random bits
I’ve hit Pike Place Market two weekends in a row. This weekend was the first spring like day of the year. 55, sunny,blue skies. Last weekend was cold, Rochester-grey skies with rain constantly threatening to break the down the door and just *take* it’s stuff back. Last weekend was preferable. This week’s sun and spring brought out all the tourists and gawkers. Last weekend was a far mellower crowd and being able to feel the chill of the air, even when you’re in the deepest bowels of the market, is half the fun.
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I was waiting in line to order my lunch when I noticed what I like to call The Stellar Parent™. These are the people who manage to find the limited edition copies of Dr. Spock, with the chapters entitled “You’re going to get if you don’t shut up” and “For christ’s sake carry it yourself.” I smile for the day in the far future when the parents are home alone, crying over their child’s wasted life and not understanding what went wrong.
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I was chatting up a woman (like, a grown up) at the pub, and she said that in Seattle, everyone is friendly, but no one wants to be your friend.
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Hey this is for you guys. You know who are, the men who whine that women only want to sleep with assholes and don’t appreciate nice guys.
It’s not that women want to sleep with assholes, it’s that assholes are more interesting than that boring, timid schtick you’ve been carrying around since puberty. Try something new.
Or start sleeping with men. They’re pretty much universally whores and will put up with whatever schtick you have so long as you put out.
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Back in Rochester Spot Coffee was one of my haunts. It’s weird being in Seattle and seeing what Spot was based on, and seeing where they got it right, and where Rochester intruded and ruined it all.
I’m not sure what the place I’m in is named, but the woman at the register is pure Portland, The kind of girl who makes me want to get tattoos.
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Politics don’t bother me much these days, but that’s probably because I don’t stop to think much about it, I take consolation in the fact that the morons who vote those pathetic shells of a human beings into office are usually the ones that end up getting fucked the worst by their policies.
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South Dakota just passed a law that comes pretty close to outlawing all abortions. This isn’t your standard “the language could be construed as outlawing most abortions because it’s so vague”, it’s black and white “You got knocked up, you’re having the kid you dumb bitch, unless the egg is lodged in your fallopian tubes”.
I’d hate to have a womb in this country right about now.
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The sun is setting and I still have the thrift stores to hit in search of a gothy skirt. Don’t take shit people.
Originally Posted March 04, 2006