The Albatross Around Johnny Depp's Brain
...Apparently Johnny Depp tried to recreate the top picture in portraying Tonto, and produced the bottom picture. Take a minute to observe his interpretation: photos via Entertainment Weekly. Jessica...
The Hair Back There
...hard you tried, nothing could de-kink a person’s kitchen.” The kitchen meant resistance. The kitchen saw the options available to make it "tame," and it refused them. It would be...
Best American Poetry Pseudonyms
...tried very hard to do; at best, your omissions and failures might not be glaring. But that’s it, that’s the best case scenario, to fail not so badly. There’s no...
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...inscribed at the bottom of a certain quantity of dirt. It was more final than any deposits of shale. So many times we tried to go down so many times....
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...you navigate only by your libido. Or if you feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...Koroma’s cause. As these kinds of mistakes plague their presidencies, these leaders have tried to assert symbolic control of the situation and thereby preserve the system they have made and...
Consider the Humblebrag
...idol hearthrob. Tried not to talk too much or eat too much. Succeeded at neither!” Particularly popular are the 15-minutes-of-fame variety, like @ReallyVirtual’s “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...got hotter and we rotted and the light of afternoon tried hard to make it through the fibrous leaves and plunging gobs but succeeded only in being a green dusk...
Socializing the Dark Web
...a platform for exchanging ideas, debating point of views, and help expand people’s knowledge and understanding of other cultures. How did Galaxy2 come to be? I created Galaxy2 out of...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and dreaming of a future where we could be proud of ourselves. We tried terribly hard to save each other, in the way that young people do, sharing out whatever...
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dines
...and underwent multiple tests in the murky waters of the Thames. The first military application came in 1776, when a small, acorn-shaped machine named Turtle tried, and failed, to sink...
Safe in Our Archives
...artists have tried to realize this utopian aspiration have shifted over time. Modernism sought a "true self" that was different from the given, contingent identity; postmodernismhoped to dissolve identity into...
A Contrary Image of Steaming Excrement
...registered innumerable little bites with detached and uplifted little finger. ('Pastry hour,' they call it) "I tried to undermine Scherbaum's disgust (and my own): 'When you come right down to...
#JustineHasLanded
...and Steve are a “we” together—Justine Sacco’s joke became a greasefire because she tried to perform both sides of the play, to be both the minstrel and the straight man,...