Cool School + Haunted Ship!

Okay first, Pasadena City College is sort of beautiful. The campus is like totally art deco, but a little modern too, and it totally works and makes you feel glamorous. While sipping a coffee outside before the Queer Alliance meeting a young man walked by in an ascot and fedora and what not, and I was like, Nice outfit! and he solemnly stopped and thanked me with a sincere tip of his hat. I love this school! A bunch of Sister Spit performers crashed the Queer Alliance meeting and talked about being writers. Ali Liebegott wrote an amazing reading list on the dry erase board, with books by Denis Johnson, James Baldwin, Anne Carson, Mei Ng and more. She’ll be posting it here sometime.

MariNaomi can’t let a writing surface go untagged with cute little animals. Speaking of cute, know who was cute? The entire queer student body of Pasadena City College!

Pomp & Circumstance

Now I wanna sniff some glue!

This backpack belongs to a wild Smiths fanatic named Jocelyn. We might go to the LA Smiths convention together! Would that not be amazing or what?

After leaving Pasadena City College we stopped for some froyo and drove to our next stop, Long Beach, where we were spending the night on the Queen Mary, a perfectly preserved 1936 steamer ship! The folks running the boat really hype the possibility of it being haunted, with ghost tours and all that, but I did pick up anything ghostly on my midnight stroll of the giant vessel, just lots of beauteous wooden paneling and olde tyme-y fixtures and art deco elevators. Sister Spit tours are very riches to rags to riches to rags regarding accommodations. Even though we spent the night in retro nautical luxury just a few nights ago, today we are in a sketchballs motel by the Santa Cruz boardwalk with suspicious carpeting and depressing ambiance. Let’s flash back to when times were better: