It’s all about anniversaries for me. When I was keeping my journals in high school, even, I used to keep up with them sort of obsessively. I’d cover the one-year anniversary of the first time I got caught smoking, or the ten-year anniversary of the very first “Brady Bunch” or whatever. Maybe that’s how I get my frame of reference in life. Or maybe it was an early indicator that I’d grow up to be an obsessive nerd.
Anyway, today’s the anniversary of the day in 1992 that I landed in San Francisco. Eight years. Jeez. It doesn’t seem like that long. And it definitely DOES seem like that long. Understand?
Suitably enough, after I crossed the Bay Bridge into the city, my first stop was at Safeway, the one on Market Street, where I called my friends and warned them I was coming. I was nervous. I was also anxious to converse with an actual friend in person after having just driven across the country alone. I calmed down later that night, with significant assistance from Henry Weinhardt. I went to work two days later, moved into this apartment a month later, and all of a sudden, I realized that I lived here.
This week in Planet SOMA history:
- 11 October 1980: I got my first blowjob in an adult bookstore at the tender age of 16. Being a precocious sort, I also got fucked for the first time. I didn’t much care for it.
- 4 October 1982: I was breaking up with my first college boyfriend.
- 3 October 1983: Danny Elfman rode in the front seat of my car.
- 1 October 1996: Feelin’ Minnesota.
- 5 October 1997: Gallup, New Mexico, as I completed the Planet SOMA US Tour 1997.
Quotes du Jour:
- “Very few animated cartoons are broadcast live; it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrists.” (Simpsons)
- “More people would have babies if they came with free garlic bread.” (3rd Rock from the Sun)
- “What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great many people.” (Norman Mailer)
