“AGNI PARTHENE”/”O PURE VIRGIN”/”REJOICE, O UNWEDDED BRIDE” in Arabic, Slavonic, Romanian, French, and English you can hear! Amazing stuff, via IP. Read more

“Johnny, you’re drunk!” I wasn’t drunk, just a cheap date. Galina let loose with a stream of insults, screaming at the top of her lungs about how disrespectful and shameful I was. “How Russian can you get?” she said before pushing me inside. “Showing up at the ballet drunk, with a whore.”–Johnny Weir, Welcome to My World I can confidently say that if you think you might want to read this awesome book, you definitely should. I want to rewatch... Read more

A CHRISTMAS WISH LIST FROM GEEK CORNUCOPIA: “But there are things that are either in legal limbo or hard-to-find (even on the gray market or in archives) that I’d like to see….” Oh man, that second one sounds amazing. Read more

My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lillies (Canticles ii.16) Ev’n like two little bank-dividing brooks,That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,And having rang’d and search’d a thousand nooks,Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,Where in a greater current they conjoyn:So I my best-beloved’s am; so he is mine. Ev’n so we met; and after long pursuit,Ev’n so we joyn’d; we both became entire;No need for either to renew a suit,For I was flax... Read more

METAMORPHOSES. Or, Build a little birdhouse in your… lungs? Ignore the simplistic commentary and just look at the weird, creepy-lovely sculptures. Via AC. Read more

KISS AND CRY: MY YEAR IN REVIEW. I’m spending the tail-tip of 2010 researching, re-reading, and watching figure skating instead of movies, so it should be safe to do the best-of now. I can always edit if something happens in the next five days. Best books read (nonfiction): Jay Prosser, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of TranssexualityPaul W. Kahn, Putting Liberalism in Its PlaceEllis Hanson, Decadence and CatholicismKathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put... Read more

IF YOU HAVE CHRISTMAS DINNER ON CHRISTMAS EVE, as my family did this year, you may have leftovers already! Here’s what I had for lunch. ingredients: sixteen wonton wrappers (that’s how many fit on my baking tray), cooked turkey (I used white meat because I like it less in sandwiches than dark), cranberry sauce, peeled and minced ginger, cream cheese, half a button mushroom chopped into fairly small pieces, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary, fresh sage, olive oil, and salt. You’ll... Read more

“AVE MARIA.” Read more

“AVE MARIA.” Read more

“BIRTHDAY BOY.” Read more