"There is a moment in each day that Satan can not touch" - William Blake

6:42:38 PM    sro home /

Me & Peggy,12/2002

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

- W.H. Auden


4:16:47 PM    sro home /

I'd like to propose a toast.

Here's to the ladies who lunch--
Everybody laugh.
Lounging in their caftans and planning a brunch
On their own behalf.
Off to the gym,
Then to a fitting,
Claiming they're fat.
And looking grim
'Cause they've been sitting
Choosing a hat--
Does anyone still wear a hat?
I'll drink to that.

Here's to the girls who stay smart--
Aren't they a gas?
Rushing to their classes in optical art,
Wishing it would pass.
Another long exhausting day,
Another thousand dollars,
A matinee, a Pinter play,
Perhaps a piece of Mahler's--
I'll drink to that,
And one for Mahler.

Here's to the girls who play wife--
Aren't they too much?
Keeping house but clutching a copy of Life
Just to keep in touch.
The ones who follow the rules
And meet themselves at the schools,
Too busy to know that they're fools--
Aren't they a gem?
I'll drink to them.
Let's all drink to them.

And here's to the girls who just watch--
Aren't they the best?
When they get depressed, it's a bottle of Scotch
Plus a little jest.
Another chance to disapprove,
Another brilliant zinger,
Another reason not to move,
Another vodka stinger--
Aaahh--I'll drink to that.

So here's to the girls on the go--
Everybody tries.
Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know:
Everybody dies.
A toast to that invincible bunch---
The dinosaurs surviving the crunch--
Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch--
Everybody rise! Rise!
Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise! Rise!

- Stephen Sondheim
from the musical, "Company"

3:27:27 PM    sro home /

So last night I had Saturday Night Live on TV while I was playing around with some graphic stuff on my computor and exchanging e-mails with Tenorman ( Side Note - The title graphic I made for him is, to toot my own horn, extremely handsome I think. I tried for something musical-ish since he's a singer) and suddenly they had a little skit about Joe Millionaire. "Twenty women think they're meeting... blah, blah ,blah. Wait until they find out he's gay! Joe Heterosexual!" HEY, wait a minute! This is exactly what I wrote here on SRO on December 15th!!! They even did one where "Joe Millionaire" was a woman, just like I did! Coincidence? Hmm.

Well! Sounds like someone from Saturday Night Live has stumbled across SRO. (Hey Tina Fey! Love the glasses!) If you guys want material, there's alot more clever stuff than that here. I wrote the JM thing in about ten minutes while packing to leave the next day to go to Florida. C'mon guys, what about the Jehovah's Witness conversation? Much funnier in my opinion.

The musical guest was Avril Lavirgne who I'd neither seen nor heard sing before though she's getting lots of buzz for all her award nominations. She's apparently also notorious for mispronouncing David Bowie's last name at a Nomination Press Conference ( I think she called him David "Bow"-ie, like what a dog does). Nice voice. Very Sunday-ish, Tori Amos-ish, Grrl Singer-ish. She has opted, obviously, to abstain from the Christina Aguilara Whore look and reminded me of a Teenage Babysitter. On her arm, however, was about forty of those black rubber bracelets which first hit the scene in the late 80s. Can you still buy those? I guess so and I realized to her, this was some kind of "retro" look. Man, did I feel about ten thousand years old at that point. I owned some of those bracelets back then too although I didn't do the African Neck Band Look she seems to be shooting for where you wear about a thousand all the way up your arm. I just wore two or three. Even now I have a thin leather bracelet my sister gave me several years ago which looks similar. I wear it with another thicker leather bracelet and I never take either of them off.

The 80's. Ew. I was there and I thought fashion sucked for the most part. 80's fashion to me meant the Birth of Grunge and how quickly did that just erode into "Looking Messy"? When I start seeing 80's furniture, I'm really going to think about buying blinders.
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