At your fancy school
did they teach you how to drive
you make Harvard sad

Does anyone else feel like the stars of the TV show Fame should have gotten a lot more mileage out of the show? I mean, come on, Gene Anthony Ray should have gone on to play Theo on The Cosby Show instead of it going to Malcolm Jamal Warner. Isn’t it curious that they both have three names?

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This past weekend I watched Gold Diggers of 1935, directed by Busby Berkeley. The plot is banal: a rich family arrives at a resort and a bunch of people are after their money. The daughter of the family (already an adult but not married so, you know, she can’t live on her own) is engaged to a complete idiot with a lot of money whose hobby is collecting and writing about snuff boxes. She doesn’t want to marry him; she wants to have fun. She convinces her mother that she should have one last summer of merriment before her wedding in the fall.

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I don’t know where I’ve been lately, just certainly not posting anything. Oops.

If I could afford just any old doodad, trinket, pretty thing for Christmas, I would buy this, the coolest bracelet/cuff every made… to help me enhance my Kiss of the Spider Woman image. But for just about $600, I think I might have to forgo it and maybe get Hollywood Dominos instead.

Although, if you’ve ever played Mexican Train (don’t ask me how it got that name) it’s basically the same thing.

But once Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek start getting involved, things have a way of getting out of control.

So tired from last night
we must catch up on our sleep
more “yes, we can” tomorrow

zombies full of rage
please don’t bite our faces
we make poor choices

Weird things I think before making certain purchases:

Before buying any shoes (accept athletic shoes) “But can I go dancing in these?” Number of times I dance per year: maybe seven? Five.

Before buying any underwear: “If I get in an accident, will it be weird if I’m wearing these (blank) underwear and they have to cut them off me?” Fill in the blank with any number of adjectives: striped, polka-dotted, Oscar the Grouch, kind-of-high-waisted-but-comfortable

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