Edie & Thea--A Very Long Engagement

probably one of the most beautiful love stories i have ever seen. the love of these two women span over 42 years. everything about them and their love and commitment to each other is honest and heartfelt. they are also very funny. their love for dancing (and each other) never faltered. Their secret? Never let joy escape. Oh, and "keep it hot!" i recommend this documentary to everyone. not only to prove the point of how stupid it is we can't get married but also because it is such an amazing story.  without getting too political, it makes you wonder why people so against gay marriage disconnect themselves from stories like this one; that there are people who are committed to each other for decades and why can't they have the same rights and protections as straight people. they might actually be an example to straight relationships when statistically, divorce rates are at what, 50%? i think those people should all be made to watch this and understand we are just like them: we love and we form strong commitments to each other and there is nothing wrong or sick about it. anyway, everyone should see this movie. i loved it.


on a side note, i also loved being in the (packed) theater with so many older lesbians. this made me really happy. i know, some might think this is cheesy but i'm admitting it. it makes my heart warm being around the older generations of lesbians. there's so much history there and community. it's kinda hard to explain the feeling other than it feels good. then as we were walking out of the theater there was an old couple who have been together for 45 years! someone asked how long they have known each other and they said 50 years but they have been with each other for 45 years. wow, mindblowing. i wanted to stay and ask them questions and hear them talk about themselves a little longer but the crowd was moving me towards the door and Jamie and Jenny were walking ahead of me. ah well. i love hearing things like that, together for that long. especially through the decades they have lived through. it makes me look at my own life and not take so much for granted. at least i can be open about my relationships (if i live in the right place, which i do). i also have an accepting family, which many people still struggle with. i also enjoy the rights and protections fought for by their generations. i know, this is getting more political but this movie affected me and i just want to say thank you to all of those old lezzers. thank you!

Strawberry

I was just walking behind a girl who smells like those strawberry shortcake dolls from the 80's. You know the ones, where you squeeze the tummy and a small puff of super strong artificial strawberry-smell comes out of her mouth. It also lasts forever. I'm sure i could find one of those dolls and that smell will be the same as it was back in 1985. Which is kinda creepy.


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let's laugh at stupid people

come on everyone, it's a fun game. laugh at the stupid people. then feel frustrated. laugh some more. feel frustrated. rinse, repeat.



no excretions? or maybe they mean expectations...because they have them real low. good job mayor. how about you make an effort to learn the language before you start demanding other people to.



here's another gem of wisdom. what is lanaguage? oh...language. that's right. this is america and we don't know how to spell because we are overrun with morons, idiots and stupid people.


for more "teabonics" go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

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i love me some pogo

Pogo! i love this stuff. it makes me happy. :D

science

science geekery for today.

for those of you who don't know, i love evolutionary science. i also like to trip out on the idea of dinosaurs being around for 135 million years vs. humans (and human ancestors), who have only been around less than a million. puts things into perspective, eh? of particular interest in this article is lava covering roughly the size of 1/3 of the moon on earth at one point. it blows my mind.

Immense volcanic activity helped the dinosaurs rise to prominence some 200 million years ago, a study suggests.

i also love the show "life after people" because really, life will go on after people. humans are egocentric bigheads and believe an earth existing without humans is impossible. HA! that's hilarious and absurd. sure, the earth will need to go through some changes and it might take a few thousand, million years to erase the human mess but what will evolve after and in those conditions? i want to know! would creatures be smaller? or will big things roam around again? or will it be a bunch of insects having a big bug party. or will it be things totally new and different. there could be new creatures who can digest plastic because there will be loads of it. how would that be for an evolutionary advantage. maybe it will be oceancentric and everything will be back in the water again. possiblities are endless.

HOUSE

i met clinton at huber's yesterday after work and i took some pictures of the bathroom o'danger. danger to me anyway. this time i did watch my step and didn't have a moment of i'm-going-to-land-on-my-face-and-embarrass-myself-because-i-ignored-the-sign. i also checked to make sure i wasn't full of it saying there was nothing on the inside of the door warning people of the sheer drop you would experience upon stepping out of the door. i was correct, no warning. you have to make sure to repeat "step down" to yourself in your spanish coffee haze. not "step up" because that would cause you to look stupid and probably fall anyway.

this is on the outside of the door:

then i started thinking about "women step up" and i kinda like the sound of that. this picture is now the wallpaper of my phone. women step up. yes! step.it.up. i like it. it's not only a warning of twisting ankles, it's empowering. who knew a bathroom door could give me pause to think about female empowerment.

...i'll move on.

clinton and i make our way to the NW to find a place to eat before the movie and decide on this place: Serratto. kinda fancy, right? nothing but the best for me and clinton. it was good too. we even shared a creme brulee. i miss clinton dates. we need to do this more often. i used to do this kind of thing with people in san francisco and yes, i blew through money faster but it was great going out for cocktails and then a real dinner.

the whole point of being in the NW was not to spend quality time with the yuppies over there. oh no. we were meeting jamie for the movie HOUSE (it needs to be in capitals) at Cinema 21. what is HOUSE? oh, only a totally campy and weird japanese horror movie from 1977.

watch the trailer:

what is that catchy song being played on the violin you might ask? i have no idea but it's playing through the whole movie. wah wahhhhhhh wah wah. to the point where you're afraid it will lodge itself into your subconscious and you'll be haunted for days afterwards with the shrillness of it. yet, surprisingly after we left the theater it went away. i was weary of watching the trailer again because of that song. it really grates on the nerves after awhile.

anyway, so we're sitting up in the balcony enjoying ourselves. laughing. everyone is laughing. we're making catty comments because the movie is campy and calls for it. people around us are doing something similar. except for the pretentious-too-serious-hipster and his girlfriend sitting in front of clinton. they thought they were watching something that called for serious undivided attention. i think i saw them laugh twice. we're having a good time, like everyone else in the theater and they are sitting there grumbling and trying to take this movie seriously! he does the passive aggressive look over his shoulder and we ignore him. then he turns around and says "could you please not talk through the movie?" we really weren't talking through the movie, just adding in our own catty quips. i was clapping and he didn't like that either. so after he says this jamie asks "WHAT DID HE SAY?" and i said "he's telling us to shut up." clinton makes a pfft noise and i laugh. the guy tries to say something like "oh no, i didn't, i just..." wah wah. if you're going to tell us to be quiet, stick to it. it was awkward for a second and then i was like f-ck it! this movie is not a serious movie. sorry you're not having fun but the rest of us are!

so besides pretentious hipster we loved it. the movie was hilarious. it was totally weird and i had a lot of "what? really?" moments. i miss going to campy movies and the audience is being boisterous and animated about it. so take that pretentious hipster being boring. be boring somewhere else.

we walk out of the theater and clinton says "when did we walk into 1994?" he was right, we were surrounded by uber grunge fashion re-visited. ack! it did look a little like 1994. then again, because fashion recycles itself it is no surprise the grunge thing is in full force right now. even sara said it's big down in los angeles except their grunge is probably a lot more expensive, fancy and has designer labels. they probably smell better too.

HOUSE!

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huh?

saturday night i needed to dance. jet told me we were going to blow pony and i of course said yes. jill picked us up and the song on the radio was "off the wall" which is not only my favorite michael jackson song but it's a great start to my night, always. i was stoked. jet had poured champagne into a water bottle and we shared it on the way to the club. car party! don't worry, the driver did not drink ... until we got there. of course there's a long line but once we get inside it's not as packed as i was afraid it would be. we danced. we drank some more. jet gave me half a xanax. i was relaxed and dancing was just what i needed. we left when it was close to 2:00am and started walking back to the house, along sandy blvd. jet and emile want donuts so we stop at voodoo, pick up said donuts and then walk the rest of the way up sandy.

as we're shoving our respective donuts into our mouths jet and emile are laughing about the name of where alex works: "lady secret fashion secrets" and taking turns saying it faster and faster. try it. it sounds really funny when you say it out loud, and try saying it as fast as you can. lady secret fashion secrets. ladysecretfashionsecrets. i can't do it very well and after stumbling over it a couple times i laughed along with them and then something weird happened.

this normal-looking guy on a cannondale bike with normal-looking clothing is standing there on the sidewalk. he stops me and asks "excuse me, do you know how to use a payphone?" it takes me a moment to realize he's serious. i look at him closely for a minute, yes he's serious. he looks really confused. this generic white guy, who looks to be in his early thirties and american, is asking how to use a payphone. so i try to keep a straight face and say "um, yeah. you need change to put in the payphone so you can dial out a number. do you have change?" he looks at me confused again and says he has no change. at this time jet and emile finally pick up on me talking to someone and before they can interject i thumb over my shoulder in the general direction behind us and tell him to get some change at the donut store over there and find a payphone. then i start walking in the other direction, motioning the girls to walk with me.

i say to jet and emile, "did you hear that? he asked me how to use a payphone." they said yes, they thought they heard that but it was too strange, too unbelievable. he looked like a normal guy. he was older. he's been around long enough to know how to use a payphone. we then thought maybe he was being awkward about asking to use one of our cell phones but i don't think so. it was too weird. besides, we all know not to let a random use our cell phone. that's just stupid.

i haven't had a thing like that happen to me in a long time. i need to get out and walk the streets more. no, not like that. get your mind out of the gutter.

first a weave stops bullets and now this? bullet-stopping love handles!

bullet-stopping love handles story







this is priceless:
Frazier also told the newspaper that she had been "hollering" that she wanted to lose weight. She now said "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."

Because if you can save yourself from a bullet who cares if you will slowly kill yourself being as big as a house!


This is the bullet-stopping weave, back by popular demand.


the bullet-stopping weave









"They was going past me, zoom, zoom and the window was shattering," said Bonds. "Oh Lord! I am alive! Am I dead? What's going on? I'm not even 21 yet!" "I've been wearing it for years. I've invested a lot of money into this weave," said Bonds. "It saved my life. It saved my life."

First off, I love that her name is Bonds. I think that might be an idea for the next James Bond movie – bullet-stopping weaves. I hope they can be as pretty as the one she is wearing.

Am I dead? What’s going on? Well…if you were dead you wouldn’t be shrieking at everyone now would you. obviously you're still alive. Wearing that thing for years? Invested a lot of money? I want to know how many years and how much money is “a lot of money” and how much does one spend on an weave like this one. I wouldn't think it would be more than maybe $50, at most. I’m glad this one saved her life. i wonder if she cuddles up with it at night, wrapping it in her arms and cooing at it like it is a strange little purple animal.


Unfortunately I couldn’t find any other stories in this genre but I am becoming a big fan. It’s right up there with cheesus.

music makes me happy

these two songs are rubbing me the right way lately. i can't get enough of these songs.

"don't make me laugh"

at home Jet likes to wear one of those face masks that you can't move your face under so she looks like a shiny botox junkie. what do i like to do when she's wearing one of these masks? make her laugh, of course. so i open my bedroom door while she's standing at kitchen sink (my bedroom door is right across from the kitchen) and i say, "i just strip-teased for the cats."

jet growls at me and tries not to laugh, and then i say something else to make her laugh and she runs upstairs snorting. i don't think she could get up there fast enough to get away from me. i almost ran up after her to bring up the short bus conversation we had earlier but decided not to be a jerk. i think she said she has a limited number of masks and i don't want her to waste them. it was tempting though.

the truth is, i was dancing in my room and i might have also did a little strip tease but it wasn't for the cats. i couldn't help myself. the song "we are the people" by empire of the sun is one of my jams right now and it makes me want to do strip-tease moves while i'm changing. don't laugh.

as for the dancing in my room, i always do that. i like to have my own little private dance parties. what. sometimes i dance around the house and sometimes my housemates dance around with me.