by sumac | Sep 7, 2014 | Artistic apologies
I won’t try to say what Burning Man is, but it is not a music festival. This year, I was briefly at a hot spring 15 miles from Black Rock City (BRC), and I could still hear the throbbing, but it is not a music festival. There is music, dancing occurs, but it is...
by snarly | Aug 26, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Other Apologies
Rainbow Rowell is best known for her young adult novels, Eleanor & Park (one of the best YA novels I have ever read) and Fangirl (which many people like even more than Eleanor & Park, and which my 12-year-old daughter will kill me soon for not having read). I...
by snarly | Apr 14, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Other Apologies
Snarky non-apologizing is tres chic right now. Ironic fashion is everything. So let’s unapologetically check out some merch. First we have this “Sorry Not Sorry” hat from Urban Outfitters. Express your disdain for emotional generosity via a...
by snarly | Mar 17, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Musical Apologies
I, Snarly, was among those who cringed at Macklemore’s post-Grammies text to Kendrick Lamar. (I have not asked Sumac what she thought, in part because she was probably doing noble bird rescuing while I was watching TV like a lox.) Let’s take a look back,...
by sumac | Feb 10, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Political Apologies
I was shocked and sorry when I read that captured members of Pussy Riot had apologized in court. I was worried for them. Apologies made by captives are as suspect as confessions from prisoners covered with bruises. Then I read the apology. Pussy Riot is a Russian...
by snarly | Feb 7, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Other Apologies
Very smart essay by Alexander Chee in Dame Magazine that seems somehow…RELEVANT right now. The first lines: When I began writing this essay, I was thinking this might be about public apologies, for there had been many. “Mistakes were made,” as recent scandal...
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