Published inKansas GenExistential·PinnedMember-onlyGen X Will Not Go QuietlyWe have always lived loud, and we’re not going to change that — Gen X refuses to die with dignity. We will die in the spirit of Grace Jones and Poison, thank you, as we express ourselves in any way we see fit, whether that be in a regular suit and tie, or a full body of tattoos. Most of us are not…Music3 min readMusic3 min read
Published inBouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs·2 days agoMember-onlyElon Musk is a Dangerous RacistAnd I don’t want him to receive a dime of my money — Back in my more naive days, I was a fan of Elon Musk. So was my husband. We like space. We like space exploration. Therefore, we liked SpaceX. We even traveled to Florida once to watch a SpaceX launch from the beach. It was truly a great experience. Now we…Elon Musk4 min readElon Musk4 min read
Published inKansas GenExistential·Mar 16, 2024Member-onlyMichaelEntering my fourth-grade year was a daunting experience. My parents had recently divorced, and I’d already been forced to change schools once, which was traumatic enough. Now I was expected to start again at a new school, with new kids, new teachers, and new rules. I decided to adopt a…Memoir14 min readMemoir14 min read
Mar 11, 2024Member-onlyDon’t Gaslight Me(a prose poem) — Don’t Gaslight Me about global warming being “fake news” when it’s early March and the crabapple in our back yard is about to burst into full bloom when it’s not supposed to bloom in this region until April, or even late April or even May, and short of a gigantic…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inThe Bug Diary·Mar 4, 2024Member-onlyChapter 6: Mattie & ShirleyMattie’s dorm room was decorated with all his favorite movie posters, most of which were old, like, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Blackboard Jungle. I was kind of surprised Siren was there with us. She had a new guy… Well, she still kind of had the old one…College13 min readCollege13 min read
Mar 4, 2024Member-onlyI’m Quitting Twitter Cold TurkeyBecause I want to reclaim my joy — I was never a fan of Twitter until trump was elected president. But I quickly learned Twitter was where breaking news was shared first, and soon I developed a need to know what the lunatic president was doing, minute by minute. It became an obsession. I checked several times a…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Mar 1, 2024Member-onlyDeclaring Embryos ‘People’ Devalues Human LifeThough “pro-lifers” think the opposite — In my quest to understand how the opposition thinks, I’ve been reading the comments of “pro-lifers” on social media in the wake of Alabama’s Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos are “children.” So, I’ve been trying to understand how someone comes to invest so much emotion into something that is…4 min read4 min read
Published inThe Bug Diary·Feb 19, 2024Member-onlyChapter 5: Diaries and DildosOnce in a while our RA Cheyenne scheduled a floor meeting to discuss some matter or another — noise after hours, leaving huge messes in the bathrooms — etcetera. Of course I attended the first floor meeting, which happened that very first evening after we’d all moved in, because it…Fiction13 min readFiction13 min read
Published inBouncin’ and Behavin’ Fuckery·Feb 19, 2024Member-onlyForced Birthers Are Literally CrazyAnd must be stopped — There’s this stupid Twitter account called Secular Pro-life (which is bizarre in and of itself), and recently, they posed this question to their followers:Abortion3 min readAbortion3 min read
Published inBouncin’ and Behavin’ Fuckery·Feb 9, 2024Member-onlyWill Conservative Women Finally Protect Their Daughters?Or sacrifice their daughters’ rights to the patriarchy? — In completely predictable news, a recently released study estimates about 64 thousand pregnancies resulting from rape have occurred in the year since Roe V. Wade was scrapped by the Supreme Court. In the wake of the decision, fifteen states have effectively banned abortion, with twelve states banning abortion even in…Rape3 min readRape3 min read