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Diary of a chess tournament

"You can only spend your life trying to know it..."

takes us through the highs and lows of competition.

Cher and Nicholas Cage, Courtesy of Oxford University Press

Nick at the opera.

on [How Coppola Became Cage](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-coppola-became-cage-9780197556375?cc=us&lang=en&). 


Moonstruck

Pools, Hot Tubs, & Beaches on Twitch.

Livestreaming as submission.

on parasocial fandom and poolside streams. 

Pools, Hot Tubs, & Beaches

Prince in a 1999 interview with MTV News

Sampling the sample.

on the growing homogeneity of mainstream pop.

Melting pot music

Long-haired person with musical notes in tendrils of hair, overlayed on stereo

The state of music criticism 

Hair Horrors

That's why her hair is so big...

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, YouTube

The short memory of film lists.

on why having been “done” before can be a film’s greatest asset.

Auteur people

A google search on debunking Lil Tay's "death"

Nothing is the same.

on modern fame creating a non-event of celebrity death.

Celebrity Death

Entertainment