You read the role like a horny snake in a newspaper cartoon.
Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola
A sentence that in theory I could have shared a year ago when I saw the play during the Titus Burgess run, but I didn't remember to at that time. We saw Meg Stalter in the title role this week, which was a delight.
“Late Fame” is a proud new entry of a tiny but notable group of movies about young, privileged, white New Yorkers who are nostalgic for a nonexistent past in which more people were well-read and curious and wore sharper clothes.
Review of Late Fame by Matt Zoller Seitz for rogerebert.com
I am not really "young" but this sentence still bullied me, perfectly.
It begins, to put a fine point on things, with this sentence: “Over the years I have helped Dionne Warwick to find physicians for herself and her colleagues.”
"Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves", Molly Fischer for The New Yorker
Yes, it's a sentence about a sentence, but "to put a fine point on things" sets the stage quite nicely and I'll read anything by Molly about diaries.
Getting irrationally pissed off because I read a paper that gendered one of my favorite moons
I am an old man and would prefer to be compensated for my work in the form of cash, not in the form of parties with snakes and aspiring consultants.
"Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much", Matt Levine for his Bloomberg newsletter Money Stuff
Submitted by George.
They created a rill of phosphorescence and in their approach they whispered war.
Twist, Colum McCann
Some more bangers:
It was filthy and it was wrong and, like everyone else, I was consuming it willingly.
I was in a storm of cocaine at the time, and I suppose I aligned myself with Sheen's character in some needy way.
(a storm of cocaine!!)
The clocks fell in upon themselves.
Envy is a dark ink.
The despairing class is not having a good time.
"Degeneracy is a Symptom", Henry Fudge for his newsletter The Rentier Black Hole
Submitted by Andreas.
Joe Allen has startlingly blue eyes behind professorial glasses and the shit-eating grin of the guy in high school who likes to tell non-PC jokes.
"How Data Centers Broke American Politics", Molly Taft for Wired
But women’s minds are perpetually a mystery to Updike because he has simply never thought to ask them anything.
"John Updike: Annoying Sex Nerd", Eris for the newsletter Discordia Review
Thanks to Liz for bringing this to my attention.
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