March 2010
31 posts
Scandinavian Deli Guy Who Told Me He Loved Me Last Time I Went to the Deli: I've missed you!
JHE: Ah. Well. I've been busy.
SDGWTMHLMLTIWTTD: Have you been seeing other men?
JHE: Well, I have to admit I've been eating lunch in a lot of different places. I'm kind of a slut like that.
SDGWTMHLMLTIWTTD: [Looking at once astonished and hopeful] You're a...slut?
JHE: With lunch. A lunch slut. LUNCH.
“They said they had concerns about liability problems, including possible use of...”
– Constance McMillen Prom Lawsuit Heard By Court: Lesbian Teen Wants School Dance For All
Alcohol and drugs AT THE PROM?? Snort.
“Newt Gingrich thinks the Democrats “‘have destroyed their party much...”
– How Hysterical Are Conservative Reactions to the Passage of Health-Care Reform? — Daily Intel
Because everyone knows what an awful mistake civil rights is. (via generallychurlish)
“‘What’s that flower thing you wear on your wrist called?’ they...”
– Jean Hannah Edelstein: Mississippi Prom Lawsuit and the Broader Significance of the High School Prom in American Culture
My HuffPo debut (with awkward typo, sigh).
“Perhaps Goodwin was simply aiming to use the platform provided to her as an...”
– Orange prize ‘grimness’ is not the fault of women novelists | Books | guardian.co.uk
“RT @CNN ACLU pushes to save prom that lesbians want to attend....”
– HotButton
The prom is such a fascinating American ritual, an amazing intersection of traditional American puritanism and a celebration of teenage sexuality, and one of the few rituals that seem to be followed regardless of region - and, I’d guess, a coming-of-age ritual that more Americans...
"Ha ha, yeah.": Qualifiers from first three pages... →
pretty much a certain impression mostly little more maybe deep down whole thing much of anything not even really feeling never even really never really didn’t really work a certain impression for the most part a great deal a lot more interesting pretty much sort of informal slightly distant maybe…
(via looceefir)
My creative writing professor would not have been happy with him....
Bullet in the Brain / Tobias Wolff →
Aha! Thanks to ancient lovely friend Ian (I think we first met about a quarter of a century ago) I’ve located the short story I referenced in my last post. It’s ‘Bullet in the Brain’ by Tobias Wolff, the phrase is ‘they is’, and if you’ve not read it yet, or recently, I suggest that you stop whatever you’re doing (Monday morning work? Whatevs, it can...
On how language makes me feel sometimes
I like to notice the little ways in which after nearly seven years I am evolving into a more-British person, as well as the ways in which I am not becoming British at all. In particular, I’ve lately noticed that certain words or phrases (or uses of words or phrases) that used to make lots of sense to me when I lived in America no longer do, that there’s been a shift in my brain wherein...
“I am waiting for someone to speak to me. This is my fourth in a series of...”
– 3:AM Magazine
This story was published in 3:AM a few weeks ago and I was very excited because it was the first fiction I’ve published, well, ever. But I was also a little shy about posting it here, as my parents read my blog, and the story is mildly racy. But then I remembered that my parents...
“Penny Jordan, author of more than 170 novels for Mills & Boon, agreed....”
– Evolutionary psychologists turn attention to romantic fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk
This just in from the Institute of the Completely Obvious. Though this content analysis sounds like it must have been great fun to do, I think the researchers would have drawn the same conclusions if...
On not being someone's ex-girlfriend
Oh, said the man at the party. You used to go out with [Somewhat Famous Person] at Oxford, didn’t you?
No, I said. I’ve never met [Somewhat Famous Person]. I didn’t go to Oxford.
Hm, he said.
Ha ha, I said. Ha?
He looked let down.
It was a strange feeling, to disappoint someone so much by having not been in a failed relationship.
“Buzz and bullets: Gun fans cheer Starbucks’ policy By GREG BLUESTEIN (AP)...”
– The Associated Press: Buzz and bullets: Gun fans cheer Starbucks’ policy
Man, Dale, there’s enough calories in that shizz to kill you.
“Why is mental illness so closely associated with creativity? Andreasen argues...”
– Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com
Hm. If I had a choice, I honestly think I’d opt to be an happy accountant over being a creative chronic depressive. But I suppose that I don’t.