Last night, the bouncer looked at my license, and then he and I decided that I should change my surname to what he thought he'd read: Playin'.

I told my mother this for mother's day, and she said she'd been planning to do the same after the divorce.

For some reason, I have always felt that the observable trials and tribulations of the homosexual male relationship convey the core of human interaction. I have considered that maybe this is due to the fact that the complexity and publicity of emotional process is very much tied to our concepts of gender, all of which is disrupted, and in many ( Read more... )

this has been the week of academic injustice ( Read more... )

Upon the realization that the class had not read the assigned 500 pages for the week, my terrible history professor [masquerading as a women's studies cross-list] angrily singled out one girl and said, "YOU! You work 30 hours a week--WHY are you even in college!?"

Every financially disadvantaged, bust-ass bone in my body was liquified with rage.

A guy at work was preaching the finiteness of the universe, telling us that he would not even hear anyone out who had not read A Brief History of Time. I told him that I had in fact read it, and that Steven Hawking would laugh a computerized, knowing laugh if he heard such fanatic passion for his theories ( Read more... )

Ruminating over some extremely good news this morning, I drove by a funeral home which featured several blank headstones, for sale on the front lawn. Amongst the angels, swans, and swan/heart combinations, was a polished, marble replica of the World Trade Center ( Read more... )

The Flavin Family Memorial Auditorium
is still under construction.

I come from 2 long lines of storytellers. There is the Russian Jewish side, full of more rambling love and neurosis then one could ever ask for; and then there is the Virginian side, deeply rooted drawling twilight porchtalk, to which exaggeration comes naturally and truth is a primordial soup of morality and fantasma. And here I sit ( Read more... )

When I met with Robert Downey Jr. yesterday, he gave me wonderful information, which restabilizes my financial situation [speaking of which, does anyone need any C-Rock?], and now I should be able to get out of here and restart my life without any thievery. He had no idea that I was experiencing very confusing feelings of attraction. This is ( Read more... )

you should have seen their hotel rooms.


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