May 2012
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sistacrumpet replied to your video: “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Both… Hedwig is awesome.
All I want out of life is one of those foam-rubber Hedwig wigs the HedHeds are always wearing at Bilgewater’s.
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I’d forgotten how much I liked the music in...
So there’s a montage scene in Billy...
“Here come I, my name is Jowett.
All there is to know I know it.
I am master of...”
– A jokey rhyme composed by Oxford students for classicist Benjamin Jowett, as quoted in the Wikipedia, and one of my favorite things ever.
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ivegotzooms replied to your photo: Going through the books Amazon’s recommendation… My Netflix suggestions can’t be blamed on anything any professor made me watch - and at times I worry that should someone see those without knowing me - I might be convicted of many things I didn’t do or say or think.
I can’t even talk about Netflix recommendations. I let my account lapse, so...
“He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I think I’ll stop with the Wilde quotations for now, but it felt rude to not include at least one from Dorian Gray.
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frageelay replied to your quote: Enlarge this meditation upon this great world,… I fucking love that dude. No, really.
All the sensuous metaphors I use to describe his prose wind up being sensual, verging on the pornographic. Like: I keep thinking of it as a slightly-overripe plum, biting into which causes juices to flow down one’s chin.
For what should be pretty obvious...
“You knew what my art was to me, the great primal note by which I had revealed,...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“One who is entirely ignorant of the modes of art in its revelation or the mood...”
– Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Happy Conviction Day, Oscar!
“Enlarge this meditation upon this great world, man, so far as to consider the...”
– John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Innovations in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
aedison:
Wake up and go straight to the mirror. Move your head from side to side and blink rapidly, making everything seem like it’s from an old-timey movie. Quote some Citizen Kane and Casablanca. Wait until you get dizzy from the blinking, and then go lay down. You are not a Hollywood actor.
Grab a pen and paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Next to those, write down a list of...
“Is this the honour which man hath by being a little world, that he hath these...”
– John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (his book about illness)
“Now I take this thin-stemmed glass and sip. Wine has a drastic, an astringent...”
– Jinny, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
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“We must create a new culture that is not so confined and centered so tragically...”
– Larry Kramer, “Sex and Senisbility”
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“Simple human truth. Uncompromising scholarly standards. They’re...”
– Vivian Bearing, Wit (2001)
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Adjectives on a typewriter
He moves his...
“These are only a few strokes of a much larger painting, a portrait of the...”
– Me. I really didn’t start this essay about the AIDS Memorial Quilt hating the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
“Are there more decent heterosexuals around, heterosexuals who don’t awaken...”
– Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
“Everyone talks about the effect that AIDS had on the culture in the sense… that...”
– Fran Lebowitz, Public Speaking
When I had this thought, I decided to get at least...
Yes, Daniel, you may talk about the politics of desexualizing and de-gaying the people with AIDS represented in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. No, Daniel, you may not submit a paper with the sentence “The only getting jerked in the Quilt is a tear.”
“There is, I believe, something salutary in our having to discover the illusory...”
– Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
“De-gaying gayness can only fortify homophobic oppression; it accomplishes in its...”
– Leo Bersani, Homos
“If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President’s stupid, sickening...”
– Valerie Solanas, The [Society for Cutting Up Men] Manifesto
“At its worst, the emphasis on parody in Gender Trouble has the effect of...”
– Leo Bersani, Homos
THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FINALLY SAYING IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
“If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is; when you attempt to...”
– From Tony Kushner, “Notes About Political Theater,” The Kenyon Review 19, no. 3/4 (Summer–Autumn 1997), 30–31.
“And when I was about 15 or 16 I was, uh, thrown, kicked—well, let me put it to...”
– Kiki DuRane
“I said, ‘Herb is not a fag! Herb is a sensitive, tender-hearted, caring...”
– Kiki DuRane
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“I’m feeling a little blue myself. You know, a little anxious for no...”
– Man in Chair, The Drowsy Chaperone
When… you… come… home I should’ve told...
Everyone tells you that the minute you get...
“At few moments in recorded western history can it be said that homosexuals were...”
– Gays invented civilization. Yeah, I said it. Wanna fight about it?
“In view of what gay people had in store for them in later years, there is...”
– John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
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steverettger replied to your quote: Now, some people are pregnant in body, and for… Ça m’amuse que you’re posting Sympoium passages, having just re-read the thing myself today during my flight.
I’m roughly midway through the second epic paper in my developing Wagnerian end-of-semester essay cycle, this time on the social functions of Greek homosexuality. Which makes the Symposium...