qweerblue
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Occupation | Editor |
|---|---|
| Location | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | I am dreadfully romantic and hopelessly awkward. I have big ideas but scant ambition. I am as queer as all-get-out. I think most people, including me, need to take more responsibility--for themselves and for their little corners of the world. I am trying every day to be a better person, but I mostly hide out in my house, because reality leaves me pretty battered. I have described myself as "pathologically hopeful," and that has both served and severed me. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine, even if it just means a front-row seat to a splatterfest. |
| Interests | causing the least harm, doing the most good, taking responsibility, being present, figuring it out, desire, loving good and hard, reading, recognizing connections, writing, making connections, passion, sustainability, the collective unconscious, animal rights, inner journeys, social justice, language/linguistics, the beauty and magic of numbers, folk art (especially Day of the Dead stuff), hidden histories, hangin with my friends, chillin with my cats, treading ever-so-lightly on this big blue ball |
| Favorite movies | After Life, The Corporation, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Fog of War, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Princess and the Warrior, Rize, Style Wars, Superbad, Waking the Dead, What I Want My Words To Do To You, the entire "Eyes on the Prize" series... |
| Favorite music | Or, who I'm listening to this week: Natacha Atlas, Balkan Beat Box, Black Keys, Hugh Masekela, Over the Rhine, The Pixies, T.Rex, Alice Smith, Martina Topley-Bird,Ike & Tina, Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators... |
| Favorite books | Most anything by Haven Kimmel, Jonathon Kozol, David Sedaris, Howard Zinn, Francesca Lia Block, Janet Zandy. "A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America" and "Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939" (both by Lizbeth Cohen); "House on Mango Street" (Sandra Cisneros); "Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America" (Lillian Faderman); "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit" (Thomas J. Sugrue); "Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and The Roots of Black Power" (Timothy Tyson); "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" (Terry Tempest-Williams); "White Bone" (Barbara Gowdy). I recently thumbed through the most beautifully-rendered biography I have ever laid eyes or hands on: "Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies," by Lauren Redness. I think Redness is trained as a visual artist, and this biography is just a visual spectacular spectacular. Riveting and dreamy. Check it out. |