November 2011
16 posts
The Plain Sense of Things
by Wallace Stevens
After the leaves have fallen,...
– (via semperaugustus)
If you have taken this rubble for my past
raking through it for fragments you...
– “Delta” from Time’s Power, Adrienne Rich (via semperaugustus)
justonesyllable:
‘I just felt that by commenting on [whether women are funny or not] in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t. It would be the same as addressing the issue of “Should dogs & cats be able to care for our children? They’re in the house anyway.” I try not to seriously discuss nonsensical hot-button issues.’
— Mindy Kaling
Yes...
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Possibility as the Great Good - Frank O'Hara
Possibility as the Great Good
If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, “Something wonderful may happen.” It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life…I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. -...
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Standing in the Goods
I will ask you guys again, Have you read this book and are you reading the stuff over at Emily Books?
Stop procrastinating and read this book already.
emilybooks:
Inferno and the Myth of the American Working-Class Artist
by Sady Doyle
“I could go for about a month without working. That was the amount of debt I could float.” — “Eileen Myles,” the narrator of Inferno (a poet’s novel)
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the frightening truth about desire by Daphne...
the frightening truth about desire it’s on but i don’t know whether i want to be her, fuck her or borrow her clothes.
Advocate News: Lesbian Outrage Over Kim Kardashian →
advocatenews:
The Real L Word stars Jill Goldstein and Nikki Weiss-Goldstein’s open letter to Kim Kardashian.
Hollywood power couple Jill Goldstein and Nikki Weiss-Goldstein (former stars of The Real L Word) have something to say to another woman on reality TV — Kim Kardashian — on the news that…
I think this is a little ridiculous. How silly to point at one person, someone who is making...