6 July
So yesterday I escaped into the city. The steamy hot dreadful nightmarish city. Doesn't sound like much of an escape once I put it that way, huh?
When I got into town, I walked up 42nd to Broadway and I was stopped by a guy with a mic and another with a camera.
"What are you doing to beat the heat?"
"I am ignoring the whole thing. I have decided that if I concentrate hard enough, it will be winter."
"It's a record-breaker today, it's hit 101º!"
"I'm not listening to you! I'm pretty certain that it will start snowing any minute now and I'll have to go home and get my parka!"
Then he asked me my name and where I was from and where I was going and stuff and then I went on my way, but a couple of blocks later I realized that I was too caught up in being clever and didn't ask where they were from!
It looked too rinky-dink to be from a network, it may have been NY1, the local 24 hour news station, but one that I don't get 'cause I'm barely over the state line. So if anyone reading this saw a girl with red hair and grey roots in a black Hawaiian shirt on TV nattering on about snow, let me know!
I walked to Modell's (gotta go to Mo's!) to get some new jeans, as my ass was hanging out of the rip in my old ones.
I tried on two pairs, one for $32.99 and one for $22.99. Guess which pair actually fit? Wrong, it was the cheaper pair!
They are a little darker than I like, they're a little 1977 Chemin de Fer for my taste, but they aren't dragging on the ground behind me for once because I finally figured out what an inseam measurement is!
And then I hippety-hopped on my merry way (or rather draggety-limped on my sweaty, if new-jeaned way) to see Tarzan at the loveliest, coolest movie theatre in all the land.
Swell movie! Loved everything about it, especially Lance Henriksen's as the father gorilla, a role he was born to play. I did almost laugh at the wrong bit once, though, when the mom gorilla takes Tarzan and shows him the house where she found him all those years ago, and I thought "If he says 'You mean I'm...I'm adopted?!' I'm gonna lose it!" but they didn't go there.
I also particularly liked Minnie Driver, who was not only excellent as Jane, but since she was a cartoon character, I didn't have to look at her giant head!
Saw Blues Clues for the first time yesterday.
I swear, all of these kids shows are so mesmerizing (remind me to talk about the Teletubbies sometime soon). The guy in the show, Steve, is cute as hell, though he also looks around twenty, so I feel like the biggest child molester watching him and drooling and talking to the TV.
"You will come and help me with this, won't you?"
"Sure, Steve, I'll go anywhere with you!"
Also on TV yesterday, they had a five minute piece on Al Sharpton getting a haircut. No really, I swear!
I don't know if it was a slow news day or if the noon news is always that useless and banal. Or maybe I tuned to the Dada News accidentally!
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Today's horoscope:
"Feast versus famine" swings (around food, alcohol, money, etc.) are likely. Allow yourself some human indulgences.
One year ago today:
I mean, just golden. The way I knew it could be.
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