Thanks, HC, that means a lot. I just applied for the PC, I've done 2 terms of AmeriCorps so I'm thinking my chances of acceptance are pretty good.

so i can just skip right past writing preserve and go right to a book?

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE THAT DANTE

I would pay to see you work in an ostrich metaphor.

i need this translated into italian for a tattoo like, yesterday.

I'd hire you. You're full of fruition.

i could guarantee a bird metaphor or simile in every piece of copy. or at least some type of bird mention.

"The hummingbird's golden wing flutters are as sweet to the ears as strawberries."

i would happily work there but I WOULD LITERALLY NEVER ever care about what was happening. i would just snicker from the second i started work until the second i ended.

This made me ugly laughcry. I, too, am a failed writer joining the Peace Corps.

You would be the perfect person to make that indescribable nonsense fun. I might actually attempt to visit her website more.

I would read it. I think Preserve is made for us to make an artisanal fun of it.

blake

I will forever treasure Preserve's prose due to the glory that was "backyard-cum-feasting-hall."

You should have gone. The scale, the glow of all that sugar in that space, the smell...all of it was awe inspiring. Many people made the mistake of dismissing this installation as being meant only to shock. The shock and discomfort from the racial imagery was only a part of it. Kara Walker took shocking, ugly,…

Who is looking?" And it's always been the same answer for the most part. How do people look? How are people supposed to look? Are white audiences looking at it in the right way? And are black audiences looking to see this piece? And, of course, my question is: What is the right way to look at a piece that is full…

If someone can pull off a Joseph Stalin, I'm in.

In my Halloween Convention, Sexy Anything is not allowed unless it's something not traditionally associated with sexiness. Sexy nurse? Banned. Sexy toilet plunger? Go for it. Sexy schoolgirl? Oh dear God no. Sexy Sigmund Freud? Oh dear God yes.