The Question of Pain
...be as good as it gets. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected] The documentary makes clear that Pentagram, the band Liebling has haphazardly kept alive for 30 some years,...
Eminent Domain
...the bottom to provide the same thing. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — domain suffixes like .com, .net, or .org — are available to anyone. The Internet has routinely been described...
The Laughing Indian
...“Ayyyyyy,” with the explanation, “another Indian idiom.” He is translating Indians for white people, making them not only more readable but more laughable. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Political Indians,...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...fucked Hannibal while the elephants watched and remembered this with a certain degree of fondness, invented computing, eviscertated an accumulated total of 1,284 good Christians, wept a bit when they...
The Souls of Drone Folk
...in the Iraqis and, in the end, the city was only captured after close combat on the outskirts of Baghdad.” Note the logic of this paragraph: the desired effect was...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
Sunday Reading
...feats, and part of what fascinated me was the ease with which they went in and out of it" long list of good art tumblrs pizza-compass.com Bint Battuta: A veritable...
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
...that examines the strategies women in health fields employed in their autobiographical literature to navigate the shifting social and medical norms of the 19th century. Contact: [email protected] or www.amandacutaiabarnett.com...
Sunday Reading
...Labor, and the Sharing Economy Salon.com Recognizes Union Belabored Podcast #82: Labor Rising in New Media (audio) Google Express Workers May Unionize The Future of Work in the Uber Economy...
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
Marginal Returns
...to build feel, in our overly networked, no-brow, postmodernist society, a bit baroque. Still, what else was a black intellectual to do? What would I have done? Even hindsight, in...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Party Time
...anniversary of “reunification” with Macao (2009) go down a bit easier. In 2013, we find ourselves in the third year of the 12th Five-Year Plan (or “Guideline”), rubber-stamped at the...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...services were never really a revolutionary tech product at all? What if the major labels really needed everybody to think that for a little bit because they owned equity in...
Best in Show
...little vixens, unless we’re heifers or, well, dogs—suddenly it doesn’t seem terrifically far-fetched to wonder if there’s a bit of relief in establishing oneself as the mistress of another who...
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...2013, and then again in 2015. First as tragedy and then as farce. These sorts of things happen, a bit like forest fires. You can track down the place where...