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...less devoted to reporting as a profession than as a means of learning about stuff I'm curious about. And the Occupy culture was constantly making demands upon one to step...
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...
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....
Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
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....
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...
Gamifying Beauty
...makes me look just wrong; I found a half-up, half-down hairstyle that looked great on me, and when I tried it out on terra firma, it was indeed flattering. The...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.26.12
...in Proctor &, and the inventor of Ivory Soap. The city of Cincinnati had tried to stop its demolition due to the house's historic significance. And in happier historic preservation...
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...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
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...
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...
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....
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...sion: to calm an inner world (“she tried to compose herself”), artistic ren- dition (“to compose and draw a still life”), and construction or placement (“the system is composed of...
Making It: A Miseducation
...us to be. We knew that our mothers had loved our fathers. We knew that they were hurt by our fathers—but we were too. We tried to understand what was...