cause I'm reading all the obit talk and everything, and all I can think is a Love Story-like voiceover that says "What can you say about a badass that died?" and it's so wrong. Serenada was no Jenny.

a wheelchair something of a stupid waste of time? Thanks to Dan Savage's tweets about poor Leelah, have got the twitterverse equivalent of Crazy Leaflet Christian following me around.(My streak stands unchallenged, apparently.) But now, it's funny, sort of, because "OMG, lake of fire!1" only works if you feel badly enough that it might be true. I ( Read more... )

but sometimes when people go out of their way to show me wheelchair videos, it doesn't feel as In Good Fun as they probably mean it.(I guess, because the older I get, I feel more and more estranged from both average America and the kinds of crippled people that "pimp their rides" as it were. (Yes, I could do that, for just$20,000 easy dollars and ( Read more... )

that someone in my position buys suitcases(leaving aside the pretty color and heavily discounted price)
I guess I want to believe I can still Go Places, even though I'm not, right now.*actually, I'm not sure if I really could.

for the first time, and I like it well enough, but if I hadn't waited so long, it might have been a Revelation instead of writing I admire. I guess I'm too old and stuck in a rut to have a book just...I don't know, split me open, or what-have-you. (I wish that wasn't so, especially since so much of my teen awkwardness and waiting for Real Life has ( Read more... )

but I also hate the feeling that some people only show up on social media to rub my face in it. But still, why do I care?Why does it still bother me to feel like I'm in some(as far as I know, totally fake) competition to be The Gimpiest Princess of Them All, or whatever(being ahead in school in the earlier grades and AMAZING my neighbors by ( Read more... )

Well, I'm reading this book about Ida Wells and her work to publicize lynching(she is very inspiring...more people should know about her, besides as a bold-print name on the AP test) but the reason I bring Judge Thomas up is because when he called his confirmation and assorted drama a "high-tech lynching", he was sort of banking on people not ( Read more... )

1. Of course, there is a Duggar with a baby bump somewhere at any given time. Brood mare is their job description.News about them would be "Duggar Daughter Slaps Insane Mother, Moves To Portland ( Read more... )

Haven't been back in here in a while, politics and other writing have kept me away for a bit.

reminds me of that scene on Homicide where Munch is all "Name one miracle in our lifetime,"
and Bolander says "How about that I haven't killed you yet?"
Yes, besides, a half-million dollars and a coronation on Faux News isn't enough?! Fuck that guy.