Much Love From Your Invisible Friends and Other Quotes

“Music’s the only thing that makes sense anymore. Play it loud enough, it keeps the demons at bay.”  —      Across The Universe “We’re all different though we may pretend otherwise. We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up.”  —-The Shipping News This whole world is wild [...]

North Country

Grasping the metal bars on top of the bus-like automobile, we held on for dear life as it tumbled over dirt road. The jeepney, emblazoned with images of local celebrities and “In God We Trust” logos, was fully occupied: inside, food and supplies for various villages, and on its roof, young farmhands eager to return [...]

The New Year

    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in [...]

The Boxcutters: A Wasteland for the Wild, the Wicked, and the Weird

“The Boxcutters” (www.theboxcutters.wordpress.com) is a blog dedicated to those brave enough to live life according to their own rules. Here’s what ‘The Boxcutters’ is all about: Graffiti artist Banksy once said, “Think from outside the box, collapse it, and take a fucking knife to it.”  We at Boxcutters are fueled by a desire to break [...]

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Anne Frank had just turned thirteen. Like any other adolescent, she undergoes physical and emotional changes that are a source of both curiosity and frustrations that she records in her diary as letters to an imaginary friend named “Kitty”. However, Anne Frank is no ordinary schoolgirl; she is a Jew living in Amsterdam during the [...]

A Burmese Day

“The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.” – Aung San Suu Kyi Even from a distance, I could tell that the port town of Kawthaung would be intense. The buzz of market vendors, hustle [...]

The Year Ahead

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.” – Hunter S. Thompson (Gifs from http://lucynic83.tumblr.com/)