life is around you and in you.

Bleecker Bob’s

me, in september when the leaves started changing and the weather was a little cooler: seasonal depression WHOM??????? i am healthy and HAPPY and i LOVE fall! pumpkin spice lattes yas! what was i THINKING? i’m remembering it as worse than it was in years past!!

me, 8 days into november when its freezing and getting dark at 5pm: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. oh oh oh OH. oh ya………

“I never thought I’d come back to New York.  I have a lot of bad memories here.  It can be an ugly place.  My ex-husband lives here.  On September 11th I was on the street below the second tower.  So there are things I’d just prefer not to remember.  But recently my mother got sick and I came home to take care of her. I was in a bit of a rut at the time.  I’d fallen away from my passions.  I was just working to pay the rent.  And one evening I was walking by the river and I passed a place called Hudson River Community Sailing.  They offered free sailing lessons.  I don’t know why I stopped.  I was intellectually convinced that sailing was not for me.  I was getting older.  I was out of shape.  But I decided to give it a try.  And I got hooked on it.  I got kinda obsessed with learning to sail.  I remember the first time I was out there alone.  It felt amazing.  I was in the middle of the Hudson, the wind was blowing, I could see the whole city, and my hand was on the tiller.  It seemed like I was doing something impossible.  I’m not white.  I’m not male.  I don’t own a boat.  I don’t even have money.  But I’m in New York City and I’m fucking sailing.”

say what you want about In The Heights but Vanessa has the best entrance of any character in any story ever I’m sorry

10/10 best introduction of a character ever, go girl, fuck the system

using microsoft word

*moves an image a mm to the left*

all text and images shift. four new pages appear. paragraph breaks form a union. a swarm of commas buzzes at the window. in the distance, sirens.

JASPER: You goin’ to the fireworks? EVAN: Uh. I don’t know. Maybe. I might just stay home. (a short pause) Sometimes the Fourth, like, depresses me. JASPER: Oh yeah? EVAN: Yeah. You know. I don’t know. It’s like all these families spread out on the football field? With the glowsticks? And they have that crappy local marching band. I don’t know. It’s like anticlimactic I guess? Like afterwards everyone seems a little disappointed. And I don’t know: it’s like, kind of random. Like we explode stuff in the sky and we look at it in like a group? (pause) And like, I kind of hate America. So I don’t feel this like urgent need to celebrate it or anything.

Eloise; A Book For Precocious Grown Ups, Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight, 1955

Few cultural collisions will ever please me more than David Bowie naming a song after a John Ford play from like 1630

same though

“Kill Your Darlings” - A tragic love story, based on real events and surprisingly not a well known story.

God, this movie is the best

Andrew Garfield with his parents attending the 72nd Annual Tony Awards on June 10, 2018 in New York City.

Red Carpet | Tony winner Andrew Garfield from ‘Angels in America’ joins Billboard at the 2018 Tony Awards and talks about his love of the live stage, and sings ‘Dear Theodosia’ from ‘Hamilton’!

“Anthony Bourdain spoke up for me at a time when people all over the country were making great fun of the column I write,” Hagerty told BuzzFeed News. “To have a man of his stature rise up and befriend me, it meant a lot to me.”

Bourdain had also laughed when he first read the review, but dropped the snark when he realized how her columns represented her community, she said.

“He told me he felt the same way when he first read it, but that he changed his way of thinking,” she said. “He decided I was writing about food in America and the way people eat in the middle of the country.”

Their coffee meeting in New York was the only time they ever met, and Hagerty said she still thinks about it fondly.

“You know, sometimes you go through life and…you think about all the wonderful things that happened to you,” she said. “And one of the wonderful things that happened to me was when Anthony Bourdain spoke up for me and wanted to publish my columns in a book.”

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Other international suicide helplines can be found at befrienders.org.

There’s a lot going on here but what’s Annie Get Your Fun? The 2018 version of Annie Get Your Gun where we rightly have banned all weapons? 

what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against

for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Last of the Mohicans