Weather
...may all do it, but we almost always wish we were talking about something else. Conversation about the weather is supposed to reflect an alienated lack of common subject matter:...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...Karl is wearing TimeWise® Firming Eye Cream, .5 oz., $30, marykay.com or your nearest Mary Kay lady Near the top of the dry erase board where I keep...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Sunday Reading
...About Being Molested vintage black glamour dot tumblr dot com Who Killed Anna Mae? Frank Pasquale: Canadian populism: the rebirth of Fordnation. This is why we can't have nice mugs....
Weed
...on guns, race, or weed — no one really knows, except that it indicates an ideological stalemate that policymakers would rather not address (by beth at dresshead.com). But with voters...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...sisi wanaombea? --Witness #88: Vulture VeeVIKAA I do hereby make oath and swear as follows: 1. THAT I am a male adult individual of sound mind hence competent to swear...
Dogshit Orgasm
...such insidious business practices. On grasscity.com, Gods Boner [sic] from Delaware responds to the thread “How Do They Name Weed,” writing, “People just make shit up. My first grow I...
Fat and Happy—and Loved
...works on her blog and on her Twitter, @EmilyTimbol. She can also be reached by email, at [email protected] ____________________________ One of the stupidest quotes I’ve ever heard is, “Nothing tastes...
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
...Ufortunately, the story is not open-access, though Audible.com.au appears to have a free download of the podcast version of it. It may surprise you to learn that Taiye...
Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
...Novelist China Miéville joins Evan Calder-Williams to launch Calder-Williams’ book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (Zero Books) by announcing the death of the “Salvage punk” theory it presents. Salvage Punk...
Encounters With Lindsay
...—Cat Marnell In an email, September 26, 2012 *** Send your thoughts to [email protected] Flesh, Bone, There Is Nothing There by Sarah Nicole Prickett But did I see Lindsay Lohan,...
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
...critiques where her art was labeled as “not universal” because it contained her body. She didn’t deal with the sidelong glances from her peers, convinced the only reason she was...