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Jessica Paré - New York Magazine by Zachary Scott, May 2012
Paré laughs easily and often, despite a case of extreme jet lag. Bali is fifteen hours...
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Jonas Mekas: As I was moving ahead, occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty. [wiki]
Thanks, jesuisperdu.
A neurosis in the air which inhabitants mistake for energy…
“ Recently, a woman entered taxi driver Marc Preven’s cab just outside of FAO Schwartz on Madison and East 60th with her “son,” a Jack Russell terrier. “She tells me, ‘It’s his birthday,’” Mr. Preven recalled. “Then she says that every year on his birthday she takes him to FAO Schwarz to pick out a toy. This year the dog picked out a Paul Frank plush monkey. But you know, that’s not even weird to me anymore—it’s like, don’t all dogs get to go to FAO Schwarz on their birthday and pick out a birthday toy?”
In 1936, Karen Horney, a Neo-Freudian psychoanalyst who once had an ill-fated affair with pioneering social psychologist Erich Fromm, published what was then the definitive work on neurosis, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time. Naturally, she was a New York City resident at the time. (Brooklyn, actually.)
As long as the terms “neurotic,” or “high strung,” or “nervous breakdown” have been around, they have been inextricably linked with this city. As Evelyn Waugh put it, “There is [a] neurosis in the air which inhabitants mistake for energy.”” continue reading | The New York Observer
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“ The collapse of the World Trade Center towers, nearly ten years ago, registered as minor earthquakes (with magnitudes of 2.2 and 2.4) on a seismometer locked in a former root cellar on the old Lamont estate, twenty miles upriver, in Palisades, New York. A blown-up seismogram of the impacts from that morning now hangs on a wall of Thomas Lamont’s onetime swimming pool, which has been converted into a kind of seismological museum, beneath the cafeteria at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Art Lerner-Lam, a seismologist and the interim director at Lamont-Doherty, was at a meeting in Morningside Heights last Tuesday afternoon, on the ground floor of a sturdy Depression-era limestone building. He missed the tremors sent by a reverse faulting beneath the earth’s crust in Virginia which would soon overtake his week: the convulsions felt by city drivers idling at stoplights; the swaying of skyscrapers that sent thousands scurrying down flights of stairs, in a replay of the false alarms set off during the early aftermath of September 11th. “There’s certainly a machismo that didn’t get satisfied here,” he said the next evening, after conducting a tour of the root cellar and the museum.
He’d had a long day of discussing local geologic features (the Ramapo Seismic zone, the 125th Street fault, the Peekskill-Stamford “trend”) and the disaster scenarios we might responsibly anticipate. Earthquake expertise can be morally trying, with public validation tending to come only at moments of great suffering. but this, it seemed was a rare win-win: a legitimate seismic event (magnitude 5.8) with relatively little human cost. It was “a good earthquake,” as one of Lerner-Lam’s colleagues put it. “Sort of guilt-free.” “ continue reading | The New Yorker
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“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much… the wheel, New York, wars and so on…”
New York City, summer 2011 | photography by Z. Urbina
NYC, summer 2011 | photography by Z. Urbina | more from gallery
[title: Douglas Adams]
