He rattled against her removal like a toddler against chair legs: it was unreasonable, and stubborn, and clumsy, and all the other things one hoped he might grow out of.

“I am going to see every kind of doctor,” he said.

“Oh yeah?” She was, impossibly, reading TIME magazine, which he had thought they’d stopped publishing years ago.

“Yeah. I am going to get an MRI. It is going to be like Heaven.”

“What is Heaven like? What are you saying that you imagine?”

“Well, like a white room. Like a lab. And it will be very nice, and everyone will be there.”

“Like who?”

“Like you.”

“The archbishop of Lima, whom we shall know later in a more graceful connection, hated her with what he called a Vatinian hate, and counted the cessation of her visits among the compensations of dying.”

And, later:

“There was something in Lima that was wrapped up in yards of violet satin from which protruded a great dropsical head and two fat pearly hands; and that was its archbishop.”

blanko + noiry @ robert melee’s talent show @ the kitchen

If only I’d known the word “ctenoid” when I was more in the habit of using the word “fishscale.”

“  .  Maybe that’s the way to go.”

“  .

No, I don’t think so.”

“. Me either.”

Paris: “my favorite way to think about death is that a) i will be sleeping

b) i was dead forever before i was alive

and c) lots of cool people are dead already.

liked edgar allen poe.”

Painting is never as easy as you remember it to be. It’s like that weekend when you went to Houston and everybody really, really liked Amores Perros a lot even though it came out two years ago but people still threw parties for it.

(c) miltos manetas

Thus we ask of the (Chan) man himself, who makes microsoft paint and redtube users everywhere both alienated and supremely jealous, will this painting look good in my apartment?: http://e-flux.com/journal/view/95

He says, among other things regarding medium-specificity and social praxis and bourgeois art, “The irony is that because it cannot express what it truly wants to be, art becomes something greater and more profound. Its full measure reaches beyond its own composition, touching but never embracing the family of things that art ought to belong to, but does not, because it refuses (or is unable) to become a thing-in-itself. Instead, art takes on a ghostly presence that hovers between appearance and reality. This is what makes art more than a thing. By formalizing the ways in which objective conditions and subject demands inform and change each other over the course of its own making, a work of art expresses both process and instant at once, and illuminates their interdependence precisely in their irreconcilability. And it is as a consequence of this inner development that art becomes what it truly is: a tense and dynamic representation of what it takes to determine the course of one’s own realization and shape the material reality from which this self-realization emerges. In other words, whatever the content in whatever the form, art is only ever interested in appearing as one thing: freedom.”

And so, unless you’re an idiot, you can’t help but wonder…does Zach Gage belong or not?:  http://www.stfj.net/index2.php?project=art/2009/loselose

The top 10 things from 2009

Ellie’s tree

opportunity

whatever else ellie rines did in 2009

chris burden

there was such a good episode of svu on the other day

this place serves breakfast

And lastly, triangle fedex boxes

I’m thinking of getting a new tattoo

“And oft though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps

At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity

Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill

Where no ill seems…”

[ (c)  paris ionescu  ,  via  selfportrait.net ]

Fearing that the beep would be followed rapidly by many others in succession.

A hammering at one point in the stomach seems to respond to many other things that have been claimed

A hammering at one point in the stomach seems to be what has been expected

Who’s the weirdest person you know? I’ll go firs—

Dad.

t–Dad

Jeff

If you say Jeff I’ll be personally offended

You are writing a book on counterfeitting?

Relaxed suddenly

Putting all of the .docs together

Is harder than it seems

Whitmand inflamed sand castleand

Guest passes won’t lasses when.

Thought it would change to cambria body

I completely just forgot that all, right after you told me.

RIP

Siegfried, Mies, Wagner, Wilbur, Gertrude, Ray-J, Shem, Milton, Sancho Panza, and tiny Penshurst

We’re learning so much about Mexico!

For example: It is a hard thing dividing by 15. One option is dividing by 10, and then dividing the original number by 5 and taking the sum of those two numbers. The problem with this method is that it doesn’t really give you the right answer. Another such method consists of dividing by 3 and then dividing by 5. Robert’s methods always end in a sum of 2, which he doubles and then adds 1 in order to get the right number, which for him is always 5. Probably the most reliable alternative is taking 10 percent, then half of 10 percent, adding those together, and adding x, x being the difference between your answer and the correct answer. Dan figured out after extensive research that the least efficient way is the wrong way; that way isn’t efficient at all!

I’ve already seen four Mexicans. And many more from the car!

A sad thing, though. Crabs flock like lemmings to the road at night, ostensibly in search of the moon, so assumed as, upon seeing headlights, they seem to think they’ve hit the jackpot: not one, stagnant moon, but two, expanding rapidly, to gorge some primordial desire! And they frieze, standing, sideways, as they once walked, in awe. This, or they come in search of the perfect Honda Dodge, ironic as the name speaks not their fate. Inevitably, many of God’s children, which at one point looked like this:

Look, the next morning, like this:

Dan agli Ruini:

Dan after too much tequila:

La ultima Dan:

But I didn’t like the tacos???

ok I totally get that I haven’t followed dog the bounty hunter since the beginning, so maybe i missed a couple of things about the set up

but i’m still curious

a) why does everyone have a rat tail?

b) who is bobby?

2) how are you supposed to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are? they all wear equal leather

c) why does the tequila i’m drinking taste like jalapeno nachos?

5) i dont even know what kind of hair that is. is that a mullet or totally hair barbie or a rat tail? 

c) wait jesus everyone on this show is on meth and they are admitting it and i feel scared for them

why do I have to watch this?

6) are these people police? i mean dog and beth

7) who the hell is norbert? 

8 ) thank god there is a three strike count underlying our legal system in this country so the police have a legitimate threat to convey to these meth addicts

dog makes some ingenious dominoes analogies

c) are beth and dog sisters? if so, why do they keep kissing? if not, they are the same person so i dont believe you

where is he hitting you that it doesn’t bruise up? thats what dog said. and why am i asking this if I’m not a policeman?

8 ) who is beth to tell these people how to be a mom? she has a rat tail