One hour until lunch and I am reminded of my old friend Martha Kelly’s joke:
“To prepare for working in an office again, I had a friend go with me down to the local swimming pool, and I had him tie me in a burlap sack and sink me to the bottom of the pool. And then just when I thought I was about to suffocate, he yanked me up and gave me a lunch break.”
Animals watching TV is pretty much the cutest thing since… well, it’s not cuter than this baby but still pretty frakkin cute. Ziggy is watch reruns of Friends Season 6 while I write a research paper abstract. Don’t judge, Friends reruns are excellent white noise.
Just Say No To Love. Andrew Sullivan
John Shore castigates fellow Christians who condemn homosexual acts as sinful:
“Here is that Big Difference between homosexuality and other sins: There is no sin I can commit that, by virtue of committing it, renders me incapable of loving or being loved. I can commit murder. I can steal. I can rob. I can rape. I can drink myself to death. I can do any terrible thing at all—and no one would ever claim that intrinsic to the condition that gave rise to my doing that terrible thing is that I am, by nature, simply incapable of giving or receiving love. No one tells the chronic drinker, or glutton, or adulterer, or any other kind of sinner, to stop experiencing love. Yet that’s exactly what so many Christians are insisting gay people do.
When you tell a gay person to “resist” being gay, what you are really telling them—what you really mean—is for them to be celibate. What you are truly and actually saying is that you want them to condemn themselves to a life devoid of love. Be alone, you’re demanding. Live alone. Don’t hold anyone’s hand. Don’t snuggle on your couch with anyone. Don’t cuddle up with anyone at night before you fall asleep. Don’t have anyone to chat with over coffee in the morning. Do not bind your life to that of another. Live your whole life without knowing that joy, that sharing, that peace. Just say “no” to love.
Be alone. Live alone. Die alone.
The “sinful temptation” that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love. Being, of course, the one thing Jesus was most clear about wanting his followers to extend to others.”
(via daveholmes)
arig:
“I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone.” - The New Yorker
Yes.
eject: Titty Tales
I understand the diaper thing, if a woman really changed a dirty diaper on the table that’s gross. Kim, where exactly are you eating?
Also? Weren’t you the girl who got peed on in a sex tape?
But I don’t want to talk about that.
What I’d like to talk about is this covering up while…
“ The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it’s corny or stupid. I am not good at saying no. And I do not get along with people who say no. When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, under the same bus wheels I’ll stick my head if need be, you will not be happy about having said no. You will be kicking your ass about all the no’s you’ve said. No to that opportunity, or no to that trip to Nova Scotia or no to that night out, or no to that project or no to that person who wants to be naked with you but you worry about what your friends will say. No is for wimps. No is for pussies. No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message. What matters is saying yes. ”
Dave Eggers, presented without comment and filed under “stuff to think about.” (via lifeserial)
