sassylass

That can be a real challenge.....good choices btw.

um... congratulations.

The older I get (and I am technically older than you, so I can sound all pompous about it ) the less I'm interested in looks first. Don't get me wrong, physical attraction still plays a part, but my interest is far more fanned by personality and humor and intelligence. Plenty of shallow pretty people, not enough funny, sarcastic perverts.

your name is pretty long too...and has a lot of 's's to misplace. *wink*

you know...in most internet forums...you get to know people by how they interact long before you get to see them face-to-face (if ever). This is why so many people develop internet-crushes. It is safe, and probably more mentally stimulating than most meet-and-boff social interactions.

hahaha...i just said boff. hmm...that's a new one.

hobbies are deffinitely important for maintaining some semblence of sanity. pick one back up that you used to enjoy...it will be good for you.

I notice an absense of tattoos in your picture from when you were 22. Did you have any by then? And the photo above is really sexy. Really sexy.

How'd you end up in Victoria instead of Vancouver when you went all the way out west? Big cities with personality always seem to have the best art scenes. Because Winnipeg is so far away from any other big centres, we seem to be able to push the limits too, but on a smaller scale. Are you planning any more tattoos?

Will you still live vicariously through folks if we stay in and have fun? It's not so bad - you've got the beasts, nekkid girlies and hopefully some good books and tunes.

It'll be great!

Sorry about your IM conversation. I've never had an IM conversation with anybody, so you're above the curve there.

Hope stuff gets better.

I'm having fun at home for you!

ADDENDUM: The artist for Mystery! is Edward Gorey. He has a bunch of great, very morbid kids books that are a scream. The group on the site is Edward Gorey fans, I think.

And fuck your neighbors. Just because you ask for some consideration doesn't make you old. Stupid young whipper-snappers...

Also, thanks for the ankle concerns. It feels better today, but still not good. Soccer is definately the problem - but it's soooooooo fun?!

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over do the chatting? Is that possible?

I'm sitting in the dark, with some taped episodes of csi, greasy from chinese food, with candles lit, sipping tea and fantasizing over a fictional character (Grissom). I am pathetic.

I have that song on vinyl, but with Rupert Holmes singing it. That is one of the greatest campiest songs of all time. I just love it. It is so totally Grade 12 for me. That and "Making Plans for Nigel" by XTC. And Space Invaders.

My god, my youth, ahhh, my youth. It's a good thing I'm still as immature now as I was then. Otherwise I'd come to realize how just old I really am. Hopefully I'm a little wiser.

Oh my god, oh my god. Squeeze's ArgyBargy album is one of my all time favourite albums (Vicky Verky makes me cry). And The Monks - the summer of '81, my friends and I were obsessed with Squeeze and The Monks (and the girls were obsessed with Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl really is a great song). And Nick Gilder singing Roxy Roller and Hot Child in the City reminds me of high school when most of the other music was disco, and I hated disco back then. I love those two songs.

I still have all my old LPs (800 or so) and I still listen to them all the time. The Clash's London Calling double album has so much more personality than the cd version. It crackles and pops, like I always thought The Clash meant it to be.

It's a lot of fun looking through the albums and finding something I had forgotten about so that when I play it I go back to that time in my life as soon as the first notes hit my ears. Not that I feel any need to live in the past, it's just nice remembering some other good times.

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.

Thanks for coming by the journal! You're one of an (elite) few!

I actually almost posted here after I read your geezer post - but, well, I didn't.

They rejected your replicant set? Wow. If it were up to me, I would have totally accepted. And if I were Harrison Ford and you were Daryll Hannah, I would have not shot you.

More stuff:

1) I was totally with you on the Geezer stuff. It's good to know that we are not the only ones out here! You give me hope!
2) Thanks for the funny comments, too. To date, you're the only one to appreciate the humor. You are also the only person besides myself that keeps a hard-copy dictionary with them. Yeah!
3) If you're a Mystery! fan, there is an Edward Gorey group you should check out.
4) Emma Peel? You should meet my Dad. He loves her! Weren't there two actresses? Anywho - east or west coast Island?
5) Perhaps we could be friends?
6) Go to bed. You stay up too late.

The desert really isn't so bad, once you figure out how to control the creepy crawlies.... There's a roadrunner in my neighborhood that I have trained to eat anchovies out of my hand, he takes care of the snakes and scorpions for me.... Lots of quail and bunnies.... Of course it's all part of living the dream... I've been in love with the desert ever since I travelled Australia in my youth.... I'm saving my money, as we speak, to build a shop out behind my house (air conditioned of course) where I can weld together metal contraptions... It's my art, 12 foot tall windchimes, giant mobiles, etc......

Living in the SW has opened all sorts of new culinary doors for me, I'm an avid tex-mex cook now as well.... Stuffed cactus pads are wonderful... The only thing I really miss here is good sea food... I have to travel 80 miles (Las Vegas) do get decent sushi..... I make my own curry pastes, though, like you, cooking just for oneself is a bit of a drag (Just about everything I cook, I cook in quantity)... I have things in my freezer that have been there over a year.... Ewwwww...

I spent more than four years travelling the globe, way back when.... While on a motorcycle trip through Yellowstone with my best firend, we ran into a couple of Australians who'd been travelling for over a year (backpacking around the world is an Australian rite of passage)... I was so inspired that I decided I should do it myself... 50 countries and counting.... I've shortened the length of my trips now (two weeks max) and I don't do them as often anymore (once a year or so) but I still keep the itchy feet moving....

I came to terms years ago with the idea that there simply isn't a perfect match for me... I've come close, but there's always something missing... I can find a woman that's a dirty dirty girl in the sack (I've done shit that would make the Marqis de Sade blush) bit they always want to be taken care of (I believe in the two income household)... I can find a woman that has the drive to save money, but is afraid to throw a dart at a map, buy a ticket, and see what there is to see.... I can find a woman that likes to set an exotic table, but she wants to start a family (at my age I really don't want children)... "sigh", I one day will be one of those old men who comes home from work, pets his dogs, and sits looking at his moderne objects d'use.... The funny thing is that I have ceased to feel lonely... If I feel like careening across the desert in my four wheel drive, I pack up the dogs and do it... If I want to see a movie, I go see it.... "Table for one" is no longer an embarassing thing to say.....

Living solo does have it's downfalls though... My home has become a veritible den of porn.... After time, you reach a point in your singleness, where you resign yourself to the idea that you will NOT have anyone you need to impress... That's when you quit hiding the porn..... I have reached that stage..... Everywhere I look, there's boobies and asses staring back at me.... I need to get a porn buddy, someone to come over if I die, and clear out all the porn before my folks arrive and find what a sick fuck their little boy really was....

yes, framed it would seem more "dignified".... I think I still have a few old Black Flag posters around somewhere... I agree with you on the old bands coming out of retirement thing, esp when there's like one guy from the original lineup... I originally come from the land of Mud and Honey... The whole grunge thing kind of killed the good venues....

At 36 I figure as long as I'm dating ANYBODY interesting I'm doing well.... I was with a 21 year old chickee poo for a while, the lack of conversation was astounding.... She didn't know Henry Rollins had ever been in a band..... Of course she thought wine coolers were "neat" too.... The sex was allright though.....

Running around naked in the desert can be a real pain in the ass, or balls anyway... Gotta watch what brushes against the cacti.... I do find myself nekkie out in the wading pool quite a bit though....

Don't get me started on working in a factory... I tell myself every day that I'm only there until I make it... Whatever "making it" is..... I'm the asshole I used to laugh at when I was a teenager... The guy with two cars and a mortgage payment, yapping dogs in the yard.... Weeds to pull.... But I do love it so..... My little slice of desert paradise.... If I can ever figure out how to shrink the pics I'll post them..... Feel free to escape the snowy north any time and bronze yourself here.... Mind the tarantulas, if you don't bite them, they won't bite you.....

The scorpions on the other hand.....

I was, and still am at times, a chronic electric fence pisser.... reminds you you're still alive.....

if they don't write back, fuck 'em.... If they still don't write back, fuck their brother.... That'll learn 'em....

If it's any consolation, the scorpions kill the tarantulas every time..... (yay scorps).....

Try having your ex move out, leave you the bills AND a hefty mortgage payment, it's one of the reasons I moved to Arizona (cheeeeeeeeeeeeeep livin baybe).... That and it's legal to shoot bill collectors here.....


Yeah, the whole 20 something training milieu is a real pain in the ass.... Women (not little girls) are also much easier to live with...... It's great to reach the age where you can just go "shit, I am who I am".... Of course I am at an advantage.... If I walk outside my house here naked, there's nobody but the coyotes to offend..... I think they just point and giggle most of the time anyway... I'm like a furry illustrated man.....

Badbrainz does suck now, and all but one of the Ramones are dead (big weepy breath)... Kind of like my friends from way back.... Dead mentally.... All working on their second marriage, etc (I never did bother with getting married).... I still have a few hold outs, old gothy types that drop by every so often.... But they're hanging up the dark makeup and doing the family thing more and more as well..... Ever see a pack of 30 something punk types running naked through the desert during a full moon??? Nostalgic, yes, but pretty???? Only to us dear friends....

I my friend, and not done with the wild shit faze of my life... I just do it on weekends now.... And get done earlier.... Or something.....

I hang out with an alcoholic cowboy and a wigged out vietnam vet now (my two best mates)... Puts all my angst into perspective.....

I ate rattlesnake yesterday.....

How's that for being all Bobby Bouchet?????

I made beef vindaloo tonight (I learned how to make it when I was in India)... talk about a contrast, rattlesnake one night, Indian the next.......

Wonderful sentiment! Too true, we certainly both deserve fine companionship and beer! At least that's what I keep telling myself.

Thanks for the nice words about the tatt. I'm thinking about doing the other shin with a devil penguin gargoyle.

Hey Girl!

Thanks for adding me to your list!

If I ever make it to the Island, I will let you know! Feel free to do the same if you make it to Cow Town...

Also, may I ask what you screen print? My pal used to work at a screen printers, making silk scarves.

i like the part about "over emailing." haha...ive been known to do that. Ive been called a stalker before too, but i think that is stupid, i just have lots of thoughts and questions that i like to have answered. Most of these pop up at random times.

i think i am just addicted to the instant nature of IMs.

Welcome to the site, Sassylass, and particularly to the site of erotic Geezerdom, glad you found us! Great pics, cool idea! I can't imagine why Missy didn't pick you up...?!


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you are incredibly attractive