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Archive for July 2006

a metaphor for modernization

On 27 July 2006

GENDER TROUBLE Okay, bear with me because I might slip back into crazy ranting soapbox mode for a while, particularly if I take a break for beer in the middle of this post the way I am currently planning. Or I may just plod along and try to puzzle some shit out, in my usual […]

capitalism exploited my desire and then exploited my need to subvert its exploitation of my desire.

On 19 July 2006

As a long-time transit rider, I am not surprised by much anymore. I have been wanked at and preached to, I've seen toenail-clipping and overheard profanity-laced cell-phone breakups and witnessed macaroni-and-cheese-heads fine-tune their alternative living arrangements. It is all pretty much okay with me. Well, the masturbator was not okay, but up until now I […]

good sense prevailed

On 17 July 2006

KEEPING IT REAL GONE On Friday I lost my palm pilot in Whole Foods. I know that sounds like a country-western song, but it is not. I was carrying it around and being all crazy-OCD (more on this later) about the shopping list, and I probably put it down on top of some organic tofu […]

want me to fry you up some bacon?

On 10 July 2006

COMPLICATED HAIR FEELINGS My hair is a total fucking disaster. I cheated on my haircut guy, with a woman (scandalous!), and I do not know the Hair Words so I just told her I needed a change. That I needed to look less dorky, and less I-don't-give-a-shit, and maybe have something approaching a “haircut,” you […]

rhizoma alismatis

On 6 July 2006

THANK YOU CRAZY PERSON NOW PLEASE RUN ALONG Is there something in particular about the elevator setting that makes crazy people want to chat with me? Do crazy people just naturally abhor elevator silence and thus cannot suppress the urge to bust out with some crazy comment? Yesterday I was in the office elevator with […]

everyone was remembering to forget they had the chills

On 3 July 2006

Time for some eerie, plate-of-shrimp, karma-karma-chameleon stuff. Remember when I was all busy thinking about Nebraska? Then I got busy, right after getting busy,* thinking about the Kool-Aid guy (hey, Kool-Aid!). I soon got a-Googling and learned that Kool-Aid is the official soft drink of Nebraska. Nebraska is hot. Nebraska is thirsty. Nebraska needs Kool-Aid! […]