January 2012
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Jan 13th
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“Sober girls are the worst. So are really drunk ones… The sweet spot is 4 white...”
– From the Goldman Sachs Elevator twitter. LOLTRUE.
Jan 12th
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“There is no single moment of loss, there is an amassing. The disbeliever sleeps...”
– A nice (you know, sad-nice) bit from Stacie Cassarino’s Zero at the Bone (2009)/here. Via Lucy, whose poetry-reading ranges farther than mine in a guilt-inducing but educational way.
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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Agreed, Picasso's "Glass of Absinthe" is a... →
Jan 3rd
December 2011
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“What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave...”
– Michael McNay in the Guardian sneaks in a last-minute entry for Art-Critical Thing Said of the Year.
Dec 30th
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from 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
 …”Play” is something else; It exists, in a society specifically Organized as a demonstration of itself. There is no other way, and those assholes Who would confuse everything with their mirror games Which seem to multiply stakes and possibilities, or At least confuse issues by means of an investing Aura that would corrode the architecture Of the whole in a haze of suppressed...
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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John Ashbery reading 'Forties Flick' aloud in 1973 →
FORTIES FLICK The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals, Focus on the tragic melancholy of the bright stare Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space. ‘In bra and panties she sidles to the window: Zip! Up with the blind. A fragile street scene offers itself, With wafer-thin pedestrians who know where they are going. The...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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From the NYT obit for George Whitman, founder of...
Overlooking the Seine and facing the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the store, looking somewhat beat-up behind a Dickensian facade and spread over three floors, has been an offbeat mix of open house and literary commune. For decades Mr. Whitman provided food and makeshift beds to young aspiring novelists or writing nomads, often letting them spend a night, a week, or even months living among the crowded...
Dec 15th
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“This is a bad record that makes other bad records use to feel superior. It gives...”
– (Found via Caitlin of andmixwell is this) possibility for review quote of the year from this consideration of Chris Brown’s Boy In Detenion mixtape.
Dec 14th
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mez en scène: English Pronunciation by G. Nolst... →
mezenscene: (After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat…
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn’t any good. But everyone has a different...”
– Jerry Saltz
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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'Sexily uninterested' is pretty much the go-to...
K: OK, so in your response, what message do you want to send? Are you trying to play it cool like you don’t really care that much, unless he cares a lot? Or are you like, trying to be sexy and forward?
B: I’m trying to be … sexily uninterested.
Dec 7th
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Am I dedicated enough to read this book about... →
I mean: I am very interested, but I am also very aware that I will probably start feeling very dumb as I get into it as my brain is out of proper training (and not really trained for this anyhow) and when I don’t feel clever about things I can be inclined to give up on them. But I should try! I mean, it is right there on the internet for free, and it is self-improvement &/whatever.
Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 21st
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“超マジでむかつく / chou maji de mukatsuku / real super nauseating”
– I am totally adopting this piece of ko-gal slang. Am not totally above a little bit of a school uniform reference, either, and the pigtails-of-late do have to be taken into consideration.
Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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WatchWatch
Here is some bad video for a 360-degree view of a vase Adam Cullen designed for the FONAS plate auction. I liked it! Missed how much it went for though :(
Nov 16th
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Anonymous asked: why does female flesh make you anxious? discuss.
Nov 15th
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YAEBA TEETH
Another reason to run away to Tokyo: my wonky teeth are fashionable and a thing there. Per Michelle Phan: “Yaeba teeth” have become more and more trendy in Japan recently. If this term is new to you, in Japanese, the word yaeba means ‘double tooth’, and it describes the fang-y, pushed-out incisors look that usually results from bunched or crowded teeth. So why have misaligned teeth become...
Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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"3. Her famous exes were all "unattainable... →
Um, way to go Diane Keaton. No but seriously: good for her!
Nov 11th
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Sure, why not look at the catalogue for this... →
No but srsly go look, it’s amazing.
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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playingendlessly: ohbethany: playingendlessly: Wait wait. Henry James and William James were BROTHERS?!?! This was tagged #howdidinotknow this, and I do have to ask: How DID he not know this? And further: Why can I not be in that family. As hard as it may be to believe given the calibre of my posts (including pastiches of Daily Mail photos etc.), not everything I publish on this blog is...
Nov 8th
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Nov 8th
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playingendlessly: Wait wait. Henry James and William James were BROTHERS?!?! This was tagged #howdidinotknow this, and I do have to ask: How DID he not know this? And further: Why can I not be in that family.
Nov 8th
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Nov 7th