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about me
i'm meaner than you'd expect, but nicer than i appear
February 5, 2006
lindsay is fabulous. she might well have d-i-y-ed(birthed) herself. she is creative, amazing, open-minded and snarky at the same time. she is a WORLD of paradox, a mystery unto all who know her yet totally grounded, and basically a wizard who doesnt believe in magic.
December 22, 2005
LInzy, fuking great is what i think when i think of linzy and also what i think of when i think of linzy is her ability to shift and morph and still pull along her real self for the journey. All in all its been a wild ride. Many small moments exsploding hanging out with linzy. I consider those small moments sooooooooooooooooooooooooo precious. I think that linzy and i hated each other at first or we were just both trying to bust out alpha on each others ass. I remember in food not bombs, i was a sexist, a racist, a you namist, and then i think she realised that i was from alberta anad that it wasnt really my fault. And she took me in under her arm like and dirty old wet and hungry albertan country ranching dog. And that brings us herE today where i can actually sit here and say your tottally right i am sexist and racist and im learnign how to shed that skin with the support and enlightenment from a great freindship. Linzy is fuking awesome. AND THATS THAT
December 7, 2005
i love you.
February 2, 2005
linzy told me she'd let me touch her breasts if she was pregnant. if you ask nicely, she might let you as well.
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...someday it will be mine! mwah hah hah!
hey all,
i haven't been posting here very often these days.
the reason for that is simple: tribe is often down when i want to write.
my main reason for blogging here is because of you, my friends, who also blog here or at least visit the site and comment on my blog. i don't want to lose that. however, at the same time i realize that i don't really like much about how my tribe blog looks or functions. i can't *believe* that there's no simple way for me to backup all my blog entries through some sort of download function, and that i can't draft an entry to publish later. also, it annoys me that only tribe members can make comments.
as many of you know, i also have a l!vej0urnal blog, but it's mostly an echo of this one. i have similar reasons for liking it; i dislike it because of aesthetics and its corporate feel.
so.
i'm merging and moving.
please consider this your invitation to the new and hopefully long-term home of my online existence:
feralgeographer.wordpress.com/
the site features a few newer posts than you'll find on this blog, as well as a mostly-complete archive of old stuff. also, there's a fun categories function that maps out my most common themes, and a link to a online database of selections from my library. anybody want to borrow a book?
i hope you'll follow me there, but no pressure. you can also see the latest entries here on my tribe profile, cuz i've set it up as an rss feed... just go to my profile page: people.tribe.net/maggot
thanks for the years of comments and love, y'all.
today i came into the office and made coffee, just like i did yesterday morning. when my boss arrived, she went to pour herself a cup, and then yelped. holding up the bag of coffee that was still sitting next to the coffee maker, she exclaimed “it’s decaf!!!!”. omg. that’s the bag i opened yesterday, and used to make the 2 full pots that we all shared between 8:30 am and 1 pm. suddenly, so much of yesterday’s lethargy and fuzziness MAKES SENSE. late morning, i had to attend a training on using citation software, and my coworkers thought i was getting sick because i was so spaced out. then i spent the latter half of the afternoon in class, drinking down a travel mug full of coffee and yet falling asleep. i thought i was losing my mind.
when i recounted this via chat to my coworker in van, he replied with this link:
kithclip.blogspot.com/2008/09...caf.htmlfuckin’ hell, right on! i *heart* the kids in the hall.
while we’re on the subject of addiction, i’d like to remind local readers of an event taking place here in vic on thursday evening, called “the fix”: it’s a forum regarding harm reduction… stemming from the situation of our needle exchange, which went mobile this past spring due to community opposition to its former permanent location.
The Fix
A Community Dialogue About Harm Reduction
First Metropolitan United Church, Fellowship Hall
Quadra Street at Balmoral
Thursday, September 18
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Moderated by Jody Paterson
More info: harmreductionvictoria.ca/
should be good.
[completely unrelated photo: me and dawson, at the summit of transfer station hill, esquimalt, september 4th 2008]
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living my life (emma goldman)
i confess, i have to return this to the university library today, as yet unfinished... my excuse is the teeny-tiny print in the 1931 edition, which makes my eyes ache. but! it's one of the most passionate books i've ever started.
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the parable of the sower (octavia butler)
finally, validation for my hobby of back-to-the-land skillbuilding! also, my frequent freak-outs re: systemic racism... the protagonist is a hero, but not a super-hero: she simply does what needs to get done in order to create a just society.
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the salt roads (Nalo Hopkinson)
amazing, sexy, heart-wrenching: mysticism can get on my nerves, but not here, not by this author, my friends... surprise queer goodness was lovely too
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the book of small (emily carr)
read this when i was growing up in the east, and am loving the re-read b/c of the references to landmarks that are now local to me... but the racist bits are intense, eg. frequent descriptions of asian servants
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the tomcat chronicles (Jack Nichols)
reading in cooperation with my romantic associate, and must admit to skimming the political bits and skipping to the sex... with so much hot action, it's hard to concentrate! i've been going back and trying to pick up the gay rights history seperately.
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the grey king (susan cooper)
another book that i read once long ago as a kid, and have just come back to; arthurian legends and magic and british geography, hurrah! and i just noticed odd parallels to harry potter.
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girl from the south (joanna trollope)
i hated this book. why did i read it? because i thought it was recommended by the author of another book i liked. turned out i got my trollope's mixed up: i shoulda found some anthony, not joanna. le sigh. damn, this was a crummy novel.
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the vesuvius club (Mark Gatiss)
another one that i wouldn't exactly recommend, though this was pretty amusing... just a little tediously self-conscious. the author was attempting to conjure oscar wilde in his writing style, but i think i missed it.
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freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner)
i like to think that i'm too cool for bestsellers, especially non-fiction such as this, but i loved this one: it was amusing and clever, and got me thinking about a lot of stuff that i find interesting like the function of capitalism. yay!
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little birds/delta of venus (anais nin)
it was $1 at a yard sale! that's a value of less than $0.01 per sexual encounter! where else can you find such a good deal on erotica?! it's terrible, true, but terribly funny as well.
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maggie the mechanic (Jaime Hernandez)
an old boyfriend intro'd me to the hernandez bros. back in the day; years later, i think i identify with these punky, queer, hilarious, and passionate young women more intensely than ever. it makes my heart ache. in a good way.
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Brightness Falls from the Air (james tiptree jr.)
loved this book, until wham! the ending is an assimilationist wet dream of capitalism, in which the free market saves the day! the noble savage no longer wants the protection of the (colonial) guardians, and instead wants to be taught their ways. ick!
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James Tiptree Jr. : The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (Julie Philips)
i had to get this from the library, cuz i was so upset by the last book. it is great. i'm not done yet, but i suddenly understand the capitalist-wet-dream-colonial-bullshit.
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