I do not have any memory of doing anything special for my 21st.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Sep 23, 2017 4:51:55 pm PDT #16984 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
JZ - Sep 23, 2017 4:55:20 pm PDT #16985 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I sowed absolutely no oats of any sort on my 21st. I think a relative may have given me a bottle of champagne, but I'm fairly sure I never drank it. I was just generally spectacularly awful at misspending my youth.
Not unrelatedly, spent today hanging out with the super-cool parents of Matilda's closest non-Emmett male friend, a translucently pale and arty boy named Cassius who is her perpetual platonic Dickens Fair date (he went through a two-year phase of very consciously and deliberately dressing like the Artful Dodger).
Cash's parents are a translucently pale, gentle, gorgeously elegant woman who spent her youth in one of our whitest and dullest suburbs hopping on BART to sneak into punk shows in San Francisco (she dresses and carries herself so that you always somehow expect her to speak with a trace of a French or Italian accent, and her plain California voice is always a little startling), and a master electrician/former bike messenger/sometimes musician who once opened for the Talking Heads in Portland back when it was just a mill town by the river, at which concert the audience got very angry and threw eggs at his band, then got angrier and threw eggs at the Talking Heads. The worst part of it was that they weren't even good throws; decades later, he's less annoyed by the eggs than their shitty, inept throwing skills.
More than ever, I feel like I seriously did my teens and twenties wrong.
Theodosia - Sep 23, 2017 4:59:21 pm PDT #16986 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Not as wrongly and sad as I did.
Also, with my birthday being the day after Christmas, there wasn't much opportunity to celebrate my 18th in any adult fashion whatsoever.
sarameg - Sep 23, 2017 5:52:21 pm PDT #16987 of 30002
So Pumpkin started nuzzling the speaker, after staring intently, every time Stacia L. Brown spoke. [link] I mean, I love her voice too, and the content, but Pumpkin *really* liked her voice.
aurelia - Sep 23, 2017 8:32:19 pm PDT #16988 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
More than ever, I feel like I seriously did my teens and twenties wrong.
I had perfect attendance in high school. Who *does* that?
DavidS - Sep 23, 2017 8:35:28 pm PDT #16989 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fun to hear how everybody celebrated their legal majority!
Talked to Emmett finally. He'd been asleep all day because the debauch began LAST night when he turned 21 at Midnight. So he'd been sleeping all day recovering from his hangover.
We both agreed that binge drinking is an overrated form of celebration.
Atropa - Sep 23, 2017 8:38:54 pm PDT #16990 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Friends took me to a dive punk rock bar on my 21st, then to a "rising star" concert sponsored by a local radio station, with bands they thought might become something: Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, and Jane's Addiction.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2017 8:48:04 pm PDT #16991 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
with bands they thought might become something: Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, and Jane's Addiction.
They thought right!
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2017 7:19:43 am PDT #16992 of 30002
brillig
The high today is going to be 46. I'm going to have to turn the heat on.
SuziQ - Sep 24, 2017 7:27:41 am PDT #16993 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I did the "hit a real bar" at midnight, went to work still kinda sloshed, and then I don't recall if we went out that night or not. I say real bar because we used to hang out at the E club on base - the over 18 club for enlisted sailors (and marines). Sure, we drank there too - but that didn't count.
But the drinks of choice after midnight were flaming orgasms (my husband was out at sea, so obviously I needed those) and butterscotch schnapps (cause it is hilarious to try to say butterscotch schnapps after you have had a few).