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waiting at the window
My new neighbor is a friendly, pretty-boy-abercrombi-and-fitch man. He has confidence and kindness in a way that makes you trust him. He lives with his girlfriend from Peru. Her name is Olga though she looks nothing like an Olga - she looks more like a name that exudes exoticism in an American-appropriated sort of way. She speaks not a word of ( Read more... ) -
the material evidence of human ritual
Well there it is. Last summer I was obsessed with ritual and ritualistic space. This summer I forgot about it. Probably in part that I lost so many rituals. Probably in part that the idea of the sacred and the profane was segregated and compartmentalized into one small subsection of my thesis. Too many things interest me about marginal space and ( Read more... ) -
New Orleans
After night fell, the smell of rose water. Of old perfume. Mixing with smoke and Bourbon. Young men with southern accents dressing like old men, ordering milk and cookies. And old men carrying tubas in the street as if it were the most natural thing in the world. They say, "Hey baby" and smile. Women with hips and boyish-figured feminine women in ( Read more... ) -
oh, architects!
People in China are buying tents instead of sleeping in your buildings.
If only it didn't take earthquakes to start the revolution.
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where floors miss their numbers
I have recurring dreams that center on a large building - sometimes it's a museum, other times it is a university campus building, sometimes it's simply an apartment building. It is always palimpsestic in the sense that I enter the part of the building that is very new, hyper-modernized, and step into an elevator which takes me to a much older part ( Read more... ) -
nomad oman monad
I have returned back from a different world. The itinerary was something like this:
Day one: driving driving driving for 21 hours - sleeping in the car in some strange parking lot in Mandeville
Day two: setting up camp, 30 mile bicycle ride on the Tammany Trace in Louisiana. Fall asleep under stunning stars with the sound of crickets and frogs ( Read more... )
