The most persuasive theory I’ve read regarding Kate Middleton’s disappearance:
Dean Kissick
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- Has anybody noticed how basketball players dress like 16th-century Baltic women.
- Prince Harry’s melancholy is tragic because it speaks to the abjection of the entire Millennial project; from stoner Nazi cosplay, to mass murderer with Oedipal complex, to anti-racism campaigner, failed podcaster, self-pitying writer of autofictions with boring sans-serif fonts.
- New LOEWE collection inspired by Pontormo’s The Deposition from the Cross (1528) is amazing.
- Epilogue: Lena Dunham moved to London. Dasha got married. Jia Tolentino’s brain collapsed. The world no longer exists.
- My friend told me he used to date a Japanese pop star, she had millions of dollars, and had experienced an epiphany while watching Talladega Nights. She spoke often of how everything changed after seeing Talladega Nights, he told me. I asked how and he said he didn’t know.
- Sometimes I worry that turbo-normification poses an existential threat to humanity. There are more basic people now than at any other point in history. I’m not sure how that is the case, but it is.MAGA partygoer on NY magazine cover revealed to be Texas sorority leader referred to as ‘Madame President trib.al/LkLbJap
- This film is about a drunken communist sea captain who loses control of his yacht in a storm. On a desert island, the cleaning lady takes charge: she anoints herself dictator, takes a male model sex slave, and brutally murders a subject with a rock. What is the message exactly?This is so embarrassing lmao
- Misery slop vomits up mediocre pastiche (form) to tell you that you are anxious, depressed and doomed (content). The lazy pastiche suggests that imagination is broken, which feeds the self-indulgent, pessimistic mood, and vice-versa— all of this has to go.DOECHII ANXIETY (MUSIC VIDEO) OUT NOW 🚨 x.com/__0___0___o/st…
- “What I was holding were the pieces of a shattered Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture, an early red one. It was wonderful to see an icon of art world commercialism and valorized stupidity shattered… to see the hollow interior of a work of willful superficiality.” Ben Lerner, 10:04Breaking News: A woman accidentally knocked over a balloon dog sculpture by Jeff Koons at an art fair in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said. nyti.ms/3Ixd4JN
- We each live in our own atomized world but also in a cloying, suffocating monoculture.
- Memes have changed. Maybe they’re not even memes anymore, just image edits – no joke, no meaning, no information, signifiers pointing nowhere, all that remains is a condensation of a specific moment. Two folkloric characters (the Antichrist and the Sorcerer) cast adrift.
- What Bladee told me in Joe & the Juice: “Even if you don’t believe in god or something, everyone is born with a sense of beauty and everyone knows this concept. … I feel like it’s some deep system that is embedded in humanity and everyone is striving for beauty in life.”
