Dear Hazardous Waste Technicians,
Love,
Very Famous
🧡 The Very Famous Five 🧡
1. An internet history museum by Neal Agarwal, “champion of the weird, old internet”
2. This isn’t a link BUT a thought (it’s ok to have those!) I can’t stop looking at distressed knitted clothes and shredded miniskirts. I feel like I’m staving off something…
3. “Why do dancers love stairs? “ is a New York Times article I came across through Michelle Santiago Cortés’s piece for Dirt on how to talk about the choreography all around us. In a way, we’re seeing more dance than ever before (idk, just said that!) but it seems true, and I love that Michelle put words to, well, the lack of words around the choreography we see that’s not easily summed up on stage for a critic’s notebook.
Until Kourlas put me into the eyes of one of her choreographers by asking, “What kind of movement looks good on Beyoncé? What is natural?” To which Chris Grant replied, “She’s really good with her neck. She can really hit and snap at certain moments, but also be cool and chill.” And just like that, a thread of understanding wove through Beyoncé’s body of work and I watched her neck with more attention, and consequently, more gusto.
3. 💧
4. “I gorged my eyes on the sky line and all the skyscrapers like flashing fingernails growing on the hands of a small-town manicurist…” — an excerpt from History of Glamour by Theresa Duncan. Here’s the full thing I think!
5. The Local Woman! Who is she, where is she, how is she? Here’s the 411, straight from the local news headlines…
She’s…
☆ transforming her grandparents’ farmhouse into a natural healing center in Oceola Township, Michigan
☆ searching for a kidney donor in Whitsett, North Carolina
☆ singing the National Anthem at the Bengals-Bills game in Cincinnati, Ohio
☆ publishing her first book “Chasing My Twenties” after trying for more than a decade in Summerville, South Carolina
☆ saying that the “ghost that haunts her home may be spirit of convicted murderer who died 141 years ago” in Malad, Idaho
🧡 Blingee Museum Entry of the Week 🧡 “Rockabilly ability (nyeSte*)” by nyeSte