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My belated contribution to the Athenäum
According to some, a romantic nature is a disease of the mind like undifferentiated schizophrenia.
It used to mean a deep, spiritual relationship with Nature, sometimes via the "precious balm" of the poppy. As much was true for my good friend Novalis and others who spent their days talking to the trees, Grecian urns or leaves of grass (my ass)!
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I spend the afternoon in cars
What a rainbow of fruit flavors.
The new president of our country is Obama and TGFT!!!
I got a new tattoo of a girl and her snake (less phallic than it sounds...I think). It is my first big tattoo. I got a little one of a horse last year but nothing like this. This one took three hours (just for the outline and some shading) and sure it hurt but ( Read more... ) -
cul de sac
Cold rainy nights like tonight are perfect for slow cooking some chicken stew. Mmmm. The smell is all wafty and delicious.
I just need to start with no agenda. Forget PDAs, itinerary, to-do lists and character sketches. I simply take a page out of the book.
I want to empty out. So much clutter has accumulated through the years and it is entirely ( Read more... ) -
Some things never change
So little old injury prone me spent Friday in the ER getting x-rays of my foot. Not broken, just badly sprained. So I've been off my foot, on crutches and landlocked.
I've been having intensely weird dreams every night for at least a month. The other night I dreamed I was a soldier and Philadelphia was having a civil war--I was marching up JFK ( Read more... ) -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/17/george-bush-shoe-throw
Huh.
I couldn't believe how quickly Monkey Boy ducked. It was as if he knew those shoes were coming. -
If I could write a sentence like this, I could just stop
"Two weeks ago, the Death Star that has hovered over the art world for the last two years finally fired its lasers." Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine.
In other related news...
It's been a while since I've been on LiveJournal. I feel like I was sucked into a black hole, demolecularized and then spat back out looking relatively unchanged.
The question ( Read more... ) -
Your pretty face is going to hell
I guess now that I graduated college it will take the place of high school in those dreams I have. You know, the ones in which you realize you haven't been going to class in months or you show up to class naked ( Read more... ) -
the big, bad infinite
I've been doing an inordinate amount of reading and writing lately, much of it internet based, which makes me wonder whether the blog-frenzy is taking effluvia to a whole new level. Writing and communication goes in and out of circulation at a mindblowing pace. At the same time, at least as long as the internet and computer technology persists, we ( Read more... ) -
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I have not written on livejournal for awhile but that's not because I haven't been writing. I have this short-term gig writing reviews for the website yelp.com. It's normally consumer-posted reviews but they're trying to carve out a satellite in Philadelphia so that's where I fit in. It's fun but requires a lot of my writing energy ( Read more... ) -
For the foodies...
So much beer going down my gullet this week that I’ve had little time to write. Here is the long and short of it:
First, there was the Mared Sous giveaway at Eulogy which was good fun. Not only did was I across the bar from Joann, one of my favorite cute girl bartenders in the city, but I got free Belgian beer. It could only be beat if I were ( Read more... )