- "It's so boring I think maybe we missed a part or fell asleep or something because there's no way this could make it on the air like this, so clearly we've misplaced the part where actual shit actually happens."
- Rorschach's Journal
Crazy fan or early movie promotion or both? Who knows but I'll be keeping an eye out on this space
- Jodie Sweetin's Rack
It looks like Stephanie Tanner may have gotten a boob lift when she got her meth-lost teeth fixed -- whatever happened to predictability, indeed.
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29 June 2007
One More Tale from My City
(Sorry for the change in format; sometimes I just find the details of my life more exciting than Paris Hilton's.)
So finally arriving home, the hot stoner surfer guy who lives in our building was sitting on his perch at his back porch where I like to imagine his girlfriend makes him smoke. As I attempted not to stare like I so often do, he smiled in that way he so often does that makes Andy and I want to bite him all over.
Then he shouted something. I didn't hear him so I shouted back "What?"
"Do you ever go by...Admiral Kain...Daniel Kane?". I was unsure what he was saying but I couldn't guess what it was either. I found myself wishing that mini-Matthew McConaughey might have a nickname from me. My internal monologue in that split-second was "Who's this porn star-monikered Daniel Kane and does he think I look like him?"
He figured by my perplexed look that I didn't hear him again so he repeated. I asked "Why?"
It turns out a package was delivered to him by mistake and he was trying to figure out who it was. He told more of the story but I still couldn't hear it. He seemed to want to make small talk and God knows I wanted to make it with him (get it? get it?) but since I suddenly gone deaf from his hotness, I mumbled-yelled something back and went inside.
(I started writing this last night but didn't get it finished. I've since decided that what he was yelling was veiled code searching for a hook-up of the drugs or sex variety. Like Orpheus, I'm an optimist, even when it comes to the underworld.)
My Score: Orpheus
33% Extroversion, 86% Intuition, 55% Emotiveness, 57% Perceptiveness
You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence. To you, all of life has a sense of wonder in it, and the story of Orpheus was written about someone just like you.
When the Argo passed the island of the Sirens, Orpheus played a song more beautiful than the Sirens to prevent the crew from becoming enticed. When his wife died, he ventured into the underworld to charm Hades but, in his naivete, he looked back becoming trapped there.
You can capture your unique world view and relate it to others with the skill of a master storyteller. Your sensitivity and creativity make you a treasure to the human race, but your thin-skinned nature and innocence can cause you a lot of disenchantment and pain. What's doubly unfortunate is that, if you try to lose those traits, you never will, and everyone will be able to tell that you're putting up an artificial shell to prevent yourself from being hurt.
Famous people like you: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mr. Rogers, Melville, Nick Tosches
Stay clear of: Icarus, Hermes, Atlas
| Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
28 June 2007
Already Tempting Karma
(the third in an ongoing series today about how I view the world)
So I'm not one to mock the gawky transition period that is adolescence...
Wait, I totally am.
Anyway, the Future Business Leaders of America have overtaken the Hyatt downtown and I can't help but noticed that, based on my experience and wandering eye, the boys who grow up to be the actual business leaders must have more attractive hobbies during their formative years than the members of the FBLA.
To be fair, as a latebloomer who has ensured the destruction of nearly all photos taken of me before 1997, I have to at least propose another theory -- perhaps these future business leaders will be cute and/or studly young professionals in twenty years. God knows money can't buy you love or happiness but it can do something about your looks.
Karma Paid Back Two Bucks at a Time
I am currently on my way to an errand I do not want to do but definitely should. Normally I would take the luxurious shuttle bus to the less luxurious but usually comfortable Metra.to get home. But because of this errand, I am taking the El where I'm forced to stand at rush hour and usually do something stupid - like falliing into a man sitting down as I just did.
Of course, this embarrassment was worth it because not only did the man offer to move over once the guy he was sharing a seat with de-trained, but just now, the bitch who sneered at me when I ended up standing nearer to her after my near tumble and saying something under her breath was tripped "accidentally" by the cute guy who took her seat as she left. He did this slyly and tried to explain what he'd done to his companion, and while she didn't understand what he'd done, but his wink at me meant my smile had communicated that I appreciated and understood his actions on behalf of my honor. Who said chivalry was dead? Who said I could spell it?
So anyway, I'm on the El which I didn't want to be. But not only do I get to share the communal bond with cute strangers that can only happen here and inspire so many beautiful Missed Connection ads, and not only do I get to run-on write this post, but as I went to put money on my transit card, the machine to do so - which dispalyed "Cancelled" signifying a fellow frustrated commuter without the patience of yours truly - spit out two dollars at me.
So FREE RIDE!! All because I'm doing something I don't want to do but should.
There's your lesson about the universe for the day.
27 June 2007
Armistead Maupin Lives!
Andy and I went to the Newberry Library last night to see Armistead Maupin read the first chapter of Michael Tolliver Lives. It was a joyous event even though I arrived at the reading to find Andy in tears as he read the last chapter. Andy's reaction seemed natural to those in the room who'd already finished and to me, who has not even started it, since I witnessed Andy nearly throw the book away after the death of a character mid-way through the book.
I will not spoil this particular death for you (as it was for me -- which was only done because Andy had to explain why he was such a basketcase); however, when Andy, shortly before the cozy picture to the right was taken, nearly damned the author on the tragic turn he'd written, Mr. Maupin's response was "Ian McKellan called me up when he read it and said the same thing." While Andy still did not forgive Maupin for what he'd penned, I don't think he minded as much after learning he shared the same opinion as "the greatest living Shakespearean actor" and/or "OMG Magneto!" (depending on who in the picture you asked)
I adore Maupin's style and stories, but the ugly too-personal truth is that the true testament to his charm and talent is that my adoration is able to overcome the overwhelming jealousy his very existance inspires. I still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I've got to say that "successful serial writer, beloved author, Hitchcock-homager, celebrity namedropper, and social historian and activist" would be quite a lovely title. But like I said, he deserves it, so he inspires, rather than infuriates, me.
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