May 8, 2020
We've all been there
George Harrison’s Vacation in Small-Town America
GLEH-EGGG!
I look at my hands. I can’t tell if they’re mine.
"Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over." Sabrina Orah Mark reflects on fairy tales, the academic job market, and being a mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. (SLParisReview)
Identity Politics and Elite Capture
"The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends." [more inside]
A man walks down the street He says, Why am I soft in the middle now?...
Hello everyone! We're the Clark family. Colt (the Dad) is a professional musician and Aubree (me, the Mom behind the camera) is a photographer. Together we home school our three children (even when we're not in the middle of a pandemic). :) We're keeping busy during our time at home by
Bird Tableau
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Women hold just 10% of all patented inventions.
im losing my mind. there is no way you're going to be able to predict what this ad is trying to sell you
finally, now more than ever, women can buy our product [more inside]
finally, now more than ever, women can buy our product [more inside]
“We have nothing to lose but our leashes and the whole world to gain.”
Tired of seeing socialist messages in games compromised by both-sideism and wanting to make an unapologeticially left wing game, the developer collective Pixel Pushers Union 512 have created Tonight We Riot (available on Steam and the Switch), a side-scrolling beat um up where the player controls a proletariat mob bent on tearing down the old order, focusing not on the actions of one character, but having the player needing to control a group movement to succeed. [more inside]
"Hustle To Meowtivate"
Snowskating is like snowboarding, except it incorporates skateboard tricks done in the snow. That sounds difficult enough, but even a cat can do it. (h/t Miss Cellania)
Detroit's well-dressed Spirit
The Spirit of Detroit is a monument featuring a 26' bronze statue holding a family group in one hand, and a sphere symbolizing God in the other. Created by Michigan sculptor Marshall Fredericks in the second half of the 1950s, it's located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (formerly the Detroit City-County Building) on Woodward in Detroit. Since 1997, it's occasionally been dressed in sports jerseys when local professional teams make playoffs, as well as in other clothing marking notable local events. It's currently showing support of Henry Ford Hospital's White Ribbon Campaign to recognize and thank essential health-care and other workers.
Dirt smells good
Presented by Vitra
Chair Times - A History of Seating – From 1800 to Today.
"In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged according to their year of production, they illustrate development from 1807 to the very latest designs straight off the 3D printer, forming a timeline to modern seating design. [more inside]
A rather belated happy Beer Day to Iceland
A century ago, Iceland banned all alcoholic drinks. Within a decade, red wine had been legalised, followed by spirits in the 1930s. But full-strength beer remained off-limits until 1 March 1989. Megan Lane asks why it took so long for the amber nectar to come in from the Icelandic cold. Why Iceland banned beer (BBC). Bonus video: Female-run microbrewery celebrates "witching" history (AP News clip), adding some female representation to Iceland's male-dominated beer scene (Grapevine.is). [more inside]
Now everybody—
The great novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is also a sometimes thoughtful, sometimes irreverent lyricst. Sprinkled throughout all of his novels are many tunes that surprise the reader. The NYC band Visit recorded fourteen of them and Philadelphia-based composer Peter Price put together some interstitial material. Released on 8 May 2020—the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II but also Pynchon’s 83rd birthday—the album ... adds to the growing list of music inspired by the American writer. “Now everybody—” Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon [more inside]
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