Tidying things up
Joy points upward, according to Marie Kondo, whose name is now a verb and whose nickname is being trademarked and whose life has become a...
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Words, Sounds, Images, Ideas
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." –Robert Benchley
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Some prodigal communication. Man I wanna tell you all something, Man. Man I'm not gonna let these material thing's, get in my way, you...
"In order that you come to understand the method..."
Insertio Scidulam Quaeso Ut Faciundam Cognoscas Rationem Anyone know what that means? Turns out those four years of high school Latin...
Cats Without Claws
"It's a windy night / Off first and main / Of any city / Of a hundred names / Spirits fly high and the sparks fly low..." Ten years had...
Don’t be smupid: a glossary for the extreme present
Are you suffering from denarration or monophobia? A new book, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, helps to define our...
'He was dance music’s Adele: everyone liked his stuff.' Then he blew it with a thrash punk L
In an excellent interview with the Boston Globe, the techno musician Moby talks to Amy Sutherland performance, Walker Percy, and...
Social Media Redux
Instagram: My life is a party. Snapchat: My life is a quirky tv show. Facebook: My life turned out great! Twitter: We're all going to die.
Welcome to the Era of the Sixties Throwbacks
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are almost exactly the same age, but they don’t even seem to be from the same generation. “I come from...
The Making of Liszt
“ [François] Mauriac has said: ‘The Romantics were the corrupt children of Christianity.’ I should not put it so harshly; but it is very...
Satire or News Reporting?
Get the Babylon Bee, before it gets you...
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