Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 37
Sign: Pisces
City: las vegas
State: Nevada
Country: US
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[25 Aug 2008 | Monday]
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phrases that i’m done with...
Current mood:  amused
Category: Life
'are you sure you're okay?'
'well at least you're getting out and having fun'
'everything happens for a reason'
'but you know everything!'
'are you mad at me?'
'it's okay if you're mad at me'
'i haven't heard from you in {less than 3 days, more than 3 minutes} and just want to make sure you're okay'
i'm also done with the following actions that people around me seem to be all about:
~emailing my family/friends to tell them my personal business, as if i was on an alcoholic rampage and needed intervention
~sending long email manifestos declaring your love or hate for me..especially with attachments
~trying to make me feel guilty because i can't solve your problems
i am, however, not done with any of the following phrases and actions:
*playing the new dark knight pinball machine, even though i suck at it
*'you have a great laugh'
*meeting up with people for coffee/meals
*'let me know when you want to hang out'
this has been a rant/public service announcement...thank you for your time and consideration...
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Currently
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Sleeping with Ghosts
By
Placebo
Release date: 2003-04-01
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[26 Jul 2008 | Saturday]
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fantastic pink raygun article!!!
Current mood:  animated
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Pink Raygun is this fantastic comic/geeky girl website where Lisa Fary is one of my favorite writers. Below is a great article she wrote in response to the WSJ article claiming that 'Dark Knight' is "at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war." After you are done throwing up a little in your mouth read Lisa's wonderful article.
By Lisa Fary
Andrew Klavan thinks George W. Bush is Batman and says so in today's Wall Street Journal. Obligatory mocking after the jump.
Klavan says:
Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
Yes, but how many people trust Batman to lay down the emergency powers when the emergency has passed and how many people trust the same of George W. Bush? Batman gave it up within minutes (he even destroyed the means so as to ensure it wouldn't be used again) - we've been dealing with warrantless wiretapping, executive privilege, and contempt of Congress for seven years. I can't see Batman screaming, "Executive privilege" every time justice comes knocking on his door.
In fact, Batman does the opposite. He tries to turn himself in to be held accountable for his actions. (And BTW, Batman's warrantless wiretapping actually achieved its goal.)
Oh, and Batman stopped the established authorities from secretly torturing a guy for information. I'm just saying.
Batman is the individual who fights the necessary war because the established authorities either can't do it or won't do it. In Batman Begins, the authorities wouldn't fight the fight - every level was on the take and so corrupt that the League of Shadows was able to infiltrate at will and come crushingly close to destroying Gotham.
Batman, at least in Christopher Nolan's films, doesn't want to be Gotham's go to guy. He doesn't want to be responsible for Gotham's salvation and he certainly doesn't want to save it via illegal means. He tries to give it up and pass the responsibility of protecting Gotham on to a legitimate crusader, Harvey Dent. I have yet to see George W. Bush make a similarly noble attempt.
Klavan goes on to say:
Left and right, all Americans know that freedom is better than slavery, that love is better than hate, kindness better than cruelty, tolerance better than bigotry. We don't always know how we know these things, and yet mysteriously we know them nonetheless.
The true complexity arises when we must defend these values in a world that does not universally embrace them — when we reach the place where we must be intolerant in order to defend tolerance, or unkind in order to defend kindness, or hateful in order to defend what we love.
When heroes arise who take those difficult duties on themselves, it is tempting for the rest of us to turn our backs on them, to vilify them in order to protect our own appearance of righteousness. We prosecute and execrate the violent soldier or the cruel interrogator in order to parade ourselves as paragons of the peaceful values they preserve. As Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon says of the hated and hunted Batman, "He has to run away — because we have to chase him."
What Klavan is missing is why Batman has to be hunted. It isn't because Batman was violent and cruel in order to uphold what's right and therefore is hated by the masses.
In The Dark Knight, Batman says in no uncertain terms, that he is whatever Gotham needs him to be. To save Gotham, Harvey Dent's accomplishments as District Attorney had to be preserved, his image as Gotham's White Knight had to be preserved. To maintain order and to move forward, Gotham needed Batman to take responsibility for Dent's crimes onto himself, make himself the enemy so that Commissioner Gordon and good, just people like him, could carry on Dent's work for a better, untarnished tomorrow.
Why? Because saving Gotham should be on the up and up. It should be done through legal means. That was more important to Batman than keeping his own name clear. More important than being remembered in history as a savior.
George W. Bush is not Batman. At best, he's The Joker, and not even the awesome Joker appearing in The Dark Knight. He's Jack Nicholson's Joker - a wisecracking, egotistical clown throwing money (economic stimulus checks, anyone?) at the masses to distract them from his true intent: dismantling society as we know it and remaking it in his own clownish image.
Andrew Klavan and his like can stretch as far as they want - George W. Bush will never be a hero. Heroes do the right thing.
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Currently
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Batman: War on Crime
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Paul Dini
Release date: 1999-12-01
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[15 Jul 2008 | Tuesday]
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this blog is useless without pictures
Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Life
Yeah, you're just going to have to use that vivid imagination that I know y'all have in you!
Have I mentioned that I've been getting out a bit more?
Last Friday checked out the Mandalay Bay Aquarium and their newest addition: a komodo dragon. It was rather cool, I have to admit. Although walking through tunnels with sharks swimming above me was a tad difficult. My thoughts? Fish are weird and can kinda scare me. The floor-to-ceiling glass kinda freaked me out a bit, but then I saw the jellyfish...very very cool!!
Saturday was another pool show at the Red Rock. This time it was Perry Ferrell's Satellite Party with Dave Navarro joining for a couple of Jane's Addiction songs. The entire 'set' lasted about 30 minutes and then Perry turned into a (not so awesome) dj. For me the highlight was watching the cutie go-go/stripper dancers on stage in sparkly panties - mmm…sparkly!
Sunday I took my friend Kurt to the Liberace Museum for 'locals free' second Sunday. He's lived in Vegas for 17 years and never been! Shocking! Then we hit the strip and wandered through the semi-lame Planet Hollywood shops. The Bettie Page store and Trader Vic's are the highlights there. So after watching millionth generation video of Bettie being tied up by a couple of hotties in 50's era lingerie, we headed over to Trader Vic's and sat outside overlooking the strip and the tourists. It's been raining off and on here the past few days so when a sudden downpour came we left and headed over to the westside of town for a rain-free bbq at his sister's house. Mmmm..bbq!
In unrelated, yet more relevant news there is this blog to read. As BB King put it, the thrill is, unfortunately, gone. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Currently
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Little Earthquakes
By
Tori Amos
Release date: 1992-02-25
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[11 Jul 2008 | Friday]
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you gots questions...i gots answers!
Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Blogging
Can you feel it? The awesome anticipation of the answers that enquiring minds want to know? Oh, wait…that's just the 112 degree heat seeping into my brain and melting it! However, here are the answers to yesterday's queries:
John snarkily asked, "How did you enact this into law without being a part of any registered governmental body?"
I have told you before, dear boy…I have magical powers and mad skills!!
Zombie Boy most poignantly asked, "What is your perfect Sunday?"
Sleeping in to around 9.45 and then fixing coffee and espresso. Listen to 'Prairie Home Companion' from 10 to 12 and then watch a movie. Around 3ish get dressed and go meet up with a friend or two for a late lunch/early dinner. Sunday evenings are not a good time for me, so the conversation would go until around 10ish when I would then head to bed and sleep soundly.
Anne Gwish was her adorable self and asked, "Who is your favorite muppet? and why?"
When I was little I was in love with Rowlf the piano playing dog because I played piano and he was adorable. As I got older I fell for Beaker because he's a cute little geek, and then Janice because she was a cool chick in a band.
Evil Ninja went crazy and asked a bunch of questions:
1) If you could only have 3 CDs for an international flight, what would you take to relieve the boredom?
Nouvelle Vague's first cd that I can't remember the name of..their version of 'Too Drunk to Fuck' is outstanding!
Mandy Moore's Coverage. Yeah, I'm addicted to cover songs and I freakin' adore Mandy. I'll pause while you mock me.
The Radon cd that my friend Kurt gave me. Don't know the name of it, but it's good rockin' out music.
2) Books or magazines?
Books because they're longer, but magazines for my more-than-likely short attention span on the flight. I got a bunch of Maximum Rock n Roll mags that are bringing me much joy.
3) Do you laugh at farts?
If they sound especially funny. The squeaky ones and the long foghorn ones always make me giggle whether I want to or not.
4) What's your favorite movie? Don't give some lame answer about not being able to answer. Something has to have come into your mind when the read the question.
First movie to come to mind is 'Mallrats'. It always makes me happy and I'm in crush with Brodie.
5) Is there a song you sing along to that makes other people laugh because they can't believe you know all the words?
Anything off 'Straight Outta Compton'. And Fergie's 'My Mary Janes'.
6) What's your favorite scent?
Sex. There, I said it. That post-coital, pre-snuggling smell that lingers in the room. It's pretty awesome.
7) If you were taking me to a comic book shop, what books or graphic novel would you recommend I pick up? It's been years since I've been in a comic book shop and I used to love horror comics and graphic novels...I was never much of a super hero fan except for Judge Dred and The Tick).
Definitely some Frank Miller Batman. Also I'd throw in some Preacher and Marvel's Zombies trades, because you like the Zombie-ness.
Misty was thoughtful and asked the following:
If you had a huge fortune what charities would you make regular donations to?
Locally Easter Seals, Golden Rainbow and KNPR.
Do you gamble? Since you live in the gamblingest place on earth I figure gambling is no big deal to you anymore, but I'm still curious.
I do gamble periodically. However, I limit myself to the penny slot machines. There is this really cool one called Hitchcock Theatre that I'm currently entranced with and that even pays off periodically.
If you saw me at your local coffee shop what's the first thing you'd do/say?
Give you a hug and ask you what you're drinking.
If you were a cookie, what kind would you be and why?
Snickerdoodle. Like me, it makes you giggle when you say it's name and it's tasty!
What's your favorite time of day?
It used to be around 3ish in the afternoon, but lately I am enjoying 8ish in the evening.
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Currently
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Coverage
By
Mandy Moore
Release date: 2003-10-21
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[10 Jul 2008 | Thursday]
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taggy mctagenstein
Current mood:  pirate
Category: Blogging
so, yeah, i'm all back and stuff....and what greets me? a lovely little tag from the oh-so-tattooed ninja boy...cutting and pasting, folks...
Here the rules:
1) You are all encouraged to ask me as many questions as you want. Put the questions in the comments to this blog.
2) Tomorrow I will answer the 7 best questions. I get to choose the questions.
3) Questions that are clever, snarky, and even a little flirty will definitely get more attention.
4) I have to tag 7 people and they are required to do this 7 Questions Blog too. Oh yes...required...I've enacted it into law...seriously!:
the lovely reverend... - because she's awesome and hot and i would confess all manner of sins to her
the zombiest boy i know - because he's awesome and hot and one of the top three best writers i am privileged to know...oh, and i'm sure his post will be the most grammatically correct post in the world (unlike most of mine)!
anne_gwish - because she's awesome and hot...and she sent ME a friend request!! whaaa?? see how i repay her deigning to be my myfriend?
the m-to-da-f'in misty - say it with me...she's awesome and hot...and she just moved and i'm hoping to hear more about what she wants for her housewarming gift....
johnny boy - awesome...hot...living the l.a. life of writing scripts and dating hot chicks...oh yeah...there are stories yet to be told i imagine!
the flying nunchuckery!! - i like reading him..he's both relevant and humorous...and, no, i have no friends who are not awesome and/or hot! so there!
the sculptor i call wolverine - mostly because i'd NEVER hear the end of it if i didn't tag him...i'm just keeeeding!! (or am i)...yeah, and he's good with the word stuff as well..:)
on your mark...get set...go!
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[08 Jul 2008 | Tuesday]
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saturday night by the pool...
Current mood: luminous
Category: Music
so last friday i was mocking my neighbors for spending $30 a ticket to see slash play poolside at red rock casino...really? $30 and he probably won't even play and g'n'r? puh-leese!! my mocking was brought to a halt on saturday morning when a friend of mine mentioned an extra ticket to the aforementioned show...free? with a fellow music lover? hells to the yeah! yeah, i'm all hypocritical like that, yo!
the show was slash, jerry cantrell, and jason bonham...i was expecting to maybe know a couple of songs but was quite pleasantly surprised by a blues set! even i sometimes forget how well slash plays....and the fact that they started almost an hour late was mostly forgotten with a set including a fantastic version of 'the thrill is gone' and 'suffragette city'...as the night wore on and i found a soft place to sit (foolish lisa decided to wear her big shoes and was a tad overdressed for the show) there arrived 'special guest' perry ferrell! he came out and the band broke into 'superstition' (yes, the stevie wonder song) and perry sounded as wonderful as i remember him from back in da day...he sang 'the mountain song' and, as he said, since bonham was there, felt obliged to sing some zeppelin...'whole lotta love' to be specific....they played almost two hours and i was uber glad that i was lucky enough to be there...nothing like great music and great company outside in the summer heat with the mountains o' red rock as a backdrop!
teach me to mock! ha!
so, how's by you?
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[17 Jun 2008 | Tuesday]
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*singing* everything’s alright now, everything’s fine..
Current mood:  drained
Category: Life
i took a day off to take care of some business and, as an added bonus, got to meet up with my new friend, sculptor boy...yes, i have clever nicknames for all my friends...zombie boy, ninja boy, dj boy, math boy, hacker boy, and many more....i know..my command of the english language and my ridiculous use of synonyms astounds you!
after some afternoon/early evening crap, went out to eat at this new joint called american food factory...yeah, horrible name but large portions of comfort food...the waitress had me wishing for steel-toed boots in place of the silly sandals i was wearing when she argued with me about my order..i wanted this chicken and dumpling dish they had and she was all, 'just so you know, the dumplings are yoki'...um, yoki? what the hell is that? 'you know, yoki!' she said with a bit of a 'tude...um, yeah, don't know what that is and i can be pretty picky about food when my waitress is a beeyotch! 'well,' she said as she rolled her eyes, 'there are potatoes in it and stuff'...what kind of stuff? and here she sighed and i said, 'i'll just pick something else,' and that's when the whore said, 'it's good..they're just yoki! you'll like it!'...normally at this point i would throw down the napkin and get up and punch the server in the face, however, as stated, i was wearing sandals and had exposed toes...so i just said, 'fine' and waiting for my sure-to-be-spit-in food...ugh! nearby a couple of elderly women were discussing food at great length: 'i love english muffins, but i HATE BAGELS!!'..crazy! food arrives and i discover that they are POTATO DUMPLINGS! was that so frigging hard to say? so when the bitchtress came by to check up i said, 'oh, yeah, they're potato dumplings,' and she sighs and says, 'well, yeah. that's what i said'...seriously! i don't have enough time and energy to kill everyone! oh, and i googled alternate words for potato dumplings and guess what came up? nothing resembling yoki!! lying whore!
come home to fox news and bill o'reilly...as if that wasn't vomit inducing enough, he's talking about a 'disturbing image' that he's only going to show once because it's so disturbing...of course i am intrigued...what does he show? the beautiful image of that little girl that was born with multiple limbs...i remember when i first read the story i was fascinated at the fact that a girl like that was born in india and that her town treated her like the goddess diety that she looked like...my problem is thus: THAT'S a disturbing image? cities being bombed, a man being hit by a car and ignored by passerbys, a president who play golf while kids die for no reason...these are not disturbing images? ugh! again...time to energy to ass kicking ratio is waaay off!
then i remembered the following: that this friday night i get to hang out with my friend kurt and watch samurai flicks and have popcorn and girl scout cookies.....that this weekend i will have the opportunity to meet a couple of awesome friends that i've only spoken to online.....that in less than two weeks i will be sporting new ink on my left arm that will be put there at my first tattoo convention.....that i have grand ideas for a continuing series of photos based on my myspace friends profile pics.....and that i can always twitter and/or blog my frustrations with people who get it...
and i smiled...sighed...and realized that it's all going to work out and be okay...
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Currently
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Out of Step
By
Minor Threat
Release date: 1991-07-01
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[15 Jun 2008 | Sunday]
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so, what’s new?
Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Life
it's been a week..oh, yes!
work has been crazy-go-nuts, what with people leaving and going on vacation and whatnot...i got dragged into a couple of meetings on thursday that made me want to slash my wrists, but thankfully that's where the tattoos are, so i shook my fists at the sky instead...i know it's not as dramatic, but it is kinda fun...go...try it..i'll wait...
i've now met three people here in vegas through the tubes of the interweb...yay for new friends!! what with scott's late night weekday schedule, it's been nice to find other things to do than sit at home and veg out in front of the television...all three are similar in their coolness factor, but pretty different from each other...so it's been fun to experience different facets of me that have lay dormant for so long...and i've even hung out with each of them more than once! take that, um, haters...and, um, stuff! no, seriously, people meet me from online and usually run away screaming...so that hasn't happened yet and i'm digging it...
along the same lines, this week i received a fountain pen as a gift...i have never had one so i've been having a blast breaking it in....at first i was afraid that i would only be able to write sweeping tales of love and romance taking place on mountain tops in europe with lots of witty retorts and stolen glances...and while that actually doesn't seem horrible re-reading that last line, i've found my writing a little darker than that of late....and the pen..oh, wow, the pen just takes my brainwaves and beautifully bleeds them into ink on the page...how i ever wrote anything before this pen i have no clue...my friend kurt has been on this total haiku kick and so i've been copying him and happy to say that the pen adores haiku!
there are very few things keeping me going at the moment (oh yes..the fountain pen is one) what with personal and work crap going on...i'm keeping a list of events that i'm excited about...my sister coming at the end of the month...my new tattoo....the dark knight in july...but after that i'm a little sketchy...so feel free to suggest some summer activities that i might enjoy and, as bonus, may actually result in my legs getting tan...seriously...my arms are freakin' black, and my legs are still crazy white...which is making the whole shaving thing kinda extra irritating...
peace, out!
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Currently
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Diesel and Dust
By
Midnight Oil
Release date: 1990-10-25
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[06 Jun 2008 | Friday]
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poem number 252 1/2 in the continuing saga of ’lame ass poems’
Current mood:  nostalgic
Category: Writing and Poetry
i awoke from this dream...
there is traffic at the border-
a collision on the 15 preventing
you
from getting to
me
i tried to call you but all i got
was voicemail...
you tried to call me
to say you were going to be late
but my phone shot electricity
instead of ringing
and i just stared and oohed and ahhed
and when i remembered to answer it-
to warn you-
you had already hung up...
you only make those wishes
and try to save those fishes
and offer to help with the dishes
because
because you don't know any better..
you only see that facet which i show you...
i look much better with clothes on
and even better on paper
and the bestest in imagination..
i'm not even here right now
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Dave Eggers
Release date: 2001-02-13
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[30 May 2008 | Friday]
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sweet, sweet nectar of life!!
Current mood: overstimulated
Category: Life
Hi. My name is Lisa and I'm an addict. (Hi, Lisa!) It's been, um, hold on. (slurp, slurp) Okay, it's been, like five seconds since my last hit. What? Where are you going? I can't help it! Hey! Stop! It's not like it's real, it's bloody Starbucks!! Ugh!
Very few people in my world understand my crazed relationship with caffeine. There is one former co-worker who, tearing up at my parting gift of a pound of coffee, said that there aren't many who get that our caffeine addiction is not dependent on things like 'sleep' and 'rest'; we NEED the caffeine to keep us stable. So it was with my very own set of tears that I waved goodbye to my local coffee shop yesterday. Change Alley had opened around the same time that I moved to Vegas and, in a sea of Starbucks, it was a welcome site. Especially due to it's super close proximity to my home. I love indie shops, be they for records, clothes, or coffee. The latter mostly because of my morning drink: four to five long shots of espresso over ice with a bottle of Coke to mix with it. Most 'normal' coffee shops don't sell soda so to find a cute English-themed place with a nice vibe to it that also doesn't burn their coffee and espresso beans like some places I could mention (*cough*starbucks*), well, it was quite honestly magical!
As I sit here attempting to drink my lame-ass excuse for 'espresso' I can't help but mourn the loss of Change Alley. Oh, sure, it had great beans, but the people! Oh! There were mornings where the mere thought of listening in on a conversation between the uber-Republican owner Pat and his friend, the New York transplant Robert could get me out of bed and dressed with a smile on my face. Examples of the most recent conversations:
Robert: Have you even been to Home Depot lately? I don't know what the hell they think they're doing there, but lemme tell ya, it isn't working!
Pat: I was there about a month ago looking for a part for my washing machine and was it with the other washing parts? No! I had to finally break down and ask someone..
Robert: Which men hate to do!
Pat: Right! Well, I had to ask someone and can you guess where it was? In the appliances section!
Robert: Yep. They're all idiots over there!
This conversation went on for the time it took me to eat a bagel with cream cheese, so, about 10 minutes and pretty much just rehashed the above lines for that entire time. I have not only met the owner's wife, but I've also met Robert's wife and twenty-something year old gamer son who lives in New York; he brought him in on the boy's spring break! Not to mention Robert offered to get me a hat like the one he wears every day - it has an eagle with an American flag in the background and "U.S.A." stitched underneath in red, white, and blue! Now I don't know if I'll ever get that hat!
Yesterday, Robert asked me if I had found a place where we could say good morning to each other each weekday. I mentioned Starbucks and explained how there is an ultra-conservative religious group protesting tem because of the imagery of a bosom-exposing mermaid whose fins are placed in a provocative pose ( read a summary here ) and they have renamed the store 'Slutbucks'.
Robert: What is wrong with these people? How else is a mermaid supposed to be? And how long have mermaids been around?
Pat: That's just ridiculous. Though they do have awful coffee.
Robert: Oh, I hate their coffee. But what I want to know is how her tail makes her a slut. When I was a boy I saw worse things than a half naked woman on a cup!
Pat: These people have nothing better to do than be stupid.
See what I mean? Fabulous!
Sure, I have an espresso machine and even a can of espresso in the freezer. I can easily buy a bottle of Coke and mix my lil' concoction in the morning, but what fun is that? And what if, like today, I'm running a little late and don't have time to measure out beans and soda and find a cup and, well, you get the picture - I'm lazy. So I sit here now trying to wake up with my lackluster and burnt tasting Slutbucks espresso mixed with a can of Coke from the vending machine. It's not the same. And while my physical need for caffeine will undoubtedly be fulfilled, what of my spirit? What of my spirit?! Sigh.
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