Desert Rain Frogs
Don’t ask, just watch
Crazy propaganda video put out by the neo-Fascist Golden Dawn party in Greece. It’s strange and upsetting to remember that this kind of socio-political thought is still around. Check out this Wikipedia article for more info.
“Everyone is looking for ways to hide firearms and extra ammo around their home.”
Among the problems Nabokov’s Lolita poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot—just witness the dozens of soft-core covers over the years. “We are talking about a novel which has child rape at its core,” says John Bertram, an architect and blogger who, three years ago, sponsored a Lolita cover competition asking designers to do better.
Now the contest is being turned into a book, due out in June and coedited by Yuri Leving, with essays on historical cover treatments along with new versions by 60 well-known designers, two-thirds of them women: Barbara deWilde, Jessica Helfand, Peter Mendelsund, and Jennifer Daniel, to name a few. They don’t shy away from frank sexuality, but they add layers of darkness and complication. And like Jamie Keenan’s cover—a claustrophobic room that morphs into a girl in her underwear—they provoke without asking readers to abdicate their responsibility.
If I were a sociology student, I would listen to 24 straight hours of top 40 radio, and count how many songs had the words “tonight” and “dance” (or “dancing”, etc.) in the chorus. Bonus points if the songs also reference getting drunk. I’d write my thesis on that.
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I’m too young to be too old for radio.
im da besssssssssssssss
