Love Lies

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

Schoolgirls at war with a rope

Mia Farrow & Frank Sinatra

A qualification for pseudonyms, Mr. Wilde. The untruths we tell in first person are masks in of themselves and therefore quite telling as well. The subject of disguise is so intriguing, I only wish that more people adopted the cloak of honest mystery as means of enlightening character with as much style as the subjects in these pictures.

Natalia Vodianova captured by Carter Smith

Reminiscent of "The Virgin Suicides"

I'd Like to Thank My Mom... & Stonewall Kitchen & Baby Jesus

My spicy lil' jar-full of Christmas miracles

Gift win!

Only two other presents need to be exchanged!

Opening my new Thelonious Monk biography!

Everything is delicious!

Train of Thought & Tolstoy

New York's sidewalk grates above the subway are my favorite part of the city. I romanticize Anna Karenina as I often walk unnecessarily on them. Give me a crowd so I have an excuse to reject the traditional pavement out of courtesy for others! Now, comfortably bored by the festivities of home at Christmastime, I'm mourning this practice of mine. Still, today's trip allowed me time to think of how drama is the study of contrasts & travel is dramatic by nature. It needs no extraneous violent lurches to claim this quality. There is busyness, purpose offset by a slow progression of passing-by scenes which, no matter how fast one may be moving, come at their own leisure towards one's window with slow motion aliveness. Suddenly, the point & inherent tragedy of travel, they've passed. Made casualties by the rail.

Other thoughts (in chronological order):

1. Damn, I've missed my stop.
2. Damn, three hour delay.
3. How fated to be seated next to a poet!
4. She's applied to NYU's Creative Writing Program?!
5. I love Deborah Landau.
6. Damn, engine failure.
7. Damn you, Amtrak.
8. This man needs to speak louder so I can listen.
9. This man reads Faulkner!
10. This man needs to stop staring at me.

Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde: Altered Egos Welcome

Sharon and Oui Oui wed themselves to temporary insanity. She wore white, a silver fox coat. The Other She wore mink and slipped a panda ring onto her loved one's finger. You may see the couple masquerading out in the real world as Lauren Jacqueline and Weiyi Chay.