The Hidden
early for halloween...
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- The Hidden
- via metafilter, requiem
- vote this
- Gmail foils Drinkypants! via Neatorama
- we interrupt this empire...
- hint: don't use "hot" and "steamy" together unless you mean...
- First We Take Manhattan
- help!
- ...before i get buried in suitcases....
- TONIGHT!
- help
- quote
- NEW FUCKING DAPHNE VIDEO!
- qotd (goin back to nyc)
- foxyfoxyfoxy
- NY + MA, I'm Yours!
- happy bday to...
- couplet
- read last night before bed
- saturday night reading
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Oct. 13th, 2008
early for halloween...
Oct. 12th, 2008
via metafilter, requiem
Ten years ago today gay college student Matthew Shepard died after having been savagely beaten, left alone for 18-hours and found tied to a fence five days prior on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. America was stunned by the vicious hate crime. As his mother, Judy, pushes for passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, advocating for federal hate crimes legislation, and directs the Matthew Shepard Foundation, folks in Laramie ask: "...how has the town changed since 1998? ...how do we measure that change?" And yet 10 years after Matthew's death the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law has not been expanded to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability due to a veto threat by President Bush.
Matthew's mother remembers him ten years later [video | 06:17].
Matthew's mother remembers him ten years later [video | 06:17].
Oct. 8th, 2008
vote this
Voting consolidates the power of a whole society in the
hands of a few politicians; through force of sheer habit, not to
speak of other methods of enforcement, everyone else is kept in
a position of dependence. Through direct action, you become
familiar with your own resources and capabilities and initiative,
discovering what these are and how much you can accomplish.
Voting for people to represent
your interests is the least
efficient and effective means
of applying political power. The
alternative, broadly speaking,
is acting directly to represent
your interests yourself.
On Election Day:
-Announce a “Don’t Just Vote” get-together in your
community, where local action groups can educate
others about the work they are doing and solicit more
participants, and people can discuss what local needs
are not yet being met by community groups.
-Collect roadside campaign posters; invert them, spraypaint
or screen-print your own messages on their backs,
and put them back out in the world.
-Go ahead and register to vote, so you can put up
stickers or graffiti in the voting booth to remind your
fellow citizens where real power lies!
full pdf here
"We are sorry for the inconvenience but this is a revolution." - Subcomandante Marcos
hands of a few politicians; through force of sheer habit, not to
speak of other methods of enforcement, everyone else is kept in
a position of dependence. Through direct action, you become
familiar with your own resources and capabilities and initiative,
discovering what these are and how much you can accomplish.
Voting for people to represent
your interests is the least
efficient and effective means
of applying political power. The
alternative, broadly speaking,
is acting directly to represent
your interests yourself.
On Election Day:
-Announce a “Don’t Just Vote” get-together in your
community, where local action groups can educate
others about the work they are doing and solicit more
participants, and people can discuss what local needs
are not yet being met by community groups.
-Collect roadside campaign posters; invert them, spraypaint
or screen-print your own messages on their backs,
and put them back out in the world.
-Go ahead and register to vote, so you can put up
stickers or graffiti in the voting booth to remind your
fellow citizens where real power lies!
full pdf here
"We are sorry for the inconvenience but this is a revolution." - Subcomandante Marcos
Gmail foils Drinkypants! via Neatorama
New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Monday, October 06, 2008 6:25 PM
Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?
By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.
Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn't. Like that late night memo -- I mean mission statement -- to the entire firm.
Oct. 7th, 2008
we interrupt this empire...
...for the crowning of the last. (j20 (05) protest)
Oct. 6th, 2008
hint: don't use "hot" and "steamy" together unless you mean...
come visit me saturday night in the queer girl ghetto -
watch me put the fuck you! in fuck!
LitCrawl -- the 6 pm spot (come early!)
watch me put the fuck you! in fuck!
LitCrawl -- the 6 pm spot (come early!)
Intersection for The Arts Gallery, 446 Valencia Street
Femina Potens & Sizzle Erotic Lit Night: An Evening of Hot Steamy Queer Erotic Literature and Memoirs
Meliza Bañales, Daphne Gottlieb, Lorelei Lee, Katia Noyes, Madison Young
Sep. 25th, 2008
First We Take Manhattan
see you in nyc, my darklings.
Sep. 24th, 2008
help!
nyc/blyn --
what's your weather like?
what do i need to wear -- how many layers?
what's your weather like?
what do i need to wear -- how many layers?
...before i get buried in suitcases....
Come 'n get me.
9/26
Friday Night Slam
Nuyorican Poets Café
10 pm
$10
www.Nuyorican.org
9/27
Fucking Daphne Anthology
With Diana Cage, Carolyn Turgeon
Bluestockings Books
7 pm
Free
9/29
Louder Arts Slam
Bar 13
University Place, 2nd Fl.
7 pm
$6 (5 for students)
www.louderarts.com
9/30
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery ( Bowery between Hudson and Bleeker )
7pm
$7
Travel: Subway: B, D, F, V to
Website: www.bowerypoetry.com
10/1
Cantab Slam
Cantab Lounge
8 pm
$3
10/2
Hampshire Slam
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
7:30 p.m.
Free
Sep. 19th, 2008
TONIGHT!
itle of Event: Stephen Elliott, Daphne Gottleib and Sarah Fran Wisby read from Sex for America...
When: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
Description: Come hear politically inspired erotica and other stories and poems by this dynamic group of writers. Daphne Gottleib's Kissing Dead Girls fuses pornography and post-feminist theory, transcript and tell-all. These penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the "Other." Sarah Fran Wisby is the author of Viva Loss, forthcoming in October from Small Desk press. She's had stories published in Instant City and the Bay Guardian, and her poems can be found online at Digital Artifact and Six Little Things. Stephen Elliott is the author of six books, a University lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow. In his memoir, Happy Baby, Stanford peels back the layers of his painful past in this searing examination of the consequences of sexual abuse. In addition to writing fiction he frequently writes on politics. He is the founder of The Progressive Reading Series and the editor of Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica.
When: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
Description: Come hear politically inspired erotica and other stories and poems by this dynamic group of writers. Daphne Gottleib's Kissing Dead Girls fuses pornography and post-feminist theory, transcript and tell-all. These penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the "Other." Sarah Fran Wisby is the author of Viva Loss, forthcoming in October from Small Desk press. She's had stories published in Instant City and the Bay Guardian, and her poems can be found online at Digital Artifact and Six Little Things. Stephen Elliott is the author of six books, a University lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow. In his memoir, Happy Baby, Stanford peels back the layers of his painful past in this searing examination of the consequences of sexual abuse. In addition to writing fiction he frequently writes on politics. He is the founder of The Progressive Reading Series and the editor of Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica.
Sep. 17th, 2008
help
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lowhumcrush Our friend CHRIS LEE is missing. At the time of this post, he's been missing for four days. He was last seen in Dallas. Chris is a fine, foxy bird, and people who know him know that he often ventures off on his own. However, this is the first time (and longest) he has gone without calling anyone.
Please, if you know anything, have seen him, have spoken to him recently, get in contact with the Missing Persons Detective at the Dallas Police Department, Det. T.D. Smith. The direct line to Det. Smith is 214-671-4245.
Sep. 16th, 2008
quote
"A storm rolls in over the hills and a brochure describing a portrait offer gets plastered across my chest. Lightning strikes the slaughterhouse flagpole and the antelope scatter like minnows as the rain begins to fall, and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels, saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go."-- George Saunders, from "Civilwarland in Bad Decline"
NEW FUCKING DAPHNE VIDEO!
next in the series of fucking daphne videos: how daphne joined the mile-high club! starring...qotd (goin back to nyc)
"Yeah, totally. I did feel disappointed that the real downtown New York wasn't exactly what I'd forseen and dreamed, but that dream changed my whole life and that's what really matters."
-- Dennis Cooper
Sep. 12th, 2008
foxyfoxyfoxy
via reverse cowgirl
Sep. 11th, 2008
NY + MA, I'm Yours!
9/26
Friday Night Slam
Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East 3rd St
10 pm
$10
www.Nuyorican.org
9/27
Fucking Daphne Anthology
Bluestockings Books
NY, NY
7pm
Free
www.bluestockings.com
9/29
Louder Arts Slam
Bar 13
University Place, 2nd Fl.
7 pm
$6 (5 for students)
www.louderarts.com
9/30
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery ( Bowery between Hudson and Bleeker )
7pm
$7
Travel: Subway: B, D, F, V to
Website: www.bowerypoetry.com
10/1
Cantab Lounge
8 pm
$3
www.slamnews.com
10/2
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
7:30 p.m.
Free
happy bday to...
happy bday to ms cindymonkey !!! wishing you all the bananas you dream of and none of the bananas that drive you bananas!
cindymonkey !!! wishing you all the bananas you dream of and none of the bananas that drive you bananas!Sep. 8th, 2008
couplet
ode to a healthy relationship
it does not matter
which panties
i wear
.
ode to a broken relationship
it does not matter
which panties
i wear
it does not matter
which panties
i wear
.
ode to a broken relationship
it does not matter
which panties
i wear
Sep. 7th, 2008
read last night before bed
from Ron Kolm's "Divine Comedy"
1.
Let's take a walk
You said.
Okay, I said.
And here we are
High above the East River
On a pedestrian walkway
On the Triboro Bridge
Hiking from Astoria
To Randall's Island
As rush-hour traffic
Streams by.
I hate my life
You say
And I know
You're not joking.
I wonder if you're
Thinking of jumping
And what I would do
If you did.
It's a long way down
To the tug
Pushing a barge
On the fiery waters
As it disappears
Beneath the bridge.
Should I grab
for your arm
And probably die too
Or simply admit
I want to live
And let you fall.
It's late afternoon
when we finally reach
Our destination
Descending a cement
Stairway that deposits us
Onto a parking lot
Near the Manhattan
Psychiatric Center.
[...]
(Google books has parts II and III, and they're worth reading...)
1.
Let's take a walk
You said.
Okay, I said.
And here we are
High above the East River
On a pedestrian walkway
On the Triboro Bridge
Hiking from Astoria
To Randall's Island
As rush-hour traffic
Streams by.
I hate my life
You say
And I know
You're not joking.
I wonder if you're
Thinking of jumping
And what I would do
If you did.
It's a long way down
To the tug
Pushing a barge
On the fiery waters
As it disappears
Beneath the bridge.
Should I grab
for your arm
And probably die too
Or simply admit
I want to live
And let you fall.
It's late afternoon
when we finally reach
Our destination
Descending a cement
Stairway that deposits us
Onto a parking lot
Near the Manhattan
Psychiatric Center.
[...]
(Google books has parts II and III, and they're worth reading...)
Sep. 4th, 2008
saturday night reading
Category: Performing/Visual Arts
Website: http://www.darkroomsf.com/#wftw
Price: $10 - Buy Tickets
Ever had a really lousy job? So have we. Clock out and come laugh the pain away as Sherilyn Connelly hosts a local independent organic worker-owned-and-operated 501c3-certified evening of employment horror stories, including comedy, storytelling, cartoons, poetry, music and more.Customer service representatives include Meliza Banales, Lynn Breedlove, David Benedict Brown, Gina De Vries, Sarah Dopp, Jim Fourniadis, Daphne Gottlieb, Michael Layne Heath, Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen, Sadie Lune, Carol Queen, Thomas Roche, John Shirley, Bucky Sinister, SPF7, Horehound Stillpoint, Things We Made, Uphill Both Ways, Lauren Wheeler, Videos by Lev, and an open mic for temps and scabs.
Tickets: $10 at the door
or at
brownpapertickets.com/event/40108
Fridays and Saturdays
September 5-6 & 12-13
10pm