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Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards on January 14, 2024 in Santa Monica, California

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i wish i was a boy so that boys would wish i was a girl so they could fuck me is that anything

it's everything. i understand you anon.

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"Insensible the palate of old age, More difficult than the soft lips of youth, To move, I put much mustard in their dish; With quickening sauces make their stupor keen, And lash the lazy blood that moves within." Anthippus in The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, by Athenaeus of Naucratis

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"Too few of us, perhaps, feel that the breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than the satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both."

M.F.K. Fisher, Serve It Forth

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TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) dir. David Lynch

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today's look, feb 2024

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Breakfast. February 2024.

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i have crossed that crucial and foolish threshold where i am tired but too tired to get up and get ready for bed

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finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

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Adore each other. Be fiendishly smitten. Be frantically in love. Can there be too many perfumes, too many rosebuds, too many nightingales? Can lovers love each other too much, be too enchanting, too beguiling, too charming? Is it possible to be too much alive, too happy? Adore each other, and never mind the rest.

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)

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Market in Aïx-en-Provence, France. 2022

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Taj Mahal, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2023

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"Then, as now, the Egyptians were temperate and frugal, but always hospitable. They welcomed strangers as well as kin to their meals, where men and women ate together, and where, for the most part, the lowest fellahin and members of the royal family ate much the same simple food.

It was in the tools for eating, and the dining-rooms, that caste difference most clearly showed itself. The peasants and the artisans used pottery, glazed blue or red, perhaps, but always simple, and they sat on benches in their low mud houses.

The palaces of the wealthy people, the nobles and scientists, were airy and beautiful, surrounded by pools and arboured gardens, and built with carved painted columns to hold the canopies that made their walls.

Everywhere, on the stone pillars and the embroidered linens, and in the faïence, and the gold that was "plentiful as dust," the sacred lotus and the date frond curved and lifted.

At feasts guests sat upon wooden armchairs, heavily inlaid with gold and stones, and made more comfortable by soft cushions of leather and silky Egyptian linen. They ate from delicate spoons of carved wood or ivory, and drank from lotus-cups of blue glaze or, later, of iridescent glass. Bowls, no matter how simple their contents, were of the common gold, or rarer silver, or the most valuable bronze.

Unlike the Greeks and Romans, who barred women from all banqueting, and only invited the hetæræ to come in with the final wines for philosophic dalliance, the Egyptians dined easily together. While the lords and ladies tarried over their cool courses of melons and sweet wine, dancers entertained them with slow gay rhythms, or more highly educated singers, usually women, chanted the ancient plaintive sounds of lutes and pipes.

At more vulgar feasts, girls or young men in female dress performed much the same obscene dances that can still be seen in Cairo or any Egyptian port, but they were rare. In general, the amusement of the Nile people was like their nourishment -- delicate, fresh, wholesome."

M.F.K. Fisher, Serve It Forth (1937)

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the ability to say "i dont have a tiktok" in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is "shock, confusion, then this weird 'thats probably a good thing' response" its so fun

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"Words cannot replace the value of eating when you’re aiming to understand a particular food, but they can illuminate where there is darkness, and in gumbo there is much darkness."

Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

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Cassis is a commune situated east of Marseille in the Dept. of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera, in Southern France. Wikipedia