Did You Read the Book — Medium This happens with many more things. “Like, there’s a line in the beginning of the novel: “Everyone gets a miracle.” The male narrator of the story believes his miracle is Margo Roth Spiegelman, the character Cara plays in the movie. Later in the book, the boy realizes that Margo is not a miracle, that she is just a person, and that his imagining her as a miracle has been terribly hurtful to them both. But still, I was asked over a hundred times, “Who’s your miracle?” At first, I tried to fight it, tried to argue that we must see people as people, that we must learn to imagine them complexly instead of idealizing them, that the romantic male gaze is limiting and destructive to women. That’s the whole point of the story to me. But eventually, I just started to say, “My miracle is my wife.” (And then Nat would deadpan, “My miracle is also John’s wife. She’s great.”) In the end, rather than fight, I stuck to the script. “ tags: weekly script First Click: Twitter’s battle between hearts and stars is a battle for hearts and minds | The Verge “A very high bar is set by using the word ‘Favorite’ on Twitter. Favorite is a superlative. It implies a […]

Snowball | A powerful WordPress plugin for creating immersive longform articles for the web Need to give this a try. tags: wordpress plugin journalism longform weekly Dave Chappelle is creating ‘no-phone zone’ for Chicago shows – NY Daily News So many things . . . “Attendees at any of Chappelle’s 13 sold-out Thalia Hall performances will be greeted by staffers handing out gray smartphone sleeves, available in three sizes. They are then instructed to place their phones inside the sleeves and fasten them, at which point they are welcome to carry them inside the venue. As soon as they enter the “no-phone zone,” however, the pouches will have locked shut via wireless signal,” ” And the service, which is already being employed by various schools around the country, can easily extend to other sensitive entertainment events “ tags: weekly phone culture education socialmedia Why Do Some People Find Deepak Chopra Quotes Deep And Not Dung? – Forbes “To reach their conclusions, the authors conducted a series of studies in which they presented participants with sentences that had recognizable English syntax but were simply a series of randomly organized buzzwords. Examples of these pseudo-profound statements include “Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty,” a totally meaningless sentence that appears to be profound because it uses buzzwords like “hidden” and “transforms” and “abstract” […]