Best Thing Seen on the London Sidewalk Yesterday

[faux_teak]

A big black dude dressed in the baggie jeans/baseball cap/humongous jacket style of a hip-hop guy complete with giant bling bling pendant necklace.

The thing that made it awesome was that the necklace said, 'Barack Obama, Mr. President'.

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[aaaaaames]

Ha! Progressive gangsta! I love it.

Also, for anyone who didn't see my gchat away message:

[faux_teak]

To this I can only say YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

I love our President.

[tummies]

Wonderful.

I can report that, around the world (but especially in Ethiopia), Obama is loved beyond all reason. There are numerous cafes and pool halls and amenity stands already named after him.

[faux_teak]

What is an amenity stand?

This is making me envision little tables at the side of the road like rest-stops that sell basic things like batteries and tampons and painkillers and soda. Only, they're like, 'Barack Obama Honorary Batteries and Tampons and Painkillers and Soda'.

I'm sure the reality is much less exciting, but I would totally buy Barack Obama Honorary... anything.

[tummies]

No, no, exactly! They're just stands where basic amenities (but not tampons! HA) are crammed into as little space as possible.

I don't know what Ethiopian women did for their periods. Wad up rags?

On a related note, I recently dreamt that Hugh Jackman was a guest in our house, and would help out with household chores like vacuuming, and whenever I came home he'd flop on the couch next to me and ask me questions about my day. And then, once, his fingers strayed down near to my pudendum...and met the crinkly-crink of a menstrual pad. We were both so embarrassed. I remember assuring him, no, it's fine, and hoping he knew it was a menstrual pad and not a diaper.

[theswirtproject]

Wow, Monica. I had a Hugh Jackman dream too! Only he was my lab partner, and sadly never tried to touch me.

[tummies]

He's in the ether, what with Wolverine and all.

Did anyone see it? I hear there's a nekkid tushie shot.

[theswirtproject]

I saw it!!!!!!

There is definitely a naked tushie shot, but it's from kinda far away and he is half-obscured by the giant waterfall that he's falling down. But it's his tushie, alright.

[aaaaaames]

oh, that warms my heart!!!

also, HI MONICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How's your book coming?!?!?

I've enjoyed your posts and pictures and such.

[aaaaaames]

Also: I wonder if anyone has named anything inappropriate and/or terrible after the Prez, like the Barack Obama Late-Term and Partial Birth Abortion Clinic, or the President Obama Artillery Range and Children's Daycare.

I hope not.

[tummies]

HI AMER!!!!!!!

It is coming okay. Little steps. All this dark shit is pouring out of me even though I consider myself a happy person, and that surprised me a bit...

[theswirtproject]

OMG THIS IS PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

I love our president.

also HI RACH! I'm still in my dark place about that package.

[faux_teak]

I, too, am in a dark place about it. I am not dreaming of Hugh Jackman. I am dreaming of pretty earrings that should be in my ears RIGHT NOW!!!

[aflockofmollies]

i just heard an interview on npr with a teenager who was talking about the incorporation of barack obama into slang.

"i just baracked that test."

when a disagreement starts to get out of hand:
"be cool! obama's in the white house!"

[faux_teak]

Love it.

I want to bring this into fashion on this side of the Atlantic, too, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.