The small-time liar who exposes a big-time lie.
A deep discovery: The public’s distrust of the cloistered art world helps to explain why a forger, or a swindler, is so often perceived as a romantic aven...
Category: people
Cursing as an art form.
Most everyone curses but some people do it really well. For example, we all know how to liken someone we don’t like to a specific body part but only some ...
#worldcup #brunch #somewhatarbitrarybutrivetingoutcome
what i’m making: tortilla española and shaved brussel sprouts with fresh walnuts and pecorino. spanish wine and belgian beer to accompany.
Machete, box office proceeds and ballot box forecasting.
I’m about halfway through Inglourious Basterds and spent some time yesterday thinking about the forthcoming Machete. Both are perfectly wrought genre pict...
Two kinds of lawyers in this world.
There’s two kinds of lawyers: those who care deeply about what the law is and those who care deeply about what the law is and also care deeply about what ...
Weaving as a way of life: the global corporation.
There are crafts worth doing for the process alone, never mind the product. Weaving together the different strands of our lives is one such process which is rew...
if climate change brought “cold” summers to LA, would the culture change?
LA today (63° F) feels as cold as an SF summer – where it’s not much colder (58°F). if temperature impacts culture (amount of outdoor seating at restauran...
Sadistic government-funded experiment helped create a domestic terrorist?
Ted Kaczynski, The Unambomber, was once a 17 year-old test subject in a sadistic psychological study performed at Harvard at the bequest of the precursor to the...
randy brown built himself a motion picture in the shape of a house.
some people express their freedom via clever movements. the player or dancer who makes a great move. others express their freedom by what they build. a great pl...
Payne: “I don’t see any future for whale species except extinction.”
Biologist Roger Payne’s conclusion must be proven wrong, whether by altering the status quo or funding multiple independent studies that find the truth is...
Reading and writing as a natural process.
Hypothesis: all forms of writing are based on natural forms — they are a transcription of our landscapes: mountains, trees predators, prey, caves, clouds,...
The packing and unpacking game. Shakespeare, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Communion.
I recently had to carry a few more things than I thought I could from one room to another. I stopped for a moment to think about it and devised a way to pack th...
A word that we could live without: obviously.
“Obviously.” If you’re saying it, it’s not obvious.
A nation of immigrants and also, perhaps, a nation of survivors.
Those who advocate for the human rights of migrants spend a great deal of time responding to mischaracterizations of migrants, to shallow depictions, to stereot...
Why so many lobbyists? Because the going is getting tougher.
Robert Reich on why corporations now spend so much money to lobby the government: The real reason is the structural shift in the economy, beginning in the late ...
Best Michael Jackson reflection I’ve read.
Hilton Als: Early on, he recognized the power mainstream stardom held—a chance to defend himself and his mother from the violent ministrations of his father, Jo...
What every child wants.
Fun quote from an essay on CCTV surveillance and free will: God is really no different than any other parent. All he wants is absolute, unquestioning obedience ...
Companies adapting to, others defining the possible.
Rolling Stone failed to make its explosive article available online to consumers after making it available to other press outlets. I’m not sure how much m...
TV: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It from the BBC 3
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It is a very smart show from BBC 3. I’ve only watched the beef episode and it’s drawn out to fill an hour, but you can skip to...