Sunday Reading
...Historic NYC Photos The Debate over Student Loan Interest is Nothing But A Sideshow: "Keeping the cost of borrowed money a bit lower for one more year won't cure the...
Hangar to Grave
...and fairly successful life in commercial service, the DC-9 now finds itself outmoded by newer and more efficient aircraft. Still, the DC-9 is not quite history. Just last year, it...
The questioning of experience and the images of the Same
...then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the banana. And if the halves are divided again, each bit will be...
Sunday Reading
...the impulse to speak" "bloggers have reached the level of pop culture acceptance that comes w/ having a dog do their jobs for comedic effect" "since the election of Barack...
Consider the Humblebrag
...ego boost everyone knows about. You did something great (met a celebrity, got some kind of compliment, became temporarily important) and wanted to tell the world about your brief moment...
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
The White Market
...radar in a community overrun with the stuff and taken care of his chemo costs and family just fine. But what makes White more attractive than your garden-variety tweaker to...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...and hungry mirrors, when the stupid, irrefute fact of it had been staring us in the face all along, turning a bit in the saccharine wind of our breath, shimmering,...
En passant
...Tumblr, and that sounds a bit like what clueless commentators like me say about alt lit: It's a community of outsiders testing out new forms of affective bonds in social...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and shopping matter so little to a global elite determined to grind every last bit of profit out of ordinary people before the next big crash. It’s all right, though,...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...will not move no friends not one bit A dissolve makes clear that many hours have passed, twilight has fallen. In that time passed they must have come to an...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.9.13
...Gamble's annual report, including the head-scratcher that beauty is actually the company's least successful division—and grooming, i.e. manstuff, is its most lucrative. Plus, their advertising isn't as effective as it...
Spectrum Order
...the individual — the reader — as the subject in need of care. The loss-of-innocence plot, like the Bildungsroman, is a technology of socialization. Its effect is a coming-to-terms with...
The Ellipsis That Told the Tale
Until 1969, there were several attacks on the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during the student riots in Germany. This story takes place 30 years later, when the roots and conflicts that fueled the incidents are still being felt in a daughter who is reassembling fact and fiction dating back to 250 AD in an attempt
What Would a Busy Blogger Do?
...The time has come, the blogger said, to talk of many things—actually, just one, which is a need for a bit of time off. Specifically, time off without feeling...
A Short History of the Dining Room (Part 1)
...comfort reinforced status and class cohesion. Elite men of the most powerful poleis gathered on fragrant evenings in rooms especially designed for feasting. These rooms accommodated no more than eleven...