Poppy Z. Brite's Blog, page 89

Long Time, No Survey

OK, long looong time since I did one of these. This one's from matociquala .


SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Poppy
2. Doc
3. Dude
4. PZ
5. PZB
6. Dickbreaker (OK, only faustfatale uses that one)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Pajama pants
2. AMEN! Super Beauxl shirt
3. Rings

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. To get my shit more together emotionally
2. For Nagin to hurry up and leave office
3. New Vaporizer supplies, because a leaky plastic bag doesn't hold Vapor very well

THREE THINGS YOU ...

Redundant LJ Communities?

Hey all,

I'm going to delete therealpzb (the only PZB community I started on my own) at the end of this week; letting you know now on the off-chance anybody has posts there they want to archive. (And yes, screwing around to figure this out, I just accidentally deleted my own journal for about 30 seconds, in case anyone noticed.) It seems redundant to maintain these largely inactive communities now that I have open comments here on my journal. I'm kind of in favor of deleting prime_liquor and

Purple Passion Flowers

txfriffidranch and anybody else who knows about this stuff: I have some Passiflora caerulea seeds I want to start. Direct-seed them into the ground or start them in pots? It's already reliably warm here (70s-low 80s days, 50s-60s nights).

Better

I want to tell you all that I am OK, but I've been putting it off because I didn't want it to come off all sanctimonious and wingnutty -- "Brothers and sisters, I was HEALED!!!" But the truth is that having a chance to pray at Our Lady of Good Counsel when it was open for Good Friday yesterday lifted the weight of guilt and sorrow from me. This was the weight I'd felt since I heard that David Mills died, no less tangible for being illusory. The fear that I'd somehow flung random hate into the...

Sowing

Thank you for all the kind comments in response to this morning's post. I want and plan to respond to some of them individually, but don't yet feel entitled to either comfort or absolution. And yeah, like I think I said, I know in my mind that I can't shoot magical death rays into anyone's brain, and so cannot have done this thing. But my heart ... isn't convinced.

Anyway, I managed to get some seeds started today: three kinds of cucumbers, three kinds of eggplant, Padron peppers, shiso, and l...

David Mills

I cannot find adequate words to express how terrible and irrationally, hubristically responsible I feel for the sudden death of Treme writer David Mills in New Orleans. I know in my mind that the insignificant vitriol in my post about Treme filming (now removed out of respect and pure superstition) could not have caused a man to have a brain aneurysm, but in my heart I feel that I hated him and did him harm. I didn't hate him personally, just as I don't hate my friends Tom Piazza and Lolis Er...

Schism

Probably this is naive and quite possibly it is also perverse, but I feel more optimistic about the future of the Catholic Church than I have at any time since I joined it two years ago. As a schismatic, I have never acknowledged the supremacy of the Pope or the hierarchy, and as you may know, when the hierarchy has messed with me, I've done my best to mess back. Now I see people who were horribly damaged by this same hierarchy messing back on a grand scale, and I see other lay Catholics and ...

Just Build The (Damn) Floodwalls Already

Preach it, Jarvis DeBerry.

I Said "Hangy Thing"

In the spirit of the wholly fake rivalry that has long existed between us (dating back to the dear old goth days of flappy bats vs. hangy bats), I'm attempting to prove greygirlbeast wrong about the death of Livejournal (and, I hope, also make her happy) by posting more here. I do enjoy the immediacy of Twitter, and it has probably been the most appropriate site for my scattered brain these last few months, but it's time to start marshaling some thoughts that are over 140 characters. I may ev...

Happiness

I feel I've been annoyingly negative lately, mostly because people have seemed somewhat annoyed with me. I'm never going to be your daily ray of sunshine, but for contrast, here are some things that are currently making me happy:

THE SAINTS WINNING THE FREAKING SUPER BOWL
The Green Goddess regularly breaking dinner sales records
Cats sparring
M*A*S*H DVDs
Having eggplants and tomatoes in the ground (well, the tomatoes are actually in containers)
The flowering of a bromeliad I thought was dead
That S...