"Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."

Marx + Buffy = delicious

I didn't think that I would be interested in this show since I'm not that interested in interior decorating. However, it has the lulling familiarity of the top chef format with the volume turned up on the queerness. The male contestants all seem gay even though the most "queeny" (a word used by the butch one) contestant insists (with a frequency ( Read more... )

After reading so much eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, I'm glad that I'm taking the gay male literature class (the earliest text is from the 1960s). Here's a description of sucking off a homeless man from Samuel Delany's The Mad Man ( Read more... )

Since I have been reading nonstop recently, I have developed a few strategies to remain relatively sane. Although some texts resist such funning, my reading load seems significantly lighter now. If you have any other suggestions, gimme. I need help ( Read more... )

I'm just going to post some random stuff to avoid writing my papers ( Read more... )

The 24 hour fitness that I go to now has a rock climbing wall. It cost 10 bucks to get certified, but now I can use the wall whenever I want. Well, actually, I have to go during the times that they have belayers there. However, I can boulder (climb horizontally) whenever I want. I tried three paths of increasing difficulty. Since it was my first ( Read more... )

I need some help making a decision about my living situation. I turned down the frat house room because of dirty kitchen and parking issues and am now living at my mom's place. I've been toying with the idea of living here and saving my stipend for a future purchase of an apartment. Let's get all elementary school about it and list the pros and ( Read more... )

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Ming directed me to two articles about some intersections between the struggle against heterosexism and Marxist capitalist critique. Judith Butler's article posits that Nancy Fraser (the other author) reduces that struggle to the "merely cultural" - a critique that situates heterosexism not as a material case of maldistribution of resources but as ( Read more... )

I know where I'm living in LA now: in a converted frat house on the ucla campus. The frat that was living there is on probation for some alcohol related infractions. They have one more year of probation, and then they won't get the house back for 2-4 years. So, I have the option of living there for 3-5 years. I can walk to classes and whole foods. ( Read more... )