http://midwestbonvivant.com Unpopular Opinions, Restaurant Serenades, Fancy Photographs, Humor, Memoir and Open Letters. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:26:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I get excited about a post-apocalyptic world.  Everyone is sexy and knows martial arts.  Except for the zombies, of course.  But otherwise, it's all black leather, silver buckles and the pirate internet.  Ridiculous motorcycles, warehouses of booze, and the unprecedented opportunity to connect with people in ways not possible in ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/07/06/when-the-rules-break-down/ The Fourth of July is my third favorite holiday, after New Year's Eve and Halloween.  My love for the day has jack shit to do with anything other than it has usually been a good day.  Where my family could not get along on Christmas or Thanksgiving, where Easter failed ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/07/03/4oj/   http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/06/29/blushing-furiously/ My husband calls me when he gets off work. He leaves for home around 8pm. He called me last night. "What're you doing?" "Watching Deadliest Catch." "Oh, I forgot it was Date Night." :D And to further explain how awesome and hilarious he is, he told me to blog this. Please reference Captains ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/06/18/a-fisher-of-men/ I almost don't want to post about this because it was so magical for me.  I don't think a lot of people will understand or believe it.  In the early 1990s, I "wrote" a song for Jones, one of the cats that my college and post-college roomie and I had ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/06/08/chicken-bone-jones/ http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/06/01/85/ In an astonishingly anticlimactic personal victory, I managed to spend three hours at my favorite bar without accepting expensive gifts from drunken strangers, flirting with anybody, getting into any brawls or punching anyone in the face.  I only had three drinks. I was bored and irritable. I left early. Clearly, I was meant ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/06/01/zombie-bloodworms-of-the-underworld/ I have been moving, so I haven't been blogging here.  There have been boxes and numerous trips and various errands and purchases of dark red lilies.  I have also been working a lot, and I am quite tired right now.  But, if you read this, this blog isn't dead, and ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/05/18/moving/   I do. http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/05/17/even-the-devil-wouldnt-recognize-you/ My adult female Sim leaps into the hot tub naked at large house parties and uses the toilet no matter who's around (among other inappropriate things). Bedbugs have made a comeback.  I hope only in LA, because I sure as shit don't want ... http://midwestbonvivant.com/2008/04/28/things-i-find-disturbing/