Euronymous died last week. not a single day has passed that i have not cried about it. the "fatty tumor" that we had our vet check (and misdiagnose) a few months ago turned out to be much more and had quickly spread to many organs when they went in to operate, so we had to let him go. fuckers. i am so very heartbroken. it's difficult for me to ( Read more... )

"Fat People Think They're People"

"Natasha: I think it's accurate! The fear of a dude sucking out your creativity through your vag. I’m surprised Paglia isn’t more sympathetic to it ( Read more... )

"You've either experienced slush or you haven't, and the difference is not trivial. People who have never had the job of reading through the heaps of unsolicited manuscripts sent to anyone even remotely connected with publishing typically have no inkling of two awful facts: 1) just how much slush is out there, and 2) how really, really, really, ( Read more... )

even as you read this, the robots are learning.

I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t

you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write

-W.S. Merwin, poet laureate

"Feminism has to be for all women. Even women you think are stupid, naive, or “tragically unfamiliar with the content of Playboy.” Even women who walk into the wrong room. Even women with bad publicists. Even women with no publicists. Even women who expect professional photographers and stylists to honor professional contracts without question. ( Read more... )

Weather Update: The clumps of snow still fall to the ground. All is darkness, and the quietude of the storm's progression is interrupted only by the occasional susurration of an automobile gliding by on moistened wheels. Your life thus far has amounted to nothing and when you are dead the snow will continue to fall on your grave, inexorably ( Read more... )

i hate snow. I HATE SNOW. I HATE HATE HATE HATE SNOW.

‘The History of Love’ by Nicole Kraus, p. 10-13 (pages may vary depending on your edition ( Read more... )