“While I don’t wish to co-opt these girl’s work by leaving the work anonymous here, it is difficult to impossible on tumblr to trace the origins of particular images. Therefore, I can only direct you to the Women as Objects archive project itself if you are interested in seeking out the girls behind/with/in/these images. Even […]
I. The World’s Most Celebrated Hand-Job Since 1954, thousands have gather to celebrate Bloomsday, the epic tribute to Joyce’s Ulysses. The devout make the pilgrimage to Dublin – no bargain vacation, these days – to retrace the crisscrossing paths of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in real-time, over the course of an entire day. Even […]
Had his final wishes been obeyed, Franz Kafka would perhaps be the literary equivalent of Nikola Tesla―a luminary who, for one reason or another, went relatively unknown during his lifetime, but whose exant works point to a more tantalizing oeuvre just out of our reach. And while Kafka had not developed anything audacious enough to […]
I. Salad Days …without thinking I reached under the grill for a second spatula and pulled my arm back streaked with BBQ sauce. I pulled a folded towel from my back-pocket and wiped away the smear. And the skin on my arm. A waitress shouted an order for two Caesar salads and some Pavlovian part […]
4:44 Last Day on Earth should have been a great film; or, rather, should have fit custom with my esoteric (read: weird and bitchy) standards for film. It has Willem Dafoe (Boondock Saints! Platoon! Movies that don’t star Toby McGuire!), the kind of guy who sits around waiting for touched-in-the-blood projects. It was directed by […]
