Something that's funny is how I started my new blog specifically to distance myself from my LJ past & high school self (8 years on, it's still a struggle) & to write in a more modern fresh blog-y style or at least setting. And what do I do there? Write about Livejournal & my high school self. C'est la vie, non? Oh, Eljay, I wish I knew how to quit ( Read more... )

sorry, dudes, all my internet energies are now channeled into my Facebook status and tumblr. so hit me up those places, and know that I still read my friends page. 

Last year's: http://lola-leviathan.livejournal.com/370013.html
I decided this year to combine printed books and audiobooks because I aim to record not the accomplishment of the physical/optical task of reading, but the words and ideas I ingest. Ergo: (asterisks=favorites)

JANUARY
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Back in Portland. Alone. Car buried in snow. Rereading ancient posts here and paper diary entries. I have such an intense loyalty to and deep affection for past lives and former selves (while also not condoning any of their actions). Plus, I think I was actually a good writer as a teenager, and I don't care what anyone says.There are so many I want ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I wheeled and dealed to get some time off around the holidays to spend with my family in Ohio. I was pretty depressed, because I am chronically mildly homesick and kind of regret moving across the country, plus I wasn't even going to get to spend Christmas itself with my sweetheart (the main reason I have stayed on the Left Coast ( Read more... )

After 28 years in a coma, Sunny von Bulow finally kicked it.

Bill Ayers has an op-ed in the New York Times that's worth reading.

Regardless of how you feel about Ayers himself, he makes some excellent points about why using him against Obama was ridiculous and ultimately failed:

President-elect Obama and I sat on a board together; we lived in the same diverse and yet close-knit community; we sometimes passed ( Read more... )

"We're adults. We eat ice cream whenever we want, and we fart at work." - Billy

(For some reason, I have decided to post here everyday again, just little things that strike my fancy, as some sort of chronicle.)

This month, my book club is reading Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. Most paperback editions of the book (mine from 1981, B's the in-print Vintage one with that sexy grainy cover paper. God I love that paper ( Read more... )

I'm endlessly fascinated by people's relationships to mass media, how present it is in our lives, how it shapes our identities, etc. I have a lot of weird, funny anecdotes about this. Here's a list of movies I've seen on first dates:
1. Heavenly Creatures. Yes, we were melodramatic pretentious teenage lesbians, and it was awesome. It was only luck ( Read more... )