24 February 2009
delicious
22 February 2009
diagrams
16 February 2009
windbreaker
The month of February has, thus far, been characterized by lots of rain. Unlike most of the year, the norm this month is clouds, rain, and chill punctuated by the odd day of sun. It's very strange, considering I live in Southern California. But it is February, and strange things happen in February (and California is a strange state). This may be the most rain the region gets for months so I try to remember that the earth is so happy for it.
I've kind of been working, but I've also been doing things like lifting and hiking and reading blogs and downloading music. Here's a list of new things I've found that are distracting me from finishing my last semester of college:
Women would be amazed if they knew what men desire about them. Yes, of course, they want to see women naked and supine and melting, but male desire is far more readily stimulated by what the oblique glance discovers: the parted lips, the micron of eyelash which the mascara brush missed, the changing angle and shadow of cleavage, the bra-strap alternately displayed and covered up, the ripe-camembert plumpness at the edge of hips. There is, inside every adult man, a relentless Peeping Tom, a perennial 14-year-old boy, still amazed by the phenomenon of women on display, flagging their sexuality, their availability, with every square inch of visible flesh, clothing, make-up and curve. [ . . . ]
We desire the personality that we discern in the walk, the clothes, the laugh... We look, and sigh, and wish to do certain things to her, first urgently, then luxuriantly, and keep doing it indefinitely; but we also hunger to have her do certain things to us, unimaginable though it may seem - we want her to want us. We don't just want her surrender, like a slave captured in battle; we want her approbation, her adoration; we want to enchant her to desire us back. For, no matter how humble we feel before the dizzying fact of female beauty, men are just as narcissistic as women."
-John Walsh
06 February 2009
raindrops