I don't like to admit it, but I have sometimes wished for the option of a cheap, occasional pill that would sate hunger and provide all nutrients. In the future, even cannibals will be able to just take a pill. And the future is now.Though I haven't been writing here, I've been productive, editing manuscripts and making some of my favorite blank ( Read more... )

New FetLife entry.

I first heard this old country song at my paternal grandmother's house in Whitesville, Kentucky when I was about eight. I sort of liked it even though (or maybe because) it creeped me out a little, especially since I first thought they were saying "Dancing flowers on the wall." All these years later, I realize it is the perfect theme song for an ( Read more... )

When I was a little kid, there were no gay characters in anything I read or saw, although I latched onto the proto-bromances of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a very early age. At eight or so, I read about a lesbian encounter in a biography of (I think) Hedy Lamarr, which I found (oddly) in my super-conservative Baptist paternal grandmother's ( Read more... )

Did I ever tell you about my cousin Sebastian? I doubt it, because it's pretty funny now, but it was so embarrassing at the time that I didn't let myself think of it for years and years ( Read more... )

Record number of comments (for the, what? couple of months I've had open comments) on last night's entry. High school experiences resonate with almost everyone, I guess. For the couple of people who took slight issue with me for being suspicious of people with too many good memories of high school (and for those who didn't speak up but may have ( Read more... )

The most popular girl in my high school was beautiful, smart, and had a huge trendy wardrobe (which at the time meant as many Fair Isle sweaters and pairs of boat shoes as you could afford). To top it all off, though she hung out with some of the meanest bitches I've ever encountered or hope to, she was genuinely nice, so you couldn't really hate ( Read more... )