WALT WHITMAN VIVA'D LOCAL LOSERS—

Mark Rothko, Earth Green (detail), 1955

jennifer finch is one of my favorite people ever & i'm so so sorry shes gone.

erik satie knit jumper by astrid furnival

the man on the screen reenacts my death.

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

William Steig Illustration for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? What you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification! DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) dir. Spike Lee

National Geographic April 1989       O. Louis Mazzatenta.

anyone mind if i lock in rq