Rachel Profiling

Things not to do alone in your apartment...

Read Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby. I found an old copy in a free bin on my stairs last...

Aug 1st

people are reading magazines again?

[An amalgamation of its own history, the youth of the West are left with consuming cool rather that...

Jul 31st

A Celebration of Maurice Sendak with Tony...

Jul 30th

The Great Chick-Lit Cover Up (Guardian UK)

Jul 30th

A dingo made her crazy?

To quote Anthony Lane: “The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years,...

Jul 30th

Hillary Rhoda in Steven Meisel’s “State of...

Jul 30th

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Whenever anyone tells me “maybe I’ll just go into finance” from now on**, I will...

Jul 30th

“para ti el banano madura al peso de tu dulce amor” (for...

Jul 29th

Public School Intelligentsia

Jul 29th

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Reasons why Erica Jong is a mf badass, #4578 “Suddenly women are understanding that our...

Jul 29th

“June 16, 1948: The artist who really loves people loves them...”
— The Diaries of Dawn Powell may...

Jul 28th

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And now for something completely different, here is Beverley Sills in Pigoletto from The Muppet...

Jul 28th

Fear and Trigger Finger in NYC

Last night, sometime in that indigo cavern between 4 and 5am, I woke up, as I do most nights now, in...

Jul 28th

30 Rock really does me right some days.

Liz: I got in this business to be like Rosemary, to make people think. Jack: No, you got into this...

Jul 28th

tonight i am playing the role of party girl.

Jul 26th

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MJ- Wanna Be Startin Somethin’ 2008. Not going to lie, it’s catchy like bird flu. He...

Jul 25th

via scumblr. may tonight be a little bit epic.

Jul 25th

is it embarassing

that i got my b-day party dress inspiration from blair waldorf for this evening? please don’t...

Jul 25th

E-Mancipate

Jul 25th

Seems like no matter where I go I will always live in some...

Jul 24th

Elizabeth Weinberg, 2008 I tip my hat to any photographer...

Jul 24th

Margaret Atwood.

“On the whole she fares better with the men, if they can work their way past the awkward...

Jul 23rd

And in related news: this.

Jul 23rd

I would not exactly dub this "succeeding...

Or at least you know, not without really trying. Not great.

Jul 23rd

Gladys Nederlander, 1925-2008

Jul 23rd

Listen

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Man I am feeling Fleet Foxes like eight times over this morning.

Jul 22nd

Joseph Maida, Matthew, 2002. The Interior Portraits series...

Jul 22nd

Decisions

kettering: I’m having one of those days where I don’t like myself that much. One of my favorite,...

Jul 21st

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MBAR- The Debtor File under: the only thing I want to listen to today.

Jul 21st

Tracy Letts

Jul 21st

Jayne Mansfield with her dogs in L.A. She spoke five...

Jul 21st

“The circumstances of women’s lives…provide...”
— Mary Catherine Bateson,...

Jul 21st

Evening Gown for a debutante by Norman Hartnell, 1924.

Jul 19th

good morning

A: i am also mad because i wanted to treat myself to the famous $8 egg and cheese at the general store but it's too hot to eat
Me: bourgeoisie problems?
A: are there any other kind?

Jul 18th

Charles Cushman, Battery Park, 1941.

Jul 18th

Ok, Snagfilms is pretty awesome.

That is all. But also: Watch Black, White + Gray. It’s so good, and so free.

Jul 18th

i found two pennies.

Jul 17th

Watch

In the Heights-Recording Session (new video of cast) Going to see this, round two, tonight. B-day...

Jul 17th

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Great behind-the-scenes on the Waterfalls/public art in the city 2008.

Jul 17th

Encouragement.

C: Just wanted to let you know--even though you get old, the wounds of adolescence never heal
C: Happy birthday!

Jul 17th

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Desmond Richardson, aka one fine specimen, aka choreographer and director of Complexions...

Jul 17th

Kay Ryan

Jul 17th

The Dakota in 1890. Still my favorite (residential)...

Jul 17th

happy to me, camilla parker bowles, phyllis diller, and...

Jul 17th

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Rudolph Nureyev on the Muppet Show. One of the more absurdist things to come out of children’s...

Jul 17th

25, off to a good start.

[If there is a philosophy implicit in these pages, it is that great pleasure in food is there for...

Jul 16th

Make up artist Bud Westmore with stars Ann Blyth and William...

Jul 15th

in which we discuss language

A: i had no idea she was that funny and/or witty
R: i plan to use banana split as a way to describe people
A: "that chick is a banana split" et al
R: people really don't talk like that anymore...is it because no one wants to objectify women in such creative ways?
A: ha
R: it's always bitch, whore, slut
R: never, she is a curdled milkshake and send it back please

Jul 15th

Jul 15th

Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe in a...

TC: Poor innocent me. And all this time I thought you were a bona fide blonde.
MM: I am. But nobody's that natural. And incidentally, fuck you.
TC: Now do you think we can get the hell out of here? You promised me champagne, remember?
MM: I remember. But I don't have any money.
TC: You're always late and you never have any money. By any chance are you under the delusion that you are Queen Elizabeth?
MM: What's that cunt got to do with it?
TC: Queen Elizabeth never carries money either. She's not allowed to. Filthy lucre must not stain the royal palm. It's a law or something.
MM: I wish they'd pass a law like that for me.
TC: Keep going the way you are and maybe they will.
MM: Remember, I said if anybody ever asked you what I was like, what Marilyn Monroe was really like-well, how would you answer them? I bet you'd tell them I was a slob. A banana split.
TC: Of course. But I'd also say you are a beautiful child.

Jul 15th

“Please excuse me if the answer is obvious and the question...”
— -Kate Christensen, The Great...

Jul 15th

Len Jenshel, Long Island City

Jul 15th

Joni etc.

[She will love them when she sees them/They will lose her if they follow And she only means to...

Jul 15th

Suck at Life/Failblog/Do Not Want:...

Dear (insert higher power), I understand that with every action must come a reaction, karma and all...

Jul 15th

Today is one of those days when I am so busy that I can’t even stop to think about whether or...

Jul 14th

(via Orangette) Molly Wizenberg, who runs Orangette, my...

Jul 14th

I’m looking forward to the film, but the Beautiful...

Jul 14th

Cheetos are orange

Jul 14th

“I’m not stupid. I don’t go around throwing up...”
— Tracey Emin (article via...

Jul 14th

New DVD alert: Just got a mint copy of PBS’ “The...

Jul 14th

Irving Penn, Cafe in Lima

Jul 14th

The New Yorker cover controversy

Jul 14th

haircut time. i trust no other but kate hanley at w&b....

Jul 14th

Quick question: Why did no one tell me for three years that...

Jul 14th

teachmecoyness: Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor - The...

Jul 12th

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Sigh. I am posting tipsy at 4am, which is generally against my credo. But I had to say that this is...

Jul 12th

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Thank you SYTYCD, for yet again managing to be a massively popular show that slips in moments of...

Jul 11th

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saramcpherson: Rostam Batmanglij - Campus A chamber remake from the keyboardist aka the other 1/4...

Jul 11th

Mike Disfarmer maintained a portrait studio in his hometown...

Jul 11th

Wet Hot Slippery Slope

That The Washingtonienne got picked up as an HBO pilot with SJP at the helm makes me think...

Jul 11th

This article is good.

Even if it is by the guy who edits the offshoot art mag of N+1 (which I also read and like...

Jul 10th

The person who finds a way to bring this back will probably...

Jul 10th

Gold stars for everyone

F: I think you should carry around stickers
F: Lisa frank stickers, gold stars, whatever
F: For people who save you from oncoming traffic
F: I would already have three or four

Jul 10th

Cross, Don't Cross.

Walking outside earlier, I almost got hit by a taxi. Not almost almost, that happens all the time if...

Jul 10th

Social Studies

“Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”; not...

Jul 10th

“Angels, a new musical based on Milton’s epic poem, Paradise...”
— A theater release this...

Jul 9th

A City Built of Clay

“Throughout the thirteen years he ran New York Magazine, Clay Felker oversaw sociological...

Jul 9th

related.

It is my little brother’s birthday today (hi Noah), and so I’d like to take a moment out...

Jul 9th

Corey Arnold, Swans are Evil, 2003, C-Print. Corey’s...

Jul 9th

The Good Life

From the LA Times: “On DAY 1 of Paris Fashion Week, Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West was...

Jul 8th

From an old issue of Sassy. Sigh.

Jul 8th

It had to be said.

Jul 8th

Listen

Robyn-Cobrastyle (Teddybears cover) This song is summer ass-shaking defined.

Jul 7th

“Adama Kargbo is a 24yr old Sierra Leonean-American...

Jul 7th

Here’s a thing I like to do: post pictures of people...

Jul 7th

“But the pleasure isn’t owning the person. The pleasure...”
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain...

Jul 7th

what the internet is doing to our brains

Jul 7th

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Why Rich is so the best. A pop culture montage in his hands becomes absurdist art (thanks Greg).

Jul 7th

Vlada Roslyakova by Greg Kadel, via Numero Magazine Jun/July...

Jul 7th

“The Carrie model is not going to get women writers...”
— Oversharing/underachieving on...

Jul 7th

Amaury Laporte.

Jul 7th

Global Lives Project

Jul 7th

Jessica Antola, Suzhou, China. Her travel photography makes...

Jul 7th

Luc Sante's Lost City

“Now, more than a decade after I finally finished my book Low Life, the city has changed in...

Jul 7th

Who killed the electric youth?

“And the popular culture bore this feeling out. The Mad Max trilogy, Escape from New York,...

Jul 6th

This guy is, in every way I know, one of my biggest heroes....

Jul 4th

I LOVED IT. The first 45 minutes are some of the sweetest...

Jul 3rd

Demarchelier. La Jeune fille de l’Ile Saint-Louis. (via)

Jul 2nd

Things that go together

Peanut butter and chocolate Ben and Jerry Girls in Williamsburg and spandex And Josh Ritter and...

Jul 2nd

I like the way cartoon kids used to look.

Jul 2nd

Cultural Calendar MUST:

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. “Alfred A. Knopf, The Museum of Modern Art, and...

Jul 2nd

Larry Fink, one of my very favorite shooters who made...

Jul 2nd

Sarah Sudhoff

Jul 1st

(via nic) Somedays I think Nic has got it all figured out. ...

Jul 1st