Guest Post
Guest Post: Why Separation of Church and State IS Religious Freedom
I made a comment the other day about needing to get drunk and rant about Amendment 2 in Missouri, and low, my friend Yeti_Detective decided that he would go ahead and do that before I got a chance. Since he’s my friend, I relented and decided that I would post it on the site today. I think he believes that I have some sort of divine link to the internet hive mind or something.
You should be warned that the following article is Rated R. Yeti_Detective has a tendency to drop the “f-bomb.”
A lot.
Read at your own risk.
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So Amendment 2 passed in Missouri’s most recent election. This amendment affirms the rights of Missourians to their freedom of religion, according to the most commonly circulated text. I voted against it because even that benign description just makes it sound like self-righteous assholes defending… Continue reading
Guest Post – Elizabeth Howard
Trying to Put Down the Writing Tools
Why, oh, why God, do I do this to myself?
Let me preface this by saying: I am a writer. Which figures into the upcoming conversation.
Do you know what I all need less of?
Time with myself.
I’ve been blogging for years and I get so BORED talking and thinking about myself. It’s boring.
I read Stereo*’s post "Back to Basics" and a deep sense of longing went through me.
Lately, everytime I sit down to TRY and write something on my blog, I just think UGH: Why oh WHY God?? Do I have to?
It’s rolled downhill as well. I’ve recently been taking intermittent breaks from Facebook as well. I can’t seem to think of a single thing to write about myself on my status update other than: Trying to think of a status update…
I’ve become a Facebook… Continue reading
Guest Post – Of Star Stuff, Glitter, and all things Sparkling… Words. (Domestictype)
Guest Post – Tracy Mangold – Why, oh, Why God, do I do this to Myself?
Why, oh, Why God, do I do this to Myself?
When Matt asked us to write a guest post answering this question, I have to admit, I had no clue what to write about. I knew I wanted to do a guest post because Matt is one of the most fantastic people I know. And to be featured on his site is an honor indeed. So thanks Matt – thank you for allowing me to be part of your guest posting series. Matt constantly inspires me with his creativity – his talent, his outlook on life – and his never-ending ability to make me chuckle. I keep telling him he needs to have his own comic strip and column in the newspaper.
In terms of the question, “Why, oh, why God, do I do this to myself?” I ask myself this quite often – especially when I’ve volunteered to do… Continue reading
Guest Post – Jason Benoit: Tell it, Or Else
Oh, you think it’s easy; you think the words flow from my fingers like wine at a wedding. You think this shit writes itself; or maybe I have a clan of satanic chimps that pluck words at random from my Emo refrigerator-poetry magnet set, and I just click-clack them onto the interwebs until you’re ready to slash my wrists for me.
Well, have I got news for you Punkin; every sentence, every single word, is agonized over. Sometimes, I sit for minutes on end writing the same sentence again and again; arranging, rearranging, and re-rearranging over and over until it rings just right, until it sounds like the frantic screams inside my head.
The words scrape, claw, and dig into my mind, they whisper in my ear; they wiggle and waggle before my eyes. They take root, spread throughout my skull until every thought is another fruit bore by its… Continue reading
