Is anyone else having trouble not connecting the white papal smoke with the monster from Lost?
THE WHITE SMOKE COMETH
March 13, 2013Something I Want to Say
March 13, 2013… but that I will most certainly have to cut out of this essay I’m working on. This is terribly selfish. I apologize.
“If I’m going to take all Adler’s admirers into consideration here, and I can’t see how I can ignore the throngs of them, then I suppose I’ll start with a borderline sycophant, and re-quote Wilde via David Shields: ‘All criticism is a form of autobiography.’ So if that is so, then perhaps I am the lone critic out there who ends up downtrodden by the incessant nihilism of Adler, because my name is ID, and I am a nihilism addict, and just like an alcoholic cannot take a sip of booze lest he or she tumble down that mineshaft again, I cannot entertain any nihilistic impulse in me because sooner or later I determine that life is meaningless and for me, that’s always been a dangerous path to follow.”
Also, is it possible that The Shining is having a moment? Evidence: the release of the documentary Room 237 later this month, and also the below:
Jack Torrance dress at Fashion Week.
Shining graffiti in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
I’ve Never Really Wanted to be a Ghostwriter…
March 12, 2013but if I could take Lisa Pulitzer’s job, I’d be all over it. From the Times:
Ms. Pulitzer helps young women who have fled religious sects or cultlike organizations give their accounts in compelling, often best-selling prose. “I’m now the official cult gal,” she said over a salad at a French bistro in Huntington, N.Y., where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
She’s written about women fleeing fundamental LDS communities, the Westboro Baptist Church, and Scientology. G-d DAMMIT life isn’t fair.
Sara and Clare Bronfman –– if you’re ever ready to get out of NXIVM, call me!
Sort of Micrographic
March 11, 2013As in, the text is small but it’s not writing, per se. Check out Jamie Poole’s portraits made out of shredded poetry. 
My Monday
March 11, 2013will be spent watching True Life: I Hate My Face.
“Two young ladies are sickened by the sight of their own face. Will they deal with what they were given? Or, will they change what they can?”
Stay tuned.
Extremely Obvious
March 11, 2013I read this story today on a website so bad it’s embarrassing, and it seems to me so beyond obvious that this is not the whole story.
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Greg Rodriguez, the host of A Rifleman’s Journal was shot and killed last night in Montana.
Police say he was enjoying a glass of wine at a female friend’s home when her husband came home and immediately shot and killed him.
The husband then proceeded to beat up his wife, drive her and their two-year-old child over to a relatives house, return to the scene of the crime, and eventually his own life.
Ugh. What a devastating tragedy.
Local sheriffs won’t speculate on the husband’s motive, but they’re confident this is an “open-and-shut” case of murder-suicide.
A Rifleman’s Journal was a popular hunting program on the The Sportsman Channel.
Comedic or Depressing or Both?
March 8, 2013Below is a list of topics “trending” (I think I’m using this correctly here) on Jezebel.com. This makes me feel something, and I don’t know what it is, but it ain’t good.
ADVICE
ANNE HATHAWAY
CANNIBAL COP
CLASS RAGE
CRAP TEXTS FROM A DUDE
DATING
DIRT BAG
DRUGS
DUDES
FEMINISM
GENDERAL INTEREST
GIRLS
LADY BUSINESS
MAG HAG
MIDWEEK MADNESS
MOTHERHOOD
MOVIES
OSCARS
PENISES
RAPE RAPE
ROE V WORLD
SEX
THE BACHELORETTE
THE SEQUESTER
THE THIRTIES
WEIGHTY MATTERS
YOUR IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND
Suck ‘Em Dry
March 8, 2013Just so everyone knows, the secret password to get onto the Armory Show’s WiFi is “armorypress.” Tell your friends.
How Great Is This Shirt?
March 1, 2013
h/t The Sartorialist.
The best new brand of the season –– Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs.
New Public Service
February 28, 2013I am happy to take on the job of Blog Euthanizer, even though I know no such thing exists yet. I am, however, someone of a prophet when it comes to technological advances in that a few years ago, I predicted the coming of the E-Undertaker, a person who dismantles the social media of someone who passes away. What I would like to do is troll the Internet and destroy blogs that are horribly maintained –– the exact rules will be determined by a tribunal of “experts” who will be gathered together in a conference room at a midtown Marriott some time in April. (To apply, contact Siobhan. You know how to get her.)
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