What It Is

"Therapy, therapy is vomiting things up. Art is about eating your own vomit." -- Art Spiegelman

Quote of the Day: Ed Burns

"The irony is that you have to be somebody before anybody listens to you." -- Ed Burns

Quote of the Day: Xeni Jardin

"XJ: My biological father who died when I was a kid was a painter and a print maker. He went through different phases in his creative work. A lot of what he did was paint very beautiful photorealistic portraits of nude women. Sometimes he went off into experimental territory that he was embarrassed about... sometimes he would just grab batches of the stuff that was crappy as years went on, and go to the backyard and burn it. And it wasn’t that he was censoring himself, and God knows nobody else was censoring him. It was that this was his creative work. This was art. And he felt like some of it wasn’t representative of who he was anymore and he didn’t want it to be available to the world to see.

That’s how I felt with this situation. (I mean, there were other reasons for removing the posts.) But –- it was my work. And I felt like: This is my work, this is my blog. This is not the same thing as Wikipedia or the paper of record. It’s BoingBoing. And I have the right to take these things down while I think about whether I want them out there or not." -- Xeni Jardin

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Quote of the Day: John Stagliano

"Today, the new young pornographers I meet wear as a badge of honor their devotion to the art form of porn." -- John Stagliano

Quote of the Day: Jacob Covey

"Even the way Wonder Woman is lying in the middle of this house of men, possibly masturbating, is accidental art on the grandest scale." -- "Gotham Apartments"

Quote of the Day: Lawrence G. Walters, Esq.

"'We tried to come up with comparison search terms that would embody typical American values,' Mr. Walters said. 'What is more American than apple pie?' But according to the search service, he said, 'people are at least as interested in group sex and orgies as they are in apple pie.'" -- "What's Obscene?"

Quote of the Day: Jessa Crispin

"If there was a committee, I imagine them telling her, 'We're sorry, but the formula to qualify for true sluttiness is as follows:

# of Total Men > Your Age x 1.5

Having slept with 40 men by the time you're in your late 30s does not make you a slut. Go back into the world and get back to us when you've done something really depraved. Also, if you can, please find a better reason for sluttiness than your parents' divorce. It's been done.'" -- Jessa Crispin

Quote of the Day: Panther in Pumps

"I can't write about how I feel, so I write around it, only how I feel grows larger and larger, so I write around, wider and wider, until one day I realize, I'm not writing about me at all: I'm writing about blow up dolls being strangled." -- "Writing Circles" by Panther in Pumps

Quote of the Day: Debauchette

"I’d venture Elms and Itzler suffer from the same feelings of penile inadequacy, what with Itzler’s pimp-king sobriquet and Elms’ coke-addled cock, a cock so ineffectual that it requires persistent coercion and the threat of death to become even remotely compelling, but what do I know. I’m only a professional (former) man-fucker." -- Debauchette

Quote of the Day: Paul Auster

"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not." -- City of Glass

Quote of the Day: Ranty McRantypants

"Once a whore, always a whore." -- Ranty McRantypants via Gawker

Quote of the Day: Me

"'Hello,' says the waterboarder to the whale." -- from my novel-in-progress, Happy

Quote of the Day: Fiona Dinkelbach

"You are my problem, with your shiny skin and your boho skirts, your straighteners and your issues, $2.99 to shit on my ego is more than I can affort thanks. Fat or thin i’ve got places to be and they are as far away from you as possible. You can blow dry your hair for hours and cry at Disney films, you float about in flowers and tawt on about nothing on your cell phones. You want me to worry about men and feel guilty about sex? Fuck you, I’ve been able to handle men for years it’s women who scare me and it’s your fault because you’ve turned feminism into a war zone, you’ve created a monster and the monster is you." -- Fiona Dinkelbach (via Luxurious Vulgarity)

Quote of the Day: Jeffrey J. Douglas

"'Max Hardcore,' he said, 'is barely a cartoon of a human being...'" -- Jeffrey Douglas (See: "Max Hardcore Found Guilty")

Quote of the Day: Catskills

"...I like using and abusing these men. This club was created for guys who want their cock toyed with. They forget their cock is also their brain and if I can toy with your cock, I can toy with your brain in such a way that your wallet falls open and cums all over me..." -- Catskills (via The Panther in Pumps)

Quote of the Day: Ashley Blue

"The true purpose of heavy porn make-up is to leave tears and smears for the rest of the day. Like a white crust on the neck, or bruises on both knees... These are the tokens of pornographic affection!" -- Ashley Blue

Quote of the Day: Howard Jacobson

"If we are to argue that television and the trash subculture of magazines and papers which it has spawned contribute to the national tone, and in that way to the emotional education or otherwise of those who carry knives, and before that to the parents of those who carry knives, then we cannot neatly separate sex from violence, or sex and violence from celebrity, or celebrity from fame and greed, or fame and greed from triviality, or triviality from worthlessness, or any of the aforementioned from the all-round cheapening of life..." -- Howard Jacobson (via Balk)

Quote of the Day: Lena Chen

"Susannah Breslin (aka the Reverse Cowgirl) called me 'hardcore.' My life is complete." -- Lena Chen

Quote of the Day: Patricia Arquette

"Arquette: First it’s about a girl waiting for her boyfriend to rescue her, and she’s working through her natural bag of tricks: flirting, being dumb. Then Virgil tells her about the transition he made to being a killer. And really, he’s telling her what’s going to happen to her in a moment. She’s going to make this transition, and she’s never going to be the same person."

Quote of the Day: Howard Jacobson

"But speaking as a man, so long as the woman is not too manacled by fashion, so long as she can swing along, with that slightly forward-falling appearance, clip-clopping on the paving stones, mane-tossing, bag-swinging, a sheen on every inch of her, I'm for it. Clip-clop, clip-clop, and all for me, all because she wants to have my baby--for that's the dirty little disappointing secret at the heart of Sex and the City: babies--even while she's pretending she's a sexually free-wheeling feminist and has built this edifice of glitter all for her." -- Howard Jacobson, The Independent (via Balk)