mid-weekend update
April 28, 2007
News:
Plotkin and Wyskida were good. Not mind-blowing, but good. They had good parts. And iffy parts. And it was at Kiva Han, which was weird.
This evening I brought vegan sloppy joe to a housewarming potluck and was met with a bunch of bougie (sp?) “arty”middle-aged folks. One of them looked a lot like Bea Arthur and insulted my food offering. Hating her made me feel punk. Giving her the finger would’ve made me feel more punk, but I’m not that good with confrontation, and besides, I didn’t want to ruin the housewarming, being hosted by wonderful friends.
Ed’s making a poetry anthology zine thing that I’m helping with — that’s on tap for tomorrow. They’ll be available at the reading on the 10th. Included is a typically semi-disturbing entry from yours truly. THEN, tomorrow night, Dan Higgs aka Sir Lungfish is playing at Belvedere’s (yeah, weird). That’ll be fun. Then it’ll be the week again and I’ll go back to work and all that.
April 29, 2007 at 9:26 pm
weekend at belvie’s
April 30, 2007 at 12:05 am
Ooh, what did Bea say about your sloppy joes?
April 30, 2007 at 12:11 am
Well, since you asked: Bea-Arthur-lookin’-asshole referred to my dish as being for “those with more pedesetrian tastes,” in comparison with the pad thai her friend was whipping up. They then went on to fetishize international cuisine and world travel in a disgusting yuppie manner, and I went on to have an allergy attack and leave, without having fought her.
I would note again that I love the friends whose party this was dearly, and do not hold the hard feelings I have with Bea Arthur against them. Or even against the real Bea Arthur, though I always preferred Rue McLanahan. I saw her in a musical at the Benedum once, FYI. I can barely remember it. I was 15.
Good night.
April 30, 2007 at 6:17 pm
WTF? Since when is pad thai the pinnacle of haute cuisine? You should have said:
“Didn’t I just see pad thai on the children’s menu at Eat n Park?”
Or:
“Well, had I known this was a potluck for assholes, I would have brought anal beads instead.”
May 2, 2007 at 9:55 am
You should have been there when all those “arty” folks got stoned. It was WEIRD. I ate a lot of cupcakes and felt nervous.