This is simultaneously mesmerising and terrifying. @dimsie, it may be relevant to your interests also.
We’re so excited about the new Potty Time with Elmo app that we can’t stop dancing!
We Love Shirley
Via @realchadtaylor.
Combining three of my concerns in no particular order: puppies, parenthood and ANTM.
SEVEN YOUNG LADIES STAND BEFORE ME … BUT I ONLY HAVE SIX PHOTOS IN MY HANDS.
AND THESE PHOTOS … REPRESENT THE GIRLS … WHO ARE STILL IN THE RUNNING TOWARD BECOMING … AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL.
I’M KIDDING, OBVIOUSLY. NONE OF YOU ARE TALL ENOUGH FOR RUNWAY WORK, PLUS I DON’T HAVE HANDS. NOW GET OUT OF HERE AND GO PLAY IN THE YARD. I NEED TO TAKE A LITTLE NAP.
Our culture and ways of thinking in New Zealand have changed now; if you see someone walking down the street looking up, then looking left and right along the street, then up again and then they walk quickly across the street, then you know they are from Christchurch.—
Justine Harvey, “Colombo Street’s lone survivor discusses reasons behind the building collapse”, Architecture Now, 1 May 2012.
An interview with Ann Brower - read the whole thing.
via @EricCrampton on Twitter.
Made of Crow
Say what you want about the “native spirituality” cage of discourse — that Alexie, for example, is always chafing against — but given the choice between native identity being that and being a literal (and stinking, presumably) dead piece of meat sitting on your head, well, there is a reason Coleridge picked wearing a dead bird forever as the curse of the ancient mariner, and it wasn’t respect for cultural traditions.
This is more or less how I imagine my husband in his honours year
WHEN I TAKE THE FOOD AND BOUNCE WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS STUCK IN SEMINAR
Memory and the anti-politics of Anzac
Because Anzac’s not an argument so much as an aesthetic event, it’s largely impervious to critique. Everyone knows the newspaper formula: you devote most of your space to praising the diggers and republishing various twenty-first century versions of the ‘old lie’ – and then you give half a column to someone to ponder what it all means.
Notes on "Notes on Hype"
[Hype] engages people not on the level of the thing being hyped — it tends to posit the idea that everyone already knows what the thing is basically about — but by evoking a cultural conversation, as if there is some alternate answer to the question “Why is everyone talking about X?” than “X was heavily and concertedly marketed.”
On the happiness of procreation
… having [a] baby, honestly, [is] the ultimate YMMV situation. So this is definitely a single-player account with little, if any, universal applicability.
My favourite sentence?
… you can have a wonderful life and experience all the possible human emotions just as well with a border collie pup and some kind of Game Meats of the Month Club subscription.
A pro-having-a-baby, pro-not-having-a-baby mini-memoir.
Teju Cole and Death by Twitter
fait divers/small fates
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