Josh K-sky

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You know how people sometimes tell you not to buy a car that was built on a Friday because it would probably be a total piece of crap? I’m an atheist but I do often think about how the last thing god supposedly created just before quitting time at the end of a PARTICULARLY demanding week was us

“…the female students in various accoutrements bespeaking liberal-arts education in the time of free trade: vintage T-shirts promoting now-inoperative airlines, ethical sandals, MP3 players loaded with Rufus Wainwright and Manu Chao […]” Lucy Ives, LOUDERMILK  

One of my favorite trivia notes: for one hour each year, clocks in parts of Florida and Oregon are at the same time. (When Western panhandle FL Central Time sets clocks back, and SE Oregon Mountain Time hasn't yet done the same).

We should squeeze one more president out of the summer of 1946. Marcy Kaptur: born just days after Trump. Ed Markey was the week after W, Barbara Lee the week after him. You don't want someone dogged by a legislative record? Robert Reich was born just weeks before Bill Clinton. (Ken Starr too!)

Critics everywhere agree: "We were robbed of our possessions during a test screening of this movie!" See the film that had Entertainment Weekly saying "a man showed me a gun and made me hand over my wallet and car keys."

Is the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning anthropological classic THE DENIAL OF DEATH by Ernest Becker enjoying a resurgence or is it literally just this one counselor at my kid's summer camp

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

Remember the seven basic plots: -Revenge -Star Crossed Romance -You and friends are mistaken for a group of hookers on Halloween -Horny for grandma's ghost candle -Slowly turning into a satyr -Granular documentary about Neiman Marcus -War