This is how I’ve been feeling lately: It is worth noting that any and all good deeds I may perform are part of an effort to build up enough good karma to be reborn as a sloth or cat in my next life. I realize that animals are technically a step down the continuum, but I [...]
“They don’t watch television.” I heard a record scratch in my brain. “Ugh. What do they talk about?” It was a serious question. I really don’t understand how people that don’t watch television relate to their fellow human beings. How does one function in society whilst disconnected from the cultural touchstone that is television? Seed [...]
Haiti as we knew it is gone. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought dead, and hundreds of thousands have survived and are suffering. This is a country that has been plagued by inequality, disease, starvation, natural disasters, poverty, political instability, you name it. The people of Haiti are so poor that many are obliged to [...]
Or if you do, judge kindly. It was requested that I get over myself and post my favorite books. I will do so, but I’m leaving out my commentary (which was mostly justifying my choices). Besides, in a world where Twilight and Going Rogue are runaway bestsellers, do I really need to justify my (sometimes [...]
I found something on Feministing this morning that made me really, really happy. Because we should really stop hating ourselves and our bodies.
For the past few days, I’ve been working on a post about the ten best books I’ve read in the last decade. And a funny thing happened. I started feeling really, really insecure. INSECURE THOUGHTS Are you seriously going to admit publicly that that is your favorite book? How come nothing that you’ve read in [...]
So 2009 kinda sucked for me. 2009 just would not stop kicking me in the teeth, and just when I thought it was done kicking me in the teeth, it kicked me in the ovaries. 2009 was a fickle bitch. 2009 was riddled with health problems. And in America, health problems are expensive, ya’ll. 2009 [...]
Rohn was in the backyard last night, bark, bark, barking. What was upsetting him? Ah, Alaska, where dangerous ungulates lurk in the backyard. (Rohn is our dog, by the way. And luckily the moose paid him no mind.)
I have a teensy obession with flash mobs, namely because they make me believe that life can be like an MGM musical, which of course, it should be. Everybody should be in technicolor and wearing floaty skirts and three piece suits. All the men should tap dance. And also, I should be able to control [...]
Look what I found under the Christmas tree at my parents’ house: Coco and Petunia! Aaaaaaah, they’re so cute. (There were also presents underneath the tree, they were just all unwrapped when I took this picture, although if you feel bad for me and think I should have more presents, that’s fine. I’d be down [...]