February 2012
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DEATH GETS INTO THE SUBURBS
It sweats into the tongue and groove of redwood decks with a Tahoe view. It slides under the truck where some knuckles
are getting banged up on a stuck nut. It whirls in the egg whites. Among blacks and whites spread evenly. Inside the chicken
factory, the Falcon 7X, and under the bridge.
There’s death by taxi, by blood clot, by slippery rug. Death by oops and...
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“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“In real life we are thinking of multiple stories all the time. We are thinking...”
– Pat O’Neill
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“We are excited to see someone ask, ‘Will you marry me?,’ whether on...”
– California State Court, on overturning California’s Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage
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For its doodle marking what would have been François Truffaut’s 80th birthday today, Google needed an iconic image. Not Catherine Deneuve or Gérard Depardieu in The Last Metro (1980) or Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H. (1975) or even Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim (1962), but rather, and most obviously, the young Antoine Doinel on the beach. The doodle’s not exactly the...
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