I'm bridemaiding my first long-time friend's wedding tomorrow. I've known her since we were 14 and we've ditched high school to go to thrift stores together, obsessed over the local scene and shows together, played grown-up in our first rented house together, gotten fucking drunk as hell and jumped off a roof and then eaten grass together, risked ( Read more... )

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Exchange between Bill and myself following the exhibition of my most recent project:
B: Wow. I'm officially NOT the weirdest person in the room.
M: Have you ever been able to say that?
B (pause) No.

Keep in mind that this is a grown man who owns an Elmo suit and makes soap women for his dates.

On the subject of morons: Rev Fred Phelps of godhatesfags.com fame is going to picket in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, apparently because New Mexico disagrees with God and loves fags. I think I'm going to picket with them, but I'm having trouble deciding on slogans. Rough drafts ( Read more... )

In other news: I got a note from my boss in which he uses the phrase "shit canned". It is in reference to the homophobe who showed up to work for one day, the never came in again. When I first came in Jeanette said, "We got a new guy. Now Hita, don't you scare him away!" (to which I responded, "She's just mad because I threatened to stab her...") ( Read more... )

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"The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore ( Read more... )

So I'm looking up information on fascism because, while I have a good idea, I don't know *exactly* what it is or was. So I'm reading an article and I come across ( Read more... )

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So sometimes I go to the skatepark early in the morning after work because there's absolutely nobody there so not only can I do what I want but I don't have to feel like a total loser because I suck like crazy. Anyway, Tuesday morning was one of those mornings, and as I was skating around the track with all of the uphill and downhill ramps I was ( Read more... )