February 2012
3 posts
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all she wanna talk about is
1. curious classification
2. In the corner (can’t speak)
3. Ditching it all for my career as a colorist in new orleans
January 2012
8 posts
You've Got Mail
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Still Interesting
The interesting seems more explicitly comparative than curiosity. The fact that we find things interesting only when they seem to differ from others of their type, points to the fact that we live in a world understood as fundamentally taxonomized. This doesn’t mean that it’s a world devoid of wonder or surprise—only one in which, as Mikhail Epstein notes, the unknown must be immediately related...
Tyranny of the Interesting, and Other Aesthetic... →
Last night Willa & I spent most of dinner at el cholo talking about aesthetic categories and ways to evaluate art. It’s always scary-funny how easily that conversation lapses into a catalog of platitudes—about affect, perception, relativity, experience; but luckily Willa is much smarter than me about these things and so the conversation went elsewhere.
Our talk reminded me of a pet...
December 2011
5 posts
4 Jada
Poetry from Tupac to Jada Pinkett:
November 2011
7 posts
Rocks Off: Erin Sheehy on Ellen Willis →
“This is why I don’t take it lightly that everyone talks about Ellen Willis testing her records by dancing in front of her mirror. Dancing is often belittled because it’s seen as an anti-intellectual response to music, plus it’s something girls like to do. But it’s actually a great way to evaluate your records, especially if what you’re searching for is the experience of freedom that rock...
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The Economic Bill of Rights
On January 11, 1944, in the midst of World War II, President Roosevelt spoke forcefully and eloquently about the greater meaning and higher purpose of American security in a post-war America. The principles and ideas conveyed by FDR’s words matter as much now as they did over sixty years ago, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center is proud to reprint a selection of...
October 2011
9 posts
1 tag
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September 2011
7 posts
It's true that I love all typologies and... →
August 2011
5 posts
Art in Art
(via public domain review)
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July 2011
8 posts
Hot Or Not Painting Survey →
I kind of love this weird blog, via Google Image search. I’d EDIT the caveat that you have to want the painting in your house for it to be HOT (duh people only want the meta-hotel painting!). And it’d be nice if it were up to date. but I’m glad I now know what was trendy in painting c. 2008!
Packing Norman Mailer's Library
Norman Mailer’s children are selling his Brooklyn Heights apartment at 142 Columbia Heights—the one that looks like a boat—and on Saturday, because some people thought it might be “too hot” to pack Norman Mailer’s private library on the hottest day of summer, Margo and I got to go instead.
The apartment looks smaller, though as peculiar and...
"Can't I Hide in the Armor?"
Tonight I went by myself to the IFC to see Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty. I haven’t been to the movies alone since I saw The White Ribbon last year, also at the IFC. Incidentally, I haven’t written seriously about a movie since.
In Breillat’s version, the premise of a “sleeping beauty” actually becomes a funny joke—we laugh with the wicked fairy...
