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Re: Wreckage of an other than historical and/or metaphorical variety

Holden — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:08:26 -0000

1. Holy shit.
2. Holy shit.
3. You will get through this.

Re: Wreckage of an other than historical and/or metaphorical variety

vmarinelli — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:45:00 -0000

Dude, your timing just completely freaked me the fuck out. See this tweet. Holy crap.

Re: Wreckage of an other than historical and/or metaphorical variety

Neil — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:46:58 -0000

Luckily we don't believe in auto karma, or the DMV monitoring Twitter -- and then taking revenge.

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

Lost Clown — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:47:31 -0000

I knew that logo looked familiar. That's really cool.

Re: Rat! Torturing my brain!

vmarinelli — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:14:46 -0000

Um, okay? (I have no idea what you're talking about, sorry!)

Re: Rat! Torturing my brain!

ben — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:07:46 -0000

I'll be singing the theme song to 'Willard' all day now. Thank you, Michael Jackson, you freak.

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

vmarinelli — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:24:02 -0000

You worked on Plexus? That's so cool!

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

Daisy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:28:13 -0000

I still have a "Plexus" T-shirt (from the feminist newspaper I worked for), and it says "59 cents"--which is what women were then paid on the dollar (equivalent to the "male dollar")... smart ass men used to ask me if I was worth 59 cents when I wore it.

I can't get rid of stuff like that...nice to see I ain't the only sentimental pack-rat around! :)

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

vmarinelli — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:34:41 -0000

Ha! Totally blushing. Ain't you sweet?

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

Emily B. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:54:12 -0000

Oh, and er, if it is true, you make me look good, purty lady. <end flirt>

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

vmarinelli — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:59:37 -0000

It could totally be true. Among the queers, I don't think we get a full six degrees of separation, do we? (Maybe 1 1/2?) And... oh sweet Lord, you're gonna make me play that Hole song now, aren't you? :)

Re: Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

Emily B. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:29:13 -0000

I honestly am willing to bet that I know people you know. Less likely, but still a possibility... that I *knew* people that you *knew*, if you know what I mean. Hmmm.

Of course, when you went to school in Olympia everyone looked the same and talked the same, as they say. ;)

Re: 74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

Holden — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:45 -0000

Good lord I get this. I have trouble cleaning out the junk of the words I am thinking nonstop, and like the junk I have in my apartment, I don't really want to just, you know, throw it away. But I make myself throw real things away, for society's sake, yet can't throw away words. What I am meaning to say is Thank You.

Re: Variations on a theme of independence

Robguy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:14:28 -0000

Just remember it's you that has decided to go through all the stuff from the last decade. You could just box and move.

Re: My only explanation for this photograph is that I was sixteen at the time

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:53 -0000

i love this pic :D

Re: My incredibly sophisticated book classification system

mikeb302000 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:26:21 -0000

I love your Yucky / Yummy system, I think mainly because I love books. Anything to do with organizing them or not organizing them is for me. In my case an unusual system has evolved. I guess the total must be 1000 +, which although we moved into a bigger house 2 years ago, far exceeds the space available. I left several massive boxes unpacked in the garage, boxes containing 50 or 80 volumes randomly selected in the days immediately prior to our move. As we grew into the new house, the three adults and three children which comprise my immediate family, we gradually discovered that there'd never be enough space for all the beloved books. So, every few months I take a box from the garage, struggle it up the stairs to the house, and exchange its contents with stuff that's on the shelves, more or less maintaining random selection. By now I've recycled between garage and house all the books we own at least once. It's proven to be a wonderful way to keep refreshing what's visible on the shelves while maintaining a sense of anticipation at regularly discovering long lost friends.

Re: My incredibly sophisticated book classification system

vmarinelli — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:47:19 -0000

Bwa ha ha ha. Mama's special night time books, I'm going to be giggling about that (along with "I'm sure their home is beautiful and disorienting") all day now, thanks :)

Re: My incredibly sophisticated book classification system

Emily B. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:40:03 -0000

My ex-girlfriend, an art director at an ad agency, had a shelf in our living room with a lovely color-coded shelving system -- an entire spectrum of books in which I, the librarian in the relationship, could find nothing. She despised my Dewey systemed bookshelf almost as much. She's dating another art director now, and I'm sure their home is beautiful and disorienting.

Since having children, my books are organized with only one imperative: that MAMA'S SPECIAL NIGHT TIME BOOKS stay on the tippity-topmost shelf.

Good work, Marinelli.

Re: A dollar bill, a baby bird, a prayer I can’t explain, and its answer which I won’t pretend to understand.

vmarinelli — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:26:48 -0000

Kind of you to comment, Mike. I have complicated feelings around atheism and around what is, to me, inextricably linked to atheism: cynicism. I'm actually a pretty caustically cynical person a lot of the time, for all sorts of reasons that make perfect sense but are also deeply disheartening. I've also been to the edge (an unspecified edge, it would be hard to precisely elaborate, and again it feels like a contradiction for me even to explicitly talk about faith as such) with faith, having experienced it in undeniably authentic, deep ways and then coming to grips, years later, with how psychologically malleable that faith had made me.

And of course, so much evil is done in the name of faith. So I get why people are atheists, to be sure, but mocking those with deep spiritual beliefs, of course, is not about the expression of some higher, albeit grittier atheistic "reason," but simply about meanness. I think there's enough 'mean' on all sides to go around.

Re: A dollar bill, a baby bird, a prayer I can’t explain, and its answer which I won’t pretend to understand.

mikeb302000 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:33:45 -0000

Dear Victoria, I've been reading your stuff for a long time without ever commenting. I like your writing very much and wanted to thank you for this post about prayer. Often bloggers and internet people seem to think atheism is so chic and that it's cool to visciously mock those who disagree. It's refreshing to read a post like this.

Re: A dollar bill, a baby bird, a prayer I can’t explain, and its answer which I won’t pretend to understand.

Mikeb302000 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:27:45 -0000

Dear Victoria,

I love your writing. I've been reading your stuff for a long time without ever commenting. I especially liked this post about prayer and wanted to thank you.

Re: 74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

vmarinelli — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:44:11 -0000

Eh, because I'm not confusing people enough today on Twitter, I had to reply there. Because while I could have replied here only, you couldn't have faved that, now could you?

Not that I actually expect you to do such, I must hasten to add! (I'm terribly thrilled you've left two comments here. That's plenty good enough for me.) But hey, at least it's an option: http://twitter.com/vmarinelli/statuses/846223881

Re: 74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

Emily B. — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:14:31 -0000

I would have totally faved the "fuckity funlegs brain dream." I had one of those last night!

Re: 74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

vmarinelli — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:26:30 -0000

You can, actually! That entire word cloud was generated from a block of document text I copied and pasted into the javascript window. Pretty rad stuff. :)

Re: 74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

Robguy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:17:16 -0000

Wordle is kinda cute. It would be neat if you could plug in more than del.icio.us.