Chris Norris

writer-author-ex-poète maudit

[Chris Norris @bychrisnorris]

"I'm extremely appreciative of the substantial dollar amount they have." Where had I heard that before? Not just the heedlessly self-incriminating content, but the stilted phrasing, the word-to-meaning ratio, the distinctive rhythm and meter...https://t.co/Qp8kOixNgL

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All I Never Wanted https://t.co/FzuFwkjGM5 "Within days of our return, my brain had fashioned this stretch of time into a pastoral, IG-ready inner photo-stream and edited out the constant buzzing angst, shrillest in the chillest-looking frames." Notes on vacation terror.

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The Intellectual, who'll "inquire into almost anything that is formulated in sufficiently strict intellectual terms" vs. Dude who sits his girlfriend down before a stereo, needle-drops classic rock, and says: “Shhh! Check out that hi-hat.” https://t.co/aS9T71T76W

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It's the Intellectual, who'll "inquire into almost anything that is formulated in sufficiently strict intellectual terms" versus the Dude who sits his girlfriend down before a stereo, needle drops classic rock, and, joint hand pointing at speaker, says: “Check out that hi-hat.”

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New essay: Into the Ripleyverse, parsing the twists and turns of Patricia Highsmith's beloved sick-twist imposter.

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New essay! Following the anti-cat-lady platform to its logical conclusion. https://t.co/FFo0yk4LDc

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@JamesUrbaniak that, sir, is a humble brag.

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New essay: Sick City -- flashing back on 30 years of NYC-based culture criticism, through a fever darkly. https://t.co/EhmPYoybD0

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The Middletown Candidate Explaining today's J.D. Vance through John Frankenheimer's paranoia classic The Manchurian Candidate (1962) https://t.co/Pn6Hhnj5i6

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"I soldiered on with my tale, half following its narrative, half clocking its symptoms—its louche subculture, its ironic twist, its degrees of separation..." An essay on life during peak urban myth. https://t.co/qbNzgSUTq6

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The mind casts to other genres, media, or even philosophical koans for precedent, for a phenomenology of f*ck-ups. If a president stares blankly into space before a mike on a soundstage, does he make a sound?https://t.co/bTlIg61FRF

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What unseen source is emitting the endless stream of one-note sight gags and weirdly deracinated slang this kid has been reciting like salah for the past six months? Is this: early adolescence, digital tweendom, or some apocalyptic third option?https://t.co/ty9o4jV3jb

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"For years it has bobbed along various cultural strata like the Maltese Falcon or Lebowski's rug, the obscurely radiant center of intrigue, commerce, hip-hop, drugs, sleaze, and early-00s skullduggery. I'll try to summarize without sounding too insane."
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[Chris Norris @bychrisnorris]

This week: "Samsung plays the leaner, meaner Kendrick Lamar to Apple’s Drake, a warrior supposedly roused to strike by one or two oblique disses, but mostly just provoked by all the a** his opponent is showing." And other notes from a tech-ad dystopia. https://t.co/URX7nJJmQS

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@WilliamHermes Boy you sure have!

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Hacking, stabbing, and shooting our way through a matinee with Furiosa and friends. (You know—for kids!) https://t.co/D5WR6874Wt

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@maggieserota @MKupperman And it’s fazed, not “phased.” You got me all psyched for some Starship Enterprise generational theory.

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Listening to NYC's noisy, talented youths and those trying to shut them up. https://t.co/5fdSVnBjCr

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@IvanKreilkamp Nice to see Fyodor D get the Mickey Spillane treatment.