tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post115273573313904365..comments2023-10-19T07:54:32.841-04:00Comments on Quod She: The triumphant return of my freak magnetDr. Viragohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1154372114594259462006-07-31T14:55:00.000-04:002006-07-31T14:55:00.000-04:00And that’s what I think my so-called Freak Magnet ...<I>And that’s what I think my so-called Freak Magnet was/is all about. It’s about being a woman alone, on her own, in public.</I><BR/><BR/>Amen, sister. Amen.Ancrene Wiseasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02075637582360688845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152901877912869192006-07-14T14:31:00.000-04:002006-07-14T14:31:00.000-04:00I'd think you with a mustache would look a little ...<I>I'd think you with a mustache would look a little more like a 70s porn star</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, one of the skinny ugly ones.<BR/><BR/>Damn! Tom Petty. Now I've got it stuck in my head.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152897533293618822006-07-14T13:18:00.000-04:002006-07-14T13:18:00.000-04:00Hey Karl, btw, I just realized that the Neko Case ...Hey Karl, btw, I just realized that the Neko Case song I referred to isn't called "Tacoma" (though it's about the town) -- it's called "Thrice All American."Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152832591903874092006-07-13T19:16:00.000-04:002006-07-13T19:16:00.000-04:00they sang things like “American Girl.”Oh, that's r...<I>they sang things like “American Girl.”<BR/><BR/>Oh, that's rich! It's totally hot when guys try to pick up ladies by singing misogynist Canadian rock.</I><BR/><BR/>You're thinking of "American Woman" by The Guess Who (the <I>first</I> Canadian band to have a #1 hit in the US, btw) which would have been rich indeed. "American Girl" is by Tom Petty, and at heart is a cheery enough ode to American girls. And when you're in Terre Haute, the lyrics "She couldn't help thinkin' there was a little more to life somewhere else" is pretty apt. But it always makes me think of <I>Silence of the Lambs</I> (well, at least since 1991) and so ultimately isn't much better. Cuz, ya know, it's hot to try to pick up women by making them think of homocidal maniacs who want to make dresses out of their skins!<BR/><BR/>Tacoma, eh? Do you know the Neko Case song? I realized the other day that just a few little changes and that song would suit Rust Belt quite well.<BR/><BR/>I'm going to have to remember 411 -- that *could* come in handy.<BR/><BR/>I'd think you with a mustache would look a little more like a 70s porn star. Bullock didn't really look like the TV Bullock -- mainly b/c his ends kept curling up -- and instead looked like a guy in a Sears Catalog ad drawing ca. 1910. But I thought it kind of looked hot, maybe because it made me think of men in their boxers.<BR/><BR/>And tell the Wifey that mustaches are way hot right now. You'd be a trend-setting *hipster* pederast!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152829273960466622006-07-13T18:21:00.000-04:002006-07-13T18:21:00.000-04:00they sang things like “American Girl.”Oh, that's r...<I>they sang things like “American Girl.”</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, that's rich! It's totally hot when guys try to pick up ladies by singing misogynist Canadian rock.<BR/><BR/>When I was a teen, my brother and I dubbed the weirdest of public transportation people 'bus trolls.' We surmised that they road the bus all day because they actually lived in a cave in the bus station itself. Not kind, but really, Tacoma had a lot of trolls.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you have all my sympathy. You're not a freak magnet though. It's just that most men suck.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I knew this guy years ago who stole a cop's duffle bag. In it, he found a binder that had codes to make descriptions of suspects easier. # codes for any usual crappy tattoo you could imagine. And mullets? They were "11." Moustache? "4"? So what I'd once called 'The Randy Johnson' because the 411. I'm sure you might get some use out of this.<BR/><BR/>Bullock's a lucky man. Wifey says I can't grow a moustache until I get tenure (which means I have to get a job first...). Why? "Because it makes you look like a pederast." Is that problem?Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152739421849039352006-07-12T17:23:00.000-04:002006-07-12T17:23:00.000-04:00Yes, I re-dubbed the Boyfriend "Bullock" earlier t...Yes, I re-dubbed the Boyfriend "Bullock" earlier this summer when he grew a Bullock-style moustache and soul patch in honor of the new season of Deadwood. Plus he digs the Bullock character and he needed a less generic pseudonym. (And he named our wireless network "Deadwood" -- we're a little obsessed around here, and not just because I used to be neighbors with "Trixie.") I think I need to post a "cast of characters" thingy in the side bar. Of course, I also need to update my hideously out of date blogroll, too!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1152738801136732662006-07-12T17:13:00.000-04:002006-07-12T17:13:00.000-04:00And that’s what I think my so-called Freak Magnet ...<I>And that’s what I think my so-called Freak Magnet was/is all about. It’s about being a woman alone, on her own, in public. It’s why it hasn’t been so strong in Rust Belt because I don’t take public transportation and more often than not I’m out with Bullock or with Victoria. I’m not alone in public as much as I was in the big cities.</I><BR/><BR/>I think that this is so, so true, and as someone who's a big walker and public transportation rider, and who tends to go places alone, it makes me really pissed off.<BR/><BR/>(But--it also made me pissed off when I realized, as I was packing up for my move, that I was consciously feeling pleased about the fact that in my new place I'd have a car, and be living in a place with a much lower population density and a much less active street life--and so probably wouldn't encounter as much intrusiveness. Why SHOULD one have to insulate oneself in this way?)<BR/><BR/>Oh, and an unrelated P.S.: what's the origin of the Bullock pseudonym? <I>Deadwood</I>, or something else?Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.com