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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sunday in the Park with Ryan Cronin
“I like to cite the less-cultivated elements of the hand-lettered sign and the pop song,” says Ryan Cronin, “as two key influences that have contributed as much as my formal training to my signature style.” Continue reading
Sade, Sluts and Rush
What do Rush Limbaugh and the Marquis de Sade have in common? Not as much as you’d think, as Jennifer Kabat explains. Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged Angela Carter, Juliette, Justine, Marquis de Sade, Nina Turner, Rush Limbaugh, Santorum sex, sluts, stripping, The Sadeian Woman
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On Wanting to Make a Guy Bleed, and Why Freaks and Geeks Was the Best Television Show About High School Ever
In which Janet Steen remembers curling irons, drunken kisses, and the brilliance of “Freaks and Geeks.” Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Freaks and Geeks, James Franco, Judd Apatow, Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes
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Running For President
In which Diana Spechler recalls her childhood political ambitions and her eleven-year-old breasts. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Bloomingdales, Driving Miss Daisy, election day, Facebook, J. Crew, Jessica Tandy, Marshall's, Morgan Freeman, political aspirations, presidential campaign, Reeboks, union organizer, Washington DC
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An Obsessive’s Guide to 30 Things Worth Obsessing About
In which Sean Beaudoin reveals, among 29 other things, who the most beautiful woman in the world is. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Aaron Burr, Chet Baker, cough syrup, cum on feel the noize, holiday, Iceberg Slim, mencken, mitchum, NFL, selby
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Sodom Was Fabulous, Jesus Was Gay
The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination. It also says having a drunken three-way with your two daughters is totally cool. Greg Olear investigates the Biblical argument against gay marriage. Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged angel rape, drunken incest, gay rights, Jesus, Jesus was gay, Last Supper...or First Gay Wedding?, Lot, pillar of salt, Sodom
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Sunday in the Park with Melissa Stern
Melissa Stern’s New Math captures the shapes of numbers, bouncing off of each other in a cheerful jumble, their values no more or less meaningful than those of other marks on paper. They are shapes and patterns and simply beautiful images. Continue reading
The Curious Case of Andrew Stanton
In his Weeklings debut, Dennie Wendt ponders the epic failure of John Carter. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Andrew Stanton, epic failure, John Carter, Michael Chabon, TED talk, this shit is art dude, Wall-E
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On Watching Downton Abbey in Jamaica with Richard the Night Watchman, and Other Musings
Lord Grantham in Jamaica, William James in the astral plane, and other unknowable things that Janet Steen has lately been pondering. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged acupuncture, Downton Abbey, ghosts, Jamaica, kale, Leonora Piper, William James
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Mother’s Day
In which Diana Spechler remembers her ex-boyfriends’ mothers. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged beautiful, fat, little white dog, mojito, Mother's Day, Scrabble, self-help, tea
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