The Daddest Place on Earth
...aesthetic of theme parks is total sensory excess: gaudy overwhelming explosions of color and light, blaring music, screaming children, wafting odors of fried dough, heat, jostling crowds. The choice of...
It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream
...good measure fragments of reptile brain were added, along with an eyeball or two. In Japan the 4th century emperor Nintoku was so taken with ice and its ability to...
Once Upon a Dream
...songs, the sardonic, aggressive edge to her impressionistic lyrics is sharper, and there’s something like anger in her relentless sexy posturing. The press emphasized that Jolie herself—megastar, businesswoman, Special Envoy...
Sunday Reading
...and look stupid: the ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr every conversation ever about sexual harassment watching male team sports while female Sia Fiegel's songs of the fat brown woman the healthy...
How to Destroy a Community
...of sustained low-level misery. “The trick is to find what the enemy hates the most and feed it to them nonstop. You listen to their discourse and find the core...
Army Realness from NATO to NBC
...are no stunt doubles. This is real.' Then he punctuates that promise: 'Real ammunition. Real explosives. Real danger.' Skier Picabo Street was quoted on the show's Twitter feed: 'I rode...
The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
I see no better place
...He attempted to sing songs of resistance, his hands bloody stumps, only to be gunned down as people in the stands tried to join him in chorus. I didn't want...
Miracle on 214th Street
...its wilder moments, elements of popular culture infused her apocalypse—UFOs, vampires, a “Soviet death ray.” While the content of Lueken’s visions troubled parish authorities, the crowds of pilgrims that gathered...
Escape From Minus World
...money in the form of a new credit-card account. There was $50 toward a Buy.com purchase, and $25 off from Amazon, each of which seduced me into stupid purchases that...
Being Damien Hirst
...seem to suggest that you are critical of the huge premium placed on art-objects, and you describe yourself as a non-profit artist. Your site and your Twitter feed are full...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...Carl E. Stranz. ...To Toe... Pachyderm pedi: Elephant pedicure video. (Why doesn't someone feed me apples when I get a pedicure?) ...And Everything In Between: Digital ladies: L'Oréal is launching...
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
...education in the sense of learning skills like reading, writing, or arithmetic. Montessori viewed the Casa a place to nurture a whole person, one who would learn to feed and...