Reserection
...now occasionally a human ashtray. T-SYMMETRIC: “i can’t decide if it’s cool or gross.” CHIQUITA: “the guy eats butts!” INGRID: “he tried his whole life to think his way into...
The Invented Persians
...mocking his death): As they tried to arrest more and more people the group of strong and defiant Palestinian women we were with threw their bodies over the men they...
Mind Games Forever
...ways the counterculture was domesticated and commercialized over the course of the 1960s, redirecting the revolutionary impulses aroused by contempt for the system at one’s own personality, which, in the...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...Price Is Right was on in the dayroom. I tried to play along, but just kept thinking about how this place is wrong.” Lil Wayne’s Gone ‘Til November is, in...
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
...times I tried to convince them that their meal came to $8.47, they could not trust me, and steadfastly refused to take the correct change from a $20. I ended...
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...
Volume 30
...acceleration and its discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can...
Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II
...recognize that it has value. Otherwise, the compliment isn’t complete.) The consequence here is that compliments can tell us a good deal about what we as a culture actually value....
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Dunham tried on the tap pants trend, the world stopped, and her response to her critics is nothing short of fantastic. "I don’t think a girl with tiny thighs would...
The Suit
...time; it is both correct and uninspiring. It needn’t have given me pause, except the intellectual seemed troubled, too. In the essay’s closing passages, he tried to imagine another way...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...
Digital Dark Spaces
...is not essentially so different from the culture of cruising that bourgeois gay men created in public urinals and in the cloakroom at the House of Lords. Though the sex...
Lost in the Supermarket
...the supermarket. The aisles were crowded with evening shoppers. There was Muzak. I slid into the warm colors and the clicks of the cash registers. I tried to remember near...
Variations on a Theme: Forgotten Terrorisms
...1870s, was not tried out in France. Instead, assassination became the principal weapon of revenge against the bourgeoisie and the figureheads of the State. The first wave of attempted assassinations...