2 things conducive to lovers

1. portals that allow instant passage from one bedroom to the other.
2. portals that let you disappear into a nether-space in which time passes more slowly, while the rest of the world and their busy schedules stands still.

when the grammy's are announced and katy perry feels so two years ago

so much of (post)modern life is spent trying to convince ourselves that things are new and exciting, every second of every day. with so many things happening at once, 365 days of distance often feels like 365 years of accomplishment, but is traversed as quickly as one forgets yesterday's pop song. numbingly spectacular, immediately gratifying, without any sense of temporal rootedness (maybe constancy is a less masculine-oriented word) - this is our generation.