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It's father's day and I don't really care. It's been that long.

I have a long post brewing about meaningless life and many houses.
I have a long post brewing about...me. Stuff. Shifting priorities and impending death, comfort with. Joy in a bucket I am, with a wafer-thin mint.
Internet people cannot say bucket without mentioning walruses or wafer-thin mints
I have a long post brewing about my part in the destruction of life as we know it on the planet

I think perhaps DC pride is bigger but more sterile - a political march, vendors galore, but the parties are private. B'more is an all-day off the hook legal public drinking blnge...this year the parking lot party brought their own sound system and DJ rig...off the hook. It's very New Orleans...a public drinking cop-safety-patrolled (and our own) street party. Funny how allowing drinking in the street seems not to be associated with the problems you normally see with drinking when drinking is strictly regulated to prevent drinking in the street under the assumption that such activity causes problems.

I'm full of thoughts about sexuality/gender identity, politics, and my personal drivel about my version of those issues...but right now I feel like doing yet another long thought-out diatribe is just self-indulgent navel gazing with no purpose or possible productive outcome. I have thoughts and feelings, but who cares. They're not important.

My audience on eljay has changed, and I'm less inclined to write when I'm not going to see 20 friends each weekend night and re-discuss what they and I wrote. I'm not avoiding facebook - I just don't like it. Those with the least to say post the most, and the medium genuinely prevents intelligent discourse. Sure, it prompts more frequent and numeric contacts - but without substance I might as well call the wall of dancers grinding in the club my friends. I could fuck 'em, but that doesn't make them friends. Facebook likes certainly don't seem positively associated with substantive relationships of any caliber. I've picked up some great writers on eljay, but I've also lost some good ones.

I'm either depressed or admitting I'm getting old or just so much more aware of all the mistakes I made not just years ago, but in the last months, days, hours that I can't help but not-fear handing off the keys to the next generation.

I could share my observations, but even if I figure out my own answers and even if I could spoon feed someone the solutions to their problems, avoiding those pains would only prevent them from learning how to overcome future obstacles. Plus I'm a raging idiot - like I have any business giving advice.

Date: 2011-06-20 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joanarkham.livejournal.com

I can't decide if I'm posting less because my life has gotten more boring, or because there isn't the same "conversation" feeling that there used to be.

That and the fact that I have become really pessimistic lately, and don't necessarily want to infect everyone else with it.

Date: 2011-06-20 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com
It does get repetitious, but sometimes it's good to hear that. As for pessimism, I LOVE TO HEAR IT if only because it makes me feel not-alone. I can't fix it, but being the only one who seems to see it is possibly more depressing than being aware of it. Or something.

Despair.com just put out a shirt "Optimists are half full of it" but it's not quite me.

Date: 2011-06-20 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alumiere.livejournal.com
I'm glad you enjoyed Pride. LA is somewhere in the middle - lots of political booths, but also lots of booze and some good performers. Although I miss having things I'd want to buy for sale at Pride; the space was really small this year because they're building a new library in the park, and we're hoping that next year there will be more room and thus more vendors.

Also, you are not 'a raging idiot' all the time ;)

Date: 2011-06-20 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vicar.livejournal.com
You know I nearly wrote a long thing about how you let me say idiotic things, and laugh off most of them in a way that just hints at the silliness so I can find it on my own later. Or you're too forgiving, but it seems more like patience and tiny nudges.

Date: 2011-06-20 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alumiere.livejournal.com
Mostly the latter I think, but also I know you're not as much of an asshole as you make yourself out to be. Misanthrope yes, but I am too - we just show it differently.

Date: 2011-07-09 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fitfool.livejournal.com
I'm still here and reading, even if I'm replying even less than before and only reading sporadically.

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