December 2009
41 posts
reading about cryptids and convinced if any of them are the real deal it’s el chupacabra! totally. the whole thing reminds me of this literally insane recent l.a. times article…..what is the world coming to
the way we use things, the familiarity we have and the dexterity with which we employ an object produces its meaning. thinking about it now, it reminds me of some writing by michel de certeau. he described the production of neighbourhood. how it is built through familiarity. how the regular passage through a street turns it from a street into a neighbourhood. that section of the book has...
noend:
killyourgrief:
my top five artists this week: who cares
text from zev
“this girl my sister’s age is weeping in the row behind me, ‘i don’t want to go, i never wanted to…i hate places i’ve never been before, i hate sitting in planes for so long…’ her mom: ‘what about california?’ ‘I HAD FUN IN CALIFORNIA. I KNEW PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA!’”
“Apart from creating things, what do you do?
Oh, I imagine I’m just like everyone else. I check pockets. I roll socks . I give tips. I skip pages. I fall asleep. I turn it off. I give directions. I scroll down. I make sure its even. I leave it out. I lock eyes. I write it down. I say thank you. I walk away. I pretend laugh. I for real cry. I say I voted. I wonder if he really loves...
sweatbaby:
I guess I´m coming to America then
I wish I could use this phrase. I guess I’d need to leave America first
got to hand it to steve for his brave new tumblr, real talk that’s taking the world by storm with its pleasing mix of animal hijinks and plain ol’ human foibles….welcome, friend.
sailingfanblues:
This is a great point, Rob! It’s funny, I was talking to some friends in Neuchatel last night, and I mentioned that I was going to see Where the Wild Things Are, and they immediately said, “You’re not bringing the kids, are you?” And we all laughed, obviously. (They laughed in Swiss-French, which was just great). But you know, Rob, then we turned serious, because it is...