May 14, 2012

Saturday night was spent reliving my 1990's hip hop loves with the Salt N Pepa show at the Belmont. The crowd was about 98% women. The opening act was a lesbian hip hop duo called God-Des & She. You might know them from such hits as "Lick it" which is about "eating pussy" (their words, not mine). I bet at least 1/4 of the women were lesbian. Salt N Pepa were getting down with their two handsome fly boys. They were also handing out jewels of advice such as "wrap it up" which was given just before they sang "Let's Talk About Sex" and life is too short to not forgive your good friends and family. My favorite quote from the night came from Pepa as she was hating on Salt for gushing about being happily married, "I ain't married, but I got a baby daddy." Which caused the crowd to go wild. Perhaps they too have a baby daddy? Pepa also created a desire in my life for sequence shorts.

I am house sitting till the end of May for my friends Mary and Jeff. They have three dogs, one of which is named Sweetpea, but she is quite the opposite. I am on day four of house sitting and she just finally came out of her crate while I was at home.

This past week the good people at Annie Street Arts Collective received some bad news followed by a bit of good news. The bad news is, Tennessee Jed (mostly known as TJ), Lindsey's dog has cancer in his leg. The good news is, the cancer is contained, and he will live a happy life once the leg is amputated. In Lindsey's words "This is the good news. The less good news is that next week they are going to have to amputate his left rear leg at the hip. Probably not going to be very fun. More fun than dying a slow painful death from cancer though I'm sure."

May 01, 2012

Warm weather (and a desire to continue fitting in my clothing) has brought on the salad cravings. In my searches for a salad dressing that was not made with oil, I created the following amazing avocado-lime dressing. Why no oil you ask? Well, I just want to eat as little process foods as possible. I already cook with oil, so why not try to avoid it in other areas. Plus, avocados are delicious. Manna from the Gods some might say. Add a little salt to that avo and Bob's your uncle.

Recently, a friend of mine helped the lead singer of The Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne, collect samples for the special release of his new collaborative album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. When I say samples, I mean blood samples (from famous people like Sean Lennon!). No, that was not a typo. Read more about it in this Pitchfork article. Pretty weird, and I draw blood for a living. But the best part of this story is that this friend was texting with Wayne about various details of the travels to collect the blood, and instead of answering a question, Wayne sent my friend a photo of a cat! Why am I so excited about this? Well, I am a huge fan of sending cat photos and getting them, so I am pretty sure we would be best friends. Also, I wish I could dodge questions in real life conversations with cat photos. "So Mary, how is the job search going?" < insert cat photo here >