ok, so it’s not quite midnight…. yet.

Ah. Juliette Lewis is in it. I try to avoid her. I think someone or something did very bad things to her and she is not right and it makes me very nervous to be around her… and that is just from the TV. I’d probably run away if I met her in person.

Silly me….

I’m sure that they will be inundated with calls both pro- and con- prom cancellation.

The thing I kept thinking as I listened was this: every school has queer students. The message this district/school is sending to students is so, so troubling.

/political EssBee

Enjoy a little Irish for me, y’all! Be safe.

Probably my biggest complaint is something I’ve been encountering more and more in books, audio or print. It should be a basic rule: Do NOT use the “but this isn’t the movies” phrase or any vaguely similar derivation thereof. I read a book that used that at least five times in two consecutive chapters. Nocturnal may have used it a dozen times. It does NOT raise the tension. If anything, it pulls your reader or listener out of the story, since it IS a story, not real events. Furthermore, it seems to become a crutch, as evidenced by the repeated use within a short span.

That is all.

This is my theme song, of late.

That’s just my cowgirl alter-ego
Riding on her bar room bull
Dripping with the sweat of irony
As the cowboys whoop and drool
Shooting glances at the mirror
To see if her scar is showing
She is truly going nowhere tonight

Lecherous old lady wanna-be
Much too young and shy
Flailing her whole life
Just thinking she can teach herself to fly
Vehement romantic
Frantic for forever right now
But forever’s going nowhere tonight

Sick of goading her self-loathing
She thinks, I think I’d better leave
‘Course whiskey makes me smarter
And I’m happy as can be
But please excuse me darlin
It’s not you
It’s me

And there’s a dusty old dust storm on mars, they say
So tonight you can’t see it too clear
Still I stood in line to look through their telescope
Looked like a distant ship light
As seen from a foggy pier
And I know that I was warned
Still it was not what I hoped
Yes I know that I was warned
Still it was not what I hoped

I think I’m done gunnin to get closer
To some imagined bliss
I gotta knuckle down
And just be ok with this
I’m gonna knuckle down
Just be ok with this
‘Course that star struck girl is already someone I miss

I swear some stuff you just see better from further away
And I think I communicate best now, the less I say
And I can’t dance if the band can’t play
And the vibe is going nowhere tonight

‘Cuz somewhere between Hollywood and its pretty happiness
And an anguish so infinite it’s anybody’s guess
Is a place where people are all teachers
And this just one long class
And that ass will get you nowhere tonight

There’s a dusty old dust storm on mars they say
So tonight you can’t see it too clear
Still I stood in line to look through their telescope
Looked like a distant ship light
As seen from a foggy pier
And I know that I was warned
Still it was not what I hoped
Yeah I know that I was warned
Still it was not what I hoped

I think I’m done gunnin to get closer
To some imagined bliss
I gotta knuckle down
Just be ok with this
Gotta knuckle down
Just be ok with this

‘Course that star struck girl
Is already someone I miss

ZP sticks the boot into Heavy Rain:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1528-Heavy-Rain

RE: My funny nickname for Leo:

Linguini di Crappio