August 2009
20 posts
I’m sorry, Zagreus, but it’s been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don’t know any more—-or I’m not sure. When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It’s rain and sun both, noon and midnight. You know, Zagreus, I think of the lips I’ve kissed, and the wretched child I was, and of the...
“Certain small, ugly creatures are considered adorable and cute. Take, for...”
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce...
Shaving the Graveyard Thomas Lux
The graveyard being what he called his face; even as a young man he called his face the graveyard—he talked like that, funny, odd things that scared me sometimes…
Enrique Chavarria
Oh my, love thigh high stockings & garters. :-)
Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman - 1948
You could do this in photoshop now easily but Halsman did not - this was shot live! It took 26 tries to get it over five hours - Halsman counted to four, Dali leapt, 3 assistants threw the cats, one threw the water from a bucket and Halsman’s wife held the chair. Its all done in...
The vintage, the modern, the strange, and the...
As always, NSFW.
Louis Finson, The Four Elements, 1611
psychedelic. by ~vassoga on deviantART
Saw this picture in an old book of erotic poetry my friend bought while in Prague, and I can’t believe I found it.
Unknown Ziegfeld girl by Alfred Cheney-Johnson
Alfred Cheney-Johnson again
Tentacles are so fascinating!
A reason to season!
I would like to own Jonathan Adler’s Garden of Eden salt and pepper shaker set. Price tag is a little too much for right now, but boy are they heavenly!
I could see only the outline of your head and shoulders, black against the cave mouth, and so could not see your face at all, when you turned and called to me because you had already lost me. the last I saw of you was a dark oval. Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go. You could not believe I was more than your echo. -“Orpheus (1),”...
“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love...”
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“Hiatus Over!”
July 2009
52 posts
“Why am I going?” he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. “You...”
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Source: Mogadonia
I think pregnant women are beautiful.
Stevie Nicks (here), Amanda Palmer, and other ethereally confident female rockers, you are inspirational.
'Cause my God is better than yours
My God by Susan Rolston
Protestants pray for grace, Scientists look to space. Jews find truth in the Torah, New Agers, in each other’s aura. Catholics are blessed by a Pope, Yaquis enlightened by dope. Maoris use ritual chants, Navahos get up and dance. Muslims bow daily to Allah, Norsemen aspire to Valhalla. Feminists swear by a She, Quakers swear not, silently. Confucians...
I will be the flower that grows between your...
When we fall in love, the brain releases a chemical called phenylethylamine (PEA) which causes our palms to sweet, our hearts to race, and “butterflies” in our stomachs. It’s possible to trigger someone else’s brain to release PEA by looking at them a lot during a conversation, which in turn makes that person more likely to fall in love with you. (Ivillage.com)
I think...
Alston on the problem with the new crop of weight-based reality shows http://bit.ly/aUgAu.
Want. Want. Want.
Stockings: http://www.upfactory.com/model/show/3159
“Everyone has three lives:
a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
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Franz Von Stuck
A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” -Stephen Crane, A man said to the Universe
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“New York City Atheist bus campaign a resounding success.” ~ http://is.gd/1JyxB. Brad Pitt is probably 20% excited.
You know who else banned books? Nazis. And...
Here is a story my mother likes to tell. First, however, here is some context.
I am five, maybe six, and I like to listen to the news on the radio. Being the first grandchild in my family—a family that is old and has waited a long time for someone young—I am indulged as a whimsical child while expected to behave as a budding adult.
At nighttime, my grandmother brushes out the...
Ripe with things to say
Tonight, after a natural high from watching a repeat of “Last Days of Earth”, I decided to take a break from apocalyptic doom and join friends at a karaoke bar, where my singing inflicted its own annihilation on a crowd of innocent ears.
So fun! I never really mind sucking, because, well, a black hole always sucks more, right? Haha. Seriously, people who don’t get up there and...
I am convinced Amanda Palmer is my future...
I want you, and I want you to want me to want you But I don’t need you Don’t need you to need me to need you That’s just me So take me or leave me
Momus - “I Want You, But I Don’t Need You” from the album “Ping Pong” (1997)
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The lyrics to this song just keep getting better as it goes on.
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I lick you, I like you to like me to lick you But I don’t need you...
From Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Diane Sawyer and beyond…fictional character love: http://tinyurl.com/kpazxg
“Today, I checked my new facebook, and my wife of 5 years was listed as single. I...”
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Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution.” ~http://is.gd/1Bxgx
“Inside all of us is HOPE,
Inside all of us is FEAR,
Inside all of us is...”
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Wayne & I have been excited about this movie for months, and I finally saw the trailer on the big screen before Harry Potter.
Actually, I really like this song too by the Arcade Fire. The lyrics go, “Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up/ We’re just a million little...
Tennessee Court Says Fisk U. can Sell O’Keeffe Paintings http://bit.ly/17S2pS RT@chronicle
Look at this stunning cake made by my friend Gina...
The Cake Boss could learn a thing or two from you. So Yummy!
Absence of Water – jarring images of empty public pools by photographer Gigi Cifali http://bit.ly/12wvO7
Sometimes, I feel like Sabrina up in that tree,...
LINUS You’re still a little girl. (A moment, then:) How did you get your name? SABRINA: Sabrina? From father’s reading, of course. He was struggling through Milton’s “Comus” when I was born; “The Masque of Comus.” (She quotes) “Sabrina Fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave In twisted braids of lilies...
Uh, really? iPhone launches “purity ring” app: http://bit.ly/3QM0j #fb
“SpacePuddingx42 (3:51:27 PM): Sam, men love girls who let them be the hero. They...”
– “we do not grow absolutely, chronologically. we grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. we grow partially. we are relative. we are mature in one realm, childish in another. the past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. we...
Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief: Bad language could be good for you, a new study shows. For the first .. http://tinyurl.com/luk4pd
Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you...
Here is a poem from one of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, and while I think his fiction is much better than his poetry, there really isn’t enough room here to post an entire story of his…plus that would probably be illegal! I do, however, highly recommend his American Gods. According to Gaiman, this poem is a list of instructions for people if they happen to find themselves inside a...