“We all complain that we are confronted by urban environments that are completely similar. We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.” –Rem Koolhaas, Wired, July 1996 Recently I’ve taken up […]
May 9, 2011
Rachel and I were talking about crushes. RAH: Like you think of skills and reasons and then your in the face of the full majesty of the landscape of human nature. There’s no way to describe it when you go through someone and see the landscape that’s your home. I’m not high. Swear. But I’ve […]
March 27, 2011
Someone asked me what liminality was last night and I said, It’s being in flux, the idea of being betwixt and between, and my own answer annoyed me. I’m trying to show you something. It’s going to take a long, long time. What I’m trying to show you isn’t even liminality. The Liminal is a […]
March 16, 2011
1. When you enter the bar you will notice a mirror to the left of the door. Check your hair in the mirror. Does it look the way you wanted it to? How old do you feel? Your hair is saying something about you. It is talking about you all the time. This is your […]
March 9, 2011
This is an email I wrote to Rachel and Amelia. Referred to as “Dearest.” I really want to know. Also it’s the beginning of a long-term project we’re doing. Occasionally bits of it will be public, like this. I think of sort of our whole friendship as a long-term project. Anything without context is just […]
March 8, 2011
Good morning, class. Today we’re going to start with eavesdropping. Which is also known as spying. In a round-about-way we’ll try to talk about love, but that’s pretty difficult because we’ve already established that we don’t know what that is and you tend to get there by being intimate, but mostly by being intimate on […]
February 28, 2011
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