Respectfully, theory does not come easy to me as a grimy materialist nestled in my pit of archives and filth.
Me, being kind of a brat in a dissertation draft
With half-hearted apologies to my dissertation committee, I am fundamentally just a dumb goblin for whom “critical spatial theory” sometimes sounds like a riddle from a sorcerer who won’t let me cross the river so I am mostly annoyed by the insistence that I demonstrate how I’m contributing to it.
If a hammer thinks every problem is a nail then Abundance must be the work of a plumbing snake.
“What’s the Matter With Abundance?”, Malcolm Harris for The Baffler
Submitted by Mandy, with this runner-up:
A good policy is better than a bad policy, but don’t piss in a ditch and call it an ocean of lemonade.
(“You’ll never have socialism with that kind of people,” an East German friend told me, upset by the spectacle of Paris traffic).
“The Social Ideology of the Motorcar”, André Gorz
We are dealing with a fascist takeover orchestrated by some of the most baby-shit soft cockapoos masquerading as men who have ever walked the planet.
Submitted by Caren.
As a condition of the interviews, he refused to answer questions about two topics: his age and his hair.
“Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?”, Alex Marshall for the New York Times
I know I’m supposed to be too cool to be surprised that the Acela dork brigade continues to treat people like inconveniently shaped hand luggage but JESUS who raised you people
Submitted by Jesse.
It is a city that shields its face.
“Ride or Die, Cowboy”, Hamilton Nolan in his newsletter How Things Work
Unless someone comes forward and admits to pigmenting the snowy owl, there will be no effort to study the bird up close, and its rusty appearance is likely to remain a mystery.
“Orange Alert: What Caused the Colors on This Snowy Owl?”, James Crugnale for The New York Times
Submitted by Brian.
Being drunk on rocks is a subset of an experience I call field intoxication.
“Drunk on rocks”, Andrew Alden for his blog Oakland Geology
She was wearing at least four leather jackets, all of them several sizes too big.
Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
Submitted by Sam.
I tried to use words and handwaving to build out the shape of the now-gone nineteenth century facility.
Explosivity: Following What Remains, Javier Arbona-Homar
Negligence, like risk, is thus a term of relation.
Palsgraf vs. Long Island Rail Road
As quoted in Explosivity.
Movies should be bigger than we are.
Bilge Ebiri interviewed in the newsletter 11AM Saturday, The Movie Theater Questionnaire
Submitted by James.
Her performance is evidence that, where campy Disney villains once provided fertile ground for drag queens, drag queens are now being plagiarized by Disney villains.
Review of Snow White by Jacob Oller for The AV Club