sometimes i feel that people find me intellectually inferior and emotionally naive. i abhor the condescending nature people and regret, most of all, that i ever let anyone really get to me. (on the contrary, there are many people i find incredibly empowering ( Read more... )

feminist group screening of the film Iron Jawed Angels at my house tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm

perhaps brownies provided by robert! bring $1-2 for Amnesty International membership

Next week: zine workshop!?

as always, open to all

I am a faulty person

A writer is afraid of hir own mortality
Words are vessels
Eternalizing ceaseless thoughts
To sedimentary rock
(sand spreads thin, naked in the EXPANSE
And stone does not dissolve...at least not as easily)

A moment cannot be reduced to words!
Oh provincial singular perception
Receptive of worlds only to turn them to stone

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Yakamochi

[These] meetings in dreams,
How sad they are!
When, waking up startled
One gropes about,--
And there is no contact to the hand.

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST FRIEND CRYSTAL ROSA!!!!!!!!

change is still within our grasp. it's up to you now.

i'm volunteering for Music For America tomorrow at the Social in Orlando. Blood Brothers, Against Me! and True North will be playing. Come by and talk ISSUES!

VOTE BETTY CASTOR FOR SENATE!!! she will be the first democratic, female senator in florida! http://www.bettynet.com/

i always find interesting parallels between the the words of those i read and words and thoughts of myself. i think it's called relating and it makes me feel good...connected

these recent examples are uncanny! (i wrote these things before i started both books...i don't nearly compare to either)

example 1
Jackie Wang, Stuck Inside Your Head zine/ ( Read more... )

I hated confronting the morning. I awoke lazily... turning over and over again. I harnessed every whim in my body just to get out of bed. I stared blankly for a few moments, rubbed my eyes before I processed that the motions had begun ( Read more... )