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(from mcsweeneys)

PLACES UNICORNS LOOK AWESOME OR MAGNIFICENT:

Under a rainbow
Eating a bowl of glitter
Faded into the tanned, leathery shoulder of my 59-year old lesbian aunt
Knee deep in morning mist with its horn glistening in early dawn
Flying through some clouds
Pretty much anywhere if the airbrush artist is skilled enough

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(leonard cohen)

what are we doing?

sometimes billy bragg has the right answers.

i've got a socialism
of the heart

make my body shed for you?
-pavement

the food network continues to deteriorate in quality, sending its best personalities over to the travel channel: first anthony bourdain, and now jamie oliver. i happened to catch the last two episodes of his 'great escape' italy series -- very scenic, really tasty-looking food, and great, simple tips. i liked ( Read more... )

new fashion blog find: manila style, from a female writer/stylist who works in the philippine capital. she wants to promote "third world style" and "TWAG" (third-world avant-garde)... it's kind of an asian facehunter meets sartorialist, w/ styles seeming to veer toward tokyo street meets london punk? some cute hapa boys here. ignore imelda marcos ( Read more... )

do you feel like a chain store
practically floored?


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THINGS THIS CITY WAS BUILT ON, BESIDES ROCK 'N' ROLL.

Navajo burial ground

12 trillion tons of reinforced concrete and steel

Hard drugs

Government-protected wetlands

Your hard-earned tax dollars, folks. Your tax dollars

Drunken dare

Water-logged corpses of Irish immigrants

Previous bizarro underground version of this city

(by eric

(from mcsweeney's lists)

SIGNS YOUR UNICORN IS CHEATING ON YOUSeems emotionally distant and uninterested ( Read more... )

sometimes i'm annoyed at how easily i fall in love with a song enough to let it save my life for three minutes at a time.

...only children play well
how can i love you
if you won't lie down?

actually less about the silver joos quote and more about this timely one from ted hughes' "fulbright scholars":

At twenty-five I was dumbfounded afresh
By my ignorance of the simplest things.

...but both work well. i'm delirious with weariness.