Lateshoes

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She Took All The Money – Black Francis

I Don’t Mind if You Forget Me – Morrissey

Stay The Fuck Away From Me – Lightspeed Champion

The Saddest Story Ever Told – The Magnetic Fields

Seasick On Land – Rogue Wave

I Just Wanna Puke On The Stereo – The Frumpies

Don’t Worry About the Government – Talking Heads

A Worrying Thing – Yo La Tengo

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Introvert – Broken Spindles

Never Had Nobody Like You – M. Ward

Something’s Going to Happen in the Winter – Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Harvester of Hearts – Rufus Wainwright

Everyday – Vetiver

This Is How We Kiss – Throw Me the Statue

You’re The One For Me, Fatty – Morrissey

Go West – Liz Phair

Recommendation – Mirah

Call Me – Nancy Sinatra

Baby I Could Be So Good at Loving You – John Travolta

Don’t Be Shy – Cat Stevens

Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow – Mitch & Mickey

Food, Eating, The Theatre – Trumpy

The Man That Got Away – Rufus Wainwright (live at Carnegie Hall)

Only You – Yazoo

I realize I talk a lot about tv, but I’m watching this show online, so it’s almost like it’s not tv…er something. Anyway – Rupaul’s Drag Race is the best thing NOT currently playing on my television. Luckily, the LOGO network has been kind enough to let us watch full episodes online. 

The premise of the show is this: Rupaul = Tyra Banks. And I mean that literally – he actually does the meanest Tyra Banks impersonation I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant and I’ve already called the Dish Network about providing me with the LOGO channel.

Day 1 of round 3 of ….the South Beach diet. (Laugh and I cut you)

So, yes – I’ve done the SB thing before, both times with decent enough results. 1st time: before the wedding I lost 20 lbs. All gained back and then-some during my first two years of marriage and homeownership, which, (tee-hee) led directly to attempt #2 last year. I lost 30 lbs overall and only gained 6 back…and that was after Christmas so it barely even counts, right? Right.

Anyhoo, in tribute to my Floridian heritage, here I am again. I figure if I can do the same this time (lose 30, keep 24 off)…and then do the same thing again for then next, oh – 5 years, I should be just about skinny. Not that I care or even want to be “skinny,” but you know what I mean. Healthier. In five years I’ll be “flirting with 40,” so I really should start TCB while I’m still spry. I can’t believe I just typed any of that.

So, where was I? Oh yeah, Day 1 is complete and it wasn’t so bad. I went grocery shopping and got a lot of great ingredients and yummy stuff, so I think it will be pretty harmless. Until someone bakes brownies or shoves pie in my face or worse – sweet potatoe fries – (GAH!), but I’ll cross that cliche when I get to it.

Sooooo – while you’re teasing us with massive (like seriously enormous) state-wide budget cuts, you’re also off stripping Obama’s stimulus package of shit like this:

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

Sounds super smart and awesome. Gee, you’re just the best. You make me feel all warm inside. The kind of warm-in-the-guts feeling I get about 90 seconds before I have to take an emergency dump.

I just love you guys.  You’re swell.