About Me/FAQs/Disclaimers

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(That’s me up there with my toes in my water.)

FAQ

What’s your deal?

I grew up in North Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee, and spent many years as a progressive community activist in that area. I experienced activist burnout of epic proportions, moved to Boston in my mid-twenties, started babysitting full-time, haggled for awhile about what to do with my life, and signed up for community college, where I remain today. It all gives me lots of good stories to tell, and for the most part, my life is pretty sweet.

Are you a dude or a chick?

For some reason many people seem to think, based on my writing alone, that I’m a guy. Psyche! I’m a lady, and I’ve got long hair, fluffy sundresses and everything. It’s interesting to think that so many people perceive my writing as having a “male voice”. Either that, or some people automatically presume that every writer is a guy if they’re not writing about “lady things” all the time, the same way they presume that writers are white unless they’re writing about race, or straight unless they’re writing about gay marriage and Lady Gaga. This whole thing of people assuming that I’m a dude is totally new to me, and I’m a bit confused by it. I definitely enjoy a lot of stereotypically male things- sports, metal, whiskey, arm wrestling, William Faulkner, et cetera. However, I think my “list of likes” is more of a Southern girl thing, and less of a “lookie at that girl who likes boy stuff!” thing; I didn’t fully grasp that these things are stereotypically male until I moved away from the South, as the vast majority of Southern women whom I love enjoy these things, too. I am queer but I don’t think this has a lot to do with it, as most of my aforementioned Southern lady friends are not. I have a gender neutral name, but it’s one that’s more popular in the US as a girl’s name than a boy’s one. So yeah, I don’t know what all of this is about, really.

In short: psyche! I’m a chick; I accidentally fooled you, maybe; I am baffled by all of this gender confusion.

What’s “the bitter buffalo”?

It’s from my favorite Modest Mouse song. Basically, I suck at choosing titles for things.

How do you choose what to write about?

I get all selectively obsessive about certain aspects of culture, particularly if they apply to where I’m from or who I am, but I write about whatever interests me. Usually I write about whatever feels right at the time, edit it quickly and throw it right up on the site. It is a process that seems to work for me so far.

Are you going to stay up North forever? You sure do write about Memphis a lot.

I miss the South deeply, specifically Memphis. I miss my friends there; I miss the culture; I miss the sunshine. However, I don’t know where I’ll end up next year when I wrap up my stint at community college and transfer to a four year school, much less forever. For now Boston feels right, although it’s not exactly right. But then, Memphis wasn’t either.

Twitter? Email? Facebook?

I tweet here.

You can email me here.

Sorry, I only like to be Facebook friends with people I know in one way or another. Some folks have suggested that I should do a fan site for the blog or for the Buffy Fashion Roulette, but that seems narcissistic and weird to me.

Can I repost your blog entry on my site?

You may only repost my entries on your site if I give you express permission. Otherwise, none of my content may be published elsewhere.

Can I gank your Buffy Fashion Roulette stills for my own site?

Photos used in Buffy Fashion Roulette are film captures that I have made from Buffy episodes. They are only mine in that they are my clicking action and my uploading. I am totally fine with you using my Buffy stills; I only ask that you host them on your own site.

DISCLAIMER: all content on this blog is the opinion of this blogger only, and is not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, company, or individual, or anyone or anything. It’s just my opinion, I don’t claim it as fact, and if you disagree you are welcome to do so in the comments area. I will not publish comments that I deem offensive.

Anyone reading this blog will not hold me liable for libel (ooh, that sounded funny!). Comments left by comment authors are the sole responsibility of those comment authors; I am not responsible for comments that break the law in those commenters’ countries. All content about copyrighted materials is protected under fair use.

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If you take issue with anything on my blog, email me at the address above before bringing legal action. I’m a very reasonable gal, really! I love solving problems. If you don’t love solving problems and wanna go ahead and sue me anyway, I’d recommend against it because I have zero dollars in my savings account, am a struggling college student, and literally live hand to mouth.

Blah, blah, blah blah. Happy reading!