January 25, 2012
I have a confession to make. Even though you forgave me for the affair I had with Katerina all those years ago, I feel the need to confess to you now that there was never any affair. The love notes that you found in that old shoebox were written by me. The lipstick you discovered on my undershorts was applied by me. And all those nights I said I was working late? I was working late. The truth is, I don’t even know anybody named Katerina, except for that girl who used to groom the dog, and we both know she considered me a bad tipper.
Michael Ian Black, My Custom Van
January 24, 2012

Through Night (Series), 2012

January 22, 2012
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Glenn Frey, Sexy Girl

January 20, 2012
Weekend, 2012

Weekend, 2012

January 17, 2012
But how can you expropriate an aesthetic?
Vera, The Hall Of The Singing Caryatids
January 12, 2012
On watch that night a voice came over the ship-to-ship radio: ‘To all ships. This is a Russian destroyer. Get our of our way. We are coming through. We repeat: Get out of our way.’ The etiquette of the sea did not concern them.
John Moynihan, The Voyage Of The Rose City
January 6, 2012
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Hi-Gloss, You’ll Never Know (12”)

January 5, 2012
You know what they say—sleep is the mother’s drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.
Paige, Blueprints For Building Better Girls
January 2, 2012
I have it, you don’t.
Joe Bortz on collecting
December 23, 2011

From Here (Series), 2011

December 23, 2011
I don’t know, Anna. I don’t think this is what I’m supposed to feel like.
Oliver, Beginners
December 20, 2011
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Tina Charles, I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance)

December 19, 2011

The Waldorf Panels On Sculpture (1965)

  • Reuben Kadish: Deep pleasure is becoming more human than before, and that is what a work of art does to you. And love, you discover, does that too. You cannot look at Courbet and go away an unchanged person. That is what Courbet does to me.
  • Herbert Ferber: My God, I'm amazed to hear you talk about history.
December 18, 2011
This Exists, 2010

This Exists, 2010

December 16, 2011
There’s little I enjoy more than sitting on the olive sofa in my study looking around at my books, trying to remember when and where I first read each one and under what circumstances, as if they were photos of old friends. I love the smell and the gentle heft and romance of arranging each in its proper and respective place on my shelves. I love most of all the gathering of these very personal and private views of the world I’m being invited to share; the unexpected trust and ever-growing bond and fondness I feel for their authors. Indeed I love everything about books, except actually reading them.
Philip Schultz, My Dyslexia

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Love,

Ian Dingman