this is the kinds stuff...

...i get from my mother.

recap with underage sex

i just happen to be watching Geraldo right now and they are recaping all the "teachers who have had sex with their students" cases that are going on around the country at the moment. what i wanna know is, are these kids hot?

in other news, gary glitter might have to face a firing squad! he lives in vietnam now and allegedly had sex with a coupla girls under 18, which makes them minors/children and in vietnam if they are underage its considered rape, which is punishable by firing squad. this makes me laugh, tho i bet gary glitter is not laughing.

thursday: went to the De Young with Negmeddin to see the Hatshepsut exhibit. not worth the $15. you can learn more by renting a DVD from netflix about Egypt's golden empire. apparently the cafe at the De Young has really good burgers. but when we got there it just looked like a cafeteria and we just looked at each other and then hopped in the car and went to the zeitgeist. that's the best thing about being unemployed...going to the zeitgeist in the middle of the day.

friday: i went out for beers with my awesome ex-landlady, anita. incidentally, she is also ben's mom. double incidentally, she hit my car as she was getting the remainder of her stuff from my garage a few weeks ago. so we went to the Revolution Cafe, which is on 22nd and Bartlett. we got beers and some yummy ham & cheese sandwiches and she was like, let me get this. and as i protested she just looked at me and said, dude, you're taking care of my cat and i totally wrecked your car..let me pay. hahaha.

saturday: H&M opening. oh yes. i had plans to meet misty at 9am for the 10am grand opening of the most wonderful store ever. i had a feeling that being there at 9am wasn't gonna get us at the front of the line, but nonetheless, i got there at 9am and was extremely surprised to see the line all the way around the block and almost ending at the beginning of the line! ha! i wanted to stop to get a coffee before i got in line but the starbucks across the street was PACKED and i decided to forgo caffeine for a spot in line. then misty called and said, i'm gonna get coffee do you want anything. and i said, that strabucks is totally packed! and then she just looked at me (i know, i was on the phone but i could feel "the look" through the phone) and said, uh, its not like you'll be going anywhere in the next hour. hahaha! right. misty has a good post on this, complete with photos, so i won't elaborate.

saturday night: mudhoney. hi. loud.

sunday: lesbian brunch at pevil's and becky's. hi. yummy quiche(s). and then i went on a pilgramage to target. man. i need a dehumidifier. the air is really damp in my house and i think this will rock my world. apparently, however, stores in california don't sell dehumidifiers. i went to target, home depot and bed bath and beyond. sigh. i did buy a new rake tho! yay!

monday: after the gym, i worked in my garden ALL DAY. it was so nice out and my garden really needs it. i haven't done anything in it since the days of the hot contractor next door. you know, i "did gardening" with the hopes of being able to talk to him. hahaha. ok, i'm a loser. my new landlady's parents were in town last week and her father (who was actually pretty hot himself) decided to thin out one of the trees in the backyard. i say tree, but its supposed to be a bush, hence the need to prune. it was cool that he did it, though he was doing it from a "more sunlight in the yard" perspective and probably did some things that i wouldn't have. but its done and then he left all the branches in a giant pile and went back to the east coast. hence spending today in the backyard. ok boring. i did find a pair of socks in a plant near my front neighbors side door. hmmm.

i've got some things here that bug me

celebrities. why do they get married in like 2 seconds of meeting each other?

keira knightly. she's like the poor man's winona ryder. just like skeet ulrich is the poor man's johnny depp.

um this isn't a duo you see every day.

um. ok. wait. are they friends? and i didn't know that johnny depp was in soundgarden.

ok that's it.

a body at rest stays at rest

fuh reals, yo!

my yoga teacher once said this and i was all, yeah ok makes sense. and then suddenly i was never leaving my couch and just kinda "dead" up there. not creating and barely getting by in the school work area and not really choosing to interact with others. lots of you thought it was because i have an awesome BF now, but that was my bluff. i just didn't feel like doing anything. i think i left my house like, 4 times in the last month for fun activities.

anyways, today was a whole different story. why? because it was CRAFT day. willo mcwillster hosted and darren, ali, peter and I showed up at her house with craft projects in tow. i FINALLY made this necklace for willo that i promised to make, like, eons ago. we had seen this design at a swanky-ish store on 16th and it was NINETY-EIGHT DOLLARS. i said, willo please don't buy that, i can make it. so we collected the pieces and for under $30 i made it for her. it's even sterling silver, yo!

i also made some hezcatt buttons. i have this idea to pin the buttons to my bags (my design label is hezcatt) as a kind of tag. of course now i am thinking that i shoulda put my website on the buttons but i guess i can make more! i'm just feeling so motivated right now. i wish we could have craft day every day! or at least every weekend.

one of my assignments for class on tuesday is to write my personal mission statement. here is what i wrote!

I choose to be active every day of body and mind. To be creative every day and to engage myself daily with others and be non-judgmental, open, accepting and non-critical. Except for when people are wrong. Hahahaha! just kidding. i didn't include that last sentence.

i picked up a yummy burrito on my way home from willo's and now i am gonna reheat and eat. hey! that should be in my personal mission statement. reheat and eat. hahaha. that makes me laugh. THAT needs to be a button.

in other news: i can totally hear that rolling stones/metallica concert right now, sitting in my kitchen with windows shut. so i just stepped out on my deck and i heard mick singing satisfaction! awesome!

in other-other news: after la cornetta for my burrito, i ran over to walgreens to get a coke and an ice cream treat and on my way out, right in the middle of the intersection of mission and 23rd was a guy standing there waving his arms and yelling stuff. it looks like he just ran up, dropped his jacket and just started yelling. i don't remember what he was saying, but as i drove by a cop car had pulled up next to him. he still kept yelling.

um hahaha!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42365

What is UP with our world?

i know the title of this blogg alludes that it might be a serious post. not really. i just needed to comment on a few things that are fucked up.

i am sitting here doing my homework and tv is on in the background and i hear the song by that band EMF? you know the song. You're Unbelievable! Apparently Kraft is now using it to sell a new product called Crumbles which, to the best of my knowledge, is just crumbled cheese. i guess it's too hard to crumble the block of cheese yourself?

anyway, Kraft is using You're Unbelievable to sell Crumbles and the old chorus, which you may be familiar with is:

The things, you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things, you say
You're unbelievable


here is Kraft's version:

The thing, you crave
That big cheese taste just blows you away
The thing, you crave
You're CRUMBelievable

WTF?!?

here i will add a quote
some of you may not know this about me but i am really into cooking. i developed my cooking prowess by reading cookbooks front to back and watching the cooking shows on PBS (looong before the food network). one of my favorite cooks/chef (not sure which) is Jeff Smith, the frugal gourmet.

smith was a minister and started hosting his show on PBS after he created a class called "Food as Sacrament and Celebration." sounds a little religious-y but his show was insightful and human and he talked about things that really resonated with me. one thing he said, and it has stayed with me for 15 years or more, is he believes that pre-shredded cheese is what is causing the breakdown of society. i know, sounds dumb. but if you think about it, i believe smith is saying we are all looking for the quick fix, the easy way out and no longer pull out the block of cheese and the grater and really experience what it means to be present and active and to work hard (or you know, what ever) and instead we reach for the bag of pre-shredded cheese because it saves time, saves our knuckles maybe, and is the easy way.

that said, as i was searching the web for info on him i found out he died last year AND that he was accused of pedophilia. WTF!?!?!

dear jack, you're one step away from tom cruise
i was watching that charlie rose show the other day and The White Stripes were on. jack and meg were sitting at a table being interviewed. rose had a question for jack, something about how has he changed since he first started the band, something like that. and jack responds that he hasn't really changed that much that he is still searching for that pure music, what he says the white stripes are all about, a white kid from detroit trying to sing and play the blues without being too obvious about it, but no, he hasn't really changed.

and i look at him. jack. and he is sitting there at the fucking table with a black seersucker suit, out of control old-timey facial hair, one of those straw hats with the black band and a fucking CANE that he has propped up next to him with his hand resting on it. who is he? colonel sanders?

(btw, i found this while i was looking for pics oh, and he married a MODEL)

story telling
so the tv was on while i was doing homework because i had just got done watching this show that was on last night, during primetime, on KRON. it was called Porchlight and i think they have a show once a month at cafe du nord? anyways, a few 'storytellers' are invited to share a story on a specific theme and they have 6 minutes. what's really cool is, about halfway through, the hosts draw 5 names out of a bag and those audience members get to come up onstage and share a story, on the same theme, for a minute! matt gonzalez (love him) was even on. most of the stories were funny except for his. his was endearing. i have a matt gonzalez story!

matt gonzalez is so dreamy. when i lived over on oak and webster, i used to walk to that walgreens on haight. one night i walked over there for some "feminine products." i don't know if you do this, but before i get to the "products" i like to browse the makeup, look around, peruse the magazines and as i get to the back of the store where the pharmacist is, there was matt gonzalez! picking up a perscription! so i have already browsed the store and ready to grab the "products" and run, but now matt is in the store! i can't be carrying around tampons when matt gonzalez might see me with them!!! so i hung around the magazines, conveniently near the perscription counter, until he left.

ok that's all i have.