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Leigh Stein Leigh Stein,
The Fallback Plan

The Fallback Plan for Short Attention Spans

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Fallback Plan is a weekly column, offering advice to those undergoing a second adolescence, written by Leigh Stein, author of The Fallback Plan, newly released from Melville House. For an illustrated fallback plan of your own, write to Leighstein@thefastertimes.com

Dear Leigh,

I want…

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Jackson Sabbagh Jackson Sabbagh,
Love and Death

How to Spend Valentine’s Day with Kanye West

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago

Valentine’s Day is approaching, and this year you are in love. A day devoted to your loving, cherubs everywhere. You and Kanye have been official for what– 2 months? God, it doesn’t even matter! When you two are spontaneously grinding in his spice pantry, time is irrelevant. You…

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Michael Thomsen Michael Thomsen,
Men

The Perfect Art: Reality Television and Polygamy

Posted 5 months ago

Consider this: reality television is the perfected height of cinema. New forms of media depend on the introduction of one new technical element that is impossible to accommodate in an older form. When theater gave way to cinema, the one irreproducible element was editing, the technique that…

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Kyle Kouri Kyle Kouri,
Love and Death

Be Happy: Friends With Benefits, #NBAChristmas, and Kepler-22b

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The benefits of being alive: Friends with Benefits(the movie), the NBA, and a new planet called Kepler-22b

Today I woke up in an inexplicably good mood, looking forward to the future. I’ll attribute my happiness to a number of things happening in the world that are pretty much indisputably…

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Louise Jack Louise Jack,
Love and Death

Occupy London: Occupy Wall Street Goes International

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago

The Occupy Movement Turns up at the London Stock Exchange

The news arrived via the Internet. Of course it did. There was to be a protest in London on Saturday, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, and it was going to be a global day of action. Many of us had felt a sense of identification with…

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Noia Efrat Noia Efrat,
Love and Death (Guest)

Occupy My Memory: Maurice Halbwachs, Mute Media, and the Problem of Global Context

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago

Maurice Halbwachs had a theory. His theory was about memory, and it went something like this:

A person has individual memories – memories of places, events, information, people. We all have these memories. But individual memory,coexists with another entitythat Halbwachs termed Collective…

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Sergeant Kermit Sergeant Kermit,
Self Defense

The Bat Knife: A Creative Solution for Burglars

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago

We all fear intruders in our home.  But also, the idea of keeping a weapon around can be daunting. If you own a knife or bat, where’s the best place to keep it for your safety? Do you want it by the door or bed (providing easy access) or do you want it hidden (so your intruder doesn’t see it…

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Michael Thomsen Michael Thomsen,
Men

Occupy Wall Street and the War on Metonymy

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago

After a short period of time at Occupy Wall Street it becomes clear that Wall Street is not actually being occupied. A large group of people have moved into a park a few blocks away from it, where it seems their colorful tent city is, in fact, the thing being occupied–hemmed in by metal…

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