September 2009
11 posts
1 tag
“The brand of Catholicism that I grew up with was both obsessed with the body and...”
–  rough, but from a new piece of mine. (I’m still here, I’m just busy.)
Sep 30th
I wish to register a complaint...
I’m reading a lovely & whimsical novel set in San Francisco for school, which is great. However, I wish to register a complaint: The author gets things about MUNI & SF neighborhoods wrong. Like, he says the #12 Folsom bus runs next to the Hall of Justice — NO, IT DOESN’T. I am such a geek about things like public transportation and SF neighborhoods that I actually looked...
Sep 14th
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“I have been excess and lacking, too much and not enough all at once. I have been...”
– From my new piece of intertextual riot grrrl erotica, “Girl Crazy.” I’m proud of it. Grad school is at least doing the trick in terms of writing. I’m averaging a story a week.
Sep 9th
Why I
There is the most adorable transdyke cowgirl on what looks to be a date with the most adorable little queer guy in Buddy Holly glasses, sitting right next to me at the cafe where I’m working. They were just swapping war stories about their train hopping & anti-prison activist days. I know it sounds like a big Bay Radical cliche but I promise they are super adorable and not doing any...
Sep 9th
Sep 6th
Sep 4th
nectarines!
I picked, I am not exaggerating, 20 nectarines from the tree in my backyard today, and that is just the tip of the nectarine iceberg. What are your favorite recipes involving nectarines? Especially desserts?
Sep 4th
done today, & to be done
done today: + Sent “Cocksure” in for consideration by an editor. At, uh, 6am. Collapsed till about noon. + Ate a perfectly sweet white nectarine from the tree in my backyard. It was so good I almost came, I swear to god. + Took a walk through my neighborhood, treated myself to waffles with fresh strawberries & cream, bought an abundance of fresh produce. + Had a couple...
Sep 3rd
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“I have a thing for these boys. The ones who are sure of themselves at one...”
–  from “Cocksure,” a new story of mine.
Sep 3rd
"I want my fiction solid, hard." →
One (essay) deadline down, two (smut) deadlines to go! NCN’s very smart piece is inspiring some hopefully smart (and, you know, hot) porn.
Sep 1st