It's a few days until Christmas, and I'm in San Diego with my parents. It's 6:40 am, and I'm awake, the rats, even, are sleeping. I brought them down here, the cage bumping around in the backseat, as finding a rat-sitter in LA at Christmastime was a difficult proposition.

Oh. I just announced I wasn't in my apartment. If anyone wants to break in, watch out for the cockroaches, they may have opposable thumbs by now, in fact, they may have a manifesto by now, and they are ORGANIZED.

I like to anthropomorphize things. I also like to coddle my rats until they look at me with those little beady eyes and say "put me back in my cage now, I'm bored, and there, there are walnuts."

Strange times. Interesting times. I went in a Mervyns that was going out of business a few days ago, and it looked like a riot was taking place.

The empire is falling. Taste the fruits of empire while you can. Before it's all gone gone gone.

I did a tarot reading this morning and drew the tower, crossed by the ten of swords.

If you would like to contribute to the fundraising for my poetry book, Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin, Extrapolations on Los Angeles, J.S. Davis of valeveil  is holding a fundraiser involving poetry in the streets of Stockholm.

http://www.valeveil.se/en/support.html

thanks!

A fabulous day is today. I am sitting with my dear darling Katie, and we just had band practice. We are gong to a reading tonight. Oh joy.

I just spent a week in San Diego and Reno learning about yurts, stew, and how many rats is a lot to deal with.

I am happily medicated. On D-listed, they refer to the Britney Spears tour as the "Don't be A'scared, Ahs on mah meds" tour.
Think of this as the "Don'd be a'feared, I'm on mah meds too!!! except I'm not going anywhere.


today is a day of leather and pink cupcake costumes. I awoke thinking of prosciutto cupcakes, and now I am one.

So, I am starting a new writing project. Details to follow.

Cherry Ames Army Nurse is coming along swimmingly! Here is our myspace.

And we made those sailor outfits all by ourselves...with just a lick and a promise.  They are much more modest than the one pictured here.

Life is sweet. Katie is especially sweet. I am having holiday neurosis, but, then again, this is normal.

Okay, the first rule in compulsive overshare is dreams.

The Sarah Palin mania (for all that I voted for obama) was triggered by a dream involving her and...ice cubes. Y'all can let your dirty mind work on that one.

However, I had an especially poignant dream last night, actually, two.

I dreamed that I had a pack of tarot cards and could make so much more sense of the world with their guidance.

This involved some hovering around my room with images from the major arcana blazing from my desk lamp and walls. (much like this Sprawl flyer)

Then I had this very sad dream about looking for a halloween costume in my grandmother's basement and mistakenly finding a dress worn by an young woman at Manzanar, the japanese internment camp which we recently visited. This was highly disturbing. For some reason I was compulsed to put it on, pale yellow with black trim, it fit perfectly, including the hat.


I started to cry.

I don't know if this is my fear of getting hospitalized on Friday, or the ache that comes from a poisonous reminder of human cruelty.

We are starting a band called Cherry Ames, Army Nurse. Songs include:

• What would Cherry Ames do?
• Symptoms
• Panties and pills
• Pro-Mia at the Noho Starbucks
  
• That's a lot of rat to deal with
  
• Sarah Palin extravaganza

wish us luck!

This is just too adorable. katie and I as student and teacher. I swear, I'm only taller than her in heels!!!

things they might have been filming last night

• rock of love
• alcohol commercial
• straight to DVD movie starring David Hasselhoff
• low-budget porn
• tourism ad for neighborhood boosting committee
• educational anti-drunk driving video
• advertisement for American Apparel's "black T"

fashions I regret wearing

• pants so low they reveal panties
• thongs
• severely assymmetrical bobs
• bizarre ear-like hairdos
• shoulder pads
• slouch socks
• wearing star stickers on my face
• drawing a star on my hand every day
  
• star tattoos
• grandmother's petticoats
• pants with hangy straps
• scarf around head
• bra-strap headband
• piles of spikes
• bracelets up arm
• emo boys as accessories

Halloween costumes expected this year

• all manner of slutty animals
• flappers
• conceptual art concepts
• boll weevil
• unicorn
• two-person horse
• Sarah Palin
• fried egg a la Gwen Stephani
• more Sarah Palin

okay, enough lists for now.

taking suggestions for other ways to occupy time.

please don't actually email me.

oh, and it's wizard rock, a.k.a wrock. the wizardcore thing. ain't the internet grand?

today I will blog more lists. just because.

things that might have happened at the party after we left:

• S got dry-humped
• more women showed up
• more drawing
• actual teachers
• R forced to leave due to cat
• punch overruled by guests
• makeout party?
• mysterious naked guest
• people got more booze
• someone had a flashback
• people brought actual giraffes
• more penises were drawn/illustrated/shown
• chuck norris showed up and denied accusations
• actual preschoolers showed up and ate the sandwiches
• preshooler alcohol poisoning due to punch
• adult guests poisoned by kool-aid
• someone shows up with I [heart] lord buddha punch, subsequent group psychosis

slang that we're glad is gone

• let's bounce
• rad
• calling oneself a punk name...i.e. johnny waistcoat
• indie meaning anything at all
• bicurious
• fo shizzle
• that's wack
• dope
• hype
• doh
• bad
• collect my pee
• sick
• wizardcore
• j-lo nicknames

things that will be gone soon (?):

• blogs
• skinny jeans
• indie
• irony
• hipsters
• vice magazine
• american apparel
• crocs
• uggs
• croc-uggs (ugh!)
  
• bicuriousness
• tiny dogs

off to google wizardcore, more later (brb lolz!)

Euphemisms for clothes-changing disorder

• narcissism
• indecisiveness
• desire to be utmost prepared for any given situation

whimsical disorders

• clothes-changing
• circular logic
• making everything self-referential
• compulsive need to alphabetize things
• inadvertent lowercasing
  

things we've thrown away that we wish we hadn't

• tapes
• clothing
• love - esp, wtf of dumping guy who gave me stuffed animal from carnival when I was 18.
• zine box
• my ego
• hope!
• my innocence!
• a chance at a normal life

evil/friendly yet still nefarious plots

• put on haunted house record at random times
• let rats loose with mate...rat summer of love
• nasty rumors
• mcgyver-esque machinery
• surprise haircut
• surprise laundry throwing
• squawk. with box
• make someone think they are shrinking
• chemistry experiment gone "wrong"
• stealing punchlines relentlessly
• inconvenient dyslexia
• convince someone they are turning emo
• fake prom queen, with or without pigs blood
• gigantic Disney phantasmical show aimed at pointing out someone's flaws
• taking hostages
• taking the three of clubs, the seven of spades, and blackjack!
• stealing all of someone's shoes
• serving someone a meal that is not what you say it is, but is actually poison, something they're allergic to, and/or human.
• making someone play soccer