• I went to a party last night with a bunch of queer punk/hippie folks, folks of the sort that I'd like to have as my friends but don't around the Bay Area. I ended up in an Against Me! and Weakerthans sing-along, which was ostensibly great but made me miss my friends and everything else I've left behind. I feel so out of step here and too often do I ( Read more... )

Papabile, able to be made Pope (more or less).

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Ragged Edge has some great articles on Terri Schiavo that everyone should read. Their take threw a wrench in my admittedly-inarticulate pro-Michael Schiavo stance. Though my simplistic frustration/hatred for someontheRight’s still stands, the politics of the thing are up in the air. I’d love to hear anyone’s thoughts on the Ragged Edge articles. ( Read more... )

Whenever someone dies at work on a cop show they interview the person’s co-workers and they’re always indifferent. I used to think it was so unrealistic - if a co-worker of mine died, I defiantly thought, I would be in such a state! - now I am starting to understand. I have almost no interaction with half the people in my office and if one of them ( Read more... )

• Went to Anarchist Bookfair today in Golden Gate Park. Meh. It was nice to see so many black-clad youth and my friends at LiP, not so nice to see fractured, uncritical politics so forcefully expressed. I'm sure there were gems among the people/books (like In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, the only thing I purchased), but there was so ( Read more... )

I'm back in Berkeley from a week in Durham and shucks if it ain't weird. A week away made me realize how foreign my life is here, how divorced it is from all the things I consider central to being me. All the friends from college, the thinking and work of academics, the "activism" (which always conjures up images of peace signs and dreadlocks, ( Read more... )

At the top of my list of "things I wish my parents didn't talk about" are fat/weight/bodies and grad school. I just have no idea where to start with them when they bring those things up. I think I have about reached my limit of living with my folks but don't have a great strategy to leave. Patty is (hopefully) coming for the summer and we will be ( Read more... )

Did you know that medium-size Hanes Premium Briefs cannot be found in the Bay Area for love nor money? It's a fact. Years from now people will ask "Where were you during the great brief shortage of aught-five?" Suffering.
I'm really into morality/ethics these days. Interested in the conflicted/incoherent (favorite word) morality of the left (see ( Read more... )

I had a difficult conversation with a friend of mine yesterday in which I tried to represent my intellectu-academic interests re: "the Left" and "politics." I was completely unable to remember and communicate any of it in a coherent way. I realize now that some of my difficulties came from the fact that, insofar as I am interested in Left critique ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is in town from New York because his dad is crazy, multiple-tumor sick. I'm doing what I can to be there for him. It makes me feel very grown up. Fortunately, pineapple-papaya margaritas at Chevy's fixed that ( Read more... )