Saturday night at Hobo's "Restaurant", the gayoress of Portland, Miss Samantha Adams, showed up at the table behind us. She had herself quite the entourage of young and youngish boys. Several brown-nosers citizens came up to introduce themselves and casually mention that they were out of a job.

I got a little belligerent and yelled out "Oh PLEASE Miss Mayor, can't you tax me some more!?" I mean, those elephants in the zoo need to have better drainage for their shit, we need to subsidize the poor, hurting construction industry with our money to build countless more buildings for the community college, and God, won't somebody please think of the gd children?

Oh, and mama needs a new 5mph train to go down Sandy Blvd, which I don't need to point out, is A MAJOR HIGHWAY.

I'm just going to say it: BEULAH MAE IS A LOCAL-LEVEL REPUBLICAN.

I hate that fucking game. Now, even my blog has fallen victim to its mania by way of spammers who commented on nearly every entry. Advertising for some shit on how to increase your WOW levels. Now I've disabled all comments until I can get a better screening application.

Coming soon: Beulah returns to Florida.

People in this country continue to frighten me. Why is it republicans talk about the democrats wanting to "redistribute wealth" and cause "class warfare" because they think people above middle class should pay a little bit more? Beulah herself is firmly middle-class, and knows that it's really a piecrust existence -- fairly easily made, but fairly easily broken. All it takes is being out of work a little while. Throw in an uninsured health episode and it has the potential to be disastrous. But something is terribly wrong when we have people at the top making millions upon millions while companies are failing. The AIG executives continue to appall with their resorts and overseas hunting trips, huge bonuses, etc. etc. all while their company was failing. Hopefully this is awakening America's eyes to the fact that this is not uncommon in the corporate world. The few at the top make orders of magnitude more than the people who are actually doing the work to make money for the company. Meanwhile, they are moving jobs to the cheapest possible place in the world, calling on employees to make sacrifices for the company, all while they sit back and count their money. If they fail -- what's the worst that can happen to them? They get a 15-million severance and move on to screw their next set of victims. These people can't lose. In reality, THEIR SHIRTS should be ON THE LINE. If there's anything Americans should be angry about as McCain claims they are, THIS is it. If that's class warfare, then it's probably justified.

I don't understand why middle America can't see this? They seem to have their religious blinders on still -- that the world will come to an end if gay people can forge the state contract of "marriage" and women can choose to have abortions. Can't they see how much harm corporate greed is doing? The republican party is just like a "Health and Wealth" ministry. If you do what God wants you to do, you'll be healthy and wealthy. Well, the only people getting any more wealthy are they, not you, middle America.

Yesterday I went to the mall to get a watch resized, had to wait, so I took a walk through that suburban mecca called Macy's, which, as they really want you to know, is celebrating their 150th!!! ANNIVERSARY. Like OMG. But I was alarmed to see that Ed Hardy shit I spoke of a bit earlier. I thought it was a passing phase, since I saw a lot of it in the Nordstrom Rack, but alas, no.


Sigh. Then I went over to Target to get some stuff and browse the 75% off nobody-wanted-that-crap clothing section, where I picked up some really comfortable sweatpants for $8. Then I saw this. Target's Ed Hardy knockoff. Don't want to spend $200 to look like an ass-hat? Then just head down to Target.

This classmates ad left me puzzled. This person apparently got a really early start, because they had their first kiss at age 8. Then they didn't get a first job until 25. Maybe they were flat on their back that whole time. Now, finally, at 36 they are getting married. Congratulations.

Oh, and although they've oddified the place names, that's most definitely the Mississippi River. By my estimation, this person is currently in Jackson. Looks like in 2016, they'll only have made it to Meridian. God help them.

Oh this damned election. I think I know why John McCain picked up Sarah Palin. She is actually dumbed down to the Amuhrcun people. Much unlike his wife, who always appears in public dressed to the nines, looking like she has a permanent smell up under her nose. What is it you smell Cindy? The people?

Ummmshehemamamalalatatataaaah. Yes, Lord, it's a renaissance in gay dance music! I just found this on iTunes: Breakaway by DJ Bill Bennett with Inaya Day. (iTunes link) The Bill Bennett Anthem mix is my favorite, since I do love a good anthem. It has some African sort of chanty stuff going on in the background. Look for it!

I also found out that DJ Bill has a debut album coming out in November. Beulah will definitely be getting that.

Beulah also likes the look of the man. Real. Rugged. Not some X-trip looking twink-DJ from the mid-90s.

Just call this "Fashion Week" in Beulahland. I have been shopping for shoes, as a matter of fact, I am going to the exclusive Nike Employee Store (shhh) today to buy some new running shoes, and perhaps some new hiking shoes, and maybe whatever else I can find cheaply. But I've been looking at stuff online, too -- and there are some horrendous things. I'll share a few here.



There are a lot more tragic items out there, but I think I best leave it here for today!

So now that the Beulah is smaller and can actually fit into nice things, she is becoming a mild fashionista. There is one thing I've been wanting to comment on, however: the tacky horribleness that is the skull-and-crossbones-heart, fake-tattoo looking shit that people out in the suburbs buy thinking it makes them look cool -- like bikers or something. It's all this "Ed Hardy" mess. Who the hell is Ed Hardy anyway? According to Wikipedia, Don Ed Hardy , "is an American tattoo artist born in Iowa in 1945, and raised in Southern California. Hardy was the first Western tattoo artist to incorporate Japanese tattoo aesthetic and technique into his work." OK, so he's an artist. But it was designer Christian Audigier who decided to put this junk on clothing and mass market it. Let's see... for only $135, your can send your child to school looking like a street thug. "I'd rather you go nude to school than looking like a tramp!"

On further exploration, you can even mask the soccer kit stank in your 15 passenger soccer mom SUV with a Virgin Mary tattoo air freshner [sic]! Blessed be her holy name!

Unfortunately the skull motif has pushed its way into men's fashion in a big way, and I wish it would leave. Who wants to go around with reminders of death on all the time. Save it for Hallowe'en!