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By Rebecca, March 21, 2010 9:41 am

What I came home to on Thursday:

Dunno who did it, but it made me laugh.

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By Rebecca, March 13, 2010 12:15 pm

Last night was the big fundraising and show-opening benefit. I ended up working for a little over 14 hours, from shortly before 10AM until just about midnight.

The building was closing at midnight, which meant that everyone needed to be out. I remember (and text messages with coworkers confirm) that at about 11:40PM there were still maybe a dozen people in our very small office. I apparently decided that it would be a good idea to sing a version of “All Around the Mullberry Bush” that culminated with me yelling “BECCA NEEDS YOU TO GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!” I was not drunk – I’d had a single small drink – but I was extremely tired.

My boss was there,  but took slight mental breakdown with good humor.

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By Rebecca, March 3, 2010 8:50 pm

Seen in the building where I work:

And up close:

(That ’sign’ actually came with a photograph that the City wanted hung in a prominent location. The hanging on the instructions was the work of a building employee with a sense of humor.)

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By Rebecca, February 16, 2010 8:08 pm

A few years ago, one of my coworkers came across Steak and BJ Day. From the aforementioned site:

March 14th is now officially “Steak and Blowjob Day”. Simple, effective and self explanatory, this holiday has been created so you ladies finally have a day to show your man how much you care for him.

This really bugged me, and in response I created Cupcake and Shut The Hell Up Day:

Basically, ‘Steak and BJ Day’ assumes a number of things which are incorrect (I’m inferring some of these assumptions, some of them are flat-out listed on the ‘Steak and BJ Day’ website).

1. Valentine’s Day is only for women, and there’s no way for men to enjoy Valentine’s Day or for two people in a relationship to share the day together
2. Women don’t like sex (The ‘Steak and BJ Day’ page says the gift men get for women is inevitably loving, thought out, and wonderful, but implies Valentine’s Day isn’t about sweet lovin’ and that a little cunnilingus now and then isn’t a good thing)
3. Every day isn’t already ‘Steak and BJ Day’

With that in mind, I’m declaring March 14 to be ‘Cupcake and Shut The Hell Up Day.’

Because the lady in your life deserves a cupcake.

And you ‘Steak and BJ Day’-ers need to shut the hell up.

I still think all that’s true, and the idea of Cupcake and Shut The Hell Up Day still really amuses me. (Even if it doesn’t roll off the tongue like Steak and BJ Day.)

But I just got an auto-reminder that the domain (cupcakeandshutthehellupday.com, obviously) expires next month. So now I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth the $10 to renew the domain. On the one hand, I still think it’s pretty funny. On the other hand, no one actually knows (or cares) about Cupcake and Shut The Hell Up Day.

Is it worth spending $10 a year on a joke only I find funny?

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By Rebecca, December 29, 2009 1:41 pm

I’m sure someone else has done this, but the idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while. Links go to video or audio where possible, and lyrics for when I couldn’t find anything else.

So, Soundtrack for a Transition track list

1. How Lovely To Be A Woman – Bye Bye Birdie (song stars about 35 seconds in, here are the lyrics)
2. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin (lyrics)
3. I Don’t Need a Man – The Pussycat Dolls (lyrics)
4. When I Was A Boy – Dar Williams (lyrics) Continue reading 'Soundtrack for a transition'»

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By Rebecca, November 10, 2009 6:42 pm

A friend of mine was at an event yesterday morning where Tony Kushner accepted a literary award from the Chicago Tribune. She said it was great, if early, and that Kushner was both funny and serious at the event. She mentioned a specific line, though, about how Kushner feels when his work succeeds in Chicago: “As a kind of effete, foofy New Yorker, I always got a special degree of satisfaction and accomplishment when anything that I’ve done succeeds in butch Chicago.”

Which got me asking myself, is Chicago butch?

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By Rebecca, November 7, 2009 8:35 pm

Inspired by a game I led at class today…

• Death by the deliciousness of a delicious cupcake
• Death by the desire to be called on in class
• Death by being crushed by cotton balls
• Death by miming
• Death by procrastination
• Death by crippling embarrassment
• Death by too much fun
• Death by enlightenment

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By Rebecca, October 17, 2009 9:12 pm

I just watched the season premier of 30 Rock, and it has a scene with Tracy Jordan wandering outside of NBC, trying to make friends with a “normal” person.

He wanders from person to person, being super-awkward, and finally goes up to a pedicab, saying, “Are you a pre-op trans-centaur?”

I don’t remember the last time a tv show has made me laugh outloud and, upon rewinding to make sure I got the joke, made me laugh out loud again.

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By Rebecca, October 12, 2009 8:25 pm

With a nod to Texts From Last Night.

(Her) Advice: If you ever think it would be funny to run up the down escalator barefoot, you would be very very wrong. Very.

(Me) This would be hypotehtical information, I’m sure…

(Her) Yes, I did not bleed all over the floor at the HRC national dinner and get reprimanded by the Secret Service. Not at all.

(With apologies to the one who texted me, cuz I know you read this blog!)

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By Rebecca, September 29, 2009 11:26 pm

I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a bit of an obsession with TV Tropes, with tropes defined as “devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.” It’s as great a time-killer as WikiPedia, with more mass media and less actual “knowledge.” In addition to describing the trope, each page also has a list of comics/books/movies/shows/etc that demonstrate the trope (and often have snarky commentary as a nice bonus). Basically, it’s this.

Anyway, I’ve been bookmarking TV Tropes pages about gender, sexuality, and trans issues. As a culture-related site with a page about the Whateley universe, they have some good pages that seemed like they were worth sharing.

We’ll start with Transsexual. Their definition -  “people who are not at all happy with the sex they were born with (more clinically, whose gender identity is out of whack with their biological sex)” – actually isn’t too bad. They also go on to differentiate between transgender, transsexual, transvestite, and so-on.

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