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In like with you.
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Albert Tomlinson - Wait For Me
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Postcard from Roberto Bolaño to Enrique Lihn, 1983
I’m a big fan of Roberto Bolaño. This is so cool!
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“Then she hurried off, bum lolloping, to make sure all was in order.”—
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Today in words I want to say and say and...
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Star Wars Poster Design - by Josef Ortiz
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rhamier because yolo
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Marlene Dietrich
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Herbert Ponting
[View from inside a curved ice grotto. Taylor and Wright stand at the entrance looking up. The ship ‘Terra...
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Leonard Cohen - Anyhow
Dreamed about you baby
You were wearing half your dress
I know you have to hate me
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25 posts tagged NYC
50 Beautiful Women | 2007-2012 | photography by Z. Urbina
Taking a break from photos for awhile. A long while. Not gonna say “retiring,” because at age 30 that would be absurd. Here’s a look back on amazing adventures, with some very lovely ladies, in SoCal & NYC. -Z
“Such a life required much exaggerated self-esteem. It engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.” - Lorrie Moore
The most epic New York Times correction ever. thanks, valerierosegallaher.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. |
Glenn Gould performing Bach’s Prelude No. 10 in E Minor from the soundtrack to Steve McQueen’s darkly brilliant new film, Shame, an exquisite depiction of sex addiction and New York City.
[title: Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock][video:source]
“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.” - Bertrand Russell
“ In 1947 a young Bedouin shepherd wandering the rocky Qumran plateau in what is now the West Bank stumbled upon a cave which looked as if no-one had entered it in years. His explorations yielded no treasures, to his dismay. He spotted a few clay jars filled with old parchments, but he was illiterate and had no use for documents, especially such old ones. He could not have known that he had discovered over 2,000-year-old scrolls containing, among other writings, the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible—the founding scriptures of western civilisation.
The Dead Sea Scrolls—so named because the 11 caves where they were found sit a mile inland from the north shore of the Dead Sea—are a collection of 972 texts written between roughly 200 BCE and 70 CE, during the time of the Roman Empire and the birth of Christianity. According to a popular theory, a group of people hid the scrolls in the Qumran caves to preserve that vast library of religious and secular texts from the approaching Romans, prior to the fall of Jerusalem. The shepherd found them by accident two millennia later, and a French Dominican priest named Roland de Vaux collected and analysed them.” continue reading | Prospero
Without a doubt, this is our favorite freewheeling photograph of the late, great Christopher Hitchens, whose passing we can barely comprehend. So we turn to the words of Graydon Carter, who writes of this image in his touching memoriam:
“I once sent him out on a mission to break the most niggling laws still on the books in New York City. One such decree forbade riding a bicycle with your feet off the pedals. The photograph that ran with the column, of Christopher sailing a small bike through Central Park with his legs in the air, looked like something out of the Moscow Circus.”
Photograph by Christian Witkin.
