| The Labyrinth of Litchfield |
[15 Jun 2015|03:04am] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/06/orange_is_the_new_black_season_3_set_design_michael_shaw_on_how_the_show.html In the third season of Orange Is the New Black, which premiered on Friday, Piper Chapman is no longer be the central focus of the story. Over the course of the season, characters we haven’t heard much from before, including the soft-spoken Chang, get their backstories revealed, and new characters arrive to offer Litchfield Penitentiary more intrigue. This has long been one of the best things about OITNB: the way it pivots from prison scenes to places on the outside—the homes, apartments, playgrounds, and schools where characters had lives before jail—then back again to the beige halls of Litchfield.
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| On This Day, Nothing Happened |
[15 Jun 2015|01:30pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/facebook_on_this_day_feature_is_redefining_history.html I didn’t know it until recently, but apparently I made history in May 2014. (And it turns out it’s already repeating.) Upon opening the Facebook app last month, I was surprised to find the traditional newsfeed replaced by a full-screen notification about a photograph I posted “1 year ago today”—an extreme close-up of my cat staring me down in bed. At the top of the page, the heading, “On This Day,” signaled both the name of Facebook’s recently launched feature and a lofty expression we’ve all heard many times before: On This Day something important happened. On that day, May 12, Napoleon conquered Venice, the Axis forces surrendered in North Africa, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin blockade, and my cat gave me the stink-eye because she wanted food now.
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