January 2012
1 post
“When I was very young, I most wanted to be a scientist, isolated and brilliant,...”
– Karl Hess, Dear America
December 2011
1 post
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November 2010
1 post
July 2010
2 posts
Silver Jews - “Night Society”
June 2010
4 posts
May 2010
7 posts
“Are you comforted by the assertion that there are yet people on Earth who know what they are doing? Or, like me, do you subscribe to the notion that people who knew what they were doing began to die off about 1945 and are now on the brink of extinction? That they have been replaced by fakes and poseurs? That in ten more years, when everyone rides a Segway talking on cell phones imbedded...
“[Xie Zhiliu] painted a Yosemite that simply doesn’t exist, at least to...”
– Morgan Meis, “East Meets the American West”
April 2010
8 posts
“At the KGB reading, Jillian Weise started with an appendix, a list, taken from a...”
– Elizabeth Bachner, “Genius, Goddess: Reading Theatre”
The Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight
kohl quadratics
If I were to graph my use of eyeliner, it would assume the form of an upside-down parabola with a vertex at (17,4), where x=years and y=number of rims lined. Maximum y value would be 4. Don’t forget those inner rims!
The Go-Betweens - Bye Bye Pride
March 2010
1 post
All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.
-Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
February 2010
1 post
It was the most devastating discovery of my life that I have no real right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness out-of-doors, that the world was full of strangers who seemed to hate me and wish to harm me for no reason other than my gender, that sex so readily became violence, and that hardly anyone else considered it a public issue rather than a private problem. I was advised to stay...