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Weekend Update, So Far
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skreeky) and Jon's house so they could distract me from my misery, which was really very sweet. We ordered chinese take-out and watched some television, starting out with the Sox game, then to part of a Margaret Cho DVD, and then to Sweeney Todd (the demon barber of Fleet Street), which is apparently Jon's favorite musical ever. And he sang a lot, which was really cute. And they didn't even make fun of me when I fell asleep on the couch. (Television always puts me to sleep.)
This afternoon we ventured out in the rain to catch the Pride parade. We couldn't really see very well because it was a veritable sea of umbrellas out there. The weather was horrible, cold and raw and rainy, and people didn't seem to be in much of a festive mood, myself included. The thing that sucks about Pride in Boston - at least the parade - is that it's so un-fun. There are usually like 5 floats with music and dancing, and hardly any gyrating boys or anything. It's all churches and politicians and businesses. Instead of queer people showing off their pride of being queer, it's a bunch of business-y folks trying to get proud people's money and votes.
I guess that's what happens when you live somewhere where there is less of a social struggle, where the gay dollar is ridiculously powerful in terms of gentrification/revitalization, and where all of the politicians are somewhere left of center. I prefer Pride in Columbus which is like a big, fun, freak festival. Bring back the rampant humping on the streets!
We did run into Joanna Corndog, which was fun. Because I like her, and we always say we are going to hang out and we never do. Oops.
Then we schlepped up to Kendall in the rain to do Movie Club with my work people. The movie was Clean and we had dinner at Bamboo in Brighton afterwards. There was no movie discussion, though, because no one really liked the movie. It really was not good at all. I thought the lead actress was very good, acting-wise, but I wasn't into the story... and a lot of the other actors were terrible. Ugh.
Time to clean the cat boxes and then go to bed. I wish we'd remembered to get milk today. It's been several days since I could have yummy cereal.
skreeky) and Jon's house so they could distract me from my misery, which was really very sweet. We ordered chinese take-out and watched some television, starting out with the Sox game, then to part of a Margaret Cho DVD, and then to Sweeney Todd (the demon barber of Fleet Street), which is apparently Jon's favorite musical ever. And he sang a lot, which was really cute. And they didn't even make fun of me when I fell asleep on the couch. (Television always puts me to sleep.)This afternoon we ventured out in the rain to catch the Pride parade. We couldn't really see very well because it was a veritable sea of umbrellas out there. The weather was horrible, cold and raw and rainy, and people didn't seem to be in much of a festive mood, myself included. The thing that sucks about Pride in Boston - at least the parade - is that it's so un-fun. There are usually like 5 floats with music and dancing, and hardly any gyrating boys or anything. It's all churches and politicians and businesses. Instead of queer people showing off their pride of being queer, it's a bunch of business-y folks trying to get proud people's money and votes.
I guess that's what happens when you live somewhere where there is less of a social struggle, where the gay dollar is ridiculously powerful in terms of gentrification/revitalization, and where all of the politicians are somewhere left of center. I prefer Pride in Columbus which is like a big, fun, freak festival. Bring back the rampant humping on the streets!
We did run into Joanna Corndog, which was fun. Because I like her, and we always say we are going to hang out and we never do. Oops.
Then we schlepped up to Kendall in the rain to do Movie Club with my work people. The movie was Clean and we had dinner at Bamboo in Brighton afterwards. There was no movie discussion, though, because no one really liked the movie. It really was not good at all. I thought the lead actress was very good, acting-wise, but I wasn't into the story... and a lot of the other actors were terrible. Ugh.
Time to clean the cat boxes and then go to bed. I wish we'd remembered to get milk today. It's been several days since I could have yummy cereal.
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But mostly churches and banks pretending they love the queer dollar.
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Still, Columbus always had a good number of floats, and floats = fun as far as I'm concerned. Columbus Pride gets groups from all over Ohio and there's usually a general air of fun. Maybe I missed that fun-ness this year because of the rain? Or maybe because I don't go to the block parties or bars here. (I really wanted to go to one of the parties, but sadly, Jen did not.) I don't know.
I know that part of the problem is that I knew TONS of people in Columbus who would be there, so it was an endless stream of catching up. Here I'm in a sea of like 400,000 people and I'm lucky if I recognize somebody. This year I ran into a friend... it was amazing, the luck!
Aah, forget it, I'm just wistful for you guys. You can spend my queer dollar any old time.
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I think you could be right about shifting times. The Pride I went to was the first one I had ever attended, so I really had nothing to compare it to. I just thought it would be a lot more celebratory and, I dunno, glam! than it actually was. I could really only remember about 3 fun floats, as opposed to the "BUDWEISER LOVES GHEYS" floats.
But baybah, I'll definitely spend your queer dollar. *winky*
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Oh baby, I'll spend my queer dollars any old time... way back since our very first date when I took you to Cap City! :)
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xoxo