January 2010
49 posts
“to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just...”
– DFW
“She had switched to her tiny voice. When she spoke in that voice she seemed to...”
– 28 (via fleshandblood)
“Storks did not bring English departments!”
– Davida Charney, in Composition Theory class
“The air around her was dense, spangled with odd moments of light.”
– 22 (via fleshandblood)
“First he weeded his father’s bean rows and then he crawled among the gnarls and...”
– 3 (via fleshandblood)
“[I]t seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies...”
– David Foster Wallace qtd. in Zadie Smith, Five Dials no. 10, p. 14
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“It is clear, he says, that logos arises from external things impinging upon us,...”
– Sextus Empiricus explaining Gorgias in Against the Schoolmasters, 85
“Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is...”
– Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, p. 401
defy-gravity:
i like how my teacher talks about “homosexuals” like there aren’t any in this classroom. hello.
QUEER MUTINY
“I don’t know that there really is a queer community—the word...”
– Kate Kendell, qtd. in Sarah Schulman’s Ties That Bind, p. 90
formspring! →
defy-gravity:
If you had to listen to one song on repeat for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? - Vikki (rogersplaidpants) Definitely “Defying Gravity” from Wicked, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth :)
Jazz, I feel like you might already do this. =)
“To blame the distress and pain of the gay family member for the infliction of...”
– Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind p. 72
“[W]e must reject completely any framework that maintains homosexuality as a...”
– Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind p. 41-42
Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian →
noteasybeingred:
LOUISVILLE, KY—At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay teen. He’s a member of his school’s swing choir, enjoys shopping at the mall, and has sex with other males his age. But lately, a growing worry has begun to plague this young gay man. A gnawing feeling that, deep down, he may be a fundamentalist, right-wing Christian.
“I just...
WatchBOB BARKER VERSUS WHALERS
“While it may be true that the anger of AIDS direct action dilutes some its...”
– 11-12, Rachel Maddow’s “Identifiable LIves: AIDS and the Response to Dehumanization”, Honorable Mention in the 1994 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics
“I propose that the standard by which a system of justice is found...”
– from FN 4 in Rachel Maddow’s “Identifiable LIves: AIDS and the Response to Dehumanization”, Honorable Mention in the 1994 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics
“Finally, try dressing like a drag queen. Female femininity, as much as female...”
– Diana Cage on formspring, callin’ it like she sees it for high femmes
Obama appoints first transgender woman to post →
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Via NYPost.com.
Passing this link around the office now.
Wow.
FUCKING STOKED.
Like like like like
Amanda Simpson—of Tucson, AZ!
WatchMaddow reports Rove’s divorce
“This is what you do, you bounce off the subject. Oh, shrimp!”
– Amy, Process Stories
“Bruno: That’s the brunette named Annette.
CJ: Wouldn’t you just...”
– Process Stories
“You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?”
– Toby, on Election Night
“I am aware that most of you prefer stability, especially when it comes to...”
– Del LaGrace Volcano (via homegrownboi) (via genderqueer)
Arrested Development Chicken Dances Video →
