in which i ramble

[msandromeda]

My favorite guilty pleasure, lately, is watching the you tube video of Shakira doing "Hips Don't Lie" at the Grammys. I had heard her years ago, and it's not really my thing, but this year, as I was trolling the interweb, I saw an article about that performance. The writer, entranced, was going on about how she should have her own show, every night

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[jay_jay]

This is beautifully phrased. You should post it somewhere publicly so I can link it to everyone in the world.

P.S. As always, I miss you so much it feels like physical pain. I miss you more when you talk so pretty like this. I believe in a future where we will dance the mambo together on the porch after we've watered our poverty garden. Love you.

[msandromeda]

I miss you SO MUCH. I believe in that future, too.

I just made this public.

[jay_jay]

Thanks! I just linked the world to it. You are eloquent and smart and beautiful. I love you.

[msandromeda]

...speaking of you, are you coming home for christmas??

[msandromeda]

thanks!

[poeticalpanther]

Gorgeous writing. Just gorgeous. Submit it, please? Somewhere?

[msandromeda]

aww, thanks!

i'm too shy for that, tho.

[jetboijettgrrl]

Amen.

[msandromeda]

we will revolutionarily goat farm!

[jetboijettgrrl]

How do you say revolutionary goat farm in Spanish?

[msandromeda]

uh...i'll look into it.

[papacanfly]

That expresses my appreciation of hispanic culture far better than I've managed to do in my own head. Living in a poor white working class to non-working class neighborhood, being slowly populated by hispanic families, I constantly find myself defending their existance in conversation with my neighbors who fictionalize their criminality. I have to constantly ask what problems the large families of hispanics, their children playing soccer in the yard, are causing in our neighborhood? Then I easily reference a handful of WHITE neighbors around us and their consistent drug dealing, child beating, prostitution, etc.

Bring on the mexicans, the brazillians, the cubans, and the rest of the feather footed, trumpet blasting, social dynamos that is the whole of South America. This country F'in needs em.

[msandromeda]

Amen.

And thanks, I appreciate it!