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Still at work, with a ton to do. Won't have much time off this weekend, but next weekend I'll be in Zurich with Patty before she comes up here for a couple of days. So hey. I need to book hotels later.

I REALLY MISS FOOD IN NYC RIGHT NOW. I knew I was spoiled, but I had no idea how much. I want a steak with some frizzled shallots at like 3am in the worst way. Seriously, I'm even craving The Odious (what we New Yorkers who are really over it but still go there sometimes anyway call The Odeon).

Wrote, very early in the morning for most of you, this week's Theater Thursday, which is about power and responsibility and being a director and stuff I know about people and (one of the many reasons) I felt like an asshole when I was in Sydney. Considering it only has one real comment and one spam comment so far today, it could really use some love. I also noticed than when I wrote about directors in the piece, I defaulted to the male pronoun, even when I was effectively speaking of myself -- I have enough issues (from traditional writing to my own gender identity) that this could be caused by any number of things, but I just reread the thing and went "Wow, issues." But hey, I'm okay with that if you're okay with that.

Dogboy & Justine currently has 63 backers for a total of $3,170 in pledges. We still need to raise about $65 per day, every day, to stay on track to meet our goal, which is the only way we'll receive the funding.

Part of a Qantas jet engine dropped off the plane in flight. So now they've grounded their A380s. I feel like the same exact thing happened with before I went down there.

YOU GUYS! This was totally my childhood. The NYT doesn't quite get it. The debutante ball really hasn't dwindled in New York. It 's just always been of _such_ a rarified old-money class here that the world it's for is far more hidden than it was even in my childhood and teen years. But, er, yeah. Sometimes you all want to know what the world I grew up in was like, or don't believe it existed. Well, read that. It's one of the places I was sent as if it was (and it wasn't) for someone of my kind.

The Lost Bohemia above Carnegie Hall.

Boy wears Daphne (Scooby Do) costume to school for Halloween, other parents freak out. This is one of the privileges of growing up a girl -- it was usually safe to at least play at being a boy.

Comments

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

That boy is totally rocking the Daphne look! And I have a secret internet crush on his mom, who is not worried that his classmate is going to grow up to become a ninja just because he dressed like one for Halloween. I lolled.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

This is one of the privileges of growing up a girl -- it was usually safe to at least play at being a boy.

Very good point.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

The Cafe Odeon probably isn't remotely the same. (I can't speak for whether or not they have any celiac-friendly food either)

[sethg]

Aside from the general homophobia!FAILness of the Daphne story... if a boy can’t dress up in drag on Halloween....!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Well said on FB, by the way. (As a cook, caterer, and editor, I couldn't help but watch the storm...)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Randomly: how 'bout an Inception mouse?

[botia.livejournal.com]

My husband wears dresses and skirts occasionally, and his reason: "I don't believe there should be 'women's' clothing and 'men's' clothing."

And he has prettier gothy dresses than I do. And a tall, skinny frame so I can't share :P He was wearing a gorgeous black and red velvet and brocade gown (with a fishnet shirt underneath) the night we met at the goth club. So pretty, and I have been glued to him ever since.

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

I was glad that the mother pointed out that her child's gender presentation doesn't dictate sexuality. I just wish she would have thought about the possibility that her kid might be gender variant. I suspect that it's hard for a parent to even consider that, though, given the extremely high incidence of abuse, suicide, murder, and homelessness amongst the trans community.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

OMG, Barclay! I did that as a kid. What I mostly remember was enjoying the dancing... until my partner bumped into another boy and they started a fistfight on the dance floor.

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

"This is one of the privileges of growing up a girl -- it was usually safe to at least play at being a boy."

Funny to see this since a lot of the women I work with were discussing the costume rules the schools had sent home regarding Halloween parties. A lot of them specifically said, "No cross-dressing." Which had everyone wondering if that meant girls couldn't be boy characters or just boys couldn't be girl characters.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

OMG, dancing school. I remember that from when I was a kid.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

"Part of a Qantas jet engine dropped off the plane in flight."

It's 7 PM. Do you know where the Darko kids are?

And wow. Cotillion. That's some serious business right there. I'd be lying if I didn't say that's one of those puzzle piece kinds of information in terms of "Oh, so THAT's why..."