Funny Story

So at a recent Justin Bond performance--but not recent enough!-- s/he told us a hilarious story about being backstage at Carnegie Hall during the McGarrigle Christmas Hour, which I was at with my love. I could never tell it as JB does (plenty of laffs on his blog), but Dust and I thought it was MARIO.

So backstage at Carnegie Hall, Our Lady J turns to Justin and asks her: "Hey Justin, can you do my backfat?" And Justin says "Sure" and comes over and helps J with her dress. Emmylou Harris was also in the same dressing room, and says: "Excuse me, what did you just say?" to which J says, "You know, do my backfat. If you push it to the front it makes cleavage. You know, we all have backfat." The profundity of this statement was not lost on Emmylous, as she repeats, solemnly, "We all have backfat." As Justin tells it, as they were heading onstage, he hears her say again, in a whisper: "We all have backfat."

Here's a Venn diagram that I made in Paint of the amount of people in this world who may think this was funny:

I slipped and then you pulled. You pulled me up.

My friend Beth texts me today at 7:30: I slipped and then you pulled. You pulled me up.



thanks b! i needed that

And another

Oh wait, I found another one. This one says OH HAI in Georgian, which has been scrubbed from the internet. The granddaddy of free language sites does not have a Georgian entry, nor does this crazy cat who's trying to decide which language he wants to learn, trying them all on for size as he goes....



Wait, is this it?
Hello (gamarjoba) გამარჯობა
That's what this kitty said!

For the cat ladies

Since the cat ladies have me on RSS or something, here's a little something for them. This krazy kitty was found in the Museum of History and Ethnography in Tblisi, Georgia. I hear s/he speaks Georgian and scary kitty voice. I'm unable to discern sex or gender identity from the photo, but the whiskers skew male.

Ha!

from my brother neebo.

you keep it all in

this is what i'm telling myself to do today.
i put the lyrics down below....


by the Beautiful South

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

Thats right
The conversation we had last night
When all I wanted to do was
Knife you in the heart
I kept it all in

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight
A daughter sleeps alone with the light
Turned on, she hears but
Keeps it all in

Just like that murder in 73
Just like that robbery in 62
With all there things that have happened to me
I kept it all in
Why do you keep on telling me now

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

Thats sweet
That conversation we had last week
When you gagged and bound me up to my seat
Youre right, I do
I keep it all in

it's fun to discover why people are legends

oh yes, as caro reminds me, it IS fun to discover why people are legends. sure, i've seen cabaret before... and loved it, but c'mon, being in a movie can't be that hard, and cheating is rife. but when i was with my bedridden bf (who's just had a part of his digestive tract removed) watching cable where he was dogsitting the other night, we stumbled onto LIZA WITH A Z. I can't even tell you how great she is in this. I always thought she was just famous because of her mom, but man, she's a show-woman. I called it as a Bob Fosse production in about two minutes, which is a joy. Watch this medley from Cabaret and just breathe in the Liza. with a Z.