Editorial note: Chequer-Board and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner; this is not an independent review. The garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No flag. No slogan in a display face. The period is there, and it is doing more work than the word. I want…
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt shows four things. White capitals reading I HAD POTENTIAL. A curved ramp descending from upper left to lower right. A dashed, empty circle sitting on the upper ledge. A solid ball resting on the lower flat ledge. That is the whole design.…
Editorial note: Chequer-Board and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner; this is not an independent review. The shirt reads like a piece of municipal infrastructure that got tired of being polite. Across the chest, in the flat, unmodulated lettering of a hazard placard, sit the words NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH. Above or beside them…
Sunday, 9:40 p.m. The dishes are done. The mail pile is still on the counter. One of you says the sentence about the pile. The other says the sentence about being tired. Someone stands up. Someone looks at a phone. The evening ends the way the last three ended. In chess, a position that appears…
A discovered attack is a chess tactic in which one piece moves out of the way of a sliding piece, revealing an attack from the piece behind it. The moving piece can also make its own threat. The line was there all along. The front piece was simply blocking the view. Committees do this with…
Eloise Marchetti keeps a decision journal the way a tournament player keeps a scoresheet: one line per move, no commentary during play, all judgment deferred to the review. This quarter’s sheet has twelve entries. The question is how to mark them. 1. The sheet is not the game In chess, annotation symbols are suffixes added…