Strunk and White Strike Again
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style has a soft spot in all our hearts, but some of its rules—no adverbs, an incorrect definition of passive voice—are a little…idiosyncratic. If, as Constance…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is everything you need to know about what happens to the outgoing pope. This is what piano notes look like. Important news: black holes are fast, like woah. The…
“Everything you think you have can be lost in five episodes”
Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist opens up about a Netflix binge and how, after seven days and 52 episodes, an Australian teen drama called Dance Academy became her raison d’être. I…
Feminist Porn
There’s a great interview at Salon with Tristan Taormino, discussing her new book, The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. In the conversation, Taormino talks about everything from vulvas to “porn…
Dirty Words
Here’s an intriguing visual analysis of 5000 escort field reports from the UK’s largest cities. The infographic paints a picture of a typical encounter based on most popular sex acts,…
Ang Lee Opts Not to Forget Dream
How does a young Taiwanese immigrant to the United States hold onto his filmmaking dream through years of rejection and low-paying drudgery? The answer for Ang Lee: a kickass wife.…
Laughably Good Books
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? A Bad Idea I’m About to Do. I Feel Bad About My Neck. The titles of comedy books almost make a good blog post…
Fiction Becomes Islamic Punk Reality
When Michael Muhammad Knight wrote his novel The Taqwacores, about Muslims playing punk music, he didn’t know his fictional story would end up throwing down roots in the real world. But…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Coming soon in hubris: here comes the Titanic II. Los Angeles: birthplace of the future (sure, ok). What a sad life, to be a spacesuit never worn to the moon.…
Weird Americans
The last generation or two of undergraduates have largely been taught by a cohort of social scientists busily doing penance for the racism and Eurocentrism of their predecessors, albeit in…