We're done LOOKING, it's time for Larry Kramer's Lincoln to give GAY bedSPRINGs quite a beating in 2015

YUM

i just got some new hair product. i haven't had time to buy shampoo in weeks. i am excited to wash my hair. my life as you can tell is one long thrilling ride.

Nobody's done anything worth hearing in over 20 years.

is that why you don't watch movie?

*movies

no, it's why i don't listen to the music 12-year-old girls like.

My co-workers and I, like, don't even say "bye" when we leave the office.

wait are we judging strangers for their outdoor recreational activities now?

― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Saturday, May 2, 2015 9:58 AM (12 hours ago)

there's nothing inherently wrong w/ outdoor shit, i mean i bike every fucking day! it's my main mode of transportation! it's just that i see the same "kayaking, hiking, volleyball, rugby" bullshit over and over and it's like, read a fucking book once in yr life?

sorry i just don't understand when faggots became so normcore.

wow. ok.

i went to a may day rally today. it felt good to be around some lefty energy. i'm such a softie with the chants, i start to choke up, especially with the police / baltimore ones. the trans liberation movement speaker was totally inspiring.

It's hard to click on profiles that don't just thrust disco tits right out there front and center; many of those profiles are pretty hilariously preoccupied with intramurals, no doubt.

Hard NOT to click, I mean. (What's the opposite of a Freudian slip?)

oh i'm sure it's hard, at least

so life has gotten in the way of my sex life lately and i'm over it

now i just have to get over this cold

kayaking is kind of how i feel about people who listen to Wilco if that makes any sense

but actually i think you're getting the definition of normcore wrong. kayaking is not really that normal.

i doubt it

at least insofar as fashion is concerned, normcore has nothing to do with waspy guys playing golf. it's about the guy in IT who wears pleated pants.

i don't think he cares about what 'normcore' is beyond it sounding vaguely like an insult

i think normative is more the aim of the comment

the thing is, i've always had a thing for lawyers. i'm ok with normal. i'm also ok with completely fucking abnormal. which is why i'm going to my friend's birthday party today who likes me to slap her.

oooooooh

elmo: that is the opposite of correct. it's a political stance for me.

it's funny that i get called a snob when what i'm irritated by is actual snobbery.

anyway today i danced w/ my customers at the farmers market to "(not just) knee deep" and worked for 16 hours. i'm exhausted. life is wonderful. namaste.

lmao

mm. time to leave gaythread i think.

A lot of people don't realize now that it was beefs that fueled these threads back when they were 1,000-post Chicago-thread affairs.

Hard NOT to click, I mean. (What's the opposite of a Freudian slip?)

― Eric H.

a Jungian dip

Who are you calling a dip?

I do like to think of myself as Norse Jung, tho.

that's the thing, there's no "beef". i'm just tired of the idea that nothing is supposed to be criticized and personal attacks are read into everything that even touches on their interests. it's not personal at all. but millennials aren't supposed to care about shit, right? feel free to reply to this with whatever ilx-bred mannered gnomic/nonchalant repartee you wish.

you are too much, dude

no, it's why i don't listen to the music 12-year-old girls like.

THAT'S why you're always down in the dumps

you're not making any cogent criticisms here, you're just passing judgement on people based on trivial shit & it's incredibly off-putting.

enjoying volleyball means you need to "read a fucking book once in your life"

give me a break, my dude

not a chance. i have to follow my heart no matter what.

you think it's trivial, but it's actually part of a larger and very disconcerting phenomenon.

It's at least moderately justifiable in that reading is done in solitary whereas kayaking is something a prospective mate might want to do with his sex partner, or something. I dunno. Maybe people actually read the same book together side-by-side. I'm not familiar with everyone's disgusting habits.

i dunno, i just don't see anything new or particularly distressing about gay men being highly engaged in physical culture. it doesn't automatically make them idiots, in my experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNXsne8exg

That song always transports me to dusk, July 4, 1993, waiting for fireworks.

I know, odd song to trip nostalgic over, given the movie's subject matter.

Love that song despite generic production, like this thread.

frankly i do not remember that song; couldn't find an isolated clip of "brothers and sisters, why ah we fighting?" from Gimme Shelter

I wonder if Tina Turner kayaked. Her muscle tone says she did.

clouds is all good with me in terms of the need for political analysis and change. but the thing is this is a personal group of people, and comments are personal even if they're larger. so when someone says something like my awesome boss is taking me kayaking and the response is something along the lines who gives a fuck about people who kayak it is a little weird, IMO. but i could really care less either way. i'm going to have a good time kayaking even if i fall over the boat.

i will say tho that you should not leave the thread clouds! we need different perspectives. we should all just try and be nice to each other! cuz like, that's what ILX is for

The older I get, the less I care about what my imaginary boyfriend is reading.

does that extend to John Waters' advice "If they don't have books, don't fuck em?"

I finished reading the definitive 450-page Peter Lorre bio last week... it took me six months.

i read a fair amount but that largely comes at the expense of any kind of physical activity, so

i just finished maggie nelson's new book 'the argonauts' which is a sort of memoir/long essay that talks about queerness and family and childbirth and which i very much recommend

my current reading is on the psychoanalysis of children who have narcissistic parents, which is excruciatingly relevant to my life tbh

oh and "seeing through clothes" by anne hollander, which has lengthy passages on stuff like pubes & butts throughout art history.

Reading the monograph on Paris is Burning.