February 2012
13 posts
I’m worried about my job.
not just the standard worries of ‘how will I make enough money after I graduate? will I keep this one and get another part-time thing? if I start helping to make ice cream will I get a raise? how much will a life in an apartment in brooklyn cost me per month?’
but ‘how will these multiple lawsuits and frozen bank accounts and two weeks without a...
January 2012
14 posts
you know you have a good job
when your boss comes in to offer you the tiny bag of pot she found while defrosting her freezer cause she hasn’t smoked in a decade and has no idea how that got there but figures it should go to good use. props, Junie.
on an unrelated note, I suppose it makes sense to post this on here: rip, Jack. I wasn’t extremely close with you, but we’ve definitely crossed paths, shared...
there's no one coming into the shop today
so here’s some people who were born on my birthday:
-Robert Frost, American poet, 1874 -Guccio Gucci, founder of The House of Gucci, 1881 -Joseph Campbell, American author/”Follow Your Bliss” sayer, 1904 -Tennessee Williams, American playwright/Bottle-cap choker, 1911 -Strother Martin, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” via Cool Hand Luke, 1919...
Dear Corporate Greed University, Do you really think that a graduating senior, who has enrolled in the deferred payment plan for the past 7 semesters, just accidentally sent in exactly half-tuition plus $50 for deferment processing? Really?
There’s no possible way that just because her father forgot to forge her signature on the form that she still wished to be enrolled, you know, like the...
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The Colonel
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her nails, his son went out for the night. There were daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on the cushion beside him. The moon swung bare on its black cord over...
December 2011
8 posts
Unfolding the White Cube
My school very often emphasizes experimentation with different media: sculptors are encouraged to paint, painters to make videos, and video artists to make etchings. However, something that is often lacking is an emphasis on alternative exhibition spaces. In such a well-rounded department, I often find it surprising we find ourselves confound within the white gallery walls.
We have three gallery...
Indefinite detention bill passes in Senate →
(fuck)
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in the past three days, i’ve bought two stemless wine glasses, three oversize souffle bowls and two dish towels
some far-off feeling, some up-close kind of ache
November 2011
15 posts
I had almost forgot how smoking joints by yourself feels like
the reality of six straight semesters of school without a break is starting to set in….
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“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.”
– Herman Melville, in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 17, 1851 (via austinkleon)
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