Yet another Bush Quote:

“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." - Barbara Bush after touring the refugee camp at the Houston Astrodome.

It just won't stop!!!!!!

Love you,
Mom

Love you back, Mom.

By the way, Fugazi's The Argument is the best album of the century, and although we are only five years in, I care not. Nothing, and I repeat, nothing, could ever top this ( Read more... )

Doods --

Tommorow Teht and I embark on the odd-i-see that is our graduate career. It begins at 11 am with a "networking luncheon" and will end, hopefully, years from now with a big bundle of paper full of lots of words about liminal identities, queerness, love and pretty and engaging things.

I think I'm a little excited. Perhaps.

TOBIAS, YOU ARE A GIFT GIVING GOD AND A LETTER WRITING GENIUS.

I. LOVE. YOU. MORE. THAN. AN. APPLE.

NASHVILLE ( Read more... )

Bob and Mary came and went, and in between there was a visit to Ithaca, where even the goths wear tye-dye, and also chinese food, a big bottle of cabernet sauvignon and also a big bottle of Jim Beam ( Read more... )

In the backseat of a late 80's Honda coasting through the downtown of Middleton, CT, we pass a McDonalds. 99 billion served. I lean my head into the space between the two front bucket seats and ask my road trip companions if they remember when Mickey D's had only served 49 billion. One does. The other doesn't remember 49 billion, specifically, ( Read more... )

An old writing prof of mine wrote a short story called "Things To Do" that was all about what a mom post-divorce and post-sending-kids-off-to-college does with her time. These things, from what I remember, involved crafts, dancing, air-drying laundry, and dating handsome divorcees. And, while that is all well and good, I have little to no ( Read more... )

I will be spending tommorow in Ithaca, this weekend in Brattleboro, VT with jugglers and exes, and the first portion of next week at Ausable Point, ADK National Park with a brown Honda from 1986 and two buddies and a trunk full of illegal ( Read more... )

Thoughts:

Teht shakes his boy-hips like it ain't nobody's business.

And he's fun fun fun to dance with.

And also, we discovered a bar, thanks to Amie, that has Elvis Costello, James Brown, The Pogues, The Smiths, The Pixies, James Brown, Pat Benatar, Blondie, and also amazing others on the jukebox, and also Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on tap for ( Read more... )