It is difficult to encounter such a thing and not overrun the page with the fervency of my gladness.
“The Best American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay”, Talia Lavin’s newsletter The Sword and the Sandwich
Submitted by Anne.
Consider this: in the recently released Resident Evil 8, the virtual buttocks of fetish-tweaking vampire giantess Lady Dimitrescu contain more polygons than the entire original Resident Evil game from 1996.
“GorePlay: Inside The Eerie World Of Low-Res Horror Gaming”, Dan Whitehead for Fangoria
Via Bluesky. Truly a remarkable lede.
It does not set out to embarrass anybody, but if history embarrasses someone, so be it.
Webpage for the self-published book Only in Delaware by Celia Cohen
Via Dael, an excellent source of weird Delaware politics stuff.
When you work in an archive you’re in direct contact with the dead.
Tactics of Transmission, a performance lecture by Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
I saw this performance on Saturday after submitting my final qualifying exam responses. It was hard to get myself to leave the house but I’m glad I did—Sofía is an old friend and a brilliant artist, and this new body of work she’s been working on with Natalia is incredible. They have an installation in the upcoming triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum uptown if you happen to be in the city in the next few weeks!
This wasn’t like flying, where you could reassure yourself that driving was a hundred times more dangerous; this was driving.
All Fours, Miranda July
Submitted by Chris.
There is no art form more intrinsically and blatantly American—in its casual violence, its bombastic braggadocio, its virulent jingoism, its populist defiance of respectability, and its intermittently awe-inspiring beauty—than professional wrestling.
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, Abraham Josephine Riesman
Submitted by Anne.
Lombard Street is one of the most recognizable streets in the country with its serpentine path down Russian Hill because we can't stop trying to film car chases on it.
“#039 - The Rock (1996) pt. 1 - Driving Too Fast in San Francisco in Popular Film”, kit buckley’s The Unbearable Weight newsletter
Compensation of elites does not always match their contribution to society, and throughout their history, elites have probably been overcompensated relative to performance more often than the reverse.
The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter
Submitted by Christopher.
No one knows exactly how the apple time machine works.
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, Nicola Twilley
Submitted by Sarah.