Tonight I sat outside and listened to the houses creak. As the cold sets in they contract, sneaking away from the street and into the same hiding their residents will take on as the snow starts to fall and all the activism in Minnesota moves off the streets and back onto the Internet.

People, hairless and unprepared for hibernation, should not live ( Read more... )

How much would you pay for a harness made from recycled bike tubes?

At least she wasn't killed

At least there was not a head injury

At least the driver stopped

At least...

At least I don't kick your motherfucking ass for reminding me that I should be able to smile through my girlfriend being run over by a car. I am aware it could be worse but I gain no comfort in being reminded of that.

That silver lining? That sunny ( Read more... )

 Before I head out to the Peace Corps, or run away somewhere else warm if I don't get in, I need to learn/brush up on a few skills:

1.  drive a stick
2.  general car fix-it-ry
3.  Spanish
4.  how to cook from scrach
5.  wilderness first aid for environments outside the Midwest
6.  self defense

I feel like that list is really short.  What am I

 Dearest Lj folk ( Read more... )

Well, I was going to talk about getting over my childhood fear of lighting candles - but just now a woman was interviewed by the BBC (playing on MPR, my still favorite aspect of the Twin Cities) who said she would vote for McCain but she wonders if Palin would be able to choose between her chilren and her country.  WTF?  I've lost a little more ( Read more... )

In particular, street harassment.  It happened at the corner of 39th and Lake last week and Cretin and Ford just yesterday.  And unless the world has become a really great place to be a queer person/woman/pretty much everyone, I'm guessing it happens in more places and more often than listed above.  This is a shameless Livejournal plug for a ( Read more... )

Long ago I heard through the grapevine that the cancer had come back.  We weren't speaking; in fact, we were freshly not speaking - only 3 months or so had passed since I found the letter that started the whole mess. I called the person who had emailed me for him.  It was 4 am.  I was drunk ( Read more... )

recently a friend of a friend mentioned a method they use to combat how much they dislike their current city - they keep a list of things they do like about their new town ( Read more... )

 Minnesota knows how to put on some public radio; Wisconsin should take note ( Read more... )