Sister Eating Culture

Triskaidekaphobia

2009-03-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

In honor of the second Friday the 13th this year, I offer up Two for Joy: a Quartet about Luck.

12 squares of paper in horseshoe formation

News clippings paper the wall where ponies once danced,

that summer of her thirteenth year.

The unluckiest number to have for so long,

she knew it was her fault:

thirteen shards of broken mirror,

scattered on the floor when mom’s sanity up and left.

Her aunt’s: an open umbrella. First thing she saw in her new room.

This is when she begins to save the newspapers,

keeping track of her destruction,

She covers the walls to muffle the sound of her aunt’s sorrow.

Counting down the days until her thirteenth year is done.

Touch wood, her luck returns.

11 11

Wishing on ambulances is no more strange then, say

wrapping faith in pennies in a pool or, holding

your breath under a bridge.

Precision of language: wish when you mean wonder,

turning into your 4 year old self wishing people dead

as ambulances screamed past.

Movin on up to the east cost

2008-11-05T09:42:00.001-08:00

I must not be as jaded as I thought, because for a golden moment last night, I believed that our fucked up democracy works.

And yes, I did cry a little during Obama's speech.

i was up at 6 am!

2008-11-04T11:40:00.001-08:00

Also check out Video the Vote, me and my activist peeps have been out since 6:60 recording people in Detroit and Dearborn.

checkin out my fake stock portfolio

2008-10-29T11:16:00.001-07:00

I've been thinkin, that if i had money, I could be investing in the stock market right about now.

That is, if I didn't have a nagging suspicion that the whole thing was going to crash and burn in the next few years.

Oh well, I'll just go back to creating a Google map of my potential looting rout just in case of economic and/or race riots.

Somewhere in here is a diabetes joke

2008-10-17T10:29:00.000-07:00

Also a joke about Count Chocula and Frankenberry joke.

Languge Moment

2008-10-16T11:02:00.000-07:00

The debate was seriously underwhelming and not particularly good.

The only thing mildly interesting was the shoddy abortion debate.

Partial birth abortions? Really? I expected Obama, as a intelligent progressive lawyer, to know that partal birth abortion is a misleading phrase used by the far Right to insite anger and nasua.

Folks, partial birth abortions is as made up as any term in Dr. Suess and not nealy as clever.

Oh and, that tripe McCain was saying about the shit being said at his rallies is false. Some of his supporters are getting out of hand in the most frighting way.

I don't know if ya'll watch The Boondocks

2008-02-04T21:13:00.000-08:00

But Riley is gay right? Did he just come out for real on tonight's episode?

If so, I would have a newfound respect for Mr McGruder.

National health care would be great right about now

2008-01-11T11:30:00.000-08:00

There is this editorial in the this weeks issue of the Metro Times where they suggest that since Obama isn’t on the Michigan primary list, that progressives (or those so inclined) should vote for Kucinich instead.

I for one, do not thing this is a bad idea. Yes, I know that D. Kucinich has a snowballs chance in hell for winning, but I for one would cast my useless primary vote for Kucinich just because of the H. R. 676 or the National Health Care Bill, co written by Kucinich and Michigan’s own John Conyers. Covering several kinds of medical issues, from emergency to dental to mental health, it lays out payment plans, government spending and a goal to take effect over a 15-year timeframe.

I am aware that both Obama and Clinton lay out plans for national health care, and have both spoke about health care, but the way I see it, Kucinich has a real plan already written out an submitted to congress way back in 2005.

I’m still undecided as to who I am voting for in the fall, but the closer deadline of thousands of dollars in medical bills I need to pay this year (uninsured) means that I’m turning a critical eye on not only the issues, but how theses issues are going to be enacted.

Counting down to the Allied Media Conference

2007-06-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

after a long hiatus , i return begin what will soon be an in dept report about this year's Allied Media Conference, which is taking place on Wayne State's campus. tomorrow is the official kick-off, so all i am doing right now is stuff packets.

So, anyone in the area with at least ten bucks in their pocket should come. it'll be fun i swear.

This book is like.....oh you know. Don't make me say it

2007-01-04T11:20:00.000-08:00

As far as nonfiction goes, I’m just not that big on reading autobiographies or memoirs. Reality just doesn’t interest me all that much.

So I didn’t pick up the copy of Augusten Burroughs “Running with Scissors” until I needed something to distract myself from the stomach flu I contracted before new years.

48 hours later, I was still more disturbed then amused. It is an amusing and unnerving read, but what was really getting to me was the realization that someone lived this dysfunction shit. It’s not just an unbalanced fictional characters drying human shit on the back picnic table or smothering the family cat to death over a dream, it’s someone’s family.

Who, I may add, has their family dirty laundry (so to speak) all over the New York Times best seller list.

I wondered if the family knew, I’m thinking its probably awkward for co-workers to read about how your mom use it sit in the living room and eat dog food.

One Wikipidea search later reveals a wonderful little interview Vanity Fair did with the remaining “Finch” family. Their response to the book: a lawsuit is pending. They family claims that a majority of the really outrageous things mentioned in the book were false and inflammatory.

Which brings me to questions of the memoir and ‘truth’ and why it doesn’t pay to know writers.

I don’t think it really matter if the things in the book are true or not, if it was all made up and sold as a novel I don’t think there would be a problem. A little truth in a fiction doesn’t harm anything.

For me this is the uncomfortable thing about running with scissors, that its outrageous truths may not be real. unlike fake memoirs, which I think are amusing, this book creates a fake history that millions of readers believe to be true, leaving the people’s who lives it is to deal with the consequences. A little fiction in your memoir, especially one as potently detrimental as this, is problematic. The name and place change of the people was sloppy and if it were me, I’d be really mad too. What if my friends and co-workers read the book? The book takes place when a majority of the family is young, but that still doesn’t detract from the beyond embarrassing things in the book that all can’t be chalked up to youth. Who knows how friends would react to you, thinking you did weird thinks like that in your youth.

On that note, keep an eye out for writers and hope no one is writing in their memoir all the bad judgment calls and coke binge lovers you never talk about.

to those who know me personaly: i would never do that to ya'll without at least hiding behind the guise of fiction...

almost as fun as myspace

2006-08-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

Besides all the wonders things you can do on cragslist, the personal ads are something of note.

Limited to het and queer hookups, the men seeking men has a cute little disclaimer about sexually explicit material and urges safe sex.

A disclaimer none of the other have.

Mind you, when I looked at the women seeking women, the first think I came across was an orgy up river. Don’t I need to be disclaimed about that? Or some chick posting topless?

first post, holla!

2006-08-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

Not just another internet distraction on my part, but an effort to write more then angst live journal post.

And yes, the title's play on words in deliberate. As I consume culture (popular or otherwise) like a stoner on a bag of chips, culture also consumes my identities, chews all the flavor and spits it back out at me.