To invoke complexity as Israel rains death on the trapped, as children scream under the rubble beyond the reach of their rescuers is an obscenity on the level with those quadcopter drones that broadcast the cries of infants. It is a murderous lie. Complexity when the bombs stop.
Arundhati Roy's PEN speech is one we should already have heard from so many writers who've made personalities and money out of tepid activism for a set of values they'll briskly abandon at the first sign of career implications. Roy's speaking out only makes their silence louder.
Horrifying and contemptible - what's the psychological dividend of believing something like this? Must be huge.
This meeting could have been an email; this public artwork could have been a grove of beautiful trees.
Apologies, holidaying couple, for briefly delaying your get'n'spend long weekend! I understand the peculiar anxious listlessness of buying a leisure experience and finding it only makes you more stressed. Perhaps a form of recreation with some contextual meaning would help?
Briefly blocked the entrance of the local supermarket with the pram this morning while I repacked shopping— an extremely Melbourne couple, obviously on holiday, had to pause, which made the dude in the couple say "Ugh." My son, without missing a beat, copied him exactly: "Ugh."
Let me hear both sides
2024's feral hogs "Washington state woman calls 911 after being hounded by 50 to 100 raccoons" apnews.com/article/wash...
A Washington state woman had to flee her property after 50 to 100 raccoons descended on it and were acting aggressively.
In a way, yes! But mostly no.
I was like you once. Times were good.
I like to tend and dote on a little bit of pop culture ignorance where I can, like a pot of basil on an apartment balcony. Sadly, and for all my tending and doting, today I learned who Caroline Calloway is.