Candy Corn 2009

Last Saturday was only ONE WEEK after Halloween, and I could NOT find any candy corn. I tried two grocery stores and a drug store. No freaking candy corn. What happened to the mountains of candy corn that towered just a few days prior.

I don't know about you, but I am increasinly freaked out by how fast holidays dissappear from retail shelves. Remember the days when holiday merch would languish on shelves for weeks and weeks. I am particularly thinking about Christmas, but I'm pretty sure, it was the same deal for Halloween. First things would be 50% off...and as they days ticked by, the size of the discount would increase...and then there were the bins in which advanced math was requred to figure out the actual discount...you know the bins I'm talking about...the ones that say TAKE AN EXTRA 50% OFF...followed by...TAKE AN ADDITIONAL 75% OFF...so you are taking 75% off of something that was already marked down 50, then 60, then 70 %. What is 75% off of something that is already 50% off???? It doesn't matter...at least to me...b/c those bins are few and far between.

So what the hell happened to the ghost boxer shorts? The witch toilet bowl covers? back to a wharehouse till next year maybe...but what about all the candy? where is my stash of Brach's candy corn? Do they ship it to third world countries and sell it there as "special" Candy? Do people in xxx country...you know...the countries with diseases that you only think about (unless you are Martin E) when you've earned enough money and time off to risk getting killed by a hippo on vacation....those kind of places...are they flooded with our old halloween candy?

I miss the bins...but there is not room for the bargain bins b/c the candy aisles are freaking full with every possible iteration of christmas candy.

So while last october I was freaking out over my over consumption of candy corn ...this year, I have the opposite problem.

The last time I saw candy corn in real life (minus the gross all-year candy corn that is waxy in appearance and doesn't really count as candy corn), was on the bus on Halloween night. The thing is...it's not the kind of candy corn you can eat...it was a girl in a candy corn costume. Supa cute.

BTW, candy corn is perhaps the most honest candy out there...it doesn't try to hide the fact that it's totally made with corn syrup. It's corn. It's candy. It's corn candy. It's candy corn.

photo needed from halloween

I was "the old lady who rides the bus" for Halloween, and in fact, i did take an hour-long bus ride to get to the street party i went to...and I even had to transfer buses at Fashion Valley Mall (green sweater helped with the bus ride). Thankfully, a black woman on the bus who said "Guurl" when I sat down fixed my collar. A male army veteran (with good hair and nails) shared that when he left the military, his commanding officer told him that he needed to embrace his feminine spirit and not just his masculine spirit. He says he went to modeling school when he left the military, really. The only person willing to sit next to me (on a totally full bus) in my old lady hound's tooth dress was a ripe-smelling chubby latino construction worker. the evening was a smashing success well before I got off the bus at my official destination. It's all about the journey.

italian bf on custard cam in alexandria, va

italian bf is hanging out at the Del Ray Dreamery before his yoga class with Margaret at River's Edge Yoga. I'm so jealous...but at least I got to live vicariously through the custard cam!

sunset park brooklyn

MMM. Brooklyn. italian bf and I just spent the night at a hotel on 49th between 2nd and 3rd. our first night in the same bed since Labor Day weekend. 49th between 2nd and 3rd...no, not the east side of manhattan. this is brooklyn. and there is a great mexican bakery/restaurant just a few blocks away on 4th ave (www.donpacolopez.com) . we had a quesadilla with cheese, zucchini blossoms and corn fungus. there are some extremely beautiful blocks, in terms of architecture around here. and the gentrification seeping south from park slope doesn't seem to have made it's way down here too strongly yet...but i don't know what the real estate market around here has done. We are off to the airport to pick up italian bf's parents...but first a stop back to the mexican place for sandwiches. I stopped there this am and for $2 got a cup of coffee con leche and two fresh mexican baked sweets...a sugary croissant and one of those circular baked things with the thick powdery sugar on top in the shape of a sea shell.

Michael Moore Movie

The new Michael Moore movie is great. Go see it. http://www.michaelmoore.com/

combination pizza hut and taco bell

douglas, this is for you...it reminds me of the combination mc donalds and chipotle

it's not easy being butch

it's not easy being butch...but somebody's gotta do it.

steer speck

If you click on one of the photos, you'll see the "steer speck" on my face. It's like a "fly speck" but from a castrated male cow, not a fly.