Plain Honey is a hive buzzing with essays, stories, and discussions. ____________ Click on each comb, About and Pollinators to find your way around.

Inspired by Sparks’ ‘Kimono My House’ album cover (1974), with original Art Direction by Nicholas de Ville

Hegel’s (re)formulation of the German word Begriff in Phenomenology of Spirit is so distinct that it inspired A.V. Miller to translate it into English as Notion instead of as the expected, traditional, translation Concept. Perhaps it is the singular function of this term, the Notion, or perhaps it is the way it never seems to fall into consciousness that encouraged this decision. As Martin Heidegger tells us

This is the wrong moment to comment on Lana del Rey, especially for a blog about contemporary culture. Her national infamy occurred nearly a year ago and was short lived after a widely panned performance on SNL. Even Brian Williams was tweeting about it. But my belatedness is, I suppose, fitting for what I want to say about her.

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Down with King James!

The preacher told them all these things: “You should not outlast your own image, for in it you are bound to the fumes of disinterment. You should not forget to bless your comfort, for it places you among the sheaves of hundreds upon thousands of your closest friends. You should wait there, right where you are, alongside me, until together we can hold hands without the sweat of cowardice

Objet petit a is never what you say it is.

Objet petit a is that feeling you get when after hearing something that nags at you for the rest of the day, you soon suspect that that statement nagging at you is just the star dust of the dead one shooting through you.