So, there's some privileged shit going on over at food_porn (what else is new?) and in discussing it, I thought this might be a good time to link back to that entry I made a while back about the SF Hunger Challenge. Reading about ppl trying to live for a week off a food stamp budget was a really enlightening and humbling experience for me, and I think it's ( Read more... )

The other night I went by myself after dark to get my mail. There was a group of guys standing outside being really loud a few buildings away, and it made me tense. When I came out of the mail room, they started walking in my direction, and I got really nervous and practically ran back to my apartment. It's not that I felt some kind of antagonistic ( Read more... )

As much as I enjoy pirates, I did not celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day yesterday, b/c I was too disturbed at the fact that, despite everything else going on in the world, it was the TOP HEADLINE on Yahoo News ( Read more... )

I'm in a black mood today ( Read more... )

What is up with the new Burger King commercial in which a bunch of guys go prancing through the streets singing "I AM MAN" and then follow it up with "I WILL EAT THIS MEAT"? Is BK being intentionally gay or are they just completely naive or what ( Read more... )

Driving around yesterday I saw a lot of people asking for money at intersections, which of course turned into a huge topic of discussion between M and I. There was one man holding a sign and walking with his eyes cast down, and I wondered if he was feeling defeated or tired, or deliberately not making eye contact b/c he found that people are more ( Read more... )

There's a lot of sexist shit to get all bothered about in movies, but probably my least favorite thing is the idea that men and women can't and won't communicate. That relationships survive on lies -- the kinds of lies that we need to be taught, either by magazines or older, wiser daters -- and tricks, methods of apologizing and manipulating power ( Read more... )

So apparently, Urban Outfitters likes to make fun of Mexico, Jewish people, and voting.I have a really good (read: often times incredibly vulgar and inappropriate) sense of humor, but come the fuck on. Teenagers buy and see these shirts, and to risk sounding like an Old, Grumpy Person, they do not need any more opportunities to be racist, exclusive ( Read more... )