Trophy Season
...These incidents, along with J’s gravely serious, rarely smiling face, gave me the impression that J was bad. So when J was on my class list for the improv comedy...
Steal This Article
...property, make them pay for it. Yeah, scan a few items—but don’t scan a few more. Nonchalantly pass your items a bit too high over the scanner and into your...
The Passion of Private Manning
...a happy ending, and it often does—at the movies. Some critical bit of intelligence is a common McGuffin in suspense movies and pulp thrillers. Villains have suppressed some important piece...
Can't Wait Forever
...Rock, currently the site of the largest mobilization of Indigenous North Americans in recent history, to deliver supplies and document events. “The community there is a perfect example of what...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...whether or not merging is actually your goal in a relationship, the whole "the two will become one flesh" bit is pretty much the basis of marriage in the western...
The Bod of the Father
...a little bit of extra fat in certain areas.” It is fitting that dad bod will become a lifestyle brand, because it asks those who desire it to aspire to...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...perhaps for symbols of commonplace joy (sunlight, ice cream); sample from the wealth of data that supports all the good sense that hospice makes; and finally paint a solemn and...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 21
...It doesn’t always help to be intelligible I have a dream of all people living out the end times squeezing every little bit of joy out of every...
The Other Foot
...parents. Apparently they come from money. Lots and lots of money. It doesn’t give kids a good message, you know? Who can afford a pair of designer shoes when you’re...
Sunday Reading
...the restroom" "Women are apparently still a bit too exotic for the intrepid men." "Santana told police that he bought the animal for $200 at a gas station." Jacob Remes:...
Desiring Machines
...year. Its images, videos, and quotes were summarily collected, attributed, and uploaded with little by way of commentary. Drones, mapping, mirror worlds, machine vision, surveillance infrastructure, conspicuous augmentation, pixelation, fetishizing...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...quality. But I'm assuming that sales don't cover the operating costs? Well thank you. We do make an effort. Funds come from a variety of sources. Worldreader gives us seed...
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
"A sort of post-colonial studies joke": Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation
...a little bit superfluous? If my primary reference point for The Stranger is already the critique that is sometimes made of this Algerian-born French writer—the “perverse arrogance” that Achebe once...
Black Arts Boomerang
...can re-construe police brutality as "justifiable accidents", while community defense efforts are distortedly framed as resisting arrest and incitement to riot. Jordan’s question—how to settle scores, how to push the...
Preservation Society
...even bottled my own wine, but I had yet to pickle or preserve. Such kitchen arts had always seemed unduly complicated -- all paraffin, pressure cookers, and mason jars. A...