I just got from Calistoga. I finally got to meet Juliana! It rocked.
'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I just got hit with so much jealousy from one post I'll be a bitter, bitter girl for days.
Then I'll remember N.O. and THE DINNER and some of it will go away- but seriously, Plei ad ticky and an unspoiled paradise? It's more than a girl can stand.
ETA: AND KRISTIN MET JULIANA!?!?! I quit my job! I'm becoming a professional buffista.
I have no syringe. Making myself snort a coffee cup full of that baking soda and salt was a bit difficult and ranks among the weirder things I've done. I think I'd have a slightly easier time cutting myself with an exacto.
I'm not hating you, Windsparrow. It's not as bad as snorting swimming pool water, but it's definitely an eye-opener.
I'm becoming a professional buffista.
Ohhhh, me too. Can I just abdicate from my life and float around as a professional buffista?
I don't wanna be responsible for ANYTHING any more.
DJ, you will just have to come to the Bay area for a visit, or the F2F.
I think N.O. and the DINNER count for a hell of a lot, but just to make the jealousy a little worse, [link]
ETA: AND KRISTIN MET JULIANA!?!?! I quit my job! I'm becoming a professional buffista.
Not only did I meet Juliana, I frolicked with her in a mineral-spring fed pool and hot tub and then slept next to her for two nights!
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It was a verra verra nice weekend.
Wow. Someone tell me why I had never seen Stage Beauty before tonight.
It completely blew me away. The ending was utterly note-perfect. Gah. I'm not coherent yet. I think I have A LOT to say about this movie, but not tonight.
1) Steph is right Stage Beauty is an awesome movie. I love the king essentially being a mistress to his mistress. I love the celebration of women's beauty even while we're being portrayed as a man's idea of a woman. Just awesome on so many levels.
2) Perkins and Kristin suck.
3) A seal kissed me once. It was prickly.
Daisy Jane, LOVE your tagline. I haven't listened to that CD in far too long.
I love the celebration of women's beauty even while we're being portrayed as a man's idea of a woman.
Ah, but see, what I found fascinating was that man's idea of womanly beauty wasn't really beauty at all, but artifice; in the end, real beauty -- and I think we see it in the Desdemona death scene -- is never pretty and soft and safe the way we think it is. *Real* beauty is terrifying to behold, and I think that scene showed it.
I think it's the same thing with whatever art challenges what we traditionally think of as beautiful. It's the difference between a romance (in the bad sense) novel and erotica. Dancing around something, having a pantomime of it, and actually seeing and feeling it.
Did you not think she was actually dead?
ETA: I tried to have the "Now a man might not appreciate the guidence of a good woman who truly loves him. He might slip into the dirty misdoings of his daily dirty existance..." but the whole thing wouldn't fit.