the b-sides
meghna raoloose dispatches; short essays, fiction, book reviews
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tale of two malls
A tangram. Alas, the picture I wanted to include was pretty blurry: an 1818 caricature of a tired woman and her worried friend over a tangram board, captioned: 'Take care of yourself, you're not made of steel. The fire has almost gone out a...
no rhyme, no reason
Mickey Mouse’s debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)
——You can tell our country is in bad shape because being a customer of Bank of America is considered juvenile, said Valery to Joey on the mile-plus walk to the bank. In any other count...
a late style of fire
I don’t quite know how exactly I found my favorite poet Larry Levis, although I am pretty sure that the first time it happened was online. Probably, I was at my desk, and the poetry would have been on my second monitor. Nights are a hard ti...
post-modern food pop-ups
Christian von Mechel showing “stages from the frog to the profile of Apollo” (1797)
Our time is about the ephemeral. The quick and the flash-in-the-pan. Gig work, AirBnBs. It’s hard to imagine someone living decades in their place-o...
american ice cream
One of my jobs, at the dosa restaurant, is largely automated. I stand behind the front desk crowded and made cold by machines of all sorts, taking orders. I don’t really need to have the skills myself. Counting cash, taking tips, all of tha...
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