BTW, Hil, you can release that job~ma any time, I just sent my resume and whatnot to Sparky's uni. I'm perfect for the job.

Mmmmmm Hil. What did she send you?

In healthy food news, for dinner I made brown rice and bok choy and am eating them drizzled with sessame oil, a little oyster sauce, and a couple of pieces of this kimchee skate wing at a sort of garnishy proportion.

I've deffinately gotten hooked on fish and rice lately.

All the job~ma released and sent in Vortex's direction, and the direction of anybody else who needs some!

Mmmmmm Hil. What did she send you?

Valencia oranges and red grapefruit.

My mother went to visit a friend in Florida, and she sent me twenty pounds of citrus. Guess I won't get scurvy.

I've got six pounds of avocados coming from my dad. Guess I won't get skinny. But nom time, mmm.

Aren't you allergic to avocado, Cass? Just saying. Antihistamine bubble wrap.

Job-ma, Vortex! Can we share? I should hear early next week about the job I interviewed for Monday.

Valencia oranges and red grapefruit.

Sighhhh

Is there no white/yellow grapefruit this year? I've seen NADA and I pine, oh how I pine.

Aren't you allergic to avocado, Cass? Just saying. Antihistamine bubble wrap.

Only a little?

I'll slam Benedryl and then it's nom time.

I saw Johnny Weir skate tonight.

Sweet heaven, he's a cross between an ADD eight year old and Violet Bick. He wriggles CONSTANTLY. He is breathtaking. All through bows he couldn't hold still . It was charming.

Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers is pretty small with bleacher seating on one side. The performance was intimate to say the least.

He premiered a piece called Heartbroken where he wore simple black and I actually started crying. (I only learned the name of the piece just now, when I checked the program. He really is masterfully expressive, huh?) I think the whole room held their breath several times. He was simple and beautiful and magically perfect. And so fast. Every spin he'll push just a little longer than you think he will, every jump lands with a tiny flourish to delight you. When he did his patented backslide across half the rink he shook the snow out of his hair when he stood up and I gasped, it's hard to say just why. During his bows the applause went from clapping to stamping -- there was just this excitement that ripped through the crowd, it was the only stamping all night. I don't see it on the internets yet, I'll link to it once I do. I really hope I do.

[Edit: Here it is! and from "my" perspective ]

For his second number he did the Lady Gaga Bad Romance piece. (DAMN that song is catchy). This time he was full force Johnny Sass. Gold lame dragon arm and half a tutu and a just continual ice-melting wriggle through all the perfect execution. This video only catches the end and you can sorta see the utterly gratuitous hip gyrations riiiight at the beginning of it. This time we howled.

The performance was for Ice Theater New York's season opener. It had about a dozen perfomances with a thru-line of school figures interludes. Several of the friends I was with weren't quite feeling the school figures but I found it pretty mesmerizing. The other special guests were Kim Navarro & Brent Bommentere who were pretty delightful themselves.

I don't know that I've ever spent a better twenty-five bucks in my entire life.

[Now Edited to include MOAR TASTY LINKS!]

ENVY!

Okay, in real life, does it look like a half-tutu thing? Because on all the videos I've seen, he looks like he has a FREAKING TAIL WRAPPED AROUND HIS LEFT HIP and I go to the bad Wentz place.

Not, umm. That I've been watching each one or anything.