NYT article on men who wear high heels: [link]
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Bacon coffin
But... but... it's not made out of bacon!
Hey, does anyone know what to do with mail that comes to your house for a previous tenant? The people who lived here just before us actually just moved next door, so anything addressed to them we can just stick in their mailbox, but we've gotten a few letters recently for people whose names we don't recognize. Usually I'd just toss them, but a couple of them look potentially important. Can anyone think of any way we can get these letters to the right place?
RETURN TO SENDER
NOT AT ADDRESS
on the envelope.
I gave a letter to the postman,
He put it his sack.
Bright and early next morning,
He brought my letter back.
She wrote upon it:
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone.
We had a quarrel, a lover's spat
I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back.
...I kind of feel like I should have thought of that earlier. Thanks, le nub!
Ginger's response has more charm though.
I mean, yes, I've heard criticism of the whole women-writing-gay-men thing, but...I don't think it generally carries the same cultural and historical weight as blackface!!
Speaking as a gay man, I don't mind in a cultural sense when women write gay male characters or the intermediate variations of slash - writing about people that aren't just like you is a huge component of fiction. I'm annoyed when male couples are written with very heteronormative relationship dynamics—or worse, characterization that's basically that of teenage girls—but that's a matter of poor writing and research, not an indicator that some taboo social stricture is being violated strictly because of the gender of the writer.
Hell, if I've run across more moving writing about a romance between two men than that by Annie Proulx, it escapes my memory at the moment.
ita ! I demand you wear your skeleton hand necklace and take a picture for meeeeee! (I will eventually own one, once I'm gainfully employed.)