heartbreaker

I, Too
Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

(via poets.org)

just chill ’til you die

another post! obviously avoiding work. TGIF brahs. from the cut’s “25 Famous Women on the Best Advice They’ve Ever Given — or Received”:

Aidy Bryant: “Just chill ’til you die, pretty much.”

in aidy’s honor, this clip from SNL (a 1000 years ago i read about the top comedy sketches of the year and this one was on the list and it made me laugh) (this one too) (“is it like a different currency, or is it more like camel cash”):

from the dead?!

BUT IN REALLY GOOD NEWS

MAGIC MIKE XXL IS OUT

(please see my feelings about the original)

#comeagain?!

pinning its bearer to the ground

In his 1933 essay ‘The Last Messiah,’ Zapffe describes depression as the over-evolution of the mind. He compares the mind of the anxious or depressed person to a particular type of deer from paleontological times, who were thought to have died off after acquiring overly-heavy horns. ‘In depressive states,’ he writes, ‘the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendor pinning its bearer to the ground.’

new dream

TO RETIRE

on a good day

this is what good marfa living looks like: dropping off a bag of barbeque from rudy’s, picking up clyde from hilary’s, seeing friends, taking a sunset walk.

southern california wrap-up

first of all. is los angeles heaven.

PROOF THAT LOS ANGELES MAY BE HEAVEN

• the very best milk
• spas open all night
• bakeries with nutella banana pastries
• shop owners getting maximum use out of display signs

HIGHLIGHTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIP IN A SMALL NUTSHELL

• meeting nora
• meeting fox
• oldest best friends
• steve hely
• heavenly bakery cases
• sparkling rose with kathryn and ben
• tomato burrata salad (in a shallow gazpacho?) (weird but i’ll take it)
• starbucks mini frappucino challenge, part #1 (all grade F+/experience grade A+++++)
• the integratron!!!!
• korean spas
• wearing black socks with new balance sneakers
• catching up on silicon valley with courtney, fox, and oatmeal in the middle of the day
  
• getting all that free southwest credit just for changing flights
• icy cold 40oz draft bud light ross and i shared at the el paso airport
• my new fedora hat that makes me look 70% douchebag
• dancing to dancehall
• eating guacamole
• the target somewhere south of los angeles that had so many untried le croix flavors (mango?! cherry lime?!)
• pointing out the mysterious scratch on my rental car with great anxiety, and the palm springs rental car check-in guy — wearing a panama hat — saying, “don’t worry about it.”
• realizing it’s just not that easy, for anyone

special appearance by elephant trunk

this happened