March 2010
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Dominique Browning: Losing It →
(via doree)
I would like to read this over and over again.
STORYTIME.
There was an 18-month period in my early-twenties after the job market had gone into its late-‘01 shit spiral when I took up some part time work at a friend’s local bookstore (which—true story—was actually written into the plot for the movie You’ve Got Mail after the owner’s father had had some sort of liaison with Nora Ephron that apparently ended very badly,...
Metacriticism; or, olds v. youngs.
I took a stroll to the bookstore yesterday morning after waking up—which is probably the wrong way to describe it because it wasn’t a stroll so much as a two-block walk and it wasn’t really morning so much as 1:30 in the afternoon, but I’m digressing. Or revealing without making a revelation. Or something.
I was on my way to get a copy of Emily Gould’s And the Heart...
This is the most delightfully unhinged crazy talk... →
If you can bring yourself to stop reading after the first paragraph you’re a bigger person than I am.
Update 8:34pm: comment #47 is gold.
Update 8:35pm: and #68!
Update 8:37pm: can’t. stop.
Update 8:41pm: lol @ #123
Update 8:43pm: #152 WAT?
Update 8:44pm: #161!!!!!!!!!
Update 8:46pm: #180! #184!
Does everyone remember that episode of...
So about Gaga's new vid.
It’s fucking epic; spectacular in the purest sense of the term.
But what it really reinforced for me is just how Legit and Relevant and Really Important she is—as an artist, as a musician, and as a mind-blowingly sexy woman. I just keep coming back to how much she means for contemporary Ladies and Bros.
I tend to view Lady Gaga through the same general lens as Natasha does (see...
“Now that he’s reached financial success, he said, spotters can help him elude...”
– The Contradiction of a Contradiction: A Conversation with Banksy
I have a real soft spot for creative law enforcement evasion techniques.