My weekend

[gordonzola]

I made my birthday stretch this year. I just got back to SF before my actual birthday so I had my party last night instead of on the actual day. All week long people were wishing me happy birthday. Some even accused me of being a Scorpio. Luckily I don’t care about such things.

I actually went to gwenzilla’s West Bay Chad b-day party on Friday night at Zeitgeist. I drank much more than intended because I didn’t know anyone but Gwen at first. I don’t wanna speak for G, but I was reveling in my oldness and crankiness in the face of so much youth. I was questioned by a new acquaintance rather graphically about my Queer Open Mic button and its relation to my sexuality.

Which is kinda funny because when I was driving up to Portland a couple of weeks ago I was wearing it, as per usual, next to my "Cheese Pride" button. I stopped by to visit a certain cheesemaker who happens to be a known dairy fairy. He said, "Oh I love your Cheese Pride buttons" then leaned in to read the other one. He paused a second, then said, "So are you going to Portland for the Gay/Lesbian Film Festival?"

Last night at my Birthday/Welcome dairryiere party (thanks again anarqueso!) our lovely Skinny Sublettor tried to have a horror movie fest in his room but it didn’t really take. It was a smallish party, but very fun especially when Skinny Sublettor started DJing. I haven’t seen so many people dance to "Me So Horny" in…. well, forever. Skinny, being a little younger than most of us there, didn’t realize that putting on JJ Fad would be greeted so enthusiastically by people who knew all the words. That’s not retro for us, that’s nostalgia.

A highlight, which I will post pictures of soon, was when freakstorm presented me with a 2.5 lb. block of processed American cheese food. Now, unfortunately, often people give me Cheeze Wiz as a gag gift. Freakstorm however, then carved it into a sculpture of a busty woman and some other party guests gave her eyes and nipples out of pins. Her head fell off in the fridge overnight, but I repaired her with some toothpicks. Hopefully we will use her as a display at the cheese counter.

I hope Miserable New Wave Girl* is happy with her new name. She came still partly dressed fancy from a costume party and toting champagne. When I introduced her to people and told them we went to high school together and got back in touch, many exclaimed, "Oh, you’re the miserable new wave girl!". Sorry, MNWG.

The only downside came when some friend of a co-worker who evidently got loaded at The Roller Derby match in Oakland threw up all over the couch and probably herself. Dude, we’re not 16 anymore. Suggestions for getting the vomit smell out of fabric that can’t be thrown in a washer?**

Our part winded down at about 2:30 but our neighbors’ party was still going strong. Skinny Sublettor decided to go over and bum cigarettes. The houses have entrances on different streets so their back porch is right under the windows of our bathroom and middle rooms. Their horrible party conversations have haunted us for years and we can hear every word said back there. When he arrived he yelled up to us, ‘Hi Gordon!" "Hi Dairryiere!" We waved from our windows. We couldn’t help listening, we almost put our boots back on to come to a rescue when we heard Skinny ask, in response to a het dude bragging about some sex act, "Oh, did you purchase that?"

Another guy was sarcastically saying he wanted to go to a "Cuddle Party".*** Skinny put down his beer and said, "Do you want a hug?" while embracing him. There was no mooing. There was some uncomfortable silence, but it passed.

Sincere thanks to everyone who came and everyone who wished me a happy birthday.**** It was a wonderful party and a great week.



*You may remember her from such posts as "High school reunion" and "High school reunion part two"
**Vinegar, soap, water, and sunlight has taken care of most of the problem.
***Again with the cuddle parties?
****Except, of course, for the puker.

Comments

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

Happy belated, G!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

thanks! Glad your anarchist move went so well.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

awesome party, but i didn't entirely realise it was a welcome-dairryeire party or i wouldn't have walked up to her at the beginning and said, "Am i at the right place? This is Gordon's birthday party right?" heh. i would have said, "AND your welcome party?" :)

errr... i wish i'd have stayed later, but glad i missed the puker. but sad i missed "me so horny!" damnit.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

hell, the puker and friends didn't even arrive until like 1:30 AM. They came, puked, and left.

Thanks for coming. I'm glad there were other Giants fans there.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I'll suggest Febreeze for the rest of the vomit smell.

What an awful thing to have happen in the middle of your party. Fortunately, it sounds like it didn't overshadow the evening too badly.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

luckily it was the end of the party. Most unfortunate for the person who found it by sitting in it though.

[kristy-chan.livejournal.com]

happy barfday!!!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha! exactly!

[chloesha.livejournal.com]

Yay! Finally an update, but I am disappointed not to hear about the nightmare neighbor. I do not recommend Febreeze as there is no antidote for getting the smell of Febreeze out of your couch. I do recommend any of the various enzymatic stain/odor removers that I'm sure you can get at Rainbow. At least one natural product that does a better job than its toxic counterpart. Beyond that, it's steam cleaning.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. I didn't write about him. We had a nice conversation about mutual respect and agreed that the second floor folks who live like communists were the real problem. ;)

yeah, I was gonna go natch. The cushion was too wet to go with baking soda and avoid potential crusting issues. I figured lots of you have pets and/or kids and are more familiar with puke removal than I.

Expect a special delivery, btw. I will say no more. (oh wait, yes I will. The special delivery has nothing to do with puke)

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I didn't make it -- Tasha mailed me at like 5:30, about which time I was being set upon by what appears to be Martian Deth Fl00.

Happy Birthday!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

That's going around. next time.

[spoonfeeding.livejournal.com]

dude, thanks for having us. it was nifty to get to see you and jenny when you're not looking over my shoulder at paying customers. sorry we left early- i was tired and still pretty looped from the new drugs I started this week. bah.

expect your present soon. mwahaahha

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Thanks for helping to make the party pretty.

dude

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

I said I was *sorry* about your couch last night. You don't have to humiliate me on your lj. Man.



(sorry I missed your party. want to get stupidly drunk and watch me not puke in a few weeks?) xoxo

Re: dude

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Dude, that was soooo fucked up!

Yes, I can't wait until you're in the area. Right near t-giving gets crazy for me work-wise, but otherwise, yes yes yes.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great party.

I think I have just enough southern macho pride not to vomit at anyone else's house, but the binge drinker in me sympathizes with puker. Or maybe it's just that the only time since we've known each other that either Lysella or myself have drank enough to vomit was in San Francisco and I'm somehow subconsciously associating the city with drinking until I get sick.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Dude, get as sick as you want. But make it to the bathroom or the park next door. even the sink! Even the back stairs. Something easy to clean is all I ask!

[spoonfeeding.livejournal.com]

awwwww, I just got your message. youre so sweet!

beers soon.

[kest]

man, I missed, like, *all* of that. stupid bart.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

we need a 24 hour BART movement

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

We're out, sorry. I'll make an LJ announcment when we have more. Remind me then, ok?

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

Dude, where's the name checking*? So we could all at least go, "Wait, who was s/he? When did s/he get there, or leave?"

*And of course, I only mean LJ name checking, not any other kind.**

**Don't you like my use of footnotes rather than my more typical use of the parenthetical remark? It's my birthday present to you.***

***But aren't you scared by the recursive possibilities?

wow

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I can't actually imagine the recursive possibilities. ;) and thanks.

OK, here's your name check of, ahem, LJ people only (who else would I namecheck?):
dairryiere, anarqueso, ilipodscrill, freakstorm, redshrike, bugsinamber, animikwaan, reveritas, brevity, rednfiery, nodoilies, spoonfeeding, claudimp, telebraker6, cindymonkey, creepingivy, corinroyal, imnotandrei, pantryslut,kest, touchyphiliac, paintdrinker, princessrugger

I hope I didn't miss anyone.

[sparkle-shortz.livejournal.com]

Skinny Sublettor gets a prize for the "did you purchase that" line. Let me know where I can mail it to him.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh, you can send it care of me. Is it a good prize?

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome, except for the vomit part. Wish I could have been there, but I had to party with the pretty people in Beverly Hills.

Repeated applications of white vinegar and water or white vinegar and seltzer water should do the trick; once it's all dry, try a little dusting of baking soda followed by the vacuum cleaner.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

cool. that was my plan.

Sorry you missed it. Hope the pretty people were fun.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

thanks again for the fun times. wish i coulda stayed longer, but i would have invariably fallen asleep in the puke, or something, and that just wouldn't have made my week any better.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

You mean you would have stolen the title of "Most likely to end the evening covered in someone else's puke" away from dairryiere? You can come to all the parties.

[freakstorm.livejournal.com]

um, gordon, I'm glad you liked the cheese. It's the cheese of my people.
The cheese really wanted to be a nekkid lady. I was just a conduit channeling cheese spirit.
thanks for the splendid fun.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

It's the cheese of my people too!

[freshwater-pr0n.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the couch. Next time, I'll lay off the Jello shots.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I thought you could handle your alcohol.

[rednfiery.livejournal.com]

boy am i glad i missed the puke. sorry to hear about your couch (and dairryiere's bare legs...ew). rubbing alcohol is great for stains, but i can't imagine it would do much for the smell. :(

when i left to go home, i found the birthday card i bought for you sitting on the front seat of my car. uh, yeah. that was kinda stupid. didn't someone say one time that it's the thought that counts...?

anyway, i had a fun time at your party. thanks for the invite!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

anytime. glad you could come and get a break from Fremont. I loved your hair, btw.

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice everyone there being younger [there is the Chad factor, though -- just imagine how skewed my frame of reference is! -- and I do notice my relative age when it's a more heavily female grouping]. I'm not even going to get started on A.; again, I apologize. And again, thank you for coming, it totally made my evening :)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I was glad I was there. and I liked A, actually. I'm kind of a fan of inapropriate conversation. heh.

[redshrike.livejournal.com]

thank you again, happy birthday again, wonderful party!

and yes, i did take sone pictures! they're still on the camera; maybe i can finally start using my flickr account tonight, get those up where you can see them! there's one in particular that has the irises just behind nuestra senora de queso...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!!!!

[defenestr8r.livejournal.com]

That’s not retro for us, that’s nostalgia.


this is precisely the experiece i had at this LA hipster bar a few weeks ago.

well, prior to breaking out into hives and fleeing the place. the hives didn't go down until i found a dive bar that wasn't charging $6 for pabst.

sounds like a great party. wish i could have been there!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

heh. yes, I hope so. My problem is my good friend's wedding is on Saturday and I am coordinating the food. I need to find out if, besides saturday, there are other times I am obligated to.

and next time I'll coordinate my parties with your visits.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I turned into a pumpkin early and missed the cheese sculpture. Also the dancing. I look forward to the pictures.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well, thanks for coming all the way from the Beast.

[thesaucyone.livejournal.com]

Happy Birtday my Libra Brother! The party sounds awesome. My guests wouldn't leave until about 2:30 am. And after four bottles of wine, two sixes of Old Foghorn, and various and asundry mixed beverages I was in no shape to stand and move. By the by, the cheese was a hit! We actually cheered you at the table. THe Italian "Bre . . . something something" was particularly good.

Where might this cheese sculpture be displayed?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

That was the Brebidor. Not too be confused with the Brebiou which is a similar French sheep cheese. I prefer the Brebidor but would get the Brebiou happily if the Brebidor is unavailable. And it often is since it's a pre-order cheese from an unreliable distributor.

We are working on how to display the cheese sculpture. Hopefully it will be up the next time I see you. And, as for the party, next time for sure.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

I've been seeing you for a while in commonreader's journal, and am now taking the plunge & asking to be friended. Because after reading about your wild, wacky, wonderful weekend, who wouldn't?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

was it my baiting her for lack of committment to anti-communism that finally got you?

C'mon in! There's not a lot that's locked, but you're friended.