On Quitting
This, I realize, is a story about words and places. So let me start with the word that started it, or named its fractures.
Sunday Reading
Intentionally random.
Randomly intentional.
Essays & Reviews
A Sentimental Education
Poet, essayist, translator, activist — Russian writer Kirill Medvedev has worn and taken off many hats
All Our Little Lives
When it’s #followateen, every teenager is a celebrity and a Tamagotchi at the same time
Features
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
An edited gchat about the perils and possibilities for activists seeking attention for movements through social media
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times
Dawdle on, brothers and sisters.
Sunday Reading
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TNI A\V
Video Police Mortality
Video Protect and Serve
Video Unclear Holocaust
Audio After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
&, Meanwhile
“five, possibly seven, sections, under the title THEATRE–THEATRE?”
“kids play games where they kill each other all the time”
“The owners must be hanged”
“Claire isn’t the only one who thinks Tsarnaev is cute”
“moralizing dressed as acumen”
“Because I’m pale and have small boobs, people ask me about my thoughts on Occupy Wall Street.”
“you really shouldn’t work my job”
“We’re not meant to like it”
“Do you watch Girls?”
“in academia, perseverance is redefined as the ability to suffer silently or to survive on family wealth”
“a stack of macks”
“a gay, black, half-Jewish transvestite art-school prankster who can rhyme”
“The politics of allocation is submerged”
“so overcome with marijuana when questioned by detectives that he could not remember the events of the month”
“If you’re talking the symphony or other classical old-man shit, I would say [interest] is very low”
“more dangerous than having simplistic narratives is having no narrative at all”
“keep smiling”
“a (dead) body that appears to look exactly like (a) woman is supposed to”
“a large black banner reading ‘Intimidate Rapists’”
News
April 29: PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night
Film as a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 4/30
4/20 Launch Party for TNI Vol. 15: Weed
Weed Launch Screening @ Spectacle
Blogs
Triple-Decker Weekly, 59
Fact 2: No mortgage was “designed to fail.”
Bartleby in the University of California: The Social Life of Disobedience
Primo Maggio
We’ll send them off to go fuck themselves in the ass all of them and their shitty work.
Dove “Real Beauty” Redux
The Dove Real Beauty campaign exploits women’s self-esteem for its own purposes. That is: It’s doing exactly the same thing as the ads it claims to be so different from.
