May 2012
5 posts
March 2012
4 posts
coal oil/condiment
Before the ethnographer and editor Frederick Webb Hodge left for the Southwest he visited Mindeleff for advice on equipment. He recalled that Mindeleff “put his hand in a jar on the mantle and pulled out a handful of piñon nuts. I’d never seen piñon nuts before, so I cracked two or three and ate them. I said, ‘I can’t say that I like them very much; they taste like coil...
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Read my friend Cea in the Atlantic!
February 2012
6 posts
January 2012
4 posts
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
4 posts
Wrong and Rude
Dumb and Dangerous
Fresh and Fancy
October 2011
4 posts
NERD ALERT
I’m writing a paper right now and just wrote what may be my proudest sentence ever
“Frank misconceives of the way works relate to context; for her, folk art absorbs value like the colon absorbs liquid during an enema.”
September 2011
9 posts
2 tags
ART CONFETTI EVERYWHERE!
1 tag
August 2011
6 posts
Attn: Chicago Friends
Homi Bhaba is speaking on 9/8/11! More here.
New Favorite Television Show: Dumbest Stuff on... →
“AIDS has been rewriting the global geopolitical coordinates within which we...”
– Jean Comaroff, “Beyond Bare Life.”
July 2011
5 posts
Hard Times Set Off a Mariachi Price War →
Some of the best reportage to come out of the recession.
Haunted Soda Machine →
