March 10, 2004
two things ...
the other day i discovered that poppy z. brite has a livejournal. i've been reading it obsessively for the past couple of days.
see, wallace introduced me to poppy z. brite a few years ago. and she is undoubtedly a great writer, but her early stuff was a bit... too much for me. i have loved horror all of my life, but her chosen themes were not my favorites. i adore vampire erotica, but while i love gay men to death for the most part i do not adore books full of only gay vampire males.
but, at my most basic level, i am a hardcore voyeur. that is probably why i love journals, blogs and the internet so much. i get to lurk from afar. and this is the primary driving force behind my poring over the entirety of her livejournal. i want to know about others. i want to know what they look like, how they think -- or write about personal things. i want to see where they live and what day-to-day life is like. so, i've been trying to glean a clue to any of that, through her online journal.
ironically though, i am not into watching porn. maybe a little girl-on-girl action, occasionally but anything else, no way. i'm just weird like that, i guess. so yeah, i admit that i'm a voyeur.
secondly, just in the interest of fucking around, as i am wont to do during my short break from school... i have assembled for your amusement my states visited map. a lot of these places i would like to return to sometime, as i haven't ever spent a huge amount of time in places other than PA, OH, MD and GA. i love to travel. i do hope to do much more in the future. so, this is where i have been in the U.S.
create your own visited states map
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