Posted by: Pixiedyke | July 29, 2007

Time to Sleep for a Year

“You know, we say we want diversity, and then we get it, and we’re like, ‘Where’d all these drunk rednecks come from?’”

-Foxy

Aah, the sweet smell of stale cigarettes, spilled beer, and body odor. As promised, my costume was a hit. Unfortunately, it involved 4″ heels. You would think I would know better. And parking was more cramped than I expected at noon on a Friday. So I hauled my cookies 1/4 mile in those damn boots, then back again at 9:30. And I couldn’t limp at night, cause God forbid some drunk asshole decide I had a chink in my super personae. So I stalked, bad ass face intact, all the way up College. And then I took off my boots and cried a little bit.

Fortunately, the damage wasn’t permanent, so Foxy and I ran all over the place on Saturday. We drank Liberally. We brought our own cocktails. I took pictures. We scored 4 free packs of cigarettes and the proceeded to smoke way too fucking much. We went to the Sky Bar, a fire escape at the top of an elevator on Battery Park. There was a bunch of liquor in a room, and two waiters and a bus boy. Now that I think about it, I think it might not have been entirely legal, and I’m trying to remember whether or not I used my debit card.

We met Jeff and Jim and Leland, and proceeded to 4 different gay bars with them through the course of the evening. We saw two drag shows, drank more cocktails and beer, and wondered where the hell all our money and cigarettes went. And we only paid one cover.


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  1. But then one must ask oneself, since we live in a small southern town in the mountains of Appalachia, do drunk rednecks actually add to the diversity quotient? Methinks not. The “diversity” of Asheville refers to the big city artists, college grads, homeless, retirees and others who have migrated here in recent years. And neither old-school mountain folk nor new school new-age folk are really the diversity I’m looking for, a panoply of different languages, accents, creeds, races, religions, and of course foods that embody my personal mecca.


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