weird but it doesn't do that if you just link to a person's whole journal, right? Like what if I do this liamtheruiner -- "lostcosmonaut has tagged you on livejournal"

--mza.

it appears that it does not alert me, but that might be because it's in a comment.

all right while we're on a roll, real-talk-wise, let's discuss BFF rankings. If you're my BFF, which you are, yr status is immune to th ebbs & flows of everyday life. Other types of friends drift away, become FBFs (Facebook friends), or otherwise turn into a handful of fond memories. It's v. hard to lose BFF status; you basically have to do something really bad to th human race. What you can easily do is climb up & down th rankings of th BFFs, assuming there's more than one (which there ought to be, as you know), like teams in Bill Simmons' power rankings. As of this moment, thks to yr komment, you're my most-recently-talked-to BFF. That's something, though not th most important something. Somebody I haven't talked to in a year could still be BFF #1, depending on a weird formula of feelings nobody can explain. Just like Simmons' rankings, it's based on RL input but den there's that level of gut subjectivity. Basically you & Diego have been flipping th 1 and 2 spots this whole year. I hope you are happy to know that today's ( ... )

when i was little i had only 1 BFF at a time, mostly k. greenwade, whom i was BFFs with @ a time when neither of us understood "forever" was one word and so wrote "BFFE" on all correspondence. there were years in college when i had zero BFFs. beginning in 2005-2006 i had i think 5-6 slippery BFFs that over time & road trip gently separated into two parts, like land & ocean. the land part is the immune part. you, nelly, k$ and me on an island at sea, others splashin' in the surf, others on boogie boards getting closer or further away, some str8wads on sailboats on the horizon, fingers of smoke visible from campfires on distant, shitty islands, manna from heav'n.

here it's easy to see how BFFs are different from other people, like when you have to ask for help with stuff nobody would ever want to help w/ unless he were your BFF or not even then. there are lots of sweethearts but 't'amp'on is BBF-lonely. got to see k$ a little in nyc. nelly's workin 60 hrs/wk. haven't talked on the phone to you in a longtime, but yr never #3. <3

in 2012 ah can count on one hand th number of people who've gotten into real-talk talks w/ me and didn't seem to fall back on th bullet points -- that is, th conversation was more like a journey than like a Powerpoint presentation accidentally getting shuffled into some guy's ethnography after a hallway collision. You're on that hand, as is our mutual friend Christopher Kelly, th wife, th artist formerly known as el jay moosemonster, my BFF, and one other person. Anyway, that's two hands. It's easy to talk about other stuff but it seems like once you get into abortion, rape, gun control, etc., there's no such thing as a journey -- there's just th opinion you have, and th opinion that's from another planet. What can you really say to a creationist, right? So there's that. But if you give in to th collapse of civility, if you contribute to it, you give up whatever authority you might've had in lamenting it ( ... )

it seems to me that what you're upset about has less to do with feminism per se as it does with a certain kind of "watchdog" activism that's really prominent on the internet. for example, i follow this blog called "racialicious," which is run (in part) by a black feminist journalist named latoya petersen. she's a pretty interesting and insightful person, but because the blog is well-trafficked and regularly updated, a lot of its content ends up being about prominent people misspeaking about race or gender or sexuality. and some of it gets redundant and irritating. for every insightful, informative entry about the u.s. prison system or islamophobia or the expectations faced by black women, there are three about insensitive lena dunham tweets or michelle bachmann speech atrocities or whatever. at their worst, the people writing about identity politics on the internet start to seem like outrage detectives, spending more time documenting unpleasant opinions and political gaffes than engaging with issues in a meaningful way ( ... )

you tellin' me you scored zero on th lefty sensitivity test? That's probably from hanging out too much w/ that Billy Ray fella -- he's like a machine when it comes to offending people

--mza.

hahahah so true! I think that's one of the only reasons we became friends: I posed a challenge! That and I was dating and then married his roommate.