December 2011
13 posts
Bruce Christensen's Beetlejuice Museum and Studio... →
As part of my own personal “year in review,” I found this. I’m deeming it the best article about things I love published on my actual birthday, hands down.
Christensen, who is forty-seven, lives in a rent-stabilized studio apartment on West Thirty-fourth Street that he has recently begun calling the Beetlejuice Museum. It occupies about four hundred square feet and houses...
“We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be...”
– Vaclav Havel’s Critique of the West (via theatlantic)
This is so good.
The drive towards standardization is fatally flawed, Havel believed: “life is nonstandard.”
Thought Catalog: How Many Cats is Too Many Cats? →
Pouring out my paltry supply of affection into a being incapable of fully understanding or appreciating it is what my life’s all about. It’s what I’m best at. Even on a full stomach, if given a choice between love and a piece of imitation crab meat sculpted into a fish shape, a cat will always choose the tasty treat. If placed in a different home, the cat will forget its owner almost...
AmericanPaki: Why I am Not Protesting at Occupy →
As tempted as many white Occupy protesters are to proclaim “we are all one and the same!”, you cannot expect minorities, whose communities have been subjected to intimidation and abuse, to suddenly throw away the race card and jump on the bandwagon. These are critical times, and as such, it is important for Occupy to get it right. We are all part of the 99% – and the concerns of some...
“To intervene in the name of transformation means precisely to disrupt what has...”
– Judith Butler, “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy” in Undoing Gender
(AKA: what i can confidently say is the most important thing i’ve learned in grad school thus far. also important to note: this comes after many hours of—i would say... 