Rick Powell
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Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
Rick Powell
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The video featuring MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, shows him inside of ruins, at an archaeological site at night and clambering up a pyramid, with a voice saying, “I’m climbing these stairs like a dog.” Toward the end of the video, he displays candy under his Feastables brand, which he calls “the only Mayan-approved snack on the plane... See more
MrBeast’s Tour of Maya Ruins Draws Criticism and Legal Threats in Mexico
Fuck this guy.
Think of two fields in which a particular wildflower might grow. For that to happen, the seeds must find their way to the field (perhaps carried in animal droppings); the soil must have the right pH and nutrients; there must be adequate rainfall; the temperature must be in the right range; and so on. Imagine that all of these criteria are met in on
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“Keep your politics out of your reviews,” wrote an irritated reader in 1993 (as if he or I had a choice in the matter). “It’ll destroy your credibility.” But keeping politics out of movie reviews, I’d argue, is precisely what makes it easy to cheer and celebrate such CNN “movies” — or “turkey shoots” — as OPERATION DESERT STORM and WAR IN THE GULF.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • HOW TO LIVE IN AIR CONDITIONING
“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.” —
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I was a big fan of Coates when he was writing and blogging for the Atlantic, where he often had a fruitful back and forth with Andrew Sullivan, but was cool to his evolution as one of the voices of what I would call bleak racial essentialism. I was also not nearly as impressed with Between the World and Me as everyone else on the left was, perhaps ... See more
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review of The Message
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
How can a work rediscover its solidity, its fruitfulness, its fragility, its own density or possible opacity, in short, its problematic virtues?