Performance deals with affect and gives access to these experi ences in ways that endlessly circulating numbers and data do not. And, in our experience, at difficult times like these, people cling more closely to their queerness and their community as sustaining and salving. This is ...
What's worse, they may come across a vast range of troubles and difficulties in their daily life as a result of their old age and disease but refuse to inform their children who live far away and struggle to make a living. As childre...
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acqu...
9. I think doctors like House cling to objectivity like a three-year-old to a blanket. Don't get too worked up. Stay calm. Stay cool and maintain the correct perspective. The only flaw in their argument is that when you have millions of people dying, the correct perspective is to be ...
YON-KYO Do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts? CHUNG-SOOK 92. YON-KYO When Da-Song was in first grade, he saw a ghost. Yon-Kyo tells the story as she noisily slurps her ramen. Chung-Sook’s spine tingles. A creepy silence surrounds the kitchen. Ki-Jung listens intently from ...
What if the point of life—each day an ending closer to a finale—is pushing through terror and its chain of ghosts? It turns out as soon as winter starts edging into spring, men claim you survived something extraordinary. Their lies ignorant of the mood they caused. Call it a paranoid ...
To have a good laugh listening to their favorite podcast. Knowing the life story of famous celebrities, like what they had to do to get fame. Knowing about real-life events that are related to crimes and ghosts. All these reasons point toward getting entertained. A podcast can be a good ...
What makes the gamer's dilemma compelling as a problem is that we sense some difference between what the gamer does and what other figures—the reader, the movie-watcher, the listener to music or radio drama—do on their sofas. On these deflationary views, this difference disappears; even if...
There are things you feel because they are true. Like love, like loss, like ghosts.“ - Amy Tan As one who spent their first three months in Seattle sharing a house with a ghost, (the crashing sounds and shower shenanigans described are familiar), I found this piece by Amy Tan (...
An unfortunately prescient choice, because I do not like olives of any kind. My best friend? Loves ’em. Can eat straight from the can. If I have to pick them off pizza I’m miffed. I CAN STILL TASTE THEIR GHOSTS. Olive and I struggled from the get go. I worked full time, and...