Humorlessbitch

Fuck Me, I Think I’m Elder

Zo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:17:36 +0000

Is this like something you have to be? Or automatically become? And why are there these special, all-cringeworthy words for getting older? Why aren’t I the same person, in somewhat different form? More bouts with that chronic illness that periodically take me off to Other Land. You know, the one where you don’t live. Least [...]

You Don’t Know What Is Happening Here, Do You, Ms. Katehi?

Zo — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:18:56 +0000

Verrry interesting. The slow tap tap of her heels … in all that silence. Just devastating. Depending on which video you see, her face is quite visible, and she seems to look out over that long line of students with some surprise—no threat. That there was no threat to her was palpable. That extraordinary silence. The [...]

Letting Go Of Steve

Zo — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:44:02 +0000

Jobs had been teaching us to say goodbye to all that for decades — we just didn’t know it. … in these final years, when the auditorium lights in would go down and the crowd would go wild for Jobs, who increasingly greeted his followers and touted the latest neat, new thing even as he [...]

What To Do About Larry

Zo — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:37:23 +0000

Should Google Tweak the News? asks the New York Times. Count me Horrified. Can the Times retract, even, the question? ”Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news?” That question was a matter of debate at Zeitgeist, a Google conference this week in Paradise Valley, Ariz., where Larry Page, Google’s co-founder [...]

The Shock of the New

Zo — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:29:09 +0000

On Richard Brody’s New Yorker Blog, the DVD of the Week is that fave, that treasure, Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Brody writes: It’s a jolt to see “Badlands” again after having seen the new movie; what seems, in the earlier film, to have been mere hints, adornments, and suggestions—background gleams, silhouettes, shots of nature and landscape, a [...]