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# This Week - Sep 05, 2015
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2015-09-05/
- Published: 2015-09-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:09:55.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, joe bish, justin wm. moyer, rich cohen, taylor glascock, the new york times, the washington post, this week, tim kreider, vice, wired, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Socality Barbie has amassed more than 7,000 followers so far, adding more each day. ‘I think it’s because she’s so relatable,’ the photographer says. ‘Either your Instagram photos looks just like her’s or you know at least one person who does.’  
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> — [Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You (Taylor Glascock for Wired)](http://www.wired.com/2015/09/hipster-barbie-much-better-instagram/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> When the Very British Problems Twitter feed already has its own TV show, do we really need Dismaland?  
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> — [Dismaland Is a Smug, Clichéd Monument to Banksy’s Dated Agenda (Joe Bish for Vice)](http://www.vice.com/read/dismaland-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-or-what-it-thinks-it-is-292?ref=drewshannon.net)

> I suspect that the way I feel now, at summer’s end, is about how I’ll feel at the end of my life, assuming I have time and mind enough to reflect: bewildered by how unexpectedly everything turned out, regretful about all the things I didn’t get around to, clutching the handful of friends and funny stories I’ve amassed, and wondering where it all went. And I’ll probably still be evading the same truth I’m evading now: that the life I ended up with, much as I complain about it, was pretty much the one I chose. And my dissatisfactions with it are really with my own character, with my hesitation and timidity.  
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> — [The Summer That Never Was (Tim Kreider for The New York Times)](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/opinion/sunday/the-summer-that-never-was.html?%5Fr=0&ref=drewshannon.net)

> When Sacks died this week at 82, he was memorialized as a brilliant doctor and author — the man immortalized by Robin Williams in the film ‘Awakenings.’ Yet, many tributes gave short shrift to an astonishing fact about a man who seemed so empathetic when trying to puzzle through his patients’ most debilitating neurological afflictions and open about his own depression and drug use: He lived in self-imposed celibacy for more than three decades, only coming out in the past few months. And it didn’t sound all that fun.  
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> — [The tragic story of Oliver Sacks’s celibacy (Justin Wm. Moyer for The Washington Post)](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/the-tragic-story-of-oliver-sackss-celibacy-and-homosexuality/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> An hour or so up the road, we rolled into the outskirts of Petoskey, Hemingway Country. The writer loved resorts. If he wrote about a place, you know it was one of the “in” places of the moment. In the 1920s, it was Paris. In the 1930s, it was Key West. In his early years, it was this lakefront vacation town. His family had a house nearby, in Horton Bay. Hemlock forests and streams, lumber mills, swamps — boyhood adventure condensed to a perfume. I can’t help but see it through the eyes of Nick Adams, the alter-ego who wandered those dazzling early stories: 'Up in Michigan,' 'The Three Day Blow,' 'Big Two-Hearted River.' When Hemingway first published nearly 90 years ago, the town was scandalized. He’d written real gossip about real people. He was persona non grata. Now, of course, all is forgiven.  
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> — [A Tour of Lake Michigan, My Inland Sea (Rich Cohen for The New York Times)](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/travel/lake-michigan-tour.html?ref=drewshannon.net)