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February 2012

1 post

Mythical Kings & Iguanas ~ Dory Previn

i have flown to star-stained heights on bent and battered wings in search of mythical kings mythical kings sure that everything of worth is in the sky and not the earth and i never learned to make my way down down down where the iguanas play i have ridden comet tails in search of magic rings to conjure mythical kings mythical kings singing scraps of angel-song high is right and low is wrong i...

January 2012

4 posts

918: New Bruce Springsteen single, ‘We Take Care...

ifc: Portlandia - Harajuku Girls Portlandia airs on IFC Friday nights at 10:30pm.

December 2011

4 posts

Bruce Springsteen on ‘Someplace Like America’ →

November 2011

4 posts

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing...”

– Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (2000). Thank you, Memory Green. (via crashinglybeautiful) Thank you crashinglybeautiful & Memory Green. (via yama-bato)

October 2011

10 posts

Lady Gaga Wins Top Bid for Dinner with Steven &... →

stunning october nyc sunrise sky ~ by Inga... →

Requiem Lass →

“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner,...”

– William Bliss Carman, A Vagabond Song

September 2011

15 posts

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100, by Martin Espada →

August 2011

13 posts

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know...”

– Emily Dickinson (via troubled)

Sinead O'Connor →

You can’t mistake Sinead O’Connor’s house. Outside the porch is an empty plant pot full of cigarette butts, inside are two large statues of the virgin Mary. As the door opens, I crash into another Virgin Mary. O’Connor’s housekeeper, who doubles up as her best friend, opens the door and leads me into a lounge where family photos, rocking chairs and kids’...