My doctors made it clear that there were two kinds of illness: those they could identify, and those that didn’t exist. My symptoms were simply shadow puppets cast by a mind that couldn’t control itself. I was confused. They were certain. They were wrong. Performance of a Lifetime I highly recommend this remarkable essay by …
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Clipping, the experimental hip hop group featuring Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs, made their TV debut when they performed one of their more approachable tracks, “A Better Place,” on the Late Late Show with Tony Award winner James Corden.
“I don’t believe in men. I’ve never met a man in my life.”
Today, Guernica Magazine published a great, insightful and inciting interview with South Asian trans performance duo DarkMatter. For instance, this is how they expand upon the above statement that Alok never met a man:Janani Balasubramanian: I think what Alok was saying with the idea of how we’ve never met a man in our lives, is …
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Kendrick at the Grammys
With this performance, he raised what it means to perform at the Grammy to a completely new level. Wow. http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#ec=trOW14MDE6gCowO43SPHW0Wdr_Ehb2Xy&pbid=dcc84e41db014454b08662a766057e2b He also won all of the rap categories. Album of the year, however, went to (the also very talented and wonderful) Taylor Swift. Oh, well. I might just be old, but I was interested in …
Being “friends” on Facebook is more of a fantasy or imitation or shadow of friendship than the traditional real thing. Friendship on Facebook bears about the same relation to friendship in life, as being run over by a car in a cartoon resembles being run over by a car in life. Facebook is friendship minus …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 