Yesterday's news

Gods I hope that somewhere up there, Farrah just bitchslapped MJ for stealing her newsday!

I confess, I stopped thinking of Michael Jackson (and pretty much his whole screwed-up family) as an actual person long ago. I remember the Jackson 5, and even the Saturday morning cartoons! And I was in High School and College in the glory days of MTV. I remember watching the "special premiere" extended Thriller video and how groundbreaking it was at the time. I appreciated the work he did with LiveAid and he made a lot of great music.

But I have to admit that at a certain point I really wished he'd just go away. By the 90s it seemed that every story was creepier, more mesed up, and more disturbing than the last one. Whatever prompted it - the usual issues of an aging child star, early abuse, the fact that fame and money allowed him to utterly retreat from the real world for so long - the truth is that he was a really messed-up guy. When he went to Dubai during that last round of legal troubles, I remember thinking "great - maybe we won't have to hear about him for a good long while".

All the OMG WE LOVED HIMMM!!! tribute stories on the news are really getting to me. True, he did some great things but also some profoundly disturbing ones. I hope he's at pease now because he sure as hell wasn't while he was here.

Oh My

( A rather impressive cakewreck yesterday )

It's been a hell of a week

COMB has taken it into his tiny little bald head that we need to reorganize the files. We apparently have to do this now because we are likely moving our office (to elsewhere in the same building) in September or so.

However, the upshot is that this project that I have been spending much of the past 7 months has to be utterly undone and redone. All the files I have purged and relabeled? Have to come back up and be put into drawers.

This triples my workload AND implies that I've done everything wrong. I've been hurt and angry about this all week. But apparently the input of the person who actually USES the files is irrelevant.

So I"ve been hibernating.

I wuz a surprise!

I met telaryn and laughingimp for dinner tonight. He orchestrated. telaryn and I were in college together, went to our first con together, worked/played on the A&O Film Board and in general got into a lot of creative trouble for a time. I think I've only seen her maybe once since she moved back South, so it was great to catch up in person. Hopefully we didn't bore laughingimp too badly talking about people he didn't know, and adding another dimension to people he thought he DID know.

I was very brave - we went for Ethiopian food. This seems to consist of a large sour pancake with blops of various colored and tasty goo scattered on it. You have extra sour-pancake that you tear into bits and use to eat the various goos. They were merciful on me and ordered not-spicy things.

Tomorrow is errands-day. Gas company is coming veryearly to install a remote-meter-reading-thingie in the building, then I'm picking up a $30 Craigslist TV for the studio, and then some misc need-a-car-for errands.

Sunday I'm marching in the Pride Parade with I-go, for people-watching and 4 hours of driving credit. I've always wanted to go, but I hate crowds, especially in summer. At only 5'3" I can never see anything in a crowd anyway, and I generally get to spend a lot of time in people's armpits. Now where is that "honorary lesbian" badge....