Welcome to this week’s ALL-WEEKEND OPEN THREAD DANCE PARTY, BALLET SHOPPING EDITION! Talk about whatever you want, post links, etc.
Actually, by special request, there are two topics that are not allowed in this thread: False rape accusations and Andrea Dworkin. All comments referencing either (or both) will be deleted. Party hard!
Shame on me for de-lurking again, but Mr. Futrelle, I have to ask: Do you know where the picture in the previous post (staringground.jpg) came from or what the story behind it is? Every goddamn time I look at that dude I start breaking into laughter.
This is where I found it:
http://phoebelamour.tumblr.com/post/5569804474/why-im-staring-at-the-ground-instead-of-the-porn
I’ll put a credit up in the other thread.
Ah, I see. Thanks.
Hey, everyone, I’m dressed up like Billie Joe Armstrong’s blonde twin sister and going to see the Psychedelic Furs. That is, if my damn boyfriend ever manages to GET here…
Ballet? Nonsense, those women are clearly fuctionaries at the Ministry of Silly Walks.
I am going to sneak out the back door (literally, this building has a back door) and go home an hour early.
Guys, ballet dancers are fierce, just sayin’. It’s a very athletic and admirable… thing? Pastime? Sport? Dance? Career? I don’t know!
And Elizabeth, that sounds like an excellent plan.
I had Monday and Tuesday off so I kind of feel bad but at the same time, I have nothing left to do that cannot be done at home.
I knew a ballet dancer once! Someone tried to make fun of him for it and then he kicked their asses. Do not mess with the dude with bitchin’ leg muscles from all those plies.
I had a huge lusty crush on a ballet dancer I used to work with… but nothing ever happened since I was way taller than him. Yep, that’s it. 😉
Guys, I have rum. What kind of drink should I make with it?
And I used to do ballet when I was a kid, and I actually got a chance to be in a couple of professional productions and stuff. It was pretty cool, but honestly, I’m really uncoordinated, and kind of lazy. Not dancer material!
There’s always your classic rum & coke.
I *always* have a rum & coke. I want to try something different. Plus I don’t have any coke…
Make grog! Rum, black tea, squeeze of lemon.
What kind of rum is it? If it’s dark rum, you can mix it with ginger beer and a lime wedge, it’s really delicious! I also like light rum, vanilla and milk or cream.
Is it coconut rum? It sounds gross, but Malibu and Fresca is awesome! Get you on a boat, and you’re set.
It is spiced rum! Num num num.
I am thinking about hot buttered rum (http://cocktails.about.com/od/atozcocktailrecipes/r/ht_btrd_rum_ckt.htm) because I remember my dad used to make it a whole lot as a child.
But I am intrigued by everyone’s suggestions. This is something that requires much thinking!
@Bee–to paraphrase a line from Mad Men, Malibu and Fresca isn’t a cocktail, it’s an emergency!
Me and the husband are taking the whole week off!!! It’ll be a show about nothin’!!!
I’m making skittles vodka for a party this weekend. Hoorah for alcohol experimentation.
I did ballet for a couple of years, finally stopped as a teenager. I liked it but holy eating disorders batman, even in the little backwoods community I was in it was still pretty pervasive.
“Why is the rum always GONE?”
Speaking of rum, I had the most amazing drink the last night of the AP grading–we (my table) all went out together to celebrate. We were in Kentucky, so most of the drinks involved bourbon (which I do not like–only hard liquors I like are rum and tequila). So I ordered a FUZZY DOG which was silver cuervo, peach schnapps, grapefruit juice and a slice of lemon–it was supposed to have a salty rim, but the bartender mixed up my drink and a friend’s sidecar–she had hers redone but I liked the sugared rim. YUM. But it cost $10 so I only had one.
MAN! My mom does AP readings! I so cannot imagine her going out for cocktails afterwards…
That does sound delicious but I can’t recreate it here at home. I did make my hot buttered rum. It’s nice, but a little more watery then I’d like. Maybe it needs more butter? Or I could make it with warm milk? I think I may try rum, cream and vanilla, next, as Lady Cyrus suggested.
Or maybe just cranberry juice and rum? I dunno. I don’t really have a lot of stuff for making the fancy mixed drinks, like I’d like…
Sarah – I’m partial to a good dark and stormy, if you can some really tasty ginger beer…
Ooh, hellkell, I like that “not a cocktail, it’s an emergency” construction. It works on a couple different levels for me. Have fun on your week off!
Ithilinana: Your drink sounds delicious! (I guess for $10 it better be. Oh look — MONEY!) My boyfriend’s been experimenting with tequila cocktails lately. Tequila and grapefruit juice and tequila and pineapple juice are the favorites so far.
So, in a slightly personal departure from alcohol, I could use some advice, and while I suppose I feel kind of weird exposing my issues to a public forum, the people here (excepting the MRAs) have their heads on straight. Well, as much as anyone can. But I’m having serious relationship issues. My partner is an artist, and can be very distant. He admits this, and we’ve talked about it. I’ve explained that it makes me feel more like a roommate than a girlfriend. And I thought things were settled. But now he’s asked for a week apart while he’s housesitting, and I feel…weird, I guess. It feels like he’s responding to my original complaint about his emotional distance by becoming even more distant. And that it’s a vicious cycle, etc.
And I have a tendency to be an intense, moody person. I have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and while I’m quite stable, I still face bouts of short depression. It’ll hit, and I’ll bitch at him, and then I’ll get better, and at the least trigger I’m back to bitching. I don’t like that about myself, I’m working on it, and I’ve apologized. But I still have this sense of utter despair about the relationship at the moment. I’m afraid he’ll break up with me, and I’m also afraid he’s never going to even try to bridge the emotional distance he seems to prefer. And I don’t know what to do. I should mention we’re trying to move to England together to go to the same university :/
Ugh. It’s all out. I’m hoping some of the other depression sufferers here can help me out.