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    Sep 30

    Many moons ago, I caught El Museo de Barrio's intriguing new triennial while I was in NYC. Very excited to report that I wrote a story for the New York Review of Books about it. I am so so so excited about this!

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  2. 17 minutes ago

    "By cutting through the melodramatic or moralizing attitudes that prop up clichés about the border region, he forces viewers to question the story lines imposed on it by people who don’t live there."

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  3. 48 minutes ago

    This story is so good: "The aesthetics of the metaverse, with its ghastly translucent holograms, evoke the specter of death. Its schedule of activities reads like an advertisement for a virtual retirement community where isolated millennials can live out their final days."

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  4. 55 minutes ago

    "There is something unnerving about the static nature of his image, of its imperviousness to the passage of time and his own ballooning wealth. It is as if he has always been moving through the world as an avatar."

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  5. 1 hour ago

    "In Georgia in 2009, a mentally disabled inmate asked for half a pecan pie. He didn’t understand the concept of execution, and he intended to save some of the pie to eat afterward." We are a savage society.

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  6. 1 hour ago

    "She planned to paint the meals until capital punishment was abolished, or until she had made 1,000 plates, whichever came first." Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60

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  7. "During excavation ... Ice Age tar pit deposits turned up along with the remains of extinct animals such as ground sloths and saber-toothed cats. Extracting the fossils slowed construction."

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  8. 12 hours ago

    There is so much food getting abused on TikTok.

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Bonkers: Attempt to charge Mexican scientists with ‘organized crime’ prompts international outcry

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  10. 14 hours ago

    Another sent me the NYT story so I could catch up on this brewing controversy.

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  11. 14 hours ago

    Also, one dude suggested to me that I review the building plans of the Santa Barbara dorm and do a story.

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  12. 14 hours ago

    Sweet lord save me from the mansplain that comes with writing about architecture.

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  13. 15 hours ago

    This sheriff's deputy quote: "We are not conducting traffic stops of persons obviously engaged in the use of a bicycle for exercise or amusement." If you're using the bicycle to get to work, however...

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  14. 15 hours ago

    "Deputies search 85% of bike riders they stop even though they often have no reason to suspect they’ll find something illegal." 7 out of 10 stops are of Latinos.

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  16. 18 hours ago

    this is so depressing

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  17. 21 hours ago
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  18. Nov 4
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  19. Nov 4

    Latino kids don't need to be "taught" because someone is gonna yell at them to go back where they came from or make fun of them for not speaking English by the time they are 5. That was certainly my case.

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  20. Nov 4
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  21. Nov 4

    Because I do everything from dorms to buchonas, this week I contributed a section to the LA Times Holiday Gift Guide. My list, naturally, includes a Tacosaurus. 🌮🦖

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