duh

saw this here.....funny. let's bike ride. 

http://stipthings.blogspot.com/

Yep... people I like

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vintage photo

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older man love

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NERUDA

I got this in the mail today..... 

I'm spoiled. 

Sometimes I really miss dancing.....

Summer Book Club: no. 1

Ray Bradbury's attempt to bottle a season. 

Finals Week

Last night as I was typing away until....this morning, Kamryn gifted this lovely vid. Surprisingly, it did wonders for my spirit. Partake and terminate your suicide plan immediately.

The First Book of Jazz, p.6: Old New Orleans

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THE CINNAMON PEELER  by Michael Ondaatje

If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.

Your breasts and shoulders would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon.

Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture
neighbor to your hair
or the crease
that cuts your back. This ankle.
You will be known among strangers
as the cinnamon peeler's wife.

I could hardly glance at you
before marriage
never touch you
-- your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.
I buried my hands
in saffron, disguised them
over smoking tar,
helped the honey gatherers...

When we swam once
I touched you in water
and our bodies remained free,
you could hold me and be blind of smell.
You climbed the bank and said

this is how you touch other women

the grasscutter's wife, the lime burner's daughter.

And you searched your arms

for the missing perfume.

and knew

what good is it

to be the lime burner's daughter

left with no trace

as if not spoken to in an act of love

as if wounded without the pleasure of scar.

You touched
your belly to my hands
in the dry air and said
I am the cinnamon
peeler's wife. Smell me.

I AM THE NEW BLACK

I don't know exactly what lined up for me to have such strong emotions about Tracy Morgan? I came across an old interview on NPR's Fresh Air over the weekend and was swallowed up. He talks about his book I Am the New Black, an autobiography of his life growing up. While I'm obviously a huge fan of his alter ego Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock....But the intensity that is present in his comedy transfers into every other emotion that did--I will admit--made me cry tears. Maybe a mixture of falling upon this interview and the overwhelming contents of the weekend events hit me just right, or maybe I'm just a bigger fool for celebrity than I thought. Either way, hit up this interview on NPR's website, I don't think you'll be sorry. 

Speaking of celebrity, there was an awesome opportunity to see Bell Hooks on campus today. I was interested to see what she would bring to what seem like our meager campus--she didn't disappoint. She read from one of her new works, focusing a lot on the accountability that we don't always charge others with. I was also pleasantly surprised with her critiques of some recent major motion pictures, I won't say which. What is most important is that she was a powerful presence and I feel lucky to have witnessed her  address. While not quite as angry as she was in her earlier works, I'm so interested to see what she will bring to the table next. The press release for the event. Cheers.

Word List

Some things came up OK: 

convivial, bethe, desist, excision, horde, stentorian, optative, felicitous, rapier, interlocutor, acolyte,conduit, agraphia, eschew, compunctions, avarice, myopic, infidel, usurpation, irrefragable, odiferous, recalcitrant, florid, undulating, dour, euphonious, petulance, assignation

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" 

— Albert Camus

HAPPY BDAY KELS BALLS!

Thank goodness this girl came home for the weekend....I say. Kelsey girl is one of those rare soulmate/sisters/spirit healer whatevers. It took only a few short minutes for us to fall in love all over again slash her to love the shit out of me and recharge my spiritual battery. She exudes a ridiculously celebratory energy....gorgeous. It is her bloody beautiful birthday and this girl deserves a perfect day if anyone did. 

                                               Kels: right    

For the bumkin, I decided to start her collection of 

sign photographs from her world travels...

These are from a ten day blur in St. Maarten, where the beaches are beautiful and all of the animals have saggy boobs and skinny legs:

         

Great Ideas by Penguin--Beautiful designed classic works of philosophy... Yes Please. Thanks to my dear sister who recognized my drooling sprung for this gorgeous little box set for my birthday. Pisces love pretty things I guess and you all know how I feel about beautiful cover design.

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  These are designed by David Pearson, I'm not sure if I've oogled over any of his 
  other designs, but I'm sure 
  more of that is yet to come.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Angels cont.

I'd like to continue my discussion via post of Angels in America with a 

link to Emmy's post of the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's brilliant 
play. Emmy is one of the few I trust with things of this nature, she's a "safey." 

Here's a little Trailer--let's get pumped...

Angels in America

In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
        --Stanley Kunitz
        "The Testing-Tree"

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