December 2011
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Really want to Tweet “I’m just going back to bed if Twitter is going to be over capacity all day” but I can’t because it’s over capacity.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: I did not go back to bed, but I did decide to have gruyere for breakfast.
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An actual thing someone said to me online today
I would definitely fog up your glasses if I still had lips.
Why can't every other precious vicious queer...
transitionsurrection:
is the real source of my anger. Should prolly compile an anthology about my feelings. Should prolly host a conference of transfag poet babies on my roof. Agenda:
1. Yell @ the woods 2. Yell @ the sky 3. Feel feelings 4. Hold hands 5. Words jamboree 6. Eat brunch
I would give a keynote entitled “Hollandaise, Full Hearts, and the Role of the Poet in the Golden Age of...
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"Bar Luck" by Derrick Brown
She said to me as I was leaving “Are you going to go have fun somewhere else?” I said “Well there’s too many people out tonight.” She said “Thursday’s the new Saturday” I said “Friday’s the new Christmas, and you just missed Hanukkah.” I am not Jewish. I closed out with the waitress, she said “You’re lucky, I wish I...
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“Poetry is dandy / at supplying figurative language / which some find frustrating...”
– Dean Young, “Non-Apologia”
thinking about something teebs is working on and...
ultramaricon:
and that maybe life is not a flow of time but one frame replacing the next
so you can excise entire spans, like childhood, and replace them with
love | love | love | love | love | love | love | love | love | love
Vain post about being vain and affirming each...
oxxenfree: I currently have a mention of you in my post. is that ok?
me: YES I AM VERY VAIN
oxxenfree: hahah. ok good.
oxxenfree: I mean, I know, and I love you for that because... wait for it...
oxxenfree: I recognize myself in yr vanity.
oxxenfree: not to make yr vanity about me.
me: tumbling this.
Just another revelation w/ ultramaricon.
Me: I love how we narrate our almost's, often to find out that the other was almosting the same almost.
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That thing where you try to say “Smitten Kitchen,” as in the food blog, and accidentally say “Smitten Kitten,” as in the feminist sex shop. Which, by the way, is a great one.
From my dictionary of obscure pleasures
That one where an elderly Midwestern couple in collegiate sweatshirts stares at you from across the airport gate and you wish they knew that they were watching you check Grindr. (Lord, if his profile popped up…)
What O'Hare does to my logic
Me: I'm sitting on the floor at my gate because everyone's taking up two freaking seats.
SSD: Well why don't you ask someone to move over?
Me: Because then I'd have to sit by someone.
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“I actually had an old friend say to me when I was complaining about gays wanting...”
– CAConrad
Color healing.
Me: i feel my heart knocking
oxxenfree: i think you should look at some green
oxxenfree: do you have a green garment you could wrap yourself in?
oxxenfree: or maybe bury your face in a houseplant
Me: my houseplant is fucking purple
oxxenfree: wow. that's gay.
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In case you were wondering...
It turns out I can’t just impulsively choose new bedding. First I have to consult Google to find words to describe the color I’m envisioning. Then tweet what Wikipedia says about the comfort level of throw pillows. Then decide I’m going to read about room colors and moods but never actually get around to it because I’m too busy narrating the whole damn process, and besides,...
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FYI, my sister's life is not all dragon...
Me: how are you? I can't wait to see you.
Sister: basil is very excited
i've been telling her that you're coming to visit
also, she got a new stuffed dragon for christmas and she destroyed it this morning
we found her wandering around with red fuzz hanging off her lips
and then came upon the carnage in the living room
it was traumatic
there were red, orange, and yellow pieces everywhere
...
Sister: my life is not all dragon destruction and blog comment moderation...those just happened to be the updates that came to mind
How to use Borg logic to dismantle racism.
White gay: What do you look for in a city?
Me: Happy brown people.
White gay: That makes me think of Tijuana. I lived there for four months.
Me: Happy Tijuana. Sounds fishy.
White gay: Well, you know, white people can be happy and unhappy.
Me: Irrelevant.
a chat with oxxenfree about being a queer second...
me: i mean i think we all need to be loving fems
me: and then i look at my tall beardy soft butch self and im like, what happens to me
me: and then i realize i'm making feminism all about me and my needs
me: and i go write a poem or masturbate.
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Call for Participation on Panels at the...
Emailed proposals due by Thursday, January 12, 2012. I will submit full panel proposals for the conference by the due date of 1/15/12.
Conference Dates: May 31 – June 2, 2012 @ the Philadelphia Convention Center
Trans Fats: A Panel Discussion on Weight Diversity, Fatphobia and Gender Expression
I am seeking people who identify as fat/fat-positive and as trans/genderqueer to be on a panel...
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“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”
– Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
“It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are...”
– Margaret Cho (via false-catalyst)
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“it’s not
philosophy it’s
a kiss moving
down your
spine”
– CAConrad, from “The Distance,” Deviant Propulsion. (via cyanotype-thrill)
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“at the party
everyone traced fingers
on their bodies where they
preferred to...”
– CAConrad, from The Book of Frank
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Revolutionary Polyamory →
the more we pursue pleasure and love for ourselves and the people around us, the more we eschew the neoliberal imperative to be productive. -Sadie Ryanne Vashti
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“Moraine, pot, oxbow, glint, sink, crater, piedmont, dimple…?/ Just reeling...”
– Auden, on kinds of lakes.
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Which is the heuristic device,
the toothpick, or the brownie pan, or the recipe, or the oven? We discussed it at the coffeeshop. A. says it’s the brownie. I said it’s the toothpick.
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“I have been gone too long,
traveled distances I myself sometimes cannot bear,...”
– Joseph Legaspi, “Little Blackbird” from Imago