Prachi’s is terrific! I’m still impressed by Trump’s, considering what a moron he is.

I keep thinking about the story: it’s a great illustration of the phenomenon. When I was very young, my parents would put me to bed early, and I would stare at the alphabet banner running under the ceiling as the sun set until, as I put it to my mom’s alarm, “the letters start to move.” I’ve also learned to lucid…

One of the more depressing aspects here is Rapp’s stated motive. He didn’t indict Spacey because the encounter was traumatizing (indeed, he says he knew Spacey was gay, that the invitation from Spacey at the gay club was nonthreatening — no alcohol, “just a fun night just talking and hanging out,” that Spacey didn’t…

The detail is really incredible. The thing I will say is that they’re not as frightening as they might sound because the dreaming self is unable to experience surprise.

The great thing (maybe the only thing) about studying art history is learning how unimportant consumer reaction is. What are your thoughts on Halévy’s La Juive? Huh, that’s interesting you’ve never heard of it. It was the most popular opera of the 19th century, a time when the greatest possible thing in the world was…

It’s going to depict a pretty radical (read Nietzschean) moral relativism alongside a condemnation of money-as-power (the casino scenes).

And it’s not womansplaining if it doesn’t start with “So.”

But what you’re describing is not what an open secret is. An open secret is something that, while widely known, is never acknowledged openly. The term is often used referring to the homosexuality of a closeted celebrity or artist. The relationship of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, for instance, was an open secret.…

I can’t even believe this is a controversy. Le Monde writes today

She’s also a fucking good director.

Even her youtube shorts are 99% more dramatically absorbing and visually compelling than 99% of what Hollywood and a lot of Netflix are churning out.

My dream is to remove precisely that which Harvey personifies.

Come on, Katherine. Paul’s post was mid-conversation and taken out of context. He was saying the exact opposite of what you describe: he said Weinstein’s reputation was overclouded with a repugnance so vile he never wanted anything to do with the guy — which is why he never did have anything to do with the guy. What…

Anybody living in Tribeca for the past ten years knew, that’s for damn sure.

Ms Adler is not the snob. Ms Kaur is the snob.

rupi
kaur to poetry
is donald
trump to
politics is this a
simile or
a
metaphor

thar’s a rough-lookin’
fella comin’ in to see
me.
tha’s okay. i
yam not ascared
of no man
on eart’.
wow.
it’s ol’ salty
bill barnacle. i
yam so glad to see
ya
I gotta hug ya

Thanks for bringing up Esquerita! I might add that your account suggests a wholesale appropriation on Little Richard’s part, whereas the reality is a little more complex. Reeder (Esquerita) was a far bigger draw than Little Richard was at the beginning of their careers, and influence went both ways; Little Richard has…

That’s not “sold.”

“So instead of seeing Naples and die, see New York and live”

HA!

Not to sound alarmist, but I was in your position and got slapped with a pretty serious medical diagnosis. That was all it took for me to lose my apartment. I couchsurfed for as long as I could: it’s funny how quickly friends are suddenly busy. I lived on the street for a year, and it was only through prostitution…