balloons and suits

yesterday, i was taking the metro into the city and i noticed something silly. a grown woman had a balloon tied to the back of her knapsack and wherever she walked, she kept hitting people in the face with it. it was behind her, so she was completely oblivious to the situation. it's windy down there, and there are loads of people, so she was walking along bonking fancy suited men in the face with the shiny red heart balloon!it was fun watching people jolt each time it happened.

Vietnam is for lovers

yesterday, i went on a scrumptious and stunning adventure.in virgina. virgina is for lovers! saying the word virgina out loud makes me feel icky, kinda like the word crusty sounds. i can't help but sound more southern saying it than my quaint suburban accent reflects, yet in actuality, i live a tiny, 20 miles from the big v.my quaint liberal southern flare mixed with my bordering new england hoity-toityness allows me the geographical ambiguity to design my own regional perceptions, to myself and to others. when i went to college, people asked where i was from. like most people, you say you're from the nearest city to where you actually live, which in my case, is Washington, D.C. But really, I am a suburbia livin marylander,quite close to the d.c. border. Marylander by day, D.C.er by night.School in the suburbs, drinky drinky party party in the city. From diverse music venues, and extravagant social scenes, to the capital's stoic politicos that roam the streets determined, the culture that breeds my home plate is a diluted yet distinct byproduct of very close proximity to the city. but greatest of all, we have a shmorgasboard of diversity that effects our politics and perceptions, from our food to our fashion. oh joy! a mecca of marvelous influence!but then, eek there's virgina right there, hovering next to us, just being there. kinda like a strictly nice person.they're okay, you can't say anything bad about them, but then again you can't say anything excitingly good about them. they're just nice and nice doesn't cut it. i know that's mean. so my cousin jeffrey lives in sarah plain and tall virgina. BUT as i have grown older and wiiiser, i have realized that he lives in a rather enticing spot. arlington, virgina. nestled in between maryland and the district, its geography places itself a quick skip over to fancy georgetown as well as a thriving subculture of vietnamese immigrants in the other direction. and i just love anything vietnam. so, my cousin and i ventured over to falls church virgina where we passed several dominoes, mattress discounters, and the ubiquitous sterile,washed out centers of the amurican corporate clan. but THEN, all the sudden, every store and every restaurant was of some asian origin, opening my jaded plastic eyes to an authentic, flamboyant reality. we entered a plaza called the eden center where every shop, restaurant, hair dresser, nail salon, butcher, video store, jewelery shop and cafe was vietnamese. i got a pineapple bubble tea and sketchily took photos of vietnamese people doing their thing. i rummaged rabidly through delightfully scented hello kitty thingies, watched plastic cats move their hand up and down and bought fun goodies at the vietnamese supermarket.weird stuff there. every type of dried anything, including mushrooms, jellyfish ICK, and fishy smelling stuff of every variety. but i was in heaven. the snack isle twas divine. every type of rainbow colored cookie, virgin jello shots in plastic containers, and each silly snackaroo had a photo of a good looking model on the package,endorsing it's goodness. what's not to like?

OH NO A BUTT!

everyone has a butt! we have ears and a nose and strange gangly fingers, too. my sister and mother were weirded out and opposed to me keeping this picture tagged of myself on facebook. they both said it was inappropriate and suggestive. my mom grimaced when she realized that the whole public of 4hundredsomething of my fb friends could gaze at my rear if they so desired. but to me, it was just a moon! simply some silly fun in a silly time in my silly life where i should be able to express my youthful proclivities without pretense or constraints. sheesh, who cares? apparently, my unknown future boss. why are kids allowed to run around half naked while i'm gawked at for innocent crude behavior? just like everyone says, it's like a bathing suit sillies! but seriously, it is! and also how is my granny pantie photo memoir inappropriate and offensive, a butt's a butt!i rest my case. so wah. if my boss deems me inappropriate for a simple camera moon, then i would actually question if i would even WANT to work for sucha tightass.

lady pots

these are my lady pots. i love them!even though i dropped one accidentally and now she looks a bit mashugana.

Whole Fools..WAH

Ah, whole foods. mecca of fine groceries and elegant rustic buffets of mouth watering divinity. orangic. sigh.natural.hmmm.ethical?i dunno. while i was away this past year in my beef eatin, starch lovin, white bread neck of the woods, it would have seemed as if i was in mid-america, home of meat and potatas. but oddly enough, i was in none other than the romantic and passionate latin land of tango and wine, buenos aires, argentina. the first month away i was overwhelmed by the cuisine. local parrillas offering you any and every type of cow part that exists! accompanied by garlic and parsley french fries and baskets of sinful white baguettes. along with quality red wine and an authentic ambiance of comradery,celebrated indulgence and feelgood fun, eating out to dinner was an undiluted argentine experience. but after six months averaging about three to four 16 ounce steaks a week, i became rather revolted. and that's when my inner yuppy started fantasizing about the delectable, nutritious, angelic assortment of whole food's chow. i've always felt somewhat justified buying whole food's premium goodies because of the store's ideology and values toward food production. expensive yes, but for the greater good,thought so...but now i have been nibbling at takoma co-op dried papaya slices, icky tofuRkey,ranch sun flower seedsand various,yet tired, blender concoctions forcing my selfish addiction to decadent foods to wane after the cohen parents declared a household ban on whole foods eats. turns out, the CEO of Whole Foods is rather slimy when it comes down to human ethics. sure, he advocates for the production of local produce, pesticide free foliage and quality standards of what is sold to consumers, but unfortunately, our organic overseer is preaching rather fishy assessments of health care reform to the public. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html#articleTabs%3Darticle (**copy and paste to see article because i have still not figured out how to do it properly) so, while we all join hands and blindly condone the vices in our life that make us happy..and unhealthy(excessiveamountsofbooze, the somewhat occasional cigarette, raw cookie dough, carcinogenic scented candles, cellular radiation, blah blah blah)one generally steps down, surrenders and says, you pick your poisons. but i do try and be careful about the poisons i pick. and i guess, so is my family. so while i will allow a few (okay maybe a LOT) of brain cells to get wacKy from a singular ecstasy adventure, or accept the rare occasion i indulge in high fructose corn syrup, i know one thing, it won't be at someone elses expense. and while i support the first layer of values that whole foods embodies, i also know that we are complex and highly interconnected to one and other. i could option to support whole foods and a healthy, nutritious, organic, farm friendly philosophy, but ultimately it would be superficial identification and support of a neglectful value system that roots far deeper in issues than healthy living. it's a system that effects those that can not afford pesticide free food, because large corporations have monopolies on those essentials therefore allowing the price to be lower as well as the quality. whole foods CEO John Mackey claims that americans are individually making themselves unhealthy. considering he is supposedly a pioneer in his field,to make a claim that is so vacant of truth and so inorganic from reality, is utterly disappointing.