reading

MCA chicago. i'm lame and forgot to write down the artist.

one of my favorite websites is The Hairpin. i always forget to check it, but yesterday i ran across this amazing piece by Jess Zimmerman, A Guide to Eating Very Particular Feelings.

FEELING: The one where you got too drunk at a party and all you want is one cigarette, and someone finds you a cigarette or you go across the street to the bodega to buy 18 cigarettes you'll never smoke and two you will, and you're standing slightly apart from everyone and letting the nicotine run down your nerves as the alcohol runs up and you close your eyes and the horizons rush outward until the world inside your head is many times bigger than the one outside, and small on the edge of that vast and incalculable blackness you can almost make out the image of something you want to be.

it's beautiful and lovely, and i think she's fantastic. Jess Zimmerman writes for my OTHER favorite no-boys-allowed website, xoJane.com.

photo courtesy of me.