Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...establish our fame. So, as with all subversive statement, it is very much acknowledging the classical strcuture of dominance, only upsetting it a bit." It couldn't be unique to...
Naked Criticism
...In The Irresponsible Magician, Rebekah Rutkoff gets to the point. Her prose can be perplexing, but only because we are so used to our books coming with elaborate instructions that...
The Two Standards of Beauty
...in order to most do it for them. These two realms are mistakenly conflated, but they do have a good bit of overlap. Both tend to value youth, slimness, and...
Some covert wonder
...but totally unidentifiable piles huddled close for warmth. "Babe? You coming?" She took the pot of flame and dropped it into the half-full sink. And if she had stayed she...
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...
Picture Pluperfect
...now consider us, positioning ourselves precisely away from the complexities of reality and staring into our glowing, well-connected digital Claude-glass screens. This is contrary to the belief that the Internet...
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,...
Reader's Digest
...fellow citoyens. For them, however, such knowledge lay not in dope but in dinners. As if skeptical of that bit of scriptural wisdom that teaches, “By their fruits shall ye...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...charting the irreversible damage Romand inflicted on his community (where children will never unquestioningly trust their parents again), but Carrère soon abandons Luc’s point of view, realizing that he is...
Dark Pages
...intended to be a bit gimmicky, it has the effect of bringing into sharp contrast the rhetorical differences between the two documents. Where the reports are clear and detailed, almost...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...costs. No wonder that, in fashion, fronting is traditionally accepted at face value. Even obvious lies, with repetition, are somehow treated as revelatory dissidence, when in fact they are commonplace....