shoot me.

statements which have come out of professor lousin's mouth today:

• "i just ate a tuna sandwich and now i'm burping."
• "the tickler must be conspicuous."
• "don't look at me like that."

she just spent, like, 15 minutes on a completely incomprehensible anecdote. and that's not blogzaggeration, i kept my eyes on the clock. whatever, though. she IS really erudite, and it clearly makes her so happy to share her stories, and occasionally they are actually interesting. but man! today, she's pulled out the big guns, and my ADD is far too advanced for this shit. it doesn't help that i have a million things to do for work which i have to work on as soon as i get home (my multitasking abilities do have their limits) , and stealthily, in order to keep my date with loren for martini night. i can't cancel on her, either, because the girl deserves a drink: she was on the train behind the train that caught on fire yesterday! (btw, thanks again to those who texted, called, etc.: i was not, in fact, on the blue line at all yesterday, and am thus ok.)

yacht rock at the bottle was awesome. sort of like a trekkie convention for hipsters. it was nice to hear everybody else laugh when i laughed (or at least most of the time...those who know me well know my tendency to pre-emptively giggle when i know something good is coming up. ditto for anticipatory "woo"s at shows.) the place was totally packed, more packed than anything i've seen there since stars. or franz ferdinand. (and yes, this is the empty bottle we're talking about. so that's pretty fucking crowded.) the q-and-a was not that revelatory. the yacht rock dudes seemed so stunned, and stoked, by the crowd (and also kinda drunk) such that they were not that silver-tongued. EXCEPT: apparently the world premiere of yacht rock 11 is ALSO going to be in chicago! in september! at either darkroom or sonotheque, i can't remember. one of those eurotrash nouveau ukie village clubs. meaning, like, half a mile from where i live. chicago is officially the coolest place to be this year. also, hollywood steve looks really fragile in real life.