Not trying to influence people to be consumers; however EVERYONE should have a copy of this CD!

Go on, run out and buy your copy today- then burn it for all your friends!

I think I must be sleep-working again. For some mornings I "wake up" and feel like I haven't slept at all.

If I could only find a way to somehow subliminally convence myself I should be going to the gym instead of working....

The Center, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, Transportation for a Livable Community and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition are sponsoring the Central Freeway Demolition Celebration, Sunday March 30:

Demolition derby San Francisco is the city of the street festival, and as the barbecue season begins, neighborhoods and subcultures are starting to bust out with assorted block parties. Not your usual spring bacchanalia, the Central Freeway Demolition Celebration marks the beginning of the end for the Central Freeway (a.k.a. the Highway 101 Fell Street exit ramp), which was damaged by the Loma Prieta quake and is at long last being replaced with a four-lane, tree-lined road, to be completed sometime in 2004. Many local activists – those responsible for the grassroots organizing and passing of the three ballot initiatives to effectively win the tear-down-the-freeway battle – are honored during the afternoon festivities, which also include several bands, food stands, models illustrating the planned changes to Octavia Boulevard, and a gold sledgehammer for all present to take a symbolic strike at the old structure. 1-5 p.m., Market at Octavia (beneath the freeway overpass), S.F. Free
(For the next two years, there will be the sound of construction in my ears…I may go insane from this….)

Also being held inside The Center on this day, Phranc will be selling Tupperware as a fundraising event for the Gay Straight Alliance network. I saw Phranc in 1986 open for The Smiths when they toured for this album (and they kicked ass!- I even took a picture of Morrissey when he grinned at me- RARE photo indeed!). A friend and I went around to the backdoor of the venue in an attempt to catch members of The Smiths. As we had a door proppred open, listining to their soundcheck Phranc (and a girl-friend of her's) approached us and asked if she could get thru...we of course moved to the side of the door way so that she could enter. I had never heard of her, but soon discovered her strong voice. That was years ago, and her voice is still enough reason to go see her, but what an added bonus that you can also walk away with Tupperware!

Pretty Pictures of pretty people at The Center's GALA.

A few of us were listening to Erasure today at work (comon', it's a GAY Center!), and I remembered this song.

It means even more to me today.

“The opportunity costs are those that arise every time we make a decision to do one thing rather than another. By choosing to go to war, we are choosing to do less to solve our problems at home. We face a crisis in every state and local budget in this country -- in every school, every welfare program, and every part of public health care. We face a crisis of trust in our corporations, and a crisis of confidence in the profitability of future business investment. American households are facing in slow motion a crisis of household debts. Little will be done about any of this, so long as we are preoccupied with war”.

by James K. Galbraith

I’ve had a lesion on my upper lip for what I thought was a couple months now. When I went to my Dr. last month, I mentioned this lesion, and she asked how long I had had it. I told her about 8 months. She told me to keep an eye on it and if I noticed any changes to it, to give her a call and she would give me a referral to a dermatologist. A few days after this appointment, my girlfriend was going thru pictures and came across one of her and me from about 2 years ago. In that picture I noticed the little red spot, and realized that I have had it for far longer than I first suspected. As I have a history of cancer in my family (and should certainly NOT be smoking!), I was concerned and called my Dr. to receive a referral to a dermatologist. I scheduled an appointment for this morning.
My dermatologist asked what he could do for me, and I explained the reason for my visit. He nodded and pushed on my lesion. He then told me that what I had was a spider vein on my face, and that while it may not be very attractive, it was harmful and most importantly to me- NON cancerous! I told him that I was concerned about it because I had gotten sun-poison on my face TWICE (blisters on my face that when I would laugh, would ooze liquid- good thing I didn’t laugh so much, as I felt mostly like I wanted to vomit all the time). Again, he told me it was not cancer, but told me that I should always be wearing sun-block as my complexion is so fair. I then asked him about the broken blood vessels in the rest of my face, and asked if there were anything I could do about them. He informed me of a laser surgery that would make a dramatic difference in my appearance. He told me that there were no negative reactions to this surgery, although it would require about 5 treatments. He then informed me of the cost for such a cosmetic procedure (and while I didn’t fall out of my chair, I did gasp). Yeah, when I win the lottery, I suppose I can have my face zapped in order to give me a much less red face. Until then, I am red-woman.
Once we discussed my face, I moved on and showed him the array of moles I have on my body-pointing to this one and that…pulling my pants down to show him the birthmark on my butt. Each one I pointed to he said it was fine.

So, I feel that although I may have red-face, at least my moles are Non-cancerous!

Friday evening my girlfriend and I rented this movie. I was excited to see it, as I’ve heard people say that it was a good suspenseful film, one of the scariest ever made.
I have to say that I was thoroughly disappointed with the film. I was bored shortly into it, and felt it became more irritating as it went on.
I did however finish watching it.

Saturday, my girlfriend returned the movie to the evil Blockbuster.

Sunday, I ejected the video that was in my VCR only to find it titled “The Ring”. I held it up and asked “didn’t you return this movie yesterday?” She looked at the video in my hand in disbelief and said “oh, no…what did I return?!”
I can’t remember what was on the video she had returned to blockbuster…maybe a few tapped copies of other movies…maybe the Michael Jackson interview…maybe the KISS and Nirvana behind the music episodes…I really just can’t remember what is on the tape that Blockbuster now has in “The Ring “container.
My girlfriend and I went up to Blockbuster with the real video in hand and told the woman what had happened. She clicked away, went to the shelf and clicked away some more. Then she informed us that the tape had been rented out! Oh no! What the hell was on that tape of mine that someone now has in their possession??!!!

I asked the evil Blockbuster to call me if someone returned my video…still no call…

Maybe someone out there likes my tape more than they would “The Ring”.