ACAB apparently includes horses
Thanks to the shortest and least effective real estate deal in the world, I recently moved to the town of North Shields. It's out on the coast — roughly 20 minutes away from Newcastle by car, a little longer than that by transit. By Canadian standards, this is a pleasantly short commute. By British standards, I may as well have moved to the furthest corner of Hell.
North Shields is not a rural area by any stretch of the imagination. So you can imagine my surprise when, on a trip to the grocery store, I encountered a massive pile of horse shit in the middle of the sidewalk.
My best guess is that a cop on horseback passed through the neighborhood; the police will ticket you for not picking up after your dog, then let their horses relieve themselves anywhere they like and refuse to clean it up. This is just one of many reasons all cops are bastards.
Anyway. As I carefully evaded this environmental hazard, I looked up to see an 80- or 90-year-old man out on what was probably his daily walk. He looked at me and — in tones that suggested he was speaking from personal experience — said, "It was cleaner when Hitler was bombing the place!"
Needless to say, I completely lost it.
New on Ko-fi: "Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked," Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of "Jay Moriarty Has Seen You Naked" is now up for all supporters on Ko-fi. If you don't want to wait for the next chapter, you can also get the entire novella as an ebook.
Recommendation: Bound
I have a hard time connecting with a lot of contemporary lesbian fiction. I'm just not interested in fluffy, conflict-free relationships between conventionally feminine women who bear no resemblance to real-life femme lesbians and kiss like someone bonking two Barbie dolls together.
Bound is not that. For one thing, look at the poster. I have seen both of those women in gay bars.
This is the first movie the Wachowski sisters ever directed. It features Jennifer Tilly seducing Gina Gershon into robbing Tilly's boyfriend, Joe Pantoliano — interweaving sexual tension with dramatic tension to spectacular effect. The whole thing almost feels like a stage play, with most of the action taking place across two next-door apartments in the same building.
Also, they hired Susie Bright onto the project to serve as a queer sex consultant. Which may be the best possible thing to have on one's resume.
This Week's Links
An interactive map detailing the history and evolution of Metal music, with samples. This is another kind of website I had thought extinct, and I'm really happy to find out I was wrong.
How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop
While the laptop has no networking software, it does have fax software. We confirmed the modem could dial, so this might just be crazy enough to work.
Mary Carillo's Badminton Rant - Athens 2004
The Olympics are on, which means it's once again time to watch Mary Carillo explain the finer points of backyard badminton.
The other day my brother asked me, "What’s the quintessential lesbian media?"
I then had to explain to him that asking this question in the wrong circles would start a fistfight and end several relationships.
-K
