Sunday Reading
...Reeling in the Raj Jacqui Shine: Orchard Beach photos "You were a child once, too." Let's Stop Singing Songs About Women Who Don't Know They're Beautiful Wikipedia list of pastries...
Morpheus Descending
...father's approach to insomnia was likely the exception rather than the rule; most people at the time looked to less complicated remedies. Said Iago to Othello: “Not poppy nor mandragora,...
A Contribution to the Critique of John Mayer
...and quelling, that series of cuts between which slosh their echoes, their marrow, our froth or songs. With him still out there somewhere, it's almost like what we see when...
Core Values
...the trees accompanied by bawdy songs that they sang at the top of their voices. This they believed would summon forth fruit in overwhelming abundance. Chapman's unorthodox ways belied a...
Ms. America
...most endearing. Lana Del Rey reacquaints with the danger and intrigue that pop culture once promised our borders held. Borders of class, race, gender, geography—their drama instead of their unromantic...
Sunday Reading
...by YT. Further context from the NYT: Rutgers Officials Long Knew of Coach's Actions And John Amaechi on sports' bully culture From the Let's Talk About Names series (disclaimer: edited...
One-Dimensional Woman
...“raping” the victim, and it’s worth noting that while that obfuscating phrasing may be more regularly extended to female teachers, it often comes into use when male teachers are accused...
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Twilight of the Cruise
...Bob Dylan wrote songs about and Patti Smith hung out with. His existential ideal is the titular “cruise”, a philosophy of everyday life defined by constant movement and phenomenological creativity....
Not NATO
...Chicago, to cover the #noNato protests. Laurie sent me snaps and stories of her busmates: kids who were singing Disney songs as they prepared to be beaten and arrested. So...
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Northern Exposure
...proverb Codfish covered thousands of acres, enough to feed an army. "A piscatorial paradise!," as Caton himself remarked. But when he sat down to his first meal aboard that Norwegian...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Signs of ephemerality
...other users exhibiting similar behavior patterns) but also make it plain that all the archived information about us feed directly into our efforts to capitalize on our sociality—to turn our...
Room for Improvement
...humbugged humanity find a decent place to feed? Echo answered, "In the eating-houses." We resolved to try it, and the result is glorious. We have achieved a victory, sir, an...
The New Inquiry Vol. 48: Appetites
...eating disorder of a different kind: They have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process...