Danielle was the Sentence Submission MVP last week but I didn't see her email until after I'd sent out 104; please enjoy her submissions below.
Colors can make for incomprehension, or sense, or violence.
“The Reality of Our Seeing”, Hilton Als for The Believer
I’m being told my most sensual aunt has received a new cooter
Submitted by Sam.
Dead children have a way of clarifying things.
“Stand for Something”, Hamilton Nolan’s newsletter How Things Work
The crow is regarding her tightly.
A Volcano is a Volcano is a Volcano, Anne Carson
Via Elisabeth posting a page of this extremely hard to search for collection of short stories by Carson—I found an out of print riso compilation but I’m not even sure it’s the same one. Nothing on BookFinder either. How mysterious!
There’s nothing glamorous about a monkey doing cocaine.
Michael Gracey in an interview with The Independent
I think really any drug that requires putting stuff in one’s nose is unglamorous no matter the species, but that’s me. If cocaine has any associations with glamour it’s because it’s usually in close proximity to money.
I don’t know a lot about Robbie Williams but he seems like a deeply ambivalent dude (appeared in a Soft Play music video but also maybe supported RFK Jr.??), and Michael Gracey is also the filmmaker behind that “What if PT Barnum Wasn’t The Worst Guy??” movie that I didn’t see. And yet, I do respect the commitment to the bit of making a classic pop star biopic but replacing the pop star with a motion-capture chimpanzee and playing the whole thing completely straight. It feels more like a weird art installation move than a multiplex movie, and I’m impressed they got away with it.
Most terms associated with nightlife and dancing are so embarrassing.
Dancing On My Own, Simon Wu
Even granting that the man-o’-war regularly grows new gonads, biting off your host’s junk is not the behavior of a welcome guest.
“Occasional Paper: Four Hidden Species of Portuguese man-o’-war”, Doug Muir for Crooked Timber
Submitted by Danielle.
There have been a few moments in the history of biology where scientists peered down an avenue of research, didn’t like what they saw, and agreed to go no further.”
“The Dangers of Mirrored Life”, Niko McCarthy and Fin Morehouse for Asimov Press
Submitted by Danielle.
The proper amount of losing track of the money is none.
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter
Submitted by Danielle.