Author: substitute

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Her name is Rio and she shouldn’t wear that thing

Pretty good day, today! I had to work but trinnit was a good sport and hung out while I battled Perl and did some installs for the office. I went out for a short time to get my prescription refilled and do a couple of errands, and very narrowly avoided having an argument about Darwinism with the_friend. Whew.

Made a good dinner: sautéed scallops, fried baby potatoes, and multicolor pepper salad. Then Pete and I went to D’s and he got a bit of the Experience as he had before. Not the full blast of the AA/NA crew tonight, just the nice gals who always sit together. Since he’s deaf he couldn’t hear the drunk bartender at the Napa blaring on about reality TV. Man, that guy is an advertisement for sobriety.

Apparently Sabrina, one of the baristas at D’s, fell off a 2 story building at a party when the handrail on the balcony decided not to be a handrail any more. She has some kind of back injury, poor woman.

I am intrigued by the epicene young man who works behind the counter and whose girlfriend? friend? sister? always sits at the bar. He is very beautiful in a preraphaelite maiden way and she is comfortably large with a nose ring, sort of porcine. She always wears an Insane Clown Posse shirt and a few candyraver items like beads, etc. I’ve seen him in full raver garb too. Is there some crossover between the rave kids and the ICP victims? Aside from being high all the time, I mean.

The cat loves her visitor, especially since he likes to playfight and skritch her.

Tomorrow: DISNEYLAND.

But first: IRISH SUSHI!

Fashion notes from all over.

While waiting for trinnit at the airport today, I saw lots of people from Farawayistan and Foreignland arriving.

There were a couple of chinese hip hop dudes who were dressed in perfect LL Cool J style (Kangol hat + tracksuit) and Tupac (ball cap and bandanna) style.

There were a hell of a lot of Orthodox Jews.

And there was a woman who was wearing a Von Dutch trucker hat and carrying two Von Dutch leather bags, one of which was filled with Von Dutch trucker hats.

I sure hope they were fakes from Hong Kong that she was going to sell on eBay. Yeah, keep hoping that.

Or you could have Joel Grey come to your company and scare the shit out of everyone

I prefer HTML-resized Carol Channing to terrify my employees. They’re all available from Grabow and Associates, a wonderfully named organization.

EDIT: Wes Craven is also available, sparking this exchange:

ignatz: I like the idea of a corporate motivational event starring Wes Craven
zebulon_y: hehe
ignatz: “So, imagine this. You haven’t met your sales target, and we’ve put you in a box. A very small box. And in that box is a spider. It’s dark in the box, and the spider is very big.”
zebulon_y: “Here’s what happened to the last sales team that missed the numbers…oh, that’s messy”
ignatz: zot
ignatz: Purchasing finds themselves alone in the boiler room with Freddy due to insufficient cost controls