January 2011
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I always feel like crying after getting out of my Globalization class.
Neo-Liberal economics are fucked up. Milton Friedman is a sexist asshole. “Progress” and “Modernity” are just other words for alienating, non-diverse, homogenous monoculture. Capitalism is so fucking terrible for women, people of color, the poor, the environment, and people of the global south. I...
today.
arora-arora:
Email to Greg: “Also I am practicing my contortionist skills so I can fit in your bag on your next trip. I am working on making my skeleton look like a hundred shampoo bottles so no one is suspicious. “
Also.
I had a dream last night that Greg and his mom were stuck in the airport in Rome. The entire cast of Jersey Shore was on the plane with them (because they are filming...
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oh portland.
I just found out I live right down the street from a sex toy recycling center.
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Proud to be an american? I'm ashamed.
Patriotism is something I will never understand. It seems to be the result of ignorance, propaganda, misinformation and unrealistic idealism. The United States is responsible for overwhelming amounts of inequality, injustice, and exploitation throughout the world, most of which is sheltered from the public who relies mainly on monopolized news sources and standardized textbooks to form their...
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things currently in my bed
A (mostly gone) bag of pretzels
a dirty bowl that once held tomato soup
House of Mirth (worst book ever)
Ethan Frome (by the author of the worst book ever)
Yes means yes! (good book)
purple folder with class papers
3 spoons
two empty tubs of ice cream
smelly still-damp-from-sweat once-green bandana
empty bottle of dry soda (kumquat. its weird)
2 knives
20+ pieces of clothing including...
staybusy:
“You know how there are supposedly two instinctual responses— fight or flight? Well, there’s also freeze. You can see it everywhere in nature, especially in animals that are under constant attack. Like deer, if a cougar is trying to get a deer, right before it catches it, the deer will lay down and freeze. It’s heart beat slows, it’s breath quiets, it’s muscles rigid, it won’t move an...
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Natalie Portman
Apparently she is friends with Jonathan Safran Foer. She dated Devendra Banhart. She’s vegan. She doesn’t smoke or drink. She speaks Hebrew. She’s been dancing since she was a child. I could go on. I’m in love.
Last night I had a dream that I was diving to the bottom of a lake filled with everything I had ever lost in my life. Apparently my subconscious still remembers it all. It was awesome during the dream but when I woke up I was sad about everything I’d lost and had forgotten about.
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apathy is not attractive.
passion is sexy.
"hope is just as empty as fear"
I think we all experienced this during the Obama campaign. Hope holds incredible power over people just like fear does.
Lately I’ve had this overwhelming desire to completely withdraw myself from consumerism culture. Even though I don’t buy myself stuff I don’t need* I still feel sick contributing to globalization. More than anything I wish I could live in a small, anarchist, self sustaining, subsistence farming community. I feel guilty even eating produce from the grocery store because of the...
on my mind pt. II
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, men’s deodorant, neocolonialism, summer road trip, bed frames, definitions of love, affection, missing people and being missed, motivation and lack thereof, The First Book of Sadness, moleskins, Reed, california, dreams, Tandy, uncertainty, glasses of milk, cheeks, bus stops, craigslist, consumerism, definitions of romance.
Bisexuality does not reinforce the gender binary →
multisexual:
…And can somebody please tell me how the term “bisexual” somehow reinforces the binary, yet “gay” and “lesbian” supposedly do not?
Most self-identified lesbians use that term to signify that they partner with women, but not men. Most gay men use the term “gay” to signify that they partner with men, but not women. So why are gays and lesbians not accused of “reinforcing the...
couch surfers?
anybody on here use CouchSurfing? You should add me as a friend, yes?
sapiosexual (n.) — a person who is sexually...
dear everyone who thinks I date weird looking guys,
I think they’re hott.
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“I just stopped believing God was a mystery you could nail down with one book”
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you must write
secret things. things that nobody else will read. For when you write knowing it will be read, your create yourself into a character.
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After arriving to SPU, I come up to Alyx’s dorm and immediately there are ten thousand and fifty seven girls in her room. Soon we’re eating at the cafeteria and suddenly the entire dining room erupts into applause. Apparently that’s what everyone here does when someone drops a plate, it was magical. We head off to Capital Hill and its a lovely warm night, go down into this little...
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Last night I couldn’t fall asleep, and then it started to rain. That’s why I love Portland. When you can’t fall asleep it suddenly starts raining and then you sleep like a newborn. like a baby. I miss your skin and your body and how tall you are. I miss the way your voice sounds when you talk on the phone to other people besides me. And I miss your parenthesis.
Please have...
things I am absolutely fucking terrified of:
Not getting accepted to Reed this fall.
Getting accepted to Reed this fall.
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I am sad, but I wouldn’t want it any other way. As if there was another way to live? There is not. Only other ways in which to exist.
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An open letter to all the Scorpios in my life
I swear your secrets taste like the open road and your rare confessions sting like cold wood floors on barefoot morning feet, because while you’re writing poems in languages I can’t read, in places I’ll never be, I’m sketching the memories that settled on my sleeping skin in journals that I leave beside my bed for you to read. But you never crack their spines because your...
myownbearhands:
i googled sleepy to look at sleepy things to make me sleepy. sleepy? no im not.
this is why I love you.
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If your God didn’t want women to have sex for pleasure he wouldn’t have created them with clitorises.
On Consent and Compulsory Monogamy →
“Compulsory monogamy creates an expectation that we be all things for another person. People are taught to seek “the one,” a person who will fulfill us in all ways—romantically, sexually, intellectually, and otherwise—for the rest of our lives. If we happen to love someone who meets some of our needs but not others, compulsory monogamy offers only two options: either end that relationship in...
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I think all the libertarians should just say “fuck it” and become anarchists already.
beanbagsaregreat:
There was a fist fight with the constellations and I was the heavy hitter but I walked out with two black eyes and a broken wrist. I entered that smokeless hospital with a fire burning in my throat and smoke bellowing out of my pores. I was asked to sit but I chose to stand and when told to run I took my time. I took your time. I took his time and some of hers. I saw the doctor...
The Handy Guide To Not Raping People In Seven Easy...
1. When you meet a girl who doesn’t want to have sex with you, don’t have sex with her.
2. When you meet a girl who wants to have sex with one of your friends, remember the golden rule: You Are A Different Person To Your Friends. Maybe this handy mnemonic can help: Yentl Acted As Ducks Probed Three Yucky Frenchmen. This will help you remember that a girl who wants to have sex with one person...
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thoughts on Anarchy written while speeding down...
When people talk about anarchy they’re usually talking about its standard definition, a lack of government. But what I think a lot of people don’t realize is that’s just a means to an end. Anarchy is really all about, as Thoreau said, the right to do at any time what I think right. The only way this is possible is through a lack of an institution telling us all what “right” is. Anarchy to me is...