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In which My People can be as obvious as everyone else.
I'm in this facebook group for crip women. I like them mostly, but I don't think we solve each other's problems so much as BTDT them.(Which sometimes seems good enough, but is sometimes more "demented and sad, but social." New member in her twenties with crutches pipes up all "I'm lonely and envious and want what my friends have," Which, like, ( Read more... ) -
Started outline today...
Of what my computer still calls "Realityhostproject", but if it becomes a book, I'll call it "Day Job"(After both the fictional reality show, and all of the work that I find myself thinking about as I have been writing this one...it's been about half a book for a few years now, maybe if I create some vague signposts, I'll actually know where I'm ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts For Buzzfeed and its New Imprint
Dear Saeed Jones and the staff at BuzzFeed's new imprint ( Read more... ) -
Kind of a strange feeling...
doing the Garcia stuff, because I still wouldn't kick Rahm out of bed for eating crackers.Don't tell the other socialist fucksticks(or his wife Amy, who from a distance I always mistake for HRC, but shorter.She would kill me if I tried anything, though ( Read more... ) -
I hate rejection,but
Picking at the rejected story, I sort of get it. Maybe the initial version pulled some punches and deprived my character of some choices, not that I would notice that by myself, because that's what my life looks like every fucking day--for me that's like complaining that the sun came up today. Experiencing that so constantly and then having my ( Read more... ) -
The First Person To Mention Jane Austen Gets It
Sometimes I worry about my writing if I don't get my life moving soon.(Yes, I like Ms. Austen well enough, but I think it's plain that, small as my life can be sometimes, I'm also not observing many highly stylized and stratified hunt balls and the like. Although the internet could be ripe for some kinds of "comedy of manners" I think, my trifling ( Read more... ) -
On dating sites,
there seems to be an inverse between meeting a person you'd think you'd like even if, physically, they're not what you've "always pictured", and their desire to see pics of you.(Mine doesn't have a lot though because I'm not great at making them fit and to be honest, there is not a lot to commemorate about my life.) -
I've gotten locked out of twitter
and I don't know why. Of course, maybe I don't care, since some of the stupidest conversations I've ever had happened there, but what does it mean that "some of my responses seem automated"(Everybody's a critic!) -
Finally reading "Cop in The Hood"
Fascinating stuff. Moskos seems to think there is too much tech in law enforcement, in addition to over-stringent drug laws.(Dispatch and so forth are expected to meet an impossible standard that he says keeps cops from knowing the areas they patrol ( Read more... ) -
Facebook is too romantic today...
Too many engaged couples making it official to make Valentine's special and so forth.(Good for them, I guess, but all of that ritual is no guarantee.) I guess I never really expected to be among their number, except for high school, where it seems like once you get out everything you do will fall into place more easily.(still don't miss high school ( Read more... )