I’m living at home and it’s a nightmare. I feel like I can’t be myself, like I’m constantly being nagged to be someone I can no longer be. I can’t NOT live at home because I have no money and no one will hire me. I’m lost and lonely and stuck. Help me.
today somebody said to me
‘i need a get rich quick scheme’
i said
'good idea’
what are some books / poetry that you recommend?
amazon store has a lot of them:
http://astore.amazon.com/autowin-20/
favorite recent reads (june 2006)
http://amzn.com/l/R1UUMHA5STPJ4U
you wish you read this in intro to (very) modern fiction (dec 2003)
http://amzn.com/l/S5GVDX6GUZ95
5 poets:
stephen dunn
eileen myles
raymond carver
jennifer l. knox
ee cummings
5 short story writers:
lorrie moore
mary gaitskill
raymond carver
pam houston
a.m. homes
one-short-story-book wonders: thisbe nissen, maggie estep, miranda july, tao lin, julie orringer
5 novelists:
jonathan franzen
sarah waters
mary gaitskill
bret easton ellis
vladimir nabokov
5 non-fiction writers:
joan didion
meghan daum
dorothy allison
jack kerouac
david sedaris
Is it hard for you to give away your thoughts and feelings to internet-land? Do you feel like we’re stealing your creativity from you through your vagina?
nobody
can steal anything
through my vagina
Has anyone ever mistakenly pronounced your name like rice? Or maybe it is said like rice, which could be totally awesome too because rice is my favourite food and Autostraddle is the best thing on the interweb.
rice is my favourite thing to mix with duck sauce and soy sauce for 99 cents
Do you creep us back? Like, internet creep tag? Find our tumblrs. Look through our photos on facebook. ?
i don’t know
i don’t think so
i do look at a lot of tumblrs on saturdays
Do you thing there’s any correlation between odd names and lesbians? The girls with the most uncommon names I’ve met have been my girlfriends! What’s up with that?
there’s a correlation between
odd names
and girls you date
most terrible/awesome drunk dial you’ve ever made?
you asked me this 4 months ago
i still haven’t come up with one
i tend to think being drunk might be a reason
but it’s never an excuse
so i don’t do anything drunk that i wouldn’t want to do sober
in general
maybe my whole life is one long drunk dial
So are you tinkerbell? Is the dog tinkerbell? How’d that get started? We’re confused.
tinkerbell is a dog
she was born in miami in january 2008
she has body image issues
and is an excellent typist
How can I help bring down the patriarchy? Also, I like ice cream with my banana and pecan waffles. I could be wrong, but I think this trumps your pancakes.
when you see the patriarchy
say something
If autostraddle was on a reality show like the real l word, how do you think everyone would come across on camera? like what kind of characters do you think the editors would try to turn everyone into?
i can’t imagine
what kind of show it would be
if everybody told the truth
we would fuck and fuck up
i’d yell about something
they’d fight in front of everybody
i’d cry or lie or try or die
she’d sleep on the sidewalk
they’d hallucinate through an interview
everyone would wonder why they’re even together
she’d say she’s doing it wrong
she’d cry and i’d try to squeeze it out of her
we’d know secrets about each other in the same room
and wake up at 2
and put a grapefruit on the credit card
and wonder how early is too early to have a drink
sometimes i would disappear
there would be parts where we loved each other and spoke in exclamation points and held hands and kissed and talked on the phone for hours and cried because we felt inspired and get a big donation in the tip box and say how happy we are just to be around each other and smile all the time and want to explode with happiness and inspiration but i don’t know if you’d see those parts
we’d be brainstorming
dorks