Taleen's Diary

Breakfast in Brookville

Fall 2010; View

Pecan Pie on Melrose

The best at Urth Caffe

Night Out

Pre-Night Out

Hick

Bonfire 2006

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Bucket List #2: Nuit Blanche Paris

Nuit Blanche is an annual celebration of art. Beginning at dusk, ending at dawn on the first Saturday of October, museums, private and public galleries, and cultural institutions open free of charge. The center of Paris itself turns into a de facto art gallery with illuminations of sculpture, space for art installations, themed social gatherings, music, film, and dance performances occurring all at once. I couldn’t imagine a more sensational all-night event.

Sweeter Than Wine

Lou Reed - This Magic Moment

Belgian Waffle

Long Island City Piers; Life is short, indulge.

Pier 4

Long Island City

“Working” at Eames House

Featuring: Ross Atwood, a view; Pacific Palisades, CA

Dad & Jack

Bucket List: Witness Aurora Borealis

Preferably from Norway.

Happy Birthday, Nabokov.

April 22 “Whether they found it pornographic or not did not interest me. Their refusal to buy the book was based not on my treatment of the theme but on the theme itself, for there are at least three themes which are utterly taboo as far as American publishers are concerned. The two others are: a Negro-White marriage which is a complete and glorious success resulting in lots of children and grandchildren; and the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106.” -Vladimir Nabokov on his journey with Lolita.

A rare “pornographic” excerpt, as beautiful as the rest:

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