dr. queer medicine woman “fun-gressive” docsorrow at gmail Tumblr (3.0; @docsorrow)http://docsorrow.org/<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m05ywvHHSA1qa4sqro1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>There, that’s better. Now Tumblr is perfect.</p> <ul><li>Siken (<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/richard-siken#poet" target="_blank">Richard</a>)</li> <li>Sugar (<a href="http://therumpus.net/sections/dear-sugar/" target="_blank">Dear</a>)</li> <li>Swans (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hI5Eg6Ias4" target="_blank">the</a>)</li> <li>Sharon (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8Vaw5Bybk" target="_blank">Van Etten</a>)</li> </ul>http://docsorrow.org/post/18498221854http://docsorrow.org/post/18498221854Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:53:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02vjkkhzu1qiqll2o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><strong>Dear Stranger, by Shizuka Yokomizo<br/></strong></p> <p>For this 1998-2000 series of portraits, photographer Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:</p> <p>“<span>Dear Stranger,</span></p> <p><span>I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”</span></p> <p><span>The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).</span></p> <p><span>Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.<br/></span></p> </blockquote>http://docsorrow.org/post/18417716330http://docsorrow.org/post/18417716330Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:04:27 -0500artphotographyShizuka Yokomizoneat!<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjygay6Ay1qa4sqro1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>hey, people who have enjoyed my stuff over at <a href="http://thehairpin.com/user/1762/lola-mcclure" target="_blank">the hairpin</a> or here: i’d like to write more, since dr. party is for the people and i’m now mostly done with 12-hour days of searing medical information into my brain for all eternity.</p> <p>is there anything you’d like to <strong>ask a question</strong> or <strong>learn more</strong> about because i will DO THIS FOR YOU SO HAPPILY here are some categories:</p> <ul><li>sexual health (vag a specialty. IUDs? UTIs? BV? Menstrual cups? Birth control secrets?!!? & etc.)</li> <li>regular medicine, the kind that happens to the rest of your body</li> <li>booze and drugs safety or, more importantly, mastery </li> <li>anything psych (would you like to talk about adderall, or benzos)</li> </ul><p>docsorrow at gmail or replyyyy beloooowww?</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/17776970463http://docsorrow.org/post/17776970463Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:36:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5ppqgFiN1qa4sqro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>the above photo depicts a pizza i received on january 19th 2012, my 26th birthday, a fateful event that has divided my lifetime into “birthdays before i experienced true friendship in the form of a pizza with my name on it” (0 to 25) and “birthdays after a pizza so astounded and touched me that i cried eating it” (26 to death)</p> <p>how is it possible that a pizza could be so meaningful? <a href="http://www.agentlover.com" target="_blank">marie agentlover</a>, my greatest friend, called <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/best-pizza-brooklyn" target="_blank">my favorite pizzeria</a> from her mansion in los angeles and long-distance ordered the above-pictured large pie, coordinating with surprise birthday party planners <a href="http://going-forever.tumblr.com" target="_blank">dylan</a> and <a href="http://emotionalprobs.tumblr.com" target="_blank">kelly</a> on the ground in brooklyn to pick it up. when i showed up at my party it was waiting for me in a warmed oven. dylan, kelly, and most of all marie who is my witch-twin and constant gchat inspiration: you are my heart.</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/17766529443http://docsorrow.org/post/17766529443Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5rpsjZ4R1qa4sqro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>middletown, ct</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/17706822991http://docsorrow.org/post/17706822991Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:00:05 -0500<p><em>lola mcclure to lex </em><br/><em>Feb 9 (2 days ago)</em></p> <p>lex,</p> <p>something bothering me. can you confirm as reality: we were driving by those strip malls in cromwell, ct and out of nowhere! a horse galloping past an auto parts store or a petco or whatever, then disappearing?</p> <p>wasn’t i wearing an eyepatch, too? while driving? <em>for style?</em></p> <p>love, <br/>lola</p> <p><em>lex to me </em><br/><em> Feb 9 (2 days ago)</em></p> <p>lola,</p> <p>not only did both those things happen, i have photographic evidence. </p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz717h1ivp1qa059y.jpg"/></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz71bcOsuR1qa059y.jpg"/></p> <p>love,<br/>lex</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/17549346326http://docsorrow.org/post/17549346326Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0500<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5ofihUfL1qa059y.jpg"/></p> <p>06/01/08<br/><strong>Top 10 Reasons to Forget About L—— W——-</strong></p> <ol><li>Shes not the same person I fell in love with.</li> <li>She is not in love with me anymore.</li> <li>She did not like to kiss/touch/hug/sit close to/have sex with me in the end.</li> <li>She has lost her spark since she became an atheist.</li> <li>Her grades are falling, she doesn’t care about school, jobs, money, or success in life.</li> <li>She is politically ignorent, will not vote, is uniformed about world issues, and is an anarchist.</li> <li>When we spend time together we always can find nothing to do but drugs.</li> <li>She stopped shaving her pits and legs. Also, she does not shower, washes her sheets or clothes. She is a dirty hippy.</li> <li>She has the sex drive of a rock.</li> <li>I am a better person (more productive, open-minded, motivated, sober, etc….) without her.</li> </ol>http://docsorrow.org/post/17351890669http://docsorrow.org/post/17351890669Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:35:00 -0500more open minded<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz24h1NJhr1qzoj6fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://risingtensions.tumblr.com/post/17250163617/parachute-of-dark-secrets" target="_blank">risingtensions</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Parachute of Dark Secrets</em></p> </blockquote>http://docsorrow.org/post/17264180219http://docsorrow.org/post/17264180219Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:36:45 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lya7ijkTlN1qa4sqro1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>hey did you guys know that i got a <a href="http://therumpus.net/sections/dear-sugar/" target="_blank">Dear Sugar</a> tattoo on friday? from <a href="http://therumpus.net/2010/06/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-41-like-an-iron-bell/" target="_blank">#41, Like An Iron Bell</a>:</p> <p><em>“Do you realize that your refusal to utter the word love to your lover has created a force field all its own? Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.</em></p> <p><em>So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word love to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.</em></p> <p><em>We’re all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it’s dinnertime.”</em></p>http://docsorrow.org/post/16386395908http://docsorrow.org/post/16386395908Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:55:27 -0500dearsugarmyleskarrtherumpusasksugar<a href="http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/ask-another-abortion-provider-roe-vs-wade-39th-anniversary-commemorative-edition">Ask (Another) Abortion Provider: Roe vs. Wade, 39th Anniversary Commemorative Edition</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thehairpintumblr.tumblr.com/post/16363144001/ask-another-abortion-provider-roe-vs-wade-39th" target="_blank">thehairpintumblr</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“<strong>I knew I would like you instantly when I saw that you were wearing a zebra print shirt under your lab coat.”</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>i got another one up at the ‘pin! </p>http://docsorrow.org/post/16380455390http://docsorrow.org/post/16380455390Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:14:56 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxy9xeRIbl1r3itmlo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thehairpintumblr.tumblr.com/post/16012318391/these-bowtied-cervixes-are-ready-for-the-golden" target="_blank">thehairpintumblr</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>These bowtied cervixes are ready for the Golden Globes.</p> <p><a href="http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/a-scenic-guide-to-your-abnormal-pap-smear" target="_blank">A Scenic Guide to Your Abnormal Pap Smear</a></p> </blockquote> <p>i wrote a new article over on my favorite blog in the world.</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/16013889181http://docsorrow.org/post/16013889181Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:11:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxb8ksHG4V1qa4sqro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>u already know</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/15619697753http://docsorrow.org/post/15619697753Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:05 -0500“It’s important to get punched in the face when you’re young so that when you grow up you understand that it doesn’t hurt that goddamn bad, and so you don’t live in fear like a trembling baby any time someone tries to get real strong with you. This is one of my essential truths. You are welcome.”<br/><br/> - <em>close friend/personal hero lilah ringler</em>http://docsorrow.org/post/15333432207http://docsorrow.org/post/15333432207Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:32:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5gk54JYA1qd6jm1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://emotionalprobs.tumblr.com/post/15158248541/first-face-i-saw-in-2012" target="_blank">emotionalprobs</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>First face I saw in 2012. </p> </blockquote> <p>First camera I saw in 2012.</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/15162790047http://docsorrow.org/post/15162790047Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:58:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwa5spNzhT1qa4sqro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>very good sculpture presented to unappreciative ex, 2010</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/14970383719http://docsorrow.org/post/14970383719Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:40:05 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwdhrK5Tj1qa4sqro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><ul><li>Blood stains</li> <li>Blushing</li> <li>Board games</li> <li>Boating mishaps</li> <li>Body bulges</li> </ul><p>from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Readers-Digest-Practical-Problem-Solver/dp/8957734651" target="_blank">The Reader’s Digest Practical Problem Solver</a></p> <p><em>Oh, me? I’ll just be over here, solving my problems practically. Let me know if you want me to look something up for you</em></p>http://docsorrow.org/post/14913318014http://docsorrow.org/post/14913318014Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:00:00 -0500“Just for the record, I would like it known by anybody who cares that I don’t think life is a perpetual dive….We’re all stuck on this often miserable earth where life is essentially tragic, but there are glints of beauty and bedrock joy that come shining through from time to precious time to remind anybody who cares to see that there is something higher and larger than ourselves. And I am not talking about your putrefying gods, I am talking about a sense of wonder about life itself and the feeling that there is some redemptive factor you must at least search for until you drop dead of natural causes.””<br/><br/> - <em>Lester Bangs, pulled from Sheila McClear’s “The Last of the Live Nude Girls”</em>http://docsorrow.org/post/14862809022http://docsorrow.org/post/14862809022Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:00:05 -0500<p>in 2009 i was dating this guy whose most recent ex-girlfriend/current friend was throwing-plates-loose-rant jealous of me. we’d never met, so i don’t think it had much to do with me personally, but it made me feel pretty bad.</p> <p>since i’ve got a strict non-competition clause with all women, i wanted to mediate it. generally i would have tried talking to her so that she would see my poorly-applied makeup/tendency to chatter when anxious/boring taste in shoes and be like “oh, she’s just a girl, a human girl,” but she refused any contact with me. so, in lieu of my actual personality doing the work, the dude and i collaborated on a list of jealousy-diminishing lies that he could slip into conversation with her. which i just found:</p> <p><span><strong>“i mean lola’s great but she”</strong></span></p> <ol><li>can only tell digital time </li> <li>is easily beaten at monopoly</li> <li>wears 3D glasses during sex </li> <li>can’t parallel park</li> <li>paid almost a hundred dollars to see radiohead once*</li> <li>is lactose intolerant</li> <li>pronounces “mirror” “meer”</li> <li>folds her pizza in half, cheese side out, to eat it</li> <li>still wears pants backwards because of kris-kross</li> <li>only uses erasable pens</li> <li>once broke her nose running headfirst into a glass door*</li> <li>doesn’t like dogs</li> </ol><p>*unfortunately not lies</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/14806771101http://docsorrow.org/post/14806771101Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:00:06 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwsa4efO9J1qz4atgo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://melissa.tumblr.com/post/14784271914/weep-for-how-miserable-every-xmas-card-for-the" target="_blank">melissa</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Weep for how miserable every Xmas card for the rest of my life will be for me, after receiving this one from Lola.</p> </blockquote>http://docsorrow.org/post/14792049176http://docsorrow.org/post/14792049176Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:54:18 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwsd3hIWnw1qa4sqro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>gothic greetings this horrorday season from dyl + i</p>http://docsorrow.org/post/14786863218http://docsorrow.org/post/14786863218Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:52:00 -0500