Monday, August 23, 2010
News Our Beloved Month of August: Slate Runs 6-Page Article on Quicksand
Posted by Mark Asch on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- This is what August feels like.
The piece spans film history, biology, geopolitics, rhetoric, playground engineering, and internet fan culture. The best line comes near the end—"[Q]uicksand fans gradually shed their nostalgia. These days, they're spending less time digging up classic scenes from the 1960s and more time downloading low-budget quicksand porn—soft-core fetish videos showing female models floundering in bogs and mud pits"—but really, just read the whole thing. You have time.
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