Poppy Z. Brite's Blog, page 82

"To the Straight Guy at the Party Last Night"

Everyone's ganking this Craigslist ad from everyone. I got it from drjon . Whether it's "real" or not, it's brilliant. I am going to start assuming (privately) that everyone within five feet of me is homosexual.

A mutual friend of ours threw a big party for her 30th birthday, tons of people were there and it was a lot of fun. Somewhere along the line you and I ended up on the balcony for some fresh air at the same time. We started chatting; we talked about sports, books, tv – discovered we both...

(Non) Name Change & Message to British Readers

In the comments on a recent post, spycedtx asked whether I was going to change my name (again) as part of transitioning. I don't remember if I've posted about this here before -- I'm coming to accept that my memory is never going to be what it was pre-2005 -- but I thought I'd repost my reply here in case other people wondered:

I spent quite a while fretting about whether to change my name to something more masculine-sounding. Eventually I had an epiphany: I don't have to change it just becaus...

Miss Kitty Lost Near Huntsville, AL (UPDATE)

As I said in this entry, a dear friend's cat got out of her car and became lost near Huntsville, AL on June 16. Here are three pictures of Miss Kitty along with a statement from my friend. There is now a $100 reward for her return.

Please note Miss Kitty's distinctive white whiskers and clipped ear. She's also a very small cat.







Here's a message from my friend (who can be contacted at welovemiss-kitty@yahoo.com) giving more details about the area where Miss Kitty is lost:

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Lost Cat Near Huntsville, AL

This is an urgent plea on behalf of a dear friend who was traveling by car with her two cats. While they were stuck in interstate traffic due to an accident near Huntsville, Alabama tonight, one of the cats got out of the car and disappeared into the brush and woods near the highway. She and a kind stranger searched for a long time but couldn't find the cat, and she is heartbroken. The cat escaped the car on I-65 North at Route 1223, just past the 1223 crossover bridge.

Miss Kitty is a small, ...

An Unplanned Outcome

Happy MFing birthday, dear Ice Cube, and many more!

Well, today I came out to, of all people, the clerk at The Body Shop. I wasn't planning to or even thinking about it, but somehow it became unavoidable. Here's how the conversation went:

ME: *buying my usual moisturizer, handing over my Body Shop card*

CLERK (an attractive young woman probably in her 20s/early 30s): It's still within a month of your birthday, so you get a free gift! It's silly, I know, because most of our customers are women, ...

And They Went And They Went And They Went

I didn't have time to spray the basil decoction on the tomatoes yesterday, so this morning it was INVASION OF THE GIANT HORNWORMS. They're quite prolific if you don't stay on top of them. Snip, snip, snip, then spray, spray, spray; later on I used those zippy plastic handcuffs you can buy in big packages (I can't think of the non-serial-killerish term) to repair my flimsy Home Depot compost bin, which has been trying to sag apart almost since I put it together. I'm a big fan of the big black ...

Changing the Subject

So! Gosh! How about this gardening, huh? Yesterday I sent Chris off to the Green Goddess with fifteen pounds of ripe beefsteak tomatoes (mostly Better Boy, with a sizable minority of Big Beef) that will be featured this week in the Creole "BLT" Salad. Here's the menu description:

A big, fat, local beefsteak tomato, sliced with salt & pepper; topped with our absinthe-boiled LA. Shrimp, an arugula aioli, Nueske's bacon slivers, and killer olive oil from Frescobaldi in Tuscany.

Damn good dish, tho...

I'm Basically Retired (For Now)

I'd rather not talk about this, as it makes me sad and will probably make some of you sad too, or possibly contemptuous, or, Christ, I don't know, I never know what the hell people are going to make of this shit. (It's also weak and unprofessional, but I no longer worry too much about those things.) However, some kind folks have recently made me professional writing-related offers I find myself unable to respond to, and since I think at least a couple of them are reading this, I hope it will ...

It's A Long, Long Road That Has No Turning

I haven't been able to be here lately. It's not that I haven't wanted to, but I've felt incapable of talking about the BP disaster and irresponsible talking about anything else. My mind is full of the images: the hurt in the eyes of people in Grand Isle and Lower St. Bernard and Plaquemines, the ancient innocents mired and dying in filth. The land the way I last saw it, the land the way it must look now. The water, too. I'm reading The End of Oil by Paul Roberts in a last-ditch effort not to ...

New Position

I'm proud to announce that I have been appointed Dic(k)tator flemco and Queen takhisis 's Minister of Kicking Ass. My first decree may be found in the comments to his post.