March 2012
stefanosings asked: I read your book and I loved it. You have so many voices--I believe in every one one of your characters. I could swear that every single story is autobiographical... You create amazing stories with great (strange) plots, but even more remarkably, you pull off the narration with sincere conviction, like you really are every single fucking one of these people... Which I guess is possible, but then I...
February 2012
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
YouTube is weird. And lovely.
So I ran out of Trout Stream. A complete and utter tragedy, I know. Angels were crying, the works. Trout Stream is one of my favorite tobaccos, so I can’t be out of it. It’s not acceptable. The last time I bought some was like 8 months ago, so I don’t even remember where on the internet I got it. I don’t smoke that much, perhaps once a day, but when I do I thoroughly enjoy...
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
CUT-OFF
Exactly how far does parenting go? Am I supposed to give a cosmic shit for nine million years? All the while until he’s finally old and dying like me? Must I wait that long? Personally, I’d like to treat him as a person I kinda know. He’s my own kid, so it wouldn’t be lying. I kinda know him. I know he’s really skinny and has sideburns. What more do you want from me?...
myvonne replied to your post: How about the BS baptism for the dead that the LDS church engages in? My husband and I left the church many years before our daughter was diagnosed with cancer. She succumbed to the disease after 3 years. While I cannot prove it, or even know how find out, I’m fairly certain my devout LDS in- laws had her baptized posthumously. I am sickened by this idea on so...
Anonymous asked: How about the BS baptism for the dead that the LDS church engages in? My husband and I left the church many years before our daughter was diagnosed with cancer. She succumbed to the disease after 3 years. While I cannot prove it, or even know how find out, I'm fairly certain my devout LDS in- laws had her baptized posthumously. I am sickened by this idea on so many levels. What makes these...
Last night I asked for ideas.
RE: this.
I got some pretty funny ones, like “Tell us about that time you accidentally took ketamine thinking it was cocaine.” Ha! And what? I have never indulged in either. The extent of my drug use has been pot, lsd, shrooms, and booze. These days I only drink and once in a great while get high. Anywho.
Another good one: “If men had periods.” Perhaps you mean if...
So what should I write about?
In June of last year, a terrible mistake was made and I was offered a job as political op-ed columnist. Hilarity ensued. I have really annoyed a lot of people by doing it, so it’s been quite fun. Many people are amazed that I am even allowed on the internet, saying all the shit that I say in the way that I say it. So gimme a topic. If I get a lot of choices, I’ll choose one....
2 tags
"I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the...
— from Joseph Heller’s rejection letter for Catch-22 The Modern Library has ranked Catch-22 as the 7th (by review panel) and 12th (by public) greatest English language novel of the twentieth century. The Radcliffe Publishing Course ranked Catch-22 as number 15 of the twentieth century’s top 100 novels. The Observer listed Catch-22 as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time....
nayyness asked: Damn your neighbor sucks. I married a guy when I was 19 (I know!) and after we moved in together I quickly learned that he had a raging temper and loved making me feel like shit. When he began beating our puppy with a closed fist (for peeing on the carpet) I knew I'd be next if I didn't get out. So I did. Hopefully this girl does the same and fast! Sometimes its hard to see that...
Anonymous asked: reading your recent reblog, which i think has a lot of good points, then led me to read the staff article. whilst i have visited pro-ana/SH blogs in the past (something i'm not exactly proud of) and i think controlling the pro-ana/thinspo blogs is good and positive, i'm not so sure about the self-harm blogs - i know a lot of them are crass and crude, but some have pointed me to good,...
sleepscape asked: In response to your reblog about good points and all that, I have to disagree. If you're venting, you're venting, you're talking about your problems, if someone says they're going to kill themselves and we flock to their blog it's not suddenly going to be deleted because they are promoting that they are committing suicide. It's blogs that are like CUT YOURSELF IT...
And some good questions/points.
vitlers—hagina:
I think it’s good but also harmful. I don’t know if i’m considered a “pro SH blog” first of all. Does this mean we can’t post about self harm at all? But second of all “joking that you need to starve yourself after Thanksgiving or that you wanted to kill yourself after a humiliating date is fine” If they’re such serious issues tumblr, why would it be okay to joke about...
An open letter to everyone who is about to start...
anarchyandscotch:
I took a peek at some of the comments on the recent post that Tumblr is considering banning blogs that promote things like eating disorders and suicide. Predictably, many people are whining about how Tumblr is taking away their right to free speech.
If you are of this mindset, please note the following:
Such a policy does not encroach on your First Amendment right to free...
1 tag
1 tag
Report on Operation Wine & Tapas
Nothing at all interesting happened last night, so this report is likely gonna suck. Here goes anyway. There were five of us, two men and three women. I was one of the men (barely) and you may continue to refer to me as Mike, but I will rename the others to protect their identities. One of them reads this blog, I think. Let’s call the women Harvey, Kyle, and Satan. The man we’ll call...
1 tag
Tapas & Wine
Tonight, I will be going out for tapas and wine. This seems ridiculous to me, like something a person on tv would do. I am not unfamiliar with tapas. I am an avid cook and baker after all, but their current trendiness is just….silly. What’s even sillier is me going out and having some. Ten bucks says they’re overpriced. I view tonight as an “experience”. I will gather...
2 tags
1 tag
ceirdwenfc asked: I was just wondering (because you're not the only one I've seen do it and was curious), and you have that pesky ask button. Anyway, in your robe post, you used the phrase, "I wondered about the house in my boxers." Why do you use wondered and not wandered? Or were you wondering about something? :)
1 tag
I became a robe-wearer in the Fall of 2010. It was...
Fall is my favorite season, so I was in an especially good mood. Up until that day, I was robe-free. I wandered about the house in my boxers, like it was the 1960s or something. My pants could be found right next to the front door because I would immediately take them off upon entering. I left them there intentionally so that I would remember to put them on before leaving. Important to wear pants...
2 tags
7think asked: Where is the Kindle book man?! Love your writing style, keep it up!
1 tag
1 tag
Baking some quinoa blueberry muffins. Never baked...
Anyone ever baked with quinoa before?
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
There are now, according to my math, about 10...
That’s, like, almost a quarter of the state’s population!
“It’s easy to do things. It’s not easy to think about what to do.”
– Jamie Hyneman
1 tag
Reviews
I hate giving reviews. I don’t know how to do it, really. More importantly, I don’t know why. Especially when it comes to writing. It may sound funny (or perhaps obvious) to you, but I know nothing about writing. I never studied it, per se. In college, I studied English—the language—and business, plus a dollop of education and biology (I was a major major switcher). All I...
Anonymous asked: Been reading your blog for a while now. Really like it. Almost makes me want to start a tumbler blog. I notice a few pages back you said you're a Republican? I was wtf? Haha. Were you joking?
1 tag
I am becoming unamused with the second-hand stores...
Dorking around in second-hand stores is one of the many white-knuckle, type A male activities I enjoy doing between naps. Nothing like living on the edge by putting on your shoes and going that the strip mall. But these second-hand stores around here are fucking expensive. What’s up with that? I’m looking for deals. Jeez. I could pay 50 cents more and get whatever I want brand new and...
sweeteliot replied to your post: sweeteliot replied to your post: I don’t…
That would be unthinkable “in my country”. (blah) “Deficit because of welfare spending”. Is that the story they’re going with? We have a deficit as well. Money is actually being spent on welfare here. But that isn’t the only reason for the deficit.
Well, the conservative propaganda is that “spending needs...
sweeteliot replied to your post: I don’t understand how Santorum is getting crap for paying higher taxes than Romney? I mean, isn’t paying taxes a good thing? Didn’t Romney get crap for not paying high enough taxes? Sorry. Could you explain, please?
O_o Where I live rich people pay 52% taxes..
Rich people in the U.S. never pay that high. Mitt Romney, who is hoping to run the country, made 27...
Anonymous asked: I don't understand how Santorum is getting crap for paying higher taxes than Romney? I mean, isn't paying taxes a good thing? Didn't Romney get crap for not paying high enough taxes? Sorry. Could you explain, please?
3 tags
Some thoughts on the Great Rebellion
I see feminism as a great rebellion going on within the human race. In the last 50 years, it has really come of age. Although on the surface it is about women’s rights and gender equality, what it really demands is a radical change in thinking. Not everyone is capable of this leap of thought, especially some men, who view the demands and behavior of feminism as an attack on themselves as...
2 tags
1 tag
"I don’t understand decidedly miserable people.
My mom’s friend has a husband who won’t let her have sugar (what the fuck is that fuckery) and he lives a life of being miserable because his dad had a heart attack in like his 60s so therefore he has decided to lead a life of impending doom and gloom even though he is currently outliving his father. Um yeah, fuck you dude. Have fun with your miserable existence, way to make it count. Let’s look...
