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What is Culture?
“Culture is anti-rivalrous. The more people know and sing a song, the more cultural value it has. The more people watch my film Sita Sings the Blues, or read my comic strip Mimi & Eunice, the happier I’ll be, so…
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The California Milk Board Has the Cure for PMS
“Milk can help reduce the symptoms of PMS,” says the new “Got Milk” ads by the California Milk Processor Board. Instead of targeting their ads to women (aka actual PMS sufferers), the board created an “Everything I Do is Wrong”…
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Science Saturday
Jello made from humans? So, maybe you don’t need to force yourself to drink those eight glasses of water a day. What can baboon males teach us about human males? (Or, what we probably could have guessed about men from…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning! I’m covering for Brian Spears today, who’s probably unpacking boxes in his new home (or sleeping) as you’re reading these links. Read this feature in The Stranger because it’s beautiful and the title is pretty friggin’ amazing: “My…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory
Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was still working. When I asked him for an interview, he…
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John Sayles’ New Film
John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie is about “a village mayor caught in the murderous cross-fire…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First let’s all take a moment to appreciate the steepest roller coaster in the world. Now then, let’s talk about space! Oh my gosh, look at this comet hit the sun! Astronauts can’t whistle. There are all sorts of places…
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Sugar’s Identity Revealed?
Walter Green, genius designer behind the original Write Like a Motherfucker logo, takes a stab at Sugar’s true identity.
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Listers Listed
Two poets respond to the Morgan Library’s Lists exhibit. Through their exploration of the myriad mediums and styles of listing, they establish, describe, and illustrate four categories of “listers:” crosser-offers, checkers, the iconoclasts and the visual organizers.
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Phone Hacking and Its Here, There and Everywhere Influences
News International’s phone hacking scandal has regenerated all over the web as the scandal continues to unfold, tracing back the hacking and subsequent bribery that’s been happening for years–more and more articles appear detailing the latest happenings in Parliament. With…
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Two Doses of Sugar
The Awl has got a sweet interview with none other than our very own advice columnist, Sugar, who is always ebbing our existential qualms with her eloquence. But what’s it like to be Sugar, negotiating intimacy with anonymity, keeping up…