I had a bunch of blather about how mental pain is the same as physical and the patriarchy making men feel like they could never feel any depression and a whole lot of bullshit, but at the end of it none of that really matters.

I'm just so, so, so sorry, Mike:  I'm so sorry that you felt so much pain that you had to take your own life. And I'm so ( Read more... )

I guess I'm back?  I am exploring the idea of using this instead of Facebook. For various reasons, mostly that it seems like Facebook is slowly but apparently deliberately turning itself into a right-wing disinformation dissemination machine. But here's the question: Is using LJ, which is run by some folks from a country whose leadership seems to ( Read more... )

I know I promised backstories for several more characters in this supposed novel, but I realized that I wanted some of my characters to do different things than I had initially thought they would do.  Also, I didn't really like some of the characters.  They wouldn't do what I wanted them to do, or say the things I wanted them to say.  If this ( Read more... )

So a year or so ago, I was piloting a large automobile filled with a number of my friends from Southern to Northern California to attend the wedding of a friend of ours.  I don't know how it started, but somehow we got into a pun war based on the names of automobile makes and models.  Puns included such horrible things as "I think we all need to be ( Read more... )

Tal was born in Manhattan to parents who lived in Connecticut but whose souls resided in Manhattan, especially on the maternal side. His mother held on to her labor for an hour past when he should have been born so that he could be born at Manhattan’s Lennox Hill Hospital, which nearly overlooks Central Park, instead of some other, non-Manhattan ( Read more... )

So who's reading this?  Nobody, that's who.  Therefore, I'm gonna do a thing.  I'm actually working on a novel.  Part of it involves some character backstory.  I've written it for several of my characters, and over the next week or so, I will post them.  We begin with Laura.

Laura was born in the early 80s to parents who’d been born too late to be ( Read more... )

So, the main reason I'm not blathering here much is because I've taken my blather elsewhere.  And when it comes to longer blather, well, I'm trying to blather out an entire novel.  No, it's not any kind of NaNoBlahBlah thing, but... I have an idea, I'm gonna try to make it happen.  At the moment, I seem to be averaging about 500 words a night, at ( Read more... )

even soft rock is about boning
  everything is about boning
tonight i celebrate my love for you = boning
meet you all the way, rosanna: meet you in bonertown can't get enough of your love = really want to bone you again soon

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand" = I'd like to hold other ( Read more... )

I know, it's been a while. Shaddap.

INT. LIVING ROOM
NIBLET has just finished most of his dinner, followed by a fairly involved discussion of why Niblet isn't getting dessert despite eating much of his dinner. Niblet is doing his very best to hold it together to continue arguing his case before the Court of Dada.

NIBLET ( Read more... )

The problems of the not-actually-very-rich: We rather suddenly inherited several generations of silver service pieces, coming down to me as the only child of an only child of a child of a small family whose patriarch did *just fine* during the Depression, and apparently used "those tough economic times" to pick up some deals ( Read more... )