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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill.--Einstein
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Women's History Month blog carnival
by Pioneer Valley Woman
I have been thinking about "my generation" lately, in the words of the Who song by that same title, a song which was popular in 1965, as I've been thinking about differences between the Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, and those of my generation, Generation X, born between the late 1960s and 1970s. How have I been affected by the generations of my parents and the Boomers?
I'm part of the early Generation X cohort, born in the late 1960s. Although some Boomers are the parents of people my age, for me, the Boomers were the older cousins I looked up to, who had the cool music I listened to when I was a weird, geeky, old soul in the body of a junior high girl who looked older, like a teenager.
So when my friends were all into the latest fashions and music of rap, etc., my conservative parents of the "silent generation" born between 1925 and 1945, kept me away from that. They were the sober, serious parents, English-speaking immigrants who worked hard, thought in terms of religious conservatism (as part of moral, upright living), dignity, pride and uplift. They were not going to have their daughter pick up "street" culture; instead, she was going to be hard-working, moral, industrious and successful.
So as a Caribbean American black girl living in New York City, I had on the one hand, my parents influence: Sunday school while my parents went to church and then matriculation in the church's Catholic school for junior high, because they thought that was the age when youngsters needed a firm moral foundation to carry them into high school. I had my first communion in the second grade, first confession in the 3rd (or was it the 4th?) and confirmation in the 8th grade.
Yet, I was also a child of my time. Nerdy me, I read Ms. magazine, and the writings of civil rights activists, and learned about the threats of civil rights gains being eviscerated. I listened to music of the 1950s-1970s, and had barely a clue of what my peers were into. The trend continued into high school, where I felt as though I was, or should have been, years older, I was so focused on grown-up concerns: current day events, doing well in school and what my career would be in the future.
Looking back, I don't think I missed much. I missed: the rise of misogynistic hip-hop/rap music, when the genre once seemed to include more progressive singers and songs. Remember the song "U-n-i-t-y?" Conservative moral values for me meant that I looked at what the Boomers' gave us, the Generation X'ers: hedonism which led to drug problems among so many and an AIDS epidemic. Hedonism and promiscuity, that is the dark side of my perceptions of the Boomers.
I was so nerdy, that in junior high school, I had a "library bag," which held my library card and my library books. I also had a notebook where I made note of interesting things I heard about during the week, so that I could go to the library Friday afternoons after school to look them up. I was one of those brainy young girls who loved library day at school. It was no surprise then that my first job in high school was at the same library.
By college, I was browsing in bookstores, new and used, and I was always reading the books in print--so into it, that one time, someone asked me if I worked at the bookstore I was visiting, because I knew what to look for. In graduate school years later, I once told some friends the story, and they howled. I said, look around--it was summer, and we were hanging out on campus, near the library. I said, isn't this nerd central? All the nerdy people, the geeky ones from high school, the academy is our world, where we read, write, talk to each other. Who else would spend a summer writing a dissertation?
But with respect to politics and my awareness as a young woman, feminism was an important early factor. Granted, the Boomers were behind the various gains, including those with respect to womens' reproductive freedoms, and I thought it was a very important issue, but it wasn't the sole issue for me in terms of how I defined myself and feminism, which seemed to be the opposite from many of the white feminists I knew from school back then.
I think that is common among many women from conservative moral backgrounds, they see feminism as being about abortion and being pro-choice, so they eschew the label. I held onto the label, because I saw so much value in it, a language for thinking about gender, although reproductive freedom issues were not my primary motivation. Even though I was celibate, I questioned the church's stance on birth control and I believed women should be able to become priests. It was not a far stretch then, for me to become Episcopalian as a young adult.
So I find it fascinating today that there are bloggers who are fighting misogynistic images of black women in the media, but have no awareness whatsoever of the battles which were fought decades ago by (the predominant numbers of white) dominance feminists who challenged those very practices. But again, for too long, black women have been told feminism is about white women. I guess black women are not women, then. Or perhaps, they are "too strong" to need weak white women's "feminism?" I am shaking my head here. On the other hand, though, many white feminists were racist, and too many feminists have had a litmus test of what it means to be a feminist. At least today, narrow litmus tests tend to be questioned as not recognizing the full complexities of feminist thought.
It must have been those Ms. magazines that somehow made their way into my parents' house, and my mother's example of being a powerful woman, although she never saw herself as a feminist. The stereotypes troubled her. My dad, though, thought race was all that mattered primarily, and my mom always talked about race questions too, along with the important questions of gender--how to keep her young black daughter safe. My father was old school, who thought women should be as ambitious as they wanted to be, yet not be foolish, naive, and uncritical of what might harm them: sexism and misogyny. In his view, women should still be protected notwithstanding equality. Essence and Ebony fine tuned my awareness of issues in the black community as they affected black women.
Considering long-standing debates about black male protectionism in the community, for example, as found among those who rally around Genarlow Wilson today, protectionism has not held sway with me. My parents are of a generation and culture that valued and respected personal responsibility, integrity and upright living, so if anything, the notion of protecting men who harm women is ludicrous. This is the tradition I am from.
My parents believed protecting their daughter was their highest priority, guiding me on understanding proper male behavior, to value serious, sober young men as the "real" men, not the flashy, blingy, street "thugz," and to stay away from the harmful ones. They taught me to think about who my friends were, male and female, and one of my favorite sayings from my mom was: "Friends may bring you go, but they might not bring you back." One that others might remember is: "Lie down with dogs, you might pick up fleas!"
In the 1980s, it seems there were vestiges of late 1960s-1970s style black nationalism which has persisted into today, about protecting the community, but which was steeped in the old arguments of the 1970s that feminism was for "white girls." Does anyone recall those posters of Malcolm X: "By Any Means Necessary?" Key aspects of the black nationalism: fighting the backlash against civil rights in the Reagan era and the wars against the community, whether it was the political conservatism of the Reagan era, or the racialized violence black men were experiencing, for example in NYC--Bernard Goetz, Bensonhurst, Howard Beach...
For those who were international in their scope, they were interested in the anti-apartheid struggle (the Reagan and Thatcher administrations were seen by many as strong supporters of the regime in South Africa). Remember "constructive engagement?" Others were concerned about what was happening in Central and South America. Remember the Contras? Ollie North? I remember young white radical types falling into this camp, of critiquing US foreign policy there.
Yet, there were elements of the misogyny creeping into black nationalism, in the early days of the thug culture we can see today. Celebrating Malcolm X seemed to become not only fighting police brutality, but celebrating senseless violence and going for one's own, no matter what the cost. Getting one's own could include using and abusing women and calling them vile names. Women sung about being all about the dollar bills. If a man had no money, forget it. Do you remember that song, "Ain't Nothing Going on But the Rent?" This type of rhetoric, on can argue, contributed to men singing about women as being gold diggers, another misogynistic term.
But did black women have the awareness then, the language with which to engage with gender, or once again, were they naive to race plus gender? I recall that some of the big issues of the 1980s and 1990s had to do with the rise of the pro-choice movement both in Operation Rescue and on the Supreme Court. White women activists were fighting it, as were various black women activists. But it seemed most black women I knew were fighting the backlash against civil rights, yet no one seemed to even notice the rise in misogyny in hip/hop.
Could we have done better, "my generation" of X'ers? Were we too busy following in the Boomer's footsteps to make a difference in this way? Were we too cynical and disaffected? Were some of us too busy keeping our heads down and trying to get ours, to be concerned? Were the conservative ones who had a different perspective afraid of being mocked because we had a different view?
Perhaps because I didn't experience the battles of the 60s and 70s over feminism, for me, in the 80s, how in the world could I not think of race plus gender? It was just a given, in my mind. I remember reading stories about women becoming addicted to drugs like crack (through their boyfriends introducing them to it) and becoming prostitutes to support their habit. I remember ordering from the local board of health reports on AIDS, so that I could learn about the epidemic. I thought of women's health as important, and I wanted to learn more. I remember reading about women landing in jail, more often than not, because of their connections to the wrong men who committed crimes and dragged them in.
I remember for a long time, almost everything I saw out there showed me that as a young black woman, I was vulnerable, including to the men on the street catcalling me and then getting angry when I didn't reply. Of course, I knew the ideal, that a loving relationships with a husband was supposed to be the goal, but getting there sure felt like a minefield! But if I started dating the "wrong" guy, everyone would blame me if I became harmed, because somehow I was responsible not only for myself, but for grown men's behavior. And reproductive freedom meant that if I got pregnant out of wedlock, it was my fault, my responsibility, not his. Domestic violence, rape--when black women were harmed by black men, I heard silence.
I was not naive about black men being natural allies under all circumstances and without reservation. People were up in arms because of allegations that young black men beat up and raped the Central Park Jogger, but there was no discussion of a black woman beaten, raped, and thrown from a building (by black men), as happened in a news story from the late 80s, around the same time as the Central Park Jogger story. Activists like Sharpton talked about how the white community did not talk about those crimes involving black women, but did they criticize black men for their violence against women? Today, one can barely hear any activists talk about the Dunbar Village case in Florida, but people went on buses to protest in Jena. Race plus gender plus class, black women can't afford not to think of these questions.
I did have my "ah-ha" moment, though, in the early 1990s, which sealed my fate in realizing that any black nationalism which did not take into account gender, was one I did not care for. I was working as an intern in the office of a black nationalist type attorney. He was a boomer, dedicated to the cause. He might have even once been a member of the Nation of Islam. He had ties some well-known nationalist types I used to read about in the news.
I remember once a conversation he had with another intern, a black man, where I was present. They were talking about the "brothers' " conversations about the community's needs. I was surprised they didn't mention black women too--didn't black women participate in conversations about community interests? My question was met with pure silence. I understood clearly. Of course, the brothers' conversations did not include women, because only nationalist men speak on behalf of the community.
So by the 1990s, I was in graduate school then, and I was on my way to becoming a full-fledged critical race feminist. Not only had I been asking questions of race and gender for a while, but I finally had the language to talk about all that was on my mind: black women and dominance theory: dominance from the greater society, dominance within the community. Nowadays, I see myself as a critical race feminist from the cultural/difference feminist side, meaning that I recognize women are equal, but different, and those differences should be respected. But I am pragmatic enough to recognize inappropriate inequality and domination when I see it.
Having that foundation in feminism and civil rights from my earliest days has been so important, in sharpening my awareness and my critical thinking skills. They are of as much importance as my faith has mattered: a firm foundation in disciplined, sober living, hard work, with an interest in uplift.It was not a far stretch for me to have gone from my earlier dorky place to where I am today. I live the life of having a "library bag" in my possession all the time. I'm dedicated to teaching, researching and writing history, and always with an emphasis on race and gender.
Comments open.
copyright, "Pioneer Valley Woman," Feb. 2008.
"Pioneer Valley Woman," aka "PVW," is the pseudonym of a college professor and blogger living in New England who has teaching interests in women's history. Her blog is called "Episcopalienne:" http://www.episcopalienne.blogspot.com.
3 comments:
I enjoyed this post very much. Thank you for sharing it.
- March 11, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- womensspace said...
This is such an interesting and thoughtful post, pioneervalleywoman!
Not only had I been asking questions of race and gender for a while, but I finally had the language to talk about all that was on my mind: black women and dominance theory: dominance from the greater society, dominance within the community. Nowadays, I see myself as a critical race feminist from the cultural/difference feminist side, meaning that I recognize women are equal, but different, and those differences should be respected. But I am pragmatic enough to recognize inappropriate inequality and domination when I see it.
Somehow these statements of yours are so refreshing to me! I have mostly aligned myself as a feminist with the group of feminists I think you're referring to as "dominance" feminists, but, like you, I also lean to the cultural/difference feminist perspective in certain ways. To me it makes no sense to say that men and women are not meaningfully different, and I think when we do insist that this is so, we end up places we didn't intend to go! Like you, I don't think recognizing the differences between men and women means we also can't resist and challenge dominance and hierarchies-- all the more reason to do so. I also don't think that recognizing differences between men and women equals agreeing with patriarchy that men are better than women. I think we can begin with our own reality, value it, and begin to identify ourselves, name ourselves, without respect to how we are different from men, without men being the standard.
There's *so much* to respond to, for now, I thought I'd respond to this part! I related to a lot of what you said in your post, down to the book bag and endless books, books, books. As a little girl in a rural area with a tiny library in the 50s, I purposed I would read every book on the shelves, even the ones that didn't look interesting, because I loved books so much, I just knew that once you got into *any* book, you'd end up loving it!
- March 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- PioneerValleyWoman said...
Greetings! I'm so glad you liked the essay. I'll stop by again to see any other ideas you have!
I've been so excited to participate, that I have about 3 blog entries dedicated to the blog carnival!
In writing the essay, I really wanted to address the nuances of feminism, because like you said, too many feminists "box themselves in" by adhering to very limited definitions of feminism, by failing to even recognize the nuances among approaches/strategies.
This does them a disservice, because it leaves them ill-prepared to respond to those detractors who like to paint feminism in very limited ways which again, fail to address the nuances.
This does them a disservice, because it makes it impossible to reach out to other women who are afraid of the "feminism" label and who are thus blocked in developing effective languages to think about gender in their lives.
I think this is particularly important for women of color, some of whom I am noticing now, as I mentioned, who have been so afraid of the feminist label, but who have suffered because failing to recognize gender means they have limited their abilities to address the nuances of the discrimination they have faced based upon race plus gender.
- March 12, 2008 at 11:09 PM


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Somehow, we tend to get hot easily when having conversation on a phone, especially on a cellphone. I guess this could be due to some electronic components lying within the phone that might have some negative interference to human emotions.
We always spend a couple of hours or more talking on the phone these days. And very often that the phone conversation would end up with a quarrel, which usually spoils your day or even worse, which might have spoiled a big business plan.
But we're human, who always easily get annoyed and then angry with certain spoken words. Before it's too late, it's always neat that you could quickly learn that you're actually raising the tone of your voice and you're getting hot, which you words could have ruined someone on the other side of the phone.
Here comes the FuChat cordless phone, which comes with some intelligence that is able to detect the change of your emotion, by detecting the changes of tone of your voice as well as your body temperature. And from that one it'll alert you that your emotion state. So you shall take an instantaneous control to cool yourself down.
The FuChat cordless phone is also a green gadget which its case is made of environmentally-friendly-biodegradable plastic which its raw material taken from corn starch and sugarcane. The inner framework is built with light aluminum compound for durability. The phone makes both visual and audio alerts to the user, once it's detected that the user's emotion state has changed, which his or her voice is rising with tones, and the body temperature is rising too.
Besides, the back of this cordless phone can be used to display some texts such as "Do Not Disturb", "Busy", which can be hung on the door handle to tell others not to knock to disturb. The bottom part of this phone has more weights, making it able to stand upright on flat surface, which is best for displaying messages. It's got a block function that allows you to block calls too, which will then activate the voice mail to record what the callers have said.
Other features include display of weather conditions, which is capable of fetching weather feed from the Internet, and displaying temperature, time and incoming calls with caller IDs. The FuChat phone is capable of making Internet VOIP calls, or it can be used to attach to a land-line telephone network, for making regular calls. The phone definitely sounds super handy, but with so many goodies, I guess it's just a concept, which production is still too early to talk about. And there is no word about its availability and pricing.
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Socorro Balloon Rally returns
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Dear Editor,
As we head from harvest season to Thanksgiving, I wanted to share elements of life in Socorro and environs that I really appreciate.
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Cap's toy run was a success
I would like to thank all of the people who were instrumental in making the Capitol Bar's 6th Annual Christmas Toy Run a success — Probate Judge Carlos Carillo, Rachel Padilla, Adam Ware, Charm Martinez, Sissy Olney, Rudy Lucero, Terry and Henry Rosas.
Dear Santa,
I want madden for PS2.
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A Wonderfully Cozy Kitchen in Scotland
Kitchen Spotlight
We bet this lovely eclectic kitchen is just spectacular around the holidays. It already looks so cozy and welcoming!
This kitchen belongs to the Mackay family, who live in Glasgow, Scotland. The home it's in was built in the 1840s, and it was originally the billiard room of a large mansion, but was converted to a home in the 1940s.
Now Claire and Marcus Mackay keep it full of reclaimed furniture, hand-me-downs, and homemade pieces given to them by friends and family. So lovely!
See the full tour → The Mackay's Former Billiard Room Home at Apartment Therapy
(Image credits: Lizzie Ford)
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Very nice!
Very unique, I love it! That hutch is gorgeous.
I absolutely adore this kitchen and most of all the minty green colour of the cabinets! We are redoing our kitchen soon and that is the EXACT colour I want for the cabinets ;-)
Oh, I love this kitchen!!


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Sorry about the car. LMAO at the first vine pic as well as the description of it's ascent into your house and it's slow creep toward it's beloved inhabitants & belongings! Kind of like the blob…oh no! It's coming! I am quite familiar with this plant having a Horticulture Degree and approve of it's planned demise!
Today's Rant: The '98 Toyota Rav4 & Why My Neighbor's Vine Must Die
I'm not usually one for ranting, but today has been special.
Part 1: The Truck
We're a one-vehicle household and for the past 6 years, it's been the '98 Toyota Rav 4 which has been mostly reliable and trustworthy, although strange and obscure in its need for repair of parts that have never needed replaced on other, older cars I've owned. For example, the springy thing that opens the door that hides the gas cap, and the seatbelt sensor, and the ignition key device. All broken. Although inconvenient, these things were mostly a nuisance that I have been either willing to live with, or had repaired relatively easily. That is, until 2009, when the obscure failures were no longer simple or cost-effective.
I've decided that the '98 Toyota Rav4 is really just the prototype for the real Rav4, a "think tank" model to work out kinks and bloopers so that purchasers of subsequent Rav4s could enjoy the traditional Toyota reliability, craftsmanship, and quality manufacture that I thought I would also enjoy.
Today I dropped my daughter off at school and then stopped for an errand and noticed a "hissing" sound coming from the engine. For three weeks, the temperature needle has been possessed, moving in a random pattern up and down the H/C gauge. (I decided to ignore it because this had happened twice before, and my mechanic, with whom I'm now on a first-name basis and will probably invite to my next birthday party, could not find anything wrong.) But the hissing sound was new, so I investigated the sub-hood order of things and found an empty container that said "coolant" and filled it up with water. Then went directly to said mechanic.
"Honey, I'm home!", now my customary greeting at Affordable Tires on 3rd Street. I explained the problem to Adrian and waited for the grim news. But upon inspection, once again, they could find no leaks or source for the hissing. The only thing Adrian could think to recommend was a complete flush of my cooling system on the slim chance that a bit of debris was stuck in there somewhere, causing the temp to go wonky. Ok, I said, and they drove me home, as this would be a half-day "repair."
I came home to the studio and started painting tiny tiles for rakuing tomorrow. (I'll post a picture of those later.) Around 11:30, Adrian called and it went something like this,
"Well, as it turns out, when we pressurized the system for the flush, we DID find a leak!"
[Oh, goodie.]
"But it's not dripping in the oil or transmission fluid or out the exhaust, and that's why we couldn't find it. It's coming from… this part."
"Oh? What part [wait, let me sit down]?"
"The thing is… I don't really know what the part is. I've searched all the manuals and books and findapart.com and I still can't identify it. I've never seen anything like this before."
[my head hurts]
"So, I'm calling to get your permission to remove the part and take it in to see if they can match it up to something."
"[long, thoughtful pause contemplating whether I can afford new car payments at this time. I cannot.] Well, it sounds like we have no choice."
"No, we don't. And sorry, I can't give you a cost estimate until I've identified the part…"
At this point, everything went fuzzy as I tried to calculate how many of my freshly-painted tiles it would cost to get my truck back. That was three hours ago and I'm still waiting to hear from Adrian. Not sure how to interpret this silence; I do, however, still maintain a pale but deliberate hope that this mystery 'part' has been identified by Toyota, thanks to the prototype '98 Rav4, as useless (which is why it's not in the manuals) and can simply be removed, appendix-like, without consequence.
Part 2: The Vine
As if this weren't enough for one single mother, needy, vulnerable artist (I'm working on projecting that particular outward image, as I've concluded that most dateable men gravitate toward relationships that offer some potential for heroism and/or rescue), I step outside and find an offending vine creeping over the wall and into my airspace.
Long story short, my neighbor who will remain nameless (ideal neighbor in every respect–quiet, gone a lot, pleasant when she's home) had her yard landscaped last year. They did a good job, but the thing I've noticed about most landscapers: they sell plants, they don't grow or live with plants. So they planted a Silver Lace vine (also known as Queen Ann's Lace, or Pain In The Ass Creeper) against our shared wall where it can crawl up to the trellis and create a privacy screen. Not a bad idea, except that Silver Lace vines are from hell — very aggressive, no redeeming qualities such as fragrant flowers or hummingbird attraction (unlike honeysuckle or trumpet vines), drop seeds everywhere, and are virtually undefeatable in their ability to thrive in shade, sun, draught, volcanic ash, whatever. I mean, let's face it, any plant whose description includes, "May be a noxious weed or invasive," should not be planted in the midst of other landscaping. (I already have my side of the wall planted with lovely climbing roses which will also create a privacy screen.)
So, last year after unidentified neighbor excitedly showed me her new landscaping, I explained all this to her. I presented a better alternative to the Silver Lace, honeysuckle, and showed her what they look and smell like. She enthusiastically agreed that she'd prefer one of those over the Silver Lace. I offered to buy AND plant it for her… she said great, she'd let me know. Never heard back. I can't really see what's going on in her yard because she's got it hermetically sealed with walls, fences, gates, trellises, so I assumed she'd eliminated the offending vine. That is, until 2 hours ago when I spotted this:
And what's worse–unidentified neighbor has tied a string there on the trellis to facilitate the upward climb!!!!
My first instinct was to immediately cut the creepers down from my side, and I thought maybe I should just do that indefinitely… or maybe try talking to my neighbor again…. but I'd already tried that… until I came up with a better idea.
I've decided that I'll remain absolutely silent on the subject and even let the creepers grow (they've literally grown another inch since this morning), but secretly eliminate them. How? With a little "medicine" administered under cover of the night. I'll simply take a 1″ hose, slink it down over the wall to the ground where the evil vine is rooted, then pour a good dose of Round Up Tough Weed & Brush killer through a funnel, down the hose, and voila. It'll work like a charm. The vine will simply die of what appears to be indecipherable but natural causes, perhaps over a 2-week time period, and my neighbor, who's not a gardener, will never know what happened. Eventually, (the hope is), she'll conclude that it's not a suitable location for the Silver Lace vine and replace it with something different.
I realize I am putting myself and my neighborly relationship at great risk by writing about this, but it's extremely unlikely that my neighbor will find this blog, let alone read it. (If it disappears suddenly, you can assume I was wrong.) I also realize that this plan makes me somewhat of a garden terrorist and is in direct conflict with my normally staunch life-loving-and-preserving constitution… but I can't help it. I do have my limits. And I've had a hard day.
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I once went to the cinema to see The Year of Living Dangerously starring I think a pre-Alien Sigourney Weaver. I was sat in the cinema and due to cock up it ended up being The Evil Dead which is not normally a film I would choose. However,with open mind I engaged with the mayhem and I'm (fairly) sure that your plant featured and I think it snared a girly running through the woods and then ran amok with her so to speak. So you do well to be afraid (be very afraid). This could of course be all mixed up memories that I could verify with google god but who wants accurate? There is a plant out there that does terrible things to girls and it's heading your way……


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"Hey," he called softly, reaching out to put his hand on wiL's shaking shoulder. There was a tiny squeak in response, so Gerard slipped his arm around wiL's stomach and slid him closer to the middle of the bed, all the while thinking this was a bad idea and hoping wiL didn't interpret it wrongly. WiL squirmed around a bit before hesitantly tucking his head under Gerard's chin.
"Are you okay?" Gerard asked hesitantly, biting back the urge to puke everywhere because this just didn't feel right. Social situations weren't easy for him. He couldn't just smooth down wiL's hair and tell him everything's okay like Mikey could.
WiL made some sort of affirmative noise and nodded, pulling away and arching his back to look up at Gerard without having to be released from the hold. He smiled at Gerard and his insides went for a loop, his intestines painfully twisting around his spleen and launching itself up into his throat. Gerard didn't know yet what to make of the feeling, if it was just apprehension or if he really was going to be sick.
"Merci, Gerard." WiL's voice was barely a whisper against the patter of rain that all but drowned out his words.
Gerard sputtered out a "You're welcome," before tearing his gaze to the ceiling fan and keeping it there, using it as his sobriety point to pull him away and make himself numb.
Mikey tried to keep what masculinity he had left--the unicorns and tutu did a number on his rep--and not squeal like a girl when he went into the living room the next morning at the ungodly hour of 5:19 to check on his brother and wiL. All night he had worried that they wouldn't get along, that Gerard wouldn't let wiL come and live with him. In the short time that Mikey had known wiL, he'd come very attached to him. He was adorable, Alicia loved him, and he was really sweet. Mikey honestly thought that wiL was perfect for Gerard, this wasn't some stupid joke that he wanted to play on his brother. At the beginning, yeah, he just wanted to see the look on Gerard's face when he found out that he had a wife, but this had turned out a lot better than Mikey could have ever imagined.
He jumped up when he heard his name coming from Gerard, knowing this wasn't going to be pleasant. Gerard looked up at his brother, not moving in fear of waking the boy nestled into his chest.
"I don't want to hear shit about this in the morning. And don't tell your evil wife either." He narrowed his eyes, stressing that last part. Because Alicia would tell Jamia, and Jamia would tell Frank, and Frank would tell Bob, and Bob would...well, no, Frank would tell Ray too, and Gerard would end up being made fun of for the rest of forever.
Mikey would have scoffed loudly if wiL didn't look so damn peaceful. "Shut up, she's not evil, you are. Well, right now you look pretty fuckin' sweet, but most of the time you're pure, nerdy evil. Like, Mandark evil." And, with his obscure cartoon reference done for the morning, Mikey turned and skipped up the steps to finally get a little bit of sleep before the damned sun came up and made things chirp. Like, birds and squirrels and other shit that could possibly disturb him.
WiL looked positively entranced as he watched Alicia make pancakes for breakfast, every now and then adding a commentary that she couldn't understand but made her coo and pat him on the head nevertheless. Gerard sat at the island-thing in the middle of the kitchen on a stool beside Mikey, hoping that Mikey wouldn't find the need to break the silence and mention anything about seeing him wrapped up with wiL this morning. After the pancakes were done and set in front of his little brother, Gerard felt himself pretty safe, and reached out to fork himself a pancake out onto his own plate. Alicia and wiL stood on the opposite side of the island, neither feeling the urge to go get a seat to use or sit at the kitchen table that was just feet away.
It was Alicia who, not being able to stand the silence while the boys stuffed their faces, started up a conversation.
"So, Gerard, you're taking wiL back to your house today?" She asked, hoping that he didn't want wiL so she could adopt him and smother him to death with all the motherly attention she had no one else to use on, because she sure as hell was not getting pregnant.
Gerard poked at his pancakes moodily before answering, sighing like the world was ending. "Yep."
Mikey scoffed loudly to make up for earlier when he couldn't. "Oh my god, you had to go all drama queen to say one word? You're pathetic. I don't know if we should trust you to take care of wiL."
"We shouldn't! He can stay here and I can cuddle him and make him a sweater and tell him to brush his teeth!" Alicia piped up.
"Shut up, he's mine, remember?" Gerard growled. Not that he was getting protective of the kid, but depriving his brother and sister-in-law of an outlet for all their...parental wishes was funny.
"But you didn't want him yesterday!" Alicia wailed.
"Well, he's still mine, so get over it!"
"But I want to keep him...he's like a little kid that I didn't have to go through 20 hours of labor and 3 years of diapers to get. And, he's fucken adorable, look at his pretty eyes! And his cute ears! You can't take him out of New York, I'll die!" With that cry, Alicia collapsed on the table and pouted. WiL glanced over at her, concerned, and poked her in the shoulder.
She poked her head up and glanced over at him. A smile grew on her lips and she threw her arms around him, kissing him on the cheek. "Aw, wiL, you're such a sweetie! I'm gonna leave my husband for you."
Mikey threw his fork at Gerard. "You are not! Gerard, take him away!" He gestured wildly between the two until Gerard, annoyed, stood up from his stool, and all gesturing/raping of wiL stopped.
He sighed, and, with a shake of his head, held out his hand. "Come on, wiL."
WiL scampered over to Gerard in a hurry, latching himself onto him immediately because he knew his place. Gerard took him into the living room, where they sat and watched an odd cartoon about a purple dog that was afraid of everything. He smiled when Gerard put an arm around him and didn't move it away. He leaned into Gerard's side and focused on yet another talking dog. This one was funnier.
There were three trashbags full of things that Gerard had to lug out to his car without help because his brother was a scumbag who'd rather watch Gerard lift heavy things than help. Alicia was busy...raping, or whatever she was doing with wiL, so Gerard was left to the demeaning task alone. And, half the shit that was in the bags were clothes that Alicia bought for wiL. That Gerard really wanted to borrow. He noticed a few awesome jackets and scarves mixed up in the flurry of other things.
With one last grunt of displeasure, Gerard chucked the very last bag into the back of his car and slammed the trunk shut, hoping that he didn't break anything. "Michael, you suck and I hope Alicia leaves you," Gerard told his brother conversationally as he pushed past him to get into the building. Mikey fell into step behind him as they both ascended the steps.
"Well, if you don't take wiL away soon it could very well happen!" Gerard laughed because...well that would be really funny. He almost wanted it to happen just so Mikey got a nice taste of revenge.
"Wouldn't it be poetic justice that the wife you ordered for me without my permission steals your wife away?" Gerard smiled at the indignant poke to the back he got and quickened his pace up the stairs. He actually was a little worried that Alicia would be doing naughty things to the poor kid, and he didn't want to live with wiL if he constantly wakes up with nightmares about girls in too much eyeliner trying to get his pants off.
He poked his head into Mikey's apartment and called out warily, "Alicia? You're not raping anything, are you?"
"No!...Well, not your boyfriend, at least!"
Gerard scowled at the answer, wiL was not his boyfriend. Just his...hell, he didn't even know what to call him. He didn't know if they were actually married--ugh, wouldn't that be awful? And it is just like Mikey to go get him married legally without him knowing. That meant that if he got divorced, that he would be divorced, and he wasn't ready to have that hanging over his head. And did this mean that he wasn't allowed to date ever again? What if his true love was out there somewhere and he couldn't go look because he was married already? Oh, and did he have to get rings too? Because then his fans would sent mail about whatever girl they think he's married to and how they aren't good enough for him.
Mikey poked his head into the doorway over Gerard's shoulder. It amazed him how his little brother was taller than him.
"Hey, you're only supposed to be raping me!" he whimpered.
Alicia came into the living room pulling wiL in her wake. He was in an over-size gray sweater with cats all over it that made him look really small. "Doesn't he look absolutely adorable, Mikey? Can we adopt him, please? Gerard, fuck you, you can't have him, I love him too much, and you'll probably let him starve to death, and I swear to god that if you don't bring him to visit more than once a week I'll chop your dick off." She was brandishing scissors, and Gerard completely believed her. And he didn't know why he allowed sharp objects in Mikey and Alicia's apartment. It was a recipie for disaster.
Gerard raised his finger in the air, the sign that he could get just as bitchy. "No, you can not adopt him, because he is close to your age, he's mine, and I will bring him around as much as I want, and why the hell do you have scissors? And don't tell me you cut a lock of his hair."
Alicia pouted and held up a baby book. "I needed it. And I need his fingerprints too. So...fuck off."
Gerard looked over at wiL who was looking despondant leaning up against the wall, picking at the ends of his sleeves that almost entirely hid his fingers. Dark hair fell across his eyes and he was biting his lip, and damn if he didn't look cute. A little prickling sensation bothered Gerard's heart region. WiL looked up, flicking hair out of his eyes, and blushed.
"Licia?" he asked quietly.
Alicia turned around, visibly melting. "Yeah, sweetie?" Her voice was so sugary Gerard felt a caffiene rush.
"Je dois mettre dessus mon maquillage," he told her, pointing to his eyes.
"Hm? Something wrong with your eyes?"
He shook his head and made his hand into like he was holding a pencil, then held it to his eyes. Alicia frowned, but Gerard huffed and stepped forward to grab wiL's hand. He led wiL to the bathroom and dug out Mikey's eyeliner because wiL's was already packed into the car.
"Here ya go," he said, handing it over to wiL. He noticed in the mirror that he didn't have any makeup on either, but he it wasn't a big deal. He was just driving home. WiL's face lit up and he leaned up to peck Gerard's cheek.
"Merci tellement, Gerard! Vous êtes merveilleux."
Gerard didn't fully understand what he said--he heard thank you--but he knew it was good because wiL was looking up at him with a smile wider than he'd ever seen on his pretty face. "You're welcome, I guess," he muttered, a little flustered at the kiss, but he knew it was the European thing to do. He'd probably kiss someone who just gave him eyeliner as well.
He stood back against the wall as wiL leaned into the mirror and put the eyeliner on, smiled at the way he cursed in French when he jerked and messed up. He turned around and put his hand on his hip, shooting Gerard a pout. Gerard pouted back and got a smile.
"Je suis pardon," Gerard said, suddenly proud that he was a nerd who looked up ways to apologize in other languages. WiL didn't reply, just turned back around to the mirror and finished. When he was done, he turned to Gerard, eyeliner stick still perched between his fingers.
"Peux je faire votre maquillage?" wiL asked, pointing to Gerard's eyes. Gerard faked a sigh, and nodded.
"Yeah, go ahead."
He leaned back as wiL went to work on his own eyes. He kept waiting to be poked in the eye but it never happened. WiL was really careful not to poke him or crush him between the wall or anything like that. When wiL pulled back so he could see into the mirror, he smiled at his reflection. It wasn't half bad.
"Thanks, wiL."
"You're welcome, Ger-rard," wiL replied in his broken English.


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THE MARCH UPON CHEAT MOUNTAIN.--In the hurried notice published in the paper yesterday morning of the march of the Confederate forces upon the Federal fort on the top of Cheat Mountain, it was erroneously stated that the force from Gen. Lee's camp, under Col. Anderson, was intended to join that from Gen. Jackson's camp, in the attack upon the Federal fortification. Col. Anderson was only to engage the enemy stationed at the foot of Cheat Mountain, on the west side, not far from Huttonsville, while Col. Rust assaulted the fort. Col. Anderson advanced upon the enemy as arranged, and had engaged him, the firing being heard by Col. Rust's men. The result of it was not known at Gen. Jackson's camp Saturday night.Richmond Daily Dispatch, 18 September 1861.
The fort on Cheat Mountain is said to be a defence almost impregnable. Some of our men, Col. Rust himself among them, have approached it so nearly as to look over into it and see all that was going on in it and also the exact nature of the fortification. It is built on the summit of Cheat Mountain, in Randolph county, just where the road crosses upon a hill which has no level land on its top, but suddenly descends on both sides. The forest along the road at this point, as for many miles of the adjacent country, consists of the white pine, which are tall and stand close together, while the undergrowth is almost wholly mountain laurel, so dense and interlocked as to be almost impenetrable. Here the enemy cleared several acres on each side of the road. On the outer boundary they placed the tall pines they had cut down, partially trimmed and skinned, with their tops outward; presenting to any one approaching a mass of sharp points raised to a considerable height, and strongly interlocked. Inside of this they built a wall of logs and cut a deep ditch. In the road they built up, in line with the fortification, breastworks of great strength and mounted them with pivot guns, while in the centre they erected a blockhouse pierced and armed also with cannon,--On the east side from the fort to the Cheat River, one mile and a quarter distance, they cleared the road for some distance on both sides, and this can be all the way swept by the cannon. the same is the case on the road westward for some distance.
This powerful fort or stockade it was thought might be surprised and taken, and it was for this that the force under Colonels Rust and Taliaferro left the camp of General Jackson on Monday, the 9th last. That camp is in Pocahontas county, on Greenbrier river, at the foot of Greenbrier Mountain (and not the Cheat, as has been stated.) Taking four days provisions they marched, in high spirits, by a circuitous route which was fully twenty miles to the fort, while the direct one was only ten. This route was much of it impassable to horses, and almost to man. It lay through the pine and laurel thickets, and along the bed of the Cheat river itself, in which for miles the men patiently marched over rocks and through deep holes, as preferable to the dense forest. Wednesday night they slept on the wet ground, in hearing of the enemy's camp. The next morning they approached it, killed several pickets, and arrested some prisoners. They got on both sides the fort and reconnoitered it fully, and decided not to attack. In the afternoon they resumed their return march, and on Friday striking a shorter route than that they had gone, they reached "Slaven's Cabin," on the Parkersburg Road, where they met soldiers with provisions, which were very timely, as they had only taken four days' supply with them. Fatigued and almost worn out, this intrepid expedition reached the camp on Saturday, the 14th inst. There could not be a more laborious and fatiguing march than that they had endured. A good part of the time it rained in torrents, and they returned drenched, as well as weary.
Col. Anderson, it is supposed, also had a march of great hardship. He left General Lee's camp, which is, or was on the line of Randolph and Pocahontas counties, at Valley Mountain. It was understood that he was to reach the enemy at the foot of Cheat Mountain, on the West side, without observation, if possible. He therefore traveled through much such obstacles as those the troops on the other side of the mountain encountered. He accomplished his object and engaged the enemy as is known; but the result has not yet come to hand.
General Lee had, before Col. A. marched in this expedition, issued an order for an advance; but whether his whole body has advanced or not we have not heard. The following order, of the 9th, speaks of the previous one for and advance:
September 10, 1861.}
Special Orders, No.---- The forward movement announced to the Army of the Northwest, in special orders, No. 28, from its headquarters of this date, gives the general commanding the opportunity of exhorting the troops to keep steadily in view the great principles for which they content, and to manifest to the world their determination to maintain them. The eyes of the country are upon you. The safety of your homes, and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self-government, liberty, and peace in him find a defender. The progress of this army must be forward!
(Signed,) R.E. LEE,Recurring to the remarkable fort on Cheat Mountain, while it is creditable to the ingenuity of the enemy, it induces a very earnest regret that we ourselves had not held that position when we had it. But if it cannot be taken, of course it can and will be turned. Gen. Lee has, indeed, already turned it; but he has still some hope of taking it, which we suppose this expedition will induce him to abandon. It is defended by 1,200 men, who are good with their protection against probably as many thousand. But if our forces march on beyond it, the position is useless to the enemy, and will have to be abandoned.
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As an experiment, I used a scoop of Fage greek-style yogurt as the culture for my last batch of yogurt. The result was very surprising: an astoundingly thick and creamy yogurt! But it also had one other characteristic I'm not sure I like.
I really love a sour flavor to my yogurt, and this yogurt made with Fage lacked this lovely tartness completely. It was like thick, creamy...milk. As used to sour as I am, this just tasted weird to me.
Up until now, I'd used Dannon yogurt as my original culture (and then used a scoop from each batch as the seed for the next). The yogurt this made was perfectly sour - almost too sour.
The next time I was at the store, I compared packages of Dannon and Fage, and I found my answer. All yogurts are required to have L. bulgaricus and S. thermophilus, but the Dannon contained an extra bacteria called L. acidophilus. This is a particularly acid-loving bacteria, and I think this must be the primary bacteria responsible for that sour flavor.
By the way, everything I've read indicates that the yogurt used as culture should have little or no affect on the texture of the yogurt. Flavor and nutritional profile, yes, but the texture comes from your process. This is why I was so surprised that the creamy and thick Fage culture made a creamy and thick homemade yogurt. Granted, my yogurt was somewhat looser than the original Fage, but the similarities were still incredible.
Honestly, I did this experiment not expecting the culture to make any difference at all. I wonder if the L. acidophilus causes the milk proteins to coagulate differently? In my next experiment, I'll try inoculating the milk with half Fage and half Dannon to see if it's possible to get the best of both worlds.
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I make my yogurt in the crockpot, and when I add the culture (usually the smallest, least expensive container of plain yogurt), I also add about 1/4 C. of organic nonfat dry milk. It firms up nicely, then I strain the batch with a Donvier yogurt cheese maker. I prefer the less sour flavor, and I'll put a large scoop on a bowl of hot butternut squash soup, then add fresh chives!
Even though I make yogurt at least once a week, the batches are not consistent. Fage culture made very sour yogurt, but then, I may have let it sit too long. I like Emmi brand Swiss yogurt and I also add dry milk. I have never tried to be scientific about it, just tried a few different brands. I suppose the inconsistent results are part of the magic of cooking. Anyway, it is always good.
I use a freeze-dried starter I get at the health food store called Yogourmet. It has all three of the L. bacteria you noted. It comes in six small packets, needs to be refrigerated, costs about $5.00, and is enough for six quarts. I get consistently good results with it.
For thick, smooth, creamy yogurt, make sure you keep the milk just below a simmer for about ten minutes before cooling it and adding the starter (the surface should look foamy). When I don't do this, my yogurt is thin and runny, no matter how much/what kind of starter I add.
For tart yogurt, make sure you let it sit long enough-- about fourteen hours at 110F gets it to my preferred level of tartness.
I agree w/missjulia - if I want my yogurt more tart, I let it ferment longer.
Thicker? Add dry milk powder or strain it at the end.
I think you'd have better results if you used a better quality yogurt. Dannon is barely yogurt and contains a lot of thickeners. The additivies aren't bad, per se, gums and whatnot. But they are not indicators of quality yogurt. The best results come from natural yogruts that don't have stabelizers.
that happened to me ... just wait a day or 2. it sours as it sits in the frig.
We are on our fourth week of homemade yogurt - the first batch was made with a few tablespoons of Greek Gods - and it was good.
The next time, we used Oikos (from Stonyfield Farm) - another greek style yogurt without added pectin, but has five live cultures: S. thermophilus, L. bulgaricus, L. acidophilus, Bifidus, and L. casei.
The third and fourth were made with strained homemade yogurt. The flavor and texture are wonderful, but we do strain the half gallon down to a quart. We use a rice pot for prep and heating pad for 7 hours once it's all mixed.
Now, if I had a good use for a quart of whey - we don't keep pigs!
We have found that using Byblos yogurt as a culture also consistently produces a creamier yogurt. Haven't noticed that it is less sour, but we tend to like it sour and let it ferment quite a bit anyhow.
We have tried many different commercial yogurts as starter, but Bylos remains our favorite.
You can find Byblos at Middle Eastern, Persian, or Halal groceries. It's in a blue and white container and is delicious!
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'll try letting my yogurt ferment longer - I've been doing 7 hours, but will try longer.
More heat as well? Greek yogurt cultures are highly thermophilic.


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