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‘Dirt it tough’ at Dartmouth: jah and shakespeare in the reagan irie

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86

“‘Dirt it tough’ at Dartmouth: jah and shakespeare in the reagan irie” Actually Peter OutLoud had a great story this week about the history of the tenderloin but he could’ve name checked “the hard crowd” by Rachel Kushner whose parents … Continue reading →

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‘Hinky’ is now officially a word

Posted on October 13, 2020 by markweiss86

I wrote something about “kinky-pinky: which referenced Robert Maplethorpe’s nearly obscene erotic and homoerotic photographs but also that something about Palo Alto police and someone describing a suspect as “hinky” which means suspicious. I bought Webster’s 11th edition just this … Continue reading →

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