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we only wanted to be loved. work in progress.

eriktrips — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:00:00 +0000

Hungry ghost god--we may call them yaweh or jehovah but they carry other names as well--is adored by hundreds of millions. For centuries it kept grown European children comforted in the knowledge that they had escaped at least its wrath--if only temporarily and conditionally and subject to the whims of its representatives on earth...

Why Radical Academics Often Find it Hard to Write, and What to Do about It

eriktrips — Wed, 04 May 2016 03:06:04 +0000

Originally posted on Anne Bonny Pirate:
Jonathan Neale This post will be of interest to only some of our readers. But we hope it will be very useful for them. It is not easy to be both an academic and an activist. The values, the audiences and the constraints are different. Sitting down to write,…

oh beast! nightmares of sheep. goats. fire that sinks like water.

eriktrips — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:05:41 +0000

We wait. I may be here when they lock the doors. I am here to tell someone about the rate of attrition how at dusk all the people disappear. I live on the hippest street in the nation Or the second hippest if you are thinking about the other one I don’t know its name … Continue reading

she wrote it down so I thought ok I will do this one more time

eriktrips — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:31:39 +0000

Everyone knows but nobody has a clue what to do that won’t upset any of the adults which is apparently the greatest sin there is. The children will be ok. They have to be. We all are ok aren’t we. Didn’t we turn out alright.

first in a series of series of declared series

eriktrips — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:47:38 +0000

My nose was twitching. Not so that anyone could see it but some nerve in my right-nostril-flaring muscle(s?) was unhappy or alarmed or something and so sending a repeated signal to a tiny bit of that muscle to contract and then shiver at about 70Hz or so for half a second. A half second of rest and then another signal. You might say it was on a 70Hz over 2Hz sort of signal. Or the other way around. I don’t know which.

Protected: ask for all the things!

eriktrips — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:36:35 +0000

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

it came to me at 3 AM

eriktrips — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 04:36:11 +0000

let us all be undefined uncontained happy free from tyranny a frolic around a grave labeled labels

Why lesbians don’t get AIDS

eriktrips — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:34:40 +0000

How would I explain that I had acquired this esoteric knowledge, for one. Why do you know what lesbians do. I did not want to have to answer that question or even try to wave it off.

plain speech

eriktrips — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:59:27 +0000

Don’t you think that music is sick. No it is precisely the sort of melody I will learn to write as soon as I am out of your earshot but I never said that just shrug or maybe well you know they’re just trying to be shocking because that was my stock answer to throw off any possibility of meaningful connection in the face of such immense and cynical irony or disaffected and ironic cynicism.

bring me the pill for infelicitous birth

eriktrips — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 03:55:56 +0000

. . . and so because virtually anyone with a decent-sized megaphone with which to address addiction gets it completely and horribly wrong just as those speaking about trauma and PTSD also get it completely and horribly wrong I found myself with more to say than what I started out thinking I was going to say.

Neither of them, for instance--PTSD nor addiction--are diseases.