Li Patron
@lesliepatron.bsky.social
poet & essayist. San Jose, CA!
Told my partner about the famous cliff scene dilemma in The Good Son. Their reaction? If she’d done more strength training, she could’ve saved them both.
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Told my partner about the famous cliff scene dilemma in The Good Son. Their reaction? If she’d done more strength training, she could’ve saved them both.
You probably know that —across the pond—someone put a labubu on Karl Marx’s grave. But did you know in Santa Clara, CA, a mystery human put a walkie-talkie on Tiburcio Vásquez’s grave?
Tending to Tiburcio Vasquez's Grave
Plus those of my long-dead Californio relations (as usual, on repeat)
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
You probably know that —across the pond—someone put a labubu on Karl Marx’s grave. But did you know in Santa Clara, CA, a mystery human put a walkie-talkie on Tiburcio Vásquez’s grave?
Last week I journeyed to an old haunt to see a film screening hosted by @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Did Somebody Say Passing Jewels?
A Dispatch from San Francisco's Roxie Theater
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Last week I journeyed to an old haunt to see a film screening hosted by @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
Will my organ palpitate on demand?
Thirteen Hours of Making My Pulse Throb
As long as you're living, your heart beats on repeat.
open.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Will my organ palpitate on demand?
Love to learn about a mysterious collab between a genderfluid songwriter and a San Jose single mom in the 1970s, wherein old San Jose White Pages led to fresh clues.
Kathy Heideman: The Earth Won't Hold Me
Sometime in the mid-'70s, a young country singer named Kathy Heideman walked into Tiki Studios in San Jose, California to do a job. She was there to record a set of songs written by a woman she'd just...
numerogroup.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Love to learn about a mysterious collab between a genderfluid songwriter and a San Jose single mom in the 1970s, wherein old San Jose White Pages led to fresh clues.
Is it maladaptive daydreaming or maladaptive daycreaming?!
Who Even Wants to Return to Earth?
On Maladaptive Daydreaming, Reverie, and Dr. Tiktok
open.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Is it maladaptive daydreaming or maladaptive daycreaming?!
In the most recent episode of The Challenge, Turbo says of Johnny Bananas: “be humble, bitch.” And while I find Turbo’s bluster to be super unpleasant as a rule, I also think I’ve found my new favorite clapback.
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In the most recent episode of The Challenge, Turbo says of Johnny Bananas: “be humble, bitch.” And while I find Turbo’s bluster to be super unpleasant as a rule, I also think I’ve found my new favorite clapback.
Would you eat chips and salsa with the (former) mean girls who tormented you at recess? I lived to tell the tale.
The Fool Walks into the Sun: On Middle School Reunions and The People Under the Stairs (1991)
A practice is anything you do repeatedly.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Would you eat chips and salsa with the (former) mean girls who tormented you at recess? I lived to tell the tale.
Hunting Wives: a Netflix show about how, when a $$$ liberal white woman with an iffy past moves to Texas, she deserts her beliefs to find belonging with pro-life NRA wives and have illicit lesbian sex on boar hunting trips. Then she gets ensnared in a murder plot. The risk puts everyone in heat.
July 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hunting Wives: a Netflix show about how, when a $$$ liberal white woman with an iffy past moves to Texas, she deserts her beliefs to find belonging with pro-life NRA wives and have illicit lesbian sex on boar hunting trips. Then she gets ensnared in a murder plot. The risk puts everyone in heat.
Mutual Aid Request: Courteney, the medium I work with on my book manuscript in progress, needs help covering a few nights in a rental room til a spot in a shelter opens up. She is eight-months pregnant and needs space to rest! Please join me in sending what you can. Her PayPal is @pinkfuzzylumpkins.
July 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Mutual Aid Request: Courteney, the medium I work with on my book manuscript in progress, needs help covering a few nights in a rental room til a spot in a shelter opens up. She is eight-months pregnant and needs space to rest! Please join me in sending what you can. Her PayPal is @pinkfuzzylumpkins.
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it's so funny to me that Trump is just describing Mexican Coke
July 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
it's so funny to me that Trump is just describing Mexican Coke
In this post about repetition, I—an extremely lapsed Catholic—explore if walks around a nun’s enclosure are habit-forming.
Body of Christ, Can of Red Bull
Wherein I mourn that the title The Interior Castle is already taken.
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In this post about repetition, I—an extremely lapsed Catholic—explore if walks around a nun’s enclosure are habit-forming.
Reposted by Li Patron
We had some spots open up for #QueerCraftClub! Free event for the LGBTQIA community curious about sewing (and other crafty skills). Sewing machines available to use! Tuesday July 15th 7pm-9pm. Register here: www.jumbojibbles.com/event-detail...
Queer Craft Club - July | Jumbo Jibbles
Queer Craft Club is a queer, cis, trans friendly sewing group devoted to making friends while making stitches. Sew, crochet, knit, embroider, or mend your clothing. Or learn how!
www.jumbojibbles.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We had some spots open up for #QueerCraftClub! Free event for the LGBTQIA community curious about sewing (and other crafty skills). Sewing machines available to use! Tuesday July 15th 7pm-9pm. Register here: www.jumbojibbles.com/event-detail...
Does watching tap dancing movies with headphones on count as EMDR?
July 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Does watching tap dancing movies with headphones on count as EMDR?
Not Ginger Rogers dropping this sick burn about a telegram being read aloud with all those disruptive STOP. moments in Top Hat (1935).
July 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Not Ginger Rogers dropping this sick burn about a telegram being read aloud with all those disruptive STOP. moments in Top Hat (1935).
I exhibited superhuman strength when I forwent this miniature tote bag with a resplendent floof on it.
July 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I exhibited superhuman strength when I forwent this miniature tote bag with a resplendent floof on it.
I just found 18 four-leaf clovers and 2 five-leafers in ten minutes. I set a timer! I think this means the universe endorses me as a manic pixie dream hag.
July 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I just found 18 four-leaf clovers and 2 five-leafers in ten minutes. I set a timer! I think this means the universe endorses me as a manic pixie dream hag.
Love when the sidewalk is an archive of a cat passerby of yore
July 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Love when the sidewalk is an archive of a cat passerby of yore
Come for the gay road trip vibes, stay for the psychic horses and esoteric lore. Mount Shasta looms. Buzzards feast. I avert my gaze from the man bun prophet. (Also, follow my substack!)
On Fearing Horses and Portals
Terror repeats, as well as rest stops, ruminations, and roads.
anneshirley4u.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Come for the gay road trip vibes, stay for the psychic horses and esoteric lore. Mount Shasta looms. Buzzards feast. I avert my gaze from the man bun prophet. (Also, follow my substack!)
Workers on my corner are in the process of stringing up a new stoplight. Watching the unlit signaling device dangle and sway over the intersection is shocking for me (a person with iffy spatial awareness). They’re huge!
June 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Workers on my corner are in the process of stringing up a new stoplight. Watching the unlit signaling device dangle and sway over the intersection is shocking for me (a person with iffy spatial awareness). They’re huge!
Not me starting a substack just to find myself drowning in the stew as the substack-is-evil discourse heats up on my feed.
June 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Not me starting a substack just to find myself drowning in the stew as the substack-is-evil discourse heats up on my feed.
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The Consensus for Showdown № 214 is in! 🗳️
Here are the twenty best underseen queer films, as voted by the Letterboxd community.
View the list: boxd.it/I4vx6
Here are the twenty best underseen queer films, as voted by the Letterboxd community.
View the list: boxd.it/I4vx6
June 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Consensus for Showdown № 214 is in! 🗳️
Here are the twenty best underseen queer films, as voted by the Letterboxd community.
View the list: boxd.it/I4vx6
Here are the twenty best underseen queer films, as voted by the Letterboxd community.
View the list: boxd.it/I4vx6
I'm joining ye olde substack train (choo choo!) to write about repetition. Here's my first installment, wherein I watch Persona eleven times in eleven days. And right now it's 11:11!
Cinema as Séance: Eleven Viewings of Persona (1966)
Don't you know it's bad luck to compare hands?
anneshirley4u.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm joining ye olde substack train (choo choo!) to write about repetition. Here's my first installment, wherein I watch Persona eleven times in eleven days. And right now it's 11:11!
Reposted by Li Patron
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
Not me being contrary about someone writing STOP HERE in blue sidewalk chalk. I await further correspondence.
June 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Not me being contrary about someone writing STOP HERE in blue sidewalk chalk. I await further correspondence.