I'm not enjoying much of Still Life with Woodpecker, the first novel I'm indulging in in many months, but I did enjoy this:

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Everyone, please recommend to me 1-3 amazing novels that I should read ( Read more... )

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Picasso's portrait (at 51) of his 21-year-old girlfriend

The purple portion of her face shows what he hopes she was dreaming of.

Incidentally, this painting just got torn by its owner after closing a deal to sell it for $139 million.

First, it shifts from the shape of a pear to flatten and cover as much of the vaginal surface as possible. Then it sends tendrils under that surface to latch on. And then it gobbles up the vagina's good, anti-infective bacteria even as it secretes proteins that can erode holes in cells in the vaginal lining ( Read more... )

spiders on drugs

"Survivors often regret their decision midair ... Baldwin recalls, 'I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable--except for having just jumped ( Read more... )

i've been experiencing waves of euphoria since the snow hit yesterday afternoon. i just want to breathe, drink it in ( Read more... )

apropos of the wiretap that just aired, how many (let's say single) guys do you think would respond positively to a booty call? you know, just get a call from some girl saying, how about i come over and we make out?

As I listen to radio accounts of people dying stuck in the stairwells of the famous towers five years ago, the answer seems blatantly obvious to me: Why are highrises not equipped with escape slides? I mean, really. Who's not thinking ( Read more... )