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Swings & Skateboards
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"I like boys on swings and girls on skateboards...I like water caught in spider’s webs. I like wearing all my clothes at once. I like people who don’t smile. Ever. And I like people who smile. I like hair that goes on and on. I love food. In some ways I love everything. It’s less than a thing than like. Less distinct. Less particular. I like things that I like, but I love everything. I love things so much, I feel like I can float away." Cassie - Skins
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Obviously, doctor

The Letter Linda Gregg I’m not feeling strong yet, but I am taking good care of myself. The weather is perfect. I read and walk all day and then walk to the sea. I expect to swim soon. For now I am c...

30 apr 12

Stupid when it came to realities

“I think Miriam was aware of her daughter’s deficiencies. I think her choice of reading – her insisting on Balzac and other French novelists – was done with an object. The Fre...

12 mar 12

Pierre Pan

The most useful line of French I have learnt so far: Non, je ne grandirai jamais.

05 mar 12

Hope/Need

Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. T...

02 mar 12

A Fate Like Totally Worse Than Death

I always mean to watch It’s A Wonderful Life at Christmas, but this was the first year I got a chance. I cried like a sap at the end, but had to laugh at a moment in the dramatic climax. Georg...

26 dec 11

Delicate are you, and your vows are delicate, too

No, I wasn’t meant to love and be loved. If I’d lived longer, I would have waited longer. Knowing you are faithless keeps me alive and hungry. Knowing you faithful would kill me with joy. Mirza Asadu...

30 nov 11

A line of poetry written with a splash of blood

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.” — Yukio Mishima

14 nov 11

A Mighty Kindness

Zero Circle by: Rumi (translation by Coleman Barks) Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. ...

04 nov 11

To Seek A Great Perhaps

The End By Mark Strand Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end, Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like When he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at th...

23 sep 11

Cookies & Cream, even

Watching American Gigolo. Wearing Coco Chanel-esque silk pajamas. And red lipstick. And eating Haagen-Dazs… Straight out of the tub. Sometimes it’s nice to just embrace the cliche and tak...

14 jul 11

The time for that

Staying After I grew up with horses and poems when that was the time for that. Then Ginsberg and Orlovsky in the Fillmore West when everybody was dancing. I sat in the balcony with my legs pushed thr...

13 jun 11

Any Other Way

I love being introduced to drinks that shouldn’t work but do. Dancing in someone’s bedroom-disco, to dirty Italian pop. Watching strangers fall asleep on each other on the night bus, and ...

16 may 11

Fashion Police

Had the following exchange at Border Patrol coming back into London today… Fierce Female Official: What kind of visa do you have? Moi: Tier Five FFO: What are you doing here? Moi, slightly inti...

18 apr 11

The arrow that flies, the bow that is stable

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know...

10 apr 11

Circling each other

These quotes, or the vague ideas behind them, seem to be written on the back of my eyelids right now. I’m not feeling particularly dark. They’re just circling, neutrally and independentl...

06 mar 11

Time, Difference

I’m hurtling, I’m hurtling underground and thinking of your still sweet head all messed up on the pillowcase avoiding morning and I’m so far away from it and you might be with her. ...

07 feb 11

Deeper still

  Nights like this I just want to get slammed by a truck.

30 jan 11

Gay and Innocent and Heartless

I think my favourite chapter of any book is “When Wendy Grew Up” from Peter and Wendy (the original Peter Pan story by JM Barrie – you can read the whole book here). What comes befo...

17 jan 11

Not with a bang

My ‘safe place’ in London is the British Film Institute, which is currently doing a season of films gathered under the title ‘The Long Goodbye’, all chosen because they ‘...

10 jan 11

When You Pass

It was one of those rare, glorious, workdays today where I am instructed to spend thousands of other people’s pounds on Italian designer formalwear. Of course, in practice this gets me a little...

05 jan 11

A Different Kind of Christmas

Someone else’s family. Pheasant cooked in red wine. A fawn running through the snow in Lord Mountbatten’s estate. Sedately drinking through a whole bottle of nice tequila out of tiny teac...

29 dec 10

I Wish I May

Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy....

21 dec 10

Courage and Tenderness II: Wide Open

To Have Without Holding Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the...

19 dec 10

The cool between-whiles

“Shall I tell you?” she said, looking into his face. “Shall I tell you what you have that other men don’t have, and that will make the future? Shall I tell you?” “...

05 dec 10

Dimming Days

Each week, another layer becomes necessary… scarves, then gloves, then hats. Each day, the BBC predicts snow and then quietly rainchecks it for 24 hours later. I’ve spent the weekend in b...

29 nov 10

Pillow Talk

I really like the design of these pillowcase covers from the new H&M Home collection. But the sentiment is all wrong for something to sit on my bed and potentially infiltrate through my dreams&#...

14 nov 10

In Honour Of My Orange Room

I am thinking of graduating from leopard to tiger print, as my jungle print of choice. However, when you do a google image search for ‘tiger print lingerie’, almost everything that comes ...

28 oct 10

Still

“Betrayals during wartime are nothing compared to betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.” Count Laszlo de Almás...

10 oct 10

Case In Point(s)

Oh DEAR (oh DEER), I need this. As I was saying yesterday… Antler Headband by Top Shop Unique Image source: the lovely Julia

16 sep 10

All Over The Place

Vogue USA May 2010 - "Americans In Paris" The trend towards minimalism and simplicity in fashion, the idea of classic style, has been ringing loud and clear for a while now. It seems like e...

15 sep 10

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