Spend enough time with their meticulous tables and figures the precision itself begins to feel like rage.
"Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis", Erin Kissane
Submitted by Wesley.
In Palahniuk, we have a writer at the height of his powers, but who refuses to use those powers for good, and sometimes refuses to use them at all; who would rather soak his powers in urine, then eat them and vomit them into your lap.
"Make Something Up review – Chuck Palahniuk at the height of his powers", Sandra Newman for The Guardian
Found via a Wikipedia rabbit hole that started with "how old was Brad Pitt when he made Fight Club, he had to have been pretty young to be that lean and cut right"—reader, he was probably between 33 and 34 years old. Also, the movie Fight Club is 26 years old.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
"I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE", Danez Smith
Banksy will be fed to the machine of consumption he gently critiques, and out will spill a tumult of contorted hands and mouths, of unlabeled and misidentified pixel-patterns, of the chaos embedded in the negation of all things recognizable and enjoyable.
"The Only Avant-Garde Position for AI Art", Elijah Beaton
Submitted by Wesley, with the caveat that the text "is written in a obscure word-salad sort of way that i'm not inclined to put the effort in to seriously parse, but which does turn up some excellent sentences."
The American West was rife with human-built features that seemed practically designed to fool a beaver-seeking model.
"Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California", Ben Goldfarb for Wired
Submitted by Justin.
The weather was considered a military secret.
This was my second year spending part of New Year's Day at a matinee at Film Forum with Melissa and Tommy, which so far feels like a pretty good activity to make into a tradition. Occupied City is nearly four and a half hours long (there's an intermission), which was maybe an ambitious choice considering I went to bed around 2am on New Year's but I think it was worth it. We heard some people in the audience question whether it "needed" to be that long. It does, absolutely—the point is taking in the scale, the repetition, the temporal dissociation of it all.
Phones (and, I’d argue, other digital technology, and social media in particular) have an abundant sense of restlessness—I feel as if I am scurrying from one notification to the next like a hunted animal, one item in the feed, after another, after another, never stopping or lingering
"Out of Time", Mandy Brown
OK I was actually looking for this blog post because it recommends a little analog timer that I wanted to buy, but also it was a good little post to return to. Mandy is very smart!
Today is the perfect day to do some hot lead pouring on the cathedral roof.
Submitted by Keith.