Risa
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Hey man, I am open for business and ready to rumble. I am an official Ether Beta tester, so you can now talk my ear off, or get my verbal input, or get me to read to you, for twenty bucks an hour.
My additional twist: I’d like to write up people’s [...]

if you make sure to behave in a way that you’ll be able to stand by, you’ll always be able to act like you planned it when things go well.

ahh, lil risa’s blog, so quiet and demure, naive even. mostly because i see fit to abandon you periodically…
Things have been going ok over at Open. We’re staggering our way toward a functioning editorial collective I think, and the best bit about that will be the potentially explosive possibility of writing with others.
I [...]

Here I am again facing a painful old question that just seems to be getting bigger: how to operate in relation to problems of different orders of magnitude. I’m struggling these days between a kind of fractured mind, where sometimes I can focus on looking for a good little job and cleaning my apartment, and [...]

(for “how to talk to teenage boys” i put myself in the position of a teenage girl and thought of what i wished i’d known, or what i slowly figured out. this one, i’ve realized, is trickier. I never was a teenage boy. But I’ve known some teenage girls in my time, and I can [...]

or anyone, really
1. try and understand what they’re saying, even if you keep thinking they’re just stupid or insane.
2. try and get their jokes- try out their perspective on what’s funny.
3. remember that, like teenage girls, they are still largely a loose accumulation of how the world’s been marketed towards them, by corporations and by [...]

An internet friend asked me for some feedback and I went off in a long and wordy diatribe about poetry. I’ve decided to cut out the stuff directly relating to her work and to post it here for my own reference. Maybe you’ll find it interesting as well. This is the second response I’ve given [...]

I have been heaping ‘cut stuff’ from my ongoing MA thesis into this blog, some of it in public and some hovering in draft status because it’s way to messy to be really online, even in here. The ol’ thesis, thankfully, is going well. I’ve just finished going through it again from beginning to end, [...]