Blog Profile / The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan
| URL : | http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Politics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 72381 | |
| Posts / Week: | 266.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
A Dab Will Do Ya
Meet dabs, “a type of solidified hash oil also known as ‘concentrates,’ BHO (Butane Hash Oil) or more popularly, ‘wax’—so-named for its texture and glassy appearance”: Most commonly created by a technique in which high quality pot is blasted with butane that is then extracted, these cannabis concentrates approach 70%-to-90% THC. Going on the basis […]
“Terribly Spoken Glass Bidet”
Or “Jeremy spoke in class today” – and other misheard lyrics from the ’90s: For more Nineties nostalgia, Marty Beckerman just released an ebook and craptastic promo site around the decade.
Picking Wedding Poetry
Ruth Graham considers the challenge: A wedding poem can’t be too irreverent, too abstract, too weird, too long, or too sexual. It must speak to a private relationship in a public setting. (The poet’s own private lives mustn’t be too distasteful, either: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath are out.) Your grandmother should enjoy it, but […]
Mental Health Break
This week’s dog vs cat debate comes to a head: (Hat tip: Neetzan)
Rootless Writing
Salman Rushdie ruminates on a writer’s relationship with race and geography: “Western writers have never doubted that their subject matter is interesting—even if it’s very local or parochial,” he said, and advised all writers to “just make the same assumption.” He also noted that Western writers have also felt free to write about any place […]
Mass Concentration
Contemplating how TV shows become addictive, Andrew Romano looks to a study (pdf) that suggests certain formats command more of our attention: Employing fMRI technology, [psychologist Uri] Hasson and his neuroscience colleagues screened...Show More Summary
Face Of The Day
Photographer Maja Daniels first spotted twins Monette and Mady on the streets of Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Love In The Time Of Immortality
Matt Bieber of The Believer interviews philosopher Todd May about the pros and cons of eternal life: BLVR: Let’s get into some of those specific changes that you think might take place under conditions of immortality. Could true love exist among immortals? You seem to doubt it—you say that relationships would probably be “shallower.” And […]
A Poem For Saturday
“For D.” by Christian Wiman: Groans going all the way up a young tree half–cracked and caught in the crook of another pause. All around the hill-ringed, heavened pond leaves shush themselves like an audience. A cellular stillness, as of some huge attention bearing down. May I hold your hand? A clutch of mayflies banqueting […]
Taking Down Dan Brown
Clive James, who recently translated The Divine Comedy, has some damning words for Dan Brown and his Dante-inspired Inferno: Having read The Da Vinci Code with close attention to its sales figures, I have a great belief in Dan Brown’s attractions as a writer. The belief is all the greater because I can’t quite define […]
Mr. Messy Gets Washed
Sadie Stein points to a droll Amazon UK review of Roger Hargreaves’s “Mr. Men” series: If ‘1984‘ or ‘The Trial‘ had been a children’s book, Mr Messy would be it. No literary character has ever been so fully and categorically obliterated by the forces of social control. Hargreaves may well pay homage to Kafka and […]
When Music Gets Mushed Up
In a wide-ranging interview, Jaron Lanier, a musician and author of the new book Who Owns The Future?, worries that new technology increasingly conceals the personal effort involved in creative work: I’m quite concerned that in the future someone might not know what author they’re reading. You see that with music. You would think in […]
Collecting Shards Of Heartbreak
Aminatta Forna describes the creation of the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia: Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic, the museum’s founders, were once a couple in love. One hot summer some years ago they stopped being in love and began to divide the contents of their apartment. Theirs had been an amicable split, though […]
This Diploma Goes To Eleven
Nottingham Trent University will now offer a degree in Heavy Metal Music Performance. Colin Schultz is curious: As a venue for securing employment, sure, maybe it’s not the most straightforward approach. Then again, according to Forbes, a whole host of college degrees, from film and art to philosophy and history, are pretty much pointless if […]
In The Moment
Clayton Cubitt contemplates the “Decisive Moment”: Henri Cartier-Bresson believed that the photographer is like a hunter, going forth into the wild, armed with quick reflexes and a finely-honed eye, in search of that one moment that most distills the time before him. In this instant the photographer reacts, snatching truth from the timestream in the […]
The View From Your Window
Waterbury, Connecticut, 1.50 pm
Orwell In Spain, Ctd
A reader writes: I take issue with the contention that George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” is “a model for modern war journalism.” I don’t feel that Orwell can accurately be categorized as a “journalist” in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell fought on behalf of one of the belligerent parties, and actively participated in the frontline […]
The Weekly Wrap
Friday on the Dish, Andrew slammed Peggy Noonan’s latest column, parsed public opinion on the IRS and Benghazi, and recalled Rumsfeld’s shut-down argument style. He encouraged consenting adults to let their freak flags fly and dove deep on the meaning of IQ scores. Show More Summary
Isolation And Illness, Ctd
There’s evidence pot can help: [One experiment] incorporated data on 5,631 Americans, who reported their level of loneliness, described their marijuana usage (if any), and assessed their mental health and feelings of self-worth. NotShow More Summary
China’s Doppelgänger Cities
Artists Sebastian Acker and Phil Thompson highlight the surreal phenomenon of “copy towns”, where cities from Europe and the Americas are replicated for Chinese citizens: [G]enerally China has a long history of copying, especially within architecture and the arts. Show More Summary