not our cup o' tea

so we were backed into a holiday party at a country club in the snootiest area of this very-snooty-to-begin-with city.

p decided to wear his chuck taylors in passive aggressive protest to having our saturday night hijacked. otherwise, he was nicely attired in dress pants and a dress shirt.

at the coat check, he had a funny exchange with the coat check lady:

ccl: do you need a jacket, sir?

p: no, thanks.

ccl: sir, do you need a jacket?

p: if it's up to me, no. are you telling me i need a jacket?

ccl: we have some here, if you need one, sir.

p: are you telling me i need a jacket?

s: i think by asking you, she's telling you you need a jacket.

p: really? is that right?

ccl: yes, sir.

he found this hilarious and hard to believe. he acted as though a practical joke was being played on him. he accepted the coat forced upon him, ditching it ten steps later on a chair on our way to the group. i came to find out that he had been given advance notice of the dress code, which he thought was just someone trying to be funny. he was surprised when he surveyed the other party goers that he was the only one who interpreted the dress code as a joke.

maybe you had to be there, but it was pretty funny. p tends to be on his best behavior at the oddest occasions, (like the first time he met my dad's best friend, he was so polite his voice was inaudible), but tends towards loud, mocking and insubordinate when, for example, invited to the big boss's country club. i think it shows an admirable hierarchy of respect.

wacko

in 1992, mike huckabee proposed quarantining AIDS patients like was done in the past for TB.

his quotes were in response to an AP questionnaire. He was in the Senate at the time.

"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."
"It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."

"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk."

What's that song that goes like...?

This is AMAZING...except that my microphone is too complicated to set up at the moment and I haven't actually tried it. Maybe you should.
Go to Midomi.com, hum a tune, and it will tell you what you are humming.

This is more than a fun gimmick. For example, one time a couple of years ago, I woke up abruptly from a dream with an incredible melody in my head. I hummed it all day so as not to forget it, concluding that in my sleep I had composed a beautiful song that needed to be remembered and eventually recorded, as an artifact of my genius. Well, I kept humming it until later in the day when I realized it was the melody to "Morning has broken" by Cat Stevens (a song that doesn't even rank among my favorite Cat Stevens songs, incidentally). I was totally bummed.
And, to be honest, this sort of thing happens to me often. So I'm psyched to have a way to check.

motherfuckingcocksucker

AAARGH! i am about to raise high hell. my school's registrar's office just sent me a letter saying that i'm NOT graduating because....well, they don't say why. of course. this is because, in a nutshell, the university of the district of columbia fucking sucks.

i am posting this because i googled "udc fucking sucks" and got no hits, to my severe surprise.

i have received approximately 17,000 verbal confirmations that i met all requirements to graduate, but the letter that i just received today, and should have received a month ago, is what counts.