–glad you’re here. :]

Hola, I’m Talia and I’m glad you’re here. Hahahah I sound like Mr. Rogers. Feel free to browse around. Go on a wild-goose-link-chase. All content on this blog unless otherwise noted is property of Talia Kolker–if you want to use something, all you have to do is ask. :]

If you want to know who Talia Kolker is, I’m a 21-year-old community-college art student interested in emerging theology, activism, art/music/literature, current events, politics and many random things. I often get called a hippie, a beatnik, a flower child. I live out in the middle of nowhere, aka a rural vicinity, so when folks ’round here want to insult me, they call me a liberal. ;] I am a hardcore feminist and don’t you forget it. I am a quirkyalone. If you don’t know what that means, it means I’m single and picky and proud of it. I can lick my elbow [there's a trick to it, and being..compact..doesn't hurt] and if I touch something cold with my hands, my fingers turn blue and white because of a funky circulation condition called Primary Raynaud’s Phenomenon, or as my friends prefer, Rhinocerouseritous. I like novelty t-shirts, my Oscar the Grouch slippers, I like gogo boots, peace signs and street lights. I like the Jonas Brothers and I like black nail polish and big earrings. I like voting. I like chocolate, I like campfires, county fairs and going to church. I like NPR, PRI, Joni Mitchell, strawberries and volunteering. I like Wall-E, giraffes, book-binding and stores and restaurants that aren’t just links in a chain. I like colored jeans, Disney movies, the Legend of Zelda, and veganism. I like making things with my hands, working for something I want, and giving people presents. I like castles, unicorns, sea monsters and local bands. I like to design and make my own clothes, I collect records and vintage books and I’ve just decided out of the blue to start a collection of political campaign buttons. And I would love to meet you and learn about who you are!

If you want to know what the heck this blog is about, sorry. Ha. It’s not very cohesive, is it? Yeah, but neither am I, so it works for me. My interests are all over the board, it seems. So if you feel that I blog like a tripped-out schizo or a team of monkeys, rest assured that no, it’s just me, always and forever.

TOPICS COMING UP:

-how to propose to your boyfriend
-the politics of homosexuality
-Gentleman’s Agreement
-swear words aren’t really swear words at all
-Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland genius concept art
-the Bible is not God’s Word
-John Rock, or my favorite new Danish sensation
-Jon Bon Jovi and Joan Baez singing in Persian
-the modesty myth, or why you shouldn’t let fear of public opinion dictate your fashion sense
-rapture/”end times” theology and self-fulfilling prophecies
-why the war in Iraq is sexist
-asexuality
-Talia
-sexism is ingrained in the very words we use
-Eleventyseven, or unicorns
-the fate of Sodom & Gomorrah was not a condemnation of gay sex
-Bathsheba part iii: influence on culture and the web
-the minor prophets: why it’s convenient for the Church to continue to ignore them, and why it shouldn’t
-Irael v. Palestine, or Israel & Palestine v. Peace
-”God bless America”?
-poetry inspired by the Scopes Trial [from Ringside, 1925]
-Saudi music, fine. An all-woman metal band? YEAHHH.
-coloring pages!