tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68077279411415235632024-03-13T09:20:11.379-07:00this is the movie about...navigation. queerly caffeinated. documentary thing.Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807727941141523563.post-7789443272775071672011-11-18T23:28:00.001-08:002011-11-28T15:29:36.979-08:00REASONS TO BE HUH WHAT?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;"><b>
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TO BE QUEER</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">and
other things that have nothing to do with anything ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">So,
first things first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">WHAT THE
F is going on?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I’ll
be filming MORE between December 18</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and January 14</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Let’s have
a date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">SO,
OKAY, LISTEN.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">I HAVE
THIS HORRIBLE PROBLEM WHERE I KEEP READING ARTICLES THAT MAKE ME UPSET.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I could
avoid them.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">It’s
like when people get on “lesbians who look like Justin Bieber” (<a href="http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/">http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/</a>)
And say things like “being gay is a sin.”
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">OKAY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">So. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Maybe…you
should…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">spend
more time on your own blog, “Nine
Ways to Electroshock the Sex Out” or “Cadavers that look like Michele Bachmann.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ANYWAY,
in light of my own recent hyper-awareness of homophobia, and also to avoid
writing a screenplay, and also to AMP PEOPLE UP ABOUT THE EXTREME
UN-HETERO-CENTRIC NATURE of our little film, I have decided to make a list.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">TEN
SUPER TERRIFIC THINGS ABOUT BEING QUEER.</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(*You
might notice that this seems to focus on old-fashioned girl-on-girl action…but
I mean queerness in its best and widest sense. I mean people bein’ SWEET on people in ANY
non-hetero-normative way. Okay? I
do.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">1. It’s </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">cool. </span></span></div>
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might look like some over-privileged/overeducated hipster,</span></span></span></div>
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no. </span></span></span></div>
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marginalized. You can go to marches.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">2. It’s </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">comfortable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">You
don’t want to wear a whole pair of pants?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Cut half of your pants off!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">It’s okay.
You’re queer. And you can
do that.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">You
don’t like hair? Cut that
also. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">You
can cut a lot of things. (Jackets,
tops of shoes, t-shirt sleeves…it
won’t bleed? Cut it.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Flannel? Men’s boots? It’s comfy?
Wear it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">*Friend
RN Healey RightNOW says:
“Listen. I’m not wearing a
bra and I haven’t shaved my armpits in months. I feel great.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">For
some reason, it’s a culture of comfort.
So throw on that Carhartt jacket and SmartWool socks. Sit by the fire.
Wear a boa and a thong. Let
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">3. It comes with</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> friends.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Look at you. You’re in a new neighborhood or city. You want to ride your
bike to the farmer’s market or get toasty on PBR and dance? </span></div>
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somewhere gay. Automatic
belonging. (Unless you’re me…and you show up in your Asian-inspired print dress to a queer
party and the door girl asks you: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">“Do
YOU know that this is…<i>SAPPHO </i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">night?” <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">But
let’s talk about that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">whole doo-wop bundle of shit another time. I’m not very interesting.</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Other
people, most people, show up in a city, and they can go anywhere.</span></div>
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do you find friends at Starbucks?
That’s hard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Queer people have like…two places to go. So just go to those two places every
day. Stay there. Do not leave. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(You could even…follow the baristas. Everywhere. Straight people don’t get to do that. And if they did, it would be way
creepy…or creepi</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">er</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">). </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">So…just because you moved in with that girl
two weeks after you met her
and now you’re breaking up so that she can get together with her ex who
you thought had moved to Yemen for the Peace Corps but actually <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">came back yesterday because her cat needed surgery and
you need to get a second job to pay the rent and you really only pretended to
like Kombucha…</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">doesn’t mean you’re not having fun.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">There’s
something about queerness that bends the confines of your average
hetero union. Which, I think,
personally, is <i>awesome.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Seems
that we love more often, more quickly, more painfully, more confusingly,
more anything. The ideas that were
put in your head from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">the
first time you watched <i>The Little Mermaid</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> about relationships have to dissipate
as you navigate your “role” in a co-operation that has VERY <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">LITTLE
TO DO with all the <i>Boy Meets World,</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> <i>New Kids On the Block, YM <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Magazine,
</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">and<i> The
Sandlot</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> images
that were crammed in your head in the 80s and 90s. (Sorry. Other generations do exist). Most likely, you were not overwhelmed with “picture-perfect”
ideas of homo relations. There’s
no pre-existing formula to follow.
We’re all figuring it out.
It’s a lot. And it’s all
the time. </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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in my head, we have slept together. Deal. It’s
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whatever else has told us/required, what WE do is like…for affection and
pleasure. That is all. </span></span></span></div>
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tells us to. We can desire people
just to DESIRE them, with no pretense of propagating the human race or
biological impulse to “spread our seed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">So some people call it unnatural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I call it superhuman.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’ve heard about/participated in over the last few weeks:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Fashion
show. (Which included a dead
unicorn and some jungle-inspired dancing).<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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croquet.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Halloween
POPcabaret at the Warhol Museum, featuring people dressed as nylon chickens
undulating to dub-step-ish music while someone read erotica. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">More
than one dance party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">YES.
Straight people could have come.
But most did not. So what
were they all doing? I don’t
know. I would guess it wasn’t as
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">What I’m sayin’ is only…this shit isn’t
“normal.” It’s not advertised
in most magazines, it’s not saturating network television, and it’s
just not “average.”
Percentage-wise, it’s (right, obviously), a minority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Sooooo
what?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some reason—and I can’t exactly put my finger on it, the subculture of
QUEER tends to open the door to other “subculture-ish” behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Once
you’re part of a queer community, it seems that what is “socially acceptable”
is skewed/different/new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">(*I’m gon’be
real here. There are some
instances where I don’t actually <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">think
that this is good. There can be
homogeny among the homos that is UN-inviting and confusing and that
occasionally PRESENTS more cultural norms than it disbands. D’ya’know? Example: You
are a cheerleader? You’re not <i>really</i> invited all the way/all the time. I’m not saying it’s
tragic. I’m saying it’s evident.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">BUT OHGODNO we are ACTUALLY talking about the POSITIVE
nature of subculture “wacky-ness” so let’s gettttttttoooooo the point. When you’re part of a “fringe” network,
the things you do have more “room.”
You don’t live in the bubble of ordinary social interaction and
expectation. People who are queer
tend to do the things that are associated with being on the outskirts. We dance more, smoke more, get more
tattoos, speak up more loudly (often) about social/environmental/political
justice, listen to indie music, and fall on a spectrum of “outsiderness” that seems to be wayyyyyy
wider (usually) than “insiderness.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">And that. Is
super. Cool.</span><br />
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we open our perception of OURSELVES to include “fringe” or</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">non-normative or plain-ol-QUEERness, our perception of
the world shifts to include this identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Once this identity-maker is in place, I think that queer
people often have liberated themselves in a way; they feel they can more clearly
or openly voice <i>any</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> part of their individuality, beyond their queerness. We have to challenge ourselves AND the
world around us to include us. The
world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> So
yes, okay, right, I’m a writer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> ButSeriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">If
you identify as queer, you have a story.
Most people have some story from something at sometime in their
lives. HOWEVER, people who have
had to come out/face discrimination/leave home/find new friends…on and on and
on…have a story that CONNECTS them to a group of people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Right of course, people all have their story about the
first time they had their heart hurt or the first time they realized their
mortality, but the THING IS, your QUEER stories are the rare ones, they are the
moments that make you the YOU that you are now. No one popped out of the womb with a rainbow flag. For any number of reasons or genetic
presets or magical lucky stars, they REALIZED at one time what they felt, and
that it was different, and that it was queer. </span></div>
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was it like coming out to your parents?
When did you realize that you
were attracted to women/felt like a boy/didn’t identify as a boy/etc?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">All
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">All
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Sad,
funny, awkward, incredible, heartbreaking, joyous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Personally,
the first person I came out to was my boyfriend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> To
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> The
biggest party on the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Socrates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Shakespeare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Sylvia
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Emily
Dickinson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Walt
Whitman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Harvey
Milk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Marie
Antoinette.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kahlo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> Leonardo
Da Vinci. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these people all gay? NO! Did they have incredible happiness all
the time? NO! Did they follow hetero-normative
lifestyles? NOOOOO!</span></div>
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awesome? YES.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are as many ways to be queer as there are ways to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are as many amazing things about bending cultural norms as there are cultural
norms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yes, yes…</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">In the
things that I have listed above, I am (mostly) talking to the people of the
world who are in a community/family/place where they <i>can</i></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> be what they are without daily
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">I went
to a high school where NO ONE IN THE ENTIRE TIME THAT I WAS THERE WAS AN OUT
QUEER PERSON.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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statistically, a near-impossibility.
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I wonder if my late-bloomer-ness would be different if I had known certain
people (specifically lesbians…) when I was younger than twenty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">WANT A
STORY?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Once
upon a time, when I was twenty-two, I told my father (a genius) on the Fourth
of July that I was gay (after we ate some bagels). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">HAPPY
INDEPENDENCE DAY!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">He
said: I thought maybe you were
just really liberal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">(He was
to’lly cool. It was all like “I
love you,” let’s hug, you know, that.
Also, he drives a Subaru wagon).
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">I went
back to my mother’s house and proceeded to drink American Honey in the backyard
on a lawn chair. I got a lot of
mosquito bites. Then it started
raining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I had an amazing time with a lot of friends and their families. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">QUEER IS
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">So.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">I just
wanted to make a PRETTY BIG GAY STATEMENT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Because,
while there’s been a lot of talk about a lot of things and a lot of queer
things, something that I haven’t mentioned is that this documentary is like a
giant comfy pillow that’s overstuffed with QUEER. Sleep on it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">...well...if you've gotten here:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That I AM NOT implying that the AMAZING INPUT I'VE GOTTEN FROM HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE IS NOT IMPORTANT TO THIS FILM.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is not a movie about "being gay."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is not a political film called "Glorious Homosexual Arch of Destiny: The Homos of the Mississippi." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">OF
NOTE: You think you’re a movie
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Think
again: You might be a theatre star
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">WHAT? DID YOU SIGN UP FOR THAT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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audio recordings of most interviews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Here’s
something you might (probably don’t) know:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">(WARNING,
this might bore you)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">I worked
on a piece at an art gallery in Brooklyn this past summer with a brilliant
director, Katie (Katherine) Brook (Info:</span> <span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://katherinebrook.com/">http://katherinebrook.com/</a>). We used voice recordings from the Dust
Bowl to make theatre piece where actors in a totally different context used the
exact speech from the recordings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">WE ARE
NOW making a piece from your interviews.
Actors will deliver text EXACTLY as you spoke it, but all
sound-edited-jumbled. And the
actors will not look or sound like you.
It will be amazing. It will
be called HOME. And we will be
developing it…sometime. Soon. Watch out. It’s a deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I will talk about it. A
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</b></span>Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807727941141523563.post-84284485678670064352011-08-30T14:27:00.000-07:002011-08-30T14:27:55.420-07:00STRAIGHT HUSTLIN’ (TELL ME STUFF?)<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TELL ME STUFF.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqeMGEfxEhQ79vrUtFSKGQ3b_jPSfZaiPW64GV3ti6cJd5qH4OP6Hqpjt4G2gsUVdhO5f4qlmlaPiiOUNVxp8zsCssgB3s4D3qTu8kGBhsx_UqDWw76NdxsLmCnMv6gI2r-vf25gUCQ8/s1600/DSC01860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqeMGEfxEhQ79vrUtFSKGQ3b_jPSfZaiPW64GV3ti6cJd5qH4OP6Hqpjt4G2gsUVdhO5f4qlmlaPiiOUNVxp8zsCssgB3s4D3qTu8kGBhsx_UqDWw76NdxsLmCnMv6gI2r-vf25gUCQ8/s320/DSC01860.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hey. I’m not joking. I need your help.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But first let’s talk about things that are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NOT EASY.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thing:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Okay so this is just me, personally, but I am no longer in St. Louis. And some things are apparent to me as I am elsewhere:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> a) It is an illusion that 80% of people are not straight. It is an illusion that was really great that somehow infected me as I was surrounded by the amoeba-esque safety-net of South Grand and its inhabitants. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJnMBu2C_vyrWDCk57BqfmkUgV4E4G8qN6o_5wzDAZ5z2OJBBTjQnx4YIA8-j0NyOkWUtocHKbaArmM9uJgXzUD61xbFCj4RuDMQ1QljAoMXnB-Zqz0kfz5J1ItP31K8nNIXW9dESVPgw/s1600/DSC00380.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJnMBu2C_vyrWDCk57BqfmkUgV4E4G8qN6o_5wzDAZ5z2OJBBTjQnx4YIA8-j0NyOkWUtocHKbaArmM9uJgXzUD61xbFCj4RuDMQ1QljAoMXnB-Zqz0kfz5J1ItP31K8nNIXW9dESVPgw/s320/DSC00380.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> b) When I am not in my comfy corner of the planet, the HUMAN TOLL gets higher.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Id9R-N1NRxr01Dp9fb_dcdrTEIPLSeFL0fUR6TIhF5O7HNNiH9WkPRLykC9UPNXGpY4TwGBNXXdmUCTFRI1nbXB07iExfxWpIKNIq_sMKBTg2ZvDNdmYKBOeP2v3tTkFchEviCjmVJw/s1600/DSC01795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Id9R-N1NRxr01Dp9fb_dcdrTEIPLSeFL0fUR6TIhF5O7HNNiH9WkPRLykC9UPNXGpY4TwGBNXXdmUCTFRI1nbXB07iExfxWpIKNIq_sMKBTg2ZvDNdmYKBOeP2v3tTkFchEviCjmVJw/s320/DSC01795.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LET’S THINK ABOUT THIS JUST A SEC.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I’ve been donating some thought (for better or worse) to Jared’s comment on our HUMAN TOLL. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I’ve realized that I have LOTS of tolls. You know? I think our tolls change as we go from place to place? And what does any environment COST us?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a world of red fish, the yellow fish has to sort of pay her toll for being yellow. But when she is in a world of yellow fish, she has to pay her toll for being…I don’t know…really ADD. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘YKNOWWHATI’MSAYIN? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I am in my semi-new surroundings of grad school, my QUEER person toll is higher. I pay an extra thought, an extra act of overcompensation, an extra effort to find where all those people with those haircuts and tattoos are going…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlVQyKfZ9Wkl7kKPPW_KKFYx77bJMHxTkahhghGi_-l81IPGDxoXyYbgxmt_w371ibiLRAfRFjMzWB67c0-gxnrgK1MP7T3K0piDWFMSz9WQE_F34DzPbak42l6EeXuDgEKdswjAr8Vs/s1600/DSC01659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlVQyKfZ9Wkl7kKPPW_KKFYx77bJMHxTkahhghGi_-l81IPGDxoXyYbgxmt_w371ibiLRAfRFjMzWB67c0-gxnrgK1MP7T3K0piDWFMSz9WQE_F34DzPbak42l6EeXuDgEKdswjAr8Vs/s320/DSC01659.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What’s your toll?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpu-wwCEVUbNRSm_Q69gQH5xhVKJZbXLguN87MkruJ-dAC9whGcfYQjdPYFWodU9VxFTXCphXFQgNy7WV-f4BgFm9DgkzsX-NRTt4Joe-JQnYwNC96SZOtBdWgq249XuofX16sqcjqeYQ/s1600/DSC01174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpu-wwCEVUbNRSm_Q69gQH5xhVKJZbXLguN87MkruJ-dAC9whGcfYQjdPYFWodU9VxFTXCphXFQgNy7WV-f4BgFm9DgkzsX-NRTt4Joe-JQnYwNC96SZOtBdWgq249XuofX16sqcjqeYQ/s320/DSC01174.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe it’s queerness, or lack thereof. Maybe it’s that you have terrible body odor or seem to be followed by an undeserved karmic curse. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe it’s that your parents weren’t kind to you, or that your feet are different sizes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe it’s an illness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A big loss.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An aversion to human contact.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A fear of something irrational, like condiments or the word “moist.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfWKTVSv3kvWcF9xzgJHygBTyyWHoZu6EwjwvTGLdkJKjtMvKdv3JIf-NrZiPB_KkdQt4psIdIi-nq5OGBxqMG_A4NAA79tcrXxEcY6rydgMugHBE-ihNztgrBRi_NI0-IIAVZ6QQExc/s1600/DSC00940.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfWKTVSv3kvWcF9xzgJHygBTyyWHoZu6EwjwvTGLdkJKjtMvKdv3JIf-NrZiPB_KkdQt4psIdIi-nq5OGBxqMG_A4NAA79tcrXxEcY6rydgMugHBE-ihNztgrBRi_NI0-IIAVZ6QQExc/s320/DSC00940.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think one of the biggest ones for all humans after the age of eighteen is that we’ve had our hearts hurt. We carry that all the time. (Except not me, that’s never happened. I’m totally okay with everything always. You can probably tell by how smooth/confident/effortlesslygraceful I am). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Inability to conform to social expectation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKX4AoZcCOL7aTMMwREe5gmVoQf-zjyVVAofMEMVkknVH-_U2o_kmxdVyIGLobED-NCMsxguamTeM2lQ-lItP81LesExeW9TfSEoivQwDtxUQfgbkkcGI2elWWzjqIOE2e7uFkLbyLbew/s1600/Photo+on+2010-11-22+at+20.56+%25237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKX4AoZcCOL7aTMMwREe5gmVoQf-zjyVVAofMEMVkknVH-_U2o_kmxdVyIGLobED-NCMsxguamTeM2lQ-lItP81LesExeW9TfSEoivQwDtxUQfgbkkcGI2elWWzjqIOE2e7uFkLbyLbew/s320/Photo+on+2010-11-22+at+20.56+%25237.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Natural inclination to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NOT do</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> what people tell me I should/could do.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Obsession/interest with all things/people that seem (or are) UNATTAINABLE to me.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> (I am not special. This is some sick fascination that many of us have. It costs us a lot a whole lot of the time, so why we’re all not over it, I really couldn’t say. Seriously, let’s get healthier about this. It leads to being CREEPY).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhjt4Ph0f8Fs1VGAY-1hz9U3x8xeejB-v-GkEA8Un9_0MXz3XlP2jKySK_9W3SeVNBbgUdcFWnaJdaICHG0IKMK0Ef9H4R7YDbN0AuK44heGfNDdf5pkH7i7EivDMOFvvusEkxA9hi34/s1600/Photo+on+2010-11-22+at+21.05+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhjt4Ph0f8Fs1VGAY-1hz9U3x8xeejB-v-GkEA8Un9_0MXz3XlP2jKySK_9W3SeVNBbgUdcFWnaJdaICHG0IKMK0Ef9H4R7YDbN0AuK44heGfNDdf5pkH7i7EivDMOFvvusEkxA9hi34/s320/Photo+on+2010-11-22+at+21.05+%25232.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. General state of discomfort. (Symptoms: Spaz laugh, non-English or non-Human speech, choosing to WRITE as a career, being called awkward by 100% of people I interact with on a regular or non-regular or one-time basis).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We could REALLY go on, but that’s all I feel like I can share right here right now.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">SO NOW.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">WHAT IS YOUR TOLL? What’s the biggest one?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCRGdzRC5D9n1Ci8xznFAdBZ7rdgr3PZFLAN2sEfNvxc3Y_Q3Jit8S8B2Y4a5MAceO8X8kUo_6lhNn1CeH9NOtiZq3wfNhOTBfSVJtW_bSFFdPp34jX0rnldKZxOTrgz702BqJrNvrHg/s1600/DSC02089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCRGdzRC5D9n1Ci8xznFAdBZ7rdgr3PZFLAN2sEfNvxc3Y_Q3Jit8S8B2Y4a5MAceO8X8kUo_6lhNn1CeH9NOtiZq3wfNhOTBfSVJtW_bSFFdPp34jX0rnldKZxOTrgz702BqJrNvrHg/s320/DSC02089.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is your HUMAN TOLL less at MoKaBe’s? Or different?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you have any TOLL to pay there?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THIS IS IMPORTANT. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think some of these things might bind us. I think some of them may be funny. I think our problems are pretty great to talk about. (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I think they might be what I want to explore in this documentary.)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiir1zPJOUiiFT1NHOTbzhiDkb4D2b0jiJr-ZcfT0B-VdDzQUi1ZuvTa9Xh7T9ayy6yU4Uj6ImAE749s4cNOObKSbA8erqaIIlH9-taj6C8fEh_6EvO1lJpOvZND4ytVVLMIkqIRNsKUxg/s1600/DSC02062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiir1zPJOUiiFT1NHOTbzhiDkb4D2b0jiJr-ZcfT0B-VdDzQUi1ZuvTa9Xh7T9ayy6yU4Uj6ImAE749s4cNOObKSbA8erqaIIlH9-taj6C8fEh_6EvO1lJpOvZND4ytVVLMIkqIRNsKUxg/s320/DSC02062.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WHICH BRINGS ME TO THIS: (No, still…more help). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let’s talk about questions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIIb7Oe4phoM4da7thBtztyFaoYTmYtsKsG9CVhSgjmFvHk5HxV5ErECjyubBAROjSb83LnG6iR0wFcIVFrOTgRtQtgav2cDS7lzZrLxJF-fZz6L6UnOD3J-iaUH796iL-vuuXPO8M3g/s1600/DSC02086.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIIb7Oe4phoM4da7thBtztyFaoYTmYtsKsG9CVhSgjmFvHk5HxV5ErECjyubBAROjSb83LnG6iR0wFcIVFrOTgRtQtgav2cDS7lzZrLxJF-fZz6L6UnOD3J-iaUH796iL-vuuXPO8M3g/s320/DSC02086.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WHAT IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ANSWER: People keep asking me this. I don’t really know. It has to do with MoKaBe’s Coffeehouse. It has to do with why people spend time here, and why that time is different than time spent at other places. It has to do with their HUMAN TOLL and what they bring or leave behind or shed or gain. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has to do with people who have found a HOME here. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or people who have found COMFORT here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or people who have met their LOVE(S) here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or people who come here anyway.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or people who have changed here?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I reflect on what my twenty year old self thought I would be at twenty-seven…and it is not this. But I’m extremely happy with my life." (Liz T.) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So that’s good. I guess we’ll get to that later. Like…later.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Forget that one.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PASS!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFKGtNG4UyH8Mz5ROehQ9cOjMgFCkp8BkyzNUQuPR9ZAWVFrYBPuLs2UcbW47bf6gG-0rAtLrt0mVeSQ5ly3Nwp-n9eRNMuBiOo3XkSggqNoQBT1TqVJQlw7LFJt3OxU0XprxRwCCM9M/s1600/DSC02070.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFKGtNG4UyH8Mz5ROehQ9cOjMgFCkp8BkyzNUQuPR9ZAWVFrYBPuLs2UcbW47bf6gG-0rAtLrt0mVeSQ5ly3Nwp-n9eRNMuBiOo3XkSggqNoQBT1TqVJQlw7LFJt3OxU0XprxRwCCM9M/s320/DSC02070.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WHAT IS THIS MOVIE CALLED?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ANSWER: I AM HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME WITH THIS QUESTION SO PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE FOR REAL.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have asked some people what the movie of their lives would be called. I get a lot of “umm…I don’t know.” I think I have this idea that the name of the movie about someone who has been changed/ruined/enlightened/bored by this place MIGHT nicely coincide with a title for a film about the place itself. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mH1lsA5sOVHPQHt4jq4YyDczpKq6KhnRbrRBQFppJ8e4uajNzuMw0V0eFex89QiCsZ0SiDGwvmvDtViLQFB74pCdvWIsbxv5eVR5KJBQMmG7ODsfWKetRx34TPbiWARx9HGgb5hFynE/s1600/DSC01792.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mH1lsA5sOVHPQHt4jq4YyDczpKq6KhnRbrRBQFppJ8e4uajNzuMw0V0eFex89QiCsZ0SiDGwvmvDtViLQFB74pCdvWIsbxv5eVR5KJBQMmG7ODsfWKetRx34TPbiWARx9HGgb5hFynE/s320/DSC01792.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some titles I have gotten:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I hope you didn’t pay for this.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Where did I leave my shoes?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“(Laughs awkwardly).”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a couple of promising titles that relate to both the lives of individuals and their experiences at MoKaBe’s, but I would like MORE.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BARGAIN:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you come up with the name of the film, you will WIN:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The honor of naming a movie that might be seen by someone sometime.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">YES! It could happen to you!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyW5Y3PGu8ZH_gqPpcqGAZDLEzJc70EIj98nAO5c-M6QNH1lu4I1EL63JXsvYU6x7drhSV5LymSxx7SRdoofwoViyVOhjTJaH9D5cOx3rrr8RdkK3C8PA5_1oylNMIAfN5L4pptBVfi8/s1600/DSC01879.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyW5Y3PGu8ZH_gqPpcqGAZDLEzJc70EIj98nAO5c-M6QNH1lu4I1EL63JXsvYU6x7drhSV5LymSxx7SRdoofwoViyVOhjTJaH9D5cOx3rrr8RdkK3C8PA5_1oylNMIAfN5L4pptBVfi8/s320/DSC01879.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So…what is your TOLL?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And what should this movie be CALLED?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or could the same thing work…for both?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(No pressure).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/oFwUOwrS4ok?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you haven't seen this...I guess maybe watch it. And then name it.</span></div><!--EndFragment--> Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807727941141523563.post-14864044001528413712011-07-27T11:25:00.000-07:002011-07-27T11:25:01.559-07:00THERE ARE NO TALL PEOPLE AND NO SHORT PEOPLE<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(That’s what Jared said to me two weeks ago at the counter). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdNI0wFx8KG-v1nIK4h4G5OTbjkZKpiHVDLgGfPRm2-UoTWYiRInrJDaNMPLu_uvwqprfL-V1JqvhonDRu83JcLqqNw-r8Ia-PhFXBuW19GbRZQva7QX1kwE2go7gBufPVGywObfmFYA/s1600/DSC01161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdNI0wFx8KG-v1nIK4h4G5OTbjkZKpiHVDLgGfPRm2-UoTWYiRInrJDaNMPLu_uvwqprfL-V1JqvhonDRu83JcLqqNw-r8Ia-PhFXBuW19GbRZQva7QX1kwE2go7gBufPVGywObfmFYA/s320/DSC01161.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let’s talk about where we<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> live</span>:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Question: Who hangs out at MoKaBe’s?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Justin’s Answer: Freaks.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What makes this place a comfortable environment? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why do people feel that they have become more “themselves” since becoming regulars or working at MoKaBe’s? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What makes it <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">home</span>?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfLe3NLjcyUadopTuNagkHIJb_gNcFHKN5Lf1Z9Hm-3NkEOujvyLryYcIBUxG7mLEOhZfbmdxNyemcOEK0KJADukCrP0y4HXzqpER7h3vTv58Y4CtE3TTMJEiyGs4QT158Lph9SXr4go/s1600/DSC00223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfLe3NLjcyUadopTuNagkHIJb_gNcFHKN5Lf1Z9Hm-3NkEOujvyLryYcIBUxG7mLEOhZfbmdxNyemcOEK0KJADukCrP0y4HXzqpER7h3vTv58Y4CtE3TTMJEiyGs4QT158Lph9SXr4go/s320/DSC00223.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Home </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">might</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> be where your heart is. Or it might be where you leave your stuff. Or it might be where your family lives or where you grew up or where your friends hang out or where you sit without moving for someone else’s entire shift. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">George (sitting at the MoKaBe’s counter): Liza. Move your shit. You don’t live here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Liza: ?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">George: You don’t live somewhere unless you have two sets of clothing and a toothbrush there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Results are in: I live several places. I live way too many places. I have to say I think I like it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But what place is home?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIT45RYJUZRQ5Tabq_L3MTOGCmr6wSoyjWXgw9VMgln7j33_OuE_PdOJakzubLxNaVIKRid_DJwmtlzfKqD2A7dI3tewSqcvv5OO49DVdEHOOTYxW3wf5XP71ZL_jzzp03dHNzEOWff4/s1600/DSC01198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIT45RYJUZRQ5Tabq_L3MTOGCmr6wSoyjWXgw9VMgln7j33_OuE_PdOJakzubLxNaVIKRid_DJwmtlzfKqD2A7dI3tewSqcvv5OO49DVdEHOOTYxW3wf5XP71ZL_jzzp03dHNzEOWff4/s320/DSC01198.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If my home is where my blood-and-bones relatives are, then I am a white-walled county brat, familiar with country clubs and private schools. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If my home is where I go to school, then I am an eccentric attic hermit with four grad school roommates. I avoid the kitchen and am scared to drive in the snow. (Big hills).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If my home is where I sleep in St. Louis, then I am a vagabond, a highway explorer in a variety of cars and people’s clothes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Several people have told me that MoKaBe’s is like a home to them—in different ways.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is sort of...it is...my halfway house.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I live upstairs. I manage this building. My work is to fix broken things and broken hearts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT6jlLGmtiNr0t4U3xcTguLIXH5hEeqdR_PDXYOEBty1yGCPqIB3Iaq09HNjRMJaeK4epZ-DGxuGZ7MHCfPIGj2FToWUN61Gj30CmcBE19TmdfGO0uGEULOO3ZGbVeR18ujzgLx0_x0pA/s1600/DSC01745.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT6jlLGmtiNr0t4U3xcTguLIXH5hEeqdR_PDXYOEBty1yGCPqIB3Iaq09HNjRMJaeK4epZ-DGxuGZ7MHCfPIGj2FToWUN61Gj30CmcBE19TmdfGO0uGEULOO3ZGbVeR18ujzgLx0_x0pA/s320/DSC01745.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was raised Southern Baptist and needed MoKaBe’s to help me quit lying to myself. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgBDL2kEw3tQwt-MU3zOTiN9C8vVkV1U_MSPV45-0XChe_sgvE4Sbb8tYBGZLhIhyPTMdgdeCOHMuVaDDnYxEjftEB9mV0rQmQxb5XXMWZTuefNoSjRK3mNmcl2tOcI-Hxw4IYfY-Ong/s1600/DSC01713.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgBDL2kEw3tQwt-MU3zOTiN9C8vVkV1U_MSPV45-0XChe_sgvE4Sbb8tYBGZLhIhyPTMdgdeCOHMuVaDDnYxEjftEB9mV0rQmQxb5XXMWZTuefNoSjRK3mNmcl2tOcI-Hxw4IYfY-Ong/s320/DSC01713.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was a sense of…you know…coming home to a community.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfow_JZ6uKBRefOBUwwBQoTwO56yETax3EeB6M-E3WZl3609k2FmRhRMZEFEu1So0lTKXkZ9UoyUmJ1o5GWtNqmOCVCp0mnIWoVuAMBWX5Rby3yl5jINbKEOORg5dIz-8nwoVEoerCp_8/s1600/DSC01703.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfow_JZ6uKBRefOBUwwBQoTwO56yETax3EeB6M-E3WZl3609k2FmRhRMZEFEu1So0lTKXkZ9UoyUmJ1o5GWtNqmOCVCp0mnIWoVuAMBWX5Rby3yl5jINbKEOORg5dIz-8nwoVEoerCp_8/s320/DSC01703.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s made me change my definition of what “having your life together” is. Here, I’ve learned…that’s not fair. Too much importance had been placed (in the past) on standard, white picket fence things. I’ve realized here that you don’t need them. As long as you’re making it work…that’s all that matters. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXo_3OhpFI7eM3CBOT2T-SRFOteoblx3VKJ471rGPsi8sNhLQ73MkTgJGP71S3DkgdiR-HppPLIPnkrvkdVNmMDOC0IGs1eiOzrjJ4vCjRQ-edLEMSGWjceYGO2VHTA35U7nTQbIprQ0/s1600/DSC01372.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXo_3OhpFI7eM3CBOT2T-SRFOteoblx3VKJ471rGPsi8sNhLQ73MkTgJGP71S3DkgdiR-HppPLIPnkrvkdVNmMDOC0IGs1eiOzrjJ4vCjRQ-edLEMSGWjceYGO2VHTA35U7nTQbIprQ0/s320/DSC01372.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If my mom could love it...anyone could feel comfortable here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-Juf63bj0GxeyDICAcQbNvUpv0cIIoVjDW7C45c03r8g3Tfp4NbdnF4OjPtorYpg7yawoj56Ey5uB6nBu6zBeLyUkUTiMJ90ohb9fRGuZjYQXuitgkuvyISSqq5zXF71Ewita2dC1W4/s1600/DSC01105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-Juf63bj0GxeyDICAcQbNvUpv0cIIoVjDW7C45c03r8g3Tfp4NbdnF4OjPtorYpg7yawoj56Ey5uB6nBu6zBeLyUkUTiMJ90ohb9fRGuZjYQXuitgkuvyISSqq5zXF71Ewita2dC1W4/s320/DSC01105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So…home. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I ask people to give me a few words to describe the MoKaBe’s environment, nearly all say </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">home</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> first.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But what makes it a “home?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Firstlyletmejustsay that there are some things about MoKaBe’s Coffeehouse that make it </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">distinctly</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unlike</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> my mom’s house. (Another place in St. Louis I might consider home). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. No blood relations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. I have to wear my shoes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. I don’t say things like “fuck this shit” at my mom’s house. (Wait, that was completely a lie—I lied).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. I don’t sleep with anyone who also lives at my mom’s house. I’ve never wanted to do that.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let’s talk about things that are not okay.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just walked into a coffeeshop. WHAT? No. I did. It is in Brooklyn. Where in Brooklyn I can’t say…it still all looks the same to me. Dry Cleaners. Garage. Alley. Church. Nail Salon. IPhones. Dry Cleaners. Garage. Alley. Church. Nail Salon. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway, I’m in some place in Brooklyn that I really could never point out on a map. The doors are open, there’s a tin ceiling, the light fixtures are hip, the walls are brick, and everything including the floor is fairtradeequalrightsorganicgoodforyou.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This coffee was exactly 200% of the cost that a MoKaBe’s iced coffee would be. (A bargain in this cit-ay.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I walked up to the counter…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guy: (Silence…glare)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: Hi!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guy: (Silence…glare)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: How are you? (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Smile…the reallyImeanit smile</span>).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guy: What having?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Ps: What? Is this a text message conversation? What? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> I am too slow to talk like that!</span>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: Uhh. Mm. Iced coffee? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guy: Size.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: Small.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guy: Three.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me: Thanks.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So then I sit down, and I cross my legs, and I sit at my computer, and I sort of look like the girl who is in front of me and I sort of look like the girl at the window, and I sort of look like the boy behind me except for the facial hair. SO WHY IS THIS PLACE ABSOLUTELY NOT HOME?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BECAUSE I DO NOT FEEL AT HOME.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I DO NOT FEEL WELCOME AT ALL.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MY HEAD HURTS! And why is it not socially acceptable in this place to smile at people who enter a room? Why do people not do that? Is that weird? Am I like…really weird?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here’s the thing. In my hotpinkAmericanApparel (ohmygoddon’tsayhipster) crop top, I might sort of fit in here. But I am not MYSELF here. I don’t know WHAT I AM here. I am a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">stranger to a bunch of strangers. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At MoKaBe’s, even when I was a stranger to strangers, I still felt at home. Why? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Home might be where your heart is, where the homos are, where you drink your coffee black or where you keep your toothbrush or where you are with that special someone you like so much, but it also might be WHERE YOU CAN JUST BE.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal">"With so many different personalities…it’s fun. It’s different every day. We were so freakin goofy. Every night. " <o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment--> </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yaknow? Where you just ARE what you ARE and there are no apologies for it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So you don’t have to wear a certain thing, be a certain way, hide away some pieces of yourself that aren’t okay in your mom’s house. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You just. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6k6navDt1UsRkR67pE_tyS_U82pjMGux1lQ72sjqn4tQrHZSJuH1c9AwvbtyQJc00M_SjMaDZvT4kO6U1rbZ4Yl3b_3QUbemJz0tfnhRB2pvEhq6pHttDeyLS0L0Dn9UdLoe34TJR2VE/s1600/DSC01275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6k6navDt1UsRkR67pE_tyS_U82pjMGux1lQ72sjqn4tQrHZSJuH1c9AwvbtyQJc00M_SjMaDZvT4kO6U1rbZ4Yl3b_3QUbemJz0tfnhRB2pvEhq6pHttDeyLS0L0Dn9UdLoe34TJR2VE/s320/DSC01275.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are no tall people here. Or short people. Or, maybe, Jared, there are tall and short people, but you’re right:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are just carrying their own human toll. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The VARIETY of the people at this place make it that way.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Something about this place makes it just OKAY TO BE. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Justin: It’s the coffee shop that people go to that feel like they don’t fit anywhere else. I don’t want to say outcasts, but I feel like it’s this place where it’s safe for people who don’t always feel welcome. The politics are part of that. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel welcome at a lot of places, I might be an outcast, but I’m not really sure. What I am sure about is that I don’t have to look like or talk like the people around me at MoKaBe’s to feel at home. When I walk up to the counter and am immediately insulted by someone I trust, I have to say I like it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4XqKFVgYW-4lNy3cxivvmpwukXyInltZfYl_zRWqKFItZ0S4svX5ksIbHzlBosN1nI6zneFtXEz5vIm376Eupk848W9ryvy5SDijEpKiPtAEuuzwoQJvnGcisMhbJ-MX5VD4_D4Bt5rc/s1600/DSC01772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4XqKFVgYW-4lNy3cxivvmpwukXyInltZfYl_zRWqKFItZ0S4svX5ksIbHzlBosN1nI6zneFtXEz5vIm376Eupk848W9ryvy5SDijEpKiPtAEuuzwoQJvnGcisMhbJ-MX5VD4_D4Bt5rc/s320/DSC01772.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because it’s home. It feels like coming home.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s no wonder that when I say at school that I’m “homesick,” I’m not envisioning Creve Coeur or my childhood bed. I’m remembering a counter with a bunch of stools, sitting between people I know and don’t know, who look like me or don’t, who are regulars or tourists, who are just carrying their human toll.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaVddYlW9GxUlnCimn_Pj_6eqemQwcRO_kgzVsrQFjwQd0dsS8ymGRGv6YQJzDMtUwM_B07T6Wi2yLsp9kG9nIqU82eKxapL4gn8SXCJA0zZDnuFGo-FgJ3rjO3mfSzkgdfXqbwAIE5c/s1600/DSC01079.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaVddYlW9GxUlnCimn_Pj_6eqemQwcRO_kgzVsrQFjwQd0dsS8ymGRGv6YQJzDMtUwM_B07T6Wi2yLsp9kG9nIqU82eKxapL4gn8SXCJA0zZDnuFGo-FgJ3rjO3mfSzkgdfXqbwAIE5c/s320/DSC01079.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don’t know what my human toll is yet. Or what yours is.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But let’s think about that for next time.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Friday, I BEGAN Pride Weekend hungover, which left my Tuesday state of being a little off the charts. I wouldn’t know what to call it. Those words aren’t invented. Friday, 8am (opening time), was the earliest I have ever been at MoKaBe's. I walked there. I was not fully healthy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I felt like there was A LOT GOING ON the weekend of Pride. I feel like there is A LOT GOING ON in general amongst the friends I know from MoKaBe’s, but when I said to Reeny…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ME: Reeny…I feel like when I come in town, I think there’s a LOT GOING ON. And then I think…is it always like this? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">REENY: It’s always like this.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dear Liza,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s always like this.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Liza </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PRIDE weekend brings out some stuff I think.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Firstly, it brings A LOT of homos to Tower Grove.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Secondly, it brings a lot of DEBAUCHERY. (I’mnotsurehowproudIfeel).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year, MADDY says that she feels that PRIDE meant a little more to her. Suddenly, it came to light for her that the whole world isn’t a gay parade. There are times on this planet when the people of South Grand are not on South Grand, and sometimes, it’s shockingly dicey. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There aren’t always open arms to androgyny, homo-hand-holds, and asymmetrical haircuts. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamhx4xpoXv3y39e0CaSaaHnVh02RUyMMevBW2Brbstm1kmWS4gr7i2yg2JwI0DE4Q6R1QYmduaP8eDKkhB8YtT3WPQKcuLATjRqq7eRxI-AnX9sSLzLBJ1eBbuqzElLCVjFlwOmcddkM/s1600/DSC00858.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamhx4xpoXv3y39e0CaSaaHnVh02RUyMMevBW2Brbstm1kmWS4gr7i2yg2JwI0DE4Q6R1QYmduaP8eDKkhB8YtT3WPQKcuLATjRqq7eRxI-AnX9sSLzLBJ1eBbuqzElLCVjFlwOmcddkM/s320/DSC00858.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Tuesday, Mo handed me some casual wisdom about the progress of gay and trans rights. It might seem now that things move slowly, but relative to racial conflicts in this country and civil rights in general, equality for those of us gathered at the sunny Sunday parade are zooming along. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And a lot of time explaining to my mother that my new light bulb (ohmygoddon’tsayhipster) tattoo was not a symbol of lesbianism, gay pride, or woman sex in general. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Semi unrelated)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Conversation:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is the opposite of a bra? And is there anyone who would feel comfortable in this moment? And is there anyone who would give their 4’11”, eighty-pound red-haired mother a genuine answer? To that? What kind of thoughts would that put in her head? NO THOUGHTS THAT I WANT IN MY MOTHER’S HEAD.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inside (it took ten minutes to get to the dance floor), there was some dancing and creepy-watching some people dancing on the bar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ummm okay, so dirty water but more important…key word…creepy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">EVERYONE IS CREEPY!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LET’S HAVE SOME PRIDE!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can celebrate that! I am pretty sure that no conversation I had this weekend did not include people calling themselves not creepy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You were created to marry a man, love that man, have sex with that man, and only that man. Homosexuals are abusing themselves and will not inherit the kingdom of heaven." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You can put my picture next to something that says creepy."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUUV0CTKoLETD8UhU95pMpSVAzvJi3rkbT1LSA2eyzSn-3jZOpI88PP7jzReUfOQVnT59SYfdklcKYsOw3XrJsBeJW0VW1Vq1f12PfHU2CKpPlvhmtnAIw44q62W7PKjRDjYMQlEUPdE8/s1600/DSC00403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUUV0CTKoLETD8UhU95pMpSVAzvJi3rkbT1LSA2eyzSn-3jZOpI88PP7jzReUfOQVnT59SYfdklcKYsOw3XrJsBeJW0VW1Vq1f12PfHU2CKpPlvhmtnAIw44q62W7PKjRDjYMQlEUPdE8/s320/DSC00403.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Messy, creepy, debauchery.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pride.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And you know something? When Jared told me last weekend “I puzzle my mind to mix my head,” I didn’t understand him.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But then there was PRIDE weekend.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDJtGA21KV3zIcUkJpRmI0f6H85HFIrMa2LyE188zk7zmpUxfuvc0XQUQUsNnduRSV_FCc2rVv_OsDw37eH-k3rLAI9PqF59hSQxlcaMVI2bg6bdjJOJ1zKf4WlBkxDXO42jY_HY24Mw/s1600/DSC00888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDJtGA21KV3zIcUkJpRmI0f6H85HFIrMa2LyE188zk7zmpUxfuvc0XQUQUsNnduRSV_FCc2rVv_OsDw37eH-k3rLAI9PqF59hSQxlcaMVI2bg6bdjJOJ1zKf4WlBkxDXO42jY_HY24Mw/s320/DSC00888.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My mind was puzzled, my head was mixed, messy, flooded, dizzy, and creepy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let’s talk about things that are embarrassing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. How creepy am I? (See second blog post for evidence). I even wrote a song on the ukulele about my own creepiness. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. The general amount that I think about certain people is assuredly, positively, absolutely 100% creepy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why are we creepy? And does this coffeehouse contribute to our opportunities to creep? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hXRFpDv6bvzp5V8PGgdL5381uuMeP4Rs77u4BixDJlTFFHrS-PLREmw91VUhOoRDUczgQenxuBchIZFIZhpOeQExXgRomFagDdyZM39HRTpb-nhXUx5lu0SnvoLAnIil32gFRFSDE4c/s1600/DSC00561.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hXRFpDv6bvzp5V8PGgdL5381uuMeP4Rs77u4BixDJlTFFHrS-PLREmw91VUhOoRDUczgQenxuBchIZFIZhpOeQExXgRomFagDdyZM39HRTpb-nhXUx5lu0SnvoLAnIil32gFRFSDE4c/s320/DSC00561.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a lot to say about creepiness. I think that we are extra vulnerable creatures in these parts for a million reasons. I think by trying to save ourselves some shame and forwardness, we shame ourselves in NOT forwardness. We creep. We go to the mall. We learn things about people that we should NOT know. WE SHOULD STOP BUT WHY SHOULD WE STOP? SOMETIMES IT WORKS?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And this week, I realized another secret of the universe.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Beinaweofme).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being creepy isn’t always good for us. And we ALL DO THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOOD FOR US. We all do. No really—I really think you do them and it’s not even insulting.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We puzzle our minds to mix our heads.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We ask our daughters what strap-ons are at dinner.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We protest gays on GAY PRIDE.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We learn everything we can about people we’re creeping on even when it just feels like getting hit in the head with a brick that was recently in an oven. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">EVERYONE does (some of) these things.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wait.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Right?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Thatcan’tpossiblybejustme?)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why? You’d think we’d all keep ourselves busy with happiness…whatever that means. (Consult post below). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I certainly did a lot of things this PRIDE TIME that in the long run…or the short run…may not be so good for me. (Superdehydratedstill). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But with the mess and the mixing head and the creepy, didn’t we all have a good time?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I think we should be as puzzled and creepy as possible. </span><o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment-->Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807727941141523563.post-36599209017709586102011-06-17T14:42:00.000-07:002011-06-17T14:42:36.959-07:00THE CLOWN SHOW IS BECOMING A CIRCUS?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(AND WHY ARE PEOPLE LAUGHING ALL THE TIME?)</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The CAMERA is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">HERE.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfIkL2bDIIPWxutoeWwPiAAsvBxPklIgLHIxm3aFoKjEhstvt5-r-UliGVuHTPbDeMlRIynfTI8xZXljA42Ps4R_8xr67A4NnKWgwT5HCJjm5fwrOxEW55aO1lRdi1REkoXXAKqJWmF4/s1600/DSC00154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfIkL2bDIIPWxutoeWwPiAAsvBxPklIgLHIxm3aFoKjEhstvt5-r-UliGVuHTPbDeMlRIynfTI8xZXljA42Ps4R_8xr67A4NnKWgwT5HCJjm5fwrOxEW55aO1lRdi1REkoXXAKqJWmF4/s320/DSC00154.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And people have been <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">talking and dancing</span> in its presence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5t_ELFugVnQ6ru2CFcCyHJUdiumWaNVAxdGTXLLl1E4vsM3-ufvGKijebMf6PIpTLo74-ZBfzX_uRPJlvfGm7uvG1LXGYe5GTd_FXDUtKvfTSMEDoMtH-WUpw1BD0ywPWdy60Yfcado/s1600/DSC00375.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5t_ELFugVnQ6ru2CFcCyHJUdiumWaNVAxdGTXLLl1E4vsM3-ufvGKijebMf6PIpTLo74-ZBfzX_uRPJlvfGm7uvG1LXGYe5GTd_FXDUtKvfTSMEDoMtH-WUpw1BD0ywPWdy60Yfcado/s320/DSC00375.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Question for Jared:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“What do you think stands between people and their ideal life?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Answer:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>“The Clown Show is becoming a Circus.</b>”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fact #1 about life around here:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The clown show is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MESSY.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRce8VwuKeETIRIjnq7HoQPDbOYF-9KbDE3DLx8uAPAZVhyX3SOIoVMelwfr_oZQbFy_hOOOxNMucxg14qLsKUMy5aJsOBkpyEhWT_JDAd7ihXQk9zSrwQ7rwdfDgCuu4V3gxETtUf5fQ/s1600/DSC00094.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRce8VwuKeETIRIjnq7HoQPDbOYF-9KbDE3DLx8uAPAZVhyX3SOIoVMelwfr_oZQbFy_hOOOxNMucxg14qLsKUMy5aJsOBkpyEhWT_JDAd7ihXQk9zSrwQ7rwdfDgCuu4V3gxETtUf5fQ/s320/DSC00094.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Regarding <b>a first time at MoKaBe’s</b>:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I think I scared her. She was reading and I was like…can I sit here?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6mMLuJPD3Z5mILBaxFYR3yUIltoTY1ErEHnVaVBlTUZKZtF9-4iOxqfWGTW-gEmgJuJhhWK83gWtwwxr1fROVJI-bD5Q7pcLGjudYh5gzmTtCEsDernydP9xUXQhcQ2tZ1eJsvDThm4/s1600/DSC00434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6mMLuJPD3Z5mILBaxFYR3yUIltoTY1ErEHnVaVBlTUZKZtF9-4iOxqfWGTW-gEmgJuJhhWK83gWtwwxr1fROVJI-bD5Q7pcLGjudYh5gzmTtCEsDernydP9xUXQhcQ2tZ1eJsvDThm4/s320/DSC00434.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">People are happy.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BD8nLmpkIXE5GchQlSWlPr0eUJ68xR44buK6qHrB6GLbhjLoXGQWiDRVD6PyQ74fb_uSZgpJ2qWRyk12X5-q5s91zD_PMxzfhizcEhDYEN0TECYwsszWoTePosSlFL15ttuZUVDm_nQ/s1600/DSC00252.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BD8nLmpkIXE5GchQlSWlPr0eUJ68xR44buK6qHrB6GLbhjLoXGQWiDRVD6PyQ74fb_uSZgpJ2qWRyk12X5-q5s91zD_PMxzfhizcEhDYEN0TECYwsszWoTePosSlFL15ttuZUVDm_nQ/s320/DSC00252.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What? Happy? People are Happy in Missouri? People are Happy here? Histoplasmosis, dirty river, gang activity, murder capital, syphilis capital, the arch!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Are the queers of South Grand weirdly happy?</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You wouldn’t think it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I really would not have thought it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For example, I think I was pretty sad for an entire YEAR when I was coming into my queer identity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So…sometimes when I think of people of any age grappling with (or just existing in) their homosexual identity, I think of:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Angst</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">stalkerish tendencies</span>, proclivity for <b>dramatized storytelling</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">chain smoking in the bathtub</span>, pet ownership as an attempt to mitigate loneliness, and...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">crying in restaurants</span>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will say that I’ve seen three people from this community cry in the past five days. (One on camera). It seems to me that since I've been back in STL with my tiny camera, smelly TOMS, and really out-of-control-long bangs, a lot has happened. Things don't change, but everything moves fast. I don't get it. It's been eventful, fun, full of dancing and touching my face in moments of discomfort. So while the CLOWN SHOW IS BECOMING A CIRCUS…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So…as for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mess </span>part of the circus…here’s the title of the week:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let’s talk about things that are embarrassing.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A question I want to ask people in filmed interviews MIGHT be about their first experience at MOKABE’S.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay…um. Anticlimactic. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">first time</span> I ever went to Mokabe’s was with my friend (the LOVELY and soon-to-be-married) Sarah. But…I sat outside into the late night. I didn’t talk to anyone, and I didn’t really know where I was. (The CITY? What’s…the city?)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Good thing she was almost finished with her seventy-page thesis…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Oh right! We studied plays!)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She left to go to the Apple Store. She was not mad and she didn’t even seem upset. For some reason THIS REALLY FREAKED ME OUT. I went DOWNSTAIRS. I SAT STARING AND SAD AND REALLY SAD SAD SAD at everyone around me.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I MIGHT, might, have cried to the lovely people working behind the counter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I OWE MY FRIEND THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. I HAVE FORTY-SEVEN DOLLARS.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway…so…I guess…that was a bonding experience? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also…(because, really, who doesn’t like to hear about other people’s discomfort?) I kept running into one of the girl’s who worked there. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">THE PROBLEM would have normally been that I have a lot of trouble with out-loud human language and general social contact. (I spend a lot of my time thinking about ways to NOT fall down). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The BIGGER problem was that it happened like…<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">three times</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">within…a week.</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And she was always with friends and/or her girlfriend and I was always<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> alone</span>. There was Whole Foods and then there was a (not Mokabe’s,) coffee shop and then there was the art museum. Yes, I was wandering (maybe barefoot?) on art hill, headphones in, and for the THIRD TIME IN A WEEK I HAPPEN TO RUN INTO THIS PERSON. And she was all like…SO NICE and… “you want to go in with us?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I wandered the German expressionism section a little bit behind a group of people I did not know...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Good thing I know her now and that is more funny than it was at the time when I would start sweating profusely and speaking what I meant to be English but what sounded a lot like Russian.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And, also, anyway…those were (some of) my first experiences at MOKABE’S.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So then what?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time passed. I moved place to place. Eventually, (because we’re skipping to only things that humiliate me), I was drunk and living with my wonderfully rambunctiously Alanis Morisette-ly tattooed MOKABE’S barista roommate, trying to make pasta in the early morning hours. Stovetop? Oven? Microwave? Who knows. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He came into our (purple) kitchen, and I THREW my phone across the room in excitement to see him (startled simultaneously by the vibration of a text message). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The phone cracked into several pieces on the linoleum.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ooops.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Also, I was REALLY hoping the text message said something like…</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love you</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">…and I was pretty positive in the moment that the pasta-drunk-phone-throw would result in MASSIVE damage to my potential new affair). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway…those were the two things I have to say about breaking things in proximity to MoKaBe’s?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BUT THIS IS NOT A MOVIE ABOUT ME. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">THIS IS NOT A MOVIE ABOUT BREAKING THINGS.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I DO NOT HAVE AN EXCITING LIFE. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I just thought I’d go first.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And so…if you’ve stumbled upon this and you’ll be at the corner of Arsenal and Grand, <b>PLEASE be ready</b> to tell me your first (or overall) experience of MoKaBe’s. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have had upsets and revelations and moments of real HOME in that place.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And if so…</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is the “why.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><!--EndFragment-->Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807727941141523563.post-71226453414432064042011-05-10T13:16:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:38:40.016-07:00(What is happening?)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">THIS IS HAPPENING:</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I, Liza Birkenmeier </span><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(astro-physicist and juggler),</span></span><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> am about to create a </span></span><span style="font-family:";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">documentary</span></b></span><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> in St. Louis, MO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Is it about coffee and cigarettes or trans identity or lesbianism or dancing or Kei$ha or bicycling or recycling or walking or drugs or money or revenge and love?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I don’t really have any ideas on what this is going to be ABOUT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I don’t really have any ideas on what this is going to be CALLED.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">(I really need you to tell me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thanks so much!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">THE PLACE:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">The place is key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MOKABE’S COFFEE SHOP</span></span><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">on Arsenal and Grand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">Why is this place like any corner in this country and UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I really don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">GO.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'American Typewriter Light', serif;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXI98jiobOJjgpj-hbzR0KmbPf5KLOuqNrh5bDNhtdRCcsHXh9edTy8Rb-ho_CcJyOv1jLSw-aWuVjlUgT3xjotAu84YT_IRFWF0v_AqiNeWKnSAAjuok5F7vP6gQMge9GWrNngmPWkc/s1600/19299725.mokabes.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXI98jiobOJjgpj-hbzR0KmbPf5KLOuqNrh5bDNhtdRCcsHXh9edTy8Rb-ho_CcJyOv1jLSw-aWuVjlUgT3xjotAu84YT_IRFWF0v_AqiNeWKnSAAjuok5F7vP6gQMge9GWrNngmPWkc/s320/19299725.mokabes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605187377022357202" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px; " /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"><br />LET’S TALK ABOUT COFFEE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I’m at a coffee shop right now in Delray Beach, Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s called the SPOT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I’m sitting in the shade of a palm tree on the corner—the doors open, the egrets lurking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4DG14YyXwslp9l2DCW7gcs2NhKU0GDZvJTDnOkgkLpjhvNEHADQdWqAOHk6be7eCTB0UuKkFbuf6vvynK_E0tSp8IW9BDN50bab68dEF6oNxVEGZaI7daHsLK2tpEeD_EPvtEKeXNrNE/s1600/great-egret-tall.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4DG14YyXwslp9l2DCW7gcs2NhKU0GDZvJTDnOkgkLpjhvNEHADQdWqAOHk6be7eCTB0UuKkFbuf6vvynK_E0tSp8IW9BDN50bab68dEF6oNxVEGZaI7daHsLK2tpEeD_EPvtEKeXNrNE/s320/great-egret-tall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605187664005049426" style="cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 320px; " /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">THE CORNER is Atlantic and SE1 Ave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>People are about—tourists, locals, babies, soccer parents, super-tan beachy people, surfer-ish people, older shoppers parking their Porsches…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQa_wVmBAYX4MuXRuBr5jOZRAot3eOa3nPM6E1ehm6FlmCWqFBPwVLEaROZLnyZFwI7dQB7mXHs4Qfc9-ULmKGCZ1AUcpqTR4VkXr_v2LvbmpetRLOx7PufArZRf6LbasMz1qk5YruiU/s1600/pbiri_visitor.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQa_wVmBAYX4MuXRuBr5jOZRAot3eOa3nPM6E1ehm6FlmCWqFBPwVLEaROZLnyZFwI7dQB7mXHs4Qfc9-ULmKGCZ1AUcpqTR4VkXr_v2LvbmpetRLOx7PufArZRf6LbasMz1qk5YruiU/s200/pbiri_visitor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605188471751882786" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 75px; " /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">So no.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I don’t feel like family at THE SPOT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">This is not MY spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">In fact, in most places in South Florida, I’ve been getting sort of “sideways” glances from strangers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">(Okaaaaaay, people are NICE—they really are happy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Their vitamin D levels are probably close to toxic and no one seems to have a job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And the people who do have jobs seem freak-joyous in working at them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For example, usually I don’t like to be called “honey,” but here, everyone calls everyone “honey” at the front desk at the gym or the gas station or the Cuban restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And suddenly I like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Honey, gorgeous, sweetie, pretty…” Because they mean it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I feel like their honey!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And maybe I’m just lonely!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But I like it!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">BUT here’s the thing, with the sideways looks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My basketball shorts and leotard on Clematis Street near the fancy port-side Italian restaurants aren’t really…in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I tend to go to the ocean alone, jump in the waves by myself, and smile at birds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And so then—people look at me.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEULH2TiRTCobf2YymWVGYk1EfJoStOS_WsRjtL_5WisEiBf9XW2PDRbyq9lTpzTVKk5tk9YaEADaM4Ie26tcrEfvIrXd8dliYgCSl4OPNomxxcX1hH7odok8vsL_gLA2Uh2TMlZqtq4/s1600/340x_clown_girl111.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEULH2TiRTCobf2YymWVGYk1EfJoStOS_WsRjtL_5WisEiBf9XW2PDRbyq9lTpzTVKk5tk9YaEADaM4Ie26tcrEfvIrXd8dliYgCSl4OPNomxxcX1hH7odok8vsL_gLA2Uh2TMlZqtq4/s320/340x_clown_girl111.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605188669535481442" style="cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 320px; " /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">SO, like, what.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">THIS PARTICULAR corner—the corner of the up-and-coming yet-to-be-determined film with a yet-to-be-determined title will be at a place that IS my place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Not my place like it belongs to me, not my place like I know all about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But a home kind of thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A place that I go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A place where if someone looks at me with a West Palm Beach Florida-type judgment glare, I know that THEY’RE probably the one who’s…not in the right place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">THIS IS WHAT I NEED…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">(Oh, thanks, I really appreciate it.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I need people to tell me about their Experiences With This Place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I need people to tell me about their</span><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">lives</span></span><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";font-size:16.0pt;"> </span><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">in General.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I’m doing a cross-section of humanity here—and am wildly curious about what brings you to MoKaBe’s, why it might (or might not be) your place, and why it is different from anywhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I want to know about where you live, what you do, what excites you, what happiness may mean or look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is just a sort of GLANCE, or…I don’t know, NOD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I just want to put a slight microscope to the world here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(There).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">I want to get an insider look at the lives-times-dreams-bullshit-whatever of the people around Arsenal and Grand.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">OHMYGOD such a party. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAZiAoZKjsz8VFJPOU55YSFpYFbCupcM4HgjEgDCW1cHUGSD8TN8hYWeSSKleNKp-S44FAZMuf4JnMttkiCRga4mi1czVUNx_Enj5DdObpgYCYYlJbCQuMuQZwciezybc2SSCUWX_NDw/s1600/st_louis_south_grand_01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAZiAoZKjsz8VFJPOU55YSFpYFbCupcM4HgjEgDCW1cHUGSD8TN8hYWeSSKleNKp-S44FAZMuf4JnMttkiCRga4mi1czVUNx_Enj5DdObpgYCYYlJbCQuMuQZwciezybc2SSCUWX_NDw/s320/st_louis_south_grand_01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605188925903449554" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 183px; " /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT YOU.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">YOU WILL BE A MOVIE STAR.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";">Or at least—a star of an experimental documentary that my DRAMA school is allowing me to shoot on my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Why are they letting me do this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ohhh, that’s a question for another time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="American Typewriter Light"font-family:";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Lizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00922067271015400115noreply@blogger.com1