as I stand on my soapbox ( Read more... )

It is funny, when you are a child you think that adults have some sort of mental fortitude that it is out of your reach. You believe that their discipline and responsibility must come during the course of their growth and it is only a matter of time until you will possess the same wisdom, the same maturity that they have ( Read more... )

O for that warning voice, which he who saw
The Apocalypse heard cry in heaven aloud,
Then when the dragon, put to second rout,
Came furious down to be revenged on men.
Woe to the inhabitants on earth! that now,
While the time was, our parents had been warned
The coming of their secret foe, and scaped,
Haply so scaped his mortal snare; for now ( Read more... )

I have said that I would like to live my life as an attractive black gay man in the Central West End. But I have to ask, after seeing L's pretty new girl-of-the-week, who wouldn't want to be an attractive black man, period? Who wouldn't want to live life with all that beautiful brown flesh laid out before him? Who wouldn't want those ebony and ( Read more... )

Today I had what one could deem as a religious experience. I wrote an e-mail to L, yesterday, outlining how he's just been using me for sex. And this afternoon I woke up with that knowledge pressing on me. It's not that I didn't know before, I would have had to been a fool not to, but this morning I knew it. The problem with Christianity for ( Read more... )

your cat might lick your ass ( Read more... )

I had fried catfish last night and it was amazing. Unfortunately, it was from L's refrigerator. I told him recently that we would not be having sex anymore and I intended to follow through with that. I really did. And somehow I slept with him. He caught me off guard ( Read more... )

Looking back over my journal for the last few months I have to say... Good Lord this sucks!

I know a few things. A very few things ( Read more... )

The recent debate over the senate bill that would issue an apology for the lack of prosecution in cases of lynching has left me somewhat divided. On one hand, the inaction of the government certainly merits an act of contrition, and yet the magnitude of their offense makes any response seem paltry and inadequate. I watched Kill Bill (again) ( Read more... )