April 2010
19 posts
“But the fact of the matter is, is that, is that the job we’re here to do is to learn how to live in a way that we’re not terrified all the time. And not in a position of using all kinds of different things, and using people to keep that kind of terror at bay…It’s more like, if you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary...
“I was raised on the idea that it can, and I believe that. My father, the late...”
– Robin Black, started publishing stories at age 46, is giving some real awesome over here. Her debut collection, If I Loved You I Would Tell You This, is just out now, and covers the lives of women in their 60s or 70s, who she calls the most invisible members of society, at least in a being seen and...
“i was disappointed that it didn’t work out for me there. i fought hard to try to...”
– I’ve been more than a little interested in Internet-artist Petra Cortright lately, and here is her “Goodbye to All That” moment, as quoted in Whose Fault Is That? And below, her latest YouTube work.
I’ve been thinking a lot about an idea that has been circling in my head since I got to NY, this idea of starting a place, creating a space, opening a treehouse in the middle of the city. Obviously, there are no banyan trees or big enough branches, so this would have to be a brick and mortar endeavor, a clubhouse of sorts, without all of the cliquishness or exclusivity that...
Watch“Yes, without famous parents, being a single teenage mom is impossible. Like… you’d have to wear Gap jeans… and live in a studio apartment with just your baby.
Hol’ up. I currently live with 500 roommates and don’t even have a couch. What the ish? I need a baby ess tee ay tee. It’s my ticket to interior design minimalism!”
Oh Michelle Collins, sometimes you are my spirit animal.
