The Impermanence of Beauty Work
...after when I decided to give the professional kitchen life a whirl. Yes, I enjoyed the act of baking (and its varieties of caramel-drizzled outcomes), but the real reason I...
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...
Stars
...you’ll still have to pay the rent. In this world, however much you dislike it, your unfinished errands won’t pass as a metaphor for the chaos of a complex mind....
Stoppage Time
...touch or pass. Not even 24-hour catastrophe coverage can match this yoking of the disparate, its shift from our general condition—“out of sync but aware of each other” (Cole)—to a...
Body / Cock: The Body That is Not Personal
This is how I learn to live life with death as my equal
Character Assassination
...the studio. He uses the closure as an opportunity to reflect on SimCity and how it evoked for him a history of games that never came to pass, one which...
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
One-Dimensional Woman
...a male student, wondering if the woman is a calculating monster instead of a lonely young professional or a neglected wife, but the addition of this possibility hardly seems like...
We Shall Overcome: The Problem With the Body-Love Therapeutic Narrative
...people devoting their professional and personal energies to self-acceptance—many of whom I’m proud to consider friends and colleagues whose work I promote whenever I have the chance, because I believe...
Critical Moments: The Birth of the Hack
...remains the professional basis for the staff reviewer’s job; fidelity, evidence, and so forth are still the measures of his value, but the high critical edge becomes misplaced, disproportionate when...
Sparkle, Shirley, Sparkle!
...kept remote from other white children onscreen, who studio executives believed threatened to “dilute [her] aura of uniqueness and thereby diminish [her] professional potential,” as Temple herself put it in...
Daddy
...their professional family obligations. Alana Massey addresses the young sugar baby as she would a junior trainee, reminding them that a sugar daddy is simply a crude kind of boss,...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part I)
...as a copy editor. I share that not only to disclose my relationship with the magazine, but also because my specific post there—as a professional grammarian—was tethered to the concept...
The Dark Art of Glamour
...but also because my specific post there—as a professional grammarian—was tethered to the concept of glamour more than I realized. For gramarye, the root word of glamour, also gave birth...
Next Year in Tehran
...modernity, religion and state, and the conflict between “ideological commitment and intellectual freedom.” Putting aside momentarily the wave of clichéd generalizations that flow through the translator’s jubilation at finding a...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
...to handle even, such that it must be set free, if a trailer smelling of frozen waffles and unfrozen ejaculate counts as Freedom, and the camera lingers behind an extra...