January 2012
8 posts
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From a sadlady book I'm reading about...
“Imprinted in the amygdala are memories of how you responded to fear and other perceived threats since infancy. These emotional memories help you detect dangers that you have learned from previous experience, both as a species (don’t step over the edge of a cliff) and individually (don’t go near Uncle Charlie).”
- Susan Anderson, The Journey from Abandonment to Healing
“I’ve been abandoned out here
under the dry stars
with no shoes, no belt
and I’ve called Rescue Inc. -
that old fashioned hot line -
no voice.
Left to my own lips, touch them,
my own dumb eyes, touch them
It makes me laugh
to see a woman in this condition
It makes me laugh for America and New York City
when your hands are cut off
and no one answers the...
There is a tall, kind man who takes me out to the seashore for brunch every Sunday. The ocean is white and frosty during the drive, and he holds my hand the whole time. Every week we pick a different little diner on the coast. He orders an “Irish Farmer’s Breakfast” and talks about the Patriots with the wait-staff, who he always knows, who have accents like his. He drinks two...
The lesbian event I went to tonight was so miserable that I found myself wishing I had stayed home and watched the “Patriots game” instead, and I don’t even know what sport that is.
When the bartender asked what I was having, I couldn’t decide between using the old Dorothy Parker barb, “not much fun,” or just being honest and asking for a glass of arsenic.
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This is Antonin Artaud, French playwright and poet
And he was about as happy as he looked. Choice quotes:
“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”
“Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.”
The Trevor Project Hotline
Once I figured out I had to lie about my age (surely it won’t be the last time!) to access the gentle fairies on the other end of this gay teen suicide hotline, it proved to be a pretty great resource during the Winter of My Discontent.
It’s free, open 24/7, and anonymous, and with the exception of one or two bad apples, I’ve had great luck with the volunteers. Unlike the people...
plans
might be paying $55 and going on a 4.5 hour “shuttle bus” ride (each way) just to see a five week old kitten, because what the fuck else do I have going on now?
December 2011
10 posts
just wish I could be with Norah Vincent
even though she’s an anti-choice neo-con!
"The Break" by Anne Sexton
It was also my violent heart that broke,
falling down the front hall stairs.
It was also a message I never spoke,
calling, riser after riser, who cares
about you, who cares, splintering up
the hip that was merely made of crystal,
the post of it and also the cup.
I exploded in the hallway like a pistol.
So I fell apart. So I came all undone.
Yes. I was like a box of dog bones.
But now they've...
ugh, I hate trying to meet lesbians
Her: So what do you do?
Me: I’m in grad school, you?
Her: I take photographs of dogs whose owners have AIDS.
Our culture has very little to offer people who are heartbroken. It does not respond to this sort of tragedy well. All anybody can give you are rehearsed platitudes: It’s for the best. Time will heal. You have to pick yourself up and move on. There is someone better out there. Take this time to focus on you. Enjoy being single. Don’t dwell. Distract yourself. Stay social.
This sort...
Definition
By Mayo Clinic staff
Broken heart syndrome is a temporary heart condition brought on by stressful situations, such as the death of a loved one. People with broken heart syndrome may have sudden chest pain or think they’re having a heart attack. These broken heart syndrome symptoms may be brought on by the heart’s reaction to a surge of stress hormones. In broken heart...
my eyes are falling out
from all this reading and writing and ALL I want is sex & pastries, forever, that’s it.
Best names of bars in the greater Boston area
Murphy’s Law
Bukowski’s
The Thirsty Scholar
Daisy Buchanan’s
Brahmin
Shenanigans
Joan Rivers on Comedy
“Comedy is a steaming shithole of cruelty and degeneracy owned and operated by deranged, unattractive thieves”
If I were bold, I’d make the same claims about academia, the literary and art scenes, the sex industry, and basically every other enterprise I’ve seen up close.
my perfect life partner
would be one of those lesbians who trains exotic birds to do tricks for shows at zoos and kids parties and wears unisex safari outfits and goes by “Wildlife Winnie”
I just know we’d be sexually & emotionally compatible.
I watch lifetime movies about eating disorders on...
And the comments are always informative:
“a girl with normal height really really shouldn’t be below 100lbs. Anyone wo is could just die the next moment. I don’t meant japanese and Korean and mongol-types and such now because those have less bones and are generally smaller and can weigh 10-20 pounds less than most europeans without endangering their health.”
November 2011
8 posts
I know that MA takes early America seriously
But I didn’t expect to be seated next to a man literally wearing a George Washington wig. Don’t worry, he updated the look with a pair of pleather pants.
Thanksgiving in South Boston
“This is my friend Tommy. White Bulger killed his dad.”
I had to call the beauty parlor my grandma goes to and cancel her hair appointment. The place is called The Golden Doll. It obviously caters to a young crowd.
So last year I finally understood winter. The metaphors and literary uses of it, the way your body feels when it finally ends, all the lyrics about snow and ice and bare tree branches and silence. It was something I could never know living in Los Angeles my whole life. It was something I needed to experience to prove to myself that I could survive.
This year I get to understand death. The way a...
update on my condition
So, in the past 2 months, I’ve literally had scarlet fever, candidiasis, a severe allergic reaction to a psychiatric medication, the usual impetigo, and now am currently battling the kind of sinus infection where both nostrils feel like they’re clogged with the tar-coated horns of a triceratops.
Also, one of my closest relatives died last weekend. On this, I’d like to encourage...
October 2011
10 posts
Sarah Silverman plans 'N*****head' show in Rick... →
julieklausner:
I love her.
My loved one (Tig) is in this!
Against Exercise
When people talk about how amazing intensive exercise feels, particularly running, hiking, or cycling for long periods of time, the extent to which I can relate is so profoundly miniscule that I literally can no longer see these individuals as sharing a common humanity with me. You are an unrecognizable, foreign species. You have alienated me as a friend. I’m physically exhausted just...
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there are no atheists with kidney infections
The only explanation for this pain is that God is punishing me.
moving convo with mother
”Why don’t you ask your friends to help you move?”
“My friends are all effete Jewish intellectuals.”
“Then round up a gang of handy lesbians!”
“From your lips to God’s ears.”
I hated the rich way before you did
My family line has been hating on the rich since forever-ago. When they were Yiddish peasants in Eastern Europe. When they were living in flooded Chicago tenements during the First Depression. When they subscribed to socialist newspapers in the 60s and wore “DUMP REAGAN” buttons in the 80s. Class-rage is in my blood, along with the recessive alleles responsible for Tay-Sachs disease....
this woman deserves to be human-centipeded
Me: Hello, I was wondering if you cover the HPV vaccine
Insurance Rep Lady: How old are you?
Me: 26
IRL: HAHAHAHHAA no.
Me: What’s funny…?
IRL: Um, 26 is the cut-off age.
Me: Ok, so….?
IRL: So by the time a woman is 26 she’s married, she’s not, um, exposing herself to the HPV virus. We definitely wouldn’t cover the vaccination for your age. At that point...
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September 2011
13 posts
Me: I just saw Porgy and Bess. It’s a musical about poor black people.
Tig: Hard to tell from the title.
to the lesbian who takes the train with me and...
I meant it as a compliment!
sexy halloween costumes for couples!
W.W.B.D.
What Would Bjork Do?
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the new vegetarian restaurant in Cambridge
boasts a menu which includes “sourdough french toast stuffed with banana nut vegan cream cheese and strawberry basil sauce.” But I’m mostly excited about the lesbian cook who’s a dead ringer for Lynndie England working behind the counter.
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too excited to read this now, saving it for...
How many rapes do you think will take place in the first volume of Angela Carter’s revised fairy-tales?
I know I'm about 30 years late
but I’ve just discovered the short fiction of Angela Carter and I’m seriously freaking out right now.
Black Venus? The Bloody Chamber? I’m a sucker for violent feminist magical realism and am almost indignant that nobody brought her to my attention sooner.
Carter had anorexia as a teenager and wrote the libretto for an opera based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Like, what...
create your own Tori Amos song title!
1. Choose one or more words from List A:
Blood
Black
Little
Gold
Liquid
Orange
Beauty
Mr./Mrs.
Sweet
Mother
2. And one or more words from List B:
Skies
Horses
Waves
Ghost
Winter
Clouds
Girl
Sun
Spring
Butterflies
Sea
Moon
Jesus
Roses
Father
3. Combine in any order.
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go...”
– Katherine Hepburn (via thatwhitebitch)
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overheard on campus
First Professor: “This fall I’m teaching a class called Secularization and Its Discontents.”
Second Professor: “What a coincidence! I’m teaching one called Empire and Its Discontents!”