May 2011
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“A funny thing about Japanese business culture is the tendency to apologize...”
– Colin Campbell on the damage to the PlayStation brand
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Miranda July reviews "A Room With a View" →
I WAS 11 the summer I saw “A Room With a View.” Too young for romance? Not at all, I was a very passionate 5-year-old, so by 11 I had already survived several romantic (if entirely fantastical) storms. But this was the first time anything had ever really happened. By really I mean I was really sitting there in the movie theater, I really saw it — the kiss amid the cornflowers. And then I came...
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In honor of the Royal wedding coinciding with the... →
I liveth my days one furlong at a time. For that fortnight or less, I possess the greatest freedom.
Thou might imbibe whatever mead thy desireth, so long as the mead be Corona.
Mia, I’m a bobby.
Vastly exceeding your means, sir. Bespoke Bentley.
A gathering of militia folk entered upon my premises and brought foretold dishonour upon mine kin!
Hark! Thy manifold is fraught with...
April 2011
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The Insider's Guide to the MS-13 Gang →
During the first week of the trial of seven members of the MS-13’s 20th Street Clique earlier this month, former member Abraham Martinez took the witness stand. Over five days in which he ratted out his former homeys, Martinez shared more than a few interesting tidbits about how life in the gang worked.
1. Pick a creative moniker.
The names of the 20th Street Clique reads like a...
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Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us →
CURLED up at the foot of my bed, my face inches from the laptop screen, I stared anxiously at the Google chat box. “Will is typing,” the box told me, helpfully.
I forced myself to read e-mail while I waited for his message. Then I refreshed my Twitter feed, scrolled through my blog posts and began brushing my teeth.
Still the box said, “Will is typing.”
“Don’t you dare get hurt by this,” I...
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Golden Hour
I like these long days, when the sun is still out and throwing a long and yet longer shadow. For a moment, everything is motionless except for particles of dust whirling on the back of invisible eddies of air in a shaft of late evening sunlight.
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Finding good in bad girls →
From Donna Summer to Dante, everybody loves a “bad girl”. She is a social construct that runs the cultural gamut from classical to cartoonish and back again, wearing only high heels and a smirk. She is literary artifice and historical fact combined; she is both retrograde and modern, a product of the patriarchy and yet empowered; she is every man’s worst nightmare and his best...
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Why We Love Chekhov →
To twentieth-century writers, of course, [Chekhov’s] presence has affected all of our assumptions about what’s a fit subject for imaginative writing; about which moments in life are too crucial or precious to relegate to conventional language; about how stories should begin, and the variety of ways a writer may choose to end them; and importantly about how final life is, and...
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Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected
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“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
– Ursula K. LeGuin
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Women Now Earning More Bachelor's & Graduate... →
According to a new Census report released on Tuesday, Educational Attainment in the United States: 2010, more adults over the age of 25 than ever—30 percent—have bachelor’s degrees. And women are out-achieving men when it comes to earning both bachelor’s and advanced degrees (as I noted before, some schools even have affirmative action programs for men).
Women began outnumbering men...
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The Routes By Which I Attempted to Contact You →
1. I left a comment on your blog. Rather than using my real name, I used my handle and linked to my own blog. You would have had to click on my profile to see who I was, and then you would need to have recognized me from the photo in which I am dressed as zombie Che Guevara two Halloweens ago. I understand that you did not reply.
2. I @ replied to you on Twitter. My Twitter username is...
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Sendak, picturing mortality →
‘I’m not feeling great,” Maurice Sendak is saying. “I’ve been rather sick, to tell you the truth. I can make believe I’m well.”
You can hear it in his voice. Sendak, 82, on the phone from his Connecticut home at 3:30 p.m. Friday (pretty much when the night owl’s workday gets going), sounds gravelly and stuffy.
“I’m old,” says...
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“At any given moment, more than half the world will be wearing denim.”
– A Manifesto for the Study of Denim
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