December 2011
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WatchNorth Korea and the Media
After several days cajoling their North Korean guides and brownnosing by paying homage at the country’s many shrines, Vice’s reporters are finally let into the studio of famous filmmaker Kim Jong Il. At 4’30”, they’re in a museum dedicated to the late great director, and the camera focuses on a guitar that is in the museum not because Kim...
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Draco and the Malfoys - All I Want for Christmas
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There should be word, somewhere between disillusionment and touching down to reality, that describes the experience of someone you’ve long admired on the internet turning into an ordinary person. Because getting to know someone through bylines in beautifully designed online lit mags, a posed and composed and DSLR-lensed profile photo, or tweets of bon mots does not give you access to the...
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“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Up and Then Down : The New Yorker
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Retrospective
About 6 months and 100 posts ago, I wrote a retrospective for this tumblr. Then I never posted it — I’m not sure why. Perhaps I was embarrassed by the narcissistic exercise of putting it together in the first place. Remarkably, all of the sentiments expressed here still held up when I read this retrospective in retrospect. Then I decided it was worth posting.
This is post number...
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Why We Fight: The Imagination of Lana Del Rey | ... →
Alter egos and the difference beween pop and indie:
Pop music treats imagination roughly the same way stage musicals do: You can take up the trappings of any aesthetic you like, roving anywhere through style and history, costume, and theme. But the music is always bedrock; it always needs to function as pop. This is how, say, Katy Perry can put across her Candy Land-pinup persona, and Ke$ha can...
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My name is Sarah. I graduated from Harvard and...
This would be really funny if it weren’t also really true.
But at least I’m getting paid?
The magazine world capitaled in New York feels more than a few continents away as I sit in Israel. Science journalism has been difficult to explain to most of my friends, both of my parents, and pretty much everyone I’ve met here. Yet like every other obscure corner of the world, once...
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“The visitor to the Museum of Jurassic Technology continually finds himself...”
– Inhaling the Spore: Field trip to a museum of (un)natural history
I wonder if this essay could have been written today, in the age of Google and instantly verifiable facts. Much of it follows the author as he digs through archives and makes phone calls to verify which of the museum’s exhibits...
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