Author Archives: Julianne

Today my mom taught me to say some curse words in Spanish, the old ones from the ’50s when she grew up, and she was giggling like she was going to hell. “Hijo de la chingada,” hee hee hee, “that … Continue reading →

This is a story about control. The statue: a rendering of Alison Lapper in the rotating place in Trafalgar Square, historically the domain of generals and monarchs; Lapper, born with the birth defect phomocilia syndrome which left her armless and … Continue reading →

‘sole news but fuckit: jessica sendeth the funniest shinola ever: Harriet Miers’ blog: I think you can probably tell who came out on top in Miers v Six Vodka Tonics! My first case and I lost it!! LOL conducted an … Continue reading →

Serendipity. On the Jewish new year, I was playing good Catholic girl for the first time in a lunar cycle, wearing the Virgen de Guadalupe emblem on the bust of my pink tee, reading about Mighty Guadalupana Coatlaxopeuh Tonantzin, and … Continue reading →

lemme tell you bout the baddest chick i know

Flanked by an absurd seven-foot-tall wooden racquetball racquet that Miles had leaned against the bookcase and which made me feel like the incredibly shrinking woman, hit it or quit it‘s editorial braintrust stood today, together for the first time ever … Continue reading →

LOKING might be better than Loving, I think: the BOBW (best of both worlds). Jessica is a terrifically inspiring craft partner; almost exactly a year ago, we sat on Steven’s orange carpet in the old apartment and she helped construct … Continue reading →

New York, you have until October 29 to see LA painter Sage Vaughn‘s gorgeous diaphonous landscapes and anthropomorphic gang paintings, in which a jagged estuary of bluejays, spotted owls, robins, hummingbirds perch on razorwire fences and telephone poles, their breasts … Continue reading →

two new lil kim tracks at dubcnn.com (scroll down)–lyrics and beats, not so much, but wow does kim’s voice sound amazing and raw like the grimy end of a grate when she’s not fronting so untouchable/ uncrushable. pps. vh-1 hiphop … Continue reading →

“It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.” —Virginia Woolf, as quoted in the intro to Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth Brian Bassett of Southern California took time out of his day working over at Blueprint … Continue reading →