Hair salons are for suckers, the real action is in the barber shop
It's been awhile hasn't it? Lotta stuff happened these past few months. Jill and I saw the Decemberists twice including a show where Colin Meloy pulled Jill on stage and let her play his guitar while he stood in the audience and pretended to be a fan. We saw Laura Viers open for said Decemberists twice. Her music has really grown on me. Her song, "Nightingale" makes me happy. I met some cool women in line for said shows (Jill met them the last time the Decemberists were in Chicago) who run a theatre company and know Mike Slefinger (ex-speechie). Their theatre company is here:
http://www.hypatiatheatre.org Hopefully Jill and I will make it down to see their play in December though it is opening this weekend.
Jill and I saw My Brightest Diamond in Grand Rapids, MI. Great show, weird, Calvinist crowd.
However, what inspired me to update my journal was none of these things. It was a haircut I just received. I went to my Lansing old-man barber (I have one in Williamsville, east of here, but he isn't reliable). It turns out my Lansing barber was on vacation. However, a different old-man barber was filling in for him. Turns out this fellow has been involved in local politics for decades. He was once even mayor of Pottersville (I've never heard of it either). He was in a chatty mood. Here's some of his more interesting statements (somewhat paraphrased due to my limited memory):
"Governor Granholm is a pandering prostitute. We need to get a governor who know the difference between being a female and being a woman." (I am also ignorant to what said difference is)
"Carpenter eh? There used to be a Carpenter gang in Charlotte. They sure hated me. They'd come after me whenever they saw me coming. Of course back then you didn't have transportation and you'd have to hitchhike."
"The real problem with prisons are the female guards. The prisoners spend all day hitting on them and getting their pussy going. Then they marry the prisoner and sneak drugs in for their man. They put them in their cunt. Pussy packs they call them. Pull them out and their honey gets high that day" (When he said "pull them out," he pantomimed pulling a pussy pack out of his own imaginary vagina.)
"I'm writing a book called 'Solutions' where I'm going to lay out what we need to do around here."
At which point he laid out his plan for reforming the Michigan government. It was actually fairly reasonable, though a bit idealistic.
1. Allow representatives to vote online (possibly via videoconferencing). This allows them to spend more time in their districts and not waste money driving back and forth to the capital so much.
2. No staffers. He believes that legislative staffers pressure state reps and senators to act outside of the interests of the people.
3. Quadruple the number of legislators. This means they will have smaller districts and the people will have better access to their elected officials.
4. No offices. They should have cubicles.
Now don't go stealing his ideas and writing a book of your own. He insinuated that he was worried about this possibility so don't tell him I told you.
Anyways, I'll be in Belleville for Thanksgiving. I'll probably arrive Thursday and leave Sunday. Hope to see people I never get the chance to see.
http://www.hypatiatheatre.org Hopefully Jill and I will make it down to see their play in December though it is opening this weekend.
Jill and I saw My Brightest Diamond in Grand Rapids, MI. Great show, weird, Calvinist crowd.
However, what inspired me to update my journal was none of these things. It was a haircut I just received. I went to my Lansing old-man barber (I have one in Williamsville, east of here, but he isn't reliable). It turns out my Lansing barber was on vacation. However, a different old-man barber was filling in for him. Turns out this fellow has been involved in local politics for decades. He was once even mayor of Pottersville (I've never heard of it either). He was in a chatty mood. Here's some of his more interesting statements (somewhat paraphrased due to my limited memory):
"Governor Granholm is a pandering prostitute. We need to get a governor who know the difference between being a female and being a woman." (I am also ignorant to what said difference is)
"Carpenter eh? There used to be a Carpenter gang in Charlotte. They sure hated me. They'd come after me whenever they saw me coming. Of course back then you didn't have transportation and you'd have to hitchhike."
"The real problem with prisons are the female guards. The prisoners spend all day hitting on them and getting their pussy going. Then they marry the prisoner and sneak drugs in for their man. They put them in their cunt. Pussy packs they call them. Pull them out and their honey gets high that day" (When he said "pull them out," he pantomimed pulling a pussy pack out of his own imaginary vagina.)
"I'm writing a book called 'Solutions' where I'm going to lay out what we need to do around here."
At which point he laid out his plan for reforming the Michigan government. It was actually fairly reasonable, though a bit idealistic.
1. Allow representatives to vote online (possibly via videoconferencing). This allows them to spend more time in their districts and not waste money driving back and forth to the capital so much.
2. No staffers. He believes that legislative staffers pressure state reps and senators to act outside of the interests of the people.
3. Quadruple the number of legislators. This means they will have smaller districts and the people will have better access to their elected officials.
4. No offices. They should have cubicles.
Now don't go stealing his ideas and writing a book of your own. He insinuated that he was worried about this possibility so don't tell him I told you.
Anyways, I'll be in Belleville for Thanksgiving. I'll probably arrive Thursday and leave Sunday. Hope to see people I never get the chance to see.