October 2010
11 posts
Happy Halloween
“Now that I’m a crotchety old man, there’s something really appealing about the entire next generation dying of diabetes when I’m only like 50.”
~ Dr. Thorpenstein
“Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman’s ego”
– Paulina Porizkova
The Sweeter Milk
The sweeter milk of early ingenuity was fed
to young that glistened, crackling newborns with penumbral eyelids, oiled palms
downy bodies curled as if they had never been
born at all, live babies that feigned stillbirth, raising themselves
with eyes turned inward, translating dreams into birdsongs until
frantic mothers raised their silver scissors,
cut threads and tried to sew buttons on...
Black Figs
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and...
Mistress of the Dark
“If you like me, you’re either white trash or gay. Just kidding! Nope, not kidding.”
~ Elvira
“A new mystery sings in your bones / Develop your legitimate strangeness.”
~ René Char
I should modeling.
“Was… What a personality… You should modeling, you deginitevly have potentials… I’m telling hid you as a prof modeling photographer… It is not just a compliment… It’s rather an invitation to my studio… Go to google and search for modelmayhem[censored] that’s my portfolio.”
~ Leroy, GRINDR
Yours for the Taking
“It’s a luxury to blithely trust that everything will work out in your favor regardless of precaution, a luxury commonly reserved for the very young or the very super-model-y.”
~ Sloane Crosley, NYTimes
[Shuddering Sound]
“Yeah. I remember pitching the Michael Cera character and being told, ‘It doesn’t sound like a Fox kid. Tell me about him—what makes him special?’ I said, ‘Well, he’s unbelievably self-conscious,’ and they were like, ‘[shuddering sound].’”
~ Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested Development creator
"The Ramen Girl" Positive Netflix Review:
“A lot of negative reviews ha Im glad I read them after I watched it. I am 64 and often want to not look at the obsenity going on in this world. I watched this movie knowing it was lighthearted and I am going to watch it over and over because it is a breath of fresh air in my opinion.”
“So let the people say we’re downright nasty…
I just say...”
– The B-52’s, “Good Stuff” 