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October 11, 2012
National Coming Out Day: yes! Do it! Be brave!
My wife Erica and...
National Coming Out Day: yes! Do it! Be brave!
My wife Erica and I had our first official date on National Coming Out Day, October 11, 2000. (Cheesy but true.)
October 8, 2012
Watching clips like these is really the only proper way to get...
Watching clips like these is really the only proper way to get down for Chris Columbus today. (Can we just change the impetus for this gross “holiday” to, instead, a day of national recognition/celebration of his oeuvre?)
October 7, 2012
The excellent folks over at Autostraddle have picked CAM POST as...
The excellent folks over at Autostraddle have picked CAM POST as their most recent book club selection. (Meaning tMoCP joins the very fine company of books like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home; Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina; and yes, even The Hunger Games.) There are all kinds of ways to participate in the essential “book clubiness” of this endeavor (conversations to join in on with fellow readers and a Q&A with me) over at the site. But, but: I’m most excited about the Lindsey Lloyd care package giveaway. One lucky (I think, anyway) book club participant as winner will receive a care package (complete with a 1990’s mixtape) sent direct to you as if from Lindsey Lloyd (aka—lesbian fairy godmother) herself. You can get all the details at autostraddle.com by clicking the logo above.
October 1, 2012
Montana Festival of the Book 2012—this weekend, folks....
Montana Festival of the Book 2012—this weekend, folks. Kick-off events begin this Thursday, October the 4th at 4:30 pm and continue through Sunday. I’m on a YA panel (with two other kick-ass Montana novelists) on Saturday at 2:30pm in the Holiday Inn Downtown. Would love to see you there. Would love, love, love it.
Yes: Missoula, yes.
September 28, 2012
Glass Beach | Colossal
Oh I will be visiting. One day, one day.
"When your heart goes pitter-patter
Just to meet her on the stairs,
When she smiles upon you..."
Just to meet her on the stairs,
When she smiles upon you kindly
Tho to speak you do not dare
When you jealously, when you jealously
Look upon a rival claim
That’s a crush, that’s a crush,
Yes, that’s a crush.”
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From Barnard’s 1911 “Crush Chorus” as part of the freshman show (yes, at an all women’s college). Credit to Lynn Peril’s wonderful nonfiction book College Girls: Blue Stockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now.
From that book: “The ubiquity of campus crushes, and the tolerance with which they were accepted by both campus authorities and such a bulwark of middle-class morals and the Ladies Home Journal, may have been due in part to the long-accepted ideal of romantic friendships among women…Women filled in the empty emotional spaces in each others’ lives, even after marriage and motherhood. Thus, when young M. Carey Thomas wrote home from boarding school about a girl she was “smashed” on, her mother reacted not with fear or disgust but nostalgia: “I guess thy feeling for Libbie is quite natural. I used to have the same romantic love for my friends. It is a real pleasure.”
Research, lovelies, for my next novel—one wherein smashes, crushes, and spoons abound!
September 27, 2012
exhibition-ism:
The miniature installation figures of...
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable,..."
- ee cummings (via likeafieldmouse)
September 24, 2012
artchipel:
Jen Stark - How to Become a Millionaire in 100 Days....
Jen Stark - How to Become a Millionaire in 100 Days. 1 million pieces of hand-cut paper, size varies (average: 3ft x 3ft) (2007)
[Tumblr Monday with devidsketchbook]
September 21, 2012
Here in gorgeous Burlington, VT for the Burlington Book Festival...
Here in gorgeous Burlington, VT for the Burlington Book Festival (and a fantastic visit to Champlain College) and couldn’t possibly make the trip without checking out the world’s tallest filing cabinet. It’s a win.
