December 2010
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“As the marriage unraveled, Kate, in New York, and Anna, in Montreal, had become...”
– Kate McGarrigle: The Lives They Lived
New. Years. Eve.
“When I’ve fallen in love, I don’t have a checklist,” Mr. Cianfrance said. “There...”
– ‘Blue Valentine,’ Directed by Derek Cianfrance - NYTimes.com
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Ten Things I Want In 2011
(In no particular order)
1. China Beach to either be released on DVD/insta watch/or be torrent-able
2. A decent chef’s knife
3. Swim in an ocean (note: how the fuck did I not do this in 2k10?)
4. A columnist gig (note: does not need to be paid, but that would be sweet)
5. Be on a conference panel
6. Four new houseplants
7. Learn how to tat lace
8. Publish an article toward a book...
“During winter you dream of an island, of getting undressed”
– On Such a Winter’s Day | Vogue
RIP Venus Zine
Once, a long time ago, I was in a photo spread in your pages. The stylist spent two hours gluing hair extensions to my head, and I was posed as a Botticelli painting, and my lover took me out for dinner at nice French restaurant afterward, and then I went to Sally Beauty Supply because my head hurt from the badly done extensions, and the clerk called out her manager because the stylist had bought...
The Sky This Week, 2010 December 14 - 21
The Moon waxes to the Full phase this week, climbing to her highest declination to beam down on us from just above the “club” of Orion. Full Moon occurs on the 21st at 3:13 am Eastern Standard Time. December’s Full Moon is variously known as the Cold Moon, Long Night Moon, or Moon before Yule. This year it might be called the Vanishing Moon since Luna will undergo a total eclipse by...
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the waterfall →
annlf:
thx gracy.
“The Waterfall” – for May Swenson
~by Mary Oliver~
For all the said,
I could not see the waterfall
until I came and saw the water falling,
its lace legs and its womanly arms sheeting down,
while something howled like thunder,
over the rocks,
all day and all night –
unspooling
like ribbons made of snow,
or god’s white hair.
At any distance
it fell without a break or seam,...
“I know it is frivolous and self-indulgent to plunge into mourning for long hair...”
– lipstickeater: de profundis
Hair mourning: So closing 2K10
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“The word “honeysuckle” doesn’t signal bright pink to everyone....”
– Pantatone Picks Honeysuckle for 2011
Yeah, reads pale yellow to me.
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GIRLS ARE PRETTY: Find A Reason, Any Reason Day! →
girlsareprettyforever:
Maybe it’s because you got messed up when you were a kid after your adoptive mom met your biological dad and fell in love with him and then your adoptive dad hooked up with your biological mom but they realized it was just a vengeance boff so it didn’t work out. Or perhaps someone locked you in a…
