January 2012
49 posts
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see...”
– Egon Schiele
Rodarte discuss their favorite Buffy episodes →
“Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from...”
– carl jung
“I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it...”
– cynthia nixon
john steinbeck on falling in love (a letter he...
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a...
dear new york city,
lesson #43 you’ve taught me:
nowhere else do i feel so small and replaceable. nowhere else do i assert myself with my asshole optometrist by saying, “you know, i know how to speak english. you don’t have to talk to me like i’m an idiot.” he immediately perked up and started being infinitely nicer. you gotta ask for what you need here lest you get trampled.
yours...
first day at my new yob.
It’s true— it’s the Disneyland of Italian food. How odd that a cuisine that is so based on people eating every part of an animal out of economic necessity or making up a dish like panzanella in order to use up stale bread, a cuisine primarily focused on providing adequate nutrition for poor farmers, would become such a posh affair full of posturing and pretentious people. What...
Thinking about responsibility, getting sunburnt...
“It is the people’s support that lends power to the institutions of a country, and this support is but the continuation of the consent that brought the laws into existence to begin with.”
“A legally unrestricted majority rule, that is, a democracy without a constitution, can be very formidable in the suppression of the rights of minorities and very effective in the suffocation of dissent...
i asked my mother whether i should start my day...
(life is full of these very hard decisions.)
mom: what do you think of when you think of tea?
me: ...dicks.
mom: what about coffee?
me: ...tits.
mom: you're bisexual.
(you start out somewhere and it always leads you somewhere completely different.)
from "Love" by Chekhov
I have cast off women for a stain on their stockings, or for one foolish word, or for not cleaning their teeth, and now I forgive everything: the munching, the muddling about after the corkscrew, the slovenliness, the long talking about nothing that matters; I forgive it all almost unconsciously, with no effort of will, as though Sasha’s mistakes were my mistakes, and many things which would...
hny
one baby to another says, “i’m luck to have met you”
i don’t care what you think unless it is about me
it is now my duty to completely drain you
a travel through a tube and end up in your infection
chew your meat for you
pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss
from my mouth to yours
sloopy lips to lips
you’re my vitamins
i’m like you
December 2011
37 posts
