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portrait of a barista, desired

Unobtainable desire haunts me everyday.

Woody Allen

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portrait of a barista, desired
portrait of a barista, desired
Woody Allen

5 min read


Jun 16

HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?

photography by Annie Chung I haven’t seen 성은 in two years. All this time, I’ve thought about all the ways we would paint together. With images, crafting them in our hands, snipping and cutting, and spilling them out with our mouths, over coffee, over booze, over each other bathed in…

Annie Chung

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HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?
HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?
Annie Chung

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Jun 15

art isn’t funny –

but we should laugh anyway : on maurizio cattelan Art isn’t serious. What makes it serious is the business behind it. Even the critique of it. I’ve thought of ways how one can write about humor in the art critic-sphere, but it’s a difficult business. Because from my background, art…

Maurizio Cattelan

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art isn’t funny  –
art isn’t funny  –
Maurizio Cattelan

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May 19

view from my window

mon kim —arcade seoul City buildings. Chrome. Muscular male bodies. Side by side. We’ve seen it all before, but Mon Kim has a particular and consistent aesthetic that continues to surpass his former work with chic sex appeal that captures the very character of gay masc class in Seoul.

Mon Kim

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view from my window
view from my window
Mon Kim

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May 17

lol you’re not sexy

— because you don’t read The Paris Review You never wanted friends, he said, sharply, and then he closed the door of the fridge and he squeezed my arm, the fat underside bit. — Same, Same by Elaine Feeney

The Paris Review

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lol you’re not sexy
lol you’re not sexy
The Paris Review

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Dec 29, 2022

san francisco,

a love letter of many. I was better last night. Some autumns ago in a Chinatown apartment, pinning roaches to death with the end of a plastic broom. Or maybe somewhere in the Outer Richmond with the last hours of light in the day, pressed against my mold-ridden basement apartment…

San Francisco

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san francisco,
san francisco,
San Francisco

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Nov 22, 2022

aftersun

love-live-tweeting the film without timestamps. feelings in consecutive order: There’s a reason why we pull our phones sees sunsets and sunrises before our own eyes do. An incredible opening where we are asked what we thought we’d be doing from the vantage point of 11 years old. Do you even…

Aftersun

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aftersun
aftersun
Aftersun

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Nov 9, 2022

ITAEWON –

and all the unbearable guilt. Itaewon The Sunday after, the alarm in my phone rung a heaviness that shifted all its aching into my hand. I texted everyone I knew, lives I was unsure were there or not. We take it for granted, this thing called living. Health, too. We…

Itaewon Halloween

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ITAEWON –
ITAEWON –
Itaewon Halloween

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Aug 21, 2022

on keeping a writing contract —

scrap it, leave it, be a body be a verb. Whenever I see an article about a writing contract, I say, scrap a contract. A contract means all business and writing cannot be a business. It is an art. It is a means to bridging yourself to the world. Every…

Writing

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on keeping a writing contract —
on keeping a writing contract —
Writing

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Aug 4, 2022

so i ate shrooms —

speech act, killing teens, all about lily chou chou, los angeles i love you. As a teenager, a fantasy always appeared at the front steps of my heartache: a Volkswagen Mk1 GTI slowly pulling into my driveway so that a soft white light would seep through the blinds and flood…

LGBTQ

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so i ate shrooms —
so i ate shrooms —
LGBTQ

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