August 2010
4 posts
Reading Habits →
It occurred to me this week, and not for the first time, that my therapist might raise an eyebrow toward my reading habits. Shortly after I began transition in earnest, she started suggesting…
This is just a post →
that would normally have a decent collection of words after it. If I had an idea. Which I don’t tonight. But I might soon!
This is also a post to say that my Tiger Beatdown commitment is likely…
Five Hard Things I've Done Recently
In descending order of difficulty:
5. Played four sessions of Call of Cthulhu and only gone insane twice.
4. Watched almost the entire second story (the Caveman ones) of the First Doctor without clawing my eyes out in boredom.
3. Marked over 4,000 comments on Tiger Beatdown as spam.
2. Met the most absolutely fabulous girl in the world…on OKCupid.
1. Got an odd amount completely off of...
Marriages and Infidelities →
I’m a bit late to the party when it comes to The Kids Are All Right (2010), Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy of manners about a lesbian couple whose children seek out their sperm donor. It’s a droll movie…
July 2010
2 posts
Secular Myths →
“Cyril, the Archbishop of Alexandria, despised her because of her close friendship with the Roman governor, and because she was a symbol of learning and science, which were largely identified…
Dear Clueless Men of OK Cupid
If you REALLY like my profile, you might have noticed that I am:
—more interested in girls right now
—looking for people closer to my age
—who fucking live near me, not in Goddamn Toronto.*
I swear if I get somebody who puts something about religion in their message to me I will just put “looking for godless atheists who are into girls” as my username.
*Nothing...
April 2010
11 posts
In Case You’ve Been Missing Me →
I apologize. I’m caught up in a nearly fulltime job hunt, plus trying to get some freelance computer work done. But hey, if you’re really hungry for some CL, well, Amanda Hess of the always…
Kate Bornstein ♥’s TOTWK; Or, It’s Hip to be Au... →
Hey, ducks! I’ve been talking quite a bit of late about Ticked Off No-I-Won’t-Say-Its With Knives. You know, because of the outrage, and because I went to the protest. What ho!
Now, the general…
We Are The Dead: Sex, Assault, and Trans Women →
So guess who has a guest post up at Feministe today? (Hint: it’s me. I shamelessly self-promote a lot here.)
So here’s the thing. I want to talk quite seriously about the whole issue of sexual…
Ticked Off Trans Women Protest “TOTWK” →
So it was a beautiful night for a protest, and thus we had a beautiful protest. Organizer Ashley Love energetically led our band in chants and was everywhere, talking with reporters, handing out…
Protest Against Ticked Off You-Know-Whats With... →
So if you are going to be in New York tomorrow, and you care to protest the shameful exploitation of both trans women and some of the most brutal murders of trans people, you might want to run down…
Of course...
Like most marginalized groups, there can only be one of any thing that isn’t white, cis, and middle-class. So ultimately if I am going to advance in the world of transfeminist bloggers, I’ll have to throw down on everyone ahead of me. I’ll call out Lisa Harney and offer a cage match to Kate Bornstein.
Ultimately, it will come down to me and Julia Serano. I’ll probably...
Rabbit Lord of the Undead: The New York Times... →
dorianisms:
…
Amanda Hess.
Also tons of people I know who use pseudonyms. Which really SHOULD be fine, but I have a feeling the Big, Important, Self-Serious NYT would probably object, more’s the pity.
Pah, let them do the rejecting in that case. We don’t have to preemptively do it!
I…
It’s an honor to even have a few characters of my name on that list :)
I feel like I've arrived!
There really must be something to this use of Twitter to drive blog traffic. I was always too small to be picked on before.
Seriously
Accusations of lacking common sense? Check!
Description as “blather”? Right on!
Shadowy implication of history-erasing agenda? You know it!
False equivalency in the historiographical record? Why not!
I won’t bother to talk about the failure to engage any issues even given the um, oversights I made today. (I didn’t have a great day, it’s true.)
Attempt to silence...
Woo hoo
I’ve lost the respect of a random emailing dude! Time to fold up shop and go home.
Happy April Fail’s Day →
Welcome, geese! (That’s my April Fool’s day joke.)
As you know, it’s a bit of an Internet tradition to do joke stories on April Fool’s day, most notably Google (or as it insists it will be known…
March 2010
106 posts
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Good: Having a friend who will leave work to help you deal with your stuff
Bad: having stuff to deal with
Ugly: My mood, these last few days
David Brooks: What Price Happiness? (Hint: Ladies,... →
I haven’t played kick the can–where can means the New York Times–for a while, mostly because it’s too easy: the stolid Grey Lady’s inability to cover issues beyond it’s narrow frame of all the…
Ever have one of those days
…where you realize that almost everyone you know is better at the one thing you’ve ever really wanted to do than you, and younger? And that you’re going to be broke in a few months and have to leave the only place you ever wanted to live?
Yeah. Today was like that.
I went to WAM and all I got was this lousy Twitter...
So it seems I need one of these new-fangled twitter thingies: thus…
@CLMinou
The Second Awakening has been relaunched! →
Oddly enough, the url is www.thesecondawakening.com. Funny how that worked out.
Now with actual graphics in the presentation! And an FAQ page! And Wordpress widgets! Oh, the fun you’ll have!
Remember how I said I hated my job?
That’s kinda not an issue anymore.
How Progressive Are You? →
telegantmess:
thecurvature:
dorianisms:
rosasparks:
beevee:
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
tumblgr:
My result: 333/400. Reblog/reply with your results.
360/400 — and that was even me being intentionally moderate on several of my replies!
306 — extremely progressive? I had no idea. And I thought I was taking a sort of isolationist stance. Guess not.
I am 348/400 and EXTREMELY...
Tonight's Post-Dinner Piano Playin' Playlist
“My Favorite Things” with some syncopation. And plenty of wrong notes.
“If Ever I Would Leave You” and some wrong notes
“Can’t Help Loving That Man” with attempts at harmony and plenty of wrong notes
The same, without harmony and fewer wrong notes
“Chim Chim Cherree” almost good
“Close To You” but not seriously
“Son of...
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This is a link to what sounds like a super cool... →
Which I won’t be going to.
Because I committed that day to…
…playing D&D.
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My Job Is Not Huge Fun
Because I have to put in about ten hours a day to make money at it. And while the commute is great, being cooped up in the apartment all day isn’t so much fun.
But I have made enough money to go down to Dallas for another round of all-day electrolysis.
Um, yay?
Apparently Interesting Things Happen
When you add Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, and Lady GaGa into your pandora station all at once. Groovy, mostly good things involving guitars and women infinitely cooler than you screaming.
Things I should never care about: Your American...
Leaders of the Pack:
Mike: Body by Luther Vandross, voice by Marvin Gaye, musical sensibilities by Darius Rucker.
Crystal: She could sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” at this point and I’d still love it. I continue to hold out hope that her love of Melissa Etheridge has deeper roots than the singer-songwriter deal.
Siobhan: She’s a one-trick pony, sure. But it’s a...
Sometimes You Just Find Yourself Needing To Be In...
This is both a seasonal variation, and a recent breakup thing with me.
It might be time to scan the apartment swap sites again.
Projected Who Songs For Future Editions of CSI
“Love Reign O’er Me”……………………………CSI: Seattle
“Boris the Spider”……………………………….CSI: Oneonta
“Pinball Wizard”………………………………….CSI: Happy Days
...
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I dibs Starbuck in the bold new Battlestar... →
sadydoyle:
clminou:
Though it’s more likely that I’d be a female Gaeta.
I WILL FIGHT YOU FOR IT.
Also: NO-ONE should be compared to Gaeta! Gaeta is a choad! I see you as a bit of a Roslin, actually? Meanwhile I am like a little Sixish lately. Like a… short, brunette, modestly clothed Six, basically. Makeout times and yelling about Principles, that’s me. Also of note: When I am...
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I dibs Starbuck in the bold new Battlestar... →
Though it’s more likely that I’d be a female Gaeta.
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I believe that it is mandatory
to make the “bwaarrrr” noise at the beginning of CCR’s “Fortunate Son”
Rabbit Lord of the Undead: Why Rabbit Lord of the... →
Credit Where It’s Due Message: The splendiferous C.L. Minou (seriously she is like highly recommended she writes with fire: go forth do my bidding and read) mentioned Hegel in a context that is so completely irrelevant to this I blush to even contemplate relating the connexions between them.
You are fucking awesome, you know that, right? :D
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Shakesville: Mass Resistance Made Me Mad Enough to... →
A shout out to Liss for letting me guest about Mass Ignorance’s latest travesty.
bmichael asked: =\ Minou, I think we're going to have to agree amiably to disagree. Granted, I toss out 90% of what Nietzsche wrote and 100% of Schopenhauer. But Kant really is the most lucid and grand, capital P philosopher (Philosopher?). Nazis, I know. Whatever. It's not Hegel's fault! His writing is so inscrutable that you could come up with a platform advocating the rulership of moldy cheeses...
bmichael asked: Uhhhhh except that basically every great philosopher was German (or Prussian or Austrian).
Irish Stew
Pro: James Joyce, author
Con: Sean Hannity, author
Pro: Dublin, the banks of the Liffey, Parnell Square
Con: Getting called a “fooking tranny” during your first two hours in Dublin
Pro: Irish Pubs on Fleet Street
Con: Irish crowds on Fleet Street (don’t stay on Fleet Street)
Pro: Mary Robinson, former Irish president, UN Commissioner on Human Rights
Con: Ireland has some...
Sparklepants!: I am Irish. I do not celebrate St.... →
sadydoyle:
sadydoyle:
Is this an Ohio thing? A Midwestern thing? I have never witnessed this; I am genuinely, naively asking. In the Irish part of my family, I believe that people are therefore more sympathetic to the people who are (a) still having a hard time and (b) had/still…
Eh… not really? There are Irish communities in NYC that are like this, in my experience. Like, really socially...
I know I'm supposed to be excited
about St Patrick’s day. I’m even a little bit Irish (about 1/32nd, great-grandmother was half Irish.)
But a couple of years of SPD meaning unpleasant encounters with drunken bridge and tunnel fratboys (in the zone from 4th to 60th street between 3rd and 9th avenue) really takes the zest out of the holiday. The copious amounts of green puke certainly don’t help.
In fact, this is...
Ever been mad enough to vomit? I am. →
I’m not embedding the damn video, but you can go to Joe. My. God if you want to look.
It seems SPLC-certified hate group Mass Resistance went to the First Event conference—an annual trans, mostly crossdressing, convention held north of Boston every year—and videorecorded trans people doing such horrible things as: going into a bathroom! Playing in a rock band! Getting on an...
oh, no, slate
morninggloria:
I appreciate a good rhyming joke as much as the next cheeseball, but I frown disapprovingly at this headline.
(here)
Head. Desk! Head. Desk! Head. Desk!
What a great way to marginalize in the service of showing how “open” you are!
Your gressiveness, it is faux.
Things that are cool right now
1. I can listen to my best friend on Pandora
2. One of her songs came up first today when I logged in.
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All I Ever Needed to Know* I Learned From "Sex and...
* for the set {being a woman, being a writer, living in New York, things that are totally inaccurate}
It is possible to rent a large one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side as a writer whose only paid gig is a column for a newspaper that is a) free b) more annoying than the free morning paper they hand out in subway stations and c) couldn’t beat the Village Voice’s circulation...
Shorter Great Tumblr Flamewar:
You can say anything you want. It’s, you know, a free country, and you are not obligated to considering every single nuance or connotation in every utterance you make. Even the ones that rather obviously are problematic for rich white kids.
But you don’t also get to have everyone respect you afterward.
Speaking of Mondale
Top 3 things I remember about 1984:
1. “Where’s the beef?”
2. “There you go again.”
3. “Landslide!” as the headline I saw over and over again delivering papers the day after the election.
I am old enough
To remember when people said about Madonna the same disses laid on Lady GaGa.
Of course, I’m old enough to remember Walter Frakking Mondale, so what do I know?
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As if you needed any more proof that I am so unhip...
I have only just now made a pandora account.
And the seed artists were Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann, and k.d. lang.
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CNN is going to run the Susan Stanton Doco
on March 13 and 14.
Hey, C.L.: you gonna watch?
The fucking title is “Her name was Steven.” What do you think?