(Parts  1   2   3   4  5   6    7   8  and 9) Begin with the thought experiment I alluded to in post #9 about motivation.  Imagine a person who is not you, but who is like you in many ways:  the same age and gender, the sa...

  What would Mickey Rourke have said had he won the Oscar? Probably that Marisa Tomei is awesome because "not that many girls can climb the pole, y'know?" [Vulture] A 30-year-old aspiring male model committed suicide in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week, after stating his int...

Well, great. My favorite young writer, on whom I’ve had a not-so-secret crush for weeks, is now immortalized on a popular fashion site in a video which — if they didn’t adore her already — will bring all the kids swooning. This is exactly how it feels to love a band that...

by Guest Contributor Neesha Meminger, originally published at Neesha Meminger This weekend, I was interviewed for a magazine article. Nothing to do with my book, or even writing, for that matter. The topic of the hour was body image. This is a topic I could go on and on and ON about (and have, on se...

by Latoya Peterson *Warning: Strong Language* Regular readers might remember a piece I wrote a year or so ago, called Hair, Apparently. In the piece I wrote about an incident where I felt like someone had insinuated I was a “house nigga” because my hair was straightened with a chemical r...

by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published on What Tami Said* My hair is nappy. It is coarse and thick. It grows in pencil-sized spirals and tiny crinkles. My hair grows out, not down. It springs from my head like a corona. My hair is like wool. You can’t run your fingers through it, nor ...

Fellow fans of Stefanie's ceramics will be pleased to know she's selling her wares at the Kollwitzplatz Christmas market today, at Domäne Dahlem next weekend, and then at Kollwitzplatz again on the Sunday before Christmas. And baby busy-ness kept me from mentioning earlier that she has a fa...

I’ve made no secret of the fact that Eddie Campbell is one of my favourite comic creators–not to mention one of the top five living people I’d want to spend a night drinking and talking BS with, and that I think Alan Moore is probably the best comic writer to have yet lived. So it&...

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my breadIn little jars and cabinets of my will.I label clearly, and each latch and lidI bid, Be firm till I return from hell.I am very hungry. I am incomplete.And none can give me any word but Wait,The puny light. I keep my e...

Today's episode of beautiful things is scented. "La vérité en parfum n’existe pas, sauf à être la passagère coïncidence d’une senteur avec notre âme, ce qui fait bien des vérités pour tout autant d’âmes." Translation: "Truth in perfume does not exist, unless one means by that the tra...