With works such as Fight Club, Damned and Choke, Palahniuk is infamous for taking a sharp scalpel to whatever he’s thinking about at the moment. In this case, sex is on the docket…
Will be interesting to explore this one.
Amanda
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age…
Read more:
http://www.amazon.com/Steal-Like-Artist-Things-Creative/dp/0761169253/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
Covering one of the most unforgettable moments in modern history—and including images of Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, and more—The Haight is an indispensable gallery of legendary photographer Jim Marshall’s Sixties-era San Francisco photography.
Sent to me by Paul Matsumoto, this poem about his friend Janis Joplin was added to my Haight-Ashbury tumblr:
Outside the Palace of Fine Arts
the brassy bedouin gifted
this uneasy teen
her guitar.
And as
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Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest, and most affordable, solution to cash flow problems. A remedy for impotence lies in Montaigne. Seneca offers advice upon losing a job. And Nietzsche has shrewd counsel for everything from loneliness to illness.
The Consolations of […]
Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and facts to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow the reader to develop a better understanding of polyamory and the […]
No, it isn’t what you think….it’s a valuable resource for healthy living created by an inspiring woman, Margarita Restrepo.
The smoothies will make your toes curl! But there’s more to it than recipes.
Indulge yourself and check it out…
http://nakedfoodmagazine.com/margarita-restrepo/
Pic source: Naked […]
Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed writer on technology and culture. His most recent book, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
A New York Times bestseller, “The Shallows” discusses the personal consequences of Internet and computer use and, more broadly, examines the […]
The mixture of history and science, anecdote, and interview makes this a truly remarkable book. Anyone interested in the range and breadth of human sexual activity, whether from personal curiosity or professional interest, will find this well-written and carefully researched book to be enlightening and entertaining. (Roy F. Baumeister, professor of psychology, Florida State University)
From his introduction: “The story of humanity is in every way an accumulation of knowledge and experience, and the resulting expansion of human consciousness. Even if the acquisition of consciousness was initiated by our acquisition of an adequately equipped brain architecture, the accumulation of knowledge and experience made available to us as a result of […]
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