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The Digestif, December 4th/11th

Virgil samples, Canadian tragedies, and the best albums of the year

Ross Anderson
Dec 11, 2022
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Nike At The Museum Inside the Private View of Virgil Ablohs Design Legacy
Virgil Abloh’s Off-White x Nike samples - from “Virgil Abloh: The Codes c/o Architecture”. (Vogue)

Sorry for the week out - a chaotic week meant it was unfeasible but I’m back like I’ve never left!

Recommended Reads

  1. ‘Shannon Abloh Is Ready to Talk’ by Vanessa Friedman (NYT). One of the best pieces of the year. Utterly heart-breaking and beautiful - it brought a tear to my eye.

  2. ‘Peru’s President Tried to Dissolve Congress. By Day’s End, He Was Arrested.’ by Mitra Taj (NYT). One of the more incredible news stories this year, and seriously under covered.

  3. ‘One More French Lesson - Le Drugstore’ by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect).

  1. ‘Junot Díaz in limbo’ by Ben Smith (Semafor). But cancel culture isn’t real! they bleat. A pointless, tragic waste of talent, and great reporting.

  2. ‘The New York Times Is in the Tank for Crypto’ by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect). A good piece by the best writer on the American left, it’s striking how the New York Times’s seemingly universally negative coverage of tech doesn’t extend to crypto, which they treat in more varied ways; often whimsically. What will these fun nerds do next!

  3. ‘Why Is Everything So Ugly?’ by Editors (N+1). Particularly so of ‘hyped’ items; their vulgarity often helps.

  4. ‘Welcome to The Free Press’ by Bari Weiss (The Free Press). Announcement message from the most exciting new publication in American (digital) ink.

  5. ‘Hollywood’s Latest Diet Craze? Ozempic, the Insulin Drug With Vanishing—Literally—Side Effects’ by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair). The fear tone is a bit much but it is amazing that we have an actually effective weight-loss drug.

  6. ‘Advancing antivenom’ by Mathias Kirk Bonde (Works in Progress)


Wider Culture

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Gigi ⚡🧡 @dergigi
These were simpler times.
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  • Business: Sex continued to sell, crypto continued to not, and condoms are free!* (*in France).

  • Cars: De Tomaso unveiled their utterly gorgeous P900 track-only hypercar; Ford unveiled their less gorgeous but still great track-only send-off to the GT; and Lamborghini took the Huracan off-road.


My Articles

  1. Virgil Abloh’s Off-White Magic (LA Magazine). Released a year ago, this was my tribute to the brilliant designer, who passed away at 41 years of age on November 28th, 2021.

My biggest story of the week comes out within a fortnight so keep your eyes out


Biggest Story You Missed

Canada’s horrific implementation of euthanasia:

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Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey
I am not going to stop tweeting about this madness until people are as upset as they ought to be.
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If you have spent time at the wonkish nexus of new liberal thought and applied ethics, laws around euthanasia have doubtless cropped up in discussion. If you grant that death is sometimes preferable to some ways of living - which most would agree - euthanasia is the best worst option, and a stop-gap for grievous issues that technology has not yet solved. In the future, we should have painkillers, antidepressants, and ailments for currently terminal, degenerative illnesses that will make euthanasia totally unnecessary and immoral. However, the way these laws are implemented have to be immensely careful. If you fuck up, they lead to immensely awful, immoral results; in an effort to end unending pain, to cause unnecessary death.

Australia (strangely) has modelled the hyper-careful approach necessary. Canada is now the flashing red warning sign showing how terribly wrong it can go.

That Canada’s handling of it isn’t an enormous global scandal astounds me; and the notion that euthanasia is something one should cut advertisements for unfathomably tasteless and immoral, even for our deeply tasteless, immoral moment.


Best Tweet

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Zach Vasquez @zach_vasquez
Looking forward to the people celebrating this with memes and rainbow flag emojis finding out who Burroughs is.
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Film Updates @FilmUpdates
Daniel Craig to star in Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of William S. Burrough’s ‘QUEER’. (https://t.co/MYV7Knzolq) https://t.co/f3A6alxoIi
6:34 AM ∙ Dec 9, 2022
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Best Quote

“Richard, you’d screw a snake, wouldn’t you?” Joan Collins once said to him. “Only if it was wearing a skirt, darling,” he replied.

A quote from ultimate ladies’ man, Richard Burton, from this Sunday Times piece.


Recommendations

For end of the year, by favourite albums of the year list:

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My top 10 albums of the year: 1. @zachlanebryan: American Heartbreak 2. @cometcoming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam 3. @themorganwade: Reckless 4. @blackthought & Danger Mouse: Cheat Codes 5. @PUSHA_T: It's Almost Dry
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6. @TobeNwigwe: moMINTs 7. @kimpetras: Slut Pop 8. @LupeFiasco: DRILL MUSIC IN ZION 9. @the1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language 10. @070shake: You Can't Kill Me
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Other highlights: - @TheSwampDogg: I Need a Job... So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune - @TheSnuts: Burn the Empire - @RansomPLS: No Rest For The Wicked - @OfficialWillow: <COPINGMECHANISM> - @whitelungband: Premonition - @taylorswift13: Midnights - @blacksherif_: The Villain I Never Was
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That’s all folks!


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