1. 15:22 3rd Jun 2012

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    Dry Spell

    June, well, she changes everything.

    June to most of my community signifies a freedom spent vacationing, camping, partying, having weddings and playing around town. To me, however June is the hardest time. I buckle down and get to business. There is no frivolity. It is the single most exhausting and demanding month for me in regards to my career. This June looms large. 

    So, that bewitching pile of books-for-fun is set aside and will be revisited in September. Meanwhile, I’ll gladly sign for any bourbon or coffee gift baskets delivered to my office (hint, hint husband). Please forgive the dry spell. I will be back.

     

  2. 08:02 6th May 2012

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    Fond memories of drinking Belgian beer under that iron halo. (via Paul Madonna)

    Fond memories of drinking Belgian beer under that iron halo. (via Paul Madonna)

     

  3. 16:03 5th May 2012

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    Lovely. (via Paul Madonna)

    Lovely. (via Paul Madonna)

     

  4. 08:03

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    One of my absolute favorite places to stand is exactly where he placed this figure. It’s the top landing of the SFMOMA. (via Paul Madonna)

    One of my absolute favorite places to stand is exactly where he placed this figure. It’s the top landing of the SFMOMA. (via Paul Madonna)

     

  5. 01:09

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    Site of my 19th birthday party, the last good day in 1999. (via Paul Madonna)

    Site of my 19th birthday party, the last good day in 1999. (via Paul Madonna)

     

  6. 18:57 4th May 2012

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    Book 13 of 25 in 2012 Everything Is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna I read All Over Coffee last year. Now it’s time for Madonna’s second book. Why? Because my brain desperately needs more visual poetry. Well, that or an antidepressant. My collective shit has been so fucked these past two weeks.  Tuesday was so bad that I had the dry heaves. It was just, so, fucking, much. This book? Not a soul breaker and that will be a welcome change. (via Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection)

    Book 13 of 25 in 2012

    Everything Is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna

    I read All Over Coffee last year. Now it’s time for Madonna’s second book. Why? Because my brain desperately needs more visual poetry. Well, that or an antidepressant. My collective shit has been so fucked these past two weeks.  Tuesday was so bad that I had the dry heaves. It was just, so, fucking, much. This book? Not a soul breaker and that will be a welcome change.

    (via Everything Is Its Own Reward, An All Over Coffee Collection)

     

  7. 17:47 20th Apr 2012

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    Currently reading Weight, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Cutting for Stone.

    Currently reading Weight, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Cutting for Stone.

     

  8. 14:25 19th Apr 2012

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    I try not to burn up my world with rage.
    It is so hard.
    — Jeanette Winterson in Weight
     

  9. 13:27

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    Book 12 of 25 in 2012 Weight by Jeanette WintersonThe Myth of Atlas and Heracles A re-read of a story that has been written and re-written. It begins with what I think is a wonderfully succinct phrase:”Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision.” Which, in a way, explains why most of my writing is private. What I share with others, via Tumblr etc., is not terribly revealing. I tell the same stories over and over. This may be the fourth or fifth time through Weight and it won’t be the last. I adore it.

    Book 12 of 25 in 2012

    Weight by Jeanette Winterson
    The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

    A re-read of a story that has been written and re-written. It begins with what I think is a wonderfully succinct phrase:”Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision.” Which, in a way, explains why most of my writing is private. What I share with others, via Tumblr etc., is not terribly revealing. I tell the same stories over and over. This may be the fourth or fifth time through Weight and it won’t be the last. I adore it.

     

  10. 10:47 17th Apr 2012

    Notes: 6

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    Finished the Frida Kahlo book last night. This painting inspired a conversation between myself and the Kiddo who thought that Frida was a magical woman because plants grew from her. Had to agree. 

    Finished the Frida Kahlo book last night. This painting inspired a conversation between myself and the Kiddo who thought that Frida was a magical woman because plants grew from her. Had to agree. 

     

  11. 13:40 11th Apr 2012

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    If I counted all the kid books I read, we’d be on Book #272 right now. Spent 45 minutes reading these last night.

    If I counted all the kid books I read, we’d be on Book #272 right now. Spent 45 minutes reading these last night.

     

  12. 19:23 3rd Apr 2012

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    Accidentally added this book to my list of current reading. If nothing else is abandoned then this will be #11 of 25 this year. A good start as I head into my busy season at work and lose reading time over the summer. If the typesetting weren’t so lousy, I’d actually be cruising through this Taschen tome.

    Accidentally added this book to my list of current reading. If nothing else is abandoned then this will be #11 of 25 this year. A good start as I head into my busy season at work and lose reading time over the summer. If the typesetting weren’t so lousy, I’d actually be cruising through this Taschen tome.

     

  13. 15:16 2nd Apr 2012

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    Abandon

    Despite being 200 pages into it, I’m seriously contemplating an abandonment of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Not sure how to describe the problem other than to say, it’s too slippery. The language is too dreamy. I slide through it like a river cutting through mud. There’s a blurring effect and I can’t focus like I want. Also, there’s a Frida Kahlo museum book tempting me from the wings.

     

  14. 19:45 27th Mar 2012

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    Co-reads become co-pilots in my passenger seat.

    Co-reads become co-pilots in my passenger seat.

     

  15. 00:21 22nd Mar 2012

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    … get a community center in every ghetto in the country that has the same things as they have in the Beverly Hills Community Center. They have a pool table, a vcr, a library. The kind of library you have a Yale. If they want the ghetto to have brains, give us the books!
    — Tupac Shakur