I'm going to Dr. Dremo's on 2/14 for Singles Awareness Day. I'll go to yours if you go to mine.
- Ray --- In [email protected], "hannahbearlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sigh, I'm going to sound like bitter single person here, but fuck it, > I am both bitter and single (although those qualities do not have a > causal relationship so far as I know.) > > I hate Valentine's Day. I despise a holiday inspired by a martyr to > nothing (no, really! Nobody knows what the f*ck Valentine did to > become a saint, but worship the divine avatar anyway!) I hate pink > teddy bears. I hate Russell Stover chocolate boxes with no turtles in > them. I hate the six week long elevation of 'romantic love' uber > alles (a social construct if ever there were.) AND I hate the fact > that it's the place-holder holiday between Christmas and the one with > the Cadbury Creme Eggs...so close, but so much farther away than > necessary. > > So, instead of celebrating some trumped-up, pinkified glorification of > the individual's submission to the patriarchal hijacking of sexual > relations, I propose an anti-Valentine's Day celebration. And to that > purpose, I am perfectly willing to celebrate *another* trumped-up > holiday theoretically celebrating (agricultural) fecundity and sex, > but mostly involves hiding in a cave and fending off wolves - LUPERCALIA!* > > So this February 15th (that's a Thursday), I am going to be hiding out > in my own particular cave (Fado's in Gallery Place, unless a better is > suggested) and fending off the wolves (they hate vodka tonics.) I > invite any and all curmudgeons on this list to join me in sitting > slumped against the dictates of the zombie-bourgeoisie. > > And just to show that I do have some appreciation for the frailties of > the human heart: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Wuitmq4bI > > n.b. As this holiday actually takes place on the day after the Day of > Hallmark Cards, anyone with sentiment hangovers are welcome to come by > and baptize away your sins. > > *Wikipedia it, bitchez.** > > **Fine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia. Wusses. >
