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We live in melodramatic times.
Incidentally, is there anything more depressing than the "Current Events" section of a modern-day bookstore? There are so many rows of hastily-written, 200-250 page books with giant print, huge margins, and a cover featuring a smug bastard under a title like "THEY'RE ALL AGAINST YOU: How Hollywood, the French, and the CIA Have Conspired to Pollute Your Precious Bodily Fluids and What You Can Do To Stop Them."
Meanwhile, TheFuckOffGirl remains a cheap drunk. One-and-a-half strong G&Ts into an evening spent watching Harry Potter DVDs, she cried out from her chair "I CAN'T FEEL MY FACE! Heeee."
I knew you'd all want to know.
Apparently I not only have Eemygropp Fingers, I also have Tinklesquib Feet.
TheFuckOffGirl was sneaking up on me tonight as I sat on the couch reading the paper and stamping on my feet, because they freak her out.
TheFuckOffGirl was sneaking up on me tonight as I sat on the couch reading the paper and stamping on my feet, because they freak her out.
Lame update last time. It was kind of an issue of overload -- too much to talk about regarding the trip Stateside, and all of the things I saw and the people I met and got to hang out with.
In short, I spent time in 4 US cities (LA, San Diego, New York, Seattle), three of which I had never been to before, met a bunch of people from SG in several of them, was shown a very fun time in each case, and wound up singing karaoke two nights in a row in Seattle (strictly speaking, one of those nights was in Tacoma, right near Seattle).
TheFuckOffGirl made clear everytime I spoke to her that "I think you should come home immediately".
So, it's been a while since I've had a why-I-love-my-girlfriend entry. Here's another why. We have strange conversations where one of us is almost asleep, or barely awake, and we're barely making sense.
We had one interesting conversation one night where as she was falling asleep she declared "Elves go longways... (snorrrrrre)."
Then there was the time she woke from her sleep in the morning having dreamed I was some kind of friendly, (well meaning) alien.
"You're a warbuncling nuzzler" she mumbled.
"I am?"
"Mmmm. With eemygropp fingers!"
Well, if I'm going to be an alien, I'd like to be some kind of nuzzler, definitely.
In short, I spent time in 4 US cities (LA, San Diego, New York, Seattle), three of which I had never been to before, met a bunch of people from SG in several of them, was shown a very fun time in each case, and wound up singing karaoke two nights in a row in Seattle (strictly speaking, one of those nights was in Tacoma, right near Seattle).
TheFuckOffGirl made clear everytime I spoke to her that "I think you should come home immediately".
So, it's been a while since I've had a why-I-love-my-girlfriend entry. Here's another why. We have strange conversations where one of us is almost asleep, or barely awake, and we're barely making sense.
We had one interesting conversation one night where as she was falling asleep she declared "Elves go longways... (snorrrrrre)."
Then there was the time she woke from her sleep in the morning having dreamed I was some kind of friendly, (well meaning) alien.
"You're a warbuncling nuzzler" she mumbled.
"I am?"
"Mmmm. With eemygropp fingers!"
Well, if I'm going to be an alien, I'd like to be some kind of nuzzler, definitely.
I need to update.
Back home from the US.
Thanks for all of those who put up with me while I was there.
Back home from the US.
Thanks for all of those who put up with me while I was there.
Been hanging out with legionnaire and toothpick in NYC lately, which has been fun. They sure do take their poker and pool seriously in Manhattan!
Coney Island midsummer = more fog than you can shake a stick at!
Still trying to figure out when I get my luggage back. Ostensibly it's been delivered to La Guardia airport. Now it just needs to be delivered to me....
Coney Island midsummer = more fog than you can shake a stick at!
Still trying to figure out when I get my luggage back. Ostensibly it's been delivered to La Guardia airport. Now it just needs to be delivered to me....
Caught up with Anton and Linz last night for some drinks before my trip Stateside. We didn't win pub trivia, but we didn't lose either.
The FuckOffGirl gets nervous when I travel, and she was aghast when she found I'd booked myself into a hotel in Manhattan that was awash with rats and roaches. We saw the reviews of the hotels by former guests on the internet after I'd paid the deposit. I said "Maybe I'll do battle with the cockroaches and come back A Man!"
Her response was to wail "I don't want a man! I want youuuuu!"
The booking has been changed.
So now I head to the airport in the morning. And we've just been hearing that people are blowing parts of London up. Needless to say, she's utterly beside herself. My poor darling girl.
The FuckOffGirl gets nervous when I travel, and she was aghast when she found I'd booked myself into a hotel in Manhattan that was awash with rats and roaches. We saw the reviews of the hotels by former guests on the internet after I'd paid the deposit. I said "Maybe I'll do battle with the cockroaches and come back A Man!"
Her response was to wail "I don't want a man! I want youuuuu!"
The booking has been changed.
So now I head to the airport in the morning. And we've just been hearing that people are blowing parts of London up. Needless to say, she's utterly beside herself. My poor darling girl.
Yeah yeah yeah so I need to update.
Saw A Good Woman the other day with TheFuckOffGirl. Oddly enough, Lady Windermere was an American woman in Italy rather than a Victorian-era lady as per the Oscar Wilde original play, but the sscript just has so many great Wilde-isms. Fucking fantastic lines.
Today, went to buy a sandwich from a university cafe. They make sandwiches to order if you want one of them. So I'm standing there about to order and one of the women behind the counter is stomping around muttering about how "I'm leaving now, and if you want to talk about me, go right ahead, that's fine, I won't be here to listen and you can say anything you want."
The woman who was about to serve me raised her eyebrows and asked me what I wanted while the angry woman kept stomping around gathering her things.
Fuckinell. If I want temper-tantrum drama, I'll watch Big Brother. I just wanted lunch, OK? Yeesh.
Last thing: Jerry Springer on Michael Parkinson's chat show:
Jerry: It's been frayed, I think the population of Europe and of the world at what George Bush did. I personally am angry at what he did. I don't think he's an evil man, I think that is a caricature that gets put way too far. I don't think he goes to bed at night and thinks how can I screw up the world? How can I hurt America? I mean he's not like that. I think his policies sometimes have not been beneficial. I think starting the war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. I think Sadaam Hussein was stopped the day before we started bombing Bagdhad. He was an evil man, a horrible man, did horrible things to his people. But the day before we started bombing Bagdhad Sadaam Hussein was stopped. We had the no-fly zones; we had the satellites watching his every move, there were fifteen people in the country looking just like him, running around as disguises because he was afraid to come out of the bunker; we had the inspectors; we had the whole world on our side and we had him stopped. By starting to bomb Bagdhad, it's like taking a bat to a beehive. All of a sudden all hell broke loose and what we have now is another generation of people who are just going to hate us around the world, who are gonna think it was just America trying to tell the world what to do. I think that was harmful. The motive was right but the strategy was wrong, we didn't have to start that war. Afghanistan was right, Iraq was wrong. I admire Tony Blair, even thought I don't like the position he took on the war, because I think he's a man of incredible courage to stand up in a country that clearly didn't want that to happen. So I don't have anything personal bad to say about your Prime Minister. But I think the judgement was wrong, I think the purple fingers that the people in Iraq now is wonderful but the price we paid for that, when it didn't have to be done, is a price we'll be paying for generations.
Saw A Good Woman the other day with TheFuckOffGirl. Oddly enough, Lady Windermere was an American woman in Italy rather than a Victorian-era lady as per the Oscar Wilde original play, but the sscript just has so many great Wilde-isms. Fucking fantastic lines.
Today, went to buy a sandwich from a university cafe. They make sandwiches to order if you want one of them. So I'm standing there about to order and one of the women behind the counter is stomping around muttering about how "I'm leaving now, and if you want to talk about me, go right ahead, that's fine, I won't be here to listen and you can say anything you want."
The woman who was about to serve me raised her eyebrows and asked me what I wanted while the angry woman kept stomping around gathering her things.
Fuckinell. If I want temper-tantrum drama, I'll watch Big Brother. I just wanted lunch, OK? Yeesh.
Last thing: Jerry Springer on Michael Parkinson's chat show:
Jerry: It's been frayed, I think the population of Europe and of the world at what George Bush did. I personally am angry at what he did. I don't think he's an evil man, I think that is a caricature that gets put way too far. I don't think he goes to bed at night and thinks how can I screw up the world? How can I hurt America? I mean he's not like that. I think his policies sometimes have not been beneficial. I think starting the war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. I think Sadaam Hussein was stopped the day before we started bombing Bagdhad. He was an evil man, a horrible man, did horrible things to his people. But the day before we started bombing Bagdhad Sadaam Hussein was stopped. We had the no-fly zones; we had the satellites watching his every move, there were fifteen people in the country looking just like him, running around as disguises because he was afraid to come out of the bunker; we had the inspectors; we had the whole world on our side and we had him stopped. By starting to bomb Bagdhad, it's like taking a bat to a beehive. All of a sudden all hell broke loose and what we have now is another generation of people who are just going to hate us around the world, who are gonna think it was just America trying to tell the world what to do. I think that was harmful. The motive was right but the strategy was wrong, we didn't have to start that war. Afghanistan was right, Iraq was wrong. I admire Tony Blair, even thought I don't like the position he took on the war, because I think he's a man of incredible courage to stand up in a country that clearly didn't want that to happen. So I don't have anything personal bad to say about your Prime Minister. But I think the judgement was wrong, I think the purple fingers that the people in Iraq now is wonderful but the price we paid for that, when it didn't have to be done, is a price we'll be paying for generations.
A week in Melbourne is always fun. Even though Melbourne winters are actually cold, in a way that Sydney winters are not. (In my recent experience living there, Sydney winters are just "slightly less warm than Sydney at other times". I go out to get our morning coffees on weekends in a tee shirt.)
Will check in as and when I can.
Will check in as and when I can.
Don't talk of dust and roses
Or should we powder our noses?
Don't live for last year's capers
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulses unreal
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I think you'd overdose if you knew what's going down
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
We want you Big Brother
Or should we powder our noses?
Don't live for last year's capers
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulses unreal
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I think you'd overdose if you knew what's going down
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
We want you Big Brother
