Brueghel blues
…the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on – W.H Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts” When my sister Meiz...
View ArticleTired but trying
“For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don’t like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they’re babies.”...
View ArticleSharon and her paintings
We were all possessed, but Dad tried to get rid of his demons. It didn’t go well for him. When they found out, they decided to open the door, to stop waiting at the vestibule in the apartment of his...
View ArticleAlligators are great
Joshua was happy to be picking up his nephew. His nephew was lively. His nephew knew how to make an entrance. His nephew had many great qualities, and now his nephew had a girlfriend. “What do you...
View ArticleBook Review: Taipei
By now, ‘drugs are bad’ is an overdone line. In Tao Lin’s most recent novel, Taipei, we encounter a world in which the anti-drug hegemony we have grown up under (and is run by those who grew up under...
View ArticleInstagram Review: @LegoKarlOve
“I saw life; I thought about death,” reads the morose caption beneath an Instagram photo of a lone Lego man. Brown plastic hair flowing, the Lego man gazes into the distance. He holds a coffee in his...
View ArticleCredit/D/Fail: April 29, 2016
Credit: Junie B. Jones is a Party Animal Junie B. might be working hard in kindergarten, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t play even harder. It’s no surprise that a kindergartner needs to cut loose....
View ArticleMountaintop removal
Born 8.1 pounds, male, may 2009 1 Cal displayed personality at quite a young age. 2 He’s a genius, they said 3 he’ll cure AIDS if he cares to. 4 But he removed himself from life 5 1 Not much to say...
View ArticleIndex: April 29, 2016
1079 – the number of pages in David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, Infinite Jest. 555 – the number of pages that I have read of Infinite Jest thus far. 118 – the number of days since the 28th of...
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