January 2011
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Schooled.
all of my relationships are so intense and hard-won that i spend what others have insinuated is an unusual amount of time considering whether i would have been friends with my friends at other points in my life. (so queer, as usual.) theres only a very few people where the answer is definitely yes.
whateverjeanne:
I got turned on to trans politics in the classroom. I went to Smith College (for...
like a starfish
My girlfriend passed away three years ago. It was drawn out and messy but you do crazy stuff when you love someone. It’s so cliche but a bit of me went away when she died and no matter what I do I can’t get it back. Am I just pathetic?
autostraddle:
no, you’re not pathetic. not at all. but you won’t get it back. you’ll create something else in its place. you can’t get it back...
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“what is it, then, to have an event, one that disorganizes the forms of being or...”
– i bet bestsparkler didnt even notice when i wrote down this quote of his from his amazing psi paper last year, but i did, and i have been thinking about it ever since. its related to deleuzes statement, also made in the context of events, that: “either ethics makes no sense at all, or this is what...
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Every Single Song On Boys For Pele Covered By... →
do you want to know what the best thing is? when someone you know only from tumblr gchats you to say “not to bother you but i just put up an important post about boys for pele on tumblr,” not that they know that you like boys for pele, but obviously they do know, because they read your tumblr, and you know that its the boys for pele 15 year anniversary, also thanks to tumblr. watch...
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“‘I feel fine,’ she said. ‘There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.’” —
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
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“Besides, I really believed in pursuing a longstanding and deep relationship with one person. I could easily see the sterility of hopping from bed to bed and having shallow affairs with lots of shallow people. I had had the unutterably dismal experience of waking up in bed with a man I couldn’t bear to talk to - and that was certainly no liberation either. But still, there just didn’t seem to be...
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WHAT ABOUT PROM (aka my life story)
Blane: How are you doing?
Andie: Why haven't you called me?
Blane: Oh, I got nailed for the stable thing. I guess the groom saw us. It's against the rules.
Andie: I called you three times and i left messages.
Blane: Yeah? Well I didn't get them. My family... they're irresponsible about that stuff, you know?
Andie: I waited for you this morning.
Blane: Yeah? Where?
Andie: Parking lot. I saw you and I thought you saw me.
Blane: No.
Andie: What about prom, Blane?
Blane: Andie, I'm having a bad day. Can we talk later?
Andie: No. What about prom?
Blane: Why don't we meet after school?
Andie: No! What about prom?
Blane: Andie, come on.
Andie: Just say it.
Blane: What?
Andie: Just say it. I wanna hear you say it.
Blane: Andie, please, all right?
Andie: I wanna hear you say it.
Blane: A month ago, I asked somebody else and I forgot.
[Andie pushes him against a locker]
Andie: You're a liar! You're a filthy, fucking, no-good liar. You don't have the guts to tell me the truth. Just say it!
Blane: I'm not lying.
Andie: Tell me!
mm says this is her life story but i am not that direct.
**update: mm says she isnt either but "the pain and longing and anticipation feel SO REAL." true.
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“i think theres a strong chance that i will reblog the commitment quote from you...”
– marisa meltzer, explaining why she likes this goethe quote, via pretty in pink.
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“louise bourgeois had once declared, ‘art is the experience of, the re-experience of trauma,’ and much of emin’s work revists the past. when i interviewed emin just a few months before ms. bourgeois’s death, we spoke of her relationship with the elder artist and i had suggested to her then that ms. bourgeois’s work was interior like her own, revolving around ideas of wombs and...
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Committing.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A...
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“Just before we sleep, I stroke your back and begin a favorite fantasy, how we met each other when we were very young. Outside the Ritz movie theater in thick summer night, I am a slightly plump teenager, self-conscious in white short-shorts and sandals, waiting with friends to see Pillow Talk or Where the Boys Are. You are a stranger, the only person no one knows. (“What am I...
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important questions i asked during blizzard 2010
do you know who bell hooks is?
why wont you let me be a princess?
what is your working definition of “nerd”?
(this was in response to being told i am one. “youre a nerd, kara. ive seen your tumblr.”)
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It’s a silly story. I was about thirty. A man phoned to say that he and I were making similar work and that we should meet. I always worry I might miss out on something so I agreed. When he arrived he told me his art consisted of stopping women in the street and asking them to sleep with him. Well, he said, wasn’t one of my projects all about getting strangers to spend time in my bed? He...
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“I know: 2011.
Like 2010 plus one!”
– marisa meltzer
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im going through withdrawal from both of you.
whateverjeanne: Where has bestsparkler been?
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“it’s basically offensive. it makes me hate social networking! i’ll...”
– mm, after i pointed out a particularly egregious and braggy facebook status update. i feel the same way.
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