Ghost World (Like a Bad Dream)
...where what passes for real is never true. In Zona, his book on Stalker, Geoff Dyer writes, “even when we see clearly, we are not sure what we are seeing.”...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
...word for tattoo, stig.) Creeping: I'm not sure what to think of this "diary of a creep" by noted journalist Rend Smith, who has a number of medical conditions (most...
Weed
...makes sense for us to look at how we can make sure that our kids are discouraged from using drugs and engaging in substance abuse generally. — Barack Obama, official...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...or vegan, and going down this path is sure to invite healthy vegetarians to defend themselves when I have no interest in attacking anyone's actual motivation for being a vegetarian....
Speak/Now
...not so sure; I think, rather, that these complexities of unstable meanings and anxious, partial disavowals themselves need to be taken into account in understanding the effects of language, and...
"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
...no essential negritude: what Senghor and Cesaire meant by the term was never very stable, never very unified, never sure But there is a kind of essentialized negritude, which essentially...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...albeit in far smaller numbers) but it ignores so much—eating disorder comorbidity with depression, for example, in addition to biological and environmental factors in eating disorders beyond media ideals. The...
Coming & Crying
...danger that on-demand presses can come to resemble vanity presses, but they also publish books that simply would not be published elsewhere. This provides a sort of second slush pile...
Not for You
...of the films will be about successful professionals having relationship problems and family drama, at least one of them probably in Western Europe — while Hollywood is for the plebs....
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...based in feelings and subconscious affect, well, I’m not sure how much poetry you read. Here’s an alternative: what if we’re going about this all wrong? Maybe the best way...
The Last Witch Hunter
...assassination by witchcraft, and, having recently sailed through a storm that he was sure had been engineered by magic, he took an active interest in the trials surrounding Duncan, going...
When Jason Walks
...disease that affects your cognition. Making the film has shown me that it hasn’t.” More than just telling his story, he’s making sure he has the capacity to tell it...
Dove "Real Beauty" Redux
...just threw up my hands and said, Well, this is the best we can do, so I'll take it. More to the point: I’m not so sure that the roots...
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
Flight for Your Rights
...narrow scope of operational use and is only granted to aerospace companies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the FAA for a list of...
Writing Like a Partisan
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism