Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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I think it was Slavoj Žižek who wrote once that no product ever lives up to its fantasmatic promise.* I remember reading that a few years ago and thinking “Yes! That is so right! Well observed, Slavoj Žižek, and well said.” A little while later, though, I found myself thinking about the pleasure that beloved [...]
I was just on the adorable looking British website Smallholder (in the UK, a smallholder is someone who lives on and farms a small parcel of land), and came across this banner ad. What is this magical spray that alleviates stress, and why is it being wasted on animals? I want a spritz.
Quotidian lunch, extraordinary gadget: still life with broccoli, sardine toasts, New Yorker, and brand new iPhone.
Oh, Portopia. Oh, Nancy’s. Back when I lived in Portland, Oregon, when I would come back home to visit the East coast, I’d rave about Portland all the time. (‘In Portland, the farmer’s market is so great…Portland has SUCH good public transportation…this bookstore just PALES in comparison with Powell’s.’) It was sort of annoying, even [...]
My friend Anna, who works in the record industry, told me recently that hard economic times are traditionally thought to be good for record labels, because during recessions when people can’t buy large items, they indulge more in small ones, like records and CDs. Maybe, then, I will start a regular series about tiny acts [...]
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