Enraged at America, but ( Read more... )

I was going to write about how to gain street cred on the New York City streets, but instead I'm writing about the first legal gay marriages in the U.S. I just went down to Boston's City Hall (at the Government Center) and stood with the crowd, cheering as couples came out with their licenses in hand. Maybe someday it will be standard, but today ( Read more... )

So, I once had an English professor who was really into the idea of the "annonymous literary culture." He was always trying to get trenchant critical-theory treatises on the subject of annonymity in literary culture published. He pitched the idea to multitudinous publishers, gesturing expansively and scrawling illegible phrases and eliptical, ( Read more... )

Did I want the fancy life: velvety couches and puffy cheeks ( Read more... )

Hmmm. That Sally Forth business is rather upsetting. Not that I know what it is. But what about a wrinkle in time?? Did you ever consider that? I read an article about Madeleine L'Engle recently. Sounds like her family hated her. That's a gross simplification of what I read. But you know, I'm trying to be inclusive ( Read more... )

I find the current subject of Sally Forth more than a little insulting. Sally Forth certainly did not meet Ted Forth at college in 1987. I REMEMBER Sally Forth in 1987: I used to read it every Sunday, back when I guess I was at the right age to read it. Sally was the same fucking age she is now. She was married to Ted and they had a kid, that same ( Read more... )

We went up to Vassar this weekend for Founder's Day. And by we I mean ( Read more... )

yeah so i saw the rapture and black rebel motorcycle club last night at the ( Read more... )

I wanna know
how many of you
lost a lot of blood?

I was just a teenage jesus freak ( Read more... )