Jay Abramson: It's Quiet in Boulder City
anokarina: “Rather than railing against feminists, he convincingly argues, men should take aim at masculinity, which has sold them a bill of goods it can’t possibly deliver.” ―Sophie Gilbert 🎲
Jay Abramson: Ambassador East Motel
Gilbert Mercier: Sin City Lost & Found: smoke shop in old dowtown Las Vegas
anokarina: “I can see your halo (halo) halo” ―Beyoncé 😇
anokarina: “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ―Steve Maraboli 🎲
anokarina: “I’ve been trying to imagine the level of hubris necessary to believe that White men are some sort of minimized American runt in dire and specific need of advocates, cheerleaders, post-dawn fellatio, and post-fellatio snickerdoodles.” ―Damon Young
anokarina: “But shame and hypocrisy are essential human drives. The rage against hypocrisy is a rage against civilized life.” ―Roger Berkowitz 💒
anokarina: “Masculinity sells a dream that only a few, privileged men can realize.” ―Sophie Gilbert 🎲
anokarina: “There are true delays and diplomatic delays and obstructionist delays; there are as many types of delays as there are situations.” ―Cleopatra 🍬
anokarina: “If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.” ―Sue Monk Kidd 🌸 🎲 🌺 💦
anokarina: “Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it?” ―Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys Targaryen
anokarina: “I know that we will live forever now / But even so / I should know you better by now / I know” ―The Prides 🎭
anokarina: “[Democracy] should be acknowledged to be impossible; for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue.” ―Cassius Dio 🎲
anokarina: “It's our party / we can do what we want” ―Miley Cyrus 🎭
anokarina: “And we can't stop, yeah / And we won't stop, oh / Can't you see it's we who own the night?” ―Miley Cyrus 🎭
anokarina: “Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” ―Germany Kent 🎲
anokarina: “Ride it, my pony / My saddle's waiting / Come and jump on it” ―Ginuwine 🐴
anokarina: “Who wants to celebrate? / I don't have time to sit and wait / I gave it everything / And I just wanted you to feel the same” ―Metric 🎭
anokarina: la douleur exquise 🎲
Jay Abramson: Son of a Gun
anokarina: “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” ―Tennessee Williams 🌸
Jay Abramson: Goodnight Las Vegas
anokarina: “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ―Emily Dickinson 🎲
anokarina: “More Human Than Human” ―Ridley Scott / “Blade Runner,” 1982
Gilbert Mercier: Sin city lost & found: Bingo at the Terrible's in Las Vegas.
Gilbert Mercier: Sin city lost & found: Las Vegas Terrible's casino sign.
anokarina: “There is an abyss between the men of brilliant and facile conceptions and men of brutal deeds.” ―Hannah Arendt 🎲 🌴
Jay Abramson: The Girls of Glitter Gulch
anokarina: “Every one of us wears a mask that conceals a dark cabinet of hidden vices behind our public personas.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🎲