Ask, Tell

He told me he was bisexual. I think he thought I'd be shocked, but I just licked the stray parmesan from my fingers and replied, "Dude, pick a hole."

Still Kicking It (And Sorry)

"Whaddaya think of McCain's vice pick?"

I started to answer, but another guy interrupted.

"Smartest thing he coulda done, that's what it is."

"Really?" I asked. "Why?"

He couldn't come up with an answer, so I supplied it.

"Oh, I know. The vagina."

And it was bitchy, I know, but I'm so damn tired of talking about this.

Better Than "SexBag," I Guess

I had to admit to her that this was really comfortable, though I was a bit ashamed at the price she paid for it, considering its name sounds like a really cheesy euphemism for a scrotum.

Peaches and Pop

Cannot. Stop. Listening.

Needle in the Hay

People go extinct. Isn't that odd? The link will take you to the Wikipedia page on Tasmanian Aborigines, an indigenous population that went extinct with the death of the last full-blooded woman in 1876. There are "no meaningful cultural practice[s]" by which to remember them. It only took 73 years to kill them off.

Around here, I guess, though, we have the Mandan. The last full-blooded Mandan died in 1971. It doesn't say so on Wikipedia, but I read a Smithsonian article that claimed that 90% of the Mandan population was wiped out by smallpox. Obviously, more of their culture remains. I've never known anybody to claim to be "Mandan," but I have heard "Mandan-Hidatsa" with some regularity, and Arikara is often mixed in there, too.

I don't know. Humans go extinct, population by population, sure...but still it troubles me.

In that vein:









The whole town is like that. It's a city of signs.

"Lord, let me die, but not die

Out."

The Sarah Palin Fixation

How massively selfish can you be?

1. She's very pro-life and very vocal about it. Fine. ("After all, her baby has Down syndrome, and she didn't abort him!" Why do we assume that that has anything to do with pro-life/pro-choice? Concluding that disabled people are still people--why are we all pretending that this makes you noble?)

2. She's an evangelical Christian and very vocal about it. Okay.

3. Her teenage daughter is pregnant, Palin has the above two conditions constantly attached to her name, and she still accepted the VP spot? She's willing to expose your daughter to all the criticisms and judgment of the press and public? I don't care if Bristol told Palin she was okay with it. She had to know her daughter would be subjected to all this. Why did she agree to go so incredibly high-profile at this time? I would never voluntarily do that to my child.

Pfft. I don't get her.

P.S. Baby or no baby, deciding to get married at 17 is probably not a good idea.

If You Close the Door

Dark party bars, shiny Cadillac cars, and the people on subways and trains looking grey in the rain as they stand disarrayed.

Oh, but people look well in the dark.

She's glamourous and exciting and probably unhappy, sure, but I still envy her.

(She was a high school friend who lives the life I wish I did, but am too afraid/broke/attached/dutiful to try.)

I hadn't realized how much I missed her until she stopped at the restaurant last night.