January 2010
54 posts
Big skimpin'
friend: I don't want to spend a lot of money tomorrow.
me: What would you even spend money on? We're just going to [redacted's] apartment.
friend: Don't I have to bring a bottle of wine? That's, like, $5.
“We are both storytellers. Lying on our backs, we look up at the night sky. This...”
– And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger (courtesy of David Horvitz’ 2010 mailing list)
Wound by Corinne Wohlford Taff
If I have loved, it is mostly because that is what I have called it.
The night I left, you pressed three scars to the inside of my wrist and said It will be different with you gone.
Later I marked time by their fading.
But it was lazy, making you beautiful that way. I was reading words backwards—lover, almost revolve, almost evolve,
and I couldn’t believe in things.
The magnolia ...
“Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend. I am all the languages I ever spoke,...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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NON-ESSENTIAL MNEMONICS by Kent Woodyard
“MORE RUM,” DEMANDED THE MATADOR. “DAMN THE TEQUILA. JUST RUM—JAMAICAN AND BITTER.”
The closing line of my genre-bending science fiction novel and a mnemonic for the names of Matt Damon’s twelve made up brothers in Good Will Hunting. (Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.)
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touche
me: How long should it take me to get there, like 45 mins?
friend: That sounds about right, check traffic on google maps.
me: What's Google?
friend: It's a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Was Shakespeare a woman? →
‘Could it be that the author of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice was not only a woman, but a clandestine Jew?’
What I Keep →
This work explores ideas of class, race, ownership, value, cultural identification and faith… I ask each person what he or she keeps and why it is valued.
This is a collaborative project that is in the third year (2007-2009) and has produced 60 images. The work is a series of life size portraits (24”x36”) with brief statements about the person’s choice.
My portraits are made under Interstate 35...
Over the course of the last few days, I:
watched Jersey Shore with two separate groups (pairs) of friends
drank copious amounts of tea and coffee
got a massage (Chanukah present)
ate at Persepolis, Rue 57, and danny brown
went to the Tim Burton exhibition at MoMA
In other words, a weekend+ of quality time with quality people.
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964
“The hostess just asked if I’m expecting a lady or gentleman. I told her a...”
– Text from my best friend, on my way to our lunch date.
(I’m not actually a hermaphrodite.)
Searching for a Purpose*
I just found about Givoogle today but I’ve been using GoodSearch for quite a while. I prefer the latter, anyway, because you can choose from so many causes and organizations; however, I’d give Givoogle the advantage because even though “Givoogle is not associated with Google, Inc.,” its searches are run on Google whereas GoodSearch uses Yahoo and I sometimes find the...
Music for Landing Planes By
We drive Highway Q with no lights
Millions of miles away, the stars
make visible energy, send it without expectation of return -
there’s nothing but air rushing past the window.
Somewhere far from here, I can imagine remembering this night.
In your car, the radio
tunes half static. It doesn’t matter to me
what gravity takes, only
the long, impermanent drop -
over the trees, we can...
Angel Taylor - Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon cover)
...
Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’... →
Conan’s statement:
“People of Earth:
In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my...
the dangerous alphabet
A is for Always, that’s where we embark; B is for Boat pushing off in the dark; C is the way that we find and we look; D is for Diamonds, the bait on the hook; E is for Evil that lures and entices; F is for Fear and its many devices; G is for Good as in hero, and morning; H is for “Help Me!” — a cry, and a warning; I am the author who scratches these rhymes; J’s but a joke monsters make of their...
benchitations:
All dogs are service dogs to some degree.
Ellie Goulding - The Wolves (Bon Iver cover)
Such...
“This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference...”
– Charlie Brown
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Op-Ed by Nicholas Kristof: The Happiest People →
“Hmmm. You think it’s a coincidence? Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and it’s also arguably the happiest nation on earth.
There are several ways of measuring happiness in countries, all inexact, but this pearl of Central America does stunningly well by whatever system is used.”
Sign the letter asking Judge Vaughn Walker to... →
From the Courage Campaign:
The landmark federal lawsuit challenging Prop 8, Perry v. Schwarzenegger (also known as the Olson/Boies case) is about to go to trial starting Monday, January 11. The presiding judge, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit are deciding on whether a pool television camera should be allowed to televise the trial, given the...
Unemployment
5:00 now finds me torn between watching Degrassi on TeenNick (loving this “Every Degrassi Ever” Marathon) and Gilmore Girls reruns on ABC Family.
What type are you? →
Four questions. Password is character.
I’m Archer Hairline.
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NYT Editorial: Hate Begets Hate (1/4/10)
I recently posted about the anti-homosexuality legislation under consideration in Uganda but I am so reviled by the situation, I feel it bears repeating, attention, outrage, and so forth. Here is the full text of an editorial on the subject from the NY Times (my own emphasis added):
Uganda’s government, which has a shameful record of discrimination against gay men and lesbians, is now...
Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman: Father Knows Best →
We can’t let our country become just The United States of Fighting Terrorism and nothing more. We are the people of July 4th — not Sept. 11th.
[…]no laws or walls we put up will ever be sufficient to protect us unless the Arab and Muslim societies from whence these suicide bombers emerge erect political, religious and moral restraints as well — starting by shaming suicide bombers and naming...
happycap:
15 INT. BEDROOOM -- NIGHT 15 William locks the door. He reaches under his bed. It's a black leatherette travel bag, with tartan design. He unzips the bag -- it's filled with albums. He flips through the amazing, subversive cache of music. Cream's Wheels of Fire...the seminal Bob Dylan bootleg Great White Wonder... the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya Ya's Out... The Beach Boys' Pet...
