karaj

this nyt review of renata adler’s books uses so many of the key words.

16 Mar 2013 / 4 notes / i like to vacillate radical vulnerability tumblr poetics

it was my three year tumblr anniversary…

…on new year’s. in back-reading my blog i thought:

this blog is a guide to how i want to be spoken to
this blog is a guide to how i think everyone should be spoken to
this blog is basically an etiquette blog and if everyone treated one another the way the people i am close to and i treat one another everything would be great
this blog is a boyfriend blog, and the blogs i am most impressed by do this better
this blog made it so easy to write my area exams and dissertation proposal because i had already archived the important quotes
this blog is so boring to back-read when it gets really quote-heavy, which makes me think maybe i should go back to writing more about myself
this includes posting more chats, which no one really likes except for me—they are actually my favorite
this blog is better when read cumulatively, rather than as individual posts
this blog is better when my life is worse aka is there a way to make this not a mommyblog, given my themes
we’re going to find out
i am pretty sure that my two favorite posts, ever, are “let’s see what happens if i do this thing” (self-explanatory) and “i like to vacillate” (“withholding and versatile”…”youre like into something and then youre not”…”you change position in relation to the other”…”it’s hard to tell if you’re the dom or the submissive because you’re like, ‘WHAT’S MY ROLE / I DON’T HAVE A ROLE’ in the space of like 5 gchat msgs”
lol
is this really a blog?

17 Jan 2013 / 19 notes / let's see what happens if i do this thing i like to vacillate brutal frivolity feminist archiving feminist privacy concerns

what is hate anyway

last night marc was excited because he got us reservations at the newly-reopened beatrice inn. i was like “i hate graydon carter.”

then he told me to reserve a date for a holiday party at the waldorf astoria. i was like “i hate the waldorf astoria.”

recently we were trying to figure out if marc is both aries and aries rising and i was like “are you enthusiastic?” and he said “no, kara, we hate everything.”

but i think we were both pretty excited about the prospect of the party and of staying at the hotel after and the martinis at the beatrice were good, even if they used our agreed-upon least-favorite kind of martini glasses.

15 Nov 2012 / 4 notes / i like to vacillate brutal frivolity

as: he's got it all worked out. it's so masterful. it's attractive.
kj: yeah, it's just that i find the consolidation of identity to be such a loathsome project. even as i feel it happening to me.

11 Nov 2012 / 3 notes / i like to vacillate

as: i think i went to grad school to work out my relationship to mastery
kj: i had that relationship to work out my relationship to mastery!
as: it turns out i don't really believe in it
kj: yeah me neither

15 Sep 2012 / 3 notes / feminist terror weird rigor i like to vacillate

i think she said it's because we refuse to stick to our identities

as: well, that's why everyone hates us, right?
kj: hahahhahahaha
wait
what did you say?
no, actually, i was laughing so hard i didn't hear you

7 Aug 2012 / 6 notes / i like to vacillate

he likes to vacillate, too, also to make up information about people in college that is totally factually incorrect: that guy was not from the south, he was from rochester.

1 Aug 2012 / 2 notes / i like to vacillate

5 Jul 2012 / 28 notes / i like to vacillate feminist art

fuckdudeskilldudes:

someone asked me what my Political Views were because I looked so unbearably bored when she was telling me about some political blog about stephen harper and crimes against democracy and etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

and I was like “I mean I guess I want to burn down parliament? and then burn down whatever the fuck we come up with to replace it? just like……………………’burn everything’ are my political views I guess”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about your political views”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about democracy”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about stephen harper”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about voting”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about the religious right”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about pierre trudeau”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about enlightenment rationality”

my political views are “don’t talk to me about corruption”

my political views are “don’t talk to me i’ll talk to you”

my political views are “don’t talk to me”

my political views are “won’t somebody think of the children”

my political views are “the st-henri listserv”

my political views are “bc capitalism”

my political views are “i like to vacillate”

my political views are “elaborate conceptuals”

my political views are “fuck yr anarchist collective house”

my political views are “everyone is racist”

my political views are “everyone is boring”

my political views are “the sum total of all of the tags of my blog”

my political views are “boring”