Tenth and Ellsworth.

[jacktellslies]

That most of my days manage to end with a dance party at the laundromat seems a fairly clear indication that I'm living my life correctly. The other sign is that black people, queers, and interesting elderly people always like my hair.

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[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

This also seems to be an indication that you go to a more exciting laundromat than I do.

[titlecharacter.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It's one thing to acknowledge that someone else is having a better time than you, and another entirely when you realize they're operating in a completely different world... like one where "dance party at the laundromat" is even a sensible English phrase, much less a regular event. Where I come from, those words together are an absurd construction, like "goose walkathon purple," and yet here we have, where it seems as ordinary as "making dinner."

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

Now you have me imagining purple geese walking long distances.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

The geese and I are raising money for cancer research, actually.

[devotdsatellite.livejournal.com]

clearly i need to go to your laundromat.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__uptight/]

if these are not great things to aspire to, i don't know what are.

also, yes, hippest laundromat ever. i found one somewhere in new england that is the tenth street laundromat's evil twin:



they will call the police before asking you to leave!

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Eeep! That's not even practical!

[cynical-ghost.livejournal.com]

The other sign is that black people, queers, and interesting elderly people always like my hair.

I get this too -- I love it. :-) Surely it's a sign that we're doing something right.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Seriously! Who else matters?

[jezebellydancer.livejournal.com]

I suppose I shall have to channel my inner black queer, since I don't care to be numbered among the elderly.

Does being bi in a past life count?

Unusual people enjoyed my fuschia hair immensely. Now that I've toned it down to a more acceptable auburn, only the "normal" people comment on how pretty it is. Although Yulick, the Irish salesguy I met last week, wanted to know where my people were from.

I've been asked to be Baba Yaga for a cub scout thing, so I may go back to white for the part.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

They aren't the only people who enjoy it by any means, but I have a fairly high success rate among those populations.

[jezebellydancer.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Certain groups of people appreciate a liitle more panache that others.

[chronographia.livejournal.com]

asked to be Baba Yaga for a cub scout thing

That is a splendid term for it. I hope one day to be the Baba Yaga in all my dealings with those homophobic little knee-biters.

[jezebellydancer.livejournal.com]

Haha.

Actually the Cradle of Liberty Council (that's the greater Philly area) is very liberal and has done a lot to try to change the Natl Scout policy. I have hopes that with a new generation of men (and women) coming into positions of power, that the discrimination against gays will end.

It's only because a dear friend of mine is involved and rapidly moving up the rungs of power, and changing the natl policy is on his agenda, and he asked so nicely, and the_son is a scout, and I have seen no evidence of homophobia in any of the adults or kids in his troupe, and who could resist the chance to be Baba Yaga and scare the crap out of little boys.

[chronographia.livejournal.com]

That's encouraging to hear! The policy changes you describe don't really make the news, you know?

[jezebellydancer.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the Nat'l organization still has lots of old guys in power. But various councils across the US are pretty much ignoring their stand on homosexuality. Right now, it's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (the same with religion, since all scouts are supposed to believe in God).

But I think in the next 10 years we'll see big changes.