self/fashion

Dec 31st

Dec 31st

the Legion of Honor...

museum in SF is in a gorgeous art deco building overlooking a craggy park and the bay - a few which...

Dec 30th

I went there alone in the late afternoon and was happy -...

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

Dec 28th

and then there's this one...

that for some completely mysterious reason scanned in as black and white - despite being blue &...

Dec 28th

back in Boston (or, that is, in Wellesley) - with a scanner...

Dec 28th

photoshop experimenting again…yes there really is a...

Dec 28th

two quotes from the New Yorker

…on some things that are among those I love the most right now. This week’s (12/24...

Dec 27th

Every night

…for what feels like all night, I dream the same thing. Different details, different specifics...

Dec 26th

“In my experience – and this is a very awkward way to put it,...”
— James Baldwin, Just Above My...

Dec 26th

“In what, now, does the work which mourning performs consist?...”
— Freud, Mourning and...

Dec 23rd

“Youth plus booze plus hysterical identifications plus vanity...”
— Malcolm Lowry, explaining the...

Dec 22nd

I was feeling a little bit better, sort...

…until yesterday, when suddenly it all hit me worse than ever, and I lost the small hope...

Dec 22nd

There’s no scanner here, I don’t think; so I can’t post my marker illustrations....

Dec 21st

“It’s an odd thing, but every one who disappears is...”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of...

Dec 19th

I’m in San Francisco - well actually Berkeley; I guess Naomi would be mad if I didn’t...

Dec 19th

“A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art...”
— Oscar Wilde

Dec 19th

“To begin with, tell yourself that things are in effect...”
— How Are Things?: A...

Dec 17th

friday

On Friday evening - when, after having been up all night awaiting a meeting with one of my...

Dec 17th

lost (generation) leisure wear

Late the other night - Thursday, still, I think - I had changed into what I’ve been wearing...

Dec 16th

the one thing that is good about being...

the sex-and-happiness weight that I gained over those months is nearly gone. I can eat little but...

Dec 16th

thursday night

At night Christine and I went to Williamsburg - where I haven’t been in maybe two years - to...

Dec 16th

thursday

On Thursday it was raining/sleeting/slushing/shitting- it was supposed to snow but apparently it...

Dec 16th