Esther Press

2012-01-27T18:26:00.000-08:00

Little did the ones who knew the one in question know that the one in question was always planning, three steps ahead, the contours of those friendships.

2012-01-26T19:08:00.000-08:00

Reading "Albatross" across the street from CVS, Marysville, CA

2012-01-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

A reputation built on nothing but half-hearted sarcasm and grim networking, clique maintenance, periodic public displays, mostly overcompensated, of how lovely the friends are, especially the friends just like the one overcompensating. Add a touch of milked mystery. A dash of superiority complex, never exactly balanced by a not-to-believed humility. Run some weather around it. Splash about in the

2011-12-04T09:41:00.000-08:00

WHAT DO WOMEN DO ON SUNDAY? by Monika Rinck by the way, i'm developing a malevolent streak. this no longer effects you. but it does effect me. i find myself run through by different ages. nothing at all bothers me in any one of them. so i see everything as it is. outlines. mentally drained, sodden with poison, with honey. fidgety with rage and devotion. no one understands. only

2011-11-15T08:06:00.000-08:00

Ayya Khema--Anxiety

2011-11-08T22:57:00.000-08:00

"So great to decide to not respond to certain people ever again." "Run, don't walk"

2011-11-08T21:29:00.001-08:00

assurance, backbone, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, constancy, conviction, courage, dauntlessness, decision, dedication, doggedness, dogmatism, drive, energy, fearlessness, firm-ness, fortitude, grit, guts, hardihood, heart, independence, indomitability, intrepidity, nerve, obstinacy, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, self-confidence,

2011-11-07T19:52:00.000-08:00

ape, barmy, bats in the belfry, batty, berserk, bonkers, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, dingy, dippy, erratic, flaky, flipped, flipped out, freaked out, fruity, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, nuts, nutty, nutty as fruitcake, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, out of one's tree, out to lunch,

2011-11-06T22:18:00.000-08:00

Jack Kornfield 2011-10-10 63:01 Poetry and Beauty Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-11-05T00:43:00.001-07:00

"Stay as a bridge because the desert is lonely. There is always a sifting... of friends and lovers."

2011-11-04T11:09:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest things I've seen recently. Thank you Stand Up! Chicago. (For those unfamiliar with the Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker--he's the worst union-buster around, and may be recalled.)

2011-10-29T10:45:00.000-07:00

Reading Zizek transcripts, Chandra’s Sacred Games, Zultanski’s Cop Kisser, viewing video of national occupations of inner cities, watching Conceiving Ada, Tea and Sympathy, Rome, Open City, Paisan, Two Women, Undercurrent, Mamma Roma, finished Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, watering garden plot and watching little green things push out of unlevel dirt, missing the daylong meditation in

2011-10-25T22:00:00.001-07:00

Germany Year Zero

2011-10-25T21:58:00.000-07:00

Paisan

2011-10-25T21:55:00.001-07:00

Roma, città aperta

2011-10-20T08:32:00.001-07:00

Exhausted by the relentless self-boosterism on Facebook.

2011-10-15T12:18:00.001-07:00

I disagree.

2011-10-11T21:59:00.000-07:00

Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-01T11:33:00.000-07:00

Nada Gordon Scented Rushes Roof 2010 $13.95 Softcover Bawdy, over-the-top, absurd, believable, sensual, romantic, mitotic, pan-sexual, exuberant, flowing, wild, purple, laughable, erotic, sensory, disjunctive, overwhelming, narcotic, obsessive, lovely, passionate, funny, swollen, diction-harried. Scented Rushes is a feast of release: of gendered and genderless passion, freely flying into

2011-09-16T07:31:00.000-07:00

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, THE WHITE STRIPES--"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"

2011-09-14T15:54:00.001-07:00

PJ HARVEY--"The Words That Maketh Murder"

2011-09-11T21:59:00.001-07:00

2011-09-07T08:50:00.001-07:00

2011-08-28T21:50:00.001-07:00

$36 at SPD’s sidewalk sale equals Bök, C. (2001). Eunoia . Toronto: Coach House Books. Brolaski, J. T. (2011). Gowanus atropolis. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse. Calkins, J. (2006). A story of witchery. Los Angeles, Calif.: Les Figues Press. Conrad, C. A. (2009). The book of Frank. Tucson, Ariz.: Chax Press. Doris, S. (2000). Conference . Bedford, Mass.: Potes & Poets Press. Foust,

2011-08-20T05:34:00.001-07:00

Translator’s note: Katsu means “arrowroot” and to means “wisteria.” Arrowroot and wisteria, being vines, are unable to stand by themselves but grow by entwining with other plants. Because of this, in China and Japan, arrowroot and wisteria are used as a symbol of something that is very complicated. Buddhist philosophy strives to describe what reality is. Because reality cannot be adequately

2011-08-09T21:26:00.001-07:00

EXPOSITION 36 (DECOMPOSITION 10) Intentionality of the author, in her words, In her plot, in her quoting, in his views, In his/her memory, in his/her class, {Gramsci removed class} outpouring into alterity, the wheel spinning, the unknown naming, the end of guidance, the nodes working a nothingment into an alsomeant.

2011-08-07T16:09:00.000-07:00

"Why is the educational apparatus in fact the dominant ideological State apparatus in capitalist social formations, and how does it function? For the moment it must suffice to say: 1. All ideological State apparatuses, whatever they are, contribute to the same result: the reproduction of the relations of production, i.e. of capitalist relations of exploitation. 2. Each of them contributes

2011-08-04T02:22:00.000-07:00

Originally published by BlazeVOX in 2005, my After the Giraffes is now on Scribd. After the Giraffes (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

2011-08-02T06:33:00.001-07:00