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vlog deathmatch: vote NOW

  the full-length watch it or die 
  Originally uploaded by irina slutsky.

so me and doc pop wrote a song and made a video to participate in the 3rd Vlog Deathmatch challenge. i'm in second place right now behind theburg.tv out of williamsburg, brooklyn. so please go check out what u like and vote for my video! only if you like it of course. each IP addy can vote twice!

fan of GETV

  Hot Geek Babe 
  Originally uploaded by VanJohnson.

Eric Van Johnson asked to take a photo with me at LinuxWorldExpo and made my day! anyone who pays attention to our stuff is genius in my book!

flickr turns 2

  DSC02051 
  Originally uploaded by bees.

cal henderson ran around the flickr bday party blinding everyone with his flash. this is the resulting photo. cal (one of my geekstars) is the only one who took a photo of me all night. it's the first time i've managed to go to a party and keep myself out of almost every photo! but of course, i have to show it to you anyway....

body double

so, i have a cameo as a body double in this short film. it's not for the faint of heart. (edited by scott hirsch and lance arthur)

"NOOOO. no more pictures."

  "NOOOO. no more pictures. i'm all over the internet." 
  Originally uploaded by irina slutsky.

funny how just being honest turns out well in most cases -- even this little example of a great photo. i was so tired of posing for pictures while out with some friends, that when they tried to get me into another shot, i reacted with a very dramatic, "NNNNNNNNOOOOOO!" it turned out to be everyone's favorite picture of the night. it's so nice to be captured in essence and unposed. thanks, tara hunt.

what up, g?

so i had the best thanksgiving ever. i spent it with my drag queens in boy clothes. i mean, they were in boy clothes, the queens. but, as always, the clothes don't make the queen, so we still have a fantastic and lovely time, eating puta's food and joking around with some of the funniest performers in san francisco. who was there? only Coco Canal, Ms. Trannyshack 2005! (and many others). as much as i love my father and my cousins and as well as i get along with them, it's still much less stress when there is no travel or family stuff involved in a holiday. plus, i dont think they'd enjoy watching Andy Warhol's Trash, which was the second-highest grossing film in West Germany in 1971, after Easy Rider. that was the year i was born too, back in the day of communism and east and west germanies.
 

eminem and 50 cent managing their anger in san jose

by way of two friends/colleagues-- thanks jackson @ sfist.com --  i'm getting to blog the anger management 3 tour concert tuesday night in san jose. big concerts are a pain, but this kind of assignment is usually a mix of hilarity and ridiculousness that i throroughly enjoy. pop culture's  entertainment for the masses and self-conscious pseudo-intellectuals like me is a joy to behold.

so usaToday wants me to blog it on a blackberry, which they are fedexing to me as we speak. i've never used one but i'm sure i can figure it out.

they are going to run a newspaper article in the paper (the physical paper and the online paper, lol) for the thursday edition as well.

fun all around!

ms. malaprop*

i'm watching "bonfire of the vanities" (never seen) and i'm loving melanie griffith's character....she just said, "now honey, you know i only read the newspaper spasmodically!"

another, "i have reprobated myself over and over for that."

"there's some sort of subterfuge afoot here!" as she finds a hidden microphone in the pants of...."i'd say your goose is just about home-fried."

personally, i'm attached to her because i say things like:

"i got my high cholestorol from my father -- it's generic." and....

"i'm the bulldozer in the china shop"    and  "it works like a chimp!"

my favorite is from my mother (rip) "irochka, let's go to Bath, Tub & Above"  [and if he was a russian immigrant, family guy peter griffith would say, "stay away from the Above section."]

*Malapropisms originate  from Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's 1775 play "The Rivals." Mrs. Malaprop's name is rooted in the French for "inappropriate" -- mal a propos. In attempts to sound refined by using "sophisticated" words, Mrs. Malaprop mangles them. For example, a reference to "allegories" on the banks of the Nile.

hard heads need hard hats

  you better check yourself before you wreck yourself 
  Originally uploaded by irina slutsky.

i was hanging out with my friend chris, and got to wear a hard hat. i know this is not exciting to some people, but when does a wanna-be geek get to do that? he works for gmr and is on tour with milwaukee tools, chillin' at construction sites. (ok, so last year, he did x-box and got mauled by kids and men in every city)