May 2011
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The Pros and Cons: Online Dating →
So you tried the bars and got a couple of whiskey-fueled makeout sessions. You tried being set up by mutual friends and got some new Facebook friends. You tried dating at work and are now updating your résumé. Time to try the internet. But first, consider this:
Pro: Dating’s fun! Or at least, it should be.
Con: Only it’s not. It’s fraught with uncertainty, crossed lines,...
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Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. →
By JONATHAN FRANZEN Published: May 28, 2011
A COUPLE of weeks ago, I replaced my three-year-old BlackBerry Pearl with a much more powerful BlackBerry Bold. Needless to say, I was impressed with how far the technology had advanced in three years. Even when I didn’t have anybody to call or text or e-mail, I wanted to keep fondling my new Bold and experiencing the marvelous clarity of its screen,...
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Margaret Howell →
Margaret Howell has become one of Britain’s most successful fashion brands, growing from a quiet start in the 1970s at Howell’s kitchen table to an international business with a turnover of £60m and shops throughout Europe and Japan. Yet Howell started her menswear line, in part, because she wanted to make androgynous clothes for herself; quality items that she could throw on and...
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“It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been...”
– Anais Nin
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“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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MERO addresses when it appropriate to hit a woman →
NIGGAS ASKED ME A COUPLE TIMES IF HITTING A BITCH WAS OK AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES ETC. SOME NIGGAS REALLY DIDN’T KNOW AND SOME NIGGAS WAS EXPECTING ME TO BE LIKE “NAH IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL TO BREAK YA WIFE’S LEG IN HALF IF SHE STEPS IN FRONT OF THE TV PICKIN UP GARBAGE OFF THE FLOOR AND FUCKS UP YA KILLSTREAK” YOU SHOULDN’T JUST BEAT BITCHES UP FOR NO REASON...
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A social network for socialist China’s lonely... →
P1.CN, an invitation-only social network for urban affluent Chinese, has attracted 1.2m members. And its success seems to lie in a concept that reflects a class society.
As a message to unfortunate non-members on the site’s homepage makes clear, P1.CN is out to make a virtue of exclusivity:
P1.CN is a private, invitation only social network for exceptional individuals. Therefore we pay special...
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DUMBDUMB, JASON BATEMAN AND WILL ARNETT'S NEW... →
If a bizarre alternate universe existed where Mad Men’s Don Draper mated with Don Rickles, the resulting love child would look something like DumbDumb, the new marketing venture by Arrested Development alums Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. “We’re the CEOs of DumbDumb, but that’s a hilarious moniker to give us,” Arnett says. “We’re actually co-chief...
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NY TIMES: Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food →
Danny always takes care of me every time I eat at MCF, now he’s sharing some recipes in the New York Times. Big ups!
Recipe: Salt-and-Pepper Shrimp With Curried Pork Fat and Fennel Time: 30 minutes
Salt 1 stalk lemongrass 1 inch fresh ginger 1 head garlic, halved 1 tablespoon fennel seeds 5 pieces star anise 2 tablespoons black peppercorns 1 tablespoon white peppercorns 5 bay leaves 1...
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A conversation between Tony Bourdain, David Chang,... →
Scene: Café de la Concha, 1 Mira Concha, San Sebastián, Spain.
It is nighttime, and DAVID CHANG, TONY BOURDAIN, and WYLIE DUFRESNE are gathered around a table. A January storm rages outside and keeps the café nearly empty. The three Americans—in town to speak at a conference—are catching up over hard cider and pintxos, and talking, at CHANG’s behest, about culinary mediocrity back in their...
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Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool.
imakeshinythings:
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
And here is my United/World of Love line:
My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job. They even stole the item name as well as some of my copy.
I’m very disappointed in Urban Outfitters. I know they...
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We’re all alone and no one knows why →
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Fermi Paradox is what it suggests for the future of our human civilization. Namely, that we have no future beyond earthly confinement and, quite possibly, extinction. Could advanced nanotechnology play a role in preventing that extinction? Or, more darkly, is it destined to be instrumental in carrying out humanity’s unavoidable death sentence?
In...
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The Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash →
According to the Associated Press Stylebook—Slate’s bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related—there are two main prose uses—the abrupt change and the series within a phrase—for the em dash. The guide does not explicitly say that writers can use the dash in lieu of properly crafting sentences, or instead of a comma or a parenthetical or a colon—and yet in practical usage, we do. A...
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I'd Rather Eat Cake: Exploring asexuality, an... →
By Helen Havlak Spring 2011 Sex sells—if, that is, the endless stream of sexy commercials advertising anything from shampoo to candy, Bumpits, and Doritos is anything to go by. We are surrounded by sex and obsessed with it, both personally and politically. We care who is having sex with whom, what they are calling their relationship, and which guido Snooki “smushed” last week. Among the sex-laden...
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Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers... we just... →
Abdullahi “Boyah” Abshir, who claimed to have hijacked more than 25 ships, told me that he and his men did not discriminate, but would go after any ship hapless enough to wander into their sights. And despite their ostensible purpose of protecting Somali national waters, during the heat of the chase they paid no regard to international boundaries, pursuing their target until they...
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One Death Provides New Life for Many →
Mirtala Garcia laid a hand on Sebastiao Lourenco’s chest, then pressed her ear there for a moment.
“That’s my heart,” she said. “It’s still beating for me.”
Although she had just met Mr. Lourenco, she had known his heart for a long time. It had belonged to her husband, Julio, who died from a brain hemorrhage in March 2010, at the age of 38. Mrs. Garcia donated her husband’s organs, and the...
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An Unspeakable Word Is the Word That Has to Be... →
By JENNY DISKI
What have writers got but words? And what have people got but their own bodies to inhabit?
What then if you’re a writer and the kind of person who has a body part that could be named by a word that can’t be used? At any rate, the word can’t be used in this magazine, nor can it be represented by a couple of letters with asterisks in between (too risqué, those stars), nor can it be...
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