Have you noticed Mar-a-Lago face popping up in pop culture? It’s freaky. Certain conservative women and billionaires’ second wives—people who started out looking perfectly fine—now have puffy lips, exaggerated cheeks, and eyes that look perpetually surprised. I finally figured out what they remind me of: marionettes. They look like marionettes. With control-me, make-me-dance strings definitely…
Like many of you, I’m guessing, I’d rather read a good book than go to a party. A room full of other people? Some of them strangers? That you have to talk to? Shudder. But after the initial awkwardness of making sure you’re at the right location (do I knock or just walk in?), finding […]
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Laura "Gracias, @iorGian, por esta disección tan lúcida. Me impactó mucho tu lectura sobre la hiperrealidad: es cierto, a veces el perfume caro parece más real que el oxígeno que nos falta.
Muchas gracias, la verdad me esforcé un poco. Me alegro que haya sido de tu agrado.
Laura
Yo no me tomo nada en serio, soy absurdista.
Mi sentido del humor es negro como mi alma (si existe tal cosa).
Did you ever have to memorize the prologue to The Canterbury Tales? I did, for high school English class, spring semester of senior year. I was cranky about it—why do we have to recite this stuff?—but as with most things I didn’t want to learn, I’m glad I did. Every springtime I think of the […]
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Laura Una pieza literaria interesante. ¿Qué verdades aparecen en nuestros propios senderos? Desde el punto de vista filosofico, creo que si todos echáramos una mirada a esos senderos internos por medio de un espejo, muchos nos caeríamos del espanto de vernos como cuando Calibán se vio frente a uno: a unos seres colonizados por percepciones desviadas más por ideologías preconcebidas que por…
Laura De alguna forma me recuerda aquella fábula de “El jardinero y su señor”, escrita por La Fontaine, en la que un jardinero descubre que una liebre le roba y le come las verduras del huerto. En su ingenuidad, el jardinero recurre al gran señor de la aldea, quien le promete, con grandes aires de generosidad, solucionar su problema. Al día siguiente, llega el gran señor con un séquito de…
Work is a lot of work. Most of us have to work for about half of our waking hours for about half of our lives. And they’re mostly not easy hours. Work can be full of conflicts, confusion, drama, trauma, and awkwardness. I started writing a work advice column a year ago for Slate to […]
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