LOL.

Yeah, the acting—all around—is stunning.

Oh, who am I kidding? It’s Army of Darkness, but this one comes pretty close.

I taught this film on and off for years, and it never failed to move the students who were disarmed by Billy Bob’s performance, in particular.

John D’Emilio writes in his 1993 essay, “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” that that prior to market capitalism, when wage labor gave individuals a degree of autonomy that allowed identity separate from family/community roles, there was no such thing as a gay/lesbian person. Before that, there were certainly queer…

It was within women’s studies in graduate school (1990s) that I was exposed to intersectionalist thinking (not called that at the time). Although I had read a great deal of literature by WOC in my English lit courses, analysis wasn’t always very robust (appreciation of aesthetics, yes; analysis, not always), so WST…

Lucky you—in for heavenly gardenia scent (and flowers).

oh, this made me laugh.

He’s very slink and very, very photogenic—good things for cats.

He’s very slinky and photogenic—a good combination for a cat.

Ive never heard of a salt water pool. Is that common?

I think we are living in a time where one can become a bit of an absurdist or flame out in rage. I am trying to adopt an absurdist outlook ‘though I’m failing all the time.

I hope I’m not being too distracting, if I encourage everyone to go and look at Simone Manuel’s Instagram (SwimOne) and take a gander at her dryland flipturn practice. She’s epic.

You can’t hold up a mirror to hypocrisy unless it’s spit polished

A new day, new meanings, new-ish me.

No corporal punishment from my parents (or shaming), a tiny bit of guilt, so I’m really lucky in so many ways.

I knew none of this history. Thanks.

I just finished the last episode of the I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Documentary (and Michele McNamara and her detective work on the Golden State Killer case). The filmmakers interview the family of Joseph James DeAngelo, who didn’t know about his raping and murdering, and one of his nephews describes the unremitting and…

I’m so sorry that the adults in your life failed you; your childhood and adolescence sound incredibly hard.

the book nearly gutted 10-year old me, reading a chapter each night with my mother.   So much animal suffering.