A few nights ago L and I threw down some mad cooking action. He, being of the omni variety, was being super nice about eating my vegfoodstuff, but was craving meat nevertheless. Meat that takes hours and bottles of hot sauce to make. Braised pork ribs, to be exact. I, in turn, made a butternut squash and english pea risotto. Feeling ( Read more... )

Really quick: spent six days in San Francisco and loved it. Mainly I was in the Castro with a friend, visiting mutual friends; we go back to college and high school days. The Castro, by the way, rocks. While I was there I was reading The Ethical Slut, in which the Castro is declared a sex-positive neighborhood. Why, yes it is. Emphatically yes ( Read more... )

I've been apartment shopping this week, and it's a good damn thing that my mom's an accountant. We did some calculating and discovered that I would have to live in X apt. with Y rent for Z months before the savings is realized. Sometimes the result was that I'd have to live somewhere for over two years--no no no. I want to be gone in two years ( Read more... )

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I didn't even KNOW the NY State Senate was voting on marriage equality today. S told me during a phone call at work (which momentarily reminded me of the time C delivered the news that Michael Jackson died, but that is neither here nor there). I was speechless. Today? Could it be ( Read more... )

Pride was FANTASTIC! C and I were in the Dyke March on Saturday and watched the Pride Parade Sunday. The interesting thing--besides the fact that, in two Peruvian floats, we saw zero biological women--was the reaction to the signs I made. On Saturday, mine said: "The most violent element in society is ignorance." (Emma Goldman, Anarchist). ( Read more... )

I know politicians that I elected are supposed to reply to your mail, but I'm always surprised when I receive just such a response. Yesterday, I opened a letter from my state senator that said he supported same-sex marriage. He also asked that I direct any and all further correspondence to him via email, as he's trying to "go green." Double ( Read more... )

This morning I awoke to an email from C, entitled: "Hi." There was no message within. Rather, she had attached two exquisitely adorable photos of herself, holding a card. On the first she had written, "Hi!" The second said, "It's 1 A.M. and I am thinking about you." Naturally I melted. I then returned myself to solid form and sent her similar ( Read more... )

Did you hear Ellen's commencement speech at Tulane? No? Why then here: http://www.feministing.com/archives/015902.htmlRead more... )

Last Sunday's Marriage Equality rally in Queens shall henceforth be remember as the birth of the Bridesmaids for Marriage Equality among my friends. It happened kind of like this (as written by Rod, who organized a pre-rally drink-down at an Astoria beer garden). It was silly, but the novelty of a gaggle of attractive, youngish, fem (and mostly ( Read more... )