Update-ish sorts of things

[beautifulduckweed]

1. Bike porn was both more awesome and more HOLY FUCKWEASELS DID I JUST SEE WHAT I THINK I SAW than I expected it to be. A good time was had by all. My favorites of the night were empty_fork's awesome catalogue-bike-pornstravaganza, freyley and linettasky's silent movie about a man's unspeakable love for his fixie (I helped freyley with the title, woooo go me) and stereotype441's bike porn/bicycle rights mockumentary. I'll link to the film clips on Youtube if they ever become available, because they are seriously worth seeing.

2. I have forgotten what a vicious headache I get when the optometrist dilates my pupils. Apologies to those who were expecting me at tango today; I went home and flopped and just got up because I couldn't stand being floppy any more.

3. I bought the dresses I'm going to wear to jennekirby's wedding and the RWA national convention. They're POLKA DOTTED. And totally awesome.

4. The new dresses, combined with wearing my wedding dress to the Bus Project gala (it's not a traditional wedding dress; it's a pink silk thing with a paisley-ish pattern on it, because I generally buy dresses that I can wear to a multitude of events and for a multitude of purposes, as I'm not sentimental in the least about that sort of thing, which is not to say I don't understand why people would want to buy and wear wedding dresses--they're just not quite my thing) and where was I before I opened those parentheses? Oh yes. Anyway, I have some pretty awesome dresses, and now I have even MORE awesome dresses, and I really, really want to wear them more often. So now I'm thinking that I should throw a Pretty Dress Party.

Basically: I (hold on to your panties, folks) make a ton of food. (See? Shocking, I know.) And you guys show up. In dresses.

OK, fine, dresses aren't mandatory. But they'd be highly, highly encouraged. And we'll hang out, and eat lots of really good food, and have geeky conversations, and play games, and just ROCK THE FUCK OUT.

In pretty dresses.

Anyone interested?

Slim boys in the audience: I have dresses that would fit you. F'real. And I'd be totally willing to lend them to you for this occasion.

Busty girls in the audience who range from a size 6 to a size 10: ditto.

Comments

[imfallingup.livejournal.com]

so i've totally been wanting to hold a sushi party because....yeah. sushi awesomeness (ok, i just really love making roll after roll after roll till tables are full of the stuff). and everyone in dresses is win in my book. care to collaborate?

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! YES! We need to do this. Also, I've been thinking of learning to make wedding cakes. Maybe we can combine ALL THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF AWESOME IN ONE PARTY?

Any dates/time frames in mind?

[imfallingup.livejournal.com]

dude. wedding cakes are awesome: tiers, whatever cake batter at all, and AWESOME FROSTING DECORATIONS which i have been dying to do. plus, portland has this (http://www.thedecoretteshop.com/) which i bookmarked ages ago and haven't made it out to yet. yes yes let's.

as to when: i'm still dealing with a bit of the ohgodbroke so the next couple weeks are a bit iffy; besides, that offers time for recipe-finding and frosting-art-practicing. this could be a fourth of july Thing, but personally i'm inclined to have it sometime that's not competing with other people's parties. plus, mid or late july is when it'll be really warm and everyone will be wanting to be scantily clad, anyway. so, yeah, i'm thinking thenishabouts.

i'm also thinking getting hold ofa mess of kids in the hall might be a great accompaniment.

[bonobo23.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report back. It's been a fun weekend, but I do wish I'd made it to the movie.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

It would've been awesome to have you at Bike Porn.

You should definitely attend the Pretty Dress Party once I throw it.

[msbunburyist.livejournal.com]

holy crap, pretty dress party! YES!

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier.

[linettasky.livejournal.com]

I do not have enough excuses to wear the few fancy dresses I have. I am in support of this idea.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Wheeeyay. We can look all shmancy together. It'll be radtacular.

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

Wee dresses! Alas, I fear my days of finding flattering dresses are long past. A skirted ensemble may still happen though...

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Yes, finding a dress that'll fit you and your frame would be quite the feat. But I imagine throwing together a girly outfit for you would still be possible.

Oh, man. That would rock SO HARD.

[marsala1.livejournal.com]

Would we combine this party with the MST3K-ing of 300? Because I am SO there...

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm! That's an idea. If it happens relatively soon, I'm not sure we can do it because I'm not sure the DVD will be out yet. But that doesn't mean we can't have ANOTHER pretty dress party specifically for sporking 300.