tamnation

When you love someone

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:11:33 -0800

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?

I baked you a pie a year ago, on Election Day.

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:09:05 -0800

I baked you a pie a year ago, on Election Day.

"How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of..."

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:05:19 -0800

“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”

- Virginia Woolf

I need the rest of them.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:40:12 -0800

I need the rest of them.

eatsleepdraw: drawing no.29 - #draw365 -...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:39:30 -0800

eatsleepdraw:

drawing no.29 - #draw365 - twitter.com/gilbertruiz

"Everything is going to be okay. And then it won’t be. And then it will be again. And then your idea..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:00:11 -0800

“Everything is going to be okay. And then it won’t be. And then it will be again. And then your idea of okay will change. And then it’ll change again. Nothing is permanent—nothing at all. And that’s okay.”

- (via alaskamiller)

"I want so badly to wake up to the world of a year ago. But things are much more clear now."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:59:48 -0800

“I want so badly to wake up to the world of a year ago. But things are much more clear now.”

for alaska miller, who used to think this place was pretty...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:13:01 -0800

for alaska miller, who used to think this place was pretty nifty.

briannedixon:

artic sunrise, 1994. don’t you wish the whole world could be this bright?

"I think at one time I thought of adulthood as a continuum of achievement that could potentially..."

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:29:45 -0700

“I think at one time I thought of adulthood as a continuum of achievement that could potentially culminate in my becoming one of these people, which is extra bizarre when you consider that I have never shown the slightest interest in or inclination towards law, medicine, banking, or dating anyone with a greater net worth than mine (which is, btw, smaller than yours, assuming you have a job). Would I even want this, now? I don’t know. I don’t think so. For certain there is a species of elation that it’s only possible to feel in those giddy bubbles high above the city, but probably a lot of it has to do with longing and transience. And also I know now that money or status can’t confer immunity from that clammy feeling of impending death, because nothing can. That feeling can be fended off, though, with a battery of intangible possessions that are more precious than designer clothing or beautiful artworks. This is stuff that I think I am just starting to figure out how to possess.”

- Emily Gould

"It’s going to sound silly, I know, but I think that what it all comes down to is winning..."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:02:29 -0700

“It’s going to sound silly, I know, but I think that what it all comes down to is winning hearts and minds. Underneath everything else, all the plans and goals and hopes, that’s why we get up in the morning, why we believe, why we try, why we bake chocolate cakes. That’s the best we can ever hope to do: to win hearts and minds, to love and be loved.”

- The eminently wise Molly Wizenberg, of Orangette, from her book A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

Six months skipped by, and I am homesick for a new home I...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:55:54 -0700

Six months skipped by, and I am homesick for a new home I haven’t found yet.

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:45:28 -0700

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”

- Aldous Huxley

Dear 25,

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:49:09 -0700

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 you. Normal types send bad years to the archives at the first possible excuse. Don’t be tempted; keep that nasty shit close to you, remember it, and use it.

I have genuinely enjoyed our reintroduction and am all the better for having you in my life. Cheers to progress and bring on the pain. This year is ours.”

This year isn’t just for me, but for you, too. Everything will be better, because I (and you) will make it so. We are better for the trials and tribulations we have faced — because we have lived, and we know we are alive. And better to know we are alive than to live in some sort of half-life, half-sleep. It is worth it.

Love always,

Tam

I am now a quarter century.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:37:29 -0700

I am four and twenty. (09.26.09)

I am a quarter century (09.27.09)

I am now a quarter century.

"Signs #565 and #567 that Food is indeed important to your life: You share your queen-sized bed with..."

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0700

“Signs #565 and #567 that Food is indeed important to your life: You share your queen-sized bed with a hardback cover book chronicling the history of In-N-Out and a box of Kellog’s Corn Pops.”

I’d like to end my twenty-fourth year on an optimistic...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:07:35 -0700

I’d like to end my twenty-fourth year on an optimistic note. So there you go. Thanks, xkcd — I really do love the world.

"A writer asked me why I “didn’t just draw Obama from my imagination.” My response was that I..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:44:43 -0700

“A writer asked me why I “didn’t just draw Obama from my imagination.” My response was that I needed to make my image look like Obama, who is not an imaginary character. I know few people who could capture a convincing likeness of close friends or even their own family members from their imagination or memory. I use my own family members as models, taking my own photos of them to illustrate from - VIVI LA REVOLUCION and COMMANDA. Were Obama a member of my family I would have employed this technique.”

- 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 Seinfeldian and hilarious. I can hear him saying this aloud.

Who wants to go see Where The Wild Things Are? Raise your hand....

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:48:28 -0700

Who wants to go see Where The Wild Things Are?

Raise your hand. Way to capture our imaginations and nostalgia-seeking hearts.

eatsleepdraw:

the king of all wild things!

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Well. That’s different. There isn’t even a charming...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:02:23 -0700

Well. That’s different. There isn’t even a charming graphic/illustration to accompany this speculative error message. “Maybe” something happened. Maybe. Maybe the confirmation email was coded by a blindfolded koala.

This Nosaj Thing Visual Show (a collaboration with Julia Tsao)...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:00:58 -0700

This Nosaj Thing Visual Show (a collaboration with Julia Tsao) has been making the rounds.