Jess
16/06/2011
This exhibit took place in New York in 2008. It was a rare event and I would have liked to go. Axé.
Category: Arts
Diva, the Film
15/06/2011
Axé.
Zone
13/06/2011
Here is quite a nice English translation of Apollinaire’s “Zone.” You are weary at last of this ancient world Shepherdess O Eiffel tower whose flock of bridges bleats at the morning You have lived long enough with Greek and Roman antiquity Here even automobiles look old Only religion stays news religion As simple as hangars … More Zone
Notes From My Oven
08/06/2011
NEWS 1. Of interest – post du jour: In which a great-aunt in Calcutta’s traditional values are shocked by the self-righteous logic of “have conceived, will ruin a future life by having the child and giving it to strangers:” She thinks the “villianisation” of abortion in a “dangerously over-populated” world is crazy, self obsessed, morally … More Notes From My Oven
On Walking in the Spirit
29/05/2011
Gil Scott-Heron (foi poeta, porra). Axé.
El look del verano
28/05/2011
This look involves Kiehl’s tinted moisturizer SPF 15, Burt’s Bees lip gloss, Almay brow defining pencil, and some type of mascara, perhaps Almay intense i-color. That is all I am willing to keep track of in this heat. I am also resigning from the use of heels of any type until 21 September. The look … More El look del verano
Read It Slant (On Baldwin)
27/05/2011
Minority writers who write about being minorities generally aren’t treated very well in America: too often they are offered up in high school and college courses merely as ritual sacrifices to the gods of multiculturalism. Yet the reason to read James Baldwin, and any good writer regardless of color or creed, is that he can … More Read It Slant (On Baldwin)
Gustave Flaubert
23/05/2011
Research for the present, frivolous post led me to a marvelous quotation: “Do you know the sum total of my ambition? It’s to have an intelligent, well-read man shut himself up with my book for four hours and to give him an orgy of historical hashish. That’s all I want.” –GF, January 1860 (apud Henri … More Gustave Flaubert
New Orleans Hot 8
17/05/2011
This took place in my pre-Katrina neighborhood, y’all. I do find some things insipid in comparison to it, yes. Axé.
Milton Wolff
12/05/2011
Milton Wolff’s 2008 obituary, cut out from Le Monde, was sent to our family and is now one of the tattered pieces of paper I am clearing out. He is very striking in the 1938 Robert Capa photograph that accompanies this obituary (5. II.08, by Robert S. Coale, p. 23). Coale says this photograph immortalized … More Milton Wolff
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