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About Me

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I went to see the Hoo Doo Soul Band. There, I met a man named Romeo (you can't make that up). Rome said to me, "Giiirrl, you got the funk." As philosophical, dreamy, curmudgeonly, clever, intrepid, nerdy, earnest, and just down-right sensitive as I am, I'd like to think too that maybe, just a little, I got the funk.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who are more interested in becoming than being.

People who aren't afraid of themselves.

"It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, it turns out, all jerry-built." --Martin Amis, Time's Arrow (38)

No matter how much we wish it weren't so, the truth is that noone on this earth owes us anything. There's no justice, no balance sheet, nothing. And yet, the people I really like are humble before the debt they feel. And they are constantly mindful of paying in.

My Blog

chandelier

There's this blog I've been meaning to write. It starts out something like They've (for the record, I've made up the they) put in a chandelier where the bare light bulb used to be. Replaced the stark ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

a grown-up conscience

For 30, I have a remarkably clear conscience. I look around at this set of people I admire, those who I think are grown up in some way I don't know how to be; I look for the thing that makes them that...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:32:00 GMT

Lets just be blunt: "Doubts," in a man, is an unpardonable mannerism.

...not to mention ghastly irritiating. But... I am looking for something so precious and so rare, it comes as no surprise that it is hard to find. And that others will not always have my strength...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:00 GMT

trinket share

I slid this into my pocket this morning, preparing to go out into the world. This has been a year of trying to fix what's broken--that's what I'll be spending the morning doing: cooking super-duper ul...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:28:00 GMT

looking-at

Well, so we're coming up on the anniversary of the beginning of the crappiest personal year on record. I can't help wondering if it will be like a kind of new year's for me, and for how long. I keep s...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:17:00 GMT

How to date yourself, in three stages

What If I chuck it all and become a high-end self-discovery writer? I could have stylized orchids and other swirly things on all my book covers... And while I would write in a very relaxed, very beach...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

a meager present. Happy June.

Ok, I know it's weird, I've been trying to understand dance. I've been specifically attempting to analyze the narrativity of dances, see what's there. Because honestly I wonder if my trouble with appr...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 05:13:00 GMT

Heres the beauty I promised you...

Heh. Wouldn't it be funny if this blog were set to private? That's about what it feels like. My beauty? That's private. The New Pornographers concert was good. The subject line is one of my new favor...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:38:00 GMT

April Rainn: the aftermath

April is sexual assault awareness month. I’ll say this: It’s not over when it’s over. At all. Man, it’s just barely beginning. Just a few stats for y’all about what happ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:56:00 GMT

own way

I turned to that stock Corinthians passage. In all my studying, in all my blustering about love, and the deep chasm created by the dirth of it in my own life, still I think daily about how little...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:12:00 GMT