MY RECENT POSTS
- BULLY: The Unwritten Social
Contract to Grow Some Balls
April 07, 2012 07:24PM - Requiem for the Second Most
Influential Woman in My Life
February 17, 2012 11:03PM - Vegas, babee
February 04, 2012 06:58PM - Free Museum Days in Los
Angeles: Happening Now!
January 28, 2012 09:27PM - Masturbation or Blogturbation:
your choice
November 14, 2011 04:33PM
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Next time will do Sicily and
swing by
the monastery
thanks…”
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or
some other reality
show…”
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with a
cause. Their
undeadn…”
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APRIL 7, 2012 7:24PM
BULLY: The Unwritten Social Contract to Grow Some Balls
I saw Lee
Hirsch’s documentary
Bully
Thursday night with a group of fellow volunteers from WriteGirl. We
mentor teenaged girls through their writing. After the movie we sat
in the lounge and talked. We all agreed that the parents and school
officials in the/… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 17, 2012 11:03PM
Requiem for the Second Most Influential Woman in My Life
The 3x3 recycled calendar where Shirley noted deaths
My stepmother was the second most influential woman in my life.
It’s been eight years since she died,
alone, still holding onto the myth of love, honor, and success
she’d created around my father.
That doesn’t mean/
… Read full post »That doesn’t mean/
FEBRUARY 4, 2012 6:58PM
Vegas, babee
The Scream, L
ucky
Cheng's
… Read full post »
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Cheng'sI'm in a danger zone.
I've always enjoyed breaking rules, not so much testing the
boundaries. There is a difference which we can discuss if you
like.
I'm susceptible to my own fantasies, ridiculouly unafraid of
bad judgement, see little value in postponing gratifica
JANUARY 28, 2012 9:27PM
Free Museum Days in Los Angeles: Happening Now!
MUSEUMS FREE-FOR-ALL - GRATIS admission this weekend
Free Admission Days January 28th and 29th, 2012
In a joint effort to present the arts and culture to the diverse and
myriad communities in Southern California, the Museum Marketing
Roundtable announces the seventh… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 14, 2011 4:33PM
Masturbation or Blogturbation: your choice
My friends probably think I’m flogging a dead
horse (I am not the horse in this cliche, thank you very much),
because I do tend to think about sex a lot, and where my mind
travels my lips are sure to follow. Wait, that came out wrong. I
mean I’m not…
OCTOBER 26, 2011 7:22PM
On Pornography
I did a petty thing recently. I read an essay entitled,
“On
the Value of Masturbation and Pornography,â€and
felt compelled to respond to it (posted below).
The subject matter is so not my primary focus, but I do confess to a passing interest in it. The author’s main argument seems…
The subject matter is so not my primary focus, but I do confess to a passing interest in it. The author’s main argument seems…
OCTOBER 15, 2011 2:38PM
Are women the pursuers?
Are women now the hunters on the sexual frontier?
According to my dentist, whom I’ll call Dr. Q, the answer is a resounding Yes! He reclined the chair in which I sat, while his assistant readied the tools of their trade behind me. Dr. Q aimed a bright light at…
According to my dentist, whom I’ll call Dr. Q, the answer is a resounding Yes! He reclined the chair in which I sat, while his assistant readied the tools of their trade behind me. Dr. Q aimed a bright light at…
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 2:32AM
Sexy Screen Gems: Old Guys and Male Sexual Magnetism With a Side Trip Down the Slopes of Brad Pitt’s Lips
Some of you probably don’t even know who
Robert Mitchum is. Ask your Mom. Mention Cape Fear, or The Night of the Hunter,
in which he played villains.
Watched Mitchum in The Yakuza last night (1975, shot on
location in Tokyo
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 1:30AM
Personal Power up at Label me Latina
New Story
Scroll down
past essays and poetry and you'll find my latest
story.
CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS FOR
Label Me Latina/o
Label Me Latina/o
(www.labelmelatinao.com)
is an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on
Latino Literary P… Read full post »
JULY 24, 2011 12:55PM
The Trip
Saw
"The Trip" last night, a different sort of buddy
movie.
Scenery
of The Lakes district in UK breathtaking. Also of the food
these guys eat at upscale places on their driving
tour.
Funny
stuff, but not in the usual slick American buddies with perfect
teeth getting drunk
… Read full post »
JUNE 7, 2011 1:48PM
The MRS. Degree
Blast From the Past A definition of MRS degree from the Urban Dictionary.
Overheard at dinner last night in a room filled with recent graduates from pricey private schools and the parents who had financed their attendance:
“What did your daughters study in college?â€
“Sociology and psy/…
MAY 25, 2011 9:23PM
A Woman Should . . .
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...enough money within her control to move outand rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...something perfect to wear if/…
MAY 19, 2011 11:20PM
This Stuff is Mine
The image at left says: Housewife: The best job in the world.
I keep waiting for my inner hausfrau to burst forth from within, someone with good knees who keeps an immaculate house. Why is the archetype German? Surely there are other ethnic archetypes of the person I am/…
MAY 12, 2011 8:42PM
Yoga Retreat: Crone Power
Just back from my first Yoga Retreat. Not so great at yoga, but needed a weekend getaway, and this one was held at La Casa de Maria which is part of San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito (near Santa/…
MAY 6, 2011 11:48PM
Mother’s Day and Pubic Hair Memories
Pubic hair runs deep in my family, and
probably long. Our history is bushy with secrets and
revelations. In the 50’s, my mother
didn’t hide her pubic hair from me. I'd
accompanied her to the bathroom when she peed and watched her dry
off after her bath. I assumed all… Read full post »
MAY 3, 2011 11:29PM
Acapulco: 1967
Today
I was discussing Mexico with a friend and remembered my trip to
that country during Spring break, 1967. I turned 18 on the
trip and traveled with three friends by car from Albuquerque, New
Mexico. One fellow was from Juarez, one from Venezuela, and the
other from Española./… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 5, 2011 7:30AM
Dead, and Almost Buried
The black
cat dies is my refrain, and with her flies childhood. Theirs
– my
children’s
– not mine.
I dug two graves
this morning. The dry, funnel-shaped one left me
unsettled. It meant I’d have to arrange
the body, curl her like an ouroboros, nose tucked… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 2, 2011 1:09PM
The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention live at Cafe Irreal. Straight from my heart and twisted intellect: http://bit.ly/g1d8SB
JANUARY 4, 2011 6:14PM
Family Traditions up now at In Posse
Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son speaks to me. My mother kept secrets and tried, but failed, to teach me to keep them, too. "Never tell a man anything," she said, "he'll just throw it in your face later."
She left my father and returned to her father taking me and/…
DECEMBER 16, 2010 8:12PM
Imagine | Playing for Change | Performed around the world.
Holiday Recipe from Blood Mother
Cheers!
Crispy Feminist Flan Cake:
½ cup sexist daddy
1 cup manipulative Mexican mommy
¼ cup domineering grandmother
2 cups fiction, fantasy and lies
¼ tsp. poor impulse control (risk-taking can be
substituted)
A dash of pachucas beating the crap out of you
Mix in… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 1, 2010 4:52PM
Memories of Mom, or Why I Enjoy the Macabre
Mom left Dad, again, and we were driving from East Texas to
New Mexico. There was a horrible accident on the flatlands, and Mom
pulled over to do the looky-lou thing. I might have been six.
Cars were turned over, and the windshield of one had a head-sized hole/… Read full post »
Cars were turned over, and the windshield of one had a head-sized hole/… Read full post »
OCTOBER 1, 2010 7:40PM
Mortals and Vampires
Based on recent focus of vampire/human love affairs in both
literature, movies, and television it seems normal for humans to
fall in love with vampires and for the undead to rise heroically to
their siren call.
Or is it the other way around?
Each one offers the other what no/… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 11:28PM
Chile Tales: The Green Addiction
AUGUST 2, 2010 12:20AM
Nick Leshi
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
