September 2010
2 posts
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin
February 2010
1 post
“I think many people are afraid that if they take medication or even agree to see...”
– Heather Armstrong, of dooce.com
January 2010
1 post
Start Again
2009 was the roughest, most heartbreaking year of my life.
I am looking for a dare-to-be-great opportunity.
Do you have one for me?
Find me. tam@lemonland.net
December 2009
7 posts
When you love someone
and they love you, but perhaps you don’t remember exactly what split the seams and tore the edges apart — or perhaps you do, or one of you does — , can you ever come back together?
“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean,...”
– Virginia Woolf
“Everything is going to be okay. And then it won’t be. And then it will be again....”
– (via alaskamiller)
“I want so badly to wake up to the world of a year ago. But things are much more...”
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
2 posts
“I think at one time I thought of adulthood as a continuum of achievement that...”
– Emily Gould
“It’s going to sound silly, I know, but I think that what it all comes down...”
– The eminently wise Molly Wizenberg, of Orangette, from her book A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
September 2009
85 posts
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to...”
– Aldous Huxley
Dear 25,
Bring it on. This is the year where I stop wondering what could be and instead create what is and what can be.
As one of my good friends wrote, “For most people, birthday’s are, or at least should be, meaningless. An excuse to get drunk, do something stupid, fuck a nobody. Not the case for you. You survived a lot of shit this year and I can tell it dented and twisted the shit out of...
“Signs #565 and #567 that Food is indeed important to your life: You share your...”
“A writer asked me why I “didn’t just draw Obama from my imagination.” My...”
– Shepard Fairey, on how artists need reference points to create new and meaningful work.
This matter-of-fact “Seriously, guys? Common sense?” passage in Fairey’s explanation of his ongoing legal battle against The Associated Press over rights to a news photo of Obama is quite...
NYTimes: "The problem is, we only get one chance... →
From The NYTimes’ Happy Days Blog: You only get one shot at life. What if yours has been one long string of mistakes?
“Hacker Ethic: “Information wants to be free.”
Content...”
“LA is 32 suburbs in search of their city.”
– Greg Gioia
“Art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make...”
– John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, on how design humanizes technology for HuffPo
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
– Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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“What is the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning? How is it measured?...”
– Wong Kar Wai
The xx is being looped from Left Coast to Right...
Birthday Wishlist: 500 Colored Pencils + Aurora... →
Because, as the Mates of State song goes, I would still like to color the sky with you.
On Needing a Room of One's Own
tam: our parents are like kryptonite
david: mmhmmand you know what that means
we’re super
The economic collapse has ushered in what a lot of my friends from childhood have affectionately dubbed “our second adolescence.” We’re back in high school, only we don’t have that very tangible goal of college as an escape route. Friends are back home in southern...
“My name is David and I have a short-haired cat that stays in my room most of the...”
– Craigslist LA: The Housing Search Begins
“I wonder if future me will trick himself into thinking there’s something better;...”
– Jake Lodwick
“I’m tired of the disheartened part.”
– T & A (Tam and Alaska)
“I feel most calm when comparing prices and cost per unit ounce at the...”
