Date Archives November 2009

“I disagree with his lapping technique.”

On Saturday night, a group of girls gathered to eat chicken and watch porn, as we do when we’re not having naked pillowfights or brushing one another’s hair. It would have been just chicken and porn, as with the car bullshit, I didn’t get an opportunity to go out and pick up pinata supplies* or a cake, but Emily totally saved my ass with a visit to the erotic bakery. I knew it was going to be epic when she texted me, “Dude. Have your camera ready, you are not going to believe the cake.”

She was right.

Holy shit.

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This was a same day special order cake. Emily had called earlier in the day to find out what the deal was with their cakes, if they were all made-to-order or if they had them premade, and supposedly they fly out the door fast enough that they keep a regular stock on hand. She went to check them out, and the more she thought about it, the less she was comfortable with a giant dong cake on a night that was supposed to be about ladies and their pleasure. She then saw a cake which from a distance appeared to be covered in pretty flowers but of course, on closer inspection, turned out to be a bunch of teeny tiny vajayjays. Georgia O’Keefe, we are onto you. She didn’t see anything that was quite right, and explained to the baker that we needed a cake for a group of girls who would not be embarrassed or shocked by anything, and a couple of hours later, this is the miracle we were presented with.

Emily and her husband also had a splendid time picking out pinata stuffins, and we ended up having to cut a much larger slit in the pinata to accommodate the wind-up masturbating doll, the double-dong wine-opener, and handfuls of other fun things; we then used Mardi’s sexy vinyl tie-up tape to keep said stuffins from falling out.

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First, I subjected everyone to my ‘sexy party’ playlist, which was full of songs from the porno musical and winners from The Frogs like “Grandma sitting in the corner with a penis in her hand going no, no, no, no, no.” When we got around to starting the porn, I subjected everyone to Cap’n Mongo’s Porno Playhouse, a dvd acquired on ‘Family Porn Night’**. This particular porn hits pretty much every single one of my entertainment buttons, and it’s something I subject others to often–with its pirates, midgets, clowns, horrendous fake titties, and seriously twisted sense of humor, I’m not certain that it was ever actually intended to be sexy, especially considering they cut between positions with leering clown faces and big fat pirates strolling across the screen.

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Yes. That IS someone being eaten out on my tv.

Some of the ladies objected strenuously to clown porn, so we eventually switched to Space Nuts which is a parody of a parody and also quite entertaining.

When Mardi dragged out her Suitcase Of Broken Dreams, we discovered that Napoleon, who tends to believe that anything brought into the apartment belongs to him, ALSO applies this belief to dildos. He is nothing if not consistent; however, the following pictures might ALSO explain the lack of dudes willing to step foot in my place.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Screwnicorn is not a myth!

 

After Mardi finished presenting her wares, it was time for me to don the strap-on for a rousing round of ‘strap-on ring toss’. I picked up a bunch of penis-shaped bath bombs from Bliss to give as prizes, a local gay-owned shop run by the sweetest guys EVER–Phil ended up giving me everything dong-shaped in my basket for free as he felt that “No one should have to pay for penis.”

You know, it was amazing how powerful I felt with a great big dong strapped to my hips, and it didn’t hurt that I’d maybe also had a little to drink. A little. Which may well explain why when a garter was successfully tossed onto it, I felt the need to try and hula-hoop the garter around the strap-on. Maybe.

I also discovered that the dick looks much bigger when you’re wearing it than it does from the side, which explains why so many guys walk around like they’re carrying a club for killing baby seals in between their legs. It’s an optical illusion, dudes. Trust.

A photo may exist of me somewhere, wearing the strap on, while a fine, fine lady gives me a reach-around. I’m not encouraging this picture to be posted, and I might not even post it if I had it, but I felt it was important for people to know it exists so that everyone knows my chances of a political career are over.

When I hung the pinata from the hook that was already in my ceiling when I moved in, I expected said hook to be a bit more firmly anchored; the pinata stayed up for all of thirty seconds before pulling the hook out. We ended up hanging the pinata off the end of a fireplace poker and having ladies take their cracks at it with the anal beads that way. Mardi told me that the last time she had done this, it took the girls FOREVER to break open the pinata. Either my girlfriends are all terrifyingly angry or possess the brute strength of gorillas, as it didn’t take us very long at all to crack this thing wide open.

 

Hey, I was a little champagne-y, and decided wearing the busted-up pinata was a good idea. Don’t judge me.

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All of the laughing and the porn and the wine tends to wipe a fine, fine lady out, and the love sac lulled more than one to sleep. Carrie and I finished out the night, both exhausted, sitting on the couch watching Space Nuts, trading observations, while Tonya lay zonked out on my floor.

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“I bet THOSE noises aren’t faked.” “Well, yeah, look at that thing, she’s being ripped in half.”

All in all, it was an excellent night, and I knew it had been a success when I woke up and it looked like a sexy bomb had exploded in my apartment. I might NEVER get all of the pinata scraps cleaned up.

*A couple years ago, Aisling’s mom gave me a gift basket from Lover’s package with a bunch of sexytimes scratch off cards. This is not a gift to give a girl that ain’t getting any and that basket has sat in my room FOR TWO YEARS, mocking me. Every single scratch card went into the pinata.

**When I worked at Lanstorm, we were across the street from a porn shop; Dave, Drew, and I used to go there every Friday and pick something up from the Porno Bargain Bin.

Stomp, clap, move back–so deadly!

The Swollen Members show was amaaaaaazing. Or at least they were. Their openers? Well, let me tell you about them.

Bliss n Esso at least gave an honest performance; they’re Aussies making their first foray into the States and they seemed genuinely excited about being here and performing. During their performance, there were a couple of people from Yakima that could not stop jawing about Big B, who was up second, and let me tell you, this pair were perhaps the whitest people who were ever white. Ever. I wish to christ I’d taken a photograph. The gentleman of the group was decked out in a checkerboard beanie with a flipped-up brim–the only thing that was missing was the propeller. Additionally, he sported a great big baggy shirt and a great big (presumably) fake gold chain. The lady was completely tweaked out, and had blue eyeshadow allll the way up to her eyebrows. Actually, the whole AUDIENCE was full of people whom I would like to take the opportunity to publicly mock–the guy in the front row who was carrying a gut so large that it completely distorted the letters on his ‘I AM HIP HOP’ t-shirt and it took me a good ten minutes to figure out what it said. The dudes with pants down to their knees. The chick in the wifebeater who was able to rest her gut onstage. All the TOTALLY ‘hardcore’ dudes wearing bandanas and attempting to swagger. Black people, we are not co-opting your culture. It is impossible, because we look like utter fucking jackasses. Thank you, Neumos, for providing over-21 individuals such as myself a balcony from which to look down upon the masses with scorn.

Anyway, Cletus and his girlfriend went down to the main floor when Big B came onstage with a hoodie up over his head. It soon became apparent why Cletus was so fond of him, as Big B is best described by the term I have just now invented, “Hillbilly-Hop”, what with not just one, but SEVERAL songs about being white trash. At first I was perplexed as to why someone would come onstage with a hoodie masking the sides of their face, and a hat below that casting them into shadow, but I instantly and totally regretted this observation as I fear that it was by my powers of thought alone that caused him to not only take off his hoodie, but also the shirt beneath that. I talk a lot of talk about fat acceptance but frankly do not walk the walk as a fat fatist. Basically, I want people to accept ME as I am because I put an effort into being presentable–clean, neat, never ever wearing sweatpants or pajamas out into public or any of those other negative steretypes that are commonly held about fat people. This guy? GROSS and clearly proud of it, blowing his nose at people, spitting onstage, and walking around with an oily sheen that lets everyone know that if you get close to him, he will certainly smell. Even if he wasn’t totally gross, I hated his music and it seemed the rest of the audience did as well, with the exception of Cletus and Brandine, who were going fucking NUTS. I’m fairly certain Cletus creamed his pants when Big B fist bumped him, and for some incomprehensible reason, Brandine took to waving around a fluorescent light tube. Not a lit tube that was serving any purpose, no, just waving a tube for waving a tube’s sake.

Common Market are local, and I couldn’t stand them, either. At first, I thought they’d given a homeless man a microphone and sent him onstage. But what sort of homeless man raps while waving around a latte? How Seattle. Yawn. Before they FINALLY left the stage, they kept making sure that everyone knew it was their job to get everyone warmed up for Swollen Members, and if we weren’t pumped up, they hadn’t done their job. You know what would pump me up? NOT MAKING ME STAND THERE FOR THREE HOURS THROUGH A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT WAITING TO SEE ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS. Huh? How about that? How about not making me wait so long for the goods that I have to cut out during the encore to catch the very last bus heading anywhere near my home?

So anyway, they were beyond awesome, they played almost ALL of my favorite songs which I never would’ve expected since the majority of my favorites are on their oft-neglected B-side album. They were super-energetic, and Prevail made sure to pay a lot of attention to the balcony which mostly gets ignored by artists onstage. It was definitely worth the three plus mile walk home from the Renton transit center, though honestly not much WILL be worth that walk as it’s pretty much straight uphill and I am so very, very lazy and it was so very, very, very difficult to get out of bed three hours later and be mentally/physically ready to hoof it to work. Also, for some reason, my bus ride home was free. I tried to pay when I boarded, but the driver covered the bill acceptor with his hand, so at first I thought I must be in the ride free zone and I’d need to pay as I got off the bus. Nosir. So, to Seattle and back for a buck seventy-five? I’ll take it!

F’d in the A

For a lot of people I know, 2009 has been a less-than-stellar year. For amazoni, it’s been worse than most. Early in the summer, she fell down some stairs, fractured her leg, needed emergency surgery and some pins to put it all back together, was bedridden and missed her high school reunion and san diego comic con, has been unable to drive and has had to rely on others to get her where she needed to go. This week, she ACTUALLY got to drive her car, hit some road debris on an exit, the car rolled UP the embankment and she ended up next to a guardrail facing oncoming traffic; miraculously, she wasn’t injured, but the car was totaled.

I posted on her Facebook page that I was calling out whatever witches had placed a hex on her to knock it the fuck off, and suppose I have brought their wrath down onto myself.

It was amazoni‘s birthday today, and we planned on having one of our obnoxious lady get-togethers at Carolina Kitchen in Redmond at 6:30. I, deciding I was going to be clever and leave early for once to beat traffic, found myself driving through a torrential thunderstorm. I ended up deciding that since I was SO very early, I would stop and have a drink at Pegasus and maybe let the worst of the rain pass. It was at the precise moment that I turned into their parking lot that my power steering went out. You know how, when people get into accidents, they talk about how time slowed down and everything seemed so very clear? My mind doesn’t do that. I skip right over into the denial portion of the grieving process and then it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump straight to anger. My first thought was that my steering rack had gone out again, my second thought was “No, no, this right here is not happening” and my third thought was “Goddamnit, that was a thousand dollar repair!”

It was then, and only then, that I realized it was not just the power steering that had gone out. Oh, no. The engine had ALSO died. The lights and radio and fan were all merrily doing their thing, but it didn’t matter how desperately I pushed the gas pedal, hoping against hope to direct the car into a parking spot, it was just not advancing any further.

And as the rain pounded down all around me, I knew that I would have to shift the car into neutral, get out, and try to push it into a parking spot. I was immediately drenched the second I stepped out; lightning exploded around me with all the surprise of undesirable plumber ass peeking out of the top of a pair of pants–CRACK! It would have made for an excellently overdramatic movie scene: perhaps an overhead shot would have been appropriate, so you could truly witness all the rain pelting the ground as I fell to my knees and cried “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” whilst shaking my fist at the sky. I was able to push the car to the point where it was no longer directly blocking someone but after I struggled to turn the wheel and pushed to get it nearer a parking space, I couldn’t get the leverage I needed from the door frame and had to give up for the moment. I retreated into the bar, recruited someone’s help, and we were both soaked to the bone as we maneuvered the car into two parking spots. Hell, the car was dead and the nearby business was closed for the night, I wasn’t about to be overly picky about the push-and-shove parking job we just did.

We went back inside, Marija brought us towels to dry ourselves with and mugs of hot tea while I sent out the obligatory “oh hey, car is dead” text messages to the girls, asking if someone could drop by and pick me up on their way to Carolina Kitchen, and I’d just deal with the frigging car after dinner–it’s not like it was going anywhere, and if it did, it would take a pretty damn dedicated thief, and more power to them. Enjoy!

Emily came to pick me up, and the gentleman who’d helped me move my car had sneaked out at some point so I didn’t get a chance to thank him again for his assistance. Not to worry: my chance to pay it forward came more quickly than anticipated, when two miles down the road, there was a car with its flashers on stuck in the middle of an intersection, with a man getting in and out of it anxiously while traffic just drove around him. I know what you’re thinking, and no, this man did not steal my car. Emily exclaimed that she couldn’t believe no one was stopping to help him instead of just driving around him, and so I hopped out of the car, dashed across the intersection, and pushed his car while he steered it into a nearby gas station. Any drying off that I had done with towels in the bar was instantly negated.

When the waitress came by to get our drink order, I asked her for some water, or perhaps just an empty glass and I could wring my hair into it. Thus began one of the lesser-known stages of grieving: Wisecracking As A Means To Deal With Frustration To Keep From Outright Cursing A Blue Streak Or Perhaps Sobbing. I noted that it was ironic that the car that GM had kindly taken the time to send me a note informing me that one day it would explode into flames and was subsequently unsafe to park in or near buildings had instead died in a deluge of water. I noted my anger at losing the twenty bucks worth of gas that I had JUST PUMPED into it; thereby doubling or even trebling its value. I made a lot more jokes that my friends were kind enough to laugh at even if they weren’t particularly funny; I WAS ON FIRE.

Well, actually, I was freezing, seeing as how my clothes were soaked and I was sitting in an air-conditioned restaurant. In November, guys? Really?

We were there for over two and a half hours, talking and swapping stories and jokes; the waitress, as usual, found us to be both hilarious AND adorable, and sent me home with some of their amazingly delicious vinegar bbq sauce which I will hoard like Gollum since they’re shutting their doors permanently in a week or so.

After we got to Pegasus, I called Tristan, and he agreed to meet me and take a look at the car to see if he could suss out what was wrong. At night. In the pouring rain. This makes him a strong contender for The Best Person In The Universe Award. We spent a while hunched over the engine, he tapped things and attempted to wrench things and poked things while I held the flashlight and attempted to not be in the way if not directly helpful. After a while, he admitted to being stuck since it seemed like the engine SHOULD turn over, we were both soaked, and even my shoes had given up the battle, exclaiming “BITCH, we are WATER-RESISTANT, NOT WATERPROOF” so my socks had started to squish and my whole body had begun the pruning process, so we closed the hood and pushed it into a non-reserved spot to sit for the night and get a fresh look at it tomorrow.

I suppose I am extremely lucky in that if my car HAD to die somewhere 20+ miles from home, it was at my home away from home, a place where everyone knows my name and won’t tow me if I keep my car at the lot overnight, so I’m LESS screwed than if the car had pulled this act somewhere in downtown Seattle, or Cthulhu forbid, on the freeway. Also, I’m lucky in that now I live close enough to work to get there on foot AND I’m closer to public transportation, so if this car ends up needing more in repairs than it’s worth, I can hoof it until I figure out what I’m going to do. It will just be inconvenient and sucky in the meanwhile.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go roll in a pile of dessicant packets.