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In Which We Understand Michelle Obama More Fully Than Her Husband Could Ever Hope To
Artists mentioned:The following chronicle of the early life of Michelle Obama owes a debt to this Boston Globe story, the New Yorker’s profile of Michelle, and countless other articles. Look for the second and conclusive part of this highly influential and electoral series in the coming days. An American, Chicago-Born Part...(read full post)
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In Which James Mallord William Turner Is Nowhere In The Aria
Artists mentioned:Turner at the Met by Will Hubbard J. M. W. Turner July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008 The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor A small fishing boat about to be tossed onto the shore by a violent, confused wave. Or maybe the boat will not smashed. Such is the tedious ambiguity deliciously...(read full post)
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In Which I’ll Just Bleed So The Stars Will Have Something Dark To Shine In
Artists mentioned:Think Fantastic by Molly Young Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 256 pages Pantheon Books A good novel and a good ping-pong match share many qualities: virtuosity, grace, unpredictability and wild maneuvering. They are also impossible to recount and boring to hear about. This is an apologia, by the way. I am...(read full post)
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In Which Mad Men Created The Mad World Of Mad Magazine
Artists mentioned:Subterranean Homesick Jews by Molly Lambert To see these gorgeous parody ads from the late fifties/early sixties back covers and inside front pages of Mad Magazine in their full spendor, and be able to read the hilarious fine print, visit this excellent flickr set. Hey Gang! Let’s Play 43 Man...(read full post)
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In Which It Begins And Ends With The Fish
Artists mentioned:Tsukiji by Brian DeLeeuw The tuna auctions at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market start around 5:30AM, but the market’s already been active for hours. The bluefin carcasses are displayed on raised pallets, six or seven to a pallet, about thirty pallets lined up across the frigid hall’s concrete floor. And these...(read full post)
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In Which I See The Dopeness You Only See The Wackness
Artists mentioned:Life-Altering by Lauren Bans The Wackness dir. Jonathan Levine 95 min. Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness is basically the Jewish version of Good Will Hunting. Luke Shapiro, a drug dealing, mildly unpopular Jewish kid pretending to be black befriends (and sells pot to) Dr. Squires, a crazy Jewish psychiatrist. A beautiful,...(read full post)
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In Which The Analytically Minded Might Conclude That Persons With Red Hair Tend To Be Either Dangerous Or Funny
Artists mentioned:Real Gingaz Do Real Thangz by Molly Lambert Mad Men’s sexy secretary Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) is not a natural redhead. But I’m pretty sure her giant rack is real, which is cool since she is built like a luxury ocean liner. Hendricks says she’s been dyeing her hair since...(read full post)
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In Which The Sea Was Mad That Day My Friends
Artists mentioned:Remember When Is The Lowest Form Of Conversation by Alex Carnevale In reality, the late 50s and early 60s was a great time to smash barriers and get a baby in you as you climbed up the corporate ladder as a junior copywriter. If you don’t understand the glory part...(read full post)
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In Which Tess Discovers That There’s No Place Like Home
Artists mentioned:House Hunting by Tess Lynch Part One: I Want To Live In These Homes You know when you see someone at a party, and you think, “Oooh, who’s that? They’re looking fly.” Then you go talk to your friend, and he knows the person you’re looking at, and he says...(read full post)
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In Which We Hear The Sounds of Silence
Artists mentioned:Observable Noise by Melanie Strong The ancient Greek philosophers considered there to be five elements of which the earth around us and beyond us is comprised. These are Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Ether. Technology has enabled us to create devices which allow the observation and manipulation of these elements....(read full post)
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In Which Molly Details What She Finds Amusing
Artists mentioned:Some Of The Things I Find Humorous by Molly Lambert Phyllis Diller, Dave Chappelle, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, the This Recording YouTube channel, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bob and Ray, SCTV, Wanda Sykes, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines When people tell...(read full post)
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In Which We Never Score A Perfect 10
Artists mentioned:On Second Thought by Yvonne Puig Bela Karoyli, the Romanian gymnastics maestro of Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton fame, runs a gymnastics camp in the piney woods of Huntsville, Texas. The state’s oldest prison is located here, home of that notoriously well-worn death chamber. Other sites of note in...(read full post)
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In Which Stalin Is The Biggest Goy We Can Think Of
Artists mentioned:Some Out of The Way Corner of the Universe by Alex Carnevale Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and...(read full post)
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In Which This Recording Is A Memex Made Out of Your Face
Artists mentioned:An earthquake shakes Molly’s keys loose… a SONATA for p/rep/ared KEYBOARD BY molly LAMBERT i AM not TRYING to MAKE this P/URP/OSELY look likE a RANSOM note OR because I’m A STR8 GANGSTA now. my COMP/TUR is BROKEN. I am TAKING this BETCH to THE glendale galleria GENIUS bar right...(read full post)
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In Which Summer Music Is Short Sweet And Iconic
Artists mentioned:So Summer by Brittany Julious Winter should really, really, stay where it belongs. As an avid collector, a lot of albums I own would seem more fitting for the summer. Because of random circumstances, such as when the album was purchased, I refuse to listen to them. While thinking about...(read full post)
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In Which Perchance You Need A Vacation To Jellyfish Lake
Artists mentioned:Not For A Million Dollars by Molly Lambert So the jellyfish are showing up extra early this summer, murdering triathletes, turning beaches into horror movies and normally staid swimmers into quivering lumps of goo. The NYT had my favorite quote in a recent news story; a Hudson River boat patrolman...(read full post)
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In Which You Look Like You’re Losing A Piece of Your Soul
Artists mentioned:Waitress by Jessica Skinner You know you look like you’re losing a piece of your soul each time you go through the greeting, is how a co-worker described my friend’s expression as she repeated her routine explanatory greeting at The Melting Pot. Dead on balls accurate if you ask me....(read full post)
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In Which I Am Not In Love But I’m Open To Persuasion
Artists mentioned:Our love for the one known as Jennifer Beals knows no bounds. Read of our dalliances with The L Word here and here. Ms. Beals’ favorite photography books follow. This Time With A Little Dedication Robert J. Hughes: Actress Jennifer Beals first rose to stardom while she was a student...(read full post)
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In Which There Is A Lady in the Water
Artists mentioned:Night Is Here by Alex Carnevale The Happening dir. M. Night Shyamalan 99 minutes The promise of the auteur is that each effort must attempt to top the next. In the cases of Martin Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock, we embarked on a viewing of their next project with...(read full post)
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In Which The Time To Sate Our Search Engine Referrals Is Now
Artists mentioned:You can enjoy our series about pin-ups and photosets here, here, here, here, here, and here. Inside the Pink Palace of Jayne Mansfield by Molly Lambert One of the funniest things about the internet is that no matter how much better it gets, how much more intellectual or culturally valuable,...(read full post)
