in approximately eight hours, colin meloy and i will be in the same room.
unfortunately, said event will most likely trigger a rileystclair-sized disruption in the space-time contiuum that results in my being temporarily thirteen.

if you were at the mae shi show at the knitting factory tonight, i love you.

so there is this lady who lives on the same street as my boyfriend and apparently she is batshit crazy, on crack, and/or the laziest parent in existence because she brings home shopping carts from nearby stores and uses them to haul her baby around. the awesome thing is that she uses a different cart every time and then leaves them at various places on the street (i guess she realized that they were starting to pile up and didn't want all the evidence in her own front yart) so there are at any given time several clusters of abandoned shopping carts. sometimes they get taken away, presumably by homeless people, but not nearly at the rate at which they accumulate.

i'm not hip to the maternity scene, but are strollers seriously that expensive?

even if, let's say, she is somehow incapable of acquiring a stroller, why doesn't she just take one cart and use it over and over--why take a different cart EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE? seriously there are at this moment eleven fucking shopping carts on his block. eleven.

omg i have tickets to real time with bill maher tonight!
i'm excited.
i never go to cheesy tv tapings.

i'm blogging (briefly) today because it is the 35th anniversary of roe v. wade and i think that's pretty awesome. what's not awesome is that abortion remains possibly the single most emotional, divisive and manipulated issue in american politics today.

what's also not awesome is that a lot of people are hellbent on making the most personal of choices for other people in a misguided attempt to eliminate a practice as old as humanity itself, and one which will never, ever go away. when these people win, women die, end of story.

if you are one of the lucky women who has access to contraceptives, abortion and accurate information about reproduction, as well as the financial resources to obtain these things, be thankful today. even if you have never had an abortion. even if you never would. even if you think it's kind of uncomfortable and icky to think about and you don't think it's the right thing for you to do. be thankful that you get to make that decision for yourself. i am.

i'm excited for point break live tonight!

it is a live stage adaptation of the 1991 keanu reeves/patrick swayze awesomely bad film and they use an audience member to play keanu's part (ex-football playing top law-school-grad-turned-FBI-agent johnny utah) and that person reads the entire script from cue cards all night. more convincing than keanu? probably.

this should bring the LOLZ.