January 2012
130 posts
December 2011
59 posts
11 tags
Colonized
I feel like my entire identity has been colonized. External, and arguably quite a bit more powerful, forces have controlled my identity and my life from the very beginning of my existence. This is true regardless of the particular identity in question, e.g. racial, gender, sexual, political, social. And a closer look at a few of these will perfectly illustrate what I mean.
Let’s start with...
Brasserie 002 →
This week was Christmas dinner. For Christmas dinner, I made Jambon avec cassonade et soupe de petits pois aux lardon from Galmiche’s French Brasserie Cookbook. The ham, as you can see above, turned…
TransQueers XXX: Call for Bloggers! →
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Books 2011 →
This year was a strange reading year for me. Normally, my reading tastes fall within two general categories and I spend the year reading within those. However, this year my reading was marked by…
Brasserie 001 →
Today, I tried my first recipe from French Brasserie Cookbook by Daniel Galmiche as part of a winter long cooking experience. Pictured above is Côtes de porc, sauce moutarde et cornichons avec purée…
Electric Connection →
When an idea stings us in a certain way, makes as it were a certain electric connection with our self, we believe that it is a reality. When it sting us in another way, makes another connection with…
On Hitch →
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar A great deal has been written and will continue to be written about the exceptional…
“Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to have it defended...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“But irony and cynicism, as people have an interest in forgetting, are not mere...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Moments →
I remember the moment when I finally had my fill of piety. I had never been very pious, except in the usual ways expected of a participant in the sanctioned hypocrisy of Evangelical Christianity. The…
Her Eyes Were Sad →
A groom led a fine grey mare out the stable door. On her back was mounted a skinny hollow-eyed girl wrapped in a heavy cloak. Grey, it was, like the dress beneath it, and trimmed with white satin….
