Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • The Citadel

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    As Péguy said on June 17, 1940: “In war, I side with he who won’t surrender the citadel.” Read more

  • Vase de Noces

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    SALEM, June 15, 1835. – A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it, – large marine vegetables, of an olive-color, with round, slender, snake-like stalks, four or five feet long, and nearly two feet broad:… Read more

  • Three Year Agreement

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    Douglas Sirk’s signature on the 24-page (!) contract he signed with Universal before making Imitation of Life, which Leo Lensing rescued from a Baltimore book dealer. Read more

  • Alternative Hair

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    Shoutout to whatever Liverpool punk collaged this flyer together. I can’t decide which is funnier, “Softly Feminine Nausea: Real Adult Entertainment” or “Mix ‘n’ Match Disaster — What Balls!” Read more

  • Hypothetical Self-Epitaph

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    “Everyone should have an epitaph ready,” Everette Maddox told an interview in one of his rare radio appearances. “Just in case.” Read more

  • Summer of the Just

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    There is a June when Corn is cutAnd Roses in the Seed—A Summer briefer than the firstBut tenderer indeed Read more

  • Over the Town

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    I’ve just watched Daniel Schmid’s La Paloma which has almost immediately joined the ranks of my personal canon. Read more

  • Spaztic Intensity

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    COLLEGE PORK. Read more

  • Hollow Core

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    Demna’s most recent time-wasting scheme involved shutting down Times Square last Saturday night so its 250,000 idle tourists could be replaced by 63 idle models draped in meaningless, lazily conceived designs. Read more

  • Divination and Volition

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    I got back to San Diego late last night, parked the rental car at Enterprise and threw the keys in the dropbox. The drive wasn’t bad, though I probably didn’t need to stop at both Pea Soup Andersen’s and Bravo Farms. Maybe it’s simply because I grew up in one, but I can never turn… Read more

Thought:

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

Audre Lorde

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