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Jon was looking at stuff about my birthday and found that the #1 song at the time of my birth was Madonna's "Like a Virgin".  What's even weirder is that she was 27 when she did this song!!!!

When I watch the video I can't help but think about how that's what was going on in the world when I was brought in to it.  

The more I think about it the more I feel like all the pieces are falling in to place.  

and then I remember this:

and my mind is blown.

my feelings exactly

I'm not going to lie, I was disappointed by the VMA's last night.  Mostly because this didn't happen, and was instead replaced by a weird multi-britney dance team.  I could have done with 75% less of the Lady Gaga manologue as well.  Britney's face says it all, although I also really enjoyed their interaction when she had to get on stage to accept her award.

It reminded me a lot of this:



Otherwise, I'm glad Nicki Minaj won because she was just so cute when she got up to the microphone.  She was the only person that seemed genuinely excited to be winning.  I also enjoyed Beyonce rubbing her bump after her song, even if it was a little theatrical.

I guess overall I just woke up this morning with a feeling of sadness that the Britney tribute did not go down as planned.  What a missed opportunity.

I make bad choices

I once again found myself in alligator alley with the needle dancing in the red.  I don't know what my problem is.  This time I was going in the opposite direction, and I guess I thought I had enough gas to get to the gas station that I stopped at the last time I almost ran out.  I thought this gas station was right at the edge but apparently it's not at all so I once again almost ran out of gas.  I took this picture when I arrived at the pump, I'm not sure how many miles my car had left in her.  At least the cruise control didn't shut itself off like the 3 series did.

And for those of you who said that the fences keep the alligators away from the road nowadays (scott) let me just say that I definitely saw alligator road kill this time.  I have yet to see any giant pythons but I will scream like a little girl as soon as I do.

In keeping with my theme of making bad choices I decided to put the top down when I stopped for gas.  I think I was just so relieved to have made it that I thought nothing else could go wrong.

As you can see it looks like blue skies and fluffy white clouds, but that is the florida rain phenomenon.  You never know when it's going to strike, the sun can still be blindingly bright but it's just a deluge of rain.  This was the case shortly after I got back on the road, deep in the heart of alligator alley.  There was no way I was pulling over to put the top up so I just rolled up the windows and relied on the aerodynamics of fine german engineering to keep me dry.  It did ok, I'm not sure if having the windows up and the windscreen helped or hurt the air flow in terms of keeping me dry.  The rain kind of formed a rivulet along the window which, upon reaching the back, flew around and in to the car for a gentle steady hosing. Otherwise though I remained pretty dry.  Just kind of a windy mist swirling around the inside of the car, kind of refreshing actually.

I don't think I will be making a habit of going rain riding in my car though, but it's good to know that I won't get completely drenched if I get caught in the rain.  As long as I keep my speed up.  It's kind of like that movie about a bus that had to speed around the city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, the bus would explode.  I think it was called, "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down".  source

I'm glad that Jonathan sent me this as it caused me to listen to nothing but Britney the whole way down and back.  I seriously hope that article is telling the truth, I can't wait.  And maybe I will still be homeless when the VMA's come around so it will be no big thing for me to camp out for a week before hand so I can be right up close!

Silver linings, silver linings.

heebie jeebies

you might have to click on the picture to make it bigger to see what's going on with this guy.

I was meeting Esha at the Met for drinks on the roof on Friday. While I was waiting and people watching I came face to face with this guy who had a python wrapped around his torso in the style of one B. Spears circa the "i'm a slave for you" vma performance:





I wanted to get a better picture but I can't help being freaked out by snakes. My brother had pet snakes growing up and having lived in Florida I def saw my fair share of wild snakes as well. We certainly went on enough educational field trips where we learned all about snakes so that we knew not to be afraid of them, but just to be knowledgeable about dealing with them blah blah blah. I mean, obviously this guys snake must be pretty well behaved if he can wander around manhattan with it and most people didn't even notice but still. Creepy!!

I think it's something about seeing how strong they are when they move. Seeing all those muscles you can't help but think about it squeezing the breath out of you.

On the plus side, snakes also always remind me of Anaconda featuring one Jennifer Lopez, who never performed with a live snake on the VMA's but did wear this dress to the grammy's :

and I think it's been too long since we've come together as a nation to acknowledge the amazingness of it. I mean, that is a dress. Up yours gaga, you can wear all the weirdo lace volcano headdresses you want but until you start showing up to events in single pieces of fabric held together by a single broach right at your vagina, and a whole lot of double sided tape, I don't want to hear about how you're a "fashion icon".

So anyways, the point of this post is that I don't like snakes and was uncomfortable with this man walking amongst the crowds with his large python.