tender corners, shaped like washington state

A lot of people have moved to Washington in the past eight years. The 2000 and 2008 census reflect a near 600,000 individual accession, versus Pennsylvania's 167,227 and New York's measly 513, 981.

Sartre's food blog

Our most basic pleasure drives: food and sexual gratification. Thomas Aquinas understood that these drives are in themselves wholesome because they're aimed at what is basically necessary for human life. But Kafka and Nietzsche spoke outwardly of their aversions to sex. And yet, were they not "generative?"

It seems to me there are two ways of being in the world -- I have seen it enough -- those who are born to romp and to eat, and those who find alternative nourishment; those who "regenerate" by contemplation, by asserting a voice into a crowd. It used to seem impossible to exist in both groups when I first came to New York. I became thin and severe, a pilchard sort of fish. But then I found Sartre's cookbook.