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big burger, tiny berger – feeling big and small back in my old city

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 22, 2010 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Hi Valley,I'm visitng San Francsico, where I moved to Turners from going on five years ago now. I always tell people I took the typical Albany-NYC-San-Francisco-Turners-Falls route. I haven't been back here for three years. It’s wicked intense to be...

(Repost:) Quit yr damn cryin'!: a post-election RANT

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 28, 2010 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

(for some reason, this post disappeared from the site this morning. conspiracy? you decide)Get over it. All this doom and gloom and whining and moaning I’ve heard last night and today in the bar, in the café, on MSNBC, NPR, WHMP, just PATHETIC. One...

what did YOU hear last night in the SOU address? (a brief post-rant rant)

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jan 29, 2010 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I heard a speech that utterly uninspired and as middle-of-the-road suck-up as can be. Hard to believe it was the same guy who made that great race speech, and several others, less than two years ago. Of course, all the assholes on the right wing radio and TV heard...

For J.D., with vague memories and mixed feelings

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 3, 2010 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

I remember that I, like most boys, loved Catcher in the Rye and was hugely influenced by it in middle school and probably to this day, but I don't remember the story. I remember loving 9 stories too, and liking Franny and Zoey a lot too. But about all of them I...

Bo: 1995-2010, R.I.P

by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 9, 2010 | Masculinity and Its Discontents

Those of you who know me or have followed this here for a while know of Bo, my dear dear dog. She lived a long and wondrous life, that began on July 29, 1995, and ended on Tuesday, 2/2/10. I spent nearly every day of fourteen years with her – fed her, picked up...
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