January 27, 2003
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Who ARE These People...(continued from below)
What TkM doesn't know is how much she freaks me out...No, no...not in any blatant way with content and such. Rather it's the resonance of her style, history and assorted personality stuff that sends bizarro gooseflesh up my arms.
An innocuous example? I found her site on a google of "Tequila Mockingbird"...The oh-so-clever registered name of my cat.(okay, yeah. I said innocuous, right?)
Her 100 Things About Me list was so extraordinarily close to mine, that anyone would think I plagarized it. Seriously. I've had to consign mine to the scrap heap and will need to come up with 100 other things about me. Gee, thanks, TkM. (When I had DH review them both, his comment was, "That's spooky--Is this one of those alternate reality things?" Indeed.)
So it's a kindred spirit sort of a thing that keeps me reading. Not that that is any hardship--TequilaMockingbird's site features a wry and well-turned writing style. Of course we share as many differences as similarities (TkM's adoration of Gore gives O'Donnell's delight in Cruise a serious run for its money--:shrug:-whatevah..). Whether it's relating the Great Chili Scandal, scribing how Drunk Girlfriends commisserate or railing at some Nasty bit of politics, TequilaMockingbird is "So not Stomped [by those who might try bully or rain on her parade]"...
And why wouldn't someone monikered 'Your Bitter Co-Worker' go play in a sandbox titled 'Everything That Sucks'?
ETS...there's a poignent mix of piss, vinegar and pathos here that is awesome and awful all at once..There's a hardy candy shell (titanium-laced) coating a sweet chocolate center. And ETS will be the first to tell you so.
Her site is not unique in it's function as a place to rail at an unfair world. What is unique is the humor, passion and glimpses of the coping, healing processes she's brave enough to share.
ETS' vitriol and raw anger occasionally leaves me breathless. I return, though, because I've come to be invested in wanting ETS to survive and thrive. Besides, she's possessed of a mouth and fuck-awl-yawl attitude to rival, nay, even surpass my own...and you can't find that on cable...not even payperview...(says the chick with no tv-heh)
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