Tom Breihan in Stereogum: It’s wild that we ever knew a time before “Seven Nation Army.” Rock was moribund, long in the tooth, a phenomenon that existed in quotation marks and was in need of reviving. And yet nobody had ever put those specific notes in that specific order before Jack White, fucking around at […]
Matthew Grimm in the Des Moines Register writing on racism in his home state of Iowa: There is an absolute correlation between insisting you live in utopia and demonizing people for pointing out hard realities that it’s not.
Stephanie Foo: I’ve met so many incredible women of color who’ve left their newsrooms because they burned out from this job. These are women who survived war zones, worked 10-hour days for years, didn’t take vacations, had three internships going simultaneously, and sat stone-faced in response to aggressive and outright racist editors. And yes, they […]
I’m linking to the discussion in a forum rather than the piece itself because I find people’s reactions more interesting, and there’s lots of good thoughts in the comments. Myself: It’s cool to see the old favourites shook up (The Beatles/Stones/Dylan much lower), especially since I used lists like this to shape my own musical […]
Interesting interview that challenges some assumptions. “So if we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it.”
Robert Lloyd in the LA Times: It’s only speculation on my part, but that its origins are modest rather than muscular, in the industrial sense, may have been to the series’ ultimate advantage, keeping it free from Hollywood glossiness and crushing expectations. If the show had been picked up by ABC or AMC or HBO, […]
Schitt’s Creek on Twitter: With Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy winning their #Emmys tonight, that means our little Canadian show is the first comedy OR drama to ~ever~ sweep all four acting categories, and that is absolutely wild So well-deserved. Not just acting but also writing, directing and outstanding comedy series. […]
Why Grown Ass Men Get So Emotional About Carly Rae Jepsen
Frank Chimero: “It’s surprising how quickly we consented to reading everything through streams and algorithms, and how ill-equipped we are to emotionally manage it. Everything is slotted alongside anything else, so it is natural to feel like everything is connected, but nothing in the world fits together. We all know how streams and advertising illicit […]
Anne Helen Petersen on paying taxes: “It helps restore busted habitats, and continues work on a project making it so that there’s a trailhead within ten minutes of everyone in the county — not just people who live in the more desirable areas. It’s regrading hills to make trails more accessible. It’s making civilization better, more […]
Helena Fitzgerald: “The things that hurt me at the beginning of this century don’t hurt anymore, or at least they hurt in totally different ways. Perhaps the condition of the future is that it never feels like the future; perhaps in ten years nobody will listen to Maps, or make out in bars anymore, but […]
“The question really is not whether we’ll be tied to the somethings of our past, but whether we are courageous enough to be tied to the whole of them.”
This is very good.
Kay explains that there’s a common misconception that if someone loves their job, they would prefer to work instead of doing other activities that contribute to a fulfilling life, which he says can be a slippery slope. “A graphic designer who works for a cool website and gets to make cool art may love their job, […]
“‘All Star” but it’s a gentle piano ballad, ‘All Star’ but it’s spoken-word slam poetry, ‘All Star’ but it’s a TED Talk) and then the sorts of Dadaist musical experiments (‘All Star’ but every note is C, ‘All Star’ but every word with an ‘E’ is skipped, ‘All Star’ but the lyric ‘And they don’t […]
Ad nauseam
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