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The Push Pin Attitude May 07, 2025
On July 29, 1966, Bob Dylan crashed his motorcycle in or around Woodstock, New York. Nobody called the police, so there was no official report of the accident, or even a press release—just a two-sentence item a few days later on page 30 of The New Yo...
My Brain Finally Broke May 06, 2025
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor. I sometimes look up words after I write them: does “illegib...
Your Favorite Brand No Longer Cares About Being Woke May 30, 2024
For most of advertising history, “red” or “blue” as partisan loyalty signaled more your taste for Coke or Pepsi than your identity as Republican or Democrat. Mass markets, by definition, necessitated selling to both sides of the aisle.As with so much...
England As It Once Was May 20, 2024
Most of Guy Ritchie’s movies have been stories of friendship between men, attempts to restore a much-needed confidence in a gender-neutral era. His rock music-video montages, clever dialogue, often in slang, and romantic interest in the criminal unde...
