Sir, i hope you keep rockin’
-Felicia

1. Cabbie returns wallet for fare price only. Yes, I said “only”. Dude could have played a little “What’s it worth to you?” He also could have refused to take your call. (Just like you do to me…)

2. All cards and money – present and accounted for. You must be living right! Karma Chameleon!

3. Wallet still intact and NOT smelling of poo.

You may kiss my hand.

Anyway, thanks for the great show in Dallas. We loved you guys. I hope you come here again (but without all the mishaps on your way here of course!). :)

cheer up.

my sincerest affections.

PS – I have literally no idea how I managed to miss your four trillion latest blogs on here. I’ve got some catching up to do.

In Balderdash (an abhorrently shitty saturday night for college students) the players must guess definitions and win token-thingys (I actually think that is the proper term) to further advance and essentially, win the game (the game of Life – not ‘The Game of Life’ with the pink and blue people in the little cars, I mean the ACTUAL game of life). Let’s equate this to capitalism in the sense that tokens=$=more of it=better you are=yay business=pro-capitalism=republican.

Now, if we were to compare this to let’s say, Scrabble, or crosswords, or even better some internet versions like Scrabble Blast!, text twist, Chicktionary (a personal favorite)- these games all promote an individual player to solve problems themselves and, on some level, increase introspection- An increase in individuality, if you will. Except scrabble, which is still a level of competition,however this game is very dependent on working with each other to come to ones own successes. I guess if we look at Scrabble and it’s relevancy to the division of labor this could also be pro-capitalism (for all intents and purposes ‘pro-balderdsh’) however, let’s stick to Marx’s theory that the division of labor contributes to feelings of individual alienation. So, the scrabble would have some DOL, to counteract these alienated feelings players are encouraged to support each other in order to build a more egalitarian society (or, metaphorically, a more-full, higher scoring scrabble board) – this, according to said theory, would be considered more of a democratic game.
In the other, individualized versions of word games, literacy-building and individuality promoted, equivalent to an increase in education and esteem building or self-worth or even, awareness, and let’s say this means increase in public education and social programs – hence = democratic thinking.

Life’s a bitch. Deal with it.

Happy 2008, you funny motherfucker.

To still get up there and do a great show after all of that deserves many kudos. The gerbil in my brain wheel would have stopped running right after the leaving-the purse/wallet-in-the-cab.

These are all what I like to call ‘rich peoples problems’ (a phrase I invented). You got your wallet back, and you didn’t lose your laptop. If you also ate a breakfast not containing hog and avoided having to use an AK-47, you could even posit that it was a GOOD day.

Get some perspective man, because we all love you.

I’m sorry that your trip has sucked so far. I hope things go smoothly from now on. I like stories with pictures and your Pulp Fiction wallet. I think all bad MoFos probably use medicated hand cream.

xoxo