March 2011
1 post
“The apparent world is the only world: the ‘true’ world is...”
– Nietzsche
October 2010
1 post
“It was midsummer, the heat rippling above the macadam roads, cicadas screaming...”
– J.C. Oates
August 2010
3 posts
“Art should cause violence to be set aside. And it is only art that can...”
– Leo Tolstoy
The Wilderness Downtown →
bulliestogo:
Step 1: Enter the address of your childhood home.
Step 2: Get swept away.
July 2010
7 posts
Friendship
For Rachel —————— O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair....
Watchzachbroussard:
I’m sort of in this fun Michael Showalter video!
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
Oil Slick Arm in the Gulf →
Click ^ ^
February 2010
3 posts
Stone Benches
“Trees that lose their leaves in the winter are deciduous.”
Deciduous
“While those that keep their leaves year-round are called evergreens.”
Evergreens
We stood there on a slab of smooth, uh, something. Is it called concrete? It’s really smooth, and cold. It’s the flooring of Lowe’s, Home Depot, Sam’s Club. Indoor cement, I guess? We stood...
September 2009
14 posts
The Bomb Induces Insanity, Part 2
The fifteen year old girl entered the morgue of the hospital. There was an attendant on duty, making notes about the cadavers and the way they died. The attendant looked up at the pale, ghostly girl wearing a hospital gown and asked what she was doing.
“I’ve come to claim my parents and bring them home with me.” “I’m afraid that’s not possible. These are...
“If novelty was the essential ingredient of modern art, then repetition is the...”
– Joel Achenbach
The Bomb Induces Insanity, Part 1
A man and his wife and their fifteen year old daughter were riding a street car in New Orleans on an overcast Sunday afternoon. The daughter sat alone behind her parents. She lowered the window nearest to her and poked her small head out of the trolley’s window. As she did this it began to drizzle outside. She felt the light rain gently peck her face and she smiled, closing her eyes,...
mikescollins:
claspy:
She’s Like the Wind
RIP...
“picture this I walk in to class I write a poem for english and yes went deep in...”
A Troubling Stereotype
I sat there on that rock. I saw myself as I was before I had these words made up of curly letters stained across my chest. I was sixteen and he was in my life. While I worshipped him then, I didn’t understand how wrong he was, perched there on top of his ivory tower and the moral tight rope he took pride balancing upon.
I wanted him to cum inside of me and he wagged his finger at me,...
New Modest Mouse
“Have we created God in our own image?”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates
WoM
