February 2012
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sometimes the inability of people to put things in perspective makes me physically ill.
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“There’s something about him… that is so hopelessly vile…”
– Maurice Sendak on Newt Gingrich
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my mother, a saint, is baking all these cookies...
and refers to them exclusively as “motherfucking intifada cookies.”
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“If you ever die, I’m gonna need a lobotomy.”
– Meg, who showed up unexpectedly today with asti and a fierce resolve to keep me from having a panic attack as I finish the thesis draft due tomorrow. Valentine’s Day is stupid, but she’s still the best.
happy extra bitter heteros at smith college day...
Biddie outside my window at 7 o'clock in the morning, at a moderate decibel: Happy valentine's day!
Biddie #2 outside my window at 7 o'clock in the morning, as loud as is humanly possible: NO, HAPPY SINGLES AWARENESS DAY!
Me, half asleep, unintelligibly: Happy I'm still sleeping in this bed awareness day, you inconsiderate motherfucker!
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tomorrow
I will wake up and my thesis will be done! written! and brilliant! and I will be thin and covered in really beautiful tattoos, none of which I will have paid for! and meg will be here! and there will be waffles for breakfast! and I will have a million dollars, and I’ll buy my dad a boat! and give him enough money so that he can ever actually use that boat! and there will be more waffles, and...
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“I have respect for Miley Cyrus for a number of reasons. One, she is clearly the...”
– my sister, totally unprompted, during a recent skype conversation
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Haaretz: Tel Aviv declared world's best gay travel... →
hummussexual:
Dear Gays and Queers, Come here and party and spend your money. We love and welcome you with open arms*. Love, Israel
*Disclaimer: As long as you aren’t Palestinian or a sympathiser of Palestine, Arab, or Muslim, or even if you were a Palestinian living in “the territories” and wanted to move in with your same-sex partner in “Israel” proper. In fact, the only gays we want are...
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post-operative complications following the...
In an ancient, gypsy dictionary of dreams are explanations of my name and numerous interpretations of all I’ll write. What horror comes across me when I come across myself in such a dictionary! But there I am: a camel fleeing the slaughterhouses, galloping toward the East, pursued by processions of knives and assessors, women wielding mortar and pestle for chop meat! I do not consider myself a...
Watching ‘Pariah’ with Audre Lorde by Saeed Jones →
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