sighing in the breeze

sing out, Louise

Weekly World News: AL QAEDA PLANS TO DROP GAY BOMBS

I don't know why I didn't subscribe to the WWN years ago.

sing it, Tammy

Because your good girl's gonna go bad
I'm gonna be the swingin'est swinger you've ever had
If you like 'em painted up powdered up
Then you oughta be glad
'Cause your good girl's gonna go bad.

There's a punk who sings and plays a random selection of songs on his acoustic guitar at the BART station near my job. He's not particularly good, but he doesn't completely suck, either; he's incredibly earnest and, not surprisingly, looks as exhausted as everyone else in the place as they shuffle home from their days of drudgery. There aren't exactly crowds of tourists around him, but lately he seems to have gotten stuck with the morning spot, and I don't think he's been doing so well. This morning he was playing "I Wanna Be Sedated," and I kicked him a buck in gratitude. This evening on my way home, he was still there, but he'd moved above ground, and was strumming an electric guitar, plugged into a little amp. He nodded at me, another drone on her way home; I got on the train, went home, and sedated myself with some Harry Potter and a martini.

what's new

Lately I've been spending more time in the East Bay than I have in over 11 years of living in San Francisco, and I imagine that I'll be spending even more time there in the near future, since someone I'm rather crazy about is moving there.
I've also eaten Ethiopian food for the first time, talked my beloved into getting a very foxy faux-hawk, bought crap at garage sales, slurped oysters, been to the Dore Alley Fair, scheduled an MRI for myself*, plotted to get my driver's license and take over the world, read some Harry Potter and some Phoebe Gloeckner and Middlesex, and watched "Singin' in the Rain" for the ten millionth time. I still haven't cleaned up the mess on my desk, nor have I caught up on my sleep completely. But I'm happy.

Now, if only someone would open some baths here like the Russian Baths in NY...

*nothin' to worry 'bout, folks!