yesterday i worked a little late, and then mouse and i went on a walk in clark park.
clark park is the park in our neighborhood where they have farmer's markets, a little kid's larp, some outdoor fests, and big flea markets. plus, it has the world's only statue of charles dickens is- dickens made it very clear in his will that he never wanted a state or monument to him erected, and someone made this as a gift for his family without knowing that and his son got PISSED, so it sorta got lost in shipping crates for years until it made its way here and apparently we don't give a fuck about the last wishes of charles dickens
we were going to SIT in the park but we got started late so we just did a few laps and i explained some urban dictionary type gross sex stuff to mouse (when i was in california i kept saying 'carl's jr' sounded like a gross urban dictionary chest-pooping thing, so i looked up "hot carl" and um. it's like one of the worst things my brain knows now. don't look it up !) and he told me about a no-grunting gym in south philly. also he told me about his gimmick suggestion for the uh, dodgeball team he's on- the baseball furries.
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this is gonna be a neat weekend, maybe. i'm sort of bummed because there's a cool thing at laurel hill cemetery that jeanne is going to, but it's tomorrow and not sunday like i thought ! which means mouse can't go, and also i have a car reserved to do my grocery shopping and errands and stuff and it's important that i stick to that junk for ED stuff.
but saturday night i'm going to mouse's mom's with him to meet his new nephew, scott the baby, and on sunday i think jeanne is coming over and we're going to try to make sweet potato salad (we got the idea yesterday and were like, 'oooooooo'-ing at each other. roasted sweet potatoes, green onions, and maybe some kind of honey mustard vinaigrette? something with lemon? not sure what herbs would go with that).
oh yeah. hey. how do you wear stockings without getting a run in them? i wore them today to dress KIND OF nice for work and i ripped the knee on my way in and now i basically look like ramona quimby. i will end this entry with some important facts about me..
important facts about me
- i made it through the 90s without ever hearing "send me on my way" by rusted root or "laid" by james
- i don't have stereoscopic vision
- in the late 90s, i was interviewed by planned parenthood for their teen website about ONLINE JOURNALS (because i've been doing this since 1997 before "blogging" was invented !). that isn't interesting, but the guy who interested me did production and electrical work on the phantasm movies !
- i have eaten rattlesnake before. it's sort of like turkey neck, but it tastes like a snake smells. D:
p.s. big ups to the ladies in my community whose efforts to get the band drunkdriver to stop touring with a rapist were successful, and the dudes who supported us. despite seeing a bunch of men say a bunch of vile shit about rape and rape victims in the process, i was extremely heartened that the ladies never backed down and that some dudes actually are vocal feminist allies (and not the type who agree with us in private but won't stand up for us in public because he doesn't want to upset his bros).
i once made a delicious sweet potato salad from mark bittman! it is also vegan! this is the recipe on a weird website but it was so good. i remember that you do not like bell peppers but you could use that as a starting point and EXPERIMENT. the cumin part is delicious
ReplyDeletethat sounds really good ! i might make it for myself sometime (sans raisins, but not opposed to craisins). jeanne isn't a picky eater but that recipe incidentally has a couple of things she HATES though (a fellow pepper hater, also she is not into sweet and savory together).
ReplyDeletekaty "grrlyparts" & i & a few other girls on livejournal got contacted by ricki lake about livejournal/online journal in 1999? & then nothing really happened.
ReplyDeletealso i had no idea about jeff ott before that whole stuff happened :(
ReplyDeleteoh my god what if you had met ricki lake ! i have weird love for her because i know her brain is fat like mine. also i didn't know about the jeff ott shit either and when i brought it up of course dudes were like 'oh yeah you didn't know that?'
ReplyDeletei've never seen ricki lake's show, i remember being pretty baffled & saying something really melodramatic about how it was the DEATH OF ZINES so i'm glad i didn't get a chance to make a fool of myself to a larger public!
ReplyDeletealso i still have this illusion that the internet isn't totally public & nobody is interested in what i have to say or what i look like except people who know me, so i can't imagine if a link to my shit was somehow publicized! i maintain these same illusions about the naked photos of me on the internet!
ReplyDeletehaha when i was in high school my english teacher found the url to my website and WROTE IT ON THE BOARD and left it up for years for her other classes to go to so i've always felt like everyone i know is watching me. even when i had a dumb livejournal i'd meet random randos at parties and they'd be like I READ YOUR LIVEJOURNAL !!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhich one did that? Dr. Cioffi?
ReplyDeletehahahahaha you KNOW it was her !
ReplyDeleteits probably still on her board!
ReplyDeletei think someone already posted a different version of this, but i made this a few weeks ago and you reminded me of it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/dining/301mrex.html?_r=1&ref=dining
ReplyDeleteexcept for you obvs -bell peppers. it was so good though, and i fear potato salad of any kind of some reason.
You don't have stereoscopic vision? I'm very curious about this
ReplyDeletei had an eye patch when i was really little and my eyes just learned to work independently i guess? like i obviously have a general sense of the size/shape of stuff and how far things are away from me but i don't have real 3D vision !
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