If you ever find yourself standing in the bathroom at 11pm holding hair clippers with the urge to make a change in your life, DON’T.
YOUR LIFE IS FINE.
If you ever find yourself standing in the bathroom at 11pm holding hair clippers with the urge to make a change in your life, DON’T.
YOUR LIFE IS FINE.
Though he didn’t have the words to express it, a fact that frustrated him endlessly, Christopher was possessed by a deep sense of destiny. A sureness of his own terrific cause that, inexplicable as it was, gave him a more moving satisfaction than any other, and a haunting dissatisfaction too. For him, he was sure, the gears of industry turned, the rusted machinations of politics perservered, the great engines of the earth sputtered and started. For his joy, dawn stretched her rosy fingers, and for his pain the heavens cleft open and wept. In the curve of his jaw and the hollow tenor of his voice, Christopher believed one could find what made America brave, what had made Gatsby great, what made the stubborn stars shine on. All of this he would have said readily to anyone willing to listen, would have shouted and professed and cried, had he only the words.
I don’t have a handle on narrative prose whatsoever, and this is couple hundred degrees outside of my element. But I’m a firm believer that you can’t write anything really of value until you’ve written a huge amount of slush, so I might as well get started on my slush.
gives Laura Mulvey a high five, winks.
Today was all napping on the beach and striped espadrilles and comically large margaritas and bodyboarding badly and late night jacuzzing and spending time with people I don’t see nearly enough, in a place I haven’t been in far too long.
Now tonight will be sleepless, all lukewarm coffee and hotel lobbying as I pull a remote all-nighter to write and submit this essay on sexuality in slasher films, bust out one final online final, and—rapturously, diminished but not defeated—finish the semester once and for all.
“One of the bigger ironies about the IRS imbroglio is that it had nothing to do with taxes. These newly formed entities didn’t seek 501(c)(4) status to avoid taxes – these groups don’t earn profits and therefore don’t pay any taxes, regardless of their status. The important benefit that came from achieving 501(c)(4) status was freedom from having to disclose the names of any of their donors.”
“That’s right, what the I.R.S. was really deciding in these cases is which organizations have to disclose their funders and which don’t. And what it was trying to do – however dumbly it went about it – was to reduce the abuse of the campaign-finance rules, not the tax laws.”
