I'm on my bike and I have a piece of hair in my mouth. It's my own hair, so it's not gross or anything, but it still feels alien and strange. I am acutely aware of it, lodged between my lips, as I cycle down the hill. I still watch the road and think my idle morning commute thoughts, but a part of me is also focused on the tiny strand of red, solid ( Read more... )

I think it is. Maybe it's not the me of now, but it's still me ( Read more... )

I'm old enough that for me, Mike Patton was the original orgasm-inducing "jaguar inside a cello" voice, long before Benedict Cumberbatch. Patton's got a much broader vocal range anyway.

I'm so glad they're back.

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The July heat is merciless: even at nine in the evening the air is heavy, cloying, curling my hair into humid wisps at the back of my neck. But the cicadas are strumming, and if I sit especially still, I can feel the ghost of a cooler breeze on my skin, brushing by me like an attractive stranger, gone too soon for me to get a good look. The ( Read more... )

Случайно открыла архив со своими стихами (2001-2007) - с тех пор ничего не писалось, были лишь жалкие попытки добить начатые недотрупики и иногда помощь любимому в добитии его переводов ( Read more... )

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard

"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

"What maybe we all need, sometimes, is to stop talking. To stand in the middle of a feeling and not compose 140 characters, or 612 pixels. To not translate, or to translate later. To translate less ( Read more... )

"Maps, per se, do not lie. However, as assemblages of signs, maps are like other texts, open to interpretation, contestation, refutation, exculpation; they are also simulations in search of a particular and sometimes false reality. They reflect multiple interests even when presented as accurate [...] or universal [...]."

James Der Derian, "The ( Read more... )