NYT Lifestyle, next month (probably):
"The latest trend is called 'unconversation.' Sitting alone for a while without talking. Maybe staring at a wall. And it's taking downtown by storm!"
PEAK LIBIDO was just translated into Arabic!
I miss the pre-social media version of the Internet where weird random pages like this could become a thing.
www.thisman.org
"'Veselka kind of sucks now': an East Village Memoir"
Pretty much all emails I receive from students are now generic, formal, and highly-structured. Almost makes me miss the days of "Yo Teech."
Microghosting – all those little parcels of neglect with which people pepper their day: not responding to a pressing text till after the matter has been settled, failing to send a follow up thank you message when someone fulfils a request you made to them, and so on.
the forgetting of being (awesome)
Today I learned that Sarah McLachlan was first discovered, and signed by, the main guy from Skinny Puppy.
Someone should write about traveling theater troupes on screen: from Naruse to Bergman to SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH to STATION ELEVEN.
Who wants to join my new doo-wop band, Anxious Frank and the Self Soothers?
"Dear colleague. I look forward to responding to your email as soon as you have rephrased it more respectfully."
Happy User Agreement Update season to all!
Puritan Valentine's Day card
The direct link between engorged petrostates and enlarged prostates.
Manstream media
Vale Harold.
You've finally gone to reunite with Maude.
(funny to see I came up with the adjective before I posted, and noticed the description copy . . .)
Fantastic to see @uminnpress.bsky.social putting this essential collection of writings back in print, by Lulu herself.
www.upress.umn.edu/978081663731...
Come ghost with me!
event.newschool.edu/booktalkdomp...
I should probably get a mnemonic tattoo on my wrist that simply says: "musn't grumble."
Looks like I need to add a new epilogue.
"Exercises for Men" . . . in Nancy Henley, "Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Non-Verbal Communication" (1977)
Dasein within reach
" . . . and now, smiling and waving - heading up the delegation from New Jersey - is the traditional Parade of the Goomahs . . ."
