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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31
Well New Mexico. We both knew I had to leave. So from the deserted lands of White Sands to the color extravaganza of the Sangra De Christos, please keep well those who have become my family. Lord knows I don’t have much of one left. Hold my mother and velvet, my loved ones who I have interned into the mantle of your arms, close to you. And all those smiling faces that greet me each time I walk your streets, everyone whos name and business I know, may they treat you just as well. You ushered me into my adulthood, gave me a place to be, explore and be safe while at it. I always managed to more than get by here. Sometimes stories are better than food, remember?
May your stars be always as bright and extravagant, and your moon be just as blinding, your mountain edges just as sharp, your wilds just as flourishing, your air just as crisp and distinct, and you waters continue in free flowing abundance.
Well I’ll be back, we also both know that. So long for now oh beloved land.
Note: Dryer sheets can melt in the dryer. And then adhese themselves to the rest of your laundry.
Mental note: Don’t do this again.
The St. Francis:
Being the adventurous person I am I ordered the green tea brulée instead of the traditional. It was in fact, a very broccoli green. The leafy greens colour could be excused but for the fact that this brulées had a the lumpy texture of either being over cooked or frozen and the effects either of those has on brulée Combine this with the horribly unbalanced mixture of the green tea flavor into the crème and this is the worst crème brulée in town at one of the most expensive prices. Blech!
Saveur:
Wow. One of the best, if not THE best in town. Fresh daily, excellent balance of cream and egg without being sickly sweet and the brulée clicked on top- perfectly done.
O’Keefe Café:
More brulée for your buck this lightly coconut flavored dish would do better with out the chocolate syrup drizzled on top (even if it is home made). It was a bit too gelatinous and could have had a better creamier body.
Ristra:
Good stuff! The most buttery of the brulée in town. Not creamy- buttery. Definitely hovering close by with the best in town.
Exs now lovers - Cheryl
Devastating heartache and the breakups. -Kate
hello wonderful readership.
Today i am sitting at the former CD Cafe waiting for a lady to finish her marvelous job of copyright infringement on 400 pages of classical spanish literature. One she is done photocopying it all i will be able to get the last pages of the 'Velvet' comic, fold, staple them and voila. My last comic project before i leave Santa Fe completed.
Otherwise i must inform you i won't be updating online much what with the temporary yet total insanity brought on by moving the entirety of ones life. Cheryl gave me a reality check on Sunday morning and i began freaking out. Spend more $ to fix Magna here? Take Rebel there? Get a rental car? Get a motel for the cats? Get a storage shed or leave things at Susan and Peggy's? Don't worry- i'll make it as always, it will just be f-ing crazy. It's the uncertainty of making decisions based on not knowing if they will be the best or even good ones that kills me.
sigh.
In my dreams and in my waking life aquaintances are appearing - people i haven't thought about in ages or even once since i met them. Santa Fe is saying goodbye to me too it seems. This makes it all the more bitter sweet. Having the wonderful Dan visit last weekend from NY was all too short but excellent. I doubt we'll both be in Santa Fe at the same time again. Monday and the place seems absolutely sleepy without him. I slept 12 solid hours last night for the first time in ages.
p.s. kitten is still a holy terror.
Pics of new kitty and me.
Please Excuse My Girlfriend Vol. 1 published today. Get it from me or True Believers Comics in Santa Fe.
bathtub in bathroom
Bedroom
Kitchen with gas
Dinning/living area
Enclosed/covered garage area
Extra storage
Workshop shed
Fireplace
More wood than carpet
Not boxy or manufactured
Lots of sunlight
Good land around it with a tree or two
Space for a garden and chook coop
Washer/dryers in house
Sky lights
Covered porch
No traffic sounds
No immediate neighbors
But nice neighbors
and here is where I get ridiculous:
Energy efficiency- solar, radiant heat etc.
Low flush toilet
Gray water system
Hot tub
Free internet
All this goes without saying:
No draughts or holes, roof leaks, bad sealing, plumbing, rattling windows, torn up floors/walls, mildew, mold, insects, or rodents. Or crazy landloards.
Funny thing is i just got an email off of rent.com from a cancer survivor, biker, retired bladesmith, 40 year old bear, in Austin looking for a room mate and asking about the forge. Nifty eh? Makes me think that maybe i was a bear in some other life time. The only thing that definitely doesn't fit is my aversion to back/chest hair and man smell.
I booked my Pensky truck for the 27th, gonna buy myself an extra day or two probably. It was cheaper than the PODS idea though that would have been really nice. This way i'll have to unload the truck into a storage facility in Austin until i find a place.
I learnt after talking to some real estate agents that Austin is at 98% saturation meaning much like Santa Fe things come up (especially one bedrooms) and disappear in a few days. Damn. That's one uncertainty i can't do much about. Someone did take my apartment here though so i don't have to worry about showing it anymore.
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Gawd awful smell from litter box invading whole apartment
Gay porno music coming through the wall from the neighbor’s
Latent early kitten behavior in the form of suckling on the blanket by my legs persistently.
Acetone and Non-Acetone nail polish remover
Baking soda cat litter freshener
Fabreeze air freshener
Double sided razor blades
Rubbing alcohol
Lighter fluid
Plastic combs
Kate, churl and me went to Cheeks Friday night. It was Kate’s first time ever at a strip club and my first time to Santa Fe’s only. The crowd was filled with people I have never before seen in my life in Santa Fe. I was a little hesitant that we’d get in. Churl’s been several time before but a neighbor of Churl’s got turned away from Cheeks. They told this 6 foot buzz cut in her 40s butch dyke she needed a male escort to enter. Yeah right. We actually encountered no such discriminating problems, got welcomed as ‘ladies’ and all the borrachos, banditos, southside gangsters, and yakuza wannabes in the joint left us alone.
The shit these girls (have to?) do for a dollar in this town is well…never seen anything quite like it. Churl said it wasn’t like that when she last went. As expected the DJ was exceedingly obnoxious and probably sits at home coming up with his awful catch lines. “fresh fucked fox in a forest fire.” “I’ve been a bad man, spank my pee pee.” The drinks were obscenely over priced and by my count the most expensive in town. The hottest woman in the joint was not a stripper, she was fully clothed and covered. She was actually a Latina girl in the audience who went up repeatedly to give strippers her cash. I went up, got asked how I was doing, then got crotch grabbed- which she apologized for. I said watch the piercing, she asked me what I had pierced and proceeded TO FEEL THEM OUT. Even now I don’t know what to think about that. I mean sure they rub up and bang into the crotch of guys that go up to the stage but they really go all out with the women. I tried to focus on the tattoo on her leg that said in script ‘Katie’. Let’s just chalk it up to a cheap thrill. Like I said, this cost a dollar. Kate went up and got this strippers titties rubbed in her face- she didn’t actually enjoy it. She said they were powdered and she hadn’t expected that. “Great, now I’ve got boob powder all over my face.” I guess if you don’t baby powder yourself down you sweat and stick to things.
It all reminded me of what Tim told me back when I was 19, single, and didn’t have an effing clue about how to get laid. “All you have to do is just pretend that the other person is the center of your whole world.” And they do, a dollar at a time.
Written on The City is just the kinda place for the tag pictures of SF that actually have writting. Only- i've lost most of these along with the rest of my stuff in the comp reconfig. It looks like one of the pics i uploaded made it though.
Link thanks to Xtel.
Went to the giant asian/international market, Ta Lin, in ABQ this weekend with churl’s knitting group. Things I scored include:
Ironbeer. Actually just a soda, the national one of Cuba.
Cheap goji (boxthorn) berries
German tea, hibiscus and rosehip
Fresh bubble tea
Aussie crumpets
And…various meat pies(!!!!!)
As Lady SOV sings: “I’m missin’ my shepherd’s pie like a high maintenance chick missin’ her diamonds”
And it’s true. Oh god those meat pies are good. Please, someone, just feed me meat pies 3x a week for the rest of my life.
BTW: Exotic meats
Thanks to Lindsey.
Johnny Repeat.
“Who is this ‘fuck' they keep speaking of? Surely he is their god.”
The sex worker’s art show was last Saturday. Hawt daym. Just go see it- for me to describe all the acts that caught my attention or are worth seeing would take longer than the show.
In the mean time, here are some well worn comeback lines from stripper Jo Weldon who talked at the show:
Are those breast real?
Real expensive.
I’ve always wanted to be with two women at once.
Well at least we have one things in common.
Let me take you away from all this.
Aw, that’s so sweet. But then how would i get away from you?
I have tons of money.
I only care about my money, not yours.
I have a twelve inch cock.
Well I only have a 6 inch vagina.
I usually don’t come to these kinds of places.
Me either.
What would it take for you to leave here with me?
A fire.
(god this is kind of daunting to do all over again…I like to know everything and Austin is a much bigger everything.)
1) Pic up local papers- independents and non.
2) Buy a detailed street map, a tourist map or photo map, and a wilderness map.
3) Get a lonely planet or other guide book.
4) Walk around the heart of the downtown.
5) If there are nice parks (river park, dog parks), check out the activities there.
6) Drive around surrounding suburbs.
7) Pay attention to fliers, posters, bulletin boards
8) Phone book.
9) Search for online interest groups I would be interested in. (me: drag kings, circus, comics, johnnies, BJJ, ren fairs?, fencing, kettle bell/combat calisthenics people hikers.)
10) Go to a show- not just a new movie or a big out of town band.
11) Really you should get a job at the bar, but forgoing that affair, go to local bars and talk to the bartenders.
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