<p>Yes, growing up in the Bay area, going to Joseph Magnin felt like going to Manhattan! ;)</p>
<p>Wait. You guys have been having a party and you didn’t invite me? How come I never stumbled into Sinner’s Alley before?</p>
<p>Carolyn, here is a flaming tequila shot. You’ve got some catching up to do!</p>
<p>Gee, I didn’t know this was such a stingy place. I always do double shots when flaming tequila is involved. :)</p>
<p>Somebody! Cut me off! I think I’ve had too much! I actually thought I saw carolyn here in Sinner’s Alley! Aren’t the bartenders supposed to switch us to root beer <em>before</em> we start hallucinating?</p>
<p>Lucky for you, Carolyn, it’s happy hour. 2 for 1.</p>
<p>Ah. I. Magnin’s. Yes. Nostalgia…</p>
<p>Here I am sweating away in heat and high humidity and you guys are talking about cashmere coats and flaming tequila…
I’ll have a frozen daiquiri please…</p>
<p>How hot is it where you are?</p>
<p>it was 87 yesterday- not bad really
I have to share this funny that happened to me today
mydaughter was taking a photography class downtown and when I went to pick her up I brought the dog becuase she was looking bored.
While I was walking the dog, I noticed that a gay theme bookstore was having a going out of business sale- since I have been intending to buy some sort of rainbow type sticker in support of GLBT community
so we went in- they were running out of just about all stickers- they have several bear type stickers and I had to ask what those represented- big hairy guys apparently.
well I didn’ tneed one of those so I grabbed a rainbow strip that had black bars between all the colors- I also noticed black triangles but didn’t want to appear gauche’ so I didnt ask.
However when my older child arrived home I casually asked her
"what do the black bars represent
“Leather” she replied
“Oh”
I kinda want to put it on anyway- after all who is gonna know what it means?</p>
<p>When women pull up to check you out at stoplights, you will know: they know.</p>
<p>Oh man, I stop in once again from Scandinavia to say howdy before we jet off to Paree and y’all are having double shots with CAROLYN and putting Big Hairy Guy rainbow stickers on your Harleys. Yee gads, way to make me homesick,folks. When I went off to college, though, I bought a dark green velveteen fitted collared coat that went down to mid-calf, though: none of those fancy black things for me. With my dark orange velveteen beret with the flat ribbon hanging down from the brim and my Earth Boots and ever-present writing journal, I cut quite the eccentric figure. Or so I wanted to think anyway. </p>
<p>I just told The Kid across the table about your leather rainbow sticker, ek4, and SBmom’s response and The Kid said, “Whoa, I want one of those for <em>my</em> car!” – presumably with the idea that women would pull up at stoplights to check him out. I reminded him that <em>guys</em> would be the ones pulling up to check <em>him</em> out and he thought for a minute and said, “Oh yeah… well, okay, whatever.” And smiled. I love teenagers. 
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<p>I’ll have another cuppa kahfe in your honors and then go shopping. Bottoms up, y’all – more from Paris I hope!</p>
<p>We’ve had a lot of humidity along with our heat. Today it’s supposed to hit 96.
I had totally forgotten about the coat I had when I went off to college until now- and I’m not so sure I wanted to remember either. I bought a VERY used old raccoon coat at a thrift shop–thought it was THE coolest thing ever. However I seem to remember the seems all coming apart shortly thereafter, perhaps partially severed.
Am just thinking about how kids were ‘cool’ back then and now they’re ‘hot.’</p>
<p>PS those were the days before enlightenment on animal rights</p>
<p>ooh just to clarify in case there is a quiz- “leather” means um- fetishes .which could encompass lesbians of course but not necessarily 
I found this <a href=“http://www.the-homo-depot.com/pridesymb.htm[/url]”>http://www.the-homo-depot.com/pridesymb.htm</a>
which relates the use of symbols and their past connection to Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>Up with the birdies this morning. TGIF! My first college coat was a light blue, very puffy down jacket. Anything made of down was somehow associated with being Earth-friendly, despite the fact that a few dozen birds had to bite it in order to supply the down. It gave others the impression that I camped out a lot and spent a lot of time sitting in redwood trees. </p>
<p>I completed my <em>look</em> with a pair of Earth Shoes, which can still be purchased for about a hundred bucks on any website containing the words, “good,” “Earth,” “vegan,” “yoga,” or “healthy.” They’ve normalized the angle of those things, and they’re actually pretty nice looking shoes. I swear, they’re made of leather, but they’re probably made of soybeans and tree bark that fell from the trunk naturally to start a new life on the ground as mulch. </p>
<p>Call me, Rainbow, and hold the leather. :)</p>
<p>Rainbow slugg, as in the beautiful rainbows we saw on top of Mauna Kea. Not making any announcements here, folks. These days, I’m sporting a grass skirt and a coconut bra, drinking rummy beverages with slices of pineapple on the side. ;)</p>
<p>slug you’re crackin’ the whole place up. WHEN was the last time I thought about earth shoes??<br>
Do they have to do the ducks in to get down? I’ve always envisioned a sort or shearing process, sort of like getting wool from a sheep.</p>
<p>Carolyn, welcome in here with all of us sinners.</p>
<p>Hi Guys. </p>
<p>Brown bag me up a half-pint of tequila and a lime. I’ll smuggle them in to Carolyn, who had to leave almost as soon as she got here. Her D’s ready to come out of the ICU and onto the regular post-op floor. I can hide the bag in my freshman college coat – a Navy pea jacket so large that it came to mid-calf, and so heavy that I could hardly lift it. I’ll leave the hand-knit mushroom hat at home, tho, so I don’t draw the nurses’ attention.</p>
<p>If Carolyn takes a few shots with ice (of which there is plenty) instead of fire, the nurses will never catch on. </p>
<p>Pamela</p>
<p>Absolutely, here’s one bottle that still has the worm. Tell her we’re all thinking of her!</p>