Male train
On the stairs, pedicure-pink nails. To my right, a shirt with cigarette-smoke accents. In front, a jaw ferociously chewing gum. Two seats away, crossed arms resting on a belly that juts out like a fleshy peninsula.
“Websites are today’s most radical and important art objects.” — Miltos Manetas
(click to view more; don’t miss out on reading his essay on the “Telic spirit” and the “Neen frame of mind”)
» Words that think for us | Prospect Magazine
the difference between “indecent” and “inappropriate”:
An affair between a teacher and a pupil that was once improper is now inappropriate; a once indecent joke is now unacceptable. This linguistic shift is revealing. Improper and indecent express moral judgements, whereas inappropriate and unacceptable suggest breaches of some purely social or professional convention. Such “non-judgemental” forms of speech are tailored to a society wary of explicit moral language. … Calling your action indecent appeals to you as a human being; calling it inappropriate asserts official power.
The Magnetic Fields - I Don’t Want To Get Over You
I could make a career of being blue —
I could dress in black and read Camus,
smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth
(Camus relief via)
