Friday, October 27, 2006 You gotta wait for the full contact musical chairs!
And have some shooters first, or some cheap beer. Spin the wheel a time or two. See if your costume measures up against the costumes of others. See girls on skates! (Hey, that's new.)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Come to the Bruisers' Ball
Tonight at the Ottobar
Doors at 9:00, $13 at the door ($10 in advance from a rollergirl, but mine are all spoken for.) posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/27/2006 11:15:00 AM
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Monday, October 23, 2006 I have a blog! Wild! I think I post on the Charm City Roller Girls blog (www.charmcityrollergirls.com/blog) way more than I do this one, but derby generates more news than my life does. Check that blog out: it's informative and moving.
Public transit story: Today I took the train like I always do, and as always, I stood by the doors rather than sitting. I do it for the balance practice, and because if I sit down in the mornings, I space out so much that I end up riding too far. People probably think I'm a real snob, but I die a thousand deaths every day, and so I've gotten used to the guilt and shame that this thought brings me.
Anyway, I was thinking about something, probably derby-related, because my little gerbil brain is usually (let's be real) not parsing any particularly deep concepts. It's usually like, "But what if we can't get the poster art in time???" or "Should we switch to 4" tape???"
The train stopped, and I got off, and I started climbing the stairs. I was all the way up to the first landing when I noticed that two staircases going in different directions met at the platform there. "That's so crazy!" I thought, with the exclamation point and everything. "! How the hell have I never noticed this weird staircase design in the past? How often do I come through this station?"
Slowly, the thought floated through my head, "Rarely." I looked around, and this time, I'd left the train a stop too early. Nothing tipped me off. Not the announcement over the train's speakers. Not the signs with the station name clearly posted, and not the gray concrete walls versus the beautiful green and scaly walls of my own dear stop.
I need a damn nanny. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/23/2006 04:17:00 PM
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Friday, October 20, 2006 The cops are coming to my house to arrest a purse I found in the alley a few days ago. They plan on fingerprinting it. Lots of luck to them, but I found it after a day of heavy rain, and it was pretty soaked. I found a bunch of papers and address books a few feet away from it, and last night some of those were dry enough to handle.
Jane found a printed-out e-mail, and I sent a message to both the "to" and the "from." "From" wrote back and told me it was her mother's, and that (as I suspected) her mother had been mugged. I guess someone in there called the cops, which I guess is smart, but it didn't even really occur to me as something that would help. Also, getting a voicemail from the police saying, "About that purse you found...I'd like to talk to you about it." sent pictures of me being arrested for stealing this lady's purse through my head, even though I know that I am not in a demographic that has to worry too much about wrongful arrest.
And, speak of the cops! They just came. They were very nice. They said the purse was taken just across the major road from my neighborhood, and my own sleuthing had already revealed that it was somebody's mom's. Ay yi yi. At least she's getting it back eventually. No girl detective came and turned in my purse anywhere when I got mugged last year, and I would've liked to get it back.
Right now, that purse is sweating under the hot lights, learning the error of its ways.
Now that the cops have come and gone, and that purse is finally off the streets, it is time to go shopping for the missing elements of my Bruisers' Ball (Friday, October 27, at the Ottobar. Tickets $13 at the door, $10 in advance from me) costume. I'm going as Sexy Davey Crockett. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/20/2006 10:48:00 AM
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Hi, hi!
Maybe some people think it's cool to have daily content, but not me. Keep 'em guessing. That's my motto. It suits me better than "Be Prepared" or other mottoes I've had foisted upon me in the past ever did.
Be unprepared! Life is very exciting that way! Ignore bills! Don't balance your checkbook! Wahoo! It's like you're riding a mechanical bull, every minute of every day.
That's what I've been up to lately. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/18/2006 03:12:00 PM
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 Seems so long ago
The random photo under the letters section of this week's City Paper is from the Gossip show at the Ottobar the night of the Championship Bout, which was to determine the season champions, which were the Night Terrors, which is the team that I am on. In case I hadn't said.
In the second row back starting on the left, you can see Nasty Trick of the Night Terrors, Betsy Battleaxe of the Junkyard Dolls (now of the Violent Femmes [evidently they asked the band if this was OK, and the band said yes] of the North Star Roller Girls in far-off Minneapolis), me, and to the right of the guy with the big head, Ivanna E. Chabrains of the Mobtown Mods.
By the time that picture was taken, I'd already skated in the bout, gotten hugged and photographed, spent a good couple hours at the official afterparty at the Hubcap Inn, trying to drink shots from a personal-size trophy (difficult, given the leaking problem, but not impossible), and made it back into town. My eyes are closed in the photo because I am asleep on my feet. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/04/2006 04:58:00 PM
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Free ride
Oh-ho, MTA. I got a free ride on the metro subway today, because the money-taking machine said out of service, and there was no one in the booth. Consider this my little xtreme in-your-face act of rebellion for the way you've "fixed" the change machines at my stop by pasting stickers that say, "EXACT CHANGE ONLY" over the bill openings. Yes, I get it, fuck me. Very clever. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/03/2006 11:40:00 PM
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Sunday, October 01, 2006 This is just to say
Today at the farmer's market, I saw a man pushing an enclosed cart full of tiny dogs. I also got Thai food.
Later, I was at a supermarket, and I heard the cashier yell over to a lady in another lane, "Hey, Mary. How's your son?"
"Who, Chris?"
"Yeah."
"He's fine."
"Didn't he get beat up?"
"Oh, yeah. He was drunk."
Who knows what else the day will bring? posted by Frenzy Lohan | 10/01/2006 03:13:00 PM
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