Thank you to every person who came to see me tonight in Tempe, AZ. Your warmth and generosity was overwhelming in the best possible way. And thank you to the staff of Changing Hands Bookstore who worked so incredibly hard and created such a beautiful environment.
And because you asked and I said I would post one, here’s a picture of Christopher Schelling. He changed my life in 1999 when he agreed to be my literary agent.
Then he changed my life again this year when he agreed to be my spouse.
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colin and i went to see a.b. oct. freshman year when he had just broken up with dennis (the schnauzer).
Australian model caught distracted during a photo shoot when the first plane hit the tower
(via doomeddear)
ROY JONES. POOL.
julia just told me that upstairs roomie gets mad when i smoke pot in the house and that the scent sticks around for five days and that it smells bad so it must be shitty pot and i’m like WHhhaAAAaaTttTtTt? no way. ON ANY OF THOSE THINGS.
all through high school they made us take these PROSPER surveys and my mum signed me up to continue them into college so now i get 100 bucks every year for answering questions about teen drug abuse, and more specifically, my drug abuse
There are many cacti that have risen to the status of legend: from Sahagún’s contentious white peyote and the fabled specimens of purple pachanoi to a sacred stand of San Pedro in Huancabamba that is said to inflict a measles-like plague that causes small bumps all over the body on anyone who dares harvest it. Some of these cacti can be readily found, like Ariocarpus retusus, a species the Tarahumara claim will induce madness and death when ingested by those with “impure heart.” Others have eluded the discerning eye of the modern taxonomist, going unseen for years and sometimes centuries. These are cryptocacti, confined to the margins of ethnobotanical literature, where they are discussed and debated but never observed. Of these cacti there is one that towers above them all in both its power and its elusiveness: the Cactus of the Four Winds, an ancient columnar cactus characterized by four longitudinal ribs that is rumored to possess supernatural curative powers. On a recent trip to Lima, Peru, for a completely unrelated story, I took advantage of some downtime to search for wild specimens of these cryptocacti, hoping for a chance encounter with the Cactus of the Four Winds.