February 2012
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'Tell me,' he said, 'what is this thing about...
our introduction to Giovanni in Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
I told myself I wasn’t going to read anything that wasn’t either non-fiction or in translation, but I was also convinced by a friend that I Had To Read Giovanni’s Room. so far it is simply wonderful.
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“How long then, did they propose to go on with their scratching and manipulating?...”
– more from the operating table, this time with a twist of hallucinogenic rambling.
(from A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy)
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“A straining sensation, a feeling of pressure, a cracking sound, and a terrific...”
– if anyone wanted to know what it was like to be conscious during brain surgery in the 30’s, here you go.
(from A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy)
there’s a porta-potty just down the block, visible from my window, and I’ve seen this one guy piss on it - not In it, On it - in the middle of the day twice now.
each time he tries to act like he’s just standing there or scrawling some graffiti or something, but it’s a busy street and someone always walks by.
and then there’s me watching creepily from my window.
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“Yes, saying something is true according to folklore may not seem like much, but...”
– David Mitchell, The Unbelievable Truth (via leagueofwhimsy)
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“Something had gone from me that afternoon - something I had never missed before...”
– from A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy. Dog Eared NYRB Salon is happening on March 4th and I think I’ll probably be out of town for the second month (which I’ve read the books) in a row. damn birthdays and plans!
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“Art is a complimentary source of truth [to Science], for it enlists the help of...”
– this is part of a larger quote in A Journey Round My Skull which didn’t flow well as a whole or make sense as part, so I tacked in the bit about science to get the message across.
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I'm not doing much.
lately I’ve not been doing much except going on bike rides around the city, cooking at home (I made collard greens for the first time today!) and working. I’m super poor but getting much better at being poor, and actually saving a little money while I’m at it.
in a couple weeks I’m going camping on Angel Island with some friends, which is the first of many weekend...
The Gospel of Consumption and the Better Future we... →
Our modern predicament is a case in point. By 2005 per capita household spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) was twelve times what it had been in 1929, while per capita spending for durable goods—the big stuff such as cars and appliances—was thirty-two times higher. Meanwhile, by 2000 the average married couple with children was working almost five hundred hours a year more than in...
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The Naked Face →
discoverynews:
tetw:
by Malcolm Gladwell
Face-reading depends not just on seeing facial expressions but also on taking them seriously.
This is a really great classic New Yorker piece from 10 years ago. Worth a read.
totally fascinating.
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The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science →
This is a really cool article about an awesome genius-kid who built a nuclear reactor.
unfortunately, the subtitle of the article is horrible.
I have this really unfortunate tendency to tell bad jokes that make people cry at the most inopportune moments.
like when people are having real stressful emotions and I just want to lighten the situation and it turns out they think I just don’t care.
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and I think that's the end of that thought...
Today, my cousin is playing god by CREATING LIFE - pushing a tiny human being out of her cooter.
which got me to thinking, what momentous things have I accomplished lately? nothing, that’s what.
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“I was weary, unutterably weary of it all, weary of sickness and weary of death,...”
– Frigyes Karinthy in A Journey Round My Skull
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“A poet friend of mine explained my predicament rather vaguely by saying that...”
– Frigyes Karinthy in A Journey Round My Skull, subject of this months NYRB Salon at Dog Eared Books.
“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides...”
– Mae Jamison, TED2002 (via jtotheizzoe)
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things I did on this Saint Valentine's Day
got out of bed at a reasonable hour (10 am)
made myself breakfast at a reasonable hour (10:15)
11:30 am, first (non)date of the day, biking ~20 miles around the city with John
2pm, talked to a man about learning more about woodworking, second (non)date of the day
3pm, coffee and soup, drew up plans to build John a headboard
4pm, planned out my finances for the next month, joined a CSA
5pm,...
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mykicks:
Elton John - “Crocodile Rock”
So the...
“i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles...”
– e. e. cummings, “I Like My Body When It’s With Your Body”
[Pro-Love #4]
(via millionsmillions)
“I’ve been thinking lately about the truly poisonous characters in fiction. The...”
– Man-Eaters and Murderers: Vile Women in Fiction by Edan Lepucki (via millionsmillions)
I think watching Sister Act is the only blog-worthy thing I’ve done in the last week or more.
I guess I went on a really nice bike ride the other day?
and I’m reading A Heart So White by Javier Marias, but I don’t have anything to say about it yet.
yup.
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STILL waiting for Sister Act 3: Old Habits Die...
Sunday night?
oh, just spent it watching Sister Act I & II, taking screen shots of the scenery to identify it when I go to check out the shooting locations and eating chocolate chips out of a bag.
now that I’ve taken the step and put that out there, I fully expect to be in a LTR by next week. for serious.
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What I Want (in a potential boyfriend)
lives in the Mission, is a bicycler who sometimes likes to go on long rides
has mornings/afternoons free like I do
more outgoing than me and will encourage me to be more so
looks forward to game night
also poor so we’re on the same economic footing
smart and gets along with my friends, has cool friends that can become mine too
cute but in an awkward way, great smile
roughly the same...
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I generally read my RSS feed before Tumblr (~saving the best for last~) and sometimes that means mistakenly thinking I’ve read something early and can be the first to break it to Tumblr.
what’s fundamentally wrong is my thinking that Tumblr ever hears about something last.
One day
cameronchristopher:
I’ll like a guy who is gay, geographically convenient, and kind. I only ever seem to get two of the three at any one time.