The end of this weekend can't come quickly enough. I'm still up with family and I think it would take an entire blog to really capture the complexity and tension of the drama they manage to create. And I still have two more days up here before I go back...
It doesn't make it any better that when I get back to school things are gonna be pretty tense for the end of the semester. I have three big papers to get done in the next three weeks - not including response papers, normal class work. That's why I'm taking this opportunity to stock up on plenty of cheaper, out-of-NYC liquor to bring back. If I can't have the semester end stress-free I wanna at least make sure there's plenty of alcohol-induced drama. Or maybe I'm just starting to learn from my family.
I'm heading back home for Thanksgiving tomorrow night, once my 7 PM class is over. I had a preview this last week of what the end of the semester is going to look like. I had five books to read, two papers, and a deadline I'd imposed on myself with my own fiction writing. I'm pretty happy about having this break, even though I'm only missing one class and I have a paper due the day I get back to school. Anyway, it'll at least be good to have a change of scenery, to be able to clear my head.
I've found that there have been two types of college breaks. There are breaks where people you haven't seen in a long time, since high school maybe, all come down with a case of nostalgia and decide to try to hang out as much as possible, as if they're trying to make up for lost time but in reality they're just kind of clinging together out of fear of the future - this happened the summer before freshman year, and at a few other points, it makes sense that it's happening the last Thanksgiving of college. Things don't usually turn out too well.
Then there's the second type of break where people are apathetic about all that shit and things stay pretty much normal - nothing too wild happens but they can be fun if you keep your expectations low. You get lucky every once in a while and you get a story to tell about being driven home at 5 am from a bar you can't really remember over the state line by attractive (straight?) men in cowboy hats.
But it's looking like this break is going to be the first type, and this time it's old fuck buds who are feeling nostalgic...
I'm just reminding myself to keep my expectations low. Wish me luck.
Thanks to Scott at
Bill in Exile
According to Fox News, Attorney General pick Eric Holder may have been involved in sending Elian Gonzales back to Cuba!
Just in case this image wasn't burned into your eyes back then...
Who knows what this could reveal about the judgment of President-Elect Obama and the character of his cabinet choices???
Fox News: Flashback: Holder vs. Napolitanovia
Huffington Post: Neanderthals At Fox News Resurrect Elian Gonzalez In Latest Effort To Undermine Obama (Seriously)
Thanks to LeatherPigBoy at
KinkPage
Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee reminisces over the horrors of living as a white person during (open) segregation, then explains that not enough gays have had their skulls cracked to deserve civil rights:
Huckabee Said: "People who are homosexuals should have every right in terms of their civil rights, to be employed, to do anything they want. But that's not really the issue. I know you talked about it and I think you got into it a little bit early on. But when we're talking about a redefinition of an institution, that's different than individual civil rights. We're never going to convince each other...But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge."
Huffington Post: Huckabee: Gays Haven't Crossed Civil Rights Violence Threshold
Christianist church takes a stand against Gays and Haters in the media:
Joe. My. God.
If this blog hadn't already been reported and had a warning attached to it for obscene sexually-charged comments about Sarah Palin, I'm sure this joke a friend sent me would have earned one:
Q: What's the difference between Sarah Palin's mouth and Sarah Palin's vagina?
A: Only some of the things that come out of her vagina are retarded.
Blue Movie (Mustang)
Steve Cruz Blogvia
Fair View
I've been realizing how infrequently I've been putting up personal posts these days, you know, posts that actually contain my own writing and and my own emotions, and aren't just sex or political porn. I'm not saying that stuff isn't any good, but I'm sure it seems bland after a while.
The truth is that lately I haven't been writing quite as much on here because I've been devoting all of my energy to a project that's turned into a novel and it's actually taking off. It's nearly halfway completed at this point. I've gone through many novel attempts but this one seems to have taken a life of its own. Who knows, maybe in a few months I'll be on here referring to my "failed novel," but hopefully that's not the case. And on the other hand, maybe Oprah will see this blog and show some interest in my work...
Keith Olbermann gets it right:
This just made me feel pretty nostalgic for the summer:
According to analysis of exit polls at
FiveThirtyEight, almost every demographic showed greater support for Barack Obama than John Kerry - except two groups; people over 65, and gays.
77% of people who identified as gays and lesbians on the exit polls voted for John Kerry, but only 70% voted for Barack Obama. Considering that this was a historic election where every other group showed more support for the Democratic candidate than four years ago, I think this is significant.
There are many possible reasons for this. One could be that more people felt comfortable identifying as gay on the exit polls this year than four years ago. The possibility I'm trying to keep myself from assuming is that gay-identifying people (and voters over 65) were less likely than the rest of the population to vote for a black candidate. Sadly, race seems to have been a factor in the decision making process of the few gay men I know who did vote against Obama. And this recent wave of attacks on black voters by gay people over Proposition 8 is doing little to convince me that this isn't the case...
FiveThirtyEight: Obama Outperforms Kerry Among Virtually All Demographics
Sarah Palin changes her tone while speaking on Thursday:
“Barack Obama has been elected president,” Ms. Palin said. “Let us, let us — let him — be able to kind of savor this moment, one, and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment that we’re in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family.”
She's just one of many Republicans who have had a complete change of heart now that the election is over and Barack Obama is the President-Elect. Here's Michele Bachmann from Minnesota:
But there she was on Wednesday, after narrowly escaping defeat because of those comments, saying she was “extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year.” Ms. Bachmann, a Republican, called Mr. Obama’s victory, which included her state, “a tremendous signal we sent.”
It's amazing how quickly these people are able to roll out the welcome mat to the leftist extremists in order to keep themselves on the right side of shifting public opinion.
The New York Times: Washington Memo - Harsh Words About Obama? Never Mind Now
Here's the text of Florida's new marriage protection amendment:
Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.
This seems to ban not only gay marriage but civil unions as well, and may have effects on unmarried straight couples.
sprained my ankle the day before. I'd been running for the train, late for work, twisted the fucking thing, probably snapped a few tendons. Went to work anyway. Walked around midtown. Started to feel some pain as the day went on. Passed the fuck out when I got home and when I tried to stand up on the foot and walk across the room I couldn't.
Went to the nurse at my school and they gave me some drugs (not the good kind) and a cane, which became part of my costume - I was an Iraq War Veteran. Spent a lot of the night with a girl in a dress made out of shopping bags dressed as Post-Capitalism. It all sounds pretentious in writing, but was mostly just trashy and poor taste.
Started the night at a vegan dinner party, then moved to a dance party with a fucking terrible band that played reggae covers. Met up with Capitalism and Post-Capitalism and got stared down by three weird looking gay-ish underclassmen. They were giving me that kind of hostile look that only a gay man can give to another gay man that's a combination of physical attraction and intense jealousy. Went to another dance party with a projector showing clips of Barack Obama dancing (bad choice - when I have a party with a projector I play either straight up gay porn or queer avant garde films that usually have some mix of pornography and satanic imagery). Hipster DJ put on "California Love" and we got the fuck out of there.
Me and Post-Capitalism stand outside talking with Clockwork Orange Girl bums a cigarette from Boy Who's Had Too Many Red Bulls and talks about going somewhere else. Me and Post-Capitalism take a momentary detour to go back to my place, which turns into a permanent one when Clockwork Orange Girl calls Post-Capitalism crying because she's just walked in on her ex-boyfriend in bed with another girl. Post-Capitalism leaves to go comfort her and also find her lost keys. I decide it's the end of the night and stay at my place re-icing my ankle and feeling like I deserve a sympathy blowjob, both for my injury and for putting up with that chain of horrible parties. And here's me:
At the End of the Night, Tired but Clearly not DamagedMaybe I should have just settled for some drunk hipster head, but that's by far my least favorite kind.
