Short Attention Span Theater: In advertising, our craving for novelty and interruption, and our drive to find patterns and make sense of it all, are lassoed together in the Costco corral. Billboards ...
ourcoldsummers: If you take a peek at the new product ad/ demo video for the Facebook Camera App, you’ll see some footage I recently shot during a trip to Big Sur with friends: Facebook Camera App Vi...
I Will Show You Arcade Fire in a Handful of Dust: Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet fo...
(In response to Grizzly Bear’s Blackberry Jam song) It Should Come on a Scone by Nicki Minaj Bitches ain’t serious, man these bitches delirious All these bitches inferiors, I just pimp my interiors I...
thenewinquiry: Coachella. Tupac. Hologram. Taken apart, none of these things are new, or even revolutionary. But something fascinating happened after the debut of the Tupac hologram (henceforth: Holo...
Grizzly Bear :: Blackcurrant Jam
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Binking Bunny Videos My roommate’s bunny does this crazy Gene Kelly heel-clicking leap. We thought he was having a stroke. It turns out it is just a common expression of an ecstatic rabbit call...
backatown: Restaurant de la Renaissance, 1904, painted by William Woodward. Looking down Chartres, note the St. Louis Cathedral in the background. Via the HNOC.
Birthday Jams 1st row: Piñata doppelganger, cataloging the spoils 2nd row: Big Sur coast, picking oranges for mimosas, Ewok village 3rd row: Friends helping friends make cheez-itz, HOMEMADE CHEEZ-ITZ...
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Teach the Books, Touch the Heart: We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and...
We’re not here to capture an image, we’re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it? An accumulation of nameless energies.--Don DeLillo, from White Noise...
From Tom & Lorenzo’s Mad Style: In the episode where Joan finally throws her husband out, she wears a dress deliberately meant to evoke the first time she realized he wasn’t what she bargained for. N...
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” - Ernest Hemingway, from A Moveable Feast
James Thurber on Exclamation Marks: Don’t use an exclamation mark in a moment of anger. If you insert one in a fit of temper, lay aside the letter until morning. You will be surprised how silly it wi...
The Tension of Stacked Parentheses: There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of English prose (he points out, ...
Clockwise from top left: 1) House by the Railroad by Dennis Hopper (1925) 2) Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth (1948) 3) Film still from Giant (1956) 4) Film still from Days of Heaven (1978)
Exsultate, Jubilate: By Elizabeth Bachner In life people drift more, there’s less closure, there’s less follow-up, there’s even more murkiness — which is a lot of murkiness. Novels have a terrible in...
millionsmillions: From The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach: For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you considered it an a...
Will Oldham Speaks (T Magazine) “I’ve always loved ‘Bat out of Hell.’ Have you ever had a motorcycle wreck? Has Meat Loaf? I don’t think so.” The Riches of White Trash (The Millions) I’ve trav...
Photo by Anne Parker Summer goals indeed: swimming in rivers drinking out of mugs while camping
[thumbing through slick pamphlet from new high school academy down the road] Me: Wait. Hold up. They have an endorsement from Burt Bacharach?! Who they have categorized as “Internationally-Este...
Compare an afternoon class to a morning one. Morning classes, in the promising glow of a new dawn, are for positions and positionings, eyebrows raised, heads shaken, eyes rolled, splashy pop referenc...
It may be hard to glean from these pictures that they were all taken in New York. I guess I am nothing if not predicable in my love for: dogs, trees, corner-facing doors, and train tracks that go now...
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Is Silence Going Extinct?: As children, our grandparents could hope to swim in a lake or lie in a meadow for whole afternoons without hearing a motorboat, car or plane; today the engineless hour is a...
““Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and ...
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