(a year ago) The last few days I’ve been thinking of dad. Subconsciously, I think I remembered that it was right about now last year that he died (or consciously—it was just after finals, but before I left for Germany. It was tumultuous time). I didn’t have a great relationship with my dad. We had [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Death'
My Father Died Today.
May 20th, 2010 · by xJane · 3 Comments
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Acknowledging Death in Death
June 23rd, 2009 · by xJane · 9 Comments
see the full size version for detail of the top One of the things that really bothered me about my father’s funeral was the body. It was in no way his body—he was long gone from it—and yet it was made to look “alive”. He had make up on, combed hair, a suit & tie, [...]
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Speaker for the Dead
May 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 16 Comments
I have 5 sisters, plus a mother and an aunt. I will not likely get a chance to eulogize my father at his funeral. I also don’t believe in the “he was a great man who never made any mistakes” brand of eulogies. For myself and for him, I’d like a Speaker, to Speak the [...]
Music Monday: It Must Be the Sign on My Head
February 2nd, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments
(no, not that one) “That says, ‘oh, Love Me Dead!’” or, A Feminist Critique of Ludo’s “Love Me Dead” Today’s music brought to you courtesy of DH *ahem* who picked it up from a House commercial. Which is funny, since I watch TV & he doesn’t and the song totally escaped my notice. I’ve had [...]
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AWOL
November 12th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
I’m sorry I’ve not been posting recently, law school has finally caught up with me and consumed my life. I had to cancel the event that makes the holidays bearable for me (a goose-filled gamer fest) because I simply hadn’t the time to prepare and plan it. One of the prospective attendants told me that, [...]
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Music Monday: Still Alive
October 13th, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments
I’ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]
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Fucking Friday: Bitch 2.0
October 10th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
This is a link dump for things that make me want to spit. Things that piss me off & make me want to bitch—remind me why I should be angry. John just posted his experience at Church the other day, I think most of us can agree that his experience counts as something we all [...]
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Zombie Jesus
August 28th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
My cousin does a lot of babysitting. She recently babysat a kid who was trying to tell her about a friend’s imaginary friend, Genius, who was a reverse zombie: he died but then, instead of wanting to eat your brains, he wants us to eat his. It took my (Catholic) cousin a long time to [...]
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This I Believe
August 9th, 2008 · by John · 9 Comments
Delivered at the Sunstone Symposium on August 9th, 2008. A portion of this appeared in an earlier post. I believe in the power of storytelling. Specifically, I believe that I have the ability to shape my relationship to the universe and insert beauty into my world through the life narrative I co-opt and create. Once [...]
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the Intersection of Politics & Religion
August 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments
My father was recently interviewed again (mp3 link, will start playing as soon as it loads; somewhat confusing page it is hosted on here), promoting his position regarding a proposed ballot initiative in the State of Washington which concerns what he would call “Assisted Suicide” or “Right to Life” but which I would call “Death [...]
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