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Any one of these sites always provides me with enough energy to keep my self-righteous and admittedly arrogant perspective. They're all fine pieces of work, all updated often, and all sufficiently bitter to allow me the belief that perhaps everything isn't going to Disney after all...


Journaling things with an off-straight tone

Planet Soma
This is probably the only website I will actually call up multiple times in one day. Dave, the site's owner, has enough angry invective to make any yuppie crawl in shame, enough decency to appreciate Chick-fil-a, and a wonderfully healthy desire to bring down gay America from its A&F high.

Stapled or Bound
Sis started writing. Very personal, self-exposing thoughts. I love my sister more than ever.

Bringdown
I pass as someone angry and bitter. This fellow doesn't pass--he embodies. I'm particularly fond of his Artistic Prison and his Moron of the Month feature. This is, as he puts it, "your online resource for relentless negativity."

Blithe House Quarterly
Smart lesbian and gay fiction and poetry. Still haven't found any stories that annoy me... That is a good thing.

Ron's Log
So he rides bikes, likes big engineering projects, has a thing for Macs and toys, appreciates handsome men, travels, and has opinions. What else could you look for?


District of Calumny

Crossing the River: Race, Geography and the Federal Government in Anacostia
I became even more fascinated with the turbulent history of the District of Columbia after reading this thoroughly researched exposition of the history of one of DC's most lambasted areas. I must admit that after biking through Anacostia I couldn't help but notice that a crime-ridden area can still be beautiful in a whole new way...

DC Darkside
It has finally been revived. My friend Adam had a book in his living room called Washington Undercover, a 1950s pulp fiction exposé of DC's seamy underbelly. It made for great comic relief. DC Darkside does just the opposite: in exposing the ugly side of DC it brings out the sense of ominous reality that the marble-faced monuments hide from the omnipresent tourists.