Sunday Reading
...states, 1973 13th-century Yemeni recipe for paper 19th-century Yiddish letter-writing manuals Early 20th-century Turkish music policies Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761...
Old and damned like a grave
...dinners, star gazing, smiley culture music… shan a shan (clearly homer had access to decent mdma.) are you starting to get the picture? (1) staying young for ever, but staying...
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...stars are expected not just to make music but to be worthy investments of libidinal energy. Jon Hamm is bothered that people keep looking at his dick but on some...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
...that our suspicions are confirmed: the bee's sting was coming from inside the mouth. The music, meanwhile, will not shut up, swelling with zithers and lush cello ad infinitum every...
En passant
...also known for earnest, "raw" emotionality that gains an aura of authenticity through amateur production values. In music, technology has even developed to the point where crappy production values is...
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
City Hunger
...pass that the wind would make her clothes flutter and uncover her legs that seemed to be made of scarlet, milk and music all mixed together”—but he is awake to...
Art, Work, and Refusal
...am certainly strong, but I am not comfortable with silence in this situation. I refuse to be a silent artist regarding issues that affect my livelihood and the culture of...
Seeing Through Transparency
...serious blow in a public arena.” The culture buckanneers of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site have helped package and distribute chunks of WikiLeaks data around the internet. For a while,...
Off-Brand
...nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food (provided their standards are low enough), and art objects are worth nothing unless they’re purchased. Only...
in the Name of INJUSTICE
...to induce the candidates away from non-??????? use of words (No, Perhaps, Less, etc.) while they are awaiting initiation, and to provide them with suitable entertainment (music, trembling bass, answering...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.27.12
...Unwanted Music." So worth a listen.) ED bytes: Excellent piece that gives context and insight into the new direction of pro-eating-disorder sites; I'd say it's a must-read for anyone concerned...
European Pie
...and the city awakens in a hangover? What happens, as is the title of the song of Azerbaijan’s entry sung by Sabina Babayeva this year, when the music dies?...
red dots
...misogyny in philosophy and culture, it is precisely the period that slices through the figure to produce a question: a question of being, a question of equality. It is precisely...
Bad Romance
...are shocking, transfixing and emotionally exhausting—in a good way. The first of these galleries is a gilded mirrored room, with gothic light fixtures and creepy mood music. The first dress...
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...tragic game of trying to be what our culture expects of women—thin, pretty, docile—and isn’t it a shame that they don’t recognize their own potential? They wouldn’t be feminists, they...