tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83234545713523909872024-03-13T21:15:40.059-07:00Green Fuzz....find it in the nothing.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-48558322287230745672012-01-06T17:12:00.000-08:002012-01-06T17:14:18.656-08:00Turning it into a Positive Message: Appreciating the other Message<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I’m a bit late to the
party. Blame the holidays. The good news is I’ve had plenty of time to think
through this tirade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, I have some things to say about the Lexus “December to
Remember” campaign. You know the ones everyone under the sun was born to hate. Don’t
worry, if you don’t recall, I can help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Okay, so I get it. The jingle is so obnoxious, I’d rather
chew on foil than have to listen to that song again. I’m also very aware of the
recession. I’m reminded of it every time I talk to just about anyone or turn on
the TV. Check and check. But beyond that, why the extreme hate? People have
dedicated many blogs to the hatred of this commercial!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>A list of sites from non-fans: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1065621373" style="background-color: black;">I Wish I Could Forget Those Stupid Lexus December to Remember Commercials <o:p></o:p></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://pardontheunemployment.blogspot.com/2011/12/that-stupid-lexus-commercial-is-ruining.html" style="background-color: black;">That Stupid Lexus Commercial is Ruining Christmas </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-obnoxious-ads-that-donE28099t-even-try-to-sell-their-products_p2/" style="background-color: black;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;">6 Obnoxious Ads that Don’t Even Try to Sell Their Products</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 115%;">: </span></span></a></span><br />
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to Remember commercials</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, where some rich asshole surprises their rich
asshole significant other with a Lexus for Christmas, while most of us are
trying to figure out how to keep our houses.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So let me get this straight. Folks are upset that a luxury
car company uses the holiday as an opportunity to shamelessly promote their
product. Did we forget what the holidays are about (no, don’t say Jesus, you
and I both know it’s not true…my bank account proves that)? Has the recession
created an unspoken law that luxury car brands have to hang out in the waiting
room while the rest of us weep about being jobless and/or poor? If that’s the
case…off with all the iPad commercials then, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I myself am light-years away from ever owning a home, paying
off student debt, and becoming someone of importance where I work. So, I
empathize with the slice of society that doesn’t get to indulge in the luxuries
available to very few but I’m not going to pout, bitch and moan about it like
an envious c-rag! If I spent my time complaining about how the entire cast of <i>How I Met Your Mother</i> somehow affords to
live in the middle of New York even though they’re architects, reporters, and
school teachers…I’d be depressed a lot. And, I’d have no television to watch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">People ask who the audience is in these commercials. New
flash; it’s us—the coupon saving, camp-in-our-backyard-for-a-<i>staycation</i>, responsible, middle-class,
Quicken obsessed, credit card freezing, club. Lexus, BMW, Audi, they may not be “selling”
their products to us; they’re selling an idea, a life, or a version of a life
we might strive for. They’re selling us
a good feeling. Telling us that Lexus could be for us; when the time comes that
we can afford such things, Lexus will be there waiting like old loyal friend
with arms wide open. Sure, the top tier wealthy folks are obviously an audience
as well but I mean, I’m pretty sure they don’t need a commercial to convince
them to buy a luxury car (they likely don’t need to think twice and they
certainly don’t need convincing. If they want it they buy it (usually)).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I digress. My point is not to argue for the ads, or
claim how honorable they really are. It’s more to highlight how progressive
they actually are. In the midst complaining about Lexus’ insensitivity for the
current economic crisis, we’ve forgotten to notice something pretty cool—a
certain shout-out to women around the world. A touch of feminism, if you will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Women Can Buy Really
Expensive Things and Still Be Feminine Loving and Thoughtful<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When was the last time you saw a commercial where a woman
gifted a car (or anything over $600) to her significant other? I’m not a wild
feminist but I know when to appreciate a brand that strives to break gender
stereotypes. What sets it apart than other similar commercials is that the
message is executed without emasculating men, or portraying them as
half-brained, Peter Griffin clones. The message shines both genders in a
positive light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What a win! It tells a greater message than the obvious “money
buys happiness.” It says that women and men are more equal than they were last
year or the year before last. It says that strong, independent women can also
be caregivers, lovers, soft, feminine, and thoughtful—images rarely paired with
the successful, wealthy, woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I first saw the ad, it put a smile on my face and reminded
that society, while it’s still a mostly broken machine, is taking important
forward steps. So, this got me thinking, what other progressive ads are out
there? I did some research and picked out favorites! Enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nike Girl Running
Commercial: Never Stop Running<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here a woman runs because she wants to. The audience becomes
part of the adventure. Her passion remains unfettered despite all environmental
influences. Recognize that she’s doesn’t ignore the people in her life, they,
like us, become part of her adventure. Like the aforementioned commercial,
“Never Stop Running,” erases the idea that a woman <i>has </i>to be one thing or another (strong, determined, self-loving vs.
maternal, caregiving, daughter, girlfriend etc). It’s stating a woman can be
all those things and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love this commercial!! The female in this one not only
embraces her femininity (girls like to accessorize, “what girl wouldn’t need
new shoes”), but also demonstrates her adventurous, spontaneous, wild side,
without portraying her as unrefined, or like a tomboy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The following is a list of brands with ads that have taken on
a more progressive approach to advertising. Whether it’s through the
representation of same sex couples, homosexual undertones, or simply through social commentary, these brands, even
though I don’t normally stand behind some of ‘em, have taken a honorable and
risky step forward to deliver an important message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">McDonald’s Come as
You Are commercial (France) 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I realize I’ve turned an extremely complex issue into
something simple and there are so many counterarguments and layers upon layers
of other shit to consider but these are just my two cents. Let’s look for the
positive in all the bullshit, shall we? </span><o:p></o:p></div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-14485383412252162362011-11-18T18:51:00.001-08:002011-11-18T18:59:55.821-08:00Spells of Danger (i.e. my life is NOT exciting enough)<br />
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It keeps happening. These gosh darn, let’s get dangerous episodes.
It’s as if I’m not clumsy enough as it is. Like my existing medical bill is
feeling a little lonely sitting there on my desk…all by itself, asking me
to get dangerous. I hear it whispering, “live a little.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Garbage Disposal:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I turned on my garbage disposal and without thinking…there
was my hand, in the sink, moving the leftover scraps of cucumber closer to the “black
hole of danger finger death.” Before I realized it, the growls and gurgles of
the disposal reminds me that I do, indeed, love my hands and would like to keep
them. My face gets flushed and I take a step back, and caress my man hands. Left
is telling Right, “it’s okay buddy…it’s not that bad. I’m here for you. Let’s
deal with this together…you’re not as manly looking as you think.” My body
tingles. It’s the adrenaline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Doubles as a Step Ladder:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Swivel chair. I use it for step ladder purposes and it’s the
most dangerous object in my apartment. Swivel chair is like Winona Ryder’s
character, Susanna, in <i>Girl Interrupted. </i>Everyone’s
(the rest of my furniture) jealous of it, it’s unstable, and can seriously
cause harm to others near on or around it. When I realized how rewarding it was
to grab my sweatpants from the tippy top of my closet using swivel chair, it
was like crack and I was some bum in 1<sup>st</sup> and Pike St.<i>.</i></div>
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<i>I might make cupcakes
tonight so I’m going to need to grab that cupcake to-go tray that’s hidden on
the top shelf above my fridge. I’m going to need that chair.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>I ran out of clean
glasses…I’m going to need those Kerr jars that are hiding above my stove for
water. Swivel chair to the rescue!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The swivel chair is probably from 1991 and the wheels fall
off of it all the time, especially when applying a ton of weight on linoleum
surface. To this day, I’ve fallen from the chair twice. It pains me to admit
that I have bruised my forearms, elbows (yes, you can bruise those bad boys),
and butt from using the chair in my kitchen. But the idea of being able to
balance, whilst grabbing a much needed object on the most unstable piece of
(shit) furniture ever…is like…a high. Is my life this boring, really?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Fire Alarm:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I’m sitting in a bar. Writing. Yes, I’m announcing what I’m
doing in real time. I’m sitting next to this fire alarm thing and thinking,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>If I could just pull
that lever. Just a quick tug. Like accidentally. ITWOULDBESOFUN. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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But I mean it wouldn’t be that fun. It’d be like…fun in my
mind, until I realized what I’d just done and then the firemen, police, and annoyed
patrons having to leave their drinks and evacuate from the bar for half an
hour, gave me murderous faces. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what I have to keep reminding myself about when the urge
to grasp the lever overcomes me so badly that I have to think about ugly people
to distract myself.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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This isn’t a danger to me. Just my plant, Atticus. I haven’t
fed him for 2 weeks. I’m an asshole. So I
fed him today and he was so excited he had an accident.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-33779609975453501802011-10-25T00:00:00.000-07:002011-10-25T00:08:16.146-07:00My First Post of Year 26<p class="MsoNormal">Happy Birthday to me. These are a list of things running through my head tonight on my first post of my 26<sup>th</sup> year.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>If you could be a public bathroom where would you be located? <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As I stand in my bathroom ready to jump into my shower, I notice I haven’t changed much. Or, maybe I have, and there are certain parts of me that haven’t. Like I’m still trying to figure out how to remove rust stains from the bobby-pins I’ve left sitting in my shower for upwards of three weeks. Four total. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Little Girls Make Good Lawyers<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Recently, I became a running coach to girls aged 8-11. I, along with three other coaches, am supposed to help them realize how awesome and empowered they are, while teaching them how to pace themselves and be prepared for their big 5k in December. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It’s been a month and I already feel like I’ll never be ready to be a good parent. It doesn’t help that I’m a pushover but all I can say is that these girls can argue and negotiate with the best of them. One minute I’m telling a girl she can’t have another bag of fruit snacks and the next I’m spitting out the wrapper after having opened the bag with my teeth and helping her make piles of four, just because. I mean I used to think my heart wasn’t made for kids but now every time they pretty much say anything, I’m either laughing or on the brink of tears because I feel so moved.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I missed a practice because I was sick a couple of weeks ago and on Wednesday one of them came up to me and said, “Why weren’t you here on Monday coach Joey? We missed you!” I responded that I had some stomach issues and she grabbed my arms and draped herself on me while proclaiming in the most adorably dramatic way, “You poor thing!!” I nearly fainted.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The moral of this story is that I’m pretty sure I’m just useless as a coach and they are the ones teaching me an important lesson in life. Don’t become a mom until you’re ready to see passed the theatrics, ridiculously adorable but manipulative pleas, and the innocent doe eyes that just want you to believe they are not little devils waiting to destroy the very essence of your being.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Facebook makes me do bad things<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Like waste my time. Before I changed my profile to look like the new Timeline, I scrolled through my wall from Oct. 1 2011 all the way back to April 2004, when I first got Facebook. It took me just over two hours and all I got was a comment from an ex saying something about my cuteness being X and something else being Y. Honestly I didn’t even care what the comment was…my heart was too busy being shattered that Facebook didn’t in fact, record my first status. This then prompted me to change my profile to the Timeline in hopes that maybe then it would show…nope. It just says that I joined Facebook April 28<sup>th</sup> 2004 and that the first comment ever is from someone who is not me. I will die knowing that and that makes me sad. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Trader Joes is Making Me Grotesque<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ever since I got a car I’ve dreamt of driving to Trader Joes and buying frozen food. What is wrong with me? Just because it says, “Trader Jose’s” on the label DOES NOT mean it’s healthy. It’s like I walk in with the hopes of finding raspberries and heads of lettuce on sale and my plan is completely thwarted when I remember the delicious taste of that lite macaroni and cheese. While I’m there in the frozen food section (yep…I’m disgusting), I go ahead and pick up some Gyoza (because the bag in my fridge just isn’t enough), some veggie burritos, tamales, the whole frozen section really… and by the time my basket is too full to carry, I forget the real reason I came in to shop and go to the wine section and pick up a Chuck. Someone stop the madness. Someone tell me that they steal food from starving children in the Amazon…wait no…make it worse than that. I’m not sure I could pass up mac and cheese for that. I mean, I wear Nikes for godssake.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tamales anyone?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Have I mentioned I've done really awesome things lately??...</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/299167_10100614430148863_1203487_60134995_6795745_n.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hiked Lake Serene with Michael</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/293488_10100614427643883_1203487_60134936_4489784_n.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Blue Angels</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/313074_10100695997083073_1203487_61049439_1912214410_n.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/310732_10100695999553123_1203487_61049481_1961686978_n.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Trip to Portland</p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/300042_10100667312317573_1203487_60833909_1755696288_n.jpg" /></p><p class="MsoNormal">...Met this guy...he's okay too :). </p>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-88212339075459363532010-08-20T14:16:00.000-07:002010-08-20T15:15:18.159-07:00Ad-ing it Up!<span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>I’m in love with ads. My love affair is only a third grader though, still young, kind of in the honeymoon stage and definitely plans on evolving. But for now, my justification is the following.</strong></span><br /><br /><strong>Boring to Awesome</strong>: TV ads, and for the most part print advertising, have taken a new leap into “intelligent” humor. The kind of humor that asks the consumer to think for 3 seconds and say, “ohhh pfffttt….I get it!” and feel like not only are they “in on it” but like they’ve accomplished something <a href="http://msp.imirus.com/Mpowered/imirus.jsp?volume=ds10&issue=7&page=0">http://msp.imirus.com/Mpowered/imirus.jsp?volume=ds10&issue=7&page=0</a> . A vital step for businesses, because there is silky thin fine line between snobby were-better-than-you “intelligent” humor (read, The Onion, Adbusters, The New Yorker), and “yo…faux genius…while you absorb all those waves why not engage your mind a smidge, it’s fun, we promise!” I think you get my point here.<br /><br />Because a grander part of the TV watching population TiVos and DVRs shows, meaning fast forwarding past the commercials, advertising has had to do something revolutionary, taking the “Dear strong businessman, buy this car and not only will you own your customers, but you’ll own the road” to “hey there Mr. Handsome Suit Guy between the ages of 30-52, buy this car and you’ll get home quicker than your wife, in time to catch kick off for Monday Night Football, before she steals the TV to watch Gossip Girl.” It’s added an extra layer to power and money—humor, fun, dare I say…community, family. I think the new ads answer the question, “can there be both humor and relatable satisfaction in money and power?” with a big fat, “YEP.”<br /><br /><strong>Obnoxious to Viral</strong>: But advertisements also realized that they need to please people instead of annoy them. A consumer would much rather watch a 20 second ad with a rich corporate guy driving a car, rushing home getting in Green Bay Packers garb to watch MNF, than watch a 20 second ad of some random douche bag, driving in an open highway with NO ONE else around wearing sunglasses in the dark saying something douchey like, “my car is awesome…what do you drive, sweetie?” It needs to be relatable, but slightly out of reach so people feel like they have something to work for, while not getting depressed that middle class is the only class and the economy sucks and…well anything related to real life. Magical but not unattainable.<br /><br />Ads now need to make something good enough for the few people without TiVo or DVR to see an ad and say, “I’m going to post this on YouTube/facebook/twitter, because it’s badass and awesome, and I want my friends to know I have a sense of humor and I’m up to date with the cool shit.” Not only does it obviously increase sales (duh), but this saves money as it’s basically free advertising. Consumers are suckers, but at least this makes them pretty frigg’n cool suckers. I’ve never worked for an ad agency, but I imagine part of their mission would be, “make it awesome enough to become a viral video in a week, die out in three weeks and then come back to life six months from now in some random conversation and relive the cycle again (see, Old Spice commercial).”<br /><br /><strong>Anatomy of Commercials in our Modern Era</strong>: Pithy, spunky, and maybe even emotional. Everyone with a mother knows that Hallmark commercials have owned the emotional side of advertisements since the dawn of commercials. But that’s outdated…people don’t want their emotions to be whored out to every hallmark or feed the children ad on television. I imagine the conversation between the Human and the Emotion is… “Whoa there cowboy…simmer down. It’s just Hallmark Mother’s Day commercial, don’t be so easy, you whore…get a hold of yourself and change your panties.” People want to work for their emotion; they want it to creep up on them like a mosquito at night. For example, I was watching the new iPhone 4 commercial that is meant to showcase the video calling feature. Actually, wait, let me preface this with, I don’t really cry…unless you’re breaking my heart, but those are usually not tears of sadness as much as they are anger. Anyway, so okay…so the scene is the girl not wanting to open her mouth and person on the other line is her father and he keeps trying to make her smile and then she finally smiles revealing a mouth full of metal…here’s the video:<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-h-tyOpFABY?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-h-tyOpFABY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br />When I first watched this video I was sitting on my couch eating Pop Chips and drinking wine—experiencing a moment of solitude after a long week of being overly social… and I bawled. It wasn’t like a loud cry, or angry or anything, it was like the floodgates of uncontrollable tears reserved from months and months of refusing to cry, were opened and there little to no end in sight.<br />I compare it to the moment in Ratatouille when Anton Ego takes a bite from Linguini’s “ratatouille” dish, and he’s taken far back to a comforting humble place—home, as a child. Yes, it was like that.<br /><br />Brilliant though right? The ad is brilliant! It unexpectedly strikes all the right chords, because when you think iPhone, you don’t think “family. sweet. adorable.” You think, “Badass, now I can be like every other rich schmuck on the bus playing Angry Birds or Scrabble on my iPhone.” But yes, people want to be reminded that things that seem cold, technological, and a sign of wealth, are not those things necessarily, or at least not only those things, but so much more, they can remind you of home, or a moment in time when your dad was supportive of that mushroom haircut in the 6th grade and still said you were the most beautiful girl in the world. And not only can they remind you of home, but they can literally take you to that place…like magic. Well done Apple. Well done.<br /><br />So…be it intelligently humorous, intelligently emotional, fully tactful and incredibly viral and fun and innovative. Ads have drawn me in…and right, I don’t have TiVo or DVR…so I’m one of those people who sit through commercials and ponder for days.<br /><br />And while my love affair might end soon as I evolve and as they possible devolve…I will always remember the days of:<br /><strong>Sheer Laughter</strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hf0s2clGVN4?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hf0s2clGVN4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/owGykVbfgUE?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/owGykVbfgUE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong>Tactful hotness</strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wxiXCRnJs6o?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wxiXCRnJs6o?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>,<br /><br /><strong>And, just plain intelligence without the quantum physics crap</strong><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ptMv1y-gLeI?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ptMv1y-gLeI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />...Also, i realize i haven't really said anything revolutionary here...but i'm not trying to revolutionize thought, just trying to get mine out there.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-39062220463302589902010-06-30T00:29:00.000-07:002010-06-30T00:45:56.380-07:00Maryanne: sweet somethings.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/TCr2H_85yOI/AAAAAAAAAsc/9EvREfqHgSQ/s1600/painting_pollock.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/TCr2H_85yOI/AAAAAAAAAsc/9EvREfqHgSQ/s400/painting_pollock.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488469713190766818" /></a><br /><br /><strong><em>There’s nothing scarier than blank space,</em></strong> Maryanne thought. The freedom is offered was unbearable almost suffocating. Everything can go wrong with blank space. Everything can go perfectly with blank space. It was the not knowing what could happen, and the all encompassing finiteness of possibilities.<br /><br />She just wasn’t used to it. Her life was the opposite of blank space. In fact it was a lot like one of those crazy paintings, what is that artist’s name again? <em>Pollock,</em> she said out loud, smiling at herself with oozing pride. <br />It was the third of the month which, to most, merely means it’s two days after the first of the month. Probably the day that the rent check goes through and a third of your paycheck goes to shit. To Maryanne it meant that it was her official scotch tasting day. Scotch was banned in her town because of some stupid event years ago involving Molotov cocktails, prostitutes, and a church. It was all so unclear, and this upset Maryanne because she didn’t like limitations caused by other people’s stupidities. In fact, before the ban Maryanne had never even tried scotch. Macallan was merely a charming Scottish last name. But once she got word of the stupid ban she went straight to a town just two miles north and tried her very first scotch. “I’ll haaaavvvve the second best Scotch you have.” The bartender quizzically looked at her, “on a tight budget I see.” “Nope! I just don’t want to be disappointed when I try the best and don’t like it.” “Umm…okay! Would you like it in a shot glass?” “Shot. Definitely a shot glass. Please. Did I say that at first? I meant to. Anyway, how about that scotch?” The shot glass appeared suddenly and she stood in a showdown with scotch. I’ll either love you or hate you, $20 shot. And with that thought the liquor was sliding down her throat burning it and making the stubbly hair on her shaven arm stand on end. She loved it. She loved the burn, the chills, and the way it made her eyeballs want to secrete fluids. <br /><br />After looking at the blank space for a while Maryanne decided it would be less scary if she had her scotch tasting first. She went to her cupboard and opened up a whole new bottle of Laphroaig 10 Year Islay Malt, poured a three finger drink into her crystal tumbler; as she brought the glass to her mouth she sneezed right into it. Deeming the drink useless she poured its contents in into Ben, her new fern. “Drink up, Ben…this is your lucky day.” On her second try Maryanne sipped ever so slowly as she realized this scotch whiskey might change her life. The oaky taste made her feel like she was taking a bite out of the forest. She smiled as she poured just a smidge more. She walked to her living room, sat down on a herd of dust bunnies and stared at the blank space--a concrete urban looking wall rife with nothingness. <em>Pollock </em>she said to herself. Perfect.<br /><br />Rusty lay next to her riding out the buzz he acquired from Ben's alcoholic soil.<br /><br />She smiled as she envisioned chaos staring right back at her.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-83687544410857475102010-04-12T23:48:00.001-07:002010-04-12T23:56:30.774-07:00Maryanne revisited: Just Enough for a Blink.Maryanne's toes pointed straight up to the ceiling above her, back slightly arched and if there was a connect-the-dot line between her slopey nose and the skylight above her it would be absolutely straight...no bend whatsoever. Her eyes, a certain green that made everyone think of frogs when they looked at them, were bloodshot and tearing as she timed the seconds she could count the stars (without blinking) out of her skylight. At about two and a half minutes, record time for this star counting veteran, her obscenely large phone buzzed like a defective vibrator—on-off-on-off. She ignored the first set of rings expecting a voicemail, but it only encouraged them to call again. Maryanne blinked. Too teared up to see who was calling, she blindly answered. It was no one. Or rather it was someone, but she pretended it was no one. She answered speaking some twisted form of Mandarin.<br />“Maryanne, is that you?” But she’d only respond in jibberish with the occasional "hello" in Mandarin...<br />“Hello? Is this…Maryanne I think you’re cutting out. If this is you, I need to tell you that I’m back in town and I’d like to see you, Rusty too if you want. I’ll even…well, I’ll even hang out at your apartment. Just this time…well, nevermind, just call me back.” A tear rolled down her cheek from burning blind eyes, and she hung up the phone. She lay back down and Rusty came around the corner having just awoken from his slumber he was ready for some attention. He licked her face as she lay there gazing…restarting her star counting.<br />He licked her forehead, but this would not distract her enough to blink. Bored to pieces he spitefully licked her nose.<br />Cheerios.<br />Stale Cheerios.<br />She smiled. Counted star number 50 and blinked.<br />“Perhaps tomorrow it’ll be clearer.”<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/S8QVIuL0HTI/AAAAAAAAArQ/-XYtswtU_Hc/s1600/russell.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/S8QVIuL0HTI/AAAAAAAAArQ/-XYtswtU_Hc/s400/russell.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459511887860604210" /></a> <br />(Credit to Devin Lai for this gem!)Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-78270759000365100782010-04-12T23:25:00.000-07:002010-04-12T23:33:59.299-07:00Peek-a-BooI told myself I’d never be one of them. Those gosh darned prodigal bloggers! But promises are for the committed and clearly that’s something I’m not good at. The rules are simple…don’t get attached, expect little, be excited when you get better than “little.” Follow those rules, and I guarantee I’ll make you happy. That there is probably why I’m single as stag sock.<br /><br /><strong>Wherever have you been dearest Green Fuzz contributor!?</strong><br />-Well, between writing wretched fiction, breaking an ankle, getting really fat off of Trisquits (thank you, Nabisco) and the usual, warding off all attractive men in Seattle (and just about everywhere else I go) with my lack of charm, sophistication and apparently stlye , I’ve been working! Yep, that’s right, amidst all the ridiculousness in my life I somehow was able to not only acquire a job, but LOVE it.<br /> <br /><strong>Well…have you been writing? </strong><br />-Funny you should ask. Yes, I have been writing. In fact, not only have I been writing but I get paid to do it as well! That’s right, I thank everything that is holy that I somehow landed a writing job as a content writer at a board game company. The distraction from my personal writing isn’t necessarily a bad one, but I do miss just writing about nothing. <br /><br /><strong>What do you write at work? Did you write Monopoly?</strong><br />-What? Really? Monopoly? You mean the game that was created back in 1934, which is by the way, before my grandmother was born? No I didn’t write Monopoly, in fact nothing I’ve written has been produced yet…most of the stuff will be in stores in early Fall. I write card content; ad copy for packaging, catalogs, sales packets; I write rules, and do a shit ton of research. As we all know…these days nothing is for sure, few things last…who knows how long I’ll have this job, but it’s writing, it’s my career and I’ll relish it for what it is as long as I can. <br /><br /><strong>So…you’ve left the blogging world?...</strong><br />-Actually, no! I haven’t…more of a hiatus because I got intimidated by all the awesome blogs I follow. I kept thinking my stuff was crap compared to everyone else’s and that I wasn’t going to post unless I felt like it was worth posting. I’m doing this new thing that involves having a little more a filter. In fact I’ve been practicing in notebooks..outlining. I’m also going to be writing a new blog for work. You will all have to follow that…it’s snarky meets stupid meet professional meets…ahh fuck it’s none of that…how bout I just kindly ask you to check it out and you can see whether or not I suck at life? <br /><br /><strong>Anyway, now that I got the crap out of the way…how about you start posting some stuff with substance? </strong><br />-I will. I’m working on it. I promise. Maryanne is coming back. There’s also a boy named Harold who I’m going to make you hate and love. There’s also me…there’s always me. <br /><br />Also...check out this new triumph of mine. They're still blacklisted, but...at least i finally owned that sucker! Grapefruit: 1 Joey: 2. word.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/S8QQKEOICFI/AAAAAAAAArI/Qegmrz4jmyY/s1600/triumph.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/S8QQKEOICFI/AAAAAAAAArI/Qegmrz4jmyY/s400/triumph.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459506413397608530" /></a>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-37820811254749085812009-11-13T13:59:00.000-08:002009-11-13T14:34:25.710-08:00Grapefruit: The New Blacklisted Fruit.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sv3ecFRAnYI/AAAAAAAAAqU/A3eoavzC1P0/s1600-h/grapefruit.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sv3ecFRAnYI/AAAAAAAAAqU/A3eoavzC1P0/s400/grapefruit.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403719701945687426" /></a><br /><br />I'm adding grapefruit to the list of foods I refuse to eat ever again! We have broken up, Grapefruit, and I'm not planning on crawling back to you. Ever.<br /><br />I gave it two tries. Yesterday I brought half of a grapefruit, and tried to eat it with a fork. If you ever want to feel inferior to any fruit, try to successfully eat a grapefruit with a fork. Not only is it fucking impossible, but you basically get your very own hand crafted, money-shot every time you stab it. In the end, there's grapefruit all of your face and hands and you've barely caught the slightest taste of it. Grapefruit: 1 Joey: 0. <br /><br />In fact if my description wasn't good enough for those who are more visual: <br /><br />Fork is to Grapefruit as Butterknife is to soup.<br /><br />that sucked.<br /><br />Today, I tried the smarter, more traditional route--the spoon method. A solution i thought would fare well for me, I see women on Lifetime eating their grapefruits with a spoon and it looks really tasty and clean--everything one could ever hope for in the grapefruit consumption experience. Not so.<br /><br />I basically repeatedly stabbed the thing with my spoon, trying to scoop out whatever flesh so badly wanted to stay inside its skin. I ended up with a grapefruit bowl of mushy flesh floating in juice. It not only looked unedible, but again...it was a huge mess. <br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sv3ejhzg9EI/AAAAAAAAAqc/6MakFK4fGpM/s1600-h/grapefruit1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sv3ejhzg9EI/AAAAAAAAAqc/6MakFK4fGpM/s400/grapefruit1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403719829865690178" /></a><br /><br />The frustrating thing about all this is that grapefruit isn't even that good! It's bitter and pungent, and the taste your left with lingers in the back of your tongue making everything else you taste afterward just as bitter. The reward of the grapefruit is very minimal compared to the work it takes to eat it.<br /><br />I compare a grapefruit to a really ugly, unintelligent chick who's an absolute wench. Their physical suckage has no other redeeming qualities.<br /><br />The last thing i'll say is that in juice form...i accept the grapefruit. Greyhounds are one of my favorite cocktails. <br /><br /><br />Similar Foods to Be Added to the BlackList:<br />- Crab<br />- Sunflower Seeds<br />- Coconut<br />- Oysters<br />- TripeJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-88895221743131607282009-06-18T20:56:00.000-07:002009-08-11T13:16:21.641-07:00Daisy<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SoHRjlZUgII/AAAAAAAAAp0/7ovjUM-KSYs/s1600-h/shoes.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SoHRjlZUgII/AAAAAAAAAp0/7ovjUM-KSYs/s400/shoes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368802640066281602" /></a><br />Ronald and I were taking our occasional afternoon stroll down 20th Ave. to the local bookstore pub. He was teasing me because my checkered shoes were old and torn, and he didn’t like that it made me look like I didn’t take care of myself.<br /> <br />“Do you think it’s possible for your shoes to have any more holes?” He’d chuckled in that pretentious way I’d always hated.<br /> <br />“Oh shush you! I love these shoes. They’re so comfortable, and I’m sorry they look ratty but I’m allowed to wear them at least once a week in the summers. Pleeease?” I pleaded with him, but he knew that regardless of his answer I’d continue wearing the holey shoes. <br /> <br />“It’s fine, it’s just…it looks like you’re an emo kid begging for attention.”<br /> <br />“Well, I’m not. They really are just comfortable!”<br />But Ronald didn’t understand. He came from a conservative family. He came from an Ivy League school, equipped with all the pretentious bullshit that came along with the diploma, thought people who graduated from Berkeley had a misguided education and a false sense of confidence. He didn’t think we were very smart. Even though he never meant to make me feel like shit, it still bothered me, because, when push came to shove, I was much smarter and funnier than he. Sometimes, I think he knew that, which is why it was so important for him to put me down every so often. <br /> <br />“Alright, babe. That’s fine, let’s not get too riled up about a pair of shoes now. There are much bigger things to think about.” He’d do this all the time, pacify me like I was a nine year old child on the precipice of a tantrum. Before I started an argument, I saw Daisy…<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />She hobbled around the block in what she called her, “outdoor” robe. Pastel blue with tiny white roses sprinkled all over it. I wondered if she had a closet full of the same “outdoor” robes. Was her indoor robe less modest, perhaps, a solid color, because she didn’t have to impress anyone at home? Her socks were pale pink, inside brandless shoes, bleached white with extra cushion for heal support. <br /> <br />Her hair, cauliflower colored, looked like a million teased cotton balls sitting atop her scalp. There were no strays because they were all their very own strays. Standing at 5 ft 6 inches tall she had mentioned she’d been shrinking since she turned 60. She said that, in fact, we would all start shrinking on our 60th birthday; we’d feel our bones compressing against each other, and we would wake up feeling shrinking pains not growing pains. She said that no Advil or Aleve could take the pain away, because, “life is tough, and we gotta keep being reminded of that. And sometimes,” she said, “sometimes there’s not a remedy.<br /><br />As I catalogued all my misfortunes, and growing pains in my head, I thought for a short moment, oh, I know all about pain. Having been broken hearted yet again by the first boy I ever considered sharing a modest king sized bed, and an electric toothbrush with for the rest of my life. As I looked over at Ron, I realized I was now “fixing” that pain by dating merely a proximity of someone with whom I’d want to share a similar intimacy. I could hardly imagine sharing a fork with the guy. But I did try, I really did, and when I’d look into his sad brown eyes that lined perfectly with mine, I’d try and convince myself that eventually things would be OK…and that I’d fall madly in love with this boy… but things were never just OK. Ron is the Aleve that just won’t make my growing pains disappear. <br /><br />But I digress.<br /><br />Daisy held a leash attached to a feisty dachshund named Maxine that looked like it was too, feeling shrinking pains. She hobbled like Daisy, and together, their misaligned hips swung back and forth sloppily. Their grace had disappeared along with a perfect complexion and a full set of teeth. At one point Maxine was gnawing on my pant leg and it felt more like a leg massage than a bite. I probably should have been bothered at Maxine’s distaste in me, but I figured it was her way of claiming protection over her owner; I found comfort in that even though the cuffs of my pants were soaking in slobber.<br /><br />I’d seen Daisy around several different times of the day, and I wondered if this was just her way of passing time, so as not to feel so alone at home. When I asked her about her schedule she simply smiled and said, “oh honey, does it looks like I do much of anything else? Maxine and I walk about the blocks here for a good half hour, twice a day. Then we garden, and then Isabel gets home and we make dinner together.” And then she went on, “You know we used to make elaborate dinners using Julia Childs’s recipes, it was always an adventure. But now since my hip surgery last year, we stick to simpler things like salads and boiled vegetables with chicken. Sometimes Isabel is too tired from working at the library, so we order-in instead.” <br /><br />During her food speech Ron was completely engulfed in Maxine’s lack of teeth, pulling Maxine’s lips up to check out her gums and for a reason I’ll never understand, she liked him. She panted as she wagged her little tail ferociously. This disturbed me, and only at that point was I offended. <br /><br />Daisy talked more about things that I was only mostly interested in, and while I managed to look like I was processing everything she was saying, I imagined Daisy getting back home to her perfectly manicured front yard. <br /><br />My mind wandered as I thought about how odd it is that when you’re old you become Mr. or Mrs. Green Thumb, knowing exactly what time is the best time to water, prune, pull weeds, and plant bougainvilleas. It really makes no sense, but maybe it’s a senior citizen right-of-passage. When you’re 18 you can buy cigarettes and porn, when you’re 21 you can buy your own alcohol, 25 you can rent cars without the extra insurance charge…and then at 60 you get the magical green thumb power as soon as your get your first AARP mail. <br /><br />Anyway, I thought of Daisy getting home and pulling out her little buddy full of all the gardening tools collected from Ace Hardware from the beginning of time. She slips on her rubber gardening shoes, placing her bare, damp, feet inside each shoe carefully, and only when her big toe with the ingrown toenail find its indentation, does the shoe fit her just right. Putting on her gardening hat, a sun washed teal, would be the finishing touch to Daisy’s production. Maxine would follow her like a less than half sized shadow, right up until Daisy would start pulling the weeds, which would be the moment that Maxine would run over to the deck and lay down analyzing Daisy’s every movement, fighting with herself to stay awake for one more minute. The occasional breeze would make Daisy’s gown blow upward and she’d laugh at herself, feeling foolish under the unpredictable Seattle weather. Maxine would bark joining in on Daisy’s cackle. They are their own orchestra.<br /><br />I tuned back in when Daisy mentioned that she’s been Isabel’s partner for 30 years and that they started off as two liberal lesbians friends who never thought their companionship would go beyond their twice a week mystery book club. <br /><br />Daisy was my revolutionary hero. <br /><br />Going to mystery book clubs, with her own personal mysteries, it all seemed so romantic. None of the other women knew Daisy was lesbian, or that she graduated top of her class in mechanical engineering.<br /><br />“Honey, it was sheer coincidence or “fate,” how Isabel and I met. She saw me at these meetings and befriended me quite quickly as I seemed to be the only one to offer any sort of interesting input during our conversations about literature, and social issues. One day she says, ‘Daisy, my dear, why don’t you go home to a husband. It seems like you lead a lonely life.’ And I says, ‘Isabel, I’m just independent, and don’t need a man to make me happy. I’d rather figure my life out on my own.’ She knew exactly what that meant, she just knew!” She said within a few months they’d bought a dog together and had moved in to a boat house on Lake Union. She looked away and sighed, “that was when we were still able to get around easily. Anyhow, hun, I better get going. My Isabel is probably worried sick; I was supposed to be home fifteen minutes ago. Five more minutes and she’ll be sending out the troops!”<br /><br />Ronald was already restless. His two-beer buzz was wearing down and he needed a refill. <br /><br />Ronald couldn’t have been more disinterested in my revolutionary. <br /><br />“Right so it was great meeting you Ms. Daisy walk safely.” He said it all in one quick breath. <br /><br />“I’m sure I’ll see you and Maxine again soon. Thanks for letting us play with Maxine.” I smiled, fascinated by this wonderful woman, wishing I could hear more. But Ronald and I walked away as he let out a sigh of relief.<br /><br />“What was that about? I’m sure she didn’t need to be patronized.”<br />“Really? Are you being serious? I was totally interested in her story. Don’t you understand how rare it is to meet someone who’s had the same partner for 30 years!? Let alone being a lesbian constantly chastised for believing in human rights.”<br /><br />Ronald stopped, and looked at me, “you really don’t think it’s normal for two people to be together that long? That’s really sad you have no hope for the human race.”<br /><br />“It’s not that I have no hope for the human race, it’s that marriages end every day, people don’t value the power of commitment and love. And besides, what’s wrong with being a realist? It beats being constantly disappointed by people.” He snickered again, and stayed silent, “By the way, I’m not fake, and I’m offended that you said that.”<br /><br />Ronald never understood me the way I wanted him to. Maybe it’s because our relationship was superficial as that of a Hollywood couple trying to promote a movie they were both starring in. Except, we didn’t have a movie, people did watch us though, his two friends loved to put the magnifying glass on our already pathetic (but extremely enjoyable) relationship. But I don’t want to make this about me. <br /><br />Really. I don’t. <br /><br />Daisy and her dog Maxine frequented the block all throughout summer. Sometimes she’d limp a little more than usual; sometimes she’d use a walker and both she and Maxine looked like every step was one closer to their last. But, Daisy remembered me and every time we walked by each other she’d say, “Hi hun! Beautiful day isnt’ it? And then she’d ask about Ronald, referring to him as that ‘quiet young looking boy;’ I’d always have to explain to her that Ronald was just a temporary thing, that I tried so hard to make it more than that, but he was just not it for me; I was simply in love with the idea of getting over someone else, and that it was all just a disaster. I had the story down to a quick 3 minute conversation because I didn’t want to keep revisiting the break up.<br /><br />She’d always shrug and say, “ehh…he looked a little too short for you anyway.” I’d pat Maxine who’d then gnaw on my hand a bit before her sense of smell kicked in and she’d recognize me.<br /><br />Daisy stopped walking Maxine right when fall rolled around. Instead, she used her walker every day now and when I’d see her, she’d only glance. She stopped remembering me, and I forgave her for it because if I was 75 I wouldn’t want to stop and try to remember people all the time. <br /><br />Months have passed and I don’t see Daisy anymore. I never bothered to figure out where she lived, and if I did know I probably wouldn’t have visited her. I tend to dislike the smell of defeat, that’s what ancient people smell like to me. Yes, I guess I’m cold hearted, but that’s how I heal.<br /><br />I cared. I did. I cared about everything Daisy had to say. <br /><br />Ronald was wrong. He was wrong and I wish I could just tell him that he was wrong about so many things.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-55903094340483541292009-06-08T22:02:00.000-07:002009-06-09T10:16:58.437-07:00My business Suit Man.My business suit man. <br /><br />Towering over me by ten full inches. Slacks brushing the tops of his dark brown leather Nordstrom’s shoes. They tie but only for show. He sits and his fancy argyle socks show, revealing that they do, indeed, match his belt.<br /><br />This guy means business<br /><br />He’s wearing an eggshell button down, tailored made specifically for his shoulder width and the length of his arms. It all just fits so perfectly. He’s wearing a sports jacket that is the standard three buttons, and a dark charcoal tint (no pin stripes…thank god!). His haircut is everything you’d imagine “boring” could be. A full head of hair, cut, "crew" style combed ever so politely to the side. It's all well thought out; all the colors match more perfectly than a J Crew mannequin on a Store Opening day. <br /><br />His style is so inoffensive and conservative, I already know he’s the right type of boy for me.<br /><br /> Pale skin, hefty, strong fingers. I can see them as he pull out his Kindle probably to catch up on his New York Times for the last two days. His nose is rigid; there with a purpose. Pointy at the very tip; a nose I’d call ‘dangerously painful.’ While I only get a quick glance of his eyes, I already know they’re ever so short of stunning, brown. If I look longer they maybe might be honey colored; but I don’t look long; a glance is so much better. And even if they are short of stunning, brown… that’s okay. I make exceptions for my business suit man. <br /><br />He’s fancy and beautiful in every sort of way. His nearing-30 -year-old-skin, full of spunk and perfect, a tan that looks like he travels; dark, heavy eyebrows, chocolate colored hair, and a jaw line that I can recognize two miles away… it’s like I’ve just glanced at the most perfect sculpture. In twenty years he’ll be considered handsome and charming. With his salt and pepper hair and his five o’ clock shadow, all the women will do the classic double take. And he’ll smile…knowing that, it’s flattering, but he has something so much better at home. <br /><br />Maybe. But most likely not…<br /><br />In twenty years the ring on his left hand will be strangling his finger from a ten year marriage that’s been slowly strangling his life. The skin will puff outside of the limit of the1/8” thick platinum band. The area where his wallet had ready-to-use condoms will have picture of his two boys dressed in soccer uniforms, with the one knee on the grass and their hand placed on a soccer ball. Their smiles will be boasting two missing front teeth. With golden hair and blue eyes I’ll know I never was his type even if I had sat next to him on that record breaking scorching hot Seattle day. Even if he said “hi” to me, and I said “hi” back, and if we small talked about the weather, and how we’d rather be at the beach or on a boat, instead of going to our usual 9 to 5’s. We would have talked about how we were stoked it was Friday. We’d make eye contact and smile in each others’ eyes. There would be connection, but that’s all. That’s all and nothing more.<br /><br />The general rule is to never ask for a number on the bus, or even off the bus if it’s someone who rides the bus with you frequently. Because, what if you never call? There’s a chance you’ll see them again every day for the rest of your working lives and, well...who would want to deal that that kind of awkward?<br /><br />That’s just if I’d sat next to him.<br /><br />But I didn’t. I did not. It was too hot and because it was too hot hardly anyone was going to work. It was Friday, and I imagined people called in sick to visit the beach. These hot days must be celebrated.<br /><br />Thus, aside from the diligent twelve, the bus was empty. And for the first time in weeks I’d gotten my own bench seat. He sat behind me. And that was that. But even if, even if…<br /><br />I wasn’t his type anyhow. I know this because of the picture in his wallet twenty years from now. Golden hair, green eyes...that woman has strong genes.<br /><br />I’m not his type. I’m not. And this is how I justify not speaking to my business suit man.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-71602035191417592192009-06-03T01:24:00.000-07:002009-06-03T10:21:22.951-07:00The Maryanne ExperienceBelow is my attempt at fiction. Maryanne is a reoccurring character that I soon hope comes to life through this blog. It's just a fun experiment for me to try out something I've never done before. Some people jump out of planes, I attempt fiction writing.
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<br />Upon entering Maryanne's apartment, I noticed a peculiar stench but said nothing of the matter. I hoped that maybe it was the Indian food she had had last night, which she was raving about all night tonight. I was hoping it was something that elegant. Indian food.
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<br />But it wasn’t, of course it wasn’t.
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<br />After locking the door behind us, she quickly scampered away saying something to me, I still can’t quite make out; it sounded like, “make yourself at home, please excuse the clutter.” But I still can’t quite confirm that, and that’s okay. I tried looking for a comfortable spot to plant myself on her fantastic minimalist couch, dark gray, stained with what looked like coffee (and hopefully not sporadic anal secretions of a dog I had also heard about all night). I found the spot, right on the arm of the couch, next to the mutilated stuffed animal that appeared to be drenched in puppy slobber.
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<br />Still stationary, I looked around her apartment, wondering how a girl, at such a high caliber, can live in such a bourgeois apartment and treat it like it would all be demolished tomorrow. Items of clothing were strewn on the floor like land mines, or stepping stones to her bedroom. Folded papers acted as coasters for the congregation of cups on her coffee table. Stacks of books piled up like Jenga towers, with pages ripped out and highlighted that were sprinkled throughout the living room like large pieces of confetti. Her walls were covered with expensive looking photography of Berlin and Croatia (I recognized these, because I had been there, too; something else we had discussed tonight), and while, yes, everything was rightfully framed, the frames were beyond crooked. So crooked that I thought, perhaps it was intentional.
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<br />“I’m sorry, Ian, I’ll be just a second, these boots are impossible to take off!” I heard a loud thud, but I didn’t respond. I was too busy being entranced by her chaos. “Rusty, please stop humping your bed. My dog will be coming out soon, I hope you don’t mind, he’s quite friendly.”
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<br />“I should be fine. If not, I’ll just throw him over the balcony.”
<br />“Well, that would be unfortunate.”
<br />“Then he should probably behave shouldn’t he?”
<br />“Touche, sir.” And like that our exchange ended, and I could hear Rusty’s dog tags rapidly slapping against each other. Clink. Clink. Clink. Clink. Clink.
<br />“Rusty, I said stop with the humping!”
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<br />Parched as I was, I contemplated avoiding any contact with her dishes. In fact, I kind of assumed she wasn’t the “wash the dishes” type. I stayed put, but only for a short moment, until that stench was severely inhibiting me ability to breathe. I followed my nose into the kitchen.
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<br />What I found was unmistakably the most disgusting pile of god knows what just hanging out on the floor. Plugging my nose, I got closer to this mass of mish mash in order to assess and examine what this was exactly. In the tan colored pile I noticed a gloppy mass of cotton, stained in red tones. I bit; I wanted to know more…so I grabbed a cocktail straw from the jar that sat atop her counter.
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<br />Poke. Poke. Poke.
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<br />The mass moved with a little bit of pressure. As it rolled over I noticed a string coming out of this pill shaped cotton. Blood red. Cotton. String. It made sense now. Rusty then debuted himself, prancing into the kitchen with his chest held high, staring at me so as to say, “yah, that’s right, I ate that, and tried to digest it, and didn’t think it was good enough for me so I returned it to its rightful owner. AND WHAT!?” Rusty had vomited <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDevin%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><s><span style=";font-family:";" >kibble</span></s></span>the entire contents of Maryanne’s bathroom trashcan along with his kibble.
<br />I looked at Rusty, disgusted, peeved, disappointed. Rusty proceeded to lick my calves, probably salty from all the dancing I had done that night.
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<br />Rusty’s period tongue licked my calves.
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<br />…Maryanne would not be seeing me again.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-35977532472834335272009-06-03T00:31:00.000-07:002009-06-03T01:32:48.152-07:00"Someone" "Punch" "Me" "Plea"s"e"<span style="font-size:100%;">Oh my goodness, someone shoot me (not really). But seriously, punch my arm, or pull my hair..do something... it's completely deserved, I swear.<br /><br />I developed a new habit and it's driving me crazy. I get really deep into conversation and then, <span style="font-weight: bold;">bam</span> it comes out..and. i. just. can't. help it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the terrible hell that is the "air quote". I've been air quoting about as often as a meth addict</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/meth/meth_effects.shtml">(1)</a> picks at their skin. Honestly, I have no idea why I even do it, and every time it happens I get distracted with myself, and my story gets all screwy. Of course I can't even point it out to the poor person who has to put up with my air quoting because then they'll know that I know that I'm kind of a douche.<br /><br />Now that I'm fully aware, however, I've decided to buy myself a shock collar; every time I make an air quote motion or even develop the beginnings of an air quote...or even if the intonation in my voice suggests I'm going to use an air quote in the next 2 seconds...I shock myself. If it works on dogs, it'll totally work on me.. (</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">try not to believe that</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">)</span>. <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You know what confuses me though, if people are able to use air quotes why can't they use air parentheses. That's just not fair to the parentheses. I mean if you're gonna be a tool, might as well be a tool all across the board.<br /><br />Anyway, putting myself to sleep the other night I started devising a list of things that people do that make me want to drop kick <a href="http://images.livescience.com/images/061013_wcs_otter_02.jpg">baby sea otters</a></span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />List of Things Pretentious People Practice in Front of the Mirror:<br />1) the "pssh"snicker smug laugh.<br /><br />2) the eyebrow lift when anything that they don't understand is said. (they don't want to admit they actually have no clue what you're saying, so they remedy their problem by making you think <span style="font-style: italic;">you're </span>the issue, and clearly you're confused.<br /><br />3) the air quote (see above)<br /><br />4) people who chew with their mouths open (maybe this isn't so much pretentious as it is disgusting, but still deserves to be noted)<br /><br />5) Name dropping.<br /><br />6) the drinking pinky raise (seriously...who do you think you are?)<br /><br />7) the, i'm-going-to-talk-louder-than -you- while- you're- talking- because-what-I'm- about- to-say-is- so- important-I- cannot-wait , move.<br /><br />I'm gonna honest here though...I've committed a few of these crimes myself, but my philosophy is, you can't hate it until you try it, right?</span>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-32757651747854790482009-05-31T23:04:00.000-07:002009-06-03T01:33:14.262-07:00Because Being Thought about Naked by Strangers is So Awesome, Strippers Shouldn’t be the Only Ones Reaping the Benefits<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiNw5QnKF3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/_feaxQdPIrc/s1600-h/bathroom+tulips.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiNw5QnKF3I/AAAAAAAAAk4/_feaxQdPIrc/s400/bathroom+tulips.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342237712005601138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span> Another one posted on Facebook that needs to be posted here.<br />------------<br />Being someone’s “Missed Connection” is an art. These serendipitous moments with the perfect connection and the perfect glance involve every bit of structure. There are skills involved, so many unsaid things that need to remain unspoken, but stated in some inaudible way, and so many emotions that need to be carefully and diligently pouring out of you like the tiny droplets of sweat of a chilled beer in a warm room. Everyone’s wants to be someone’s serendipitous moment. Every girl wants to feel like she is being stared at through those sunglasses and every guy wants to feel like someone is planning their wedding, as their being stared at.<br />Let me preface this by stating that if you’re unattractive, stop reading, walk away and go get attractive, come back and start over. If that doesn’t work, I know a few plastic surgeons I’d be happy to refer you to.<br />If you’re attractive and possess some form of sex appeal, I hate you. Keep reading…<br /><br />After poring through what feels like a zillion missed connections on Craig’s List, I’ve noticed a few consistencies. There’s a formula to serendipity, and I just may have it figured out.<br /><br />It’s all about lingering, and almosts, and maybes, and kind ofs.<br /><br />Scenario:<br /><br />You’re a good looking twenty something year old, and maybe you just got out of a long term relationship, and you’re down on yourself because the relationship lasted so long you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be spicy, “have it.” Perhaps, your ex told you he/she is breaking up with you because they’re tired of that tiny weird growth you have on your eyelid, that really only they have ever noticed, or that they can’t stand how your saliva tastes because all you eat is weird ethnic food, or, dare I say…you’re no good in bed, because since that last injury during an adventurous evening, you’ve lost your stamina. <i>Sigh</i>…So, you’re heart’s a little bruised and you never want to look at another member of the opposite sex again, at least not with that silent, <i>I love you more than the stash of porn I have under my bed</i>, look. Instead, you’re on the prowl for that single moment that feels like an epiphany in your stomach, but in your mind is really just a weightless glance and nothing more. Maybe. Or maybe you’re on the lookout to have that moment and then create some fantastic fantasy about what kind of wedding ring you’ll buy this person, and what your four boys will be named. Will they be named after your grandfather or his/her grandfather?<br /><br />So I’ve developed a few straight-forward, “how-to rules” to achieve said moment.<br /><br />The Look: You love to give it, but hate to get it, cause wtf does it mean anyway?!<br /><br />--Always make eye contact with other attractive people. You must do this with every attractive person you see. You cannot let a chance for an opportunity pass you by. When this happens, don’t be too friendly. This means, don’t look so wide eyed and awestruck, or overly intimidated, you’re good looking that’s why you two have met each other’s eyes. Nor should you look like an asshole, take that scowl off your face, you’re no better than them, jerk. Plus, either of these extremes could divert the attention from your fantastic body and your lovely sex appeal. Which kind of would ruin everything. Also, if you look too eager to catch the eye contact, this will make you creepy and best and desperate, at worst.<br /><br />So this look is more of a squinty eye thing; but not an “I’m blind therefore I squint,” look. More like, a very tiny minor squint, and you can’t keep it for too long. It’s got to give the message like, <i>hey buddy, I know you’re looking at me, and I’m looking you but we’re not going to do anything about it.</i> You want to be mysterious enough to give off a mischievous vibe that will cause your gazer to be too turned on or intimidated (most likely intimidated) to talk to you, but so enamored that he/she <b>must</b> write about you behind their beloved cyber mask.<br /><br />Be Cool:<br /><br />Don’t smile. Don’t smirk either. You can be serious, perhaps have a “straight face” shown by my fantastic emoticon here --> :-| . If you eyes are telling enough your mouth needs not to do anything. However, if you’re eyes are dull and empty you can try and save yourself with your mouth <<insert ridiculous="" sex="" joke="" here="">>. The plan here is to make your mouth do something that is in between a smile and a smirk, which basically means you tense your lips and your cheek and slightly allow the edge of your lips to curl up. NOT TOO MUCH. This is very important, if you smirk, you’ll look stupid and creepy.<br /><br />But not that cool:<br /><br />If you have a quirk, like say… you blink every five seconds, or you have a nose twitch, or you bounce your knee up and down when you’re sitting, try to control it as best you can, but don’t try to hide it completely. You gotta let it be known that you’re kind of, maybe, a little fucked up. Tiny flaws are edgy. <b>rawr.</b><br /><br />Be Memorable:<br /><br />Let’s be honest…if you’re going find your missed connections gazer; you have to make this your everyday full time job. So, always dress in something that says, “I’m here but I only kind of want you to know it.” Like red shoes, or a gray coat with silky red lining on the inside, or blue stockings under a white skirt. These memorable details will most inspire your gazer’s Missed Connections title: Adorable Sweetheart in the Polka Dotted Stockings or, Mr. Green Argyle Socks. Whatever it may be, the point is to be memorable enough that your gazer will use that one thing about you to differentiate you from anyone else, so that when you do avidly search for that missed connection about you, you’ll know, <i>ahh yes, I’m the only crazy person who wears turquoise shoes and can pull them off.</i><br /><br /><b>Note: If you have red hair, stop right here. You do not need more flare.</b><br /><br />Be Important:<br /><br />Look busy so your gazer won’t be encouraged to approach you (this is if you have already glanced at your gazer and you looked so friendly that he/she might advance you). So, be interesting to entice attraction but removed enough to be unapproachable. Headphones or a really interesting book do the trick for this one.<br /><br />That’s all I’ve got for you. You’re now one step closer to getting mentally stalked, thought about naked, and/or proposed to via internet. Aren’t you stoked?!<br /><br />Of course, there’s the final step. You must vehemently check Missed Connections, I suggest you just do what I do and make it your homepage; then, have it automatically reload itself every 5 minutes. People may think you’re creepy, and pathetic, but really, they’re probably just jealous because they had to walk away and get attractive, and you did not. Either that or they’re just bitter and don’t believe in structured love, or planned serendipity.<br /><br />I say, screw those jerks! Who doesn’t want to craft their own fantastical love!?<br /><br /></insert>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-45893421599421911992009-05-31T18:34:00.001-07:002009-05-31T18:54:23.820-07:00The (almost) "Daily" Sexy<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiMwXo88V5I/AAAAAAAAAkw/wYZ_AajaOJQ/s1600-h/P1020866.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342166765679695762" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiMwXo88V5I/AAAAAAAAAkw/wYZ_AajaOJQ/s400/P1020866.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />My cupcake looks like it has a hat...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiMwXPcVOxI/AAAAAAAAAko/b72zm6RDF5s/s1600-h/P1020870.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342166758832028434" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiMwXPcVOxI/AAAAAAAAAko/b72zm6RDF5s/s400/P1020870.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Lavender flavored icing, vanilla cake, candied edible pansies...</div><div></div><div>What's that you say? I'm awesome? Oh...yah, i already knew that. ;) </div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-2555679215092168012009-05-30T21:13:00.000-07:002009-05-30T22:33:25.048-07:00Dr. Midori Sour<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiIUot47J9I/AAAAAAAAAkY/9R9kc1wie6g/s1600-h/05.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341854797760505810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiIUot47J9I/AAAAAAAAAkY/9R9kc1wie6g/s400/05.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>My date with true love was Thursday morning...we got intimate fairly quickly. I hadn't even had a lick of alcohol yet, and she was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">askin</span></span>' me all sort of personal questions; then she told me to get undressed so that, well, so that she could check me out. She stepped out for a second while I made myself comfortable, slipping on the backless robe with that wallpaper print plastered all over it, death pale blue, and little swirls of pastel colors floating around aimlessly looking very 80s... <em>this is the Zach Morris cell phone of robes. </em>Like a good girl, I do what she says and I hop onto the bed, and my ass slaps against the cold protective paper, i quickly jump in shock, <em>well this is no way to get comfortable.</em><br /></div><div>I'm sitting there twiddling my thumbs, thinking of all the ridiculous things that could happen at that very moment...my mind wanders and I imagine a sudden earthquake, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">i'm</span></span> running down the halls bare <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">assed</span></span>. I shrug, <em>well i wouldn't be the only one.. </em></div><br /><div>I'm staring out the window thinking: <em>everyone really did just see me get naked didn't they?</em> Then right about the time when my heart jumps out of my nostril i notice the sign that says, "Our windows are tinted to ensure your privacy.." <em>whew...</em></div><br /><div>My date walks in and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">i'm</span></span> certain she's noticed I'm nervous.. She says something, and I ask her to repeat it..and i tell her that yes, I'd like that vaccine, and she says, "great <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">i'll</span></span> put in an order.." We're all smiles up until she tells me she needs me to slide down, and as I'm sliding i rip the paper and it's awkward because it sounds like it could be a fart, but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">i'm</span></span> hoping she knows <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">i'm</span></span> more tactful than that...we move on. </div><br /><div>She pulls out the stirrups, and asks me to place my feet on them, and I'm nervous and cold, and most importantly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">i'm</span></span> thinking, <em>gosh <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">darnit</span></span> this girl moves fast. </em>I want to make a joke, but i think our language barrier might cause some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">mis</span></span>-communication and awkward misunderstanding. I bite my tongue.</div><br /><div>She's down there talking me through her examination of my special area... I kind want to tell her to keep to herself, <em>if you <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">dont</span></span> have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all...</em> because, No Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Midori</span> (her name is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Minori</span>)</span>, i don't know want you to tell me that the next thing you place in there will make my "tummy feel weird" and nor do I want you to tell me that the swab has to be there for 15 seconds, cause now all I'm doing is counting down..and your seconds are a lot longer than mine. I flinch and she tries to commiserate with me by saying, "i know i know, it <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">feers</span></span> weird..<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">i'm</span></span> sorry..." <em>Look <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Midori</span></span>, let's face it,you are not sorry! If you were you wouldn't be narrating right now, you'd be giving me a high five (not that kind) cause <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">i'm</span></span> being such a good patient (date)! </em></div><br /><div>When she's all done checking everything out she pulls out all the crazy devices (okay...one thing..but still!) she's placed in my special area...and says nothing. In another dimension <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">i'm</span></span> saying, "wait..seriously? You're not even gonna tell me everything looks great? You're not gonna say, 'wow that is a well kept <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">hoodle</span></span> you got there'? " I'm confused...you do your thing, and i <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">dont</span></span> even get a compliment in the end? Call me egotistical but <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">i'm</span></span> pretty sure i deserved, at the very least a "looks good!" Just saying...</div><br /><div>And you know what, if <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">i'm</span></span> honest here... the women's exam is way more uncomfortable than getting a shot, and when i was little, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">i'm</span></span> pretty sure Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Fuhrman</span></span> gave me lollipops and stickers every time I walked into his office...What did i walk out with this time around? Prescriptions. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Yah</span></span>, being a girl is awesome, but we have to do this little song and dance once a year and it's no Disneyland let me tell ya...i think we at least deserve lollipops, and if you for a second think <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">i'm</span></span> too old for lollipops, i hate you.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiIVKpsWwPI/AAAAAAAAAkg/RxWAycUkmlw/s1600-h/peppercini.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341855380749598962" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/SiIVKpsWwPI/AAAAAAAAAkg/RxWAycUkmlw/s400/peppercini.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong>I suppose i would have settled for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Peppercinni</span> as well...</strong></div><br /><br /><div>But so we're fighting now...and in a year, when we have our second date, we're gonna have to work this situation out because I'm tired of being walked all over <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Midori</span></span>...just tired.</div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-70781583427035964922009-05-26T10:05:00.000-07:002009-05-26T10:05:47.127-07:00kind of like...<div><span style="font-weight: bold;">I've posted this on Facebook, but I like it enough that i feel the need to place it here. Sorry to those who have already read it.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Shuj-PWIExI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/8wLbvotXRCo/s1600-h/ifyoulivedhere.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Shuj-PWIExI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/8wLbvotXRCo/s400/ifyoulivedhere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340042072844407570" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">We're driving down the freeway. The 118 west to be exact. I can't stand that after you pass through the canyons, KROQ's overrated music starts chop</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ping up. Static infiltrates the speakers of Stef's car.<i> Welcome to suburbia, USA</i>. We turn off the radio<br /><br />I place my fingertips just inches away from the window. Heat emanates off the tinted glass. <i>Reasons why I hate southern California: 1) windows on a sunny day are fire hazardous</i> I keep thinking that maybe just maybe, this time So Cal will be different, more accepting of my shortcomings, more welcoming...i hope. and yet.<br /><br />We exit off Olson Rd and while i know that it's not spelled the same, i can't help but think of those two decrepit twins i so loved when i was five. But only for a moment. Just after i think, <i>what's that street we're supposed to turn on? Wildflower Ave? Wild Boar St.? Raindance Rd? fuck, what is it?</i> Poor Stef is already thinking about how the hell she is going to avoid traffic on the way back, and i can't even get to our first destination.<br /><br />Moments later i remember that Wildwood is the evil street we turn right onto. Wildwood. and then after wildwood is.....and that takes me a while because for some reason Native American names are so foreign and non-catchy to me...Big Sky. Big fucking Sky. That's the street. But it doesn't matter at that point because all i can think about is that lawn. those lawns. Who the fuck cuts them so flawlessly? I imagine leaping with wildflowers and daisies through the lawns, the sound of music comes to mind and i start humming...<i>"i am sixteen going on seventeen i know that i'm naive...fellas may think--"</i><br /><br />Hll Canyon comes around. "Which one is it?" stef asks. "umm..." seconds go by..."this one, this one! on the right!" Their lawn is just as perfect.<br /><br />I stand outside, no one knows we're there yet. I can breathe, but all i breathe in is heavy air and smog. <i>welcome home?</i> but no. it's not home. It's something else. and yet.<br /><br />The smell of baked sweets creeps into my nostrils...i have bad sense of smell, but this...this is different.heavy sweet butter mixed with fresh cinnamon and vanilla..but really it's the butter i've deprived myself (even though my body wouldn't really show it) for four long years that's housing in my senses.<br /><br />I take a deep breath. Knock. Ring the doorbell...and all of the sudden i feel like a Jehovah Witness evangelist because no one answers, and i want to ring again.<br /><br />knock. ring.<br /><br />My little sister answers the door and for a second i step outside my short tubby body;i feel like i, ten years ago, am answering the door for myself. She smiles (I smile?), I smile (she smiles?)<br /><br />...home, or its distant synonym.</span> </div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-3135206669632959522009-05-26T00:45:00.002-07:002009-05-26T00:48:30.032-07:00The (almost) "Daily" Sexy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShueT3vOW8I/AAAAAAAAAkA/PFcozP0UemA/s1600-h/shilshole.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShueT3vOW8I/AAAAAAAAAkA/PFcozP0UemA/s400/shilshole.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340035847394581442" border="0" /></a><br />Paradise in Seattle? No no no...just two people in the right place at the right time. I guess if you include the photographer (<span style="font-style: italic;">yours truly)</span> it's three people in the right place at the right time.Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-18743173920215350652009-05-26T00:45:00.000-07:002009-05-26T00:42:42.920-07:00Dip Me in Some Salt...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Shuc8zRsuDI/AAAAAAAAAj4/DOJ0wkHlLFQ/s1600-h/saltines.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Shuc8zRsuDI/AAAAAAAAAj4/DOJ0wkHlLFQ/s400/saltines.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340034351548381234" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Cubicle People<br /><br /><div>They're all bored. Quietly, curiously, staring at each other. They have this ability to stare but not really notice there are people all around them. Quietly, seriously, surviving on their own.</div><br /><div>It doesn't start this way. Nothing ever starts the way it ends.</div><br /><div>When we're little and our fingers are soft and dirty, when our eyes are peeled with the hope that we miss absolutely nothing. We want so desperately to know everything, touch everything, and everyone. We want to ask the person sitting next to us, what that scar on their face is... and we do. We ask...</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div>People, the kind with the wrinkled hands and frown lines, the ones who look through you, not at you. They judge. They judge us when we're three and curiously inquiring about their faces, or their skin. Our lack of filter is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">repulsive. </span>They tell us to learn some manners, when all we're really asking is "why don't you look like me?" Feeling the wrath of the judgment, we learn what it's like to feel embarrassed, to blush for the first time, and we hide our face in shame. We become afraid to ask questions about things we see. Our minds stop wondering. </div><br /><div>We stop noticing, and shortly after we stop caring.</div><br /><div>We stop caring that the woman holding a role of drawing in one hand and her coffee in the other probably needs help holding the door open. We don't notice the man sobbing right next to us, snot dripping down his face, tears pouring onto his phone. And we certainly do not notice if someone is asking for help, even when they don't put it in so many words. The only time we actually stop and notice other people, is in the confinement of our four walled studio,where we can judge, without feeling judged by someone because we're judging, and pretend to be better than whatever reality tv show star is making a fool of themselves.</div><br /><br /><div>We're all stale versions of our younger selves. Saltine crackers without the salt. Living in cubicles ten hours a day. We go home, make our mcdinners: four ounces of chicken, a fourth cup serving of potatos, and our standard 6oz of better than cheap wine. Like our four-walled studio our life is confined, calculated, measured..whatever.<br /><br /><br /><br />...and while i struggle with this idea of confinement,I realize that my identity is at stake. I don't want to not notice people, I don't want to see through people. I want to try and enjoy small talk, smile at homeless people, apologize to them for not having change to give them. I'm not really even sure what the point is of all ofthis..all i know is that it's been on my mind. There are way too many ways to avoid human interaction these days, if it's not an ipod, it's a cell phone, if it's not a cell phone it's a book..there are always these acceptable forms of avoidance. In an economy like this..i imagine peopleneed that human interaction, they need to connect, feel, even if it's with a complete stranger.<br /><br />I could keep rambling, but this entry is just ridiculous babble...i guess what i'm saying is.. I don't want to be an unsalted cracker.<br /></div></div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-31112793417688839812009-05-22T00:41:00.000-07:002009-05-22T15:58:35.774-07:00The (almost) "Daily" Sexy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShZdwqsZWhI/AAAAAAAAAjU/F6Dzymfj0bA/s1600-h/0512091808.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338557498969905682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShZdwqsZWhI/AAAAAAAAAjU/F6Dzymfj0bA/s400/0512091808.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Who Said only vibrating machines could be sexy?</strong><br /><p> </p><br /><br />Seattle is growing up!!!<br /><br />What with the link light rail and all...it's like an <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">actual</span> urban city.They recently added these nifty machines, that are very similar to the BART (Bay Area Metro Transit) machines, i suppose you can purchase your link light rail tickets, bus passes, and other transportation shenanigans.This wins for sexy today because, they look pretty, and they're new and shiny..and they are changing the face of public transportation for Seattle!<br /><br /><br /><br />Way to go, Seattle! So while we're on the topic lets see, what cool things has Seattle accomplished in the last 20 years?<br /><br />1) Frasier--understandably not<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> that</span> cool...but still the city got attention<br /><br />2) Nirvana-- okay ...too easy..<br /><br />3) Singles (the movie)-- Bill Pullman? Kyra Sedgwick? Matt Dillon?Bridget Fonda? ..can you think of a better/cooler cast to depict depressing Seattlite loneliness?? I mean maybe if they included Jeanine Garofalo, but I think she was busy being promiscuous (yah i dont know who'd want her either) in Reality Bites.<br /><br />4)Sleepless in Seattle--worst movie ever...but, Tom Hanks is pretty awesome, still.<br />------------------------<br /><br />jumping several years...<br /><br />5) Grey's Anatomy--because who doesn't want to see a bunch of doctors talk about their STDs, and their alcoholic fathers, and self servingly apply every one of their patients' issues to their own lives.<br /><br />6)<a href="http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-02/americas-50-greenest-cities?page=1"> America's 50 Greenest Cities</a> : Seattle's ranked 8th...which is pretty amazing if you ask me. Between all the meth heads and the homeless people trashing our streets, Seattle<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> still </span>manages to be adamant about keeping it's environment clean and breathable!<br /><br />7) A transit system that is not half bad. Sure...the buses stop working on snow days...but whatever, in time these buses will pwn any sort of natural disaster!<br /><br />I may have missed a few other awesome things...add on if you'd like. bitte!Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-31660980627119128222009-05-19T00:00:00.000-07:002009-05-22T16:00:23.979-07:00The (almost) "Daily" Sexy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEQmiXr0jI/AAAAAAAAAjE/aNkP_Cbp8NQ/s1600-h/P1030200.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337065287657968178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 398px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEQmiXr0jI/AAAAAAAAAjE/aNkP_Cbp8NQ/s400/P1030200.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Edible Bugs? No way!! Crispy, bed bugs?? OOOOhh yeah..</strong><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEQmXtrgFI/AAAAAAAAAi8/_orgt7hU3jE/s1600-h/P1030198.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337065284797431890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEQmXtrgFI/AAAAAAAAAi8/_orgt7hU3jE/s400/P1030198.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I keep thinking that there's going to be a point when I'm going to wake up and realize i'm sharing a bed with a hobo (spider). For those of you who know me, you've surely heard my HUGE spider, story...that by the way, after cleaning out my entire room and basement, is still very much MIA. I hate bugs, they're sneaky and they make crinkly sounds when you step on them....<br /><br />Having said that, this centipede gets the prize for sexyness today. To start, check out those legs in the back (or what I think are legs)...they're just kind of hanging out looking all important and intimidating. Also, his antennas are adorably sloppy.<br /><br />I felt bad because although centipedes are kind of evil and bite or do something to you that causes pain, this one was kind of like the stoned version of a centipede. It hung out on my floor for a while, like he had no clue what he was doing, or how he got there. I imagine the conversation between his father and him went something like this.<br /><br />"Son, it's time you learned how to fend for yourself. Go, bite that one girl with the messy room. Teach her a thing or two about pain!"<br /><br />"You got it pops...right after I finish this hit"<br />"I said NOW, Junior"<br /><br />"Alright alright! Wait...what is it you want me to do once I creep into the bedroom?.."<br /><br />--------------------------<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShET4al-rqI/AAAAAAAAAjM/kep11TzpcMY/s1600-h/P1030195.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337068893342969506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShET4al-rqI/AAAAAAAAAjM/kep11TzpcMY/s400/P1030195.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Alas, Junior lost the battle. I put a cup over him, and he hasn't moved for days.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Joey: 1 Junior: 0</span>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-71000410966002166812009-05-17T23:12:00.000-07:002009-05-22T15:56:12.482-07:00The (almost) "Daily" Sexy.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEMCLunesI/AAAAAAAAAik/5hRnvlZpb4c/s1600-h/P1030193.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337060265058335426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEMCLunesI/AAAAAAAAAik/5hRnvlZpb4c/s400/P1030193.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEFtko9PWI/AAAAAAAAAic/1VMKddTrNow/s1600-h/P1030194.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337053313898462562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/ShEFtko9PWI/AAAAAAAAAic/1VMKddTrNow/s400/P1030194.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>the sexiest piece of technoloy, i've seen since the laser.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I don't know much about anything tech related, but I </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;" >do </span><span style="font-size:85%;">know a thing or two about pretty things...<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Apple, for example, makes a cocktail of pretty things. I have all sorts of irrational crushes on their marketing team. When I walk into the Apple store I get butterflies in my stomach. I'm immediately overcome by the urge to run my fingers over everything. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">It's similar to how I get when I walk into a Microsoft party,wait no, it's not that way at all...</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Sometimes I go in to just stare at all the products, and while I'm absolutely entranced by their i<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">whatevers</span>, all the bustling sounds of sales persons, apprehensive customers, and obnoxious techno music, dissipates, and it's just me, the iMac and love.<br /><br />But anyhow enough of that...the point is, this Macbook case, is my first "TADS" entry, because just look at it...sure it's not made by Apple (<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> (*) Speck</span>), but still... If I was a Macbook, I'd totally want that all over me.<br /><br />If you're wondering, it's totally as satiny as it looks. It's also incredibly durable, has rubberized feet, and it's kind of see through, which is essential because the little Apple logo has to show through when the computer's on (duh). They come in all sorts of colors,too...but they're all like Jolly Rancher colors, and honestly...those are kind of lame. For the serious, elegant type (which <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">totally </span>describes me)...charcoal is the perfect color.<br /><br />I decided I want satin pillows now, and silk blankets (i know i know..i used to judge people with silk bedding). Also, I'm going to look for this same type of cover for everything I own. Soon my whole room will look like a cave, but at least I'll want to touch everything. Curious?<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-35179390780653797602009-05-12T14:13:00.000-07:002009-05-17T22:59:27.359-07:00When sand and gravel aren't doing it for you anymore, you move on to the harder stuff.<span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">When I was little I got really confused when I saw out of the ordinary things like, oh...i don't know, homeless people humping in the park, persons with physical defects, dogs with only three legs.. In my relentless innocence , i'd stare in awe and wonder. Now, 23 years young I tilt my head innocently at things like this:</span><br /><br /><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/OJRRyeGnM7k&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/OJRRyeGnM7k&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><strong>begin head tilt...</strong><br /><br /><br />A) <span style="font-size:85%;">The most peculiar thing isn't even that he's eating brick, but that he looks at the brick like <a href="http://deceiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/kristie_alley_fat.jpg">Kirtsie Alley</a> would look at a <a href="http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/ono_kine_grindz/images/DoubleDouble.jpg">Double Double</a> after not eating for 30 minutes.. ( i know...too soon). Look at those eyes, so animalistic! </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">B) Is that doctor a 12 year old with a fake mustache? oh wait, no, he's just incredibly famished, he should start eating rocks.. My favorite is his plaid chair. For a moment i thought, <em>okay maybe if he was a pediatrician that'd be totally acceptable.</em> But then i associated a red plaid chair with being a pedophile...</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">C) The last time my tooth chipped was when i was eating Pita Pit... the first time i chipped my tooth was when i was biting my cuticles before an interview...biting into bricks though, really?</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">A lot of weird shit goes down in India. Whenever I want to see something that will blow my mind i just do a Live Search (yay Microsoft!) of "Weird Shit that's happened in India." They have their own fucking wonders of the world..seriously, i kind of love it..but i feel like walking around would be similar to walking around Knott's Scary Farm on Halloween.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I honestly want to go to India. These are the things i'd be sure to find upon visiting:</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1) a man painting murals using his two feet, both his hands, and his mouth.. all the while playing the flute to charm a snake, which will, in turn, cure whatever skin disease he will most likely have.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">2) people thinner than Lindsay Lohan.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">3) Mother Teresa and Ghandi impersonators. (similar to Lucille Ball and Elvis impersonators)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">4) children with two sets of eyes and no limbs, but can somehow float every other Tuesday of the months with 31 days.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">5) Cool versions of the <a href="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/growthmanR_450x594.jpg">HPV virus</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-9084099113011939272009-05-02T21:10:00.000-07:002009-05-12T15:52:01.049-07:00Publicly Humilinaked<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sf5QArE2U8I/AAAAAAAAAhM/hIz8du2ljP0/s1600-h/days+of+the+week.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331786981346530242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Sf5QArE2U8I/AAAAAAAAAhM/hIz8du2ljP0/s320/days+of+the+week.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">'m<span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normalfont-family:Georgia;" > </span>the tub of margerine (not</span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">quite butter..yet) in the locker room. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm 14 and it will be the first time i </span></span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">see other girls in their bra and </span></span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">underwear. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:18;" ><br /></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">I'm a mess.</span></span></span></div><div style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 100% Georgia, serif; WIDTH: auto; PADDING-TOP: 3px; TEXT-ALIGN: left; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">they all think i'm fat.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">my bAcne is probably oozing out of my sports bra</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">cellulite...they see it.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My butt is too flat.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My boobs are so much smaller than Carol's, and she's a size 2 and i'm a size 4!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The less developed girls somehow manage to keep their shirt on while they magically take off their sports bra and put on their standard A-cup bra. I watch in awe, while I study their swift moves. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I would like to try this magic.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I grab my bag, walk over to the corner, turn around facing the mauve tiled wall, and silently start the magic, placing my arms inside my shirt and somehow manage to remove my sweaty yellow sports bra without removing my P.E. shirt. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Bravo!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Task one is done, now i must put on my real bra.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ten minutes go by and after several attempts, all the girls have left..the 2nd period bell has rung and I'm left alone in my self made puzzle. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After successfully changing without getting naked the first time, I pretty much label myself the Goddess of the Art of Swift Undergarment Removal. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It's Junior year, and I still have bAcne, my breasts are the size of dried apples, and my thighs are the only things that have become "womanly". Everyone is prettier and even the underdeveloped broads have learned to love themselves and claim naked freedom in front of everyone in the locker room, every 1st period. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This locker room is a haven for all pubescent boys...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm still in the corner...hiding.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Busty Girl who always tried to beat my 800 yard time, but always failed</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: Nice job out there today.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm in the middle of removing the bra. Arms tucked into my shirt and i'm probably making all sorts of constipated faces.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Me</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">: Oh, yah...ummm thanks!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Busty Gir</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">l: Do you need help?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I've finally managed to remove the bra and it's now sitting on my waist as i try to pull it down past my hips, over my shorts...then suddenly in the midst of me saying "no i'm all good" and trying to pull the tight bra down my enlarged hips, my shorts fall to my ankles taking along with them my days-of-the-week underwear. Busty girl laughs at me and as I bend over to pick up my runaway undergarments, my ass brushes against the mauve tile and i jump nearly falling into her.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We share sweat. My butt's been violated by freezing cold tile, and Busty Girl has seen my "secret place." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Needless to say, I never again tried the magical undergarment removal. i de-crowned myself from my Goddess of Undergarment Removal status and I decided that I'd already reached my peak of embarrassment, and after this point everything would be a breeze.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Present Day:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I get naked almost every day in front of a slew of women who represent every type of body in the world. I like myself...i'm content with my personal "me," and getting naked is just another thing to add to my casual daily routine. I don't have the days-of-the-week underwear anymore, it's kind of worse now, but only because the ones i wear for the gym are ones that i buy in bulk at Target hoping no man ever sees them (for their sake).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Recently, however, I've managed to make my routine traumatic and awkward, once again. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I've ran six miles on the treadmill, my face looks like a cherry and all i want to do is put on my clothes get on that bus home and read. And I know all the rules of the women's locker room:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1) Don't make eye contact</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2) Don't stare anywhere for too long</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3) Pretend like no one else exists by looking through people not </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">at</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> people</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4) Dress quickly, and speak only if spoken to (because if they know the rules like they should, they'd only speak to you in an emergency)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5) Never make friends</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">6) Never snicker randomly</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">7) Avoid pulling out your cell phone</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I comply to all of these, and as I'm pulling off my bra, i'm pulling it over my head and I hear a familiar voice:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Joey! Hey!! I thought that was you."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shit</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">" Heyyyyyyyy...how's it going? Mark told me you came to this gym, I just never thought i'd see you." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm now naked in front of a chiseled body kickboxing instructor who looks like she just walked out of a photo shoot for </span><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">lululemon</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> . My breasts are small and just kinda hanging out there while I act surprised and excited, even though i'm pissing the horror out through my pants at this terrible coincidence...and like Ignatius Reilly might say, Fortuna has something against me.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hey you're that girl whose boyfriend I made out with two years ago. Only to find out after the fact that he was dating you all the while. Well isn't this just some adorable reunion!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If this isn't a fucked up version of drunken Karma i don't know what is.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Yah I teach kickboxing here every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:45- 6:45. I've been here for about two years"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Your boyfriend's saliva stinks of cigarette and rotten vegan food.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"That's awesome....yahh kickboxing scares the beejeezus out of me. Wow, well i'm surprised I haven't seen you! This is about the time I usually come to the gym."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I can't find my bra.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And while i'm making a mental note to always leave the gym before 6:45 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, she smiles at me and says, "kickboxing is amazing. Especially the one i teach, we have all sorts of people, all sorts of experience levels and body shapes"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Translation: Even fat asses like you who can't tell their left foot from their right can do kickboxing!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The small talk continues and on top of having nothing to say to this perfectly normal woman i'm panicking cause she's seen my goods, and now i look like a modern day exhibitionist because i can't find my fucking bra. I remember the mauve tile and thank the gods that my underwear is fastened on me like the seatbelt on the Indiana Jones ride. I'm trying to harden my abdominal muscles to look chiseled and fantastic...but at this point i'm helpless, she knows she's better then me...the only thing i really have going for me is that she doesn't know my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">other</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> secret. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Yah, i should definitely try that some time. I bet it's really soothing and fun, and i could definitely use a break from my usual routine."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Awkward head nod.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I find my bra, it's attached to the inside of my blouse. Fantastic. After fastening it on, I quickly pack up, gathering the little pieces of my broken ego scattered all around her.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Well, I best be going, i can't miss those 70's buses"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Ohhh you go on the 70s too, well i'll go with you. It'll be nice to not have to ride the bus alone for once!" </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I smile, she smiles. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fuck me and my big mouth.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Great!! yah, i never take the bus with anyone, so this should be great!" </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">While riding the bus i wanted so badly to explain to her that it wasn't my fault that her boyfriend decided to cheat on her, and that instead he's just kind of a scumbag in general. I wanted to tell her i didn't know, and that, to be honest, i never thought they were a "thing" because she's kind of manly and he's kind of ....well, feminine. I wanted to say that nothing else had ever happened and that i was stoked that they were still together after two years. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I mostly wanted to tell her that I never make friends at the gym, and intend to keep it that way, and that every Tuesday and Thursday after this week, I'd be avoiding the gym at all costs, because I can't stand small talk...much less, kickboxing instructors who i have nothing in common with beyond a vagina and breasts.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I've seen her at least three times after that...</span></div></div></span>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323454571352390987.post-1225061956253024462009-04-20T22:45:00.000-07:002009-04-21T00:21:35.179-07:00..oh, so there's supposed to be a point to all this?!<img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pu48NMnQXw4/Se1x4gN-qpI/AAAAAAAAAgk/t7xFD9RzrgY/s320/plant.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327039149784345234" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It's 10 am and i've already stuffed the second piece of chocolate in my mouth, except this time it's Dark Chocolate with Almond instead of Extra Creamy Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Almonds...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm such a fat ass...</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Before a few months ago, I was content with most things in my life. I'd wake up at 7:15 a.m. after shutting off three alarms that went off at 6:45, 7:00, and 7:05 a.m... I'd step down from bed, slip on my faux suede Target slippers, walk to my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> dresser, pick out a frumpy outfit to wea<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">r to work (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">nsert here a self pity comment about how no one notices me any way)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <insert><insert><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. Brush my teeth while the straightening iron warms up, spit, rinse, spit..straighten hair and eat cereal all at once. </span></insert></insert></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By 7:45 i'm rushing out the door...praying to the gods that i have my bus pass on me.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It's raining.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'm running...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">...i always run. It's perfect logic, if i'm not there on time i miss the bus. But if i'm there too early i get extra wet and cold and end up smelling like those other people..the ones with dirt under their fingernails, greasy hair, and gray teeth...If I run I avoid be outside in the rain too long, and i get there just as the bus is pulling up, because I leave exactly two minutes later than I would if i walked, and arrive at the stop in two minutes. Sure, i'm frazzled, and I look like a mess, but walking to the bus stop wouldn't change any of that, now would it?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Upon entering I'd plop into my usual seat, the one in the middle of the bus, the accordion seat. I'd scope out the couple that looks like brother and sister. They're pasty and pale, talk without making eye contact and say goodbye with the backs of their shoulders. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Every Wednesday, I'd fall in love again. My bus boyfriend who reads Time magazine, Newsweek, and books by Clive Cussler and David Baldacci (love can forgive these things), would sit right across from me; the spot with the most leg room. He's tall, and wears flip flops with linen pants, and his blue eyes always forget to look in my direction. It's a good thing, because usually i'm trying to steal a glance or two while I nervously tremble...he's completely unaware of me, which explains and excuses why he kicked me once.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">..but those are only on Wednesdays. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Every other day, I sit and act completely unaware of everyone.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Upon entering the office, I place my coat on my chair, log in to my computer, grab my mug from the day before pull out the semi dried up tea bag, place a new one in and get my hot water. Sitting back at my desk i think, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">this can't possibly last much longer, but for now i'm happy. happy. happy. happy.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But it's now. It's today and I've stopped feeling any sort of happy. I don't even enjoy bus boyfriend, or my moldy tea mug, or the fact that on a really rainy day i get to see at least one women nearly slip in her heels outside my window. It's just...chocolate. Everything is chocolate, everything i don't want, but still there.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So, I eat it. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I've never been the girl who eats her feelings away, in fact I don't even like Ben and Jerry's on a good day. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Today, after I eat my second chocolate i'll figure out what's wrong. The news headlines on my Google Desktop... the market's crashing, Obama has gray hair, 60 year old women are getting laid off forcing them to eat their cat's food, Mexico has become the Middle East, and in bold it'll says </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">who are you kidding? you won't survive this recession!" </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and i won't be able figure out if it's Google telling me that, or if it's me telling me that. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I need a break. A break from knowing that everything is becoming a whole lot of nothing. And even though the news is all relevant, I refuse to accept that I have to have my face rubbed in it every fucking day of my already ridiculously mundane life.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">..and so this is my personal break from reality. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My green fuzz is the stuff one might find embedded in between my frontal and temporal lobes...thoughts that have absolutely no idea where to go. I'm sure i'm not the only one whose trying to find a home for it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Enjoy?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></div>Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16890572729705991991noreply@blogger.com1