By Beauty Damned

I Heart Cheese

I like margaritas, with extra tequila, chilled and served in a blue martini glass with a lime on the side. I like quesadillas with lots of melted cheese and salsa verde. Something about white cheese and green chiles is just a match made in heaven. If you add sour cream in to the mix, the sky is the limit. You know what else I love? French bread sliced and toasted with a piece of sharp white cheddar and a dap of olive dip. Cheese is good with everything. Seriously. Everything.

It's one of those nights. I took a nice long walk around my neighborhood once it got good and dark. The weather is not too warm, not too cold. Perfect for a stroll at night. I found a medium size stretched canvas leaning up against a trashcan. It had been sketched on with pencil, some silly drawing of a big eyed, long lashed girl with a pair of over sized sunglasses drifting off somewhere to the right of her head. Obviously, the artist was disgusted with the hideous initial drawing and opted to throw the canvas out rather than be bothered with continuing to use it. I saw it as a perfectly good surface to create on and I felt lucky to have found such a thing on my walk. So I picked it up and thought about what I would do with it all the way home.

I got it home and painted on it. Took a cloth and a few different colors and went to town... in circular motions creating an interesting tye dye effect. What I really wanted to do was test out all the colors I have to paint my apartment with, which I'll start doing this weekend. They looked nice on the canvas. A burnt burgundy orange, canary yellow, powdery lavendar...the canvas served as a good drawing board for my ideas.

After that I fixed my chilled margarita and settled in to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart which made me laugh until I nearly pee'd my pants. He had this segment making fun of all the yuppies in Seattle who were all up in arms about the proposed ten cent coffee tax. Oh boofuckinghoo. Poor yuppies and yippies and angst wracked grungers all out of sorts that they might be taxed an extra ten cents on their precious lattes. Meanwhile in New York we pay nearly ten cents for every dollar spent. (I can bitch, but I'm the idiot who moved here.) No really, (I can be sympathetic) I'm sure it poses some economical problems for individuals, especially for a part of the country that is going through rough financial times as much as the rest of us. But what if that money will help their overall economy and make a difference for schools in that area, maybe they should just buck up and try weaning themselves off the crack for once OR pay ten cents more for their already outrageously priced coffee drinks to benefit society... The skit showed Seattleites throwing coffee into the Sound in parody of the Boston Tea Party and other hysterical antics like hippie chicks taking their shirts off to protest the tax and great rejoicing when the law failed to pass. Assholes. I was on the floor laughing. I went to the Daily Show filming one time and it was fabulous entertainment. We were supposed to go last week, but my flakey friends fucked it up...I won't talk about it lest I get my underwear in a wad all over again. Anyway, I think those people in Seattle are pretty mutherfucking stupid.

... to the couch and about ten more minutes, BED. It's calling me. Mariaaaa...You neeed sleeeep...

Posted by Maria at October 13, 2003 11:01 PM | TrackBack