tell me what to read
By shag carpet bomb • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: WGAF FilesI’m superstressed today. We released the web site and, of course, crazy things happened. Most of then, things I simply could not fix because it was something the network admin/systems admin folks had to fix — since they screwed it up to begin with. That didn’t stop people running to my desk or calling to ask if I knew X was a problem and what was causing it…. What rilly rilly irritated was the fact that, this one incident is related to something i’ve been reporting for months. It’s one thing when you don’t know. It’s another when you do. And yet another when you do and you did your best to actually take care of it, especially irritating when you know that most people there wouldn’t have bothered to make mention of the problem anyway.
Grrrrrrrr.
Enough with that. I’m reading and fucking with the theme because it relaxes me to do that. I’m heading back out to the porch to enjoy the warm evening and read some more. I’m done with most of my books, half way through this bridge we call home — which is slightly irritating for some of the spiritual stuff. . . which just bugs. and for the fact that it’s stuff i’ve already read before, so not especially challenging in so far as anything new or mindblowing. It’s interesting, though, for some of the new ways of saying things that could so readily be applied to so many of the discussions folks’ have had. Sometimes, of course, and by design, the entries contradict one another. But Anzaldua is just that way: she’ll embrace the contradictions. Borderlands and all that. In other words, the central motif of her work is the twoness of being neither here nor there, in-between, living in the borderlands, which can be both destructive and generative.
If anyone wants to tell me what books you’d like me to read next, please suggest. This is what happens when I go hogwild using Amazon for a convenient way to store a list of books to read someday. Do they export the effin’ thing so you can paste it into a blog post?
I laughed today. Someone else was feeling a little stressed out at work. He says something to his manager, something like, “Does the company pay for that? Does it cover therapy or something for psychological counseling from the stress?”
His boss, “Yeah. It’s called beer.”
So, lemme have it. Gary? You want to read up on solo sex for a stint? Or will that cut into the diss writing?
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i am so cracking up with the blog design…i love it. we should read solitary sex. and write about it.
let me know.
it’s like the joy of sex sketches. that’s what your graphics remind me of. oh man did those turn me on in 1980 when i discovered what an erection was really all about. ha! ten going on forty.
oh well.
How many books did you read last year anyway? Jesus. Just from my count, I think you’ve read more in one year than I’ve read in a lifetime. JK
I’ll look over your wishlist and see if you have something interesting. I think the white privilege series is important. I read the blogs in your blogroll and notice that the concept, ‘privilege’, is not very well-defined.
I have no idea but I started reading a lot in May and probably read about 10 books a month. Yeah, I think I must read fast. Read at gym, read at lunch, read for 2-4 hours on the porch. Love it. Can’t get enough. I had a jag there where all I read was short stories.
Well, I looked over the first page of “I want, I want.” As though you couldn’t guess what I would pick. That Deep-Frying Identity and Identity Popsicles kind of stuff. But I come here to be told what to read, not to tell you what to read.