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Aug. 12th, 2007 07:19 pmi've had a really nice first couple days back in st. louis. and, i already have an absurd story.
i was at the loading zone on friday night...it's a gay bar in the central west end. i was there to nurse a drink and work on my advice column for student life. all of a sudden, a bunch of people in cowboy hats and various western paraphernalia come into the bar. gay men, butch dykes, drag queens in full drag regalia...turns out, it was the st. louis gay rodeo.
i start talking to a couple of them...one of the drag queens was trying to set me up with his friend. i wasn't really into his friend at all...she wasn't bad-looking, and she was nice, but she was WAY too old for me--at least forty, and maybe close to fifty. not my age bracket at all. but, i hung out with the rodeo people...and before i knew it, i was on a school bus with them all, doing a st. louis pub crawl. they were a lot of fun to chill with. i'm just bummed because they're having their big rodeo soon, but it's when i'm in new york city so i can't go.
but...it was a lot of fun running around with the gay cowboys, and it wasn't how i was expecting to spend friday night.
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on another topic...my apartment finally has STUFF in it! well, not a lot of stuff. i still need some furniture, some beanbag chairs or something...but i finally have a television! it's not big, but it's just fine for my little place. i also played so much guitar hero this summer that i gave in to temptation...and got a playstation 2 and a copy of guitar hero 2 to go with the playstation. :) so, now, i at least have some entertainment at home other than my computer, some cable tv and some guitar hero goodness. :)
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school supplies are going too far. i just saw an ad for a new five-star brand binder--that has speakers in it. way to beg kids to disrupt class. the binder has a pocket for an .mp3 player, an speaker jack, and speakers. WHO WOULD NEED SPEAKERS IN SCHOOL? WHO? it just doesn't make sense to me. if a kid has to bring his .mp3 player to school, he should be allowed to listen to it on the bus...with headphones. not out loud--and definitely not out of his binder.
i was at the loading zone on friday night...it's a gay bar in the central west end. i was there to nurse a drink and work on my advice column for student life. all of a sudden, a bunch of people in cowboy hats and various western paraphernalia come into the bar. gay men, butch dykes, drag queens in full drag regalia...turns out, it was the st. louis gay rodeo.
i start talking to a couple of them...one of the drag queens was trying to set me up with his friend. i wasn't really into his friend at all...she wasn't bad-looking, and she was nice, but she was WAY too old for me--at least forty, and maybe close to fifty. not my age bracket at all. but, i hung out with the rodeo people...and before i knew it, i was on a school bus with them all, doing a st. louis pub crawl. they were a lot of fun to chill with. i'm just bummed because they're having their big rodeo soon, but it's when i'm in new york city so i can't go.
but...it was a lot of fun running around with the gay cowboys, and it wasn't how i was expecting to spend friday night.
***
on another topic...my apartment finally has STUFF in it! well, not a lot of stuff. i still need some furniture, some beanbag chairs or something...but i finally have a television! it's not big, but it's just fine for my little place. i also played so much guitar hero this summer that i gave in to temptation...and got a playstation 2 and a copy of guitar hero 2 to go with the playstation. :) so, now, i at least have some entertainment at home other than my computer, some cable tv and some guitar hero goodness. :)
***
school supplies are going too far. i just saw an ad for a new five-star brand binder--that has speakers in it. way to beg kids to disrupt class. the binder has a pocket for an .mp3 player, an speaker jack, and speakers. WHO WOULD NEED SPEAKERS IN SCHOOL? WHO? it just doesn't make sense to me. if a kid has to bring his .mp3 player to school, he should be allowed to listen to it on the bus...with headphones. not out loud--and definitely not out of his binder.
