Lion in Winter
Oh ho ho, I am so clever. I generally do not believe in astrology; it seems rather narcissistic to...
Dec 31st
Suburban Menaaaccee (2 Society)
Been watching a lot of Six Feet Under OnDemand (ah, the leisurely life of the idle poor!); the...
Dec 31st
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Haha, this is groovy, isn’t it? Mama it was too laaaaaayyaaaaate!
Dec 30th
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I’m in a very Blood on the Tracks kind of mood, I don’t know how anyone can dislike this...
Dec 30th
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Herewith, a YouTube montage about Heavenly Creatures set to that Gary Jules song from Donnie Darko,...
Dec 28th
we tell ourselves stories in order to...
I cannot finish anything, not a sentence, thought or book. Nothing is satisfying. Even finishing a...
Dec 27th
What We Do Is Secret*
Dec 26th
“You’re too good looking a woman to go out drinking every night. What you need is a man...
Dec 26th
I Do Believe I've Found My Calling
In the Smith Alumnae Magazine they have class secretaries graft our Impressive Resume E-mails into a...
Dec 26th
Francis Bacon’s “Study After Velazquez’s...
Dec 26th
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I did not get Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art World for Christmas, but I did get bookie...
Dec 26th
“Biological life is an automatic process, as long as we take...”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I’m...
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I’m...
Dec 24th
They just played “She’s Come Undone” on the JazzMatazz station, and the DJ said...
Dec 24th
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Oh, Judy. You said it.
Dec 23rd
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I do this thing where I think I’m real sick
But I won’t go to the doctor to find out...
Dec 23rd
Palpate
I am thinking of the word “palpate,” to examine or explore by touching. Words like...
Dec 23rd
Sigrid Nunez’s The Last of Her Kind (a brilliant,...
Dec 23rd
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This helps, a little.
Dec 19th
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Where do all the people in the screen go when the movie’s over? It feels like the show’s...
Dec 19th
Recollecting
There is a crack. A crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Dec 18th
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Someone recently told me, very forcefully, not to deprecate myself, and I am trying not to become...
Dec 14th
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Beyonce singing Etta’s Church Bells—as Etta! Oh, I’m actually getting excited...
Dec 8th
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Miseducation of Becca Jane Approximately.
Some awful teacher made two black students...
Dec 8th
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Fuck if I know what got me here, but I’m kind of YouTube obsessing about the Clintons at the...
Dec 5th
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It is fair to ask, ad nauseum, how Obama’s claims as a candidate jibe with his choice of...
Dec 4th
Arrogant Doctors Who Screw Things Up and...
Dec 4th
Remember this? The “uncontacted tribe”? It turns...
Dec 3rd
Polls Are Dumb
Dec 3rd
Oh ho ho, puke, I hate Bill Maher OR Reason 149 I...
Dec 3rd
Pin-Stuck: Something I Like! The...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031200983.html/a/p There was...
Dec 3rd
I Simply Cannot Let Go
“the situation may be better at second-tier schools and, in particular, again, at liberal arts...
Dec 3rd
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Speaking of things I fucking hate, this was on the Jazz-Matazz station this morning when I was...
Dec 2nd
The Disadvantages of Five More Days of...
I am really hung up on that article because I find it difficult to fathom that an intelligent person...
Dec 2nd
Adorable Carrie Fisher with adorableee Paul Simon....
Dec 1st
D.A. Jack McCoy is in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and...
Dec 1st