March 2009
5 posts
I very badly want this oscar wilde plate [http://tinyurl.com/chxazt] and I cannot figure out how to get it without being in paris
what do I do with or about the fact that my freshman writing students believe that “Rent” is about New York in the 1970s??
February 2009
6 posts
wow, it turns out I really have NO idea how to write a conference paper.
I think I’m turning into one of those “crazy” teachers who jumps around and gesticulates and like, does funny voices.
I didn’t feel like celebrating my birthday, but I DO feel like celebrating that I made it through the whole thing without crying.
best summary ever: “Jack’s new undefined role is to help secure the nation.” http://tinyurl.com/896lxs
finally found the perfect image for my section on Freud’s jockstrap fetishist..http://tinyurl.com/cbkos5 thanks, Missouri Digital Heritage!
bill cunningham, getting weirder and more awesome every week…http://tinyurl.com/bpxkgs…”ohhh, and then you have to hear them SCREAM!”
I think sublimation is the most underrated of Freudian conditions.
January 2009
9 posts
attempting to create a twitter-sized dissertation precis is an extremely taxing, perhaps futile, but potentially quite useful exercise.
I can’t figure out how to express how deeply I WANT and NEED this fellowship to work @ UCLA’s Wilde collection w/o sounding totally insane
new working title for dissertation - “Of Beautiful and Impossible Things: Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality in the 19th Century.”
you know you’re getting old when staying up all night is both the more responsible thing to do and the thing you really don’t want to do.
I should probably go on a walk
I am having trouble grasping the generic conventions & social uses of the twitter post vs. those of the facebook status update.
thanks, gawker, for this bit of brilliance: “…a nation presided over not by a snickering, unrelatable elf but a young, coltish sex bomb.”
wait. Michelle’s dress was yellow; right? And awesome? why does everyone say it was green and maybe awful?
September 2008
5 posts
here is a paragraph
that I just came across in one of my approximately 65 files called “dissertation notes,” “dissertation quotes,” “diss stuff 3,” or some variation thereof:
Toilet training does its best to teach the child to get rid of its excrement with socially-sanctioned levels of discretion and mild shame, but all sorts of complications can arise and throw things off...
“Also, I have a feeling that in life, for whatever reason, there are certain...”
– Wayne Koestenbaum, Index Magazine
is dürer's "pfeiffer und trommler"...
the gayest image of all time?
surely it is among them!!
July 2008
6 posts
diss-in-progress sentence of the day!
Up ev’ry evenin’ ‘bout Half eight or nine I give my complete attention to a Very good friend of mine He’s quadraphonic, he’s a He’s got more channels, uh So hologramic, oh my TVC one five I brought my baby home, she, She sat around forlorn She saw my TVC one five, Baby’s gone, yeah She crawled right in, oh my my She crawled right in my So hologramic,...
dissertation-in-progress sentence of the day!!
My dearest Bobbie, Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus – so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired: he lies like a hyacinth on the sofa, and I worship him.
You dear boy. Ever yours OSCAR
The effect of this rests in the rapid and lovely moves between a casual ease and a lambent...
is really at a loss as to how to proceed with this chapter…WTF WHY SO HARD??
was going to make some SERIOUS chapter progress, but then I spent all afternoon on my etsy store instead. oh well: http://danec18.etsy.com
“I no longer remember, but I was wrong. Wrong to think that had not been left to...”
– Derrida, The Post Card
June 2008
5 posts
rosabel reading freud (2)
wow, indeed
there’s an awesome video (which for some reason is un-embeddable) of Bowie-as-Ziggy performing “Starman” in 1972…and it has the following comment thread: DBowie59 (3 weeks ago): hahah! this I was at this! It was so funny cause EVERYONE danced!
steffe689 (1 week ago): Wow you are retarded.. You cant go see ziggy stardust hes from space you idiot…
challde (3 weeks...
o hai! i haz made macro
after spending several days perusing the bizarre-yet-moving 1895-1904 correspondence between Freud and ex-BFF Wilhelm Fliess, this was inevitable…
“She comes of a mother with a mania for painting,” the Duquesa declared,...”
– Ronald Firbank, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
April 2008
1 post
hanging with benson #7: lost girl
March 2008
3 posts
I’ve been trying to draw EB at her wedding a few weeks ago…this is the first one that has come out sort of close to ok… (it’s one of those things, though, that’s kind of too beautiful for me to be able to represent with any satisfaction.) …………………………… and this is another one of me in the dress that I...
the dress...
that I have been working on for quite a few weeks, and that I wore last night to my friend E’s wedding…looks kind of like this: [I, of course, do not look much like this…as in, for one thing, I have elongated myself quite drastically in this illustration. Furthermore, the wedding to which I wore the dress was at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in a room up on the top that...
a belated illustration...
of the joint birthday party that christine and I had in early February. well, I don’t know if it really qualifies as an illustration *of* that event - which btw was really fun! - but it’s, like, inspired by it. [I’m wearing the Jean-Paul Gaultier dress I found at one of the awesome vintage places on Haight Street in SF a few years ago, rigged up with safety pins to be shorter...
February 2008
6 posts
hanging with benson, #6: so please be kind/if i'm...
Lacroix Spring 08 Couture again, this time with background (sorta, kinda, trying…) via Gainsborough
and another rococo/couture illustration...
these are so fun! Christian Lacroix Spring 2008 Couture with background via Fragonard
some poems
by Cavafy …and a drawing that Karl says looks like Kirchner… ~~~~~~~~ IN THE STREET His attractive face a bit pale, his chestnut eyes looking tired, dazed, twenty-five years old but could be taken for twenty, with something of the artist in the way he dresses —the color of his tie, shape of his collar— he drifts aimlessly down the street, as though still hypnotized by the...
January 2008
26 posts
wayne koestenbaum is the best
MORALS CHARGE The morals of my scattered tale: wear what you want; don’t let designers bully you; visit flea markets to create trends of your own; don’t be afraid of the return of the repressed; wash your vintage items so they don’t stink; think of the concept that you’re dressing toward (French sailor during Fleet Week); don’t be afraid to abandon a favorite...
these are some drawings of my friend and her baby
(oh, and one of me with her baby…we both look a little scared cause I don’t hold babies very often.) (and this one I did more recently than the others, and I think it’s def the best so far)
hanging with benson, #4
rococo couture
Christian Dior Spring 2008 Couture Christian Lacroix Spring 2008 Couture […plus Fragonard...]