Angela Chase

Urban Honking was featured in the Willamette Week today. There was a front page picture of Steve, Mike and Jona, plus another full page photo inside, and smaller pics of other UrHo bloggers. It was an amazing article, giving those three men their proper dues for setting up such a rad online community. The authors basically called UrHo a harbinger for a new era of media. It was really cool.
They did a blurb about Perfect Heart, which they described as “anxiety-ridden.” Yikes! And they quoted from a post about waxing my (invisible) mustache. Double Yikes!! I am mild-to-moderately embarrassed by this summation of my blog, but it’s cool. I do use this blog as a forum for examining the root of my emotions, which makes it somewhat volcanic. And I take weird pleasure in chronicling my embarrassing moments for public scrutiny. Perfect Heart is about Ultimate Transparency- revealing myself with all my strengths and flaws in an effort to present an honest self-portrait. It just feels a little funny to see it all condensed in the newspaper! The awesome part is that they called me a modern day Angela Chase (from My So-Called Life, remember?) which brings me just that much closer to Jordan Catalano. Mmm. Jordan Catalano. I have loved thee well. Mike and I joked that we are what would happen if Angela Chase started dating Max Fischer, which is just plain rad.
Today when I drove past an elementary school in my neighborhood, I was stopped by a crossing guard. The reason? A little girl and her mom were walking their potbellied pig across the street. Uh huh. Were they coming from school? Did the pig go to class with the girl, like for show and tell, or did mom just walk pig to school to pick up little girl? It was a big ol’ pig, too. On a leash.
Liz’s high school boyfriend has a pig as a pet. Along with some llamas, I think. And a dog. The pig’s name was Rosie. Some pig.