Charmless's comments
(member since Aug 06, 2008)
Charmless's comments from the Guilty Pleasures group.
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Hi all,If you're in Los Angeles, please join this new group that I've just created on Goodreads for GLBT Angelenos and their friends:
When the Club Music Ends
Contemporary authors who include GLBT themes and characters in their books are invited to join as well. (A specific "GLBT Authors" section is provided in the discussion group for the authors themselves to promote and discuss their books or book-related media.)
Thanks and keep on reading (and writing!) to pass along the legacy of our lives! :-)
Since the photo of Little Edie Beale is the logo of this group, 'just thought you may wanna check out these clips from both the upcoming film and the original documentary:
http://bit.ly/RC57c
http://bit.ly/nsyE
Enjoy! :-)
I wish I had done an assignment like this when I took AP English eons ago. Lol.
Click here to see what appalled an AP English teacher.
Suppose you were the teacher, what would you advise the audacious yet creative student aside from the generic "this is not appropriate" blah blah blah?
Instructions:
1. Shuffle the current playlist on your iPod or mp3 player. (If you don't have one of those gadgets, just turn on the radio and locate your favorite radio station.)
2. Post the lyrics of the chorus of the first complete song sung by a gay artist or icon that comes up. (Only the chorus, not the entire song.)
3. Don't post the title of the song. Have other members of your group guess what the song is and the name of the artist.
Answer:
Um, I can give you a hint, I guess: One time, the artist went crazy and shaved her head at a hair salon near my neighborhood! Lolz.
Chorus
Don't, don't let me be the last to know
Don't hold back, just let it go
I need to hear you say
You need me all the way
Oh, if you love me so
Don't let me be the last to know
Hey Group,
I've created a chat room for Goodreads friends and all those from Goodreads groups of which I'm an active member. (I was kinda waiting for Goodreads to add a chatroom but this will do for now.)
Here's the link:
http://www.meebo.com/room/charmlessbookc...
The password is the third item listed under "interests" on my profile. If you can't see my profile but you're already a Goodreads member, just send me a message through Goodreads and I'll send you the password. (Not necessary to add me as a friend to get the password, btw. Please don't feel obligated to add me. Hehe. Just be a goodreads member at least.)
The chat room is available 24/7 and it is safe since you don't need to download anything to access it. (That's what I like most about it!) And you can also log in using your IM accounts from Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and MSN without launching any of those applications.
I wanted it to be a public chat room but apparently, if I do that, your chat messages will be posted on the web. Even though you can enter the room with any name you choose, I, and I'm sure all of you guys certainly would feel iffy about showing all your chat messages to the entire world. Hence, there is the necessity of using a password.
Have fun and I hope you like it! Just send me feedback if you have any questions. And no, I don't work for the website! Lolz. I just truly like it.
That's funny 'coz I did one of these just last night at home while I was on myspace, and I ended up grabbing the little psych paperback from my bedside table.So, I'm reaching for the book nearest my desk right now and here it goes, fifth line, page 56:
"Raise me a dais of silk and down,
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;"
It's from a poem by Christina Rossetti called A Birthday. The book is called Best Loved Poems, edited by Neil Philip, third printing.
Man, I had to look up "dais" and "vair"! And the latter, it turns out, means the bluish-gray and white fur of a squirrel! Yikes!!!. . . The bizarre, not to mention cruel things people did to express their emotions during medieval times!
Book Questionnaire
1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
I honestly don't. All I know is that I've been reading since, like, um, forever. (I still even vividly remember reading picture books as a toddler.)
2. What are some books you read as a child?
Outside of textbooks, I remember reading a lot of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. I also read some of Judy Blume's and Roald Dahl's. (And I secretly started reading Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins in the fifth grade. Heehee.)
3. What is your favorite genre?
Literary fiction
4. Do you have a favourite novel?
Oi! It changes. My most recent favorite is The Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer.
5. Where do you usually read?
My work desk at home, by the window. However, my favorite place to read is at this cafe near my house.
6. When do you usually read?
In the afternoon.
7. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
I usually have more than one book lined up but seriously, I don't know how some people can read more than one at a time. When I don't like a book after the first couple of chapters, I usually just end up abandoning it entirely.
8. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
I'm probably more attentive when it comes to the background of the work in terms of nonfiction books.
9. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
It depends. If it's a new author, then I would usually check it out of the library first. If I'm impressed by the second chapter, then I'd go and buy it.
10. Do you keep most of the books you buy?
I usually just donate the relatively inexpensive ones to the public library when I'm done with them.
11. What are you reading now?
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (It's a bit thick but so far, I'm quite impressed by it.)
13. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
Yuppers. (See my profile.)
14. What's next?
Um, dinner. Oh, to read? Um, Now Is The Hour.
15. What books would you like to reread?
All the Shakespeare plays that I read in college. Someday, when I'm old and gray. ;-)
16. Who are your favourite authors?
Novelists: E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edmund White, Paul Monette, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, GUstav Flaubert, Milan Kundera (and omg, so many others!)
"Writers" (encompassing short stories, non-fiction, and essays): Dennis Cooper, Ann Rule, Andrew Sullivan, Gloria Steinem, Kate Chopin (and omg, so many others!)
Poets: e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edward Arlington Robinson, Edgar Allan Poe (and omg, so many others!)
Playwrights: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Neil Simon (and omg, so many others!)
Are you on this list?
Or this list?
Whew, I'm kinda relieved that neither my dentist nor my doctor is on the list because seriously, I'd hate to have to find another good set of those!
But damn, now no more El Pollo Loco for me?!!!. . . Oh well, así es la vida. . .
yeah, it's a bit difficult when you only have two choices. it's really just a matter of choosing the lesser "evil."
um, which reminds me, i woke up this morning from a nightmare:
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who didn't even know what LGBT means.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who didn't believe gays should be allowed to adopt children.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who supported a ban on gays in the military.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who worried if his clothing looked queer.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who isn't sure if condoms stop the spread of HIV.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who thought same-sex marriage ceremonies were acceptable as long as they weren't really marriages.
. . . that everyone voted for the candidate who promised the anti-gay figures of the right-wing religious groups that he'd speak out against LGBT causes.
then, i woke up, took a shower and thanked the universe that it was all just a nightmare. ;-)
Nightmare Source
Don't worry Kate, there will be battles up ahead on this one. I read on the Equality California website today that the ACLU and others have already filed a writ petition to invalidate Prop 8.It may take a while but as we repeatedly heard last night, “. . . we will get there – we as a people will get there.”
Boy, what a discussion! 'Gotta luv our freedom of speech.Hello everyone, 'just wanted to share this poem that I wrote today in light of the big event yesterday:
(Click here to view.)
I hope that you like it. :-)
Damn, I should have done that for Halloween, dolphin shorts and all! ;-)
LOL. I wish I could wear tubesocks with style! :-D
Thy Queerdom Come! I think I may have possibly found the Jackpot song for this discussion:Click here and scroll down for "I Was Born This Way" by Carl Bean.
Whoring around in the '70s must have been super fun! (I'm jealous!)
Um, does anyone know if there's a gay music version of this fun questionnaire?
Click Here: 10 Things About You and Music
I answered one about books before too.
Mindy, Suade, I like Janet's cover of Tonight's the Night too, but I seem to understand that song as being solely about a threesome for some reason. (My mind's still reeling about Mz. Jackson dabbling in bisexuality! Hehe.)
ScottK, I looked up the Communards but all I could find were disco dance queen covers. Did they do any original music?
Jan, I think we were all once boys, running around in our pretty underwear. ;-)
Asskickatron sounds like an activist's song. Alas, I tried to find lyrics but came up with zip. :-(
