Kate's Point of View

I am a huge proponent that when you are in a “weird” mood you are the most fun. I operate at my best when I am hyper, having a stupid / ridiculous sense of humor and laughing at anything.

There are lots of kinds of feeling weird, right? And depending on where the mood strikes you affects how it plays out. For instance, if I get into a weird mood at work, it usually translates as “smarmy.”

For a definition of smarmy, I offer up David Spade. For those of you for whom this offers up no clarification, the dictionary(.com) definition reads:

“Hypocritically, complacently, or effusively earnest; unctuous.” Unctuous is “characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.”

It’s a funny word. Use it liberally.

I would like to know what is UP with people souping up their cars all ridiculous. This included the Dodge Neon in the parking garage with a pushcart spoiler and flames down the side. This includes the neon lights that go under the car, on the hood and around the license plate. (And for people doing this who aren’t 16-year-old males, soooooo much worse.)

The man whose car last night had all the neon and a plate that read “Blinger” – he wasn’t cool.

In fact, the only good use I have seen of neon was several months ago on a car in Hyde Park. On there back window were two big Labryses crossed in an x. It looked kind like a band symbol but for those of you in the know, a Labrys is a huge lesbian symbol alluding to the goddess Demeter (Artemis) and used in battle by Scythian Amazon warriors. I kept asking myself, do they know they have these big lesbian symbols on their car? Um, yeah, so then I looked down and saw their licence plate reading “RAINBOW” with rainbow neon lights running around it.

That was super.