Quote of the Day – November 6 2014
“The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.”
Alan Rickman
Quote of the Day – November 5 2014
“Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.”
Francois Truffaut
Quote of the Day – November 4 2014
When women pose thoughtfully and artistically – in nothing but their bare skin – they find themselves. They discover that they are truly alive. They become a Nude.
David Allio
What I’m reading… ‘The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution’
Spanning the years from Sanger’s heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes.
Brilliantly researched […]
Quote of the Day – November 2 2014
“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
Anthony Burgess
Quote of the Day – November 1 2014
“Have we gotten so pathetically lame that you need to be notified by an email that your laundry is done?”
John Sciacca
Quote of the Day – October 31 2014
“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
Victor Hugo
What I’m reading… ‘Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson’
Highlighting interviews with the notoriously private Masters and the ambitious Johnson, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier shows how this unusual team changed the way we all thought about, talked about, and engaged in sex…
Quote of the Day – October 30 2014
“Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.”
Joan Jett