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...
Jennifer's Body, Redux: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Actresses
...of me has to agree. But I think that’s also a bit of a red herring, and here’s why: Talented actresses are asked all the time to manipulate their bodies...
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 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...
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...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...asking Mr. Gorbachev to put back that wall. They could at least have taken it down slower or even tried dressing it up a bit: Hang some art, give it...
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...
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Is Entourage Sorry?
...as I didn’t really want to watch Entourage, it would be okay to watch it a little bit. But then something strange happened: Instead of the traditional formula, the show...
Bodies of Water
...left side of his skull, the bit behind the ear with a bullet mark… a few teeth and bits of bones and a foot. When a foot, or a piece...
Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
Un(der)seen Cinema: Tomato Is Another Day
...as an unparalleled bit of Dadaist pranksterdom and parody whose pun-heavy critique of Hollywood writing and directing styles, at six and a half minutes long and eighty-two years old, still...
Feral Memes
...interspersed with dozens of images of cats, often posing with ISIS militants. These tweets were written in humorous LOLspeak and identified their subjects, with a bit of clever wordplay, as...
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:...
"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...