Defiant Definer

m. Writer. Eater. Etc. If there is any deity to me, it’s language. - Joseph Brodsky

[mabellonghetti]

Catherine Zeta-Jones, 1990′s

[deforest]

[mubiblog]

Maureen O'Hara for Lady Godiva of Coventry (Arthur Lubin, 1955)

[wehadfacesthen]

Jeanne Moreau receiving a trumpet lesson from Miles Davis, 1958. Davis wrote and played the score for Moreau’s film Ascenseur a l’échafaud I Elevator to the Gallows  (Louis Malle, 1958)

[historicaltimes]

Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall, 1989.

via reddit

[boxesofoldphotos]

232323232%7Ffp83232>uqcshlukaxroqdfv66:6=ot>5724=6;;=343=XROQDF>2687658:63252ot1lsi View at Nullbrook

[whenyourise]

Nuclear war?

cool cool cool cool cool

[whenyourise]

I just realized this was the last summer of my 20s and I’m totally okay with that because I’ve been doing great things focused on important people and drinking a lot of homemade watermelon agua fresca. I can’t see how else I could improve it aside from maybe a few more plane rides.

But I’ve also published hundreds of articles in the past year and two months which makes me feel much more secure in who I am as a writer, even if I’m having a hard time letting go of some final pieces for publishing in magazines or journals. 

[whenyourise]

fuck off government nazis

Net neutrality is necessary to persevere our country through this era and into the next. More and more, the Internet is becoming an essential means of communication and daily life for people, taking away those rights and commodifying them are dangerous and reprehensible to imagine the education repercussions that could occur if children grow up in a world that has less than their parents in that way. Especially when it's clear that technology is not only becoming the future, it's the now with more and more jobs needed to provide services on, through, or because of the internet. For our present and future, please preserve net neutrality.

[whenyourise]

I really miss my friends.

[whenyourise]

John Carl Warnecke,  Sketch of the plaza at 33 Thomas Street.

[justlikethistrain]

[mubiblog]

Robert Redford by Annie Leibovitz, 1980

[whenyourise]

from Missed Time by Ha Jin

Nothing is better than to live a storyless life that needs no writing for meaning— when I am gone, let others say they lost a happy man, though no one can tell how happy I was.

[womanhouse]

Renata Adler in New York Magazine, 1983

[whenyourise]

Already had to call 911 two times this summer already and it’s only June 5th.

[whenyourise]

it’s really difficult when you’re in public and you suddenly see this bloated tomato of a man on television pretty much dooming your world and some things you concretely love about living in it. 

[mabellonghetti]

Willem Dafoe and John Lurie photographed by Steven Klein, 1990

[icphoto]

[bremser]

unknown, Weegee Disguised as an Ice Cream Peddler, ca. 1943