Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.
Overheard through Telegram
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Wittgenstein in Shadow
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy’s most misunderstood philosopher.
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Odi et amo
Constellations of pale paned light lapse across shadowed walls as the din of street stragglers dissipates in the slums, appetites for fucking or for food finally mollified.
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113 Hangover Cures
Hangover alchemy is a bit more involved than water and Advil.
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Saturday Nights at the Marquis
After the show, we sit crosslegged in the theatre and smoke long thin cigarettes and watch the smoke drift among the rafters, the tattered red velvet of the curtains
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The daylily, Hemerocallis, continues to bloom for days after its scapes are cut
for L. When you left me here to rot aboveground—preferring a disintegration undersoil, solo—they did not publish the story in the paper, this being in poor taste, your being far too young to die, the Star-Ledger style guide answering the question of too soon as if it were mere matter of journalistic protocol: spell out…
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Review: Neeta Patel’s “time is a floating point number.”
Patel’s senior thesis show […] is an intelligent meditation on text, handwriting, and the act of recording.
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Koyt
“Punk culture is very atheistic in a certain way, and I never felt like there was really a place there for my Jewish identity. Maybe to some extent people would be into us, but there might be some difficulty in connecting with the traditional punk audience.”
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Luv 4 a Night
We spent approximately 30 hours talking about everything from the nature of the universe to the limitations of the human mind. The usual stuff. We sat on the corner of a couch outside a library; the couch was blue. Nothing good happened. Nothing bad happened. Real people were inside working as I ate the avocado…
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Religion and Decision
A writer grapples with her Jewish identity in a new place.
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Quad’s Comeback
With its low-key partying style and recruitment strategy, Quad will continue to appeal to the people who want something a little substantive, a little a bit-off-Steet
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Liking Love
The first few episodes feature some pretty conventional plot devices, but the characterization and dialogue have a loose, awkward, and very human quality to them.
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Abandoning the Authentic
Coming to terms with the newest craze in contemporary dance.
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Kanye: The Life of Pablo Reviews
Perhaps it makes most sense to analyze it in the context of Yeezy’s artistry: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and Yeezus are reaches, exemplars of a bravado unparalleled by Kanye’s contemporaries; The Life of Pablo is a revision.
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Our Angry Vaginas
For as long as women feel weird talking about their periods, The Vagina Monologues will still be relevant. I hope it won’t continue to be. For as long as there is violence against women, the Vagina Monologues will still be relevant.