I know the exact words I am dying to use to quantify this feeling, this experience, this very largeness of feeling to which I'm so unaccustomed - it’s like staring at a building so old that the weight of its history grips you and shakes you, middle on out.  You stand, gasping for breath in wonder and awe at the immensity and terror of the moment, ( Read more... )

So I’m sure most of you have seen this movement online; it’s where grown-ups vlog to young people about their lives now that they are out of that horrible teenage place. Dan Savage is the progenitor of the campaign and it was started in response to the rash of queer kid suicides that have hit the news lately. Its intent is to offer hope to young, ( Read more... )

I like my doctor - I really do.  For the first time in my life, I have a doctor who is not creepy, obviously self-absorbed, molesting children or abusing substances and their family on the job.  My doctor wears cardigans and bow-ties; which would be excusable in someone around seventy but in someone who is probably just around or under forty, it's ( Read more... )

"In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion, predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination." - wikipedia

There's this:


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Having committed a desperate act of pollocide today I feel both accomplished and satisfied. I’ve killed things before: the toad my cat had left to die in shock, a chicken in a bag tied to an exhaust pipe after being half mauled by a dog, a squirrel smoked by a motorist and half dead at the side of the road. Mercy killings all.

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Dear Canadian Blood Services:

Now that I know my blood type is common, I can stop feeling guilty for not being allowed to donate EVER in my adult life due to your fucked up policies.

Thank you for your time.

A+ for blood. Boo to CBS.

Nurse: Have you ever considered donating blood?

GB: Many, many times. I feel quite strongly that I would like to. [ ( Read more... )

Oh how I love the dance show.  It is so gay. It's the only reason I have not cancelled my satellite.

That is all.

There are books everywhere. Stacks and piles in all corners representing badly drawn categories and nowhere yet to go.  Today is the day that the books get organized.


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So, here are some things that have changed since I saw you last:

1. "wtf" has entered common usage as if it were a real word

2. I've moved to the country - this means a lot of things; not least of which is that I have a better grip on the natural world and a lot of trouble maintaining a connection to the city which I also love

3. It's 2010 now, not ( Read more... )

Dear LJ,

Hi! How are you? It's been a long time and I'm sorry.  I can give you a truckload of excuses but none of them are really any good.  Apparently, we haven't spoken since 2006.  Jesus.  How did that happen? We used to be so close.  I miss talking to you, I really do.  What do you say? Can we give it another try?

Love,
A Grumpy Bastard