"I was thinking about all the things you're not supposed to think about during mass, but stop feeling guilty about when you realize you have those same thoughts during sex and sex is a whole lot less boring and by the way you have ADHD."

Yay Jezebel.

Alaskan teens may abort without parental consent.

What interests me about this is the opposite side of the coin, which I don't think many pro-choicers are aware of and many anti-abortionists would like to pretend doesn't happen. I read somewhere on Feministing the other day an interview with an abortion clinic worker. She noted sadly that she's ( Read more... )

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"A related approach to this dismissal of meaning is more cynical: it involves consigning whatever excavated material that we do not understand to the sphere of ritual simply on the grounds that it is a mystery to us. Once consigned, there's an end on it: it is the hocus-pocus we have transcended, or else it is the exploitation of simple people by ( Read more... )

While we're discussing songs, it occurs to me that the lyrics to "Such Great Heights" are more like actual poetry than the banal platitudes which serve most songs ( Read more... )

Right now I like the following songs:

Let Go--Frou Frou
Everlong--Foo Fighters
Red Right Ankle--The Decemberists
Brick--Ben Folds
Move Along--The All-American Rejects
A Little Respect--Erasure
Hanging by a Moment--Lifehouse
No Emotion--Idlewild
Miserable--Lit
Don't Stop Believin'--Journey

See, you think I'm all emo and then BAM JOURNEY TO THE

My shoes were under the piano. :D

Couldn't find the music, though.

I wrecked my car today. I'm fine (scrapes and bruises from the airbag), but the car . . . not so much.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

I've done nothing of consequence worth writing about. But rest assured, I'm still alive and everything.

It takes raw talent to drop a copy of Livy simultaneously on each foot. Hurts, too.