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a video of a mouth chewing a banana, intercut with the mouth repeating the question “How did it feel?”
instagram post: ACTION ALERT Show your support for Jacob Hoopes and stand with us against fascism. Attend Jacob's public hearing: 1:30 PM on Monday 7/28 Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse 210 SW Main St, Portland, OR 97204 caption: Jacob Hoopes was violently arrested in his home by the FBI weeks after protesting ICE. Attend Jacob's public hearing and say NO to the violence, fear, and terror being inflicted upon our communities. I was informed that the federal courthouse will require an ID to enter, and removal of any mask. Please be aware. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me through DMs. Thank you.
Hell Gate: When I heard that earlier this week that the New York Times had abruptly. reassigned four critics on their culture desk, I naively assumed that the new gigs for Jon Pareles (pop music), Margaret Lyons (television), Jesse Green (theater), and Zach Woolfe (classical music) would still be in criticism. Perhaps the Times just wanted to, say, encourage the 71-year-old Pareles to do TikTok trends; maybe they just wanted him to write less and dwerk more. But reading the Times culture editor Sia Michel's memo to her staffers quickly disabused me of that notion. In her memo, she justified the move by writing that readers need "trusted guides" creating criticism in "new story forms, videos and experimentation with other platforms," that "go beyond the traditional review." Michel continued, "Smartphones have Balkanized fandoms even as they have made culture more widely accessible than ever, and arts institutions are facing challenges and looking for new opportunities," and the Times was seeking new critics to meet the moment. According to Lachlan Cartwright, the new roles offered to the four were as follows: culture section correspondent roles for Pareles and Green, an editing role for Lyons if she relocates from Chicago to New York, and an option to join the obituary desk for Woolfe.
Colby Gordon’s book “Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature” on a bookshelf, next to prescription bottles and several other books