Remiss:

I’ve been hideously remiss in posting to this blog. Although I reserve the right post or not post as often as I damn well please, I have to admit that twelve days is a little too long. Fact of the matter is that I’ve actually written half a dozen post, each one was crappier than the last, and decided to spare you the pain of reading that crap.

Sam Holden Portraiture:

I love this guy’s portraiture. You can check out his web page or go to his exhibition at Mission Media between October 23 and November 20. Thanks to Huff for making me aware of his stuff. Once again, I can’t link to his specific post due to nudity. I have to admit, I DO love that wonderful huff. update: DO NOT FOLLOW THE LINK ON MY RECOMMENDATION! There is a new picture on Huff's page that is far too disturbing for me to endorse. Consider yourselves warned. I don't visit rotten.com because it freaks me out. I'm not criticizing Huff. He can post what he wants to. It is just that I can't endorse it with freaky pictures like that. ick.

I’ve spent the better part of this week trying (and failing miserably) to write an essay differentiating Baltimore and Washington DC counter culture. I’ve been hitting wall after wall and it has been driving me crazy.

Yesterday, while not writing the essay, I found myself in an email exchange with my old friend esf in Chicago. I told her how I was sitting out front of Donna’s in Charles Village, surfing the net, and ogling all the Hopkins coeds that were walking by. She responded, “but aren’t you gay or something?” referring to the old joke about me being a closeted homosexual. I replied, “I’m not gay, I’m trashfabulous.”

That’s when it hit me. A thousand gaudily dressed cherubs blew bugles in the back of my imagination. It all suddenly made sense because of a word I made up to humorously defend my sexuality. That is the definitive characteristic of Baltimore counter culture, “Trashfabulous!”

Yes, I know, it kind of sucks. I liked it enough to submit it to the urban dictionary:

trashfabulous

Source: eebmore, Oct 7, 2004

oh oh, wonderful. Dumb-ass me misspelled almost every word in my example! Check it out and vote for it if you wish to.

A few examples of trashfabulous:

This site. It may suck but it is trashfabulous.

My friend Corey who keeps nagging me to write something about her on this site, but I keep avoiding it for fear of being expelled from this server. Corey, your habit of hanging out in dirty old man fag bars for the cheap drinks is totally trashfabulous.

Blaze Starr ... totally.

My friend esf in Chicago who just told me she and her fiancé are giving serious consideration of moving to Baltimore. If you don’t remember esf, she’s the one who flashed the prisoners while leaving the Atlantis (albeit with her underwear on) to a cheering crowd of male strippers. That is so trashfabulous. I’m glad to see you’re considering dragging your fiancé down to our level.

Eh, I’m tired and don’t feel like thinking up any more. I’d like it of you helped spread the word on my word. With any luck it could become the next big thing, knock that irritating Metrosexual thing off it’s block. I can’t tell you how much I hate that Metrosexual thing. Straight men acting like gay men who act like bitchy prissy women? Ug, an end to it please.

Maybe the New York Times will write some irritating ten thousand word article titled something like “The Age of Trashfabulous.”

That would suck so much that it would be awesome!