ice cream – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Poetry in Motion: The Best Little League Pep Talk This Town’s Ever Heard

May 27, 2014 No Comments

Winning isn’t everything: it’s anything. Winning is whatever you want it to be, and that’s what makes it so good. You want it to be one of those post-game gumball-eyed ice cream bars with the gauzy melting heads shaped like the cartoon turtles? Be my guest. It won’t be me suckling Michelangelo’s ugly mug. My night’s only trophies will be enjoyed much later tonight, at the quarry, in my car: the remainder of a day-old roach and some graph paper […]

Bites

Bites: Library flavored ice cream, John Wray, queer zines, Pynchon mania, and more

July 31, 2009 No Comments

We’d just like to reiterate that if we have any weight to throw behind getting Ben and Jerry’s to make a library themed ice cream, we would totally throw that weight around. John Wray says that most readings are “intensly boring“. We want to nod, and agree, but, oh, wait, didn’t he do our reading? Dammit! Decider Chicago talks about the Queer Zine Archive Project. Jacket Copy gives us a preview of their Inherent Vice review. Why bother reading it […]

Bites

Bites: Dangerous babysitters, jailhouse rock, literary lovin’, Hemingway the Musical

July 30, 2009 No Comments

An intellectual’s look at the American tradition of babysitting and why young babysitters are often perceived as dangerous figures. “The babysitter has conveniently served as a lightning rod for adults’ uncertainties about what the limits of girls’ autonomy and empowerment should be.” Whoa. There is babydaddy drama for Jude Law. Fittingly, he once sexed up the babysitter. Charles Manson and Phil Spector are now in the same prison. (via The Rumpus) And blatant literary lovin’ at The Rumpus. (This kind […]