I did an intro for the band where I reminisced about seeing the guitarist play in 1998...and I realized that the kids to whom I was introducing were not alive in 1998.

We ARE old! We're the old people who are going to be talking about back in the 1990s and sound like creaky rocking chairs to all the young pups!

The Nineties were just yesterday, Liese! Garth, Grunge and Gangsta!

I'm just grateful for the era that let me keep wearing the same dirty jeans and flannel shirts over band tshirts that I already was and call it fashion. It was a very comfy era.

Did I post here about the poster on my inside building door that went up on Thursday (aka Valentine's Day)? It says, "I LIKE YOU." There was another one in the stairs that says, "STAY GOLDEN." On my way to do laundry just now, I saw the one on an apartment door that says, "LET'S MAKE OUT." Cute!

On the downside, someone else was doing laundry already. Hmph.

Did you make out with him/her?

openly squeamish about lady bit (sheesh, he's a gay man, of course he doesn't love vaginas! Why would anyone expect him to??)

I'm not getting why male homosexual = vagina squeamish, but more important to me is the "openly" bit, for a guy who positions himself as a voice of reason about sex and sexuality, I'm not sure why +50% of the population would go to him for any, if he's going to be publicly negative about their sex organs.

The googling I've done since I asked the question has turned up a lot of complaints about how he treats trans* people as well. So far I'm not getting a majority positive vibe, and it's not conservatives or homophobes who are the ones criticising him either.

I turned on the TV to a radically saccharine Selena Gomez rom com, and this is the first I've seen her in anything (or watched Leighton Meester for more than 5 minutes, I think), and she's a gaping void of charisma. That Disney machine sure is something.

It's a rich/poor fairy tale type story, and one of the things that a character considers for rich people only are dimmer switches. Have I been living a life of unexamined luxury and privilege this whole time, not having noticed the dearth of progressive lighting among the poor? It ends up being a symbol of luxury that one of the characters achieved, and I really think she should have said a nice car instead of a $10 item from Lowe's. You've gotta dream bigger, girl.

Unfortunatly, the 90's were full of floral dresses and rompers for me. (I dressed like Sharon in My So Called Life) But man I wish I could still wear broomstick skirts and palazzo pants. Those were the bomb.

Also, I have this tendency to read "hipster" as a really uncool fun outcast person, because they sort of dress like actual uncool fun outcast people did when I was young. But they are actually mainstream and boring sometimes.

Did you make out with him/her?

I did not. I'm willing to bet it was directed at someone in particular.

But man I wish I could still wear broomstick skirts

I have a couple of long hippie skirts that are broomstick-y (when I wash them, I hang them to dry after twisting them and tying them in a knot, and it puts broomstick-y pleats in them), and I've bought them in the last 5 years. They can be found, but they're not abundant.