SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 9:58AM
Happy Birthday, DeliaBlack/my Delia Dee! I love you so much!
this is an old old new yorker cover. it's about fathers and sons. i was looking for one about fathers and daughters, but i love the Fall theme and colors, so i hope that Delia can forgive me. my Delia Dee's father was hideously murdered by a family member. DD's written many posts on this subject so i'm not telling tales out of school.
and this is how special DeliaBlack is. she didn't accept this situation. she did not fold up and give up or go quietly into that good night. she fought tooth and nail to help put the murderers behind bars and, more recently, when one of them came up for parole, she moved heaven and earth and Relatives, who insisted on having their say as Relatives are so freaking wont to do, to make sure that this fucking woman who helped kill her beloved father did not see the light of day!
my DD is a loving, passionate, funny as shit, kind, compassionate, talented as shit extraordinary woman. she has been a loyal and loving friend to me, through thick and through thin and, god knows, there has been a whole lot of both. i'm going to search on her blog for one of my many favorites posts of her, in which she created an Alternate Persona to her own, one who was/is extremely creative with the look and use of her words, who wanted desperately to marry a lovely OS gentleman. she made me laugh until i cried.
Here it is!!!!
2009/02/27/will_you_marry_me_m_chariot
well, you guys can scroll down and find it.
and then there are the posts, about her dead father and about various issues that push her sensitive buttons (no, not that one, well, as far as i know), that make my heart ache and make me want to crawl through the fiber optic cables or whatever the fuck it is that would get me to her and hug and kiss her with love and gratitude for the rest of time.
DeliaBlack's current goal is to work with the homeless, in what capacity i'm not sure, but i can easily visualize her, with her tirelessness and passion for making things right, starting up and running the biggest, the most state of the art and most effective shelter/school ever in the known world and, with her enormous heart and brain, irrevocably changing the lives of everyone around her.
Happy Birthday, my cherished friend. i never freaking cry and i'm tearing up just writing this. i adore you beyond words. you know that. you've had my back. i hope i've had yours. have the most wonderful day in the history of the world, okay?
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You are so sweet, but then, I already knew that!!!!
thank you to everyone who has come by to give her blessings! if you can, please read the piece i linked to and whatever else you can manage. Sandra, DD doesn't post much but when she does, her strength of character and/or her funny bone shine through. love love lvoe
today, i am physically ill, because Godiverse loves me so much. this immune disorder carp. whatever. off to bed with the wonderpups!
And Johnny seems to flip me off a lot!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Delia, Happy Birthday to you!!!
Great post, Theo. There are very few as deserving of this as Delia is! You are a good, good friend!
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well, i'm sure the real party was at LuisG's or nana's. but i had my say about the lovely Delia and then i slept forever. so it's all good. well, i would have loved to be awake and part of that party but that's life in the big city.
Happy belated birthday, Delia.
Hope you are okay..
xoxox
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i think this may well be my last tribute to anyone since people are now going to Delia's to read her posts. which is wonderful. but not if it means they stop reading my stuff. :) love love love