… Read the rest “”So today has been kinda crazy for me. After reading @that-brainy-bimbo‘s post earlier, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. She is someone I admire greatly and I didn’t expect someone that tough and strong would have a past like that.
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I Love Dick was —by a wide fucking mile— the best show on television in 2017. If they don’t win some kind of an Emmy or Golden Globe for episode 5, A Short History of Weird Girls, then there’s really no point in anything anymore.… Read the rest “”
A Christmas Story
[Twenty-four hours after receiving a pair of cheap Bluetooth earbuds for Christmas]
me: Good morning, honey.
her: Good morning, what’s goi—?
me: Shush. Look at me. Are you looking at me?
her: Uh… yeah.
me: [gestures to ear buds in ears]
me: This is who I am now.… Read the rest “A Christmas Story”
Foreseeing the future and living in it are two different things.
I dreamed about a lot of stuff as a kid. Back in the early ‘80s, when I sold my beloved BMX bike to buy my first computer, I dreamed of a day when everyone would have such devices in their homes.… Read the rest “”
Stuff I’m Watching
- Upstart Crow: My new Favorite Thing; thank you, British Television Industry, for giving me this gift. A winking, retro-sitcom reimagining of Shakespeare’s life, it turns Will into a harried-but-dedicated family man with a horrible London-to-Stratford commute, Christopher Marlow into a gregarious, talentless, heterosexual rake who occasionally rips off Will’s work, and Robert Green into a high-born, officious, Elizabethan derivative of Sallieri from Amadeus.
She was not beautiful.
She was old; not yet an elder, but long past the bloom of youth. Her hair was ragged and filthy, her face scarred by the ravages of childhood disease and a harsh life at civilization’s newly forged edge. When her lips curled back to howl out her pain, they revealed oddly angled, cracked teeth that had been used to defend as often as dine.… Read the rest “She was not beautiful.”
How Men Lost the 21st Century
I have a number of things to say about the post-Weinstein era. This is the first piece.
People who are surprised by all of the #metoo’ing have been ignoring an increasingly obvious fact: somewhere along the way —by my guess, the late ‘90s or early 2000s— men began to cross a line.… Read the rest “How Men Lost the 21st Century”
It isn’t complicated.
My mind likes that way you giggle, that you get my jokes, that you accept my failings, and that you’re *just* slightly clever.
My heart likes that way you hold your face when you’re asleep, that feeling when I know you’re safe, that change in the air when you’re around, and that time you said that thing.… Read the rest “It isn’t complicated.”
Chain Link (part 2)
[CONTENT NOTE: I’m thinking this one’s going to three, possibly four parts.]
Another day, another street, another step I didn’t know I’d taken.
Sara was on the phone, and had been for the full ten minutes we’d been walking. She hadn’t bothered to tell me who was calling, but I’d inferred from her half of the conversation that it was her father.… Read the rest “Chain Link (part 2)”
Chain Link (part 1)
[CONTENT NOTE: Consider the source.]
My girlfriend had a plan.
It was the news that did it, that made her snap. She’d always been angry, defensive, and bitter, but never quite passionate. Clearly, she’d been lacking motivation.
“I can’t stand knowing that these scumbags, these men,” she said, the last word spat like venom, “are out there, just walking around, waiting for a chance to attack someone!… Read the rest “Chain Link (part 1)”