Everyday schadenfreude
...who would say "I'm glad Facebook didn't exist when I was in high school" would rationalize having a Facebook page now. The stakes are much higher for adults in having...
Sunday Reading
...Their Ass Off! What Went Wrong in Mail? The Grown Ass Woman The Balkanisation of Syria: Myth or Reality? The Left Facing Page The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion...
Hex Before Marriage
...that serves as the vehicle for romantic metaphors. And that "dead blank" that struck fear in Stendhal's heart? It's just another failed page load in a web browser. ...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 6, 2019)
...A surge in cases of scurvy in the UK blamed on Britons' preference for "beige diets" Fear of food shortages after Brexit prompts one UK school to buy an extra...
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: A Collection
...(Everything by Hannah Black) * * * Show us some love and subscribe here. You can also buy one of our overpriced tote bags and support TNI in style.
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...opportunities to buy Leberwurst, Blutwurst, Jagdwurst, Brühwürtchen, and a host of other appetizing garbage." --Harry Franck, Vagabonding Through Changing Germany (1920) There was much to admire: sausage egg-shaped and sausage...
Labor and Looking "Professional"
...who can buy expensive styling creams, get frequent trims, and spend time and money to do things like minimize frizz. It means looking like you require the labor of other...
Obituary: Borders Books and Music
...we’d go from CD-listening station to station, trading headphones, discovering not just bands but popular music itself. We would spend hours, walk out without buying anything, and come back the...
Two Months
In Gaza, we have evidence of the functioning world system.
The Devengers, Part Three
This is a story about the telos of our current wave of megablockbuster superhero films and shows, beginning roughly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2007 and The Dark Knight in 2008, which endowed the genre with broad critical respectability, public embrace, limitless bankrolls, a persistent universe, and a viable playbook for adapting second-string intellectual
August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
...of warrior robot or soldier robot or robot cop no no it will only be used to catch foul balls at the baseball game buy me some peanut and cracker...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.16.12
...stupidest beauty idea of the year: nail polish rental. What, you wanna try glitter polish and you're too good to buy Wet 'n' Wild like the rest of us? ...
Do yoga and vote
...the fields of the living like ex-birds and vote Buy in bulk the 22” Panga machete with a 440 stainless steel blade for only $3.19/unit when placed in...
The flayed compass, or ENJOY / THIS / STRIP / BABY
...even a store where one could buy some glue or glass, there the cars have entered precisely because there's no reason to enter other than to be where one will...
Sunday Reading
...a new way to buy the bulk of us off with affect" "The discourse of the comment section invites readers to round the essay up to scandalous" "a person close...