Shifting Online Zippers Publish Church Ugliness
Publish Or Perish by Ken Aulotta (New Yorker): The book business is at a turning point: with the rise of the iPad and Kindle, they are looking at a lot of people reading things on digital screens, rather than on paper. And that’s worked out great for the music business, hasn’t it? [via]
Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating by Christian Rudder (OKTrends): The things that make money for the companies that run online dating sites are exactly the things that make you less likely to find that special someone.
For Eddie Feibusch, A Life In Zippers by Ralph Blumenthal (New York Times): Mr Feibusch owns a zipper store, ZipperStop, and in the course of Blumenthal’s article, you’ll learn more than you ever thought you could know about zippers. Feibusch thinks buttons are unpleasant, he’s very much in favour of zippers. [via]
Lewis Carroll’s Shifting Reputation by Jenny Woolf (Smithsonian): Recently, Charles Dodgson - the man behind the pseudonym - has come under attack for possible pedophilia; Woolf argues that the accusations are largely based on modern misunderstandings of the very different values of Victorian England.
Beauty And The Beast: On The Acceptability Of Ugliness by Jessa Crispin (The Smart Set): Crispin discusses the idea of the old hag, her power, and how it might matter in a modern world where ideas of hotness and sexiness are all-important for many many women. [via]
Fuck Church by Li Kouji (Vice): A set of interviews with members of the Japanese Little Pebble commune (an outgrowth of an Australian cult with a now-jailed leader, with a commune was about 30km away from where my Mum lives), about the rituals via which they live their lives and especially their sex lives; it’s fascinating and quite bizarre and, well, (if the title “Fuck Church” and the name of the magazine didn’t clue you in) really quite NSFW.
