On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...Christmas pageant, 1930, plus witch. My parents raised me in the Methodist church, halfheartedly. The “halfhearted” part would come as no surprise to anyone seated within two...
Beauty Blogosphere Break
...at the same time without growing roots at my computer.) So the Beauty Blogosphere is on hiatus for a bit longer. It will return—I love finding and curating these...
Come Down With Fire
...led our hapless narrator to possibly some sort of commune dwelling, where he hears someone's — a roommate’s? lover’s? — sinister laughter “in another room” while she cooks up and...
"Mad Men" Beauty Musings
...even though the crude comments at the meeting were aimed almost entirely at Joan. The women are clawing at each other on the surface, but the way in which they...
Grudge Lust
...mortify the other.” Outsiders socially, Shonagon and Hazlitt must have felt further alienated because they were writers. If writers are paying the least bit of attention, then they must grapple...
The Mask of Zelda: Dark Eternities
It was just an ordinary day in the world of Legend of Zelda. Then everything went topsy-turvy. Content Warning: Violence of every kind.
Sunday Reading: April 30, 2023
...became a regular feature at TNI, and it is in that same spirit of sharing motivated purely out of a desire to connect over some common impulse, interest, or learning,...
Climate Changed
...erupted in July 1914. Her earlier date is linked most commonly to 1910’s London art exhibit “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” which introduced Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Picasso to the stodgy...
Reality Fiction
...I feel like there's a bit of a difference, and I can't quite express it in interviews. Or even really remember, because now that it's over, it's like trying to...
The Madman's Interpreters
...bit more effort, but is very, very rewarding in the end. TNI: André Breton considered Roussel and the Comte de Lautréamont to be the forerunners of surrealism. As someone who...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women. Ulysses doesn't excite our mirror...
The Last Witch Hunter
...be compared to a barbaric episode of its past that it had largely forgotten. Summers, on the other hand, neither criticized nor apologized for Christianity’s persecution of witches—he embraced it....
Sunday Reading!
...couldalso have a headache???), allow me to say this: HOOOOOO MY GOD FUCK US ALL BECAUSE THIS MOVIE GOT BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE GARBAGE AND IT IS A FUCKING MONSTERPIECE...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...rather than its metaphysical efficacy: as literature (the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Paulo Coelho) or as jewelry (talismanic motifs have recently come into vogue). Mersedeh, I sensed,...
Predictive analytics and information camouflage
...individual basis is waiting in the wings. Duhigg notes the efforts Target must make not to "spook" customers with obvious behavioral-based targeting. Since the company wanted to target pregnant women...
Knocked Out Loaded
...to people, unwittingly if not against their will. This is because most who have ingested a standard dosage will exhibit within fifteen minutes a troubling combination of physical docility and...