- Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing Completely amazing essay by Daniel José Older. Amazing.
- Fetish reading and genre reading Great comments, too.
- The Fetish Object
- Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy’s Mysterious Genius
- Statue Of A Homeless Jesus Startles A Wealthy Community
- The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back
- A black girl’s constant fear: Why I thought I’d never live to see 33
- Murder Quilt a Stark Reminder of 2013 Victims: ‘It’s So Easy to Ignore’
- A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia
- Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan
- Anywhere but Here: Kowloon “Anarchy” City This is from last year, but it’s fascinating. I had no idea a place like this had ever existed.
- Taking Up Space
- My Body Is Wildly Undisciplined And I Deny Myself Nearly Everything I Desire
- We Don’t Research. We Build.
- Errors in Inquiry on Rape Allegations Against FSU’s Jameis Winston
- Is reading antisocial?
- Lessons I’ve Learned From Being a Therapist
- The iconic Boston bombing photo isn’t about my legs – it’s about a rescue (content warning: features a cropped version of the photo of Jeff Bauman in a wheelchair shortly after the blast)
- 12 reasons I still call myself an ‘evangelical’
- ‘How to Make Magic’ from 1974. A children’s handbook of the occult. No, really.
- Perfectly Preserved 1950s Home Is A Living Time Capsule
- What I’ve Learned From My Side Job Critiquing Dick Pics Possibly not safe for work, although there are no dick pics in the article.
- Covering Yourself with 460,000 Bees Looks Terrifying
- Critically Endangered Parrot Humps Zoologist
- Butting Heads With Goat Simulator Delightfully goatish.
- Muppet. Christ. Superstar. Happy Easter (to those who celebrate, that is)!
Links: Inverted Pyramids, Knitting, and Burning Out
Three random-ish links, some art, and photos of the concert I went to last weekend.