December 2008
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not touching by billy collins (from sailing alone around the room)
The valentine of desire is pasted over my heart and still we are not touching, like things
In a poorly done still life where the knife appears to be floating over the plate which is itself hovering over the table somehow,
the entire arrangement of apple, pear, and wineglass having forgotten the law of gravity, refusing to be...
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El capitán miró a Fermina Daza y vio en sus pestañas los primeros destellos de...
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LIFE photo archive →
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”
this is really, really awesome
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the city desk : fictional urbanism →
in high school, the ap US history classes had this epic “city project” in which we had to create a city — government, education, maps, zoning, population, location, weather, history, economy, public trans, waste management, energy sources, everything. we had months to do it and pulled numerous all-nighters finishing it and it was pretty much life consuming and oddly satisfying/fascinating.
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