February 2008
49 posts
OMFG.
In her book/play Letting Go of God, Julia Sweeney says this: “The world behaves exactly as you expect it would if there were no supreme being, no supreme consciousness, and no supernatural.” - which sums up the disconnect I’ve always, always had between wanting and needing blind faith in some spiritual force and finding no evidence of anything at all, beyond what I saw, once, in...
January 2008
60 posts
You are what you eat. →
The Ghosts of Porno
Since I quit working at Sexyland, a double handful of opportunities to write for completely mainstream media have come across my path. All of them have been paying gigs - anywhere from $15 to $500, depending on the effort each assignment involved (most freelance writing doesn’t pay much in North Carolina). I’ve responded to about half of them because I am able to form sentences that...
What's your favorite Podcast?
Do you listen to podcasts? Would you recommend some good ones? Right now I’m listening to a slew of APM and NPR shows, the hilarious Savage Love podcast, Yeast Radio and a bunch of Spanish-language podcasts. My beloved pal Brock got me a copy of Julia Sweeney’s audiobook Letting Go of God, which was well worth the $10. When actors can actually write well, audiobooks reach a new level...
the video you’ve already seen
etsy is ever clever →
“Hello, I speak Spanish as native language and need to learn ingles, alive in...”
– http://raleigh.craigslist.org/lss/546963834.html
Fuck the Fine Arts
Pretty Lady’s essay on why she didn’t bother getting an MFA (via Kate Kretz).
“Out of all those who’ve capitalized on the ‘Got Milk?’...”
– http://twitter.com/cosito/statuses/629616872
My sister Gideon resolves to stop cussing for the... →
Apple are good. →
goldenfiddlr. →
How to ruin a good mood. →
Women + Porn = n (n+1) /2
Jezebel’s article on Tristan Taormino has some interesting comments regarding porn and feminism (via Violet Blue). Targeting and capturing the female demographic had become one of the adult industry’s loftiest goals by the time I started working for Sexyland. Over the course of 5.5 years, I spent an incalculable number of hours in meetings and working on projects that were aimed at...