well, the birthday weekend is over. by a few days even. spent birfday official hanging out with my friend lisa. she’s on the road right now with the decemberists and had a one day hiatus in atlanta. and by on the road, i mean in the band. she was recently asked to join them as a violist and then some. she’s also singing and playing other instruments like the glockenspiel. the glockenspiel! i haven’t thought of those since my elementart school music classes. xylophones and glocks, metal makes them ring a lot. i had a decision to make the day prior – go see her play with decemberists or go to athens to see patton oswalt and zach galifianakis. well, i already had the patton.zach tix, so i went. i think in the long run it was a mistake. zach hadn’t switched up too much. but patton had an almost entirely new set. and someone in the crowd got peed on by a drunk guy. so i guess it wasn’t a total loss.
last night was halloween, and I went from having no costume to being part of one of the most coveted groups of senior citizens from the 80’s tv nation. The Golden Girls. I was chosen to go as Sophia. I played her as respectfully as i could. I went as an Alzheimer’s Senile Sophia as if she were still around today. Babbling about train rides, cheesecake, and Italy. I had twizzlers in my hands that I kept nibbling on. And wore a permanent glazed/surprised/confused look on my face. Because the Alzheimers and senility were pretty set in I opted to wear my dress in a fashion that revealed my entire backside. It was funny and sad all in the same breath. We walked by a group of kids at the beginning of the night. Seconds after we passed them they all started yelling “LOOK AT THAT MAN!” and laughing hysterically at a guy’s pantyhose covered ass. One woman at a bar kept insisting on taking our photo. We lost blanche early in the night to a bought of herpes or syphillis. Rose poured a beer in someone’s purse. Dorothy smash. And I almost shit in my pantyhose. All in all a very mature evening of men and women acting like 4 elderly tv stars.