Deep thoughts

This mother's day, send a thoughtful e-card to your loving mother.

So many special sentiments, captured so lovingly. Send a greeting to everyone you know.

Yours sentimentally,

P-

updated list of sexy things

1. come on, even if i didn't ever wash my hair or get out of my pajamas, this little bike would make me look SO HOT.


2. The Shield. dude, the coolest cop show since Homicide. i am 5 seasons behind, but am catching up on DVD. please, at least consider the nerdy detective "Dutch" who eats ding-dongs compulsively and is always being made fun of. now, HE is sexy.


3. after coveting my co-worker's impeccable eye makeup, i've been promised the same ultra-luscious eyes w/
mary kay. i'm game. so ready to emerge into sexiness via mary kay (yes, I know that's not hot at all)


4. Promiscuous. Nelly Furtado. Hot.


5. not pictured: me having showered. that is way sexier than me right this second.
off to sexify myself.

love you, my sexiness,
k

p.s. is this sufficiently non-academic for you???

my new outfit

dear p,
i am wearing a new outfit. i think it might be damaging to the retina. please change my clothes if my summer duds are too painful.
love,
the blog

color me___________.

hi.
2 weeks ago, whilst talking about the chaos that was to be my exams, Uncle Tom told me all about an old student of his who had synesthesia. he thought she was fascinating and her takes on the readings were so, well, curious. of course i was immediately jealous that i can't really claim to have synesthesia but i REALLY WANT TO. but so, this morning i suddenly thought about a friend of mine and thought "she's blue." not that her fav color is blue or she wears a lot of blue or she lacks oxygen, but she is just Blue. try it-- think of someone and decide what color she is (i just don't think men should be included in this, p.s.) but try really hard without thinking of their favorite color or what colors they wear or whatever. its fun and will kill a few minutes while waiting for the subway or the doctor or your dog to shit.

P.M.=blue
S.S.=red
M.O.=violet
L.R.=plum-chocolate (i made this color up, der)
I.T.= this one was so hard-- but i think she's the color of my med-dark gray silver eyeliner.
FH= pale yellow
AN= sun yellow
JG= periwinkle

and you? next to impossible. i have a hard time with just one color. immediate thought: orange. like yellow-orange in the crayola box. or also (and completely on the other side of that coin) deep deep plum. oh, maybe pool blue. that retro blue that is non-stop pleasurable. i'll let you know when i've hit it. were you here, we'd compare our friends who are the same color and see if they're alike or compatible and if we would color the same people similar colors.

dude, what color am i????

also, have you read Ann Carson's The Beauty of the Husband ? killer. i'll give you mine when i'm done if you haven't.

also, about to start up a biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas --together-- no more Gertrude than Alice in this bio. it jumped off the shelf at the library. i'll keep you posted...

many loves,
p

Violence-inducing cuteness

Witness.

as usual, it doesn't come in my size

do i even need to tell you how many digits i'd saw off to have a big version of this dress?

so much love,

p

Holy shit! Satan's minions are HERE!

P,
Let me begin with a few passages from The Daily Herald, central Utah's newspaper (who knew they could pull that off?) about the Utah County Republican convention:

• In a speech at the convention, Larsen told those gathered that Illegal aliens are in control of the media, and working in tandem with Democrats, are trying to "destroy Christian America" and replace it with "a godless new world order -- and that is not extremism, that is fact," Larsen said.
  At the end of his speech, Larsen began to cry, saying illegal immigrants were trying to bring about the destruction of the U.S. "by self invasion." (masturbation???!)
• One speaker, who was identified as "Joe," said illegal immigrants were Marxist and under the influence of the devil. Another, who declined to give her name to the Daily Herald, said illegal immigrants should not be allowed because "they are not going to become Republicans and stop flying the flag upside down. ... If they want to be Americans, they should learn to speak English and fly their flag like we do."
• He also said the LDS Church has studied the issue and tried to determine whether illegal aliens could be given temple recommends and allowed to serve missions but "gave up" because the issue was too complex.

No commentary on above is necessary, I don't think. Yesterday, at Salt Lake's City-County Building, a large crowd gathered to protest immigration laws. Husband and I were stopped at a very long red light right next to a large group of Latina protesters-- these women were young and meant business. It did my heart good. Until a (white) man with a video camera and two little (white) girls sauntered up to the protesters. He whipped out two "go home"-esque posters (can't remember exactly what they said but there was also something about white America not wanting "them" here, etc.) and handed them to the two little girls. He commenced videotaping as these two little kids just stood there in the middle of it all. So creepy and sad.

Husband tried to think of a way he could flash his Child Protective Services badge and give the guy a warning (from an enormous, menacing, guy with a very loud army sergeant voice) but everything we could think of to say ended with "...and then don't forget to take your bag of FUCKING WHITE PRIVILEGE home with you".

So it goes in the land of tolerance, love, rainbows and cupcakes!

Wish you were here! Love you even though you never want to come back...

-p