August 2011
1 post
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
– Toni Morrison (via theinterlocutor)
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
“If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
– John Waters, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
AMEN. Though there’s no way to see ebook collections, which could theoretically be problematic for the future. (via zoelle)
“More recently, Bloomberg destroyed the Advantage program, which helped people in...”
– Not Exactly a Profile in Courage: New York Finally Passes Gay Marriage | The Nation
I love Nancy. I hate Bloomberg and Cuomo and every pseudo-liberal shit who thinks that passing marriage equality gives them a pass for the things they do that ruin the lives of working-class queers (or working-class...
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
“I think it’s very important to feel beautiful. I think it’s very political to...”
– Margaret Cho (via cassket)
“If you love somebody, better set them on fire.”
– The Dead Milkmen
February 2011
3 posts
“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or...”
– Charles Bukowski (via fuckyeahbukowski)
“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– Tina Fey in this week’s New Yorker. (via djjazzystef)
January 2011
3 posts
Ghosts
deadsnaketree:
I recently started calling my parents by their first names
it occurred right about the time I stopped saying grace at the table
instead I just bow my head and silently respect popular delusions
It’s a symptom of an illness that I have
you have it to
this illness is gripping my generation like a heavy weight champion
strangling his affinity for high heeled shoes and feeling...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting)
New poem
January
January
there are already parts of you
I have forgotten, half-coated
in the froth of celebration.
Perhaps as the heat of the room
plucks the liquid out of you
the floor is less possibility
and more coming back to earth.
But the stain is there.
The hardwood will not last
as long as it otherwise might,
and there is the warp,
the way this house will be Pisa-leaned
within a...
December 2010
9 posts
reblog if you came out this year, as...
The GOP's New Abortion Agenda
kungfucarrie:
moreapologies:
The GOP’s New Abortion Agenda
rosietint:
If you thought the abortion battle during the health care debate was fierce, just wait until Republicans take over the House in January. Strengthened by congressional victories in the midterm elections, Republican abortion foes plan to push hard in the new year. Their top goals: enshrine tough restrictions on...
I find it really interesting, in a cynical-actually-not-interesting sort of way, how the argument has been made, and the discussion formed around the idea of taxing and/or increasing costs of health care providers because they also supply plans that include abortion. More specifically, I’m “interested” in how this can happen without it being seen as a blatant discriminatory move...
A serious question
Is it wrong to support the use of violence against oppressive groups/individuals? I’ve been struggling with this notion, especially within the scope of activism. Certainly there is a moral victory to not stooping to this level, or however it is viewed, but I also wonder if people would be less likely to treat people and groups certain ways if they knew they might get their jaw broken.
The Dinner
I may as well post this since my final lines are getting such nice press. Thanks everyone!
The Dinner
I
The neural pathways between head
and mouth
are a game of telephone.
Clarity of purpose,
simplicity in the expression of
in-depth conceptual truths,
word choice, all, a maelstrom from which
only vagaries
and endless second chances have emerged.
I know exactly how I feel about...
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
6 posts
Thoughts on "It Gets Better"
In response to a person who alleged that people who took issue with the campaign “[are not] understanding the point.”
I’m gonna jump in on this one. The idea behind the campaign is noble. Thank goodness someone is saying something. But the way it is being handled is problematic. When you have people just assuring you that it gets better, there is the surface level of the...
A short poem dedicated to Michael.
nomakeup:
Michaelangelo
lying on his back
shoulder blades pressed
against the salty wood
of the scaffold
painted and slept
in the same place.
Scaffold was removed
after he had finished.
Half the masterpiece
is gone.
YES. Kristen Tomanocy, folks
TJ always lets me do me.
Yeah, that happened. :-) poeticartifacts:
KRISTEN: oh my god TJ. I just told James I was going to “Toma the shit” out of something there is something wrong with me ME: your the ringleader. your supposed to talk about yourself in the third person sometimes!……… and as a verb KRISTEN: hahah i love you
Rant →
raptorinside:
loveyourchaos:
People who commit suicide don’t do so because they’re straight. Everyone who is complaining about the awareness being brought after this string of suicides and making comments like “when are we going to have straight suicide awareness day,” I can’t tell you how offensive I find this. The awareness day isn’t meant to bring awareness to suicides caused by bullying...
September 2010
1 post
Lack of a computer has pretty much crippled my blogging, but here’s something you should all do. Go check the September issue of PANK Magazine (www.pankmagazine.com/?cat=87), specifically my three poems (http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=2162www.pankmagazine.com/?cat=87), specifically my three poems (http://www.pankmagazine.com/?p=2162) which are my first poems to ever be published!!
August 2010
2 posts
By all means...
Please, be snarky to me on a facebook message when you are a grown ass woman, with kids my age. That definitely comes off well, I promise.
July 2010
4 posts
“Listening to America these days is like listening to the fallen King Lear using...”
– Paul Beatty’s novel Slumberland
June 2010
11 posts
I absolutely hate the word admit. At best it is an allowance, at worst, a tearing asunder.
May 2010
13 posts
