt1.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn Part 1] Part 2: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/JandMfullpt2_1-2.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome...