Because this is America, dammit.

And in America when someone comes for your neighbor, or his Bible, or his Torah, or his atheist manifesto, or his Koran, you and I do what our fathers did and our grandmothers did and our founders did, you and I speak up. - Keith Olbermann



full transcript should be out soon; I'll post it when it is. ETA: Thanks to silveradept the full transcript is now under the cut.

( Special Comment )

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This recent rash of people treating me like shit needs to end NOW!

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I heard most of this interview driving to church last week. The interview is with John Waters (dir. Pink Flamingos and Hairspray).

GROSS: In writing about pornography and pornographers in this chapter, you write: "I know that true love is supposed to be companionship, growing old together, blah, blah, blah. I thought that's what friends were for, not sexual partners. Some of us want hot, lunatic, porn sex and we want it forever."

Mr. WATERS: Yeah, that's true. I have great friends that I grow old with, that know everything about me, that I'm intimate with, intellectually and everything, but if I'm going to go to the trouble of living with somebody, sharing my life with them, I want great sex. I don't understand not doing that. I understand both things, but to me they're separate - that I have friends that supply all that, and if I'm going to have a partner I want to have great sex with them.

Still, not give that up. And that doesn't always happen, but a lot of times it does. I'm not criticizing that either. Every person is different. I'm a healthy neurotic. I know I'm neurotic. I don't want what everybody else has. I don't need another person to make me feel whole.

GROSS: But...

Mr. WATERS: I feel crowded.

GROSS: So you've stayed single.

Mr. WATERS: Yes. Oh yes. I've had - yeah, certainly I've had - I've lived with people but I'm not good with living with people - as roommates, boyfriends, anything; family, anybody. I'm better to live alone because I don't want somebody that would allow them to live in my house that is so decorated that it's obviously I live there.

There is something in this that I really identify with.

This part too:

Tennessee Williams wasn't a gay cliche. So I had the confidence to try to not be one myself. Gay was not enough. It was a good start, however.

(Soundbite of laughter)

GROSS: So he gave you confidence to be gay but not fit a stereotype of gay. What were some of the other...

Mr. WATERS: He gave me the confidence to be a beatnik, really, to be a gay beatnik or to be - not even to be a beatnik who is gay. That's very different. You know, you went into a field of all different kinds of rebels, and their sexuality was always - still, my friends are, it doesn't matter if they're gay or straight. If I'm friendly with somebody, that has literally no interest to me whether I like the person or not. And I'm always amazed by people that say, oh, you should go with this agent. He has all gay people. Well, why would I go with him? It's like saying he has all black people. But are they good? Are they bad? I mean, that's what counts.

So I always liked the gay people that had trouble even fitting in the gay stereotype, because I don't like rules of any kind, and I seek people that break them with happiness and not bringing pain to themselves.

GROSS: So what were some of the cliches you did not want to be, as a teenager?

Mr. WATERS: I wanted to be an outlaw. You know, that's why I have trouble now. You know, I understand wanting gay marriage. I would never vote for somebody that was against gay marriage. I purposely have no desire to imitate a rather corny tradition of heterosexuals, to me. I would owe three alimonies.

Emphasis mine

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"SING OUT, LOUISE!!" - Gypsy (directed towards everyone in the cast of the show I am stage managing)

and

"Kids! Be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to do, just so long as you don't hurt anybody." - Hair (directed at everyone in rl and on the interwebs)

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Taking a break from moving.

Some links to stuff that I posted on dreamwidth for threeweeksfordreamwidth.

Discussion of Oklahoma's Abortion Legislation - Expect a follow up to this when I have an hour or two to breathe and think.

F*** Yeah, Jenny Shepard is Awesome!

Abortion and Schrodinger's Cat

Celebrating National Poetry Month - including "Curiousity" by Alastair Reid, "My Easy God is Gone" by James Kavanaugh, "For a Five-Year-Old" by Fleur Adcock, "At the Arraignment" by Debra Spencer, and "All That Time" by May Swenson.

A Discussion of Marriage and Partnership - SPOILER: I'm not a fan of marriage. There is also a follow-up to this coming this weekend.

The Oil Spill and a Brief Squee about In Plain Sight

( Spoilers for Doctor Who 5x10: Vincent and The Doctor )

The speech in the art gallery is my new favorite quote I think.

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Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?

Why exactly would any one think this is okay? And how did it get by the Cornell IRB?

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A second post today.

It's been decided. I will be attending NYU next semester to receive my MA in the Draper Interdisciplinary Program.

So I'm moving to to New York City!!!

Now to find an apartment, a job, friends, a social life, etc.

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I am going to try to post everyday for three_weeks_for_dw. So...What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting about? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say "I should write that entry about $foo I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

All posts for three_weeks_for_dw will be hosted only on dreamwidth for three weeks.