Meanwhile, in Chicago

wide open

open relationship - psalm one feat. r.a. the rugged man. XNSFW (via)

ghostwrite the whip

http://www.gensleron.com/cities/2012/3/15/what-will-it-take-to-make-navy-pier-a-real-place.html

Nina After Dentist

is this a genre now?

A Girl Is Standing Roadside Selling Live Grenades Painted as Apples

When I was young I called a rock
a kiss and planted it on the temple
of a friend, hard. And while he was lying
unconscious, bleeding, I said he was
only in love. Sartre told us that
all objects are space we chose to name.
The weight and shape of a sleeping baby
is the thirsty silhouette of a hawk’s beak.
A handful of sand is a stranger
at the far end of the bar. Sartre himself
was the cutout of a bat in the pitch
nights of hell, like us, calibrated
by what we bump against in the dark,
nothing on nothing, a chalk outline
at the crime scene. And this
that you are reading is a silent sketch
of spite or better, abandonment,
an open door, a deep black forest
bristling in the core of the earth.

-Matthew Zingg, via

Hip Hop for Springtime

Melanie Fiona feat. J. Cole - This Time

It's stupid warm in Chicago right now. 'This Time' is just the right amount of cautious swagger for March.

The Myth of a Fixed Personality

A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.
--Philip K. Dick

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue…Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
--William James

via Brain Pickings