Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...
Muckrakers, Inc.
...asked him what his college mascot was. “I went to Brooklyn College,” he said. “So, the gefilte fish.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] Whatever your politics—and mine, I admit, aren’t...
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...oldschool social-networking site Makeoutclub.com, which had the virtue of not being explicitly dating-oriented. On that site, sexual tension was high because ambiguity lived: Other people’s intentions were never foreordained. Show...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in mind that although she tried to dress and dance like poor Afro-Brasileras, as a white woman she never would have had to carry a fruit basket on her head....
Sunday Reading
..."Art could, by prefiguring the ideal culture, push society into the future." Linda Rodriguez: “Fiddling With Freedom: Solomon Northup’s Musical Trade in 12 Years a Slave” “It’s a fascinating process...
The Paper Chase
...Michael Hudson as his economic advisor, tried to evangelize MMT ideas during a presidential campaign, to no avail. Even when Paul Krugman addresses MMT, which he does, rarely, he oscillates...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.7.12
...the solution, just as banning photo retouching does little to address the root concerns it's meant to address. What the solution is, I don't know. Glad Brigitte tried; unsurprised it...
Love Homoscopes
...ableism, all those jerks together at that intersection of extraction have always tried to relegate and regulate the practitioners of the occult because it is a very powerful social space....
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...my field notebook, setting it aflame inside the bathroom of her suite. She said she had not tried anything new, but she had teased the ex-beau about the possibility: A...
M and A
...an overarching Headless-style endeavor. This one seeks to complete the 18th century work of August Nordenskiöld—an amateur alchemist who tried create gold with the ultimate aim of devaluing it—within today’s...
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...
Gamifying Beauty
...few errant sounds—but it couldn’t compare to the afternoon I spent teaching myself to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on ukelele.) Enter beauty apps, which mimic acts that fall somewhere...
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...
Santorum's Gifts
...George Stephanopoulos on Saturday, Santorum tried to limit himself to emphasizing the honor and dignity of labor that does not require a degree: STEPHANOPOULOS: Now getting to college has been...
Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
A Bridge to Somewhere
...people in an unventilated metal box for hours get really hot, and a few started to get faint. We shifted them to the cooler floor, and tried to conserve water....