The dog is snoring with his eyes open. I wanted to ask if I snore with my eyes open. It was really freaky when I first woke up and saw his eyes were open and he was snoring.

I used the baby dolls in my metaphor about consent because baby dolls have their eyes open, and we really don’t know if they are sleeping or not. You have to check, I said. You have to flash a light back and forth in their eyes. I think it was the sharpie somebody had scrawled on one of their foreheads that said ‘this baby doll is alive.’

Gene cooking meat on the stove, something he does for stress-relief

Sia has this song called “Alive” in which she sings about being on a one-way track to the place where all the demons go, no hope, just lies.

That’s what I think of institutions

for people who deal with PTSD

She was probably talking about Rehab

Little Sia is doing karate in the music video

Wax on, wax off

Little Sia is a dancer

I think of all the articles about how queer night clubs have lost their place as a staple among our community and wonder why and what has taken its place. In Minneapolis, there is a thriving artist scene. Is that what has stepped up to fill the shoes of the prodigal, or is it just the circles I am in? Either way, it’s hard to find your own people. I’m sure you just got to keep doing the damn thing until something clicks.