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17 August 2005

Yuma, Arizona is freaking hot. →[More:]Why anyone would want to live in some place where the average temperature in August is twelve degrees hotter than Frisbee Girl, Melissa May, and Amberglow in matching unitards, and this ,is not even debatable because the heat (oh, it's a dry heat but who the fuck cares, IT IS HOT dammit) sucks out all one's brain juice and the only thing that can make it better is the alluring draw of tequila except of course that tequila has alcohol in it which makes your brain juice suck out even faster than Courtney Love at an all you can snort smackfest until you finally just give up and say to yourself, "Self, I am in Dante's 18th circle, the circle that he had to cut out of the final version cause no one would believe he wasn't just hitting the absinthe in copious amounts" and lay down in a lettuce field somewhere to await your pruney death which would be a much preferable way to go than just slowly evaporating in the Easy Bake Oven which is known as Yuma, Arizona is beyond my dried cranberry brain.

God help me.

post by: DeepFriedTwinkies at: 21:45 | 16 comments

But how could you ever fry those Twinkies in a cool climate?

posted by mudpuppie 17 August | 21:48

Love always finds a way, mud.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 17 August | 21:52

but it's a dry heat! ; >

posted by amberglow 17 August | 22:07

(if it makes you better, altho it didn't me, it was in the 80s in Alaska last week)

posted by amberglow 17 August | 22:20

Oh amber, amber, amber. :-(

That's like saying trolls use nouns. But it was sweet of you to try.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 17 August | 22:20

Some people just have no sense of Yuma.

posted by George_Spiggott 17 August | 23:19

Deep Fried Twinkies, George, that was fabulous. And I say this not because of the three glasses of crisp flowery Bordeaux, the lovely fragrant brandy or the oh so cold bubbly champagne. I say this because you are indeed fabulous, both of you.

And so are you, Amber and mudpuddpie. Everything's fabulous, come to think of it.

posted by puddinghead 18 August | 00:28

Holy smokes, I came in to make some jibe about the truly unfortunate geometry required to slap me into a unitard, only to discover that George_Spiggott is the inarguable mot juste king. It is now pointless to attempt comedy in this thread, so I'll try sympathy, instead. Poor hot DFT! Get cool soon, sweets.

posted by melissa may 18 August | 00:36

here's my grandma's favorite pre-ac trick: put the insides of your wrists under cold water from the tap for a few minutes. (it really works for a little while)

posted by amberglow 18 August | 01:00

FINALLY! Someone bitching about weather that's hotter than mine. It was only like a 100 here in Phoenix today.

Also: It's not a dry heat, damnit. It's still monsoon season for a month or two more, which means 30-100% humidity at 100-115 degrees. Jesus. I might as well be in New Orleans.

posted by loquacious 18 August | 02:24

It seems the season has rolled over, here; the clouds sailed in last night with a lovely, cool, gusty wind that blew all the muck away (photo from yesterday evening), and now there's this beautiful autumn light and gentle breeze. Perfection. (*gloat*)

posted by taz 18 August | 03:37

We've been having better weather too--much lower humidity and highs in the low 80s only.

posted by amberglow 18 August | 08:14

I second amberglow's grandma's pre-ac trick, and wonder if we don't share a grandma.

This week is nicer here than last week. On Saturday I was at a park when I realized I had, for the first time since childhood, wet my pants. On closer examination I found that it was just my right leg melting in the heat.

posted by Hugh Janus 18 August | 09:07

When I woke up on Saturday morning in Houston, the temp was 80 degrees and the humidity was 80 percent. But I had a gate post to pull and replace. By the time I had smashed and removed the old concrete footing, pulled the post, dug the hole (deep and wide this time), set the new post, mixed and poured concrete, and cleaned up, I had gone through three changes of clothing, from sweat band to socks. By that afternoon the temps were in the low 90's and humidity about 60%.

I suspect that if I had to do this job in Yuma I would have died.

posted by sarah connor 18 August | 09:40

Yeah, and I always have people asking me (when I tell them I grew up in Buffalo, NY): "How can people LIVE there?!?!!" In response, I simply cite the old Scandinavian proverb: "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes."

But when it's hotter than hell (like it gets here in Texas), there' only so much you can take off to adjust for the heat.

posted by Doohickie 18 August | 15:17

Ooh yeah, take it all off, uh huh!

posted by Hugh Janus 18 August | 16:10

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