Monday, May 23, 2005

i'm hot.

no. literally. i'm hot. don't know if there's a thunderstorm entering the area but it's muggy and i'm sitting in the buff in front of my laptop at my bedroom window. (no one can see me from the street.)

gorgeous weekend in chicago. police officers tasered a belligerent baseball fan (those cubbies), a mother got her kidnapped baby back, a teenager was lost in the lake and never recovered, and oprah did a show on why women are most likely wearing the wrong size bra. (more on this later.)

saw star wars: RotS. or, Why George Lucas Can't Write Motivations for Shit. yes, it was 'better' than the others, but some quibbles:
  1. so...it's ok for padme to be pregnant and shacking up with her jedi boyfriend (secret husband), but not not ok to be pregnant AND a senator?
  2. despite it being 'the future', no one can figure out she's carrying twins?
  3. despite it being 'the future' no one can figure out how to stop a woman from dying in childbirth?
  4. and why, if he's all a jedi stickler, can't mace windu just wait to bring the chancellor to trial? why fly off the handle?? heat of battle? didn't search his feelings enough? huh?
  5. and isn't it really clear that the jedi aren't really all that smart? i mean, come on - who ELSE could have slaughtered younglings in the temple? maybe if there was a little less meditating and a little more investigating, this whole thing could have been avoided? shouldn't you have an intelligence network, at least?
  6. wouldn't anakin have been better off if everyone stopped telling him to 'search his feelings'? seems like it was his 'feelings' (i feel you're going to die, i feel like you don't trust me, i feel stupid) that got him in trouble. how about telling him to use his brain?
  7. how come, despite it being 'the future', everyone dresses like crap? no one is hot in the future.
  8. and who are the sith? a people, an ideology, a club? do i care anymore?
  9. AND, if R2D2 can do all this cool stuff, how come it didn't do it later? it forgot??

back to oprah and why she cares about my breasts. i have been wearing the wrong size bra. did you know that, in a correct bra, the apex of your breast is supposed to be the midway point between your shoulder and your elbow? new to me. i hate my bra. i can't wait to take it off when i get home. well, i may have found something to replace my bra. this. in fact, i love the whole spanx line. i wear their fishnets and they rock. they hold everything in, smoothes your lumps - who doesn't like that? it's not necessarily sexy, but then again, i'm not dressing to get it on in the office.

this is middle age, isn't it? when you start wondering about comfortable shoes and wearing support underwear.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

ding..I gotta hand it to you, you covered a lot of ground in today's post..

what I want to know is why do those he-man cops seem to be tasering teenage black girls? In the recent stories I've read or heard about, it's this group most often selected for the 50KV treatment.

Perhaps the cops consider this group to be the most threatening to them?

A-non

Delia Christina said...

when i think about our venerable chicago cops i think...doofus. i mean, compared to the scary sons of bitches in l.a (my home city), the chicago cops are a little...slow.

however, the tasering of young black girls. when did this happen? i had thought they tasered a guy up at wrigleyville. (considering a cubs fan last year also shot a baseball rival, it's understandable why they want to subdue a northsider.)

Anonymous said...

wish I could give more specifics, but I recall a handful of black teenager/black woman taserings, most recently, I think in Atlanta..

A pregnant woman was pulled over for speeding, received a ticket, refused to sign the ticket, saying she'd just mailed them in before without signing them. When she refused to get out of her car, the cop tasered her.

Now, come ON! For a freakin' speeding ticket, she was tasered?

What kind of nut job would taser a pregnant woman? OK..maybe she wasn't showing, but you really have to think about the offense versus the force required to "administer justice."

I've heard of 13-year-old girls being tasered as well.

These tasering cops need some time in a therapist's office.

A-non

Anonymous said...

And no, Chicago cops aren't the sharpest tacks in the box.

A-non

Delia Christina said...

i've always felt that occupations that require you to wear a firearm, uniform and exercise some authority over another human being seem to attract those for whom the words 'self control' are taken to be suggestions rather than a required character trait.

why taser young black girls and pregnant black women? because they had the power to taser young black girls and pregnant black women.