VallyOFiled under: Open ecards | Tags: birth, i have a lot of feelings, pickled livers, regret, the omf
*Because she just is. Trust us.
Filed under: Required Reading | Tags: because they're lindsay and sam, gay marriage is all the rage, i have a lot of feelings, L. Ron
Reading the news (not just celeb gossip, but real news! And celeb gossip.) this week, I was on rollercoaster of emotion. How is that different from any other week in the life of a lesbian, you ask? Er… I guess it isn’t. However, I’m still going to highlight the ups and downs for you, so you’d better grab a box of tissues.
Bad-news-first style? OK. I write with a heavy heart that our beloved headline-grabbing, label-shunning, chain-smoking, DJ-ing, matching-tattoo-sporting, MySpace-blogging, after-after-Ellen couple, L.Ron, is a couple no more.
To be honest, this makes me sad. Regardless of what these two individuals are like as people, their relationship was actually pretty meaningful to today’s crop of baby dykes. When they started to show up in the tabloid headlines, not as “lesbian lovers” but more as just as two (extremely famous) people in love, it was as if their story had almost transcended the usual tabloid trash. Suddenly we weren’t just staring blankly at the glossies to kill time in the grocery line; we were witnessing some kind of cultural shift. It struck a chord. Maybe we even canned the cynical humor for just a second and started to reflect on some issues that are actually kind of important in our society.
Filed under: Open ecards | Tags: apology not accepted, i have a lot of feelings, regret
[a day early]
Filed under: Required Reading | Tags: FUN-2-3, hx, i have a lot of feelings
Great news, ladies (and also you [one or two?] men who read this. I know you love womanly feelings, otherwise you wouldn’t love my blog so much)!
Carrie and Co. are headed back to the big screen. During an interview on Britain’s The Paul O’Grady Show, Kim Cattrall (a.k.a. Samantha Jones) confirmed they’re shooting another big screen version of Sex and the City. “Yes, there will be a sequel,” she told her interviewer, Spice Girl Melanie Brown. [US Magazine]
SATC 2 official promo poster.
First of all, what the heck was Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown doing interviewing Kim Cattrall? Bizzare. Anyways, SATC sequel! YAY! The only thing I’m wondering is this: since all the loose ends pretty much got tied up in the SATC movie, where do we go from here?
Can we stand to watch Carrie analyze everything to death and F things up with Big again? And Charlotte get all emotional and frantic about everything relating to babies? And Miranda be really mean and bitchy to poor puppy-dog Steve? And Samantha coug it up and have tons of sex and make hilarious sexual innuendo puns? (Well OK we can definitely stand to watch that last one.)
Um, yeah. I’m going to go ahead and pre-order my ticket right now. Heather (and Karebear and Kikki), I’ll start mixing our cosmos.
Filed under: Required Reading | Tags: debbie downer, hx, i have a lot of feelings, politix
Things that make me crack a genuine smile (not one of those smirk thingies I usually do):
1. Obama = President (!!!)
2. Heathie calling me last night in tears of (only sort-of-drunk) joy regarding #1.
<3333 !!!
Yeah, I actually lost my cynicism for a minute. Wow. America, I really… really didn’t think you had it in you. I’m still stunned. But you know what they say: the nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Filed under: Gchatterbox, Required Reading | Tags: colin and i are friends on teh internetz, hx, i have a lot of feelings, politix, regret
[gchat excerpt from this morning]
Colin: are we going to get an election blog post through a lesbian lens?
me: hmm
i hate the election and i’m gay.
there’s the post.
OK people, calm down for just a minute and give me a chance to clarify that statement. It was one of those heat-of-the-moment things so perhaps it didn’t come out quite right. What I was really trying to say was, “I strongly dislike the number and frequency of harassing election-related phone calls (many robocalls, some real [college junior poly-sci major] people) I have received over the past several weeks due to being an unaffiliated voter in a swing state, and society may consider me gay, but I don’t like labels–there’s a spectrum, you know!”
Phew. I guess emotions are running high–or, for lesbos (and [including?] Hx), “higher than usual”–right now with all of this election anxiety. In case you were wondering, yes I did Barack the vote today (Colin: I was Biden my time waiting for you to tell me that). I know my vote doesn’t count (I don’t care what you say, Hx! Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t really mean that. I do care what you say. Every vote counts. The audacity of hope. Obamarama.), but there’s no way I was going to miss out on the coveted “I Voted” sticker. If I get caught walking around town without that thing stuck to my shirt, a bunch of hippie college kids just might feel the need to beat some social consciousness into me with their bong.
Anyway. Back to the robocalls. The following is a list of the people (robots?) who have called me lately to tell me an important message (in no particular order): Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Rudolph Giuliani(?!), John McCain. The following is a list of the people who have not called me lately to tell me an important message: Cindy McCain.
I know, right! What’s up with that? I would have thought that Cindy would have had an important message for me regarding prescription drug addiction, or starving orphans in India, or the loneliness of marriage or something. Well I have a message for you, Cindy: maybe if you’d taken the time to call me I would have voted differently. But it’s too late for that now! Listen Cindy, I’ve said this to your husband (and also to JoJo), and now I’ll say it to you: take a look at my blog title. You feeling a little bit like that right now? (Cindy: “We didn’t want your gay vote anyway.”)
Filed under: Required Reading | Tags: hx, i have a lot of feelings, pop music
I’m sure you know this already, but Paris Hilton–much like Lindsay Lohan–is such a good singer.
Her new single, “My BFF“, totally rules. Not nearly as much as “Nothing in This World”, but you know what, she’ll never top that one. Anyways, you know why I like this jam so much? Because it reminds me of that special someone:
Who are you texting three hundred times a day?
That’s right, a socialite singing about how hard it is to find a true BFF when you’re a socialite makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. That is so not right. I have a problem.
Heather… reassure me!
Filed under: Lezzie Celebs, Required Reading | Tags: i have a lot of feelings, L. Ron
So by now you’ve heard the totally awesome news: Lindsay dropped the bomb! Well actually, it wasn’t very bomb-like at all. It was more like a casual affirmation (non-denial?). But still a huge deal. I know I said it was cool with me if those two didn’t want to do any relationship-defining. But when I read the news today, I just couldn’t prevent this little smile-type thingy from cracking on my surly face.
Special thank you to Virb for emailing me about the news an hour before I even got in to work. It was a great, gay way to start my morning! (Stupid Mountain Standard Time difference. And poor Alex, another hour behind on breaking L. Ron news!) But anyway, the important thing is that we’re all caught up now, so we can gchat about it incessantly for the rest of the day (and for days to come).
Also I love this pic. I’ve been seeing it everywhere lately but I’m going to post it anyway. And I’m not even going to alter it with Paint, because those smiles say it all, and I have a lot of feelings today.
Filed under: Required Reading | Tags: fish tacos, i have a lot of feelings
[I'm just going to go ahead and label this post SO GAY. For those of you keeping score, feel free to use it as grounds for awarding me more gay points.]
Let me start out with a little story. I’m on a totally awesome intramural ultimate frisbee team called Team Vagina (consisting of both men and women, if you were wondering). At our game Tuesday night, I was heckling the opposing team’s sideline. I taunted, “Hey, how about you guys do some vagina cheers for us?”
Everyone gave me a confused, upset look and one girl said, “WHAT?” Then I realized they probably didn’t know why I was talking about vag. So I said, “Our team name is VAGINA, so you should do a vagina cheer.”
And the girl exclaimed, “Ew, that’s GROSS!!!!”
I tried to explain to her that vaginas are not gross, they are beautiful, but she totally wasn’t having it.
Filed under: Lezzie Celebs, Required Reading | Tags: a.chan, erin (is easily outraged), i have a lot of feelings, L. Ron
Lindsay Lohan and the New Definition of “Out” (Thanks Alex)
As you can clearly tell, blogging incessantly about L. Ron is both fun and hilarious. But it’s actually cool for another reason which I haven’t touched upon that much (except maybe with the Dunst quote): it’s positive media coverage of two women who live openly in a same-sex relationship, and don’t deny or hide it, but refuse to define it with words. For those of us who “don’t like labels” (which, yes, is a gay thing to say, but is also true) this is pretty meaningful.
“But Val, you love labels! Your blog is soooo gay.”
