Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

god. i haven’t had a bout of serious i-dont-know-what-you-call-it/them feeling/s about poverty and crap since, what?, the holidays when i was babbling about the intense, mixed emotions of sadness and joy at being able to donate money with abandon. oh, i have the feelings pretty much every day, in a way. there are three things [...]

This is a really awesome talk hooks gave. In it, she brings up the issue that inflamed folks recently when Renee Martin wrote about big girl panties. While I disagree with Martin’s characterizations of Black Amazon and others, I think hooks says some really interesting things here, some of which I tend to chafe against [...]

Posting about Angela Davis sparked a debate about prisons, crime, etc. All the stupid crap you’d expect to see because, for the most part, people didn’t want to actually have a discussion about what Davis said, since she addresses their objections. Instead, they were more interested in trotting out whatever tried and true hate ons [...]

thinking about a thread at a discussion list to which I subscribe, brought me to reading Wendy Brown and Janet Halley again. And as I read, I thought a lot about the disagreements that broke out over Renee Martin’s insistence that people need to get over their wounds, put their big girl panties on, and [...]

I read this: http://offourpedestals.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/on-using-anti-oppression-rhetoric-to-maintain-yourself/ and then I headed of to the old queer dewd blog to find a post I’d written about Wendy Brown’s critique of identity politics, and another by Spivak. We were having a discussion about my “Pictures of Che” post at a discussion list to which I subscribe and I wanted to [...]

ha ha. i amused myself with my bio. enjoy! if you’re wondering why the new dress — it’s because i’m so stressed out at work at the mo’ putting on a new blog dress was tres relaxing. and then i had to do something about that about page. coz i was too lazy to go [...]

“Those who cannot Google the past are destined to repost it.” — Huey Callison,

I almost called this edition, “NOw, where was I?” because it feels like it’s been forever. And it sorta has. R got sick with the flu last week, then I got it Friday and was sick all weekend and Monday. Dragged my ass to work Tuesday since, with this economy, better keep on your toes [...]

lord. was i dawg tarred friday night. i’d gotten up early, hit the gym, walked home and enjoyed, yes!, the cold weather. it’s been warm, then cold, then warm, then cold for two weeks now. but still, yesterday had that frosty feel in the air, almost like home. you know when the grass is still [...]

So, I dragged my ass out of bed bright and early to get some time in at the gym — having forgotten that I had an appointment with the gym trainer, which was part of my sign up deal. It was nice walking early in the morning but I am going to have R dig [...]

I discovered a feminist book club in the area and went to my first meeting Tuesday night. I hadn’t read the book, but it gave me a chance to meet the women involved. It was great to sit around and talk, though I had a lot of disagreements. I found myself bringing in analyses that [...]

if you hadn’t guessed — I think I’ve mentioned it before, though — i was an exercise bulemic as a kid. they didn’t have fancy names for anorexia, bulemia back then, let alone the variation, exercise bulemia. i only learned of it later. but like i said in my training journal post just now, i [...]

back to training, folks. while i’ve been walking to work everyday, and walking at lunch, putting in about 2.5 – 3.5 miles a day, i decided that i need to get back to lifting. i’d gotten out of the habit after moving here in june because the old gym was a little out of the [...]

“Smell the outrage, 140 characters at a time! — Owen Thomas

cleaning out files and came across this book review, which I’m archiving here. It’s a review of the horrid, horrid awful book, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein. Well sure,” said I, when asked to review an anthology with the nifty title Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. “What self-respecting woman wouldn’t [...]

cleaning up my email and came across an inquiry from a reader which i’d somehow missed. at some point, i’d written this: “Because, remember: socialism is about condescendingly sharing *your* sandwich, not about asking why the other guy doesn’t have a sandwich to begin with. fuck.” that was a snide comment about a thread on [...]

For every anti-racist Marxist, there are 10 (or more) others who think that getting rid of capitalism should take precedence over ending racism. http://www.rachelstavern.com/?p=827 gosh, who wrote this? ” Labor in the white skin will not be free while labor in black skin is branded. “ wow. just wow. what a fucking asshole. like she [...]

I wrote this awhile back. I can’t remember when, though it must have been months ago. Probably when I wrote a post entitled Feminist Fight Club — a post which someone reminded me of awhile ago. (I have a tendency to just block bad shit out of me pea brain and forget about it.) Anyway, [...]

I heard Clay Shirkey on NPR a couple of days ago, so I’ve been reading up on his latest book, “Here Comes Everybody.” I’m probably going to use some of his stuff in a presentation I have to do for work. At Amazon, I read this in one of the reviews: Writing in sharp contrast [...]

ha. On the radio I caught an interview with someone who was speaking about poetry — as well as reading some of his poetry on air. Can’t recall the show or the guest: it was a public radio program, probably something from NPR. Anway, someone asked him a question and he replied, “So-and-so once said [...]

if you go to the opera, do you go and understand it because you understand Italian (or whatever language) or do you go for the experience of the opera and cry like cher in that movie, Moonstruck, because you are bowled over by the emotion conveyed by the singers?

did i tell everyone? i’m treating myself to pottery classes — and maybe oil painting. Haven’t decided if I want to afford both. One class is lunch hours, the other once a week, evenings. Oh, and be the way, speaking of my evenings, check this out: http://www.portfolioweekly.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=4F603B44BB1D4EBDAF3CAEFA4F144C04&nm=News+and+Views&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=78EA30ECA7854F04945C66D38E408EFB No, MOveon wasn’t anything I supported but compromises, [...]

seriously. I sat in the dentist’s chair, getting some super duper periodontal cleaning and *loved* the sound of the scraping and stuff. why? because I have dental insurance AND a salary that enables me to afford the co-pays. the last time I went to the dentist, to have a broken tooth repaired, or something, I [...]

well, i was sick of having to tend to spam, so i thought i’d make it so that only approved comments could get through. i ended up closing comments altogether and no amount of changing it back has seemed to fix it. and, since i’ve got other things to do, ican’t be arsed to find [...]

we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses: John T wrote: ” The idea of [...]