Today's Top 10... (and a little extra)

1. If 2 birds land in your hand early, do you still get a worm in your bush if you only use the 1 stone?

2. What is with white people, September 1^st, and pumpkin-spiced anything?  It’s just like the walls come down on that day.

3. I’m compiling a group of Deletion Letters that I will be sending out in nicely wrapped boxes as Christmas presents this year.

4. “Art is art.  Short for artificial.  Good art, the art of art, is about being as real as you can under these artificial circumstances.” – Joni Mitchell

5. The common misconceptions that I am angry, regretful, guilty, fearful, worried, judging, competitive, or looking to place blame, usually come from …Scaredy Cats.

1. Haha, I called you Scaredy Cat.

6. Have you ever felt “compelled” (direct quote) to betray a friend?  I never have.

7. Distractions can be nice.  I spent the weekend at a wedding in Provincetown.  Most of yesterday was spent in a car with my best friend.  My evening, sitting in my room listening to the modern day equivalent of a mix-tape…in every sense of the word.  Remember the absolutely ridiculous times through which you still smile.

1. Also, if he makes mix tapes, he’s gotta be pretty cool, right? 

8. Each spring, since I was a senior in college, I have re-read “Valley of the Dolls”.

9. It is completely possible that Candy Crush causes hemorrhoids.

10. I do not like the word “partner”.

A Bonus #11…Because I felt like it.

11. Anyone who can give me a valid reason for liking your own Facebook status, please respond with said reasons in the comments section below…if you have time, as I would assume liking your own Facebook stati can be a rather cumbersome job.

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My Last "Last Tuesday" event is tomorrow night.  It's with the LEGENDARY Amber Martin.  We're trying to dedicate the evening to the women of the 80s and the men who made them drink.  Come see us at Duane Park at 8PM if you can.  It's free, y'all.  

The 80s got me remembering this ditty I did earlier this year with MCDB!!  Girl, where are you?  Should we try the 90s next?

Don't you wanna?

Don’t you wanna?

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            Not picked up and thrown across the room

           

                        Although, I know some of you little bitches are into that.

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            Somebody to grab you by the friendly parts

                        Instead of just grabbing you by the back of your head

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            Instead of just letting them place an ashtray in the small of your back

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            Because the subway alone can be an awful place to try to fit in.

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            Instead of being so angry all the time.

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            By the way he walks into, out of, and across the room.

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            By the way he cooks for you?

            Because dividing recipes in half was getting to be no fun.

                        And he understands that you just don’t like chocolate.

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

            By the light he brings into your world.

                       

                        Cuz it was getting awfully dark there for a second.

                                    & being a love-sick Queen didn’t even work for Cleopatra

Don’t you wanna be moved by somebody?

Don’t you wanna be moved?

Don’t you?

What’s the answer?

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In an effort to get through these next few months, things have got to be compiled from a variety of sources and kept like doggies in a row.  Is it doggies?  I thought it was ducks at one point?  

Organizing thoughts from different receipts, napkins (I still do that) and legal pads of paper (I also, still write, but only because my pen collection is rivalrous), is only arduous when I compare it to my recent attempts at [re]organizing my OkCupid and Match.com profiles.  

I realize I'm asking a series of questions.  

Do I move you?  

Do you move me?  What color are his eyes?

However do I want it?  Try to put his smell into words.

Don't you want to be moved by somebody?  

At a time of day when the horizon isn't important - maybe noon, I may also question these:  

Did she settle?  They must lie silently in bed.  

Did you see his smile when he said they were opening up their relationship to a third?  

There's no way he really wants that.

I found it was easier to study others instead of paying attention to myself.  And it's left me perplexed.  I'm not impressed by what I find.  The research.  The excavation.  The cream of the crop seems to be rapidly curdling.  

But it's sometimes comical for a fool like me to believe in faith.

Today's Top 10

1. I got to use my “first date” shirt last week. (I’ve still kept the tags on it, just in case)

1. It was also not used on a date.

2. Learning to say “No” can take years. 

3. Secretly, I spend hours in both the Strand Bookstore and the Barnes & Noble on East 86^th Street and Lexington Avenue.  The fact that I still can get completely lost in bookstores this close to their extinction reminds me that underneath it all, I must be human.

4. Is it still called a friend if you live in the same city, approximately 1 mile away from each other, haven’t seen each other in over a year, and only communicate via the internet…on birthdays?

1. I’m all about the lowercase “b” in “birth”

2. I have a friend who deletes the abovementioned from his social media circle on the person’s birthday.  (If I haven’t spoken to you all year, then why am I electronically keeping you around?)

5. My neighbor puts out.

6. After a summer of trying to be better about attending everyone’s everything, I’m so happy to return to regularly scheduled non-attendance this Fall. 

7. I absolutely adore Cape Cod in September.

8. Sing with friends.  Sing with old friends.  I did this weekend, and I’m still smiling about it. 

9. Children and I are intrigued by each other.

10. People who consistently let you down with their lack of involvement in your life are often called flakes.  Like snowflakes, no two people will ever let you down the same way.  Flakes melt.

Today's Top 10

1.  I’ve never seen any of the Harry Potter movies.

2. Who are the black gay power couples?  Or do I have to wait on that one?

3. I have a fan in my room that has just been on since June 12^th of this year.  Is that wrong?

4. Gloria Loring’s son steals songs.

5. If you believe that my Facebook status is about you and depicts you in a negative light…  Actually, I have nothing else to say about that one.  But you’ve got some serious time on your hands.

6. I want to live by the beach.  Near?  No, on.

7. I always thought they stayed together because he didn’t have to worry about paying the rent every month.  Consummate and trained (albeit lazy) bottoms have such an easier life.

8. Since the Fall of 1998, I have been compiling a list entitled “Not At My Wedding”, which I still use to this day.  It is kept in a Wonder Woman journal.

9. It is perfectly acceptable to me that I have never seen “Grease 2”.

10. It annoys me to no end to watch someone put a drink next to a coaster.