“Needed Today: Artists who would restore the world to us once more and disappear by their own magic in the process. The greatest mystery is sunlight.”—Reflection by Daniel Aaron
Image: Ed White was the first American to perform a spacewalk. (NASA)
Johnson O’Connor English Vocabulary Builder (1939)
Unknown to 82 Percent: Risible
adj. Laughter-provoking, funny, amusing, comic, ludicrous, ridiculous. Risible is from the Latic risus, the past participle of ridere, to laugh. From ridere come also the English words, to Ridicule
American Zen Bones: Maezumi Roshi Stories (1999)
2. The Purpose of Zen
Maezumi was asked, “What is the purpose of Zen?”
He replied, “To be stupid. To be really stupid.”
An Image that Moves Me
Image: Nintendo Ad by Paul Abbit (2001)
On American Women
Commercial Break
The sun rises on the bent corner of things
The sun rises on the bent corner of things--
I look at its soft streams and slice its haze with curiosity
To be moved is to be addressed in someway
Blooms erupt from the provocations of the sun
And what we, experience as a beauty
is a strange prism of affection--
warped premeditated survival
A peculiar arrangement that plants ascent to--
Labor produced from stellar love streams
To provoke affection means
we are always-already drawn into fidelity
Curving back to the bent corner of things
NSFW
Image from Otoko by Tamotsu Yato
BENT Questions: Saam Niami (@saam_niami)
So tell me how BENT you are…
Virus or Bacteria? Bacteria
Preferred Pronoun? He/They
What Periodic Table Element are you? Boron
Favorite Object? Iranian passport
What shape are you? Truncated icosahedron
Give us a texture. Pulled Tobacco
Can’t answer.
Favorite person of Color that you disagree with? My brother
What sound are you? Heavy base in a car that is inappropriately loud right before parking.
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? Can I say none?
What’s the last thing you broke? I pulled the front bumper off my friend’s car
The last person, you kissed? My friend and I kissed his little brother’s cheeks at midnight on new year’s
The best thing about men’s rights activists? They make it very known
Do you meditate? Yes
Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare? Solar Flare
Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS. OCULOLINCTUS, easy.
Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist. All in favor of a world without men but if the separatists are white and/or are wealthy I don’t want to hear about it.
Favorite Mythological Character? The snake demon who is the ancestor of one of the greatest warriors in Persian mythology
What type of Cancer are you? Mouth
Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? Matriarchal punishment
Who do you actually hate? The poet Coleman Barks.
Best regrettable purchase this month? I bought $400 worth of clothes at a popup (trying to resell them lmfaooooo)
Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian…gets appropriate hate but sometimes I do just think she’s trying her best
Your favorite body of water. The Yuba River
What’s the most middle-class thing you’ve done this week? Looked for apartments in Brooklyn
I’m only politically correct when…I’m around white people
What’s your favorite scar on your body? The one on my chin because my mama has the same one :’)
Last time you cried tears of joy. When my dad told me he’s been in therapy
Your most noble trait. I try never to say no if someone asks me for help
I know the taste of...Dog treats