December 2010
36 posts
voodoo killings rise in haiti in response to... →
uk aid strategy: free condoms for all →
Watchlupes verse is hot duh but love the way the folks at the shrine shot this too.
Watchnytimes vid on women in pakistan and their secret lives
“God uses two things to pierce the human heart: beauty and affliction.”
– Simon Weil
“if i would have grew up to be a doctor, my nephew would have grew up to do the...”
– “sweet,” jay mannn.
favorite profile from 2010: nytimes interviews... →
ON Thursday night, Courtney Love sent me a series of lengthy text messages, as she often does to anyone she meets, but these were unusually coherent. She apologized for what happened the night before and said she felt embarrassed for “living right up to my worst reputation.” She blamed a combination of Zoloft and a cocktail. And she blamed herself.
“I’m so humiliated,” she wrote. “That simply...
“If you think of the world without people it’s about the most perfect thing...”
– - Colum McCann, “Let The Great World Spin”
amazing book, i’ve been reading slowly on purpose. filled with quotable, serious lines but read this one and literally burst out laughing. greatly profound author, not afraid to make you laugh as well.
“You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and...”
– pablo neruda, “and because love battles”
“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with...”
– Agatha Christie
“Some months passed. Bibi had retreated into a deep and prolonged silence. We...”
– The Treatment of Bibi Haldar by Jhumpa Lahiri (via karlakarla)
“At the homes of their friends, his mother [Ashima] tells the story of calling...”
– The Namesake; Jhumpa Lahiri (via flowerybedsheets)
pieces ive written in the past few months off...
for The Tip (new publication i started writing for - check them out):
“when being a good woman isnt good enough” on the eva-tony split.
for Clutch Magazine:
“the ‘b’ between corrupt and crazy” on charlie rangel and the congressional black caucus.
”’cause your hoodrich” on ppl living beyond their means.
for MadameNoire:
“why sisters...
