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Interesting weekend. We went up to Altoona to go to my mom's church festival (I went mostly to have pasta e fagiole, an annual tradition). Nice festival, good food (most of which I had to avoid), seeing family. Oh, yeah, seeing family was the dark side, too...my mother's family is Catholic, mostly, with at least one born-again bible church nondenominational rightwinger (that's not to say there aren't any Catholic rightwingers...my one aunt is one of those). Anyway, there was Obama conversation between the born-again and the aunt...my tongue was bleeding (figuratively) from biting it so much. There was no way I could answer those kind of conversations without drawing figurative blood, and that's something you try not to do with family, especially when supervenusfreak and I could just go home to Lancaster on Sunday but my mother had to live with these folks (who were her relatives (and mine)).
Afterward, we went to the Escapade to see a relative (my Aunt Rosanne's step-grandson) perform at a benefit drag show. He looked good...he's definitely got the look and the attitude down. He has a predilection to using remixes for his numbers, which I have an aesthetic disagreement with. Remixes are too long, and they have way too much extraneous crap in them to lipsynch to. But then, I'm old-school. Kids these days...
All-in-all, good weekend. I kind of regret not getting into it with my Obama-hating relatives, but it was probably for the best. I did get a lot of eyerolls in when the born-again said something about "this country doesn't need to be spitting in God's eye", though. Hard to spit in something that doesn't exist...
Afterward, we went to the Escapade to see a relative (my Aunt Rosanne's step-grandson) perform at a benefit drag show. He looked good...he's definitely got the look and the attitude down. He has a predilection to using remixes for his numbers, which I have an aesthetic disagreement with. Remixes are too long, and they have way too much extraneous crap in them to lipsynch to. But then, I'm old-school. Kids these days...
All-in-all, good weekend. I kind of regret not getting into it with my Obama-hating relatives, but it was probably for the best. I did get a lot of eyerolls in when the born-again said something about "this country doesn't need to be spitting in God's eye", though. Hard to spit in something that doesn't exist...