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Some Luck
“The transgender community is all about hierarchies: how well you pass, how much surgery you’ve had, how much strife you’ve been through. The age you came out at is just another ladder to count rungs on.”
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Goodnight Hotmail, You Sweet Prince
A eulogy for no one’s favorite email service.
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We Listened to Random Access Memories
Is the new Daft Punk record the ultimate internet album?
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Three Questions for Timmy the Galaxy
A quick chat with one of the universe’s brighter galaxies.
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Weapon of Mass Crustacean
“Perhaps some psychologist can tell me why it feels so good to inhabit a colossal cosmic crustacean and wreak havoc across the solar system. But I don’t particularly care why.”
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Notes from the Bigoted Ornithologist Association
Presenting new research from the most obstinately intolerant scholars of birds.
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Recommendations, 5/10
This week: eating chocolate, mediocre genre TV, radio plays, and absurdist 3D animation.
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The Garden State Soundtrack Will Change Your Life
“Indie music never belonged to anyone, but at least in the early ’00s, it was easier to pretend it did.”
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The Metamorphosis: On Amanda Bynes’s Twitter
“Watching the videos Bynes posts on her Twitter doesn’t feel like watching someone giving a poor performance. It feels like watching someone lose her mind.”