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.
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...
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Love Craft
...if The Stone Roses’s “I Wanna Be Adored” Of the Theban musician Ismenias, Atheas, King of the Scythians, declared he liked his music "better than the braying of an ass."...
gifts
...with. In this old lovers’ quarrel between liberty and community, Westerners are those who defend freedom and long for attachment. The tone of country-and-western music must be the American complement...
Walking in L.A.
...disrupt the music. These voices question Andersen’s film and his motives. “You wanna see Los Angeles?” one man asks. “Go inside this bus and look at the people. All kinds...
Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life