July 2012
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Anonymous asked: Sometimes, certain words or phrases will bubble up from the the tar of my mind like so much escaping gas, and then, trapped in the atmosphere of my consciousness, repeat themselves as if to remind me of an emotion I am forgetting. These can be the names of people to whom I feel some connection or need, but they can also be banal/important anxieties, like "I don't know,"...
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Anonymous asked: do you want to be famous?
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Top tracks to leave this world to #1
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Statements attributed to Moses Merin, president of the Central Council of Elders for Eastern Upper Silesia and the man responsible for complying with Reich deportation orders, alongside the number of Jews that remained to be governed by him on the day those statements were made.
May 13, 1942: “I will not be afraid to sacrifice 50,000 of our community in order to save the other...
Anonymous asked: Through a cycle of inebriated excess and anxious seclusion, I have alienated myself from my social group. Should I embrace this isolation and find comfort in solitude or build up a front of positivity and re-engage with humanity?
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yeah, exactly. I think you have to become a sort of emotional dry-socket: something excruciatingly sensitive to place, atmosphere and numinal weather. as far as you can get really from the crystalline safety for which any normal person yearns with all of manufactured desire’s unfulfillable longing. this sensitivity is so much like being infantile or insane that most people who think of...
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iwytsm asked: Hi, I run a weekly column on Bullett Magazine featuring great tumblrs. I'd like to feature yours and interview you. Does this 454 W 23rd St exist?
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Anonymous asked: how do you reconcile all of this aspirational intellectual posturing with your desire to give people life advice? i mean at a certain point isn't all this incessant solicitude just a defense against your own inability to produce anything original? don’t you think that it’s fatuous to offer people life advice whom you have never met when you provide zero in the way of credentials?...
