what i don’t get
The kid inside me lives on. She sees me in my undead state; she wants to star in a zombie film. FULL STORY
human puppy
Am I worthy of love or should I have to pay for it? The currency: shells, blood, popcorn, promises. FULL STORY
playing footsies with chris walken
What if she fell out of the hidden bed and woke up broken? FULL STORY
Masterpiece Moments
this is pablo picasso dancing around his studio in his underwear. and what are you doing with yourself? FULL STORY
Notes to Self
maybe if i had known my parents i would know my purpose –hugo cabret FULL STORY
I Saw God at the Whitney Biennial
It’s all about who you know
until it’s no longer about who you know. FULL STORY
Watch What You Tweet
FOLLOW ME BACK OR ELSE!
Boulders in my Twitter Stream
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public deeds of kindness
Feeling blue?
Do someone’s dishes.
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Sex Life and Salary
The bag of bones and the skin. The thing we dress and clean and feed and stroke and long to have stroked. Pretty simple, stupid even. The bod.
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defensive
Some adults are in intimate relationships. They are just really damn good at intimacy. The rest of us go at it like Pigpen in Peanuts. That’s how we love.
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my lobotomy
This movie was made a long time ago, so the old people in the movie are dead. And the young people are old. The children are grownups.
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novel therapy
The Novel: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Character: Patty Berglund
The Diagnosis? TBD
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footprints
All those times she refused to carry herself.
It only makes sense that she was being carried.
She doesn’t have to admit it for it to be true.
what people need
of course when i say “kiss the snake” you think it’s something dirty. but i’m quoting rumi. so, it isn’t dirty.
his hidden percentage
Something is lurking under the surface. How do you know it’s there?
Because his skin is bad and he can’t sleep.
fm radio: weep in public
In honor of the 2014 Grammy awards, I listened to my clock radio for an hour, flipping around the dial. Just like the old days. Here’s what happened.
White Ellen
made of the classes at her academy, country club summers, saddle shoes, shaved legs made of elite institutions, air-conditioned museums…
Luxury Problems
Your iPhone pocket-called me the other day.
You were walking. I could hear your legs moving.
I was in your pants, after all, with the phone.