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Sun, 11 May 2008 23:54:19 -0400

new reading project. had brunch today with a slow food activist...

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:41:00 -0400

new reading project. had brunch today with a slow food activist and old college mate—pollan is like his guru. essentially, food is political, and what we eat and the way we produce it will be the singular thing that changes the course of our civilization, whether we make it or not. on one hand, yes, naturally. on the other, i had never really thought about this much, that the one thing that bonds us all together (eating) is also roughing us up a bit. and then brunch with tod and i’m hearing all about the tyranny of major industrial farms and rapt and feeling like neruda ready to topple la united fruit co. word by word. but first, must read this, gain context, not be such a navel-gazing dunce.

(also: is anyone a real activist anymore? that’s like being a metalsmith, it sounds so backdated. i was excited to hear the word used again, even if the movement isn’t so much burning campuses or squatting in commune houses and is more about perusing the greenmarket on sundays.)

Saw this tonight at Film Forum…eh, not one of his best....

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:38:00 -0400

Saw this tonight at Film Forum…eh, not one of his best. But still, Anna Karina with those cat eyes. Almost Helen of Troy and doesn’t she know it.

new ‘do. i heart/trust kate at woodley and bunny and have...

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:25:28 -0400

new ‘do. i heart/trust kate at woodley and bunny and have for a long time. see her if you need a snip.

St Louis, Mo. Truants selling papers at Jefferson &...

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:11:51 -0400

St Louis, Mo. Truants selling papers at Jefferson & Washington. 11 a.m. Monday May 9, 1910. (via shorpy).

My weekend may just involve watching newsies. It has been a hot minute.

Manet, 1869.

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:25:07 -0400

Manet, 1869.

when we are blustery and cranky

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:02:00 -0400

A: i just want my me time this weekend
A: and my time with my friends
A: not bullshit feelings jamboree
A: i want to feed you pizza and watch bad teen movies
me: bullshit feelings jamboree
me: that happens to be the name of my new disney ride
A: listen to me you sullen little jewess
A: also: i am going to start more sentences like that

OMG

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:00 -0400

OMG :

Elz just linked me to this, the recipe behind one of my favorite things in the whole city, Cafe Gitane’s avocado toast. It’s ridiculously simple and easy to figure out, but for some reason a recipe validates what is essentially an overpriced naptime snack found in an oft-grumpy Nolita cafe.

Seriously though, best ever.

[What one takes away from Kahlo’s art, however, is a less...

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:18:00 -0400

[What one takes away from Kahlo’s art, however, is a less wide-ranging or exalted experience. She found a way to show a certain emotion, at once accusatory, nervy, furious, a little adolescent, and, as Fuentes says, funny. She is giving the world the finger, whether in The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, where she does it with a masterful complexity, in some of her folk art– like self-portraits of the 1930s, where she can be raw or charming about it, or even in her less spirited self-portraits of the following decade, when illness was getting the better of her. It was an emotion, in any event, that she never quite lost, as it is there in the last words of her diary when she wrote, “I hope the exit is joyful—and I hope never to come back.”] - Sanford Schwartz, New York Review of Books, on the traveling Frida exhibit that just left the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will hit SFMoMA ever so soon.

Missing (my first) home today a little.

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:44:48 -0400

Missing (my first) home today a little.

Nanci Griffith - Love at the Five and Dime This song reminds me...

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:33:00 -0400

Nanci Griffith - Love at the Five and Dime

This song reminds me of dancing by standing on top of an older person’s shoes. It was played a lot in my house growing up, and though most country music has faded far away since I left the dustbowl, this song has yet to leave me.

MAGDALENA FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:42 -0400

MAGDALENA FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

oh hi.

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:03:00 -0400

oh hi.

and to all a good night, for the day. (via tinyvices)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:06:37 -0400

and to all a good night, for the day.

(via tinyvices)

Patrick Tourneboeuf , Opera Bastille No. 8, 2005. These are...

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:47:58 -0400

Patrick Tourneboeuf , Opera Bastille No. 8, 2005.

These are great.

flummoxedbird: i can’t believe you think that of me, (2006) by...

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:19:13 -0400

flummoxedbird:

i can’t believe you think that of me, (2006) by mustafa maluka

via the ny times

Afropolitanism is the modish tag for new work made by young African artists both in and outside Africa. What unites the artists is a shared view of Africa, less as a place than as a concept; a cultural force. This idea, or something like it, lies behind “Flow” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a fine-textured survey of 20 artists who, with a few exceptions, were born in Africa after 1970 but who now live in Europe or the United States.

ends 6.29.08

click: flow @ the studio museum

click: the studio museum harlem

I really want to go.

Carolyn Drake, 10 minutes until candle-lighting

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:32 -0400

Carolyn Drake, 10 minutes until candle-lighting

'I don't care' if it sells soap

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:54:00 -0400

'I don't care' if it sells soap: Dove commissioned well-known Canadian playwright Judith Thompson to stage a show about the stories of aging women. She totally went for it, and why not?: “It’s obvious that theatre has always had sponsorship. Shakespeare was sponsored by the monarchy. When you read his plays, there’s clearly pandering, because he had to pander to them so that his theatre would survive. There’s no pandering here,” she said.

New thing.

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:20:00 -0400

New thing.: I’m helping out with this for a bit, helping D and M get it up and running.

Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, English Boarding School Series

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:27:01 -0400

Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, English Boarding School Series