Hot or Not
Last summer, my grandfather mailed me a copy of the…
Resisting Oblivion
To be an American in Europe is to live in the future of events, but in the past of news. On the morning of November […]
Resisting OblivionAs Weiss surely knew, … the political has a horizon: the universal fact of death. It seems unlikely that exploitation, want, cruelty, humiliation, hatred and other forms of human-made suffering will ever be eradicated, and to demand that art exist exclusively for the purpose of eradicating them is to condemn it to a kind of futility.
Hot or NotWhat does it mean that she is hot “enough”? It seemed to her like, if the option is available to live as a very hot person, it is a form of deprivation to live any less hot of a life. I once read that people are most ornery about the income bracket just above theirs, which means that the extremely rich envy the extraordinarily rich.
House HuntersFrom my perch up on my mountaintop, watching Lilo and Stitch and listening to the Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, it doesn’t take much in the way of prophetic gifts to see that the profoundly limitless American landscape, as first sketched out by Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and then Mark Twain, and which was born again in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and dozens of other pioneers and spiritual argonauts of every race and creed, is burning.
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