December 2010
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the...
– Emile Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the...
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Emile Cioran
William S. Burroughs New Year’s Day 1965 →
“INTERVIEWER: You regard addiction as an illness but also a central human fact, a drama?
BURROUGHS: Both, absolutely. It’s as simple as the way in which anyone happens to become an alcoholic. They start drinking, that’s all. They like it, and they drink, and then they become alcoholic. I was exposed to heroin in New York - that is, I was going around with people who were using it; I took...
It’s a weird hysteria – the loathing of the caged for the free.
– Angeliska
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire –... →
“Since Katrina, New Orleans has a severe homeless problem because of the scarcity of affordable housing. HUD and local governments demolished over 4000 affordable public housing apartments after Katrina. “The current housing crisis in New Orleans reflects the disastrous impact of the demolition policy,” according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing in a February 2010...
"But this is not the first incident where an... →
"But this is not the first incident where an... →
"Until now, I would wake up each day and do... →
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East River looking toward Williamsburg Bridge and Lower Manhattan. Grand Ferry Park. Brooklyn.
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The light turns green, and a deli bag floats down the street like a stingray. Brooklyn.
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On Why
“The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants to paint a bird, needs to, and the problem is why. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after the other, but existentially why bother, what does it solve? Be the tree, solve for bird. What does that mean? It’s a problem of focus, it’s a problem of...
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