Entries from June 2006

June 28, 2006

You Could Almost Imagine Her Saying: “Just Get Me Out And I’ll Never Do This Again”

I feel. The movers fill your body with empty boxes.
The girl on my block, the Volunteer with the Christian organization, that works at the orphanage, also on my block, she’s dead

Yesterday that kitten that keeps getting stuck in places got stuck near the transmission of a running car. I was on my stomach, after seeing [...]

June 25, 2006

The Ladyboys Know How To Get Down

 
“Mary,” a Thai woman I was working with the other day goes, “what you call it when woman trapped in man body?”
“Transvestite,” someone in the car says.
 “Right, right,” she goes. I wasn’t satisfied with that.
“Transgendered, I think transgendered.” I was surprised by how confused I was getting, not able to peg it down. After all [...]