February 2012
I should be very sorry were the corrupt fashion of the eighteenth century to return, in which a woman was considered only half dressed till her natural complexion was concealed; and hence many a lovely cheek and lip be disguised at the bidding of those who had no beauty to lose. At the same time, the face is always exposed, and it does demand at least as much attention as the rest of the...
UNBORN WHISKEY: From the first time he went to... →
From the first time he went to stay with his mother, Bruno knew he would never be accepted by the hippies; he was not and never would be a noble savage. At night, he dreamed of gaping vaginas. It was about then that he began reading Kafka. The first time, he felt a cold shudder, a treacherous…
My plan to become the President of the Houellebecq Society, Northeast Atlantic chapter is...
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“Less than a hundred people are diagnosed with it every year!”
“You can’t just have a regular thing wrong with you, can you?”
“I’m not a regular person.”
“Fair.”
Some Questions
1. Did I see an electronics commercial soundtracked by the Kevin Shields Lost in Translation music last night?
2. Re: Christopher Guest and his band of merry players doing the Oscars: WHERE WAS PARKER POSEY?
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I’m taking a (required) class on what buildings are made of and how they’re assembled and (most importantly) how and why they fail, and it’s made walking down the street a harrowing experience—picture me, just trying to get some hot tea on a misty day at the very tip of Manhattan, anxiously craning my neck to catch a glimpse of terra cotta adornments that will surely fall...
Changing from rainboots into flats is sublime.
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“I can tell you that the days of white, wealthy, upper-class students from prep schools in cashmere coats and pearls who marry Amherst men are over. This is unfortunate because it is this demographic that puts their name on buildings, donates great art and subsidizes scholarships.”
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“Do you think dogs at the pound sing ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ in their heads every time humans are around? Just wondering. Also, call your grandmother!”
Anonymous asked: Why do you act like you're in a fucking Jane Austen novel all the time?
“In 1928, I entered the MIT School of Architecture and started my architectural trip. Today, 60 years later, I’ve been given the Pritzker Architecture Prize for which I thank the Pritzker family and the distinguished members of the selection committee for honoring me with this prestigious award. It is the capstone of my life in architecture. That’s it.”
Gordon...
Confidential to the guy in one of my classes carrying a Matador tote bag and wearing a dumb scarf whilst telling me that I’m not from the “real” Los Angeles, based on the fact that he lived in Echo Park for three years after college in some Midwestern place:
I hate you.
I can’t stop thinking about all the slaughterhouses that were demolished to make way for the UN Building. The whole area was called Goat Hill! The streets, on certain days, ran with blood!
“Do you think the Universe knew I was in a bad mood and that’s why Steve Buscemi is on TV right now?”
“No.”
“OK.”
I wasn’t prepared to go from Frank Lloyd Wright to a rainstorm, but some realities can’t be avoided.
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What’s the German word for ‘one of my college professors is discussing his wedding plans (he’s marrying a former student) on Facebook and I can’t look away but also I want to hide under my duvet for a week’?
Anonymous asked: How many corgi blogs do you follow?
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Is there a Phil Spector biopic in the works yet? Would any such film have any shot at being good or interesting, or would it be ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It?’ with Phil and Ronnie (WHO WOULD PLAY RONNIE?) OR a bromance drama about Phil and Brian Wilson trying to outdo each other in the studio?
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“Furthering such aristocratic pretensions, the rooms themselves were decorated to resemble the great hall of Versailles, and the guests dined on such delicacies as ‘Terrapene decossee a la Baltimore’ and ‘Sorbet fin de Siecle’. It was, as the New York Times continued to comment only one day after the ball, the climax in this form of entertainment thus far reached in...
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Someone on the train smelled like my dad and I had to try really hard not to cry.
I just queued up the MOST CONTROVERSIAL POST EVER...
lifeaquatic:
Bet you can’t guess what it’s about.
I KNOW WHAT IT’S ABOUT.
