Damascus

The Basics

Name

Damascus

Location

New Jersey

About Me

About Me

I am kind of strange.

I’m a university student in northern New Jersey, just a bit away from NYC. I hail from Little Rock, Arkansas, or St. Louis, Missouri, depending on when you ask and why. I like Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith, gender studies, chocolate, and fish custard. I make geeky references all the time because I am a nerdy elitist snob who likes to see which folks get them. Sorry, non-geeks, you lose points. But hey, you probs didn’t get picked on as much in gradeschool? I hope not, anyway.

Links:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
http://xkcd.com/
http://www.henryjenkins.org/

Famous Ladies Who I Think Are Hot:
Ellen Page
Cate Blanchett
Eliza Dushku
Kristen Stewart
Tina Fey
Drew Barrymore
Scarlett Johansson
Keira Knightley
Emma Watson
Jennifer Ehle (only famous if you like Jane Austen but oh well)
Gina Torres (famous to Whedonites…)
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Portia de Rossi
Katee Sackhoff
Kate Winslet
Angela Bassett
Nichelle Nichols
Rosario Dawson
Natalie Portman
Elizabeth Mitchell

Man Who Looks Hottest Playing A Woman:
Lee Pace (Soldier’s Girl)

Hottest Man:
Jake Gyllenhaal. No arguments.

Check All That Apply

Genderqueer, Sexually Fluid

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

theist

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With

Relationship Status

Non-Monogamous Relationship

Virtues

I'm beautiful (and handsome), smart, kind hearted, and did I mention beautiful? But I think my best quality is my modesty.

Vices

The occasional cigarette, Being Judgmental, interrupting people.

Are You Out To Your....

Member(s) of Immediate Family, All Friends

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway, A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling, The City and the City by China Miéville, The Monster at the End of This Book,

Favorite Queer Books

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner, Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher, Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger, She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, I Am J by Cris Beam

Favorite Movies

The Crying Game, Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin), Chasing Amy, Star Wars (original trilogy), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Single Man, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Alien, Help!, I’m Not There, Don’t Look Back, The Last Waltz, Millenium Actress, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Tout Va Bien, The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S’est Arrêté), Paris Je T’aime, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Hurt Locker, Show Me Love, Let the Right One In, Adaptation, High Fidelity, Clerks, In the Mood For Love, 2046

Favorite Documentaries

Gendernauts, Bowling For Columbine, The Atomic Cafe, Gasland, Capitalism: A Love Story, Sicko, TransGeneration

Favorite TV Shows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Doctor Who, Sherlock (BBC), Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (especially any episode with Q in it), Angel, Dollhouse

Favorite Music

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Queens of the Stone Age, Cake, The Vaselines, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., The Constantines, Peaches, Garbage, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Bob Marley, Bikini Kill, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Dar Williams, Jethro Tull, Sonic Youth, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, McLusky, The Magnetic Fields, The Ramones, The Smiths, Cat Power, Elliott Smith, Jane’s Addiction, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, The Whomping Willows, Lucero, Violent Femmes, Say Anything, The Mountain Goats, Counting Crows, The Flaming Lips, Kings of Leon, They Might Be Giants, Fountains of Wayne, Broken Social Scene, The Noisettes, Of Montreal, Spoon, The Strokes, Ben Folds Five

Favorite Sandwich

Eggplant? Portobello?

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

Um…what?

Favorite Quotes

I Went to the Movies Hoping Just Once The Monster Got the Girl

He was as hungry for love as I. He lay in his cave
or castle longing for the doctor’s lovely nurse,
the archeologist’s terrific assistant while I hid
in my bedroom, acne lighting up the gloom like
a stoplight, wondering if anybody anywhere would
ever marry me.

I was hardly able to stay in my seat as the possibilities
were whittled away; her laughter at his clumsy gifts,
her terror at his dumbness and rage, his final realization
synapses lazy as fly balls connecting at last as he
stands in the rain peering through her bedroom window
she in chiffon and dainty slingbacks he looking at
his butcher shop hands knowing he could never unsnap
a bra

and in comes Jock Mahoney or Steve Cochran and takes
everything off in a wink and she kisses him over
and over, wants to kiss him has been waiting to kiss
him while the monster feels his own lips big as eels
or can’t find them at all or finds four.

I almost shouted into the dark that life with Jock
or Steve was almost something to be feared. Couldn’t
she see herself in a year or two dying at a barbecue,
another profile nobody with his tongue in her ear?
Wouldn’t she regret that she had not chosen to stay
with someone whose adoration was as gigantic as
his feet?

I went to the movies hoping that just once somebody
would see beneath the scales and stitches to the huge
borrowed heart and choose it, but each time Blob
was dissolved, Ogre subdued, Ratman trapped, Giant
Leech dislodged forever and each time Sweater Girl
ran sobbing into those predictable rolled up sleeves
I started to cry too, afraid for myself, lonely as
a leftover thumb.

“What’s the matter with him?” the cheerleaders asked
the high scorers as they filed out.

“Nothing. He’s weird, that’s all.”
—Ronald Koertge

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

EVERYTHING

Favorite Writers

Ursula K LeGuin, Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Octavia Butler, Theodore Sturgeon, Ellen Kushner