08.16.2004 - 6:54 p.m.
Monday
The amount of wonderful emails
and comments I got from you after I posted my last entry was
fucking staggering, and if I could say it just right - if I could
tell you just how that made me feel, I would. But I can't, I
can't do it perfect, and you deserve the sort of perfect
response worthy of your kindness and generosity, so let me just
say this: thank you. Thank you so, so much.
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In a very last-minute spontaneous
sort of journey, JB and I spent the weekend in Vancouver, BC,
which was fun and pretty and chock full of urbaney goodness.
We stayed at a Westin hotel downtown, which not only had a knockout
view but also provided the most wonderfully supple, ivory-hued,
clothesline-fresh, edible 23067396-thread count bed I've
ever had the privilege to sprawl on.
It was simply one of those
magical weekends that is hard to capture with words, so I'll
just touch on the highlights: dinner at a smoooove sort of restaurant
that served seared ahi on bruschetta that made my eyes roll back
and dangle briefly in a joyful spasm down in my nasal passages,
a Death By Chocolate concoction consisting of a vat of ganache,
and let me just say, I know this is an odd request, but please,
should I die, consider my last wish to be spread with layers
and layers of ganache over my corpse, FUCK the embalming crap,
because I know, I know, I'll be dead, ew and all, but hey - GANACHE,
oh my god, ganache, that fattening creamy delectable 8th
world wonder, and even if I'm six feet under and my flesh is
rotting from my bones in great peeling maggot-ridden swaths,
I will KNOW, by god, that the ganache is still with me, and it
will be ALL GOOD.
After dinner, there was window-shopping,
people-watching, and silly-photo-taking. Vancouver is sparkly
and vibrant and has tons of nice helpful - albeit a wee bit twitchy-eyed
- people offering you marijuana and it is ALSO home to a marvelously
stinky Lush store that I want to live in forever and ever, surrounded
by cheese-shaped wedges of lavender massage bars and cupcakey
pink vanilla bath melts.
Our hotel sported the kind
of bathtub that had a no-shit Olympic-sized deep end, so upon
retiring for the evening I dumped in various Lush bombs and floated
majestically while JB ferreted out, ho ho HO, let's not omit
details here, some hotel porn on the living room television.
Glistening with coconut body butter and spritzed with (O I am
so ashamed of buying this crap but DAMN it smells good) Jessica
Simpson's "Taste" fragrance, I emerged from the bathroom
in an aromatic cloud meant to entice JB into a drooling sex zombie
but in reality probably stood there reeking like one of those
stale-ass birthday cakes made by pimply teenagers in Baskin-Robbins
("Happy Fith Birthday BilLy!").
I did, because I am a nasty
little duckling, sit down and watch some of the porn for a while,
which was VERY entertaining because the filmmaker had wedged
in this hilariously putrid Babewatch/Rocky-esque dialogue in
between all the requisite hide-the-sausage-in-various-orifices
footage.
CHEESY BEACH SETTING; POSSIBLY
A LARGE SANDBOX BEING USED AS PROP:
God, Jerry, he's dead! He's
dead! It's all my fault!
Oh Sally, don't cry.. (Mauls
both breasts comfortingly)
Jerry, I just don't know what to do�I hid the body...I�I
abandoned my�my lifeguard credo!!
Sally! Get ahold of yourself! You're with me now, and I'll save
you. I'm here for you. I'll never let anything happen to you.
You'll be the best lifeguard in the world, baby, and no one will
ever know what happened�
Jerry, how could I have ever doubted you. You just wait, I'll
be back on my feet in no time. I'll show them! This girl hasn't
hung up her safety vest yet!
Damn right, Sally.You're damn right. MONCH SLURP GLORP
"Bow chicka wow wowwwww.."
Well, eventually the TV was
abandoned, the bedroom lights clicked off, and in this recap,
I leave you, dear readers, there. (You can, um, change the channel
if you want. Maybe Leno is on.)
It was deliciously pleasant
to wake up to buttery sunlight streaming in our high rise windows,
and to watch the city aglow in morning activity. A little coffee,
a little packing up, and we ventured back out to embark upon
my last Vancouver activity: finding #3 in the Preacher comic
book series, the last one I needed for my collection. O frabjous
day!
Vancouver, you rule.
�
It was even worth the godawful
wait at customs, and I wouldn't just say that about ANY city,
eh?
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comments so far.
I have moved. - 1.03.2005 Obviously, a work in progress. - 12.27.2004 Happy holidays! - 12.24.2004 Listen, I am not a complete dick, it's not like I want Joe to die alone surrounded by cats or something. - 12.23.2004 Plus I am convinced my butt is extra big when it's upside down. - 12.22.2004
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