*whispers*
“stephanie, donald duck was an imperialist”

Also of note, it’s not like there wasn’t guidance at one time!

“boom”

His repeating “one beer!” as a minimizing tactic actually just makes me think, “Wow, huh, there’d probably have to be something else in that one beer to hit someone that hard, right?”

Pretty much, all but the actress part. Anna Biller did star in her own first film Viva, but for The Love Witch she cast Samantha Robinson in the lead. But, yes indeed, Biller even hooked the pentagram rug herself! I confess to being a bit skeptical going into it based on the preview, but was 100% won over right away.…

Nope, that’s Elaine.

a tiny bottle of fabricated white woman’s tears for your witchcraft

I feel ya on your main point, which is 100% valid, but I don’t really think the Audubon comparison is entirely fair. It isn’t like Birds of America is just some random book. Not only does it hold a special place in the history of science, but it’s also a genuine work of art. It consists of over 400 hand-colored…

I actually appreciate that Peppa isn’t didactic in tone. Things like Daniel Tiger are well and good, but there’s something to be said for gentle stories that are just, you know, stories. From what I’ve seen, the more didactic shows are less focused on storytelling per se, precisely because the narrative is a vehicle…

Fuck, I really gotta add “lessons took place at undisclosed location” to my artist’s bio.

Sure! Several songs by Can (“Halleluhwah,” “Bel Air,” etc.), Sonic Youth’s “Diamond Sea,” the Knife’s “Old Dreams Waiting to be Realized,” and, of course, countless jazz (Miles Davis’ “Pharaoh’s Dance”) and minimalist (Joanna Brouk’s “Space Between”) tracks.

Well, all three should be freely distributed to anyone who needs them, so there’s that.

I had a copy of A Generation of Sociopaths with me at work one day, and an older colleague asked what it was about. I said, “Well, I’ve only just started it, but the subtitle is ‘How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America,’ which I think gives you the gist.” She seemed a little embarrassed on behalf of her entire…

This is why my wife and I had to have a wedding pie instead. Rules is rules!

My wife and I were in this boat not too long ago (and we’re just a hair older than you are). Although she was ultimately the less ambivalent, we both did our fair share of asking “should we or shouldn’t we?” We both have normal day jobs, but are passionate, creative people. She is a musician, I’m a painter. How a…

I just recently re-watched Don’t Look Now, and while I know many people don’t find this movie particularly “scary” on the whole, I have always thought it was one of the most horrifying of films. I hadn’t seen it in maybe five or six years, and since then I’ve gotten married and become a parent. And, good lord, that…

It’s also fascinating, I think, to examine the folks who saw how Nietzsche’s work was being misappropriated in real time, and read how they took great pains to “rescue” him while, naturally, attacking fascist ideology in the process. Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot. . . And then it’s doubly…

I think truly masterful aphorists are able to clasp thesis and antithesis (rather than argumentation) into tight constructs, which is a lot of their beauty. When they click they’re like little epiphanies. I’m thinking of people like Stanislaw Lec, Malcolm de Chazal, Georg Lichtenberg, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ambrose…

Yeah, sounds about right.