Play Fair, Run Fast, and Smile for the Camera
...its spectators that for a few hours, they leave their houses, sharpen their concentration, and put in a little bit of effort too. Randolph Bourne, speaking of the Anglo-Saxon “sporting...
Vinyl re-enchantment
...its completion. It keeps me flipping through crates, looking for a lottery-like payout. Record stores are a bit like thrift stores in that they produce a sense of rarity and...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...or less explicitly. For example, "double think,” which in 1984 seems a bit far-fetched, but when he used specific political examples it didn't seem far-fetched at all. What do you...
The Fame Game
...interested in comedy, I’m interested in truth, I’m interested in relaxation and people letting themselves go and letting their hair down a little bit because it’s a safe place to...
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
...make sure it actually looks like she is. All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq, Miyoko Hikiji, History Publishing Company, 2013; available in Barnes &...
The Data Sublime
...moves into pharmaceutical research and bodily monitoring, it had outgrown its original mission statement to “organize the world's information.” "We're in a bit of uncharted territory,” he said. "We're trying...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
...action after the Khroma team essentially ignored their cease-and-desist letter. Osiao growth: Estee Lauder marches forward with its wide-scale promotion of Osiao, the company's newly developed line for Asian consumers....
Love Craft
...My Colors,” and whether our dial-up romance, which had blossomed so beautifully in an AOL chat room, would wither despite his gift of one perfectly sequenced bit of sonic sentiment....
Wifey Status
...of two things: that violence is inseparable from domesticity, and that domesticity is glamorous. The lyric “get a little bit suburban and go crazy” has a much different meaning for...
Skin Feeling
...being skin. “I put quite a bit of study into the horn,” said Bird. How do you study that way? I keep coming back to the hotel, to the couple...
Future Games
...to Fallout, the gaming industry is currently obsessed with apocalypse. Long a staple of TV and cinema screens, the zombie has become even more prominent on PlayStations and computers. Added...
Extremists in The Mainstream
...names (“Operation Danny” on one page becomes “Operation Dani” on the next). This can get just silly, as when he mentions “baklava” (the delicious pastry common throughout the Levant) among...
Zombie Novel
...bit?’ ‘No, it’s his past,’ he heard the comm operator say. The recruit moaned some more. ‘His past?’ ‘His P-A-S-D man, his P-A-S-D.’” Like everyone else, Mark Spitz has a...
Occupy The Library
...— and then, at 5, he declared the “The Library is Now Closed!” A hearty round of applause and finger-snapping greeted this bit of cognitive dissonance from the 80 or...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...that American television birthed, is there any as famous as this? None comes to mind. Berkley splays open Jessie’s anxieties in this scene; it’s a bit of committed, earnest acting...