Unassuming
magic-balls-and-spanish-warships:
In El Paso, we don’t say “I love you”, we say “No mames guey, y’all, Chico’s Tacos, EL CHUCOOOOO, nah guey, We are a Big City, Hell Paso, guey” which means “We are not a big city at all (nor are we Juarez)” which is so accurate, I think.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has long been one of my favorite writers. He is currently traveling in France and his writing is reaching another level. It is sublime. His latest is my favorite so far—mediations on language, isolation, and home. I feel like these few sentences sum up a lot of my feelings from the past few years.
Things I’ve found in library books, part III.
This is the coolest so far (to me) because it is an old fashioned card catalog!
Things I’ve found in library books, part II. Amanda Jean is a really Texas name.
I’ve listened to this probably 30 times in the past two days. From the slightly off harmonies at the beginning to the last “you and me babayyyy” it warms me heart and soul.
i have a lot of issues with charter schools generally and from what i hear/what i observe in the transition from the end of their school day to homework help in the class i’m in, the one connected to the after school program i work at has a lot of the same issues the one i used to work at did
…
you are eighteen — give or take a few
shots of espresso and one night stands —
and you are sandwiched in the backseat
of the car with the six suitcases you somehow convinced your mother
to let you pack for college — let’s call it,
being upfront to your roommate that you are
coming…
Somerville Theater on Dover Street showing Untamed with Tyrone Power on July 14, 1955
thesis time.
