Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
8/20: lunch with twombly
I scheduled myself so that my lunch break would be long enough for me to leave campus and have a real meal on my own before returning for an afternoon of meetings. I went to a favorite Japanese restaurant of mine and brought an issue of Artforum. It included a series of people's reflections on Cy Twombly. I'm glad I didn't read the issue when it originally came out (back in November 2011); it was too close to Twombly's passing, and it would have made me sad to read. Today, instead, it felt like unexpectedly meeting up with an old friend--I had a kind of company at lunch after all.
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