I will be arriving from a proctor gig in Daly city. Have the mapped directions and everything. My gig will probably end about 1:30. Plenty of time to get there.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
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sfmarty - Nov 24, 2003 9:11:17 am PST #2903 of 10001
Who? moi??
Strix - Nov 24, 2003 9:12:02 am PST #2904 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I don't get it, Erika? Is it that it's a shitty book?
erikaj - Nov 24, 2003 9:37:55 am PST #2905 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No...well, I don't know...I've not read it. And we're only tangentially fishing the same pond anyway.(he's a big Disability Culture geek and real academic and shit. and someday I'll outgrow my teenage urge to curse and pop my gum when I talk about stuff like that.I swear).it's just that I used to always feel that somebody else would say it better anyway so why should I try to do it? Just my own neurotic stuff. And the honesty thing, not about that book...I'm just betting my book's darker than his... (shock theater, eh! Not that it's even close to being anything) but his thesis is that disability has a sexier image now, or something. I think nobody'll ever want mine. My movement can only take so much reality, y'all.
Strix - Nov 24, 2003 9:39:55 am PST #2906 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The sexy image of disability?
Hmm. That's...no offense, Erika...but that I don't see.
Astarte - Nov 24, 2003 9:43:34 am PST #2907 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
it's just that I used to always feel that somebody else would say it better anyway so why should I try to do it? Just my own neurotic stuff.
Even if it were the exact same subject, no one else will be writing with your voice.
In case you haven't noticed, that voice is bittersweet and lovely like dark chocolate with a hint of raspberry eroticism. (eta: and I'm not talking about "sexy disability" either.)
Nobody else I've ever read has it. Not even close.
erikaj - Nov 24, 2003 9:45:17 am PST #2908 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, in some very underground places, but everybody doesn't read those...I'd love there to be a Crip Fear Of Flying, or hey, I'm not picky, Rubyfruit Jungle was great too. You know, something that makes a big splash(so to speak...um. Oh, for a different phrasing...)
Astarte - Nov 24, 2003 9:47:11 am PST #2909 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Someone has to write it. Why shouldn't it be you?
Strix - Nov 24, 2003 9:47:40 am PST #2910 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Heh. I LIKED that phrasing!
deborah grabien - Nov 24, 2003 9:49:09 am PST #2911 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I am completely in Astarte's camp here. Your voice is completely unique, erika; so is your perspective. Why not go for it?
erikaj - Nov 24, 2003 10:00:12 am PST #2912 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I'm gonna try. OK, so "sexy image" is probably overstating, but his book is called "Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars" Here's a link,in case you're curious. [link]