Dreary Dallas lawns are starting to green in patches and I also noticed some of my bulbs are pushing through. I am so glad it’s almost spring! I feel like sitting in the sun until I bloom.

We took the chihuahua babies to the neighborhood lake yesterday for a picnic by an old pier. Chris had turkey breast on foccacia, and I had roast beef on an onion roll — Butch-Femme sammiches, kinda.

I laughed at my girl ChaCha as she got her white paws all muddy chasing ducks, the little tomgirl. Tiny Chuy Chumino wasted no time. He fell right into the lake with an un-elegant plop followed by terrified splashing. Christine began screaming. I grabbed Chuy’s leash and hauled him over to the bank. After staring the Reaper in the eye, Mama’s boy pranced and danced in the clover.

I love my little guys.

:)

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Most amazing video of Janis Joplin I believe I have ever seen.
(!!!!)

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I was in my 20s when I met B in a little neighborhood bar that would become our regular drinking hole. It was the middle of the day and already she was drunk. She had her shirt off and she was singing “Go Tell it on the Mountain”. She was in her 40s then, neither Butch nor Femme, and certainly no looker. She seemed much older due to the silvery hair and her habit of carrying her dentures in her pocket. Despite her joyful spirit, the woman wears poverty like a hand-me-down coat. She has always been inappropriate so bringing someone my age back to her mattress on the floor was a natural part of her insurrection.

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Lead Belly is my favorite folk/blues musician of all time. Tons of the songs he sang (many recorded in the 1920s just miles from my house here in Dallas) later became hits for big rock bands we all know of. His legendary voice is a haunting lullabye, stark and strong.

This old cinema newsreel Belly made me fucking cry although I totally understand this was the reality at the time. It’s a re-inactment featuring Lead Belly and a man named Lomax who had a grant from the Library of Congress to record prison work songs.

Did Lead Belly get pardoned after singing for the governor? Twice. Yes, in both Texas and in Lousianna, but historians are skeptical about the real reasons for his early release. It was during the depression and the prisons were hit hard financially. The man apparently had a helluva temper, though. He would be in prison again for assault. They say Huddie Ledbetter got the name “Lead Belly” cuz he was tough as hell.

Here is a recording of “Midnight Special” that would become a hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival decades after Lead Belly’s death.

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1. Where were you 1 hour ago?
sitting right the fuck here, tilted a little more to the left (*le sigh*)

2. Who will be your next kiss?
Sweet Bumps aka my wife

3. When is the last time you went to the mall?
Saw a movie. With 3 beautiful Femmes!

4. Are you wearing socks right now?
Nope.

5. When was the last time you went out of the state?
I went to a blues festival in Memphis a coupla weekends ago

6. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
No.

7. What was the last thing you had to drink?
I am drinking a Coke right now. (such big news… I had to put it on the internets!)

8. What are you wearing right now?
black and gray sweater and black velour sweats

9. What was your last purchase?
I invested in one burger with cheese

11. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Insurance lady who pissed me off so bad, my whole head turned purple

12. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
Nah.

13. Do you have a pet?
Two wee chihuahuas and a Manx.

14.What is the last sporting event you watched?
sports bore me except for boxing

15. What is/was your favorite class?
art

16. If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?
Paris with mah babes, eating French fries

17. What is the last thing you purchased online?
espresso pods (how yuppie is that??)

18. One thing you hate about yourself?
I wish my creativity were a SANE thing…

19. What’s your favorite soup?
canadian cheese soup

20. Do you miss anyone?
I miss fucking everybuddy

21. Last play you saw?
A really cool play about a Shakespearean actor… local writer, local troupe

22. What are your plans for the day?
I’m just hanging out and taking care of my babygrrl… she got a bellyache today

23. Who is the last person you messaged on myspace?
PinkieLee

24. Ever go to camp?
I got a little plastic trophy for reciting the most bible verses.

25. Were you an honor roll student in school.
Uh. I was on some kinda roll all right… and they could not stop me.

26. What do you know about the future?
All I know is I have hope there will be a future.

27. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
I am wearing this deliscious humidor scent from L’Occitane. A studly bruthur of mine turned me on to it. The main note is cypress. I love it.

28. Where are your best friends located?
The people I love the most are scattered across the continent(s)

29. Do you have a tan?
Yeah, and a tight ass and 6 pack abs

30. How old do you want to be when you have kids?
my puppies are my babies

31. Last person who you made cry?
Christine, that meanie!

32. Have you ever drank pop from a straw?
great party trick

33. How do you like your pop?
No ice.

34. Do you like hot sauce?
heyull yes… I’m Texan

35. Next time you’ll take a shower?
bah

36. Who do you like?
funny ass motherfuckers who dont mind if I laugh outloud at them

37. What is your mood?
B O R E D

38. Are you someone’s best friend?
Yeh!

39. What do you want for Christmas?
ghost flames on my truck (I have put forth my midlife crisis wish to Christine every Christmas for nearly 10 years straight… hee hee… saying it now to annoy her… but the truth is she really is an old truck now and actually needs a paint job!)

40. What are you doing right now?
agenda — ’bout to turn around and attack a tiny bulgy-eyed puppy with a phat daddee love explosion

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The Atlantic Theater in Atlantic Beach, FL changed their marquee for the “The Vagina Monologues” at the request of a woman who saw it as she drove by the theater with her niece.

I was thinking… “Peach Speech” or … I always liked the word “quim”.

What would *you* call it?

Many of the euphanisms for pussy are just fucking hateful. Check this out. Axe wound!?!

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Here is my M&M, bitch.

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Become an M&M

(someone fucking stop me!)

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