July 2011
“The fork drama really started when a Byzantine-born princess married the doge of Venice in 1005. She ate with a set of golden forks she brought with her, and the Italians were not pleased. “Food was a gift from God, and to use an artificial means of conveying it to the mouth implied that this heavenly gift was unfit to be touched by human hands,”
—The Devil Didn’t Invent the Fork
June 2011
“Once we passed a pack of naked children stoning a dog beside the road. Sala stopped and took several pictures. ‘Jesus,’ he muttered, ‘look at those vicious little bastards! We’ll be lucky to get out of here alive.’”
—Live Easy, Breathe Lightly.: The Rum Diary (via fuckyeahhst)
These Boots Are Made For Walki
Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Are Made for Walking//Nancy Sinatra
The Electronical Rattle Bag: Ezra Pound's Proposition →
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Beauty is sexual, and sexuality
Is the fertility of the earth and the fertility
Of the earth is economics. Though he is no recommendation
For poets on the subject of finance,
I thought of him in the thick heat
Of the Bangkok night. Not more than fourteen, she saunters up to you…