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find us a home built of packaging foam
So, looks like I'm all over here now: fitz_clementine . Who knows how long that's gonna last. Anyway. Friend or don't. Slightly different type of content. Your call.
(I'm just used to this blogging format, I'm afraid, even if the site's declining somewhat. But I do need a change. I'm not sixteen anymore, and I'm a little uncomfortable sharing title and ( Read more... ) -
never forget that you are not better just 'cause more people know your name.
If you don't understand what is wrong with this, I can explain it with more exclaimation marks and profanity.
It is too bad, really. I mean, I generally liked her music. And Sharpied-on eyebrows.
(It's her response to the criticism that cinches it for me, I'll be honest. There's absolutely no willingness to engage in even the most half- ( Read more... ) -
Dear Lauren,
I’m certainly not a fixed point, never will be, but if I make the world more easily navigable for someone in spite of it, I guess that’s a good thing. Unlike television, I try to tell the truth. Mostly. I am also not Borges, but I’d be proud to sit across from him on a compass or a map. I try to build houses in my head sometimes and fill them with ( Read more... ) -
me. you. everyone we know.
Most people who say that they're socially awkward are really only shy perfectionists. I'm not a shy perfectionist. (Only halfway shy, and not much of a perfectionist at all.) Instead, I'm slightly disturbed, prone to mood swings and bad at picking up on certain interpersonal subtleties. Gives me a strange knack for doing and saying the exact ( Read more... ) -
birth and death ("The Passions of Lalla," excerpt)
My Grandmother died in the blue arms of a jacaranda tree. She could read thunder ( Read more... ) -
i have advice for the discourses and diplomatting and disagreementing and such.
I think sometimes we are all jerks and assholes, for various complicated and human reasons that still don't make it okay for us to be jerks and assholes. I think it is good to call people out when they're being jerkish in your direction, at least under some circumstances. But then, you know, I think if you're doing the calling out, you have to ( Read more... ) -
i am shooting for acrobat, but would settle for burlesque dancer or clown
Well, I'm a pretty fucked up individual, and it doesn't look like I'm going to figure out how to be well-adjusted anytime soon. I'm not convinced that anyone will ever really want to read my writing. I'm among the least socially comfortable people I know. I once started a barfight by accident. I make people cry without meaning to do it. I will ( Read more... ) -
chivalry and learning you are not the same and a game of orbits to play at home
The opposite of struggle is not peace but total war. War is the attempt to end struggle once and for all. Rub out the competition. The old Pax Romana. Flatten the hill of Sisyphus and blow up his stone with a one-megaton bomb. "Get er done," as the rednecks blazon on their trucks; "get closure" as their classier neighbors like to say. Idealism ( Read more... ) -
quince.
1. It smelled like rotting cabbage and sulfur on the airplane into Asheville, and I made a bet with the guy sitting next to me about whether it was because somebody farted or because somebody with a foot odor problem took their shoes off, but we never did find out ( Read more... ) -
but first, the most embarrassing thing that's happened to me today:
Me: Freesia! What happened to your neck? That looks like a human bite mark. Have you been fighting?
Me: ...Oh. Um. Never mind.
Freesia: We call them "hickeys."