On 8/14/06, dan wrote:
So were you there this weekend? Did we talk? It's all a blur when I go to those things.
d

Yeah, you and I talked briefly in the elevator, but I didn't want to bug you too much, since I understand how things must be when you're speaking at an event. I was tabling a booth and, as you said, that alone was enough stress, being smiley and informative all day. Good joke, that: it really hits home.

LOL, at the booth I was stuck facing ***** *****'s rodeo video all day. Remember Alex with his eyes pinned open watching horrific scenes of violence in A Clockwork Orange? Yeah. Fuck. I'll be dreaming about abused cows and horses for months and I may snap and kick the hell out of the next "cowboy" I meet, all whilst crooning "Singing in the Rain."

*****'s great, too, but, Damn!--he keeps about six women on a string at any given time. A friend of mine had the ***** experience, LOL. On breaking up with her, ***** explained to her the ***** guys' AR formula: there're nine guys to every one woman activist, and half the guys are gay, making life a party for the occasional heterosexual man. Sheesh. But ***** kicks ass for the animals, which is what matters, I suppose.

For your hopeful amusement: my hotel room arrangements were fux0red so I slept on Anthony Marr's floor late-night Friday, then in my car instead of in the all-night party "communal room" Saturday, then I drove home all night Sunday with clothes and papers and bottles of gin and tonic strewn all over from living out of my car, which would've looked like something out of a Hunter S Thompson story if it only had a .45 and various drugs in the glove compartment.

Seeya inna funny pages,

Shane
http://www.shane.lohvoh.org/