Yep, another scary-accurate one. Man, the guy who writes these must be psychic, eh?
Your Stripper Song Is |
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Closer by Nine Inch Nails “You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you Help me I broke apart my insides, help me I’ve got no Soul to tell” When you dance, it’s a little scary – and a lot sexy. |
What Song Should You Strip To?
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Now, I could be wrong but I don’t believe I’ve explained how I came to be in possession of an Indonesian vampire carved out of human bone.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one…
So, I was touring the hidden souvenir shop with the CIA agent, and I found a wee statue of an Indonesian vampire, and lo, those are not something that are common, even among Indonesiacs, and so I not unnaturally was curious, all the old Gothisms rising up in me and saying quite clearly “Edgar Alan Poe would be so totally jealous of you if you owned this” and I flipped it over and there was the price, 1500, or about three bucks. And I said to the enormous nun, “what kind of bone is this,” a not unnatural question, given that it was in fact carven of bone rather than casten of concrete or such, and lo did she answer, quite offhandedly, too, “Oh, I think it’s human” which really went well with her whole “the archbishop went to visit the headhunters. Oh, they’re so well mannered. They’d never do it IN FRONT OF HIM…” etc. This was the Stainless Steel Nun.
And it is a fact universally acknowledged that an old Goth in possession of three bucks must be in want of a carven representative of the spirit of a vengeful, unquenchable female spirit.
So that’s the story.
Although I feel more like a slug. Two Happy Birthday Martinis (okay, they were doubles, but still, Bombay Sapphire! None of this cheap stuff!) bought for me by Metro and Lori at a lovely pub on the lake, and two beers at the house, added to my increasingly elderly system (and by “increasingly elderly” I mean when I packed for this trip my supplements took up more space than my underwear; i b old, yo) meant that, while I unquestionably enjoyed my birthday, it essentially ended at nine pm, when I conked out.
I guess that’s what was behind my urge to get all Birthdaylicious for weeks in advance: the vague foreknowledge that I’d spend much of my actual birthday unconscious; so overall, there was conservation of Birthday Merriment, in accordance with the universal balancing forces.
That makes total sense.
For those of you with a mind for trivia, I am:
111.2 in Farenheit
317 in Kelvin
235 in human years
5.8 in dog years
Not that I am doglike in any sense of the word; no indeedy, unless you’re dyslexic.
yeah, I know: blog filler. But it was my birthday yesterday and I’m hungover so this generation’s version of Paradise Lost as a blog post is just gonna hafta wait, so deal.
Your Birthdate: July 10 |
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Your weakness: Caring too much what others think Your power color: Orange-red Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October |
What: The Shebeen Club: Work/Life Balance for Cultural Creatives
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: learn to balance your work and your life as a literary professional
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy at gmail dot com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation and dinner
When you love what you do, how do you know when to stop doing it? When you’re the one who sets your work/life boundaries, how do you incorporate and benefit from structure, and should you in the first place? Author, media personality, and life coach Alanna Fero will discuss achieving a prolific and rewarding work/life balance for those in the literary arts.
Your admission includes a dinner of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, one glass of pop, wine or beer, and all the literary bon mots you can handle.
Bio: Alanna Fero M.A., L.S.C., is the author of Love Made Visible: Values-Driven Approaches to Work/Life, coming out August 15th. She’s a regular media commentator and former radio host, career/life path and employee engagement expert, and keynote speaker. She is passionate about helping people to do good in the world and do well for themselves at the same time.
7-7:30: meet and mingle
7:30-8: listen and learn
8-whenever: Aussie Rules match: free verse poets vs obsessive proofreaders
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