December 2010
25 posts
“these haters wanna block my shine like mini-blinds” - paul wall
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“It’s pretty much the whitest song to ever have the word “soul” in it, and that includes Death Cab’s “Soul Meets Body.” There is less soul in the entirety of Train than in the palest single member of Collective Soul. “Hey, Soul Sister” is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as “soul food.” It makes the California...
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When I preface what I’m about to say by disclosing that I am a survivor of rape, or child sexual abuse—I am not sure what to call “it,” or really, the series of “its” that “it” was and remains—I am already uneasy about the effects of that disclosure. I already want to snatch it back. It’s not just that I don’t know if you will believe me, or...
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“Rather than seeing the bread-winning factory worker as the productive base on which a reproductive superstructure is erected, imagine the dispossessed proletarian household as a wageless base of subsistence labour—the ‘women’s work’ of cooking, cleaning and caring—which supports a superstructure of migrant wage seekers who are ambassadors, or perhaps hostages, to the wage economy. These...
The strategy of wielding sarcasm as if it were simply a convenient tool to crack the veneer of reality failed me precisely at the moment when sarcasm actually became the veneer through which my relationship to the world was mediated.
At that point—which probably wasn’t as much an easily identifiable moment in time as it was that constantly repeating occasion in which the ground moves,...
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“They just can’t let us have NOTHING.” - My mom and everybody else’s”
– wearing shoes that be talking (via shanaelmsford)
Yes! Exactly!
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Anonymous asked: if i had one night alone with you, i would buy you a beer and ask you about your life story.
Q. asks whether I am not afraid that my personal style is “too much” for an academic audience; he says that it is inevitable that my words will be read as “all about me” and speculates that the writing necessarily involves the reader’s passing judgment on me. Rather than risking another memo written in the first person, I take Q. to lunch and we talk.
I say: Writing...
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"the ways in which"
OH MY GOD JUST SAY “HOW.”
when did i get so angry? when will anger cease to be my primary behavior-motivating emotion?
Via TR:
Go here to read the myths and facts on the TSA blog (“OMG! They aren’t just gay, they blog too?!?”) But in the meantime, here are five things I like less than the idea being patted down by a hot young TSA employee and having her wonder whether I was born into the world with that “junk” or not:
Being blown up in-flight;
Having my Middle Eastern, South...