sculptors continued to carve after michaelangelo, and guitarists continued to sculpt after hendrix

facebook is the collective towel where we wipe our dicks and pretend nothing important is happening

okay -- i can finally formulate the problem: what'll it be -- five years of orgasm or ten years of cabernet

for me, the swell of joy has never been as sharp as the pang of shame, and that has made a good deal of difference

at night, the approach of sleep
feels like the approach of death --one resists it-- and in the morning
lying in bed feels like heaven.

for the longest time i had to avert my eyes becoz i was gay, and now i must avert my eyes becoz i am old. fuck!

i remember robert, a 16-yr old who had a crush on me when i was 20 or so....he was a ginger boy, with skin so strangely pale it seemed luminously taut across his perfect body. he was busted for marijuana and a judge sentenced him to six weeks in the state mad house.

when, at the family reunion, one says "nothing personal, brethren, but our grandmother was the skankiest piece o tail on 4th street" there will occur hurt feelings among parties who have vested interests in limiting the discussion to hagiography.

my employer --which ostensibly adheres to a nondiscrimination policy-- offers me unequal pay for equal work. how can this be? my family of two must pay for two separate medical policies whereas married coworkers pay for only one. i know, employer insurance is considered a benefit and not salary, but the direct effect is the same: less take-home pay ( Read more... )

   
what if it should turn out that the folx that got us into war in iraq and afghanistan were the same folx who ruined the economy at approximately the same time. and what if they got away with all of it freely and few of them will ever spend a single day in jail?

what a coincidence that would be.