Tag: essay
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Urinal Etiquette
This is the most famous urinal to ever exist. In 1917 it was submitted to a prestigious art exhibit by Richard Mutt under the title “Fountain.” It is a commercial urinal, bought from a plumbing store, turned on its side and then signed and dated. There’s a lot of differing opinions about “Fountain.” Some think…
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Listen to Fleet Foxes when the leaves are at their peak
As most bands I listen to, my dad was the one who first introduced me to Fleet Foxes—I learned from the best. Like all providential music discoveries in the early 2000s, his sister’s friend included it on a CD mix that she then gifted to him. I grew up listening to that same CD in…
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Ode to Yahoo Answers
What was Yahoo Answers? That’s a good question. Yahoo Answers was a different kind of library. Libraries are often glorified as the sum of all human knowledge; Yahoo Answers was the sum of all human ignorance. Libraries are full of vetted, edited, tweaked, bought and sold words. Yahoo Answers’ words were picked straight from the…