Kitty Power

Nuggets

9. The movies: Mystic Pizza, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Dirty Dancing, Grease and The Cutting Edge. Seriously, that last one is like the female Slap Shot. "Toepick!" may just be the best pick-up line ever.

Gotta admit that he's got me on Girls Just Want To Have Fun and The Cutting Edge (but the rest of the movies would probably be Sixteen Candles, Dead Alive, and a buppie romantic comedies like Hav Plenty). Between Channel 9 (WWOR, baby!) and cable, I've seen them both a million times easy. He might not have it all right, but he's probably better than most on breaking the code.

After a decade or two of dating boys, we ladies get to a point where we’re sick and tired of coddling emotional basketcases who are always certain there’s someone "better" lurking around the corner, and behave accordingly. We get tired of the inevitable post-coital freakout/apres-blowjob disclaimer speech:

Him: "I hope this isn’t a problem for you, but I’m really too deep and tortured to have a girlfriend right now."

Her: "I totally understand. Thanks for sharing that with me after I’ve swallowed your semen. I’m now going to rip your scrotum off with my teeth–I hope that’s not a problem for you."

A decade or two?!?! Man, I'm so way ahead of schedule! Go me!

In the "snark is good" category, I'm loving The Minor Fall, The Major Lift. Especially since I've been listening to Grace lately and though I actually dislike that song, I've got a soft spot for it because Jeff made it sound so nice. I've got to admit, I'm amused by the big mystery about them. Is it really a "them"? Or is someone invoking the royal "we"? Oh, wait...I don't care. I think it's more fun when bloggers have some anonymity unlike you know, me. Though, I've gotten better with things like that as I've been doing this web thing over the years. But, the web (like my old schools) are very stalker friendly -- if you're into that sort of thing.

I think this would be almost funny if they weren't selling it at freaking Urban Outfitters. Just like Abercrombie with that chinese laundry shirt, it's real easy for those marketing to the white bread of the white breads to be all "we're bringing everyone closer together through humor." Where the hell is the vanilla suburbia game complete with clueless apathy, flavorlessness, wiggerism, and idle drug use? Or the WASP game where you get platinum cards and a Mom named Muffy? That's something I'd buy. ETA: Hot off the Gothamist press: "Due to customer concerns, Urban Outifitters no longer sells the board game 'Ghettopoly.'" Wow...a boycott that works. How you like them apples?!

Posted by Candicissima at October 9, 2003 11:59 PM