lol. xpost, it was actually a really great project, but living with two very sensitive folks who are more "primitivist" than "reasonable" was... difficult to say the least. like, they'd buy irrigation tubing without holes in it because it cost a few cents less than the tubing with holes in it per yard, but then would spend days making holes in the regular tubing. just really pathological cheapskate shit disguised as being "environmentally concerned," tbh.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
i'm also glad to be back! hi again, y'all <3
<3
― surm, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
It's June, so here's my (by no means complete, occasionally updated) Pride playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/4RnlBWPlB2tuxnxvLXZFDV?si=ZSSPXIq4Qzm4ToV1mNEi5g
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
John Ashbery - self portrait in a convex mirror
― flopson, Sunday, 2 June 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
oops wrong thread.. the reading and gay threads have similar names rn
well, Ashbery was queer (and I love that poem).
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
:-) i just ate a whole box of unicorn fudge stripes
― surm, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
I last ate those when Reagan dozed in the Oval Office!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
never heard of em
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
Honestly, a straight pride parade is probably the best possible PR for gays.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
xp I bought the "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror" book of John Ashbery poems many years ago and have never let it go, it is really great
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
as always I want to revive some Gay Shame events
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
Well, reread "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" then
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
:)
― flopson, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
I have, many times!
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
All things happenOn its balcony and are resumed within,But the action is the cold, syrupy flowOf a pageant. One feels too confined,Sifting the April sunlight for clues,In the mere stillness of the ease of itsParameter. The hand holds no chalkAnd each part of the whole falls offAnd cannot know it knew, exceptHere and there, in cold pocketsOf remembrance, whispers out of time.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
it's amazing how each time you read a poem like that you come away with something different
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
that's an interesting read there
― surm, Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
I'm in the library and the sun's out!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
do we need a spring/summer thread?
Do you need spring/summer head?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
my favorite Rosanne Cash couplet.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
i just got some but i need more i've been on a bit of a STREAK
― surm, Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
Ashbery was really important to me as a young queer poet, but I haven't read him in years because at a certain point, he started kind of doing the same thing over and over and over and over again.
Not trying to shit on him— his first books and the somewhat later "Flow Chart" really shaped me. (To drive this point home, I've read "Flow Chart" three times, and wrote approximately 35+ pages on Ashbery as an undergrad and grad student lol).
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
"at a certain point" = 1976, essentially
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 June 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
(i'd put it a little later, but yes)
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
Sooooo something super weird happened to me this weekend. I had a zoloft induced dissociative fugue. It was so weird I called my friend screaming I have no idea who I am. Scary!!!!!
― surm, Monday, 10 June 2019 04:57 (five years ago) link
I hate all of the SSRIs I've tried. some of the weird side effects occurred almost immediately upon starting (tight jaw, grinding teeth, strange dream architecture) and some took weeks to appear (most disturbingly a complete sexual numbing), and I never felt any therapeutic effect.
― Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
Was crazy scary but in other ways I do feel it is helpingMedicines are weird man
― surm, Monday, 10 June 2019 06:02 (five years ago) link
i went off Lexapro many years ago after a careful titration down. best decision i ever made, but that was for me.
until this whole cancer bullshit i'm dealing with now, i hadn't taken any pharmaceuticals regularly in more than nine years (!!!). to say i have a wicked distrust of the medical industrial complex would be an understatement.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
I never felt any therapeutic effect.
my experience too. i'm also wary of pharma -- i'm putting off starting an antibiotic i was recently prescribed at my first doctor's visit in about two years.
i guess i'm going to be a resident of salt lake city for a while.
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 10 June 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
i'm going broke from i.v. drug use for my cancer, thx Obamacare
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
How's it all going Morbs, health-wise? What's the prognosis, if it's not too difficult or upsetting to talk about.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Morbz, how's it going?
I have my final radiation treatment tomorrow! Surgery later this summer.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
I'm on a new regimen post-radiation, too new to evaluate yet. I feel OK except I'm still way damn tired. So my primary concern is my finances.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
<3 Morbs
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
(ie I need a staff job, not a gig, that'll pay for more of this)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
I may hook up with a guy who wrote, "I love kissing in tents."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
that sounds kind of hot
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
Florida in June? Yes.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
I should've known my date with a hot Montrealian would go awry when, after texting for a few minutes last night, this world traveler according to OkCupid and high school English teacher wondered if we couldn't eat at PF Chang's because he'd read they serve "good Asian cuisine."
At 6 p.m. tonight he tells me that he doesn't drive. The P.F. Chang's is 30 miles northeast of me.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
oof. yeah, missed a bullet there. a hot bullet, sure, but a bullet none the less.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 14 June 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
job interview on Monday that might rescue me from ruin
no pressure, though
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
good luck, morbz!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link
same!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
Get the job Morbs rooting for you
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
yes
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
thanks all
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link