Delightful Shape

Furlough day.

Self-Portraits in a Concave Mirror

7 Songs for Now

1. Yacht, Waste of Time
2. Swans, Fool #2
3. Anya Marina, Whatever You Like
4. any track from Zola Jesus, The Spoils
5. Hot Butter, Popcorn
6. Judy Garland, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
7. Ooioo, Sol

also the brilliant intro to Rhianna's Hard, but just the intro.

Shifra ♥

"merry christmas (i guess it takes a jew to prefer this over happy holidays isn't it so nice to say merry...)"

What Writing Looks Like

Want

Ended at $126.13

Discovery

Our old apartment received very little sunlight. We've been basking in the natural luminescence of our new home since we arrived. But as cold weather set in, I suggested that we close the drapes (which came with the place; I've yet to install new ones) in the living room when we're not using it-- to help keep the chill out. Not only did they keep the cold out, but they kept the us in. We discovered privacy. We prance about naked in the living room and exclaim, "Privacy!"

Naked Boy & Coffin

For Bradford

This Weekend's Cake

Génoise riche filled with a thin layer of dark chocolate (“Like a Pepperidge Farm Milano!”) and frosted with chocolate silk meringue buttercream. Cake and frosting recipes by RLB. The génoise included an Earl Grey syrup, the particular flavor of which was never clearly apparent-- the chocolate was too pervasive, though, I must admit, I don’t count that as a fault or failure.

Touching Photo, a list

• 1979
• bouquet held comfortably
• their both wearing glasses
• her open toes
• his height
• Tony Manero
• the tree caressing his crown
• Adrian Lyne's Foxes
  
• the subject of their gazes
• its having just rained
• overnight bags
• stillness/motion

I find this image extremely touching.

From a Cottage by the Sea

The Regular

Pictured here with new favorite, apples'n'onions.

Vanessa: ...what's going on with you? And, you're making that face again.

Dan: No, alright, look: this is getting ridiculous.

Vanessa: Jenny, have you ever heard of someone starting to make a brand new face at 19?

Jenny: I don't know. Ask Eric. He's master at two.

Eric: Excuse me?

Jenny: Blair told me you were responsible for sabotaging me at cotillion. What? You don't have anything to say to me?

Eric: Your sweet potatoes. are bland.

Drowsy/Lazy

Edge of the Ocean

Devastating

Close One

Deleted by request.

Length of time taken to play a game of Cribbage on the computer

11 min 04 sec
10 min 09 sec
08 min 51 sec
11 min 53 sec
12 min 01 sec
09 min 51 sec
10 min 56 sec
09 min 54 sec

Drawing (4/15/09-10/30/09)

First Snow

From This Weekend's Winter Market

Chocolate Cake

Alumni Notes

The post of 11/11/09 reminds me of a moment during my first year in college when, as a freshly out gay I witnessed two unimpugnably straight seeming dormmates wrestle one another to the floor in the hall yet again. When they'd completed their roughhousing and stood up, one of them had a huge erection. He noticed me noticing his erection. At the time, I felt as though I'd won-- as though I'd learned a malevolently powerful secret. I don't feel that way anymore. Although the event remains, as it was at the time, titillating, now I mostly wonder with a wry cynicism why the situation didn't immediately devolve into bisexual bacchanalia. All this took place, afterall, on the campus of Wesleyan University.