Words, etc.

"It’s so damn cliche that it’s clever It’s so fucking false, you think that..."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:51:04 -0500

“It’s so damn cliche that it’s clever
It’s so fucking false, you think that it’s true”

everything is distracting when its 3:23 a.m. and there is a list uncoiling inside your head of the...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:07:00 -0500

everything is distracting when its 3:23 a.m. and there is a list uncoiling inside your head of the things you should be doing should have already done and the silence is screaming at you. Loneliness is a joke. The kind that people are too embarrassed to share but everybody knows it already. We have all heard it. nobody is laughing.

it didn’t start like this. 3:23 a.m. is not the beginning of this story. but the beginning wouldn’t interest you. it didn’t interest me. he didn’t interest me.

you would have liked him though.

A woman arrested in Minneapolis on April 10, 1924. Her crime...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:16:00 -0500

A woman arrested in Minneapolis on April 10, 1924. Her crime was “dispensing wet goods” from her bootlegger’s life preserver.

Unraveling 2

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:14:08 -0400

Unraveling 2

noli me tangere

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:46:12 -0400

Don’t touch me.

"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it..."

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:03:10 -0400

“I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful”

- Sylvia Plath

Pink wine and apple jacks go hand in hand.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:58:57 -0400

Pink wine and apple jacks go hand in hand.

This photo from a 1938 issue of National Geographic captioned,...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:59:20 -0400

This photo from a 1938 issue of National Geographic captioned, “Anne and her family lived alone on an island. She enjoyed having tea time with her friends the spiny lobster and baby hawk.

Photo

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:28:00 -0400

Photo

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:23:00 -0400

Classy.

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:52:00 -0400

Classy.

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:55:00 -0400

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Photo: Pavel Kassine

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:16:06 -0400

Photo: Pavel Kassine

Photo

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:40:00 -0400

Photo

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:24:00 -0400

Merge

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:22:00 -0400

Merge

“Four things greater than all things are women and horses...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:09:00 -0400

“Four things greater than all things are women and horses and power and war.”
-Rudyard Kipling

Litost

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:35:00 -0400

I have always been fascinated by words. My most recent etymological enthrallment is a word unknown to the English language, “litost”. This a Czech word, uncommonly used and commonly misunderstood. I believe it is best defined as the sudden experience of suffering derived from realization of one’s own inadequacies and misery.

“It designates a feeling as infinite as an open accordion, a feeling that is the synthesis of many others: grief, sympathy, remorse, and an indefinable longing. The first syllable, which is long and, stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog…

…One of the standard remedies for personal misery is love. The recipient of an absolute love cannot be miserable. All his faults are redeemed by love’s magic eyes, which make even uncoordinated thrashing and a head jerking back and forth above the water look charming.”

- Milan Kundera