| Saturday, November 13th, 2010 |
| 5:09 pm |
I have a tumblr now, we'll see how that goes. |
| Friday, November 12th, 2010 |
| 3:18 am |
the problem is growing up in the 90s it was all upslope and we heard the story and there was nothing to disprove it the problem is growing up in the 90s we internalized this situation where if you knew what the internet was that was a skill that put you in the top 15% of the company/whatevs the problem is so many things oh god Current Mood: disillusioned |
| Monday, November 8th, 2010 |
| 2:54 am |
Walked by the American Apparel flagship store. Recently they kind of redid their line identity into this sort of "naughty WASPs of 1985" thing that not only didn't work raw but was an awfully jarring transition. Judging by the way the displays in the window have changed (I think they redo them daily) they've slightly shifted to "naughty UWS jewesses of 1985". And obviously/holy shit yes. |
| Sunday, November 7th, 2010 |
| 4:22 am |
I am having, you know, life crises. I thought Belle & Sebastian might be of comfort oh god is it not i have a problem i grew up on country enough that i listen to lyrics (aaaaaaaah) |
| Friday, November 5th, 2010 |
| 2:06 am |
Maybe it's the duty of the subaltern to die and we've all been horribly horribly regretfully neglectful of duty. (bcuz humanism does lead to democracy) |
| Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 |
| 2:57 am |
Met a black girl with a British accent. This is kind of a thing of mine, though I can't find to link the post where I declared this. She asked where I was from, I said Pennsylvania. She said my voice "sounds like Twilight". |
| Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 |
| 10:58 pm |
What would it mean if instead of conceptualizing transsexuals around the theme of sexuality as the T in "LBGTQ", we focused on the theme of self-identity in some other grouping with furries and otherkin and the BIID types? |
| Thursday, October 14th, 2010 |
| 4:08 am |
Rilo Kiley is for lesbians
So this. I'm not clever enough to embed. And Tegan and Sara, and Ani, and Tori, who I've all been fond of. The middle two obviously, but I thought Tori was for damaged goods and faeries. I don't know who I assumed Rilo Kiley was for. I suppose I picked them up from McNellis, who's probably the dykiest girl I've put my dick in, for what that's worth. I mean I've known this since my mid-'90s VH1 period or before. My default persona is basically a 35 year old lesbian who lives in a part of New Jersey that's 20 minutes from the freeway where you can still see bare hillsides from your kitchen window and thinks it's important to keep that true forever, who's recasted settling as rebellion, who wants to have kids so I can smell that back to school smell again, who feels I should feel worse about becoming a housewife than I do, who has these totally ahistorical pastoral southern dreams of ease and weeping willows, who collects bits of country kitsch I think are better than what you'd expect from country kitsch. I've been aware of this for decades, much of my life has been lived in defiance of it, much of my life has been lived in submission to it. |
| Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 |
| 2:49 am |
I went to The Thirsty Crow tonight. It was full of westsiders pretending to be eastsiders, 35yos pretending to be 25, 45yos pretending to be 30. Silverlake! In unrelated news, how lucky are we that we're not Europe, where their Mexicans are muslim? Holy shit, we would without a doubt have concentration camps going. Probably death camps, let's be honest. |
| Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 |
| 2:49 am |
I'd hit it.
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| Thursday, September 16th, 2010 |
| 2:22 am |
Saw Ghostbusters again today. I know it was made in the '80s, but I didn't remember just how much of an '80s fantasy it was. As in, it's about three guys who give up on academic values to found a startup company based on cutting-edge technology. They settle in abandoned New York City, specifically abandoned New York City public safety infrastructure, and tear around town with the siren on rousting ne'er-do-well vandals from various once-glorious locations. They clean the city up and even create jobs for the black working class, but face resistance from intrusive government bureaucrats who release all the malefactors they've captured. However, the meddlers ultimately have to relent in the face of their success at making the city safe for innocents, as represented by two yuppie singles ("I am the keymaster!" "I am the gatekeeper.") in their 30s. Did anyone else notice that? |
| Monday, September 6th, 2010 |
| 2:33 am |
I hear from people, mostly who've only seen the movie, that Scott Pilgrim is Twilight for guys. Like on the one hand yes, and on the other hand that's why guys are better. |
| Saturday, September 4th, 2010 |
| 5:26 am |
Had my first decent bar fight. He sucker punched me and expected me to go down; I unwinded and elbowed him in the chin and floored him. The bouncers dealt with him from there. |
| Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 |
| 1:44 am |
I had my plan, it was to join the US Army as a officer. I had another plan, it was to go to Mexico and make a spaghetti western. I had a third plan, it is to go to Toronto and be Canadian. Which plan is least terrible? |
| Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 |
| 2:33 am |
So I'm still considering going Army OCS. I'd have to do it in time to be commissioned before I was 30, so that leaves me some buffer but not much, figuring in basic and branch training and waiting for security clearances. The biggest thing running against it is that I asked everyone I know in the service about it and their advice was "no", "no", "no", "hell no", and "fuck no".* On the other hand none of them were officers. My father (who was an officer) gives advice that amounts to "no, but it's pretty awesome". So in preparation/consideration/fantasization of that I've been reading up on military leadership and that's kind of worthwhile on its own. The lesson of late I'm appreciating is that forty people pulling together on the same stupid idea will usually succeed better than four groups of ten pulling on different good ideas; also forty people pulling together on a stupid idea today will often do better than forty people pulling together on a good idea tomorrow. This accounts for many things I previously found odd. * The worst of it is though, as they tell it the military's not even in a wartime culture. My basic rule of thumb here is "would they be cool if I insisted on going around wearing a Sioux headdress?" And, oversimplifying a ton, my impression is these things always work out in peace hell no, in the rear if I can live up to it and at a proper front line they'd love it. And I hear it's still at "hell no". In a war, people get battlefield promotions, but in the new professional army after all these years you still get civil service promotions, based on time served, graduate degrees, and bullshit yearly evaluations based on political happyfacing. And in the end, I don't want to join to serve, my concern is going to right proper fucking war before I get too old. |
| Friday, August 20th, 2010 |
| 3:20 am |
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| Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 |
| 3:31 am |
I got bored of reading political blogs that agreed with me. I already know what people who think like me think; I think like me! I got bored of reading political blogs - or anything - that were aligned with a party in the American party system. Fuck that bullshit; also I could every time predict both pages from the headline and they were petty. So I read people outside that consensus, and these days they fall into 4.5 categories: Racists, British Socialists, Feminists, American Cynics (Left), and American Cynics (Right). |
| Friday, August 13th, 2010 |
| 2:22 am |
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| Friday, August 6th, 2010 |
| 2:28 am |
We need to reteach the glory of watching/making your enemies suffer We need to reteach having enemies |
| Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 |
| 2:34 pm |
It's obvious that Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka as Michael Jackson. That was actually kinda terrible, but it was a bold choice not to play him as Gene Wilder. I've recently started to wonder if Wilder wasn't playing Wonka as Oscar Wilde. |
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