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“Relationships often hit a patch where one partner tries to transform the other, but rarely does that come with chin and cheek implants.”
— Kyle Buchanan, on Behind the Candelabra for Vulture
Do you like drugs? Do you like hugs? Do you like getting kicked in the face?
k, me 2.
“In 1850, California had a population of 120,000 according to one survey, 110,000 of them male.”
— A surprising fact from Rebecca Solnit’s essay on tech’s destructive effect on SF. Was 1850 The Golden State’s gay golden age? Certainly a land before fag-hags.
Feeling bad for the 3-year-old daughter of the biologists studying microbes who Michael Pollan interviews over dinner for his latest NY Times Mag. cover story. Some day she’ll be old enough to read about how her parents measured and documented the microbial content of each one of her shits and covered her with her mom’s vaginal secretions to inoculate her with microbes as a newborn when an emergency C-section meant she didn’t naturally come into contact with them during birth.
“Now it’s 2013, though nothing has changed. Seeping, soul-level post-Fordism and the precarization of the labor market mean that most of us never stop working: socializing bleeds seamlessly into networking, and meanwhile, each tweet and retweet and Like and click and comment all converge in the production of demographic data. You could say there’s a Sisyphean aspect to life in late Capitalism. Energy drinks and Adderall, cuz sleep is for sissies and the stock market and Internet never sleep at all. An animated GIF never stops cycling silently in the ether, even as your tabs are closed and your laptop shut.”
— Jesse Darling on GIFs for Rhizome
