Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

I think I'm going to have to start reading my flist on filters. THE DAY HAS ARRIVED. I just can't handle it anymore. You care, I'm sure.

I got a sunburn from having the sunroof open on the car yesterday, pretty weak. Will I become the kind of person who actually wears sunscreen every day as a philosophical issue? Probably not because I'm too forgetful.

( Something about The Monster At the End of the Book (spn episode) )

I assume that NPR stations all do their pledge drives around the same time of year? That Ira Glass spot where he "calls a listener" is hilarious. I wonder if he ripped the idea off from the Canadian radio show "Wiretap" (which is a comedy program where the host pretends to call different people and another actor on the other end plays the role of, like, his childhood friend or his neighbor or some kid he mentors--my favorite one was when he called this guy who lives in Montreal who was supposedly listed in the phone book as The Devil and the guy said that, yes, in fact he IS the REAL devil and they chit-chat--and the devil guy sounds like an old Jewish man with Yiddish diction and accent and so on. Comedy gold, folks!) Anyway, Jonathan Goldstein (who makes "Wiretap" is on "This American Life," after all. Which always confused me since I heard him first on Canadian radio in bits about Montreal. (If you think I listen to the radio more than normal people, you are RIGHT.)



Anyway, what's the best rps au you've read? Now I'm damned curious.

I was reading this LAT opinion piece (don't click, hipspinster), which, idk, I have mixed feelings about--on one hand, Adam Lambert is not maybe-gay, he's coded flamingly homosexual, and saying he's "maybe-gay" really bothers me because what's really happening there is that someone who is coded extremely queer is being told SAY OUT LOUD YOU'RE GAY, which I think is troubling as he's a human being, dude, leave the guy alone. Why should he have to make a statement about this when it's right in your face? He's not hiding who he is, as a matter of fact he's as out as any dude not wearing a "I suck cock" t-shirt can be when choosing not to verbally scream "I SUCK COCK." Wtf, this is pissing me the hell off.

Ok, I'm going to move this bit into a new paragraph. I feel like her analysis is just completely WRONG and she's missing the point. The reason that many queer activists have issues with loss of "gay culture" is that it's a safe space for queer youth who have been marginalized everywhere else in their life, and most queer people have a fondness for remembering the first time they felt accepted in a COMMUNITY setting and worry that this environment might be lost for today and tomorrow's youth. The issue at work there isn't that queer people are rebelling against acceptance of homos by the average person, or by the larger youth culture. Yes, it's great that club kids are into not gender identifying and that boys being queer is the new college lesbian, as that signals we're moving into the next phase of queer acceptance, however, that is just one facet of a prismatic problem. Just because The Kids think queer is cool right now doesn't mean that the douchebag who works in Personnel is going to hire Adam Lambert types unless he's forced to by law. Get with the goddamned program, Ann Powers.

Yes, I'm sure there are some gay men who think there's some kind of value to "saving" disco clubs and Pet Shop Boy culture, but way to miss the point, lady. Thanks for explaining the fact that youth culture tends to reject the culture of their elders and forebearers (this word is not in spellcheck, why?), I'm sure I wouldn't have ever realized that on my own!

And while I'm at it, she's displaying a level of fag-haggery that if we were talking any other group would be called fetishization and at best exotification. (Now someone's going to tell me she's a lesbian, in which case I am still side eyeing her pretty damned hard.)

I haven't been watching Idol this year, but I've seen Adam Lambert a couple of times accidentally and he struck me as gay as Lorne from Angel, and all the talk about his "possible" sexuality made me laugh. Now I am not laughing, I'm annoyed. Saying that he's the face of the sexual spectrum being accepted by the mainstream is willful blindness to the fact that an out gay man cannot win a popularity contest in this country. Fucking get real, ok, Ann Powers. Adam Lambert is not empowering, he's another example of why queer people talk in non-gendered language about their partners at work and why people still claim to have roommates rather than SOs because of discomfort. Adam Lambert could NOT have sang a goddamn disco anthem like an out and proud queen because that's too close for comfort, and you even suggesting it's a cop out that he didn't just displays your ignorance and irrelevance.



At any rate, my thoughts on yaoi aside, he's Jewish on top of all the rest? Hmmmmmmm. I'm in the middle of something else, but there might have to be some ott fic where Adam educates Gabe Saporta about queer issues.