I dunno about the rest of you, but I’m finding it very hard to concentrate these days. I’m not freaking out. But I am distracted. I feel introspective, and yet my attention is fickle. My […]
Category: Weirdo
I sit in one of the dives/ On Fifty-second Street/ Uncertain and afraid/ As the clever hopes expire/ Of a low dishonest decade:/ Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives —W.H. Auden
Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we […]
Fear is the mind killer
By science writer Maggie Koerth, adapted from the litany against fear from the novel Dune: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my […]
(Curiosity) Burlesque!
Ring in the Rawring ’20s with a burlesque show.
