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It's hard to believe I only have one more week at the Walker, one more class meeting, and one more paper. I can't wait to be done. The countdown has begun....
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Key to Happiness
No Need to Be Lonely
Technically, not mine until Saturday. But isn't she adorable? I haven't picked out a name for her yet, I figure I should meet her first. I'm thinking that I might like to name her after a character in a Bob Dylan song, like I did with Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man.) Her tech specs: Female, Cornish Rex, granite blue.
Hopefully Mr. Jones won't eat her.
]]>Oooh, Devotchka was GOOD. I haven't felt this smitten since I broke off my imaginary engagement to Dick. Maybe I should marry Nick Urata instead? He wears frilly tuxedo shirts and plays the theremin. I could build an imaginary life around that.
But seriously, it was an excellent show. They even had aerialists swinging from the light rigging. Spring came late this year, but now that I've remembered how much fun it is to leave the house, I'm going to need to find something else to do soon.
This?
Music by Tyler Spencer & Zach Shipps of Electric Six
Directed by Tom Kuntz (of Danger! High Voltage fame)
http://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteGoldISWhiteGold
http://www.whitegoldiswhitegold.com
http://www.myspace.com/WhiteGoldIsWhiteGold
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Personally, I think songs about robots are the greatest things to happen to music since the theremin was invented. But, since I technically am more obsessed with the idea of robots than actual robots (except for Clocky, my robotic alarm clock), I shouldn’t complain too loudly that someone might suggest my idea is better in theory.
If my "work" with robots continues to be "published," I think I may start second-guessing my career path.
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March 18, 2008
This woman behind Jon was my favorite part of the show. She was soooooo excited. I believe Jon had just touched her. Right after, he bent over to shake hand with some fans and everyone behind him started taking photos of his butt. I wonder if those seats were more expensive?
Kathy and I got some cheap but decent tickets from the last scalper on the scene. Though I do not really like Bon Jovi, I must say that the show was so cheese ball, that I laughed more than I have in a long time, and that alone was worth the price of the ticket.
The cheesiest part of the show was probably when Jon took us back in time (by counting back to 1984 from 2008) so we could witness history (Runaway on the radio) being made. He didn't just count though, he screamed and gesticulated back to 1984 not unlike Kermit the Frog at the beginning of the Muppet Show.
Other interesting observations:
* Neither Jon Bon Jovi nor Richie Sambora have armpit hair. I have hypothesized that they wax because gray body hair is not very rock and roll.
* Jon knows exactly where the cameras are at all times.
* Jon dances like the love child of Neil Diamond and Jane Fonda. (He would during the show, admit "They don't pay me to dance."
* "Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Blaze of Glory" are two different songs.
* Richie Sambora can sing (I use this instead of the should have been obvious, Richie Sambora is in Bon Jovi.)
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So for posterity, I give you.... The first photo I added to the College of St. Catherine's Digital Collections:
Our Lady of Victory Chapel, Sodality Meeting, 1937
I also got a good chuckle out of my supervisor today when I pointed at a small speck of black next to a pine tree in a photo and asked her, "Is this a Sister, or a tree? I think it's a Sister, but I don't want to embarrass myself." (It was a Sister.)
]]>4. Library-sex will make a comeback.
Combine America’s declining interest in knowledge, free admission, and sultry, stuffy sex-maniac librarians, and suddenly you have an accessible, sparsely populated impromptu orgy club. The public library, with its many dim corners and unlocked “reading rooms,” is a recession-era Plato’s Retreat. Take it from a former librarian: the microfiche room is far from obsolete when reappropriated in the right fashion.
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