In Haiti, a Relationship Built on Adversity He asked me whether I would be his daughter’s godfather and I said no, foreseeing how that would be used to wheedle more money out of me. Joe, you can’t let your goddaughter suffer. I know he was hurt by that. The disturbing part was that his family […]
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In Haiti, a Relationship Built on Adversity
In Haiti, a Relationship Built on Adversity He asked me whether I would be his daughter’s godfather and I said no, foreseeing how that would be used to wheedle more money out of me. Joe, you can’t let your goddaughter suffer. I know he was hurt by that. The disturbing part was that his family […]
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Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die. Fast-forward to now: Boba Fett’s helmet emblazoned on sleeveless T-shirts worn by gym douches hefting dumbbells. The Glee kids performing the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band that took its name from a Monty Python riff, joining the permanent soundtrack […]
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Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die. Fast-forward to now: Boba Fett’s helmet emblazoned on sleeveless T-shirts worn by gym douches hefting dumbbells. The Glee kids performing the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band that took its name from a Monty Python riff, joining the permanent soundtrack […]
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The Serpent King: The Capture of Wildlife Smuggler Anson Wong
The Serpent King: The Capture of Wildlife Smuggler Anson Wong “I can get anything here from anywhere,” he boasted to an American undercover agent in March 1997. “Nothing can be done to me. I could sell a panda — and, nothing. As long as I’m here [in Malaysia], I’m safe.” The key, he explained, was […]
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Joe Pompeo: Everybody's doing this so I wanted to join in the fun
Joe Pompeo: Everybody’s doing this so I wanted to join in the fun joepompeo: My 2010 #longreads list, off the top of my head and kind of random, probably excluding lots of great pieces that I loved but cannot think of at the moment: “Lounge Lizard John Lurie’s disappearing act,” Tad Friend, The New Yorker […]
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Peter Smith: The Best Food Longreads of the Year
Peter Smith: The Best Food Longreads of the Year Stories from Wired, Conservation Magazine, Edible Geography, Saveur, Slate, National Geographic, GQ and Prospect.
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Meet the Twiblings: How Four Women (and One Man) Conspired to Make Two Babies
Meet the Twiblings: How Four Women (and One Man) Conspired to Make Two Babies For many couples, the most crushing aspect of fertility treatment is not all the early morning blood-draws but the haunting feeling that the universe is telling them that their union is not — in a spiritual, as well as a biological, […]
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infinite jess: State of the Industry
infinite jess: State of the Industry infinitejess: Thanks to the Bastard Blizzard of 2010, I had plenty of unexpected time this week to get nostalgic, which is by all accounts the best thing to do at this time of year. (Except, oh, drink glühwein in Heidelberg, but whatever.) So I started paging through my bookmarks […]