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May 10, 2012 · Wanderlust

no idea of what is going to happen

no idea of what is going to happen

Tangier light doesn’t just hit the retina, it rewires the goddamn thing. That silhouette against the Mediterranean haze, the way the architecture dissolves into something between memory and hallucination, it’s the exact visual frequency of not knowing what comes next and being perfectly fine with that fact. I have no idea of what is going […]

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Hostage to the Golden Hour: Beni & Kathy’s Barn

Hostage to the Golden Hour: Beni & Kathy’s Barn

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Beauty…Β  it’s a goddamn trap, and this photograph proves […]

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The Lawn Bowlers Have Figured Out What We’re All Running From

The Lawn Bowlers Have Figured Out What We’re All Running From

So here’s what nobody tells you about escaping Palo Alto: you can’t. Not really. You can put continents between yourself and those manicured lawns where old men in white execute shots with the precision of surgeons, but the Ghetto, yeah that’s what they call it, the Faculty Ghetto, like living in five million dollar Craftsman […]

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Bagan – The Crumbling Truth

Look, there’s a violence to beauty this complete, this unrelenting. You stand there among these temples (thousands of them, no bullshit, actual thousands) rising out of the dust like broken teeth in some ancient god’s jaw, and the whole damned thing refuses to comfort you with meaning. It just is. Stupas and pagodas crumbling in […]

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Bagan – The Crumbling Truth
Mavericks

Mavericks

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing. Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel You don’t understand Mavericks until you’ve stood on those cliffs with salt wind tearing at your face, watching thirty foot walls of Pacific rage explode against rock […]

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January 1, 2012 · The City

The Gorgeous Futility of Roses in Sand

The Gorgeous Futility of Roses in Sand

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry, The Little Prince You don’t stick hundreds of roses in the sand at dawn on New Year’s Day because you’re well-adjusted. You do it because something broke open inside you, or because you needed to make […]

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Great Expectations = Brief Encounter

Great Expectations = Brief Encounter

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Look at this photograph I took and tell me something isn’t dying right in front of you. The Stanford Movie Theatre on University Avenue in Palo Alto. The marquee reading Great Expectations […]

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