of certain friends on facebook

i say to myself, come on, they can't be that narcissistic, they can't they can't. not even shy about it, not even trying to ironize it, cloak it, they can't not disguise it…oh yes they can..

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Being right

The last refuge of the powerless. The virtue of being right vs. actually achieving the goal. Distrust of manipulators…

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nyc as sentimentalization of money

self-congratulatory, emotionally extorting, hypocritical gloss-over brutalitycreator of "despite the odds" stories of those who clawed through the bloody flotsamtriumph of the human spirit storyapologist for this seething mess

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bothered by mediocre critics and pretenders

but the thing that especially irks is that they cannot be circumvented by the energy and intelligence you have at hand. they are moving targets and to triumph over them you would have to simplify them, as any human being would have to be simplified. it would take more than the disposable energy you have,…

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