January 2010
18 posts
13 tags
Lesson (1)
It’s nearly impossible to perform “The Morning Mashup” when a certain someone puts a moratorium on show tunes AND anything Disney-related.
Jan 1st
9 tags
ListenPJ Harvey and John Parish— Is That All There...
Jan 1st
December 2009
61 posts
11 tags
http://bit.ly/annleeintrvw →
“Appropriation— a very short introduction: A conversation between David Evans and Ann Lee,” from criticaldictionary.com, no. 21. Who is this Ann Lee character? Lunatic genius or just plain lunatic? Profound critic or pretentious con? (Or both?) And what about her book? (Which, I am told, can be ordered for the cost of printing along—or downloaded free of charge—...
Dec 29th
6 tags
“My theory is that making out with someone will cost you one star on their...”
– Stephen Elliott (via melissa) I’m actually going to start utilizing the rating system simply so that I can put this theory to use.
Dec 29th
3 notes
10 tags
Miracle on 9th Street
“This whole thing,” you said, “this whole thing between you two. I don’t understand any of it.” “I don’t, either.”/”And I don’t think you do, either.” (We can never speak without interrupting one another. That explains a lot about what happened between us, I think. Not everything, but a lot.) “I know you don’t.”...
Dec 28th
5 tags
Dec 28th
458 notes
3 tags
On art and beauty
homeofthevain: No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what? There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part...
Dec 26th
51 notes
6 tags
An Open Letter To The Scholar
Thank you for pointing out that more important than me turning 30 today is the fact that this marks the beginning of my 4th decade. No, really. Thanks so much. xoxo, F
Dec 25th
3 tags
Dec 25th
8 tags
Never have I ever
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 I didn’t notice you at first, even though I was supposed to. I’d been told to, actually. Instructed. But you arrived as the party was breaking up and I was distracted (R and I had already been attempting a margarita-induced yoga session in the basement) and it was dark and I gave you a quick glance and didn’t think very much...
Dec 23rd
4 tags
“The equality of beauty enters the world before justice and stays longer because...”
– Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just (via nightmarebrunette) Oh Elaine Scarry, how much do I love you?
Dec 23rd
5 tags
Dec 22nd
3 tags
Dec 22nd
42 notes
6 tags
Classy
It was midnight by the time I got home. I was desperate for something fried, but I’d forgotten that choices are limited on Mondays, even in this part of the city. So I settled for a couple of slices of fancy-schmancy pizza and a Duvel. I handed the cash to the woman behind the counter. “I can tell you one thing,” she said. “You sure are classy.” What did she mean,...
Dec 22nd
4 tags
A Christmas tradition fulfilled
This is totally the emergency room where Gossip Girl would go!
Dec 22nd
4 tags
Dec 21st
2 tags
Predator posing as a house pet
“…subtlety, tastefulness, practicality, neat hair, flat shoes, understated clothes, all of that is not sexy per se. The suggestion of messiness, of one too many drinks, of possibility, of recklessness, of drama, of appetite, of life slightly overturned by too-strong feeling, is sexy.”—Katie Rolphe, “Stars sex it up for photographer Ellen von Unworth,” via...
Dec 21st
6 tags
Dec 21st
6 tags
Dec 21st
14 notes
4 tags
“ You can’t save a damsel if she loves her distress. ”
– Gossip Girl
Dec 20th
5 tags
Dec 20th
144 notes
1 tag
Dec 18th
1 note
10 tags
There are a lot of ways to begin this story...
1. When we met I was wearing a chain mail bra that I’d hastily lined with scraps of fur. It was either that or a white pleather nurse’s uniform and a short blonde wig. I don’t remember. What I do remember was that I was standing outside of the dance smoking a cigarette. We were both 19 and I wasn’t cold. 2. We used to do a lot of drugs together. Or we’d try to, at...
Dec 18th
3 tags
ListenNeko Case— “Margaret vs....
Dec 18th
7 tags
Dec 18th
4 tags
Dec 17th
3 notes
3 tags
OMG you snore SO LOUD! Ambien oh blessed Ambien, please kick in. Please. Like, now.
Dec 17th
4 tags
Due to the day’s (year’s?) events, I could really use a hug right now. The kind where no one needs to speak but maybe I cry a little and maybe you’ve never seen that but it’s okay somehow and maybe I pull away and whisper ‘thank you’ but you just hug harder and nothing else needs to be said at all, ever.
Dec 17th
6 tags
looking back and looking up
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”— Andy Warhol http://www.flickr.com/photos/marschik/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Are you the only friend I’ve never kissed? I can’t think of anyone else. No one who ever sat beside me on the school bus and (begrudgingly) let me rest my head against his shoulder. No one who would lay out paintings at...
Dec 16th
2 notes
1 tag
Too far gone
I’m late. I’m late because I’ve been wrestling with my hair. I’ve been trying to look more like an Olsen twin And less like January Jones. I think I’ve finally lost it. See you in Hell.
Dec 16th
8 tags
“ The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when...”
– Colson Whitehead, “City Limits” (via meaghano) who had a whole lot more to say about it, but you should really read it here. (Chances are, you already have.)
Dec 15th
215 notes
5 tags
“ Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously...”
– Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Dec 15th
5 tags
Dec 14th
71 notes
6 tags
WatchWatch
Oh, thank goodness. A chaser. Well, *my* version of a chaser, at least. So watch at your own risk.
Dec 14th
8 tags
ListenShe & Him—“You Really Got a Hold...
Dec 14th
1 tag
Dec 13th
53 notes
1 tag
Dec 12th
3 notes
8 tags
Morning Number Three (Of Three Mornings)
The Blogger: It's nice to have you up this early.
Me: Never said I wasn't horizontal.
The Blogger: As long as you're not obtuse.
Me: Nor oblique.
The Blogger: Right.
Me: I'd give that reply a 90.
The Blogger: Did you just do a 180?
Me: If morning #1 was about covers and mornings and morning #2 about ducks and covers, how did morning #3 go from being about recovery to being about geometry?
The Blogger: 3x=y
Me: Gold Star.
The Blogger: Naptime at one?
Dec 12th
6 tags
Morning Number Two (Of Three Mornings)
The Blogger: Good morning, whenever morning is.
Me: It varies. Today, it has already varied several times.
The Blogger: Yeah. Ducks and Covers.
Me: You have no idea how right you are.
Dec 12th
6 tags
Morning Number One (Of Three Mornings)
“Have you ever gone hunting?” “Whhhrrt?” I mumbled. (or something like that.) Not exactly what you want to wake up to. Not when it’s 7 am, and you only ducked into his apartment and crawled under the covers around 4. “Have you ever gone hunting? Like, for birds or something?” “What? No! I wouldn’t. Nothing alive.” (You can tell that...
Dec 12th
7 tags
Dec 12th
45 notes
5 tags
What Newton Said
littlepotato: sarzha: There is a specific type of inertia that results from spending an entire day in sweatpants and indoors. It induces drowsiness even after eight hours of sleep, a propensity to snack even after lunch, and an inability to generate independent thoughts. yes. You said it, sister/brother. Or quoted it, sister/brother. Or whatever. So then, Working from Home, why...
Dec 12th
19 notes
4 tags
During my time in this, The City That Never Sleeps
I don’t think I’ve met a boy who wasn’t utterly convinced that he was The Only Living Boy In New York.
Dec 11th
2 notes
6 tags
I know you're brilliant and I also know you know...
And that means you know exactly what I’ll do with a Pandoranian Box. But you could have been a little more subtle with this one. Are you slipping? That makes me sad. Sarah, you may want to download my audiobook library. (Except for “The Salmon of Doubt,” read by Stephen Fry, Simon Jones, and Richard Dawkins. I’ve been listening to it, and I keep thinking of you, oddly.)
Dec 11th
2 tags
Dec 11th
7 tags
Fear of Flying
Dear Pen Pal, I hate flying. Today at the tailor’s, I met this lovely woman and her boyfriend, who was about 3x her size and her age. I chatted with her for a little bit… turns out that she “did the art therapy thing with schizophrenics for a little while, but not anymore.” I asked her what she did now. As she walked back to the changing room, she turned to her boyfriend...
Dec 11th
6 tags
Referential
The Blogger: How's winter by you?
Me: New York is cold, but I like where I'm living. There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
The Blogger: How was this the only response I've not gotten at four in the morning?
Dec 11th
4 tags
Just made up new
The Pen Pal: I liked how you kept saying "but that's not the story." I hope that's something you just made up new and it's not a trick you borrowed or something? hmm?
Me: I *feel* like I made it up. Isn't that enough?
Dec 10th
7 tags
Appropriation: a very short introduction →
Oh my: A conversation between David Evans and Ann Lee, published in issue #21 of criticaldictionary.com. Ann Lee’s Appropriation: A Very Short Introduction can be ordered (or downloaded for FREE!) here. If you happen to read the interview (or the book), I’d love to know what you think. Anonymity is promised here.
Dec 10th
8 tags
Glamour in the little things
I just came in from the snow and now the heat is on and I am wearing a holiday party dress and sparkly costume jewelry and heels and eating warm chocolate chip cookies and drinking red wine and unpacking even though I’ll only have to start packing again soon and I think everything is pretty okay right now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/12071800@N02/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Dec 9th