Which fast food megachain CEO are you rooting for? I’m a Tom Curtis girl myself but Chris Kemczinsky has a great underdog backstory rising from the trenches of Kraft Inc and the grit to prove it
How do you feel being off Instagram? I’m contemplating it.
I never get to do BREAKING NEWS, but here's some: B.C. is scrapping the time change, which reams of scientific research and anecdata from exhausted parents can tell you is a good thing. here's an update to my reporting from last year, which now has a more celebratory tone:
“It is a child’s drawing of a happy couple, a scene of clichéd American domestic triumph, but for two differences: the couple is two women, and the scene is cut into her back and dripping new blood. It registers Opie’s primal, visceral longing for that second skirted stick figure — and the simple joys of romance, sunny yard, house — but also the figure that is only implied, the child in whose primitive hand the scene is carved. Whether the cutter is supposed to be Opie as a girl, naively drawing the family of her dreams, or the couple’s implied child drawing her happy koms, the missing child — the *impossible* child — is the driver of the scene, the medium through which Opie’s pain and longing is inscribed.”
Here’s my own take on “Self-Portrait/Cutting” from my 2019 book “The Seed: Infertility is a Feminist Issue” (quote in alt text)
“Self-Portrait/Cutting (1993) was made in reference to the relationship between queer domestic life and a homophobic world, at a time when any depictions of the queer family were considered disruptive and radical.”
Gorgeous article about the new Catherine Opie show at the National Portrait Gallery in London:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
You could win MM dance parties for your school and mine held them in the cafeteria at lunch for some reason so it was like half dance, half students standing around with lunch trays looking bewildered
The abrupt transition from copy to content truly can’t be overemphasized
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
(Or whatever these guys drank out of, I got aleskin from A Knight of Seven Kingdoms)
It’s always cool it when the news is like, “systematic abuse of women and children is a new unique symptom of our new unique society” and then history is like, “hold my aleskin”
Reconstruction of burial event: Sara Nylund
Women and children were deliberately targeted in one of the largest prehistoric mass killings discovered in Europe. The Gomolava burial sites in northern Serbia uncovered a grave containing the remains of more than 77 individuals, most of them women and children.
Instead of what it actually seems to have been, which was a pretty toxic on-off situationship not atypical for either of them: a political prince and a well-connected rising star in fashion. (7)
Like the fact that 70% of this series is an Usmagazine.com slideshow of various outfits and iconic moments is related to its unconvincing attempt to spin a kind of cosmic, fated, interclass love story out of these two (6)
I realized I can’t think of the lows clearly, and it’s maybe because they are all ultimately the same flaw in different forms — the need for culture to fit a pre-existing market niche that is already invested in specific narratives, aesthetics, and tones (6)
Another high: the subtle and slow burning but ultimately *ice cold* freezing out of Carolyn by the legacy Kennedys at that haunted family retreat (5)
there are a few surprising scenes where J&C have to negotiate their relationship specifically with regard to their visibility, the mythology around J, the high price of power (4)
Maybe a gross take but I think Ryan Murphy is really good at capturing the perversity of attention and fame. The best parts of the OJ and Versace series drilled deep into the power politics of Hollywood and the fashion machine (3)
High: sort of a clever layered moment with a long scene covering the infamous “park fight” toggling between regular narrative mode and POV of paparazzi lenses as they appear. Self-aware J&C fluff and pose for the paps without missing an angry word! (2)
Fifth episode of Love Story: John & Carolyn (do people do hashtags on here?) has been consumed by me and there were the usual Ryan Murphy highs and lows (1)
My optometrist is also hopeful! I’m honestly bummed vision hasn’t been fixed yet, it feels so medieval that the solution is harnessing the powers of glass
Ugh yeah. I went through three rounds of progressives with my (well-Yelped) optometrist but they all keep cutting off my close range vision? Which I need for my phone.
So far getting older is mostly about needing more external props and meds to function and I think this really changes one’s relationship to the world! The growing pile of reading glasses is a great example of this
I’ve been on a dedicated optometry journey to find a single working rX for about a year now, but I still have what every older person has, which is a pile of drugstore glasses beside every little task station in my house
I always thought the aging related transition to bifocals would be one of the least annoying/ominous/emblematic changes of midlife but so far for me it’s pretty much the whole thing
The larger the gaps between pop psychology, DSM psychiatry (overdetermined by clinical needs) and neuro/psych research, the more zombies will abound
“Brontë demonstrates that not all trauma has a resolution, that belonging is a gift that not even the most powerful of novelists can readily bestow.”
No secret menu for you.
There was definitely a layer of culture nerd Twitter that was wholesome and fun. RIP to that. I recommend Pasolini’s interviews about fascism because he really prophesied the moment:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...
I feel like this happens every 7-8 years. One thing I have been thinking about is how my generation launched perimenopause (as a cultural flashpoint) and how that’s become immediately commodified and slopified.
