Don’t you see? Because we’re so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. I figure the bigger the mistake looks, the better the chance I’ll have […]
Author Carolyn See says, “write what you know.” I don’t know much, but I have been living in Ecuador for the greater part of the past year. That’s sounds exotic, […]
Intimate relationships become more crucial to survival in a society in which religion wanes in meaning. Relationships become the new refuge, the new higher power. The collective has yielded to […]
I want to marry a Victoria’s Secret model, but a virgin, to stay at home, cook for me, and have my kids. – Anonymous A few nights ago, after I had missed a deliciously […]
From CLOSER by Patrick Marber ANNA How did you get so brutal? ALICE I lived a little. ANNA You’re primitive. ALICE Yeah, I am. How’s Dan? ANNA Fine. ALICE Did […]
Piggy had to canvas relentlessly to get herself a good part on that show, while Kermit was always the star. Because she loved him, Piggy would always take whatever he […]
Take lukewarm water and massage the penis with it until it turns red and becomes erect. Then take a piece of thin parchment and put hot tar on it and […]
No pieceof landcan Imakemy home For eachnewclimateI meetI pineasonce beforealready I had beenaddicted And I always leavea stranger Being bornchanged by ages toolived To enjoy just oneinitialinstant of life I […]
How should a person be?.. You can admire anyone for being themselves. It’s hard not to, when everyone’s so good at it. But when you think of them all together […]
Men are most attracted to the pheromones of women dropping eggs like it’s Waffle House on a Sunday… The pill was created, first and foremost, for equality. The idea was […]
Fairy tales are for children. Very often they’re about a little girl who doesn’t want to grow up to be a woman. At the crisis of that threshold crossing she’s […]
Quito was always more rock n’ roll, where Guayaquil is like… David Guetta. And so it was that I finally landed in Guayaquil. Guayaquil is erm… the main port city. […]
Yesterday I went to Manhattan Saddlery to find a light pair of riding breeches. The man working there was seemingly incongruous with the refined apparel on display. His gelled hair, […]
Cock-tail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters—it is vulgarly called bittered sling, and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it […]
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out […]
The benefits of a philosophy of neo-religious pessimism are nowhere more apparent than in relation to marriage, one of modern society’s most grief-stricken arrangements, which has been rendered unnecessarily hellish […]