We met over cookies and milk. You showed me your journal. Pink converse. Obscene cartoons. I showed you my party dress. Laughed. Bought you a beer. I didn’t want to invade the circuit of creativity between you and your cohort. I could have talked to you all night. I should have put my number in your journal, which you mentioned I will likely be in (and which you should publish, damn it!) when do I get to see it?
When: Friday, July 30, 2004
Where: The Black Cat
I saw a: Man
I am a: Woman
Date posted: Saturday, July 31, 2004
erica norman mailer [ url ] said at 11:55 AM 08-13-2004: i think kara and i both said to ben "oh god please don't make out with this girl" and ben was like "oh man, don't worry i won't."
erica norman mailer [ url ] said at 12:14 PM 08-13-2004: the thing is, i was just as lit as ben was this night, and i don't remember what she looked like at all. other than the party dress and fishnets. the ladies i was with were not into her wardrobe at ALL.
for all i know i flew home on a magic carpet that night.
ed [email] said at 2:56 PM 08-14-2004: Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl.
And with the way you look I understand
that you are not impressed.
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
take off your party dress.
Bendependent [email] said at 9:16 AM 08-13-2004: oh man. it made it here. i knew someone would post this.
yeah. i don't remember much of that night other than the fabulously horrible drawings me and erica were doing.
i did respond to it. i kinda had to. plus it was free for me to respond...
i think i'm gonna hang out with her sometime next week. i honestly don't remember what she looked like.
i redesigned that there matches page by the way. it's still got some issues, but it's way less janky then it was before. i didn't even have to do it. some company made those pages and i just sent them a mockup of what i wanted them to change it to.
you may notice a very familiar shade of blue. tee hee hee.
i'm such a sellout. it IS the best shade of blue ever tho...
p.s. i'm trying to stop using the word "ghetto" and instead bring back the old favorite "janky" as a replacement. my friend munish and i decided this a few weeks ago. janky's making a comeback cos ghetto is really getting kinda janky.
jess meller said at 3:34 PM 08-13-2004: WORST party dress, like she was dressed up for halloween but in july. i disapprove, next level gross for serious.
amanda [email] said at 2:19 PM 08-14-2004: That describes most of my dresses up until I moved to D.C. and could no longer bear the gawking from the stuck-up hipsters who claimed to be all "DIY/punk rock" but bought all of their drab faux vintage clothing from Urban Outfitters/The Gap/etc. The D.C. scene exhibits the most collectively boring sense of style I've witnessed, for a scene with its size and history. This girl was probably just trying to have some fashion fun in a sea of tiresome drear.
julie [email] said at 3:29 PM 08-14-2004: I am officially tired of all the DC-scene bashing. For the record. All of you haters have obviously been hanging out at the wrong places, with the wrong people. I wish I had a picture of every time my friends and I went out in crazy outfits and/or wigs, and NO, we didn't get snubbed by these imaginary "stuck-up hipsters" who seem to exist only in killoggs posts. Seriously, people. This anti-DC stuff is getting old.
amanda [email] said at 4:05 PM 08-14-2004: Whoa, tiger! I didn't mean to imply that I hate the D.C. scene altogether. It certainly has some worthy attributes that I appreciate. It was just my personal observation while I lived there that it seemed very shy or timid or SOMETHING along those lines. Strangers were not friendly or outgoing toward me until I started to meet scenesters-by-D.C.-birthright through work, etc. Then, I was apparently worthy of their conversation/attention. Their clothing seemed to reflect that, in my mind.
I had oodles of fun in D.C., but I also had some experiences that soured my impressions. Coming from a place where we went out of our way to make everyone feel included in the scene, it was a bit of a shock to move somewhere where everyone was so goddamn quiet and reserved. I'm still a completely different person when I visit D.C. than I am anywhere else I've ever been. The atmosphere causes me to tighten the reins, so to speak. I love the friends I made while I lived there, but I'm glad that I don't live there anymore.
Again, that is just my opinion as a humble outsider who never picked up on the D.C.-pride thing. D.C. reminds me too much of Milwaukee, and I have always loathed Milwaukee.
amanda [email] said at 5:55 PM 08-14-2004: I was mostly concerned about the the misuse of Mr. Trebek. I caught the "an" thing as well, though I didn't mention it.
I forgot that you only buy vowels. I haven't watch "Wheel" in years. I'm much more of a trivia girl.
julie [email] said at 3:53 PM 08-14-2004: (Amanda, I don't mean to direct this at you personally. I think both of us were looking pretty cute at the Dirtfarm party, but maybe that doesn't count as DC. I just wish I had known you when you lived here; I would've gone out in dresses with you.)
zack [email] said at 11:29 PM 08-14-2004: i actually noticed this but said it really mean. I think it has more to do with "scene" stuff than DC in particular.
ed [email] said at 5:54 PM 08-14-2004: I think that it is a moral imperative that every Killoggian click on the "email me" button and regale Jenn with our collective wit.
