{"id":352,"date":"2004-07-21T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2004-07-21T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:52:13","slug":"mouse-turds-pop-tarts-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/mouse-turds-pop-tarts-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse turds, Pop Tarts and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a slow start to the day.  Probably, because my main agenda item for today is\/are vacuuming up mouse droppings, throwing bleach and disinfectant on every hard surface and setting the goddamn mouse traps I bought.  As my sister points out, the central irony of the shit that&#8217;s plagued me this past month is I&#8217;m actually too much of a pussy to kill a mouse.  OK, she didn&#8217;t call me a pussy, but still and all, she was thinking it.  (Although, come to think of it, given the pun, if I were a pussy, I would eat mice.)  Still, though, I suck at killing things, and lord knows I try.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as symbols go, I previously referenced living with a mouse as akin to consorting with some of the vermin I&#8217;ve dated.  Then, as by the magic of <a href=\"http:\/\/crypt.eldritchs.com\/wicca\/familiars.html\">familiars,<\/a> I ran into an ex-beau last night.  He was driving through Harvard Square, and I was walking to a comedy show.  The funny part is we dated a million and a half years ago, but we worked together in the past few years.  He never quite fit into that workplace and left.  I stayed, thinking I understood the place better than he.  Oops, got that fucking wrong.  Hugely fucking wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he seemed shocked that (a) I will likely be moving sooner rather than later and (b) because of a guy (or mostly to be with a guy, but also to expand my life).  Nothing like that sweet feeling of talking with an ex who dumped you hard about your newer, better life and loves.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy show was great.  I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/toddbarry.com\/\">Todd Barry,<\/a> who mocked people who would write in their &#8216;blogs about the show and specifically told me <i>not<\/i> to link to him.  So, fuck you Mr. New York Comic.  You&#8217;re not the boss of me.  Good show, though, and good reminder that high energy jumping around on stage, which is pretty common and over-hyped, is not necessary at all.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, it ain&#8217;t a bad day if it begins deciding what flavor Pop Tart you want.  Even better, is getting a call that I&#8217;m in with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castparty.com\/\">this project.<\/a>  I&#8217;m doing what I can to help unseat the current power regime, even if it means the total humiliation of my acting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/mouse-turds-pop-tarts-and-politics\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a slow start to the day. Probably, because my main agenda item for today is\/are vacuuming up mouse droppings, throwing bleach and disinfectant on every hard surface and setting the goddamn mouse traps I bought. 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