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Sunday Jactitation made a wonderful brunch for our house and Nodoilies and Southbay came over to help eat it. We talked books and grad school for hours. The grad school conversations in my house just never end. Thankfully I didn’t have to work because co-workers told me that after being cooped up with families for the weekend, people had lots of aggro to get out of their systems and were looking for retail workers to unload upon.
I watched the Niners get absolutely destroyed by the Ravens and then headed East with
anarqueso and a couple of other friends for a potluck at
felicks’s house. Felicks lives with an old political friend of mine and when I said I hadn’t been there for 13 years, the East Bay people thought I was saying I hadn’t been to Berkeley for 13 years. Sensitive much? Geez.
amarama co-hosted, and many LJers were there, including some I met for the first time. I think it would aggravate my RSI to name them all. I brought a vegan "tuna"-noodle casserole. I had a lovely time despite the hosts’ insistence on playing party games. My favorite moment was when we were in a small group arguing about astrology. Contrary to cliché, the group was evenly divided with all the people who actually grew up Californians disbelieving.
I watched the Niners get absolutely destroyed by the Ravens and then headed East with
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Date: 2003-12-01 01:19 pm (UTC)My favorite bit from the whole collection of posts was the last couple of lines in this one. I'm (somewhat unaccountably) annoyed with any overwrought display of belief in astrology these days.
It's not surprising that native-born Californians would be fed up with the stuff, given that all their lives they've had to put up with the half-baked conception that California is some sort of New Age paradise (not to mention the constant influx of desperate neo-hippies seeking same).
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Date: 2003-12-01 01:44 pm (UTC)and sorry for the confusion. I'm feeling petty today.
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Date: 2003-12-01 01:33 pm (UTC)Man, the club was nuts. We had two fights (one of which was quite bloody), several visits from the cops, and general evil all around. Far worse than usual.
"It's the most wonderful time of the year..."
For the record, I don't believe in astrology either.
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Date: 2003-12-01 01:45 pm (UTC)The stars do decry
Date: 2003-12-01 04:29 pm (UTC)Re: The stars do decry
Date: 2003-12-01 05:34 pm (UTC)I think purple is more relevant to discussions of the phrase "blessed be"
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Date: 2003-12-01 06:42 pm (UTC)Oh, and most of the people there were from the East Bay, incidentally. I have no link to back this up, but I'm fairly sure of it.
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Date: 2003-12-01 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-02 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-01 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-01 04:58 pm (UTC)And why didn't you play Celebrities? I bet you would have been really good at it. But it was nice Queso and you did the dishes. It was a massive relief to all of us who were there until the bitter end.
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Date: 2003-12-01 05:38 pm (UTC)I might have played celebrities but I actually enjoy sneaking off to do dishes at potlucks. I have a seething hatred for coerced group "fun", but it did look ok.
I can't believe I forgot to mention how good your cake was.
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Date: 2003-12-01 06:01 pm (UTC)2) You and your kind do not adequately represent "Californians."
3) It's Northern NY. Upstate implies some reference to NYC, which is not found where I'm from.
4) I know nothing about "free will" astrology, proving that you know more about astrology than me! You're a closet astrologer, aren't you, Gordon? You're clearly the one with the astrological self-hate problem.
5) My cakes can live without you.
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Date: 2003-12-01 08:50 pm (UTC)Your cake can live on without him, but it won't live for long, because I will eat it.
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Date: 2003-12-02 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-01 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-02 01:13 am (UTC)And free will astrology as in Rob Brezny? Rob rocks my world, man. Don't be putting him down.
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Date: 2003-12-02 12:03 pm (UTC)A poem about my weekend visit
Date: 2003-12-01 11:54 pm (UTC)visiting my old haunts
Got nostalgic for the old days, the old ways.
Sucked on a fried chicken foot
the dim sum of my youth
but the rain kept pouring down
as I walked and walked
where the fisherman used to cuss
I could hear your voice
hey, I used to get high on that hill
but a strange thought occurred
as I passed yet another Starbuck's
when did it all become so
yuppified
dignified
homegenized
I half expected to see him
walk to me through
the fog
that groovy rebel
who breathed me in
and blew out the coolest
smoke circles
then I remembered.
He's dead.
Re: A poem about my weekend visit
Date: 2003-12-02 12:04 pm (UTC)Re: A poem about my weekend visit
Date: 2003-12-02 12:33 pm (UTC)However, the bay of my youth (circa 1970-1980)
is quite different!!
Next time I want to see you :)
Re: A poem about my weekend visit
Date: 2003-12-02 12:55 pm (UTC)Re: A poem about my weekend visit
Date: 2003-12-02 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-02 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-03 12:08 pm (UTC)Ugh, tell me about it. I was demo'ing slice and bake cookies, which I was making in a toaster oven. No sooner would I put out a batch than people would swoop down, grab them, and glare at me while running away because god forbid I was trying to TALK to them! If you're going to take my food, I get to talk to you! You've gotta earn that cookie, fucker!
Er, sorry.