i came across some of my old artist books from around 2003-2005 today. i haven’t unearthed them for at least three or four years. i was showing them to someone here at school, and after she left, i found myself diving into them. many of them are sketchbook journals, covering my time in Scotland in […]
after too many years of fighting 18 wheelers on the Cross Bronx Expressway, i now taking a series of small parkways into Manhattan. starting somewhere up in Connecticut, from the Merritt to the Cross County to the Saw Mill to the Henry Hudson. all these highways in miniature, made twee by the lack of trucks. […]
i’ve been blogging in one form or another since 1999. my motivations for doing it have changed over those 10 years, from catharsis to ego-tripping to therapy to writing exercise. i realized recently that all the writing i’ve done here, so much of it terrible and chronicling terrible things, is the best gift i have […]
i am jealous.
okay, this sounds like the oldest tale in the book of sibling relationships. i am jealous of her. it’s stupid that it took me nearly 29 years on the planet to not only figure this out that this is probably most of the root of the problems in our relationship.
what prompted this? she […]
Angels in America is to be part of the Signature Theatre’s 2010-2011 season. i have a long standing obsession with this play, and in particular the brilliant HBO miniseries from a few years ago. i absolutely cannot wait to see it. come hell, high water or my thesis year, i will be down in New […]
when i was in California, Alek and his boyf and i went to see (500) Days of Summer. i don’t go to the movies much, mostly because i live in an area that has no indie theaters, which pretty much all i would bother to see in the theatre anyway. i was mildly interested in […]
my lungs still hurt from the third-hand smoke. one of my colleagues has a minivan that i borrowed today to move into my new warehouse space. he is also a heavy smoker, which means his car reeks, and he is also 23, which means his car is full of all sorts of strange boy paraphenalia […]
on Tuesday, i had the opportunity to sit in on Alek’s graduate seminar class. seeing how UC Davis’ MFA program works was enlightening (it has a very different philosophy than the program i am currently in), though somewhat bittersweet because i realized that this is the sort of research i should have done before actually […]
nyc subway self portrait, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
i often leave school very late at night. i don’t have a set time that i leave, but (especially this time of year) i almost always leave after dark. i park within a two block radius of school, usually just down Purchase Street. the first block of […]
my hatred for New York Times “lifestyle” pieces has been long-lived and well-documented. i’d like to think that i have some sort of perspective on the ridiculousness of this neurotic, overeducated yet completely vapid social climbing demographic that this sort of article targets (i maintain that it started in a Woody Allen film, on an […]