June 2012
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SPOTLIGHT: Avi & Jihad
Between 2007 and 2009 I lived and worked in Jerusalem. My apartment was in Abu Tor, a hillside district near Mount Zion and the border between Israel proper and the West Bank.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Long story short, there are too many wannabe bad-ass people in the world. Yes, I will link to this story about robot soccer. For the children. Running from the Elephant, 1891. Here is some old thrill ride photography porn for…
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Letter Party Tonight
We’re stuffing envelopes with Letters to Everyone this evening. If you’re in San Francisco, and in the mood to spend some time with us, come by the Latin American Club at 7pm.
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“The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict”
Iran is implementing a new strategy to teach its youth about Salman Rushdie’s fatwa-inducing sin. Iran’s National Foundation of Computer Games (Yep. Really. We have one, too.) asked students three years ago to submit scripts for the game and the…
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“This is where we must dig”
At The Millions, Jessica Gross reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns. “Sugar forces us to swallow sometimes painful realizations about what we want, who we are, and what we therefore must do — or,…
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Hitchcock’s “Man from the South”
There are lots of things to be happy about today. For instance, Open Culture unearthed Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark short story “Man from the South” starring a young Steve McQueen who makes a wager for a convertible.…
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Today in the Supreme Court
Unless you’ve been away from a news source all day, you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as constitutional by a vote of 5-4. Probably the biggest surprise was that Chief…
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How To Oppress White People
Black Girl Dangerous provides a step-by-step guide on how “reverse-racist!” people of color can continue the oppression of white people, beginning with the enslavement of white bodies and ending with the proclamation that we live in a “post-reverse-racial society” —…
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McSweeney’s Sidewalk Sale
McSweeney’s is throwing a summertime garage sale in San Francisco! Head over to 849 Valencia St. on Sunday, July 1st (between 11am and 4pm) to take advantage of steep discounts on books, magazines, DVDs, and more. Click here to download…
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The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
“A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how close together there exists an interval of space, a sense that exists between senses,” writes Brazilian novelist Clarice…
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‘Marking Moments When the World Changes’
The 13th edition of the Documenta art exhibition, (a showcase of contemporary art that takes place in Germany every five years) a.k.a. ‘the Museum of 100 days,’ opened on June 9th. Always a rather serious affair, this edition deals with “moments…
