Rolling Long Form Article Thread

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/bruce-hay-paternity-trap-maria-pia-shuman-mischa-haider.html

^^^ oh yeah this thing was insane.

maybe dude would have gotten hoodwinked either way bc he's such a sap but it certainly didn't help matters that he and his ex-wife had such a nebulous arrangement and had apparently failed to communicate any parameters or boundaries. I guess I can understand wanting to still co-habitate while raising young children (though it definitely seems like a highly fraught proposition) but then to have some kind of perceived understanding that you can't pursue a serious relationship but you CAN pursue casual hook-ups, and then apparently to be completely wrong about that, at least from the ex-wife's perspective...jesus, what a clusterfuck.

This Simon Reynolds article got quite a lot of traction at the time it was published, I seem to recall:

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-auto-tune-revolutionized-the-sound-of-popular-music/

The legacy of violence surrounding James Brown, up to and including questions surrounding his own death. Compelling reading, but it’s...a lot:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/02/us/james-brown-death-questions/index.html

christ

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/06/24/the-fourth-state-of-matter

jo ann beard is one of the greatest to ever do it, buy the boys of my youth mookie

Seconding that, that book is so good.

interview with ellen burstyn

https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/interview-ellen-burstyn-on-inside-the-actors-studio.html

https://www.limestonepostmagazine.com/bloomington-2019-year-of-farmers-market-controversy

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— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) May 28, 2021

want to know lots and lots about man-made freshwater lakes?

https://limestonepostmagazine.com/deep-dive-how-healthy-is-lake-monroe/

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat/