October 2008
10 posts
Link to a commie faggot band →
“ANTI-KLAN (PART ONE)
I see that you’re a policeman
I know you’re...”
– The Dicks
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The Dicks
A photograph from the 80’s has followed me through moves and life phases - always in a place of honor. Taken by Bill Daniel, it captures a true and amazing band: the Dicks. Singer Gary Floyd is wearing a serape and moving so fast his head is blurry. Bassist Buxf Parrot is dispassionately gazing at the neck of his instrument. And around them are young men and women in a frenzy of joy and...
Wuthering Heights? →
Emily Bronte
I have always loved the Brontes, Lewis Carroll, and the Partridge Family. I don’t think I ever will cease wanting to be nearer to them all. When I was a bookish teenager, I read a lot of biographies about the Brontes. And now that I’m a forty-something teenager, I have picked up a new Bronte book (well new for me), Emily Bronte: Heretic by Davies. It’s helped me make more...
“A good God of love, Branwell wrote with satiric incredulity, creates a race with...”
– Emily Bronte: Heretic by Stevie Davies
Firsts
This is my first blog posting and I am thinking about my first day of first grade. My father took a photo of me standing by my school supplies: little box for pencils, Big Chief tablets, pink erasers, paste. I look very somber with my hands clasped in front of me — formally posed — and such a serious facial expression.
However, I have on a very stylish paisley mini-dress and white...
