As of yesterday, I'm living in Dallas for an indefinite amount of time.

I haven't yet set up my computer, so I'm using my friend's to post this. I just wanted to let y'all know that it may take me a while to get all hooked up, so if it seems like I'm ignoring email and the forum, that's why.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2000

Answers

Oh, and I forgot to say... I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Ann of www.midgeworld.com last night. There is all kinds of damning photographic evidence marking the event... y'all might want to go to her site later and look for pics. Or just email her and nag her for pics.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2000

Okay, so let me continue to use this topic as my own personal journal...

My email address doesn't work anymore, so if anyone tried to write and didn't get a response, that was why. (not coz I'm lazy -- not *this* time!)

I have two new cards out on Sayit.com. Go to www.sayit.com and type "gwenzepeda" in the search box. Then you'll see the two cards. They're very fresh, if I do say so myself. One is semi-romantic, the other is all-occassion. They're both retro. Go look and send each card to every one of your friends about 100 times each. If all of you do that, I should make about $10, which I will then add to my Help Gwen Make Enough Money to Live contribution box.

Conversely, you could simply go to www.cafepress.com/gwentown or www.cafepress.gwentown2 and order 50 Gwentown t-shirts, mugs, or mousepads for each of your friends. That would work, too.

Just kidding. (Kind of.) (Tania gave me a horoscope printout. It said that I would be preoccupied with my finances this month and that my romance would undergo a great change. Yeah, they design those horoscopes to apply to just ANYBODY, don't they?)

That reminds me... I need to go change my address so the checks go to me and not to the house where I used to live...

Okay, that's enough jittery, pre-breakfast posting for one morning...

I love y'all! Talk to y'all later!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Gwen, does GWENZ@EV1.NET work as an email addy?

Hope you're doing OK. Remember, hashbrowns and tater tots are good comfort foods...:)

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Gwen, Don't know whats going on in your life but hope you are ok...

Stay sweet, Bill

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

the party pix are up, http://www.midgeworld.netherweb.com/taniaparty.html I also ramble a little bit about the party in my journal.

Gwen, you and Tania need to come have lunch with me at work...give me an hour of joy in that hellhole.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Lisa - as of a little while ago, the ev1.net address is working again, and I have (limited) access to it.

Bill: thank you!

Ann, I'm running over there right now. (To your site. Not to lunch. I already had pizza. But I'll tell Tania so we can go tomorrow!) Y'ALL DON'T GO LOOK AT ANN'S SITE BECAUSE THERE ARE NAUGHTY PICTURES ON IT.

REPEATING: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, GO TO MIDGEWORLD.COM, UNDER PENALTY OF NAUGHTY PICTURES. PLEASE KEEP YOUR CHRISTIAN SENSIBILITIES ABOUT YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. GWENTOWN.COM can not be held responsible for any damage occurring after you see the pics. So don't go to Ann's site... unless you really, really wanna see the pictures.

I'll meet y'all there!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Gwen, how about showing off your assets? oops, you already did that.. *snicker*

What a good photo of you with that boy with the camera!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Gwen,

Call me, I need to talk with you ASAP.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

DAMN fine pictures ya got there, Gwen. :-)

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2000

Gwen! What a bad girl you are! Seriously, though, I hope everything is ok for you. Take care of yourself!

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

I think everything's gonna be okay. Right, Paul?

(Sorry -- no messy break-up talk on this forum. Just links to interesting pictures, y'all...)

Jill, aren't you in Dallas? Or is that someone else? Lisa?

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Gwen, I wish I was in Dallas, so I could meet ya. I'm in skanky North Florida. Which is gonna get skankier when I get my new hair!

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Gwen, you have to go visit all my old haunts cos my parents just moved to Houston. Please hit up Cafe Brazil, and head over to Fort Worth and go over to 8.0's in Ft. Worth and complain loudly about how much less cool it is now that you aren't in high school. Since that's what I did on visits home to Colleyville for the past 5 years, and may never get to do again.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

scrnwrt: Okay. I shall try. 8.0's in Fort Worth, huh?

Dude, I love Cafe Brazil. I've already been there twice... and that was before this trip!

(the first time, the second time)

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Woo-hoo, Gwen is vacationing in Dallas! You have to make a stop at the Sonic and get a cherry limeade and because it is too damn hot to sit in the car and drink it, walk over to La Chupacabra. After reading the naughty comics and buying lots of baubles and trinkets, walk down to the salon and get a manicure ( I have forgotten the name, they have the neon purple scissors in the window) but they are cheap and they take walk-ins. Have fun today!

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

*cry* I miss Sonic cherry limeade. I'd buy two or three of the Superdeluxetanker size ones and pour them into a pitcher (or two) once I got home. No matter how many I bought, the pitcher(s) would be empty in under 24 hours. Never could duplicate the flavor exactly.

Have one for me, Gwen, please?

Best wishes to you and yours. *hug*

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

But don't say I didn't warn you. You have to go in, order a drink, realize there are 3 different women wearing white jeans with heavily cinched belts, and roll your eyes a lot. I did my high school internship there, though, which was cool, cos while all the other kids were learning how to be accountants and lawyers, I got to sit and smoke a lot and taste test Blue Things.

To recover, as long as you're in Ft. Worth, I recommend the following: head over to Benito's for sopes. If you want the best biscuits and gravy in the world, have breakfast at the Paris Coffee Shop. Go to Papi's for some tostones. Get a plate of mixed goodies at Cairo's.

I'd offer more Dallas suggestions, but we only went to Dallas to either hit Cafe Brazil or the Esprit outlet.

But now you've got me all sad about my parents moving and I'm missing Ft. Worth, so you've got to let me live vicariously.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Yeah, I'm in Dallas. E-mail me if you want to go have lunch or go do booty dances at my local grocery store.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Your party pictures remind me of a party at my house a few weeks ago...only y'all might have been more tame than we were (if I had a way to post them I would, especially since I was a good girl and didn't end up half naked for a change! Wow!) Which reminds me...I've gotta go bra shopping...

Anyway, I hope you're okay Gwen, and I'm sure everything will work out.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

Thanks, babies. I think everything's gonna be okay.

Carmen, I love Chupacabra. And if you go up to that second link above, you can see me down the way at Chango Botanica.

Yesterday I walked about 8 or 10 blocks to Fiesta at 3 PM. I bought a few groceries and a huge licuado de sandia. (Watermelon juice drink. With little hunks of pulp!) Then I walked all the way back. I almost died, but it was nice because it reminded me of my youth in Houston.

Do y'all love Cosmic Cup? I do. How about Nick's? And y'all should go to Lorena's (El Jardin) on Bishop Street, every single morning if possible. (See Ann's morning-after pics, but don't look at me coz I look like a dog in that one.) Then go to Bishop Street Market, which has the classiest motherfreaking stuff in town, then go to that toy thrift store with nothing but retro toys like Charlie's Angels dolls and stuff.

Jill, I'm gonna email you.

Thursday we're going to Good Records and the Gypsy Tea Room to scope out Dressy Bessy. Dressy Bessy contains the girlfriend of one of the guys from Apples in Stereo.

Tomorrow night we *might* go to Main Street Internet Coffee Bar on Main and Deep Ellum so Tania can bust out her guitar and do the open mic thing. Anyone in the area reading this: y'all don't wanna fricking miss that, because I swear to God that Tania's songs are so good.

I'm not playing. I'm sitting here checking my mail, and Tania played me the latest song she wrote, and it was so fucking good I almost cried. You know why I almost cried? Coz it pisses me off that people like Paula Cole or Alanis or Britney fucking Spears are on the radio, when meanwhile Tania writes her own songs and plays them in her house and she's not the fucking star she deserves to be. I swear, if I had a record company... I mean, I try to put her songs on mix tapes and stuff, but that's just not enough...

Ann, you fucking rule. You crack me up, and the pictures cracked me up, and I don't know what in the name of Photoshop you did to that one reddish one of me, but that's the best picture of myself I've ever seen and I'm gonna totally steal it from your site and use it all over mine. (not the bra one, y'all.)

Does it sound like I'm drunk or something? I swear that I'm not -- there's just a lot going on and I'm unable to upload stuff to my diary from here. I hope I remember it all when I am able to upload. I wish... I could just film it or something. I actually even have my camera with me, but I don't believe I have the skill to capture any of this.

This is a nice vacation. I'm having fun.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

OH I am SO JEALOUS that my Evil Twin Jill is gonna get to hang out in PERSON with my Trailer Goddess Gwen, oh oh oh!!! *thunking head against desk*
But maybe all y'all'll do is talk about me! *brightening* Yes that's the answer!
(damn I'm good with those written contractions! maybe all y'all'll do-- fucking hell I'm good. *preen*)
(*snicker*)

Gwen, that thrift retro-toys-only store sounds SO kickass!! I wanna come! Um, and what was the other thing I wanted to say? [checks Gwen's post] Oh yeah, Dressy Bessie!!! How COOL is that, for a band name? (For the younguns out there in Forum-Land, Dressy Bessie and Dapper Dan were dolls made by Playskool back in the 60s and 70s, big soft dollies with all sorts of fasteners on their clothing, so kids could learn to tie shoelaces, buckle buckles, zip zippers, and button buttons.) I'm totally impressed that a band is calling themselves Dressy Bessy. :-)

Lastly, because it's Important: Gwen and Tania-- send a demo tape/CD to John Taylor (yes, the one who was in Duran Duran), because his website is always looking for new musicians to keep an eye on/promote/support/help/be helped by; the site is here. And JT and his creative partner, Patty, DO listen to the stuff that's sent in, so don't think Tania's demo would just get lost in the shuffle. It's totally worth a try, you've got nothing to lose and all sorts of possibilities to gain. :-)

I know I speak for at least 4 of us when I say I'm Ultra-relieved you're okily-dokily, Gwenarino. Glad.
*hugs and lurve*,

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2000

whose duranduran? i nver heard of him! And is the singer gwenrinoio any good? im alwayz on the look out for new music! thanx!!!

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Floosie How old are you again?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Here, Floosie, have a cookie and Mama will tell you all about it.
Duran Duran is a band that started in Birmingham, England, in the early eighties (that's 1980s, dear), and they had lots of hit songs and five very pretty boys to look at and nice videos to see on MTV, which was a fledgling cable channel at the time that showed music videos 24 hours a day.
Duran Duran took their name from a character in a movie called Barbarella (can you say that with me? Bar ba rel la. Oh that was wonderful, I knew you could.). Gwenarino is Ned Flanders-speak for Gwen. Gwen is the very nice woman who owns and operates these Forums. Ned Flanders is a character on the animated show called The Simpsons. Do you know what animated means? It means cartoon. The Simpsons is a cartoon show that has been on prime-time television for ten and a half years. Do you know what prime-time means? It means...

;-)

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Umm, klee? Not every one watches the Simpsons. I've watched probably two Simpson shows in my life so I didn't know you were speaking Flander-speak either. I'm also sure they're are a lot of younger people who don't know about Duran Duran either. It's not like they are exactly what they used to be these days.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

So then, they weren't always old, wrinkly and tired looking?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

No Danni, they weren't. I only know this because some girls I knew were big Duran Duran fans when we were in middle school. If you showed me a picture of the group now I think I could only recognize one of them. Maybe.

And I had no idea that people actually spoke like Ned Flanders. I assumed that "Flanderese" was something best kept on the Simpsons and not imitated in real life.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

I thought it was a fish language. That would be "flounderese", probably, right?!?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

I thought people FROM Flanders spoke Flanderese. Or is that Flemish? I'm feeling a little phlegmish myself. I hope I don't blow it. What a drip! Okay, I'll stop, I'm floundering here.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Aw damn, why is it by the time I get a chance to visit my absolute favorite forum I already missed something hysterically funny? :) I think i already said this somehwhere else but you guys rock. (hehehehehe, *rawk*) And I just assumed that everybody knew Flander-speak? Hmmm....maybe I just needta stop watching so much TV :)

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Just for the record, like, almost everyone I know who's between 17-35 quotes the Simpsons and speaks "Flandersese" constantly. Okely dokely?

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2000

Just for the record, I happen to fall in that age range, as do my friends, and neither one of us speak or have ever spoken Flanderese.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

Are you sure about that? I mean, you or your friends have never added a couple extra syllables to a word for no gosh-darn-diddly reason? That's basically all Flanderese is!

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I can't speak for Shelly, but I know my friends and I have never done that. And I have watched many Simpsons episodes.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I have never heard anyone speak Flandersese. We just swear instead.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

sorry!! never heard of dd. we wernet aloud to listen to anything but country music when i was little. then when i got my own place i started listneing to other music but i can say fro sure i never heard of them and ive seen the simmpsons and i dont like tht show.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I only speak Flandersese in bed. With Curry.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I'm sorry, I thought it was clear I was just playin' when I wrote my note to Floosie-- just as I'd thought Floosie was playing when she asked who DD and Gwenarino were. My mistake, and I'm sorry if I caused any treaded-upon feelings or made anyone feel picked-on or insulted. It truly wasn't my intention. Honest. Inconsideration is something I try to avoid at all costs, so I feel really bad about this and hope you'll accept my apologies.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

Klee, I understand how it is hard to get "tone of voice" when reading posts, so sometimes things get taken the wrong way. No harm, no foul.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

Hi-diddly-doo, Kleegirl! I just wanted to drop you a letterino to let you know that, by dad-gum-diddly-doo, you're still okily-dokily by me, little buckaroonie!

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

kleee thanx for your kind email. That really made myday!!! :)

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

Gwen, the 3 main cities in my life in the last 2 years have been Dallas, Austin and Toronto, and you're kinda hittin' them all, honey, but never when I'm in any of 'em. I'm'a startin' to get suspicious...

Have fun in Dallas. Never thought I'd miss it, but I kinda do.

And babes, I hope to hell you're OK.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

(as I was typing earlier, before everything crashed,)

Thanks, y'all.

Dressy Bessy ruled. I bought the CD. Tammy, the lead singer, autographed it. Ann took our picture.

Woo hoo! Fun, fun, fun.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

above- referenced pics

There y'all go. Read it, but don't believe what Ann says. We didn't almost get kicked out of the pub, and she didn't annoy anyone. Well -- not me, at any rate. Everyone loves Ann. The next day we were all trying to say "bitch" and "motherfucker" just like she does. I think I say it best.

Does it look like I've been partying my ass off and nothing else? Well, it simply isn't true. I've been working, too. I'm going to make money so I can go back to Austin with my head held high. I figure it'll take a week or two more, at the most. Then I will update my diary with five hundred thousand pages of yakking. I drew y'all a cartoon, too.

Don't think I've abandoned my family, y'all.

-- Anonymous, August 13, 2000

Don't think I've abandoned this forum, either. Soon I'll be back on my big stoopid-fly computer and I'll have the place all shined up for y'all.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2000

heya gwen,

I just saw this today. Are you okay? I hope you're okay. (You look good in all the pictures, but chaknow what I mean.)

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2000

I'm okay. Thanks. I'll probably be back home in a few days.

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2000