by | May 10, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger...
by | May 9, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from Rolling Stone ‘I Majored in Mouth’: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star With his “A-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom” battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix ByROB...
by | May 8, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Inside Hook The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one BY ELIOTT GROVER KRISTEN LIU-WONG “How many of you,” I ask a roomful of half-awake...
by | May 5, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Observer New Biography ‘Warhol’ Separates the Man From the Myth By David D’Arcy Andy in Studio, New York, Union Square, 1976. Michael Childers Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot...
by | May 4, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Atlantic Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler, If You Can Believe It Hear me out. by Tom McTague Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Perhaps it’s the strange effect of being forced to slow down, to spend all of one’s time outside work pootling and pottering...
by | May 3, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from BoingBoing Watch a slew of vintage MTV from the 1980s by DAVID PESCOVITZ Archive.org contributor Windsinger is uploading their entire VHS collection of MTV recordings from the channel’s finest era, from its launch on August 1, 1981 until 1989 (with a few...
