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Rex The Dog “Prototype” (UK)

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recently, i was on my G rated public profile (Facebook) and happened on to some posts that said “St. Cecilia Class of 1986.
” there could’ve been a million of these private schools all over the world but i clicked on it anyways and here’s what came up:

this is my 3rd grade class. i’m not in the picture because i came late in the year. the fourth kid on the top row from the left is alex leja. he and i became chums and had lots of play dates. he had a dog, golden retreiver, and we had lots of fun.
his family is from chile and i remember his mom adding dill to rice and i thought, “WTF??”

one day, after another playdate, i left his house at west portal to walk to mine in the sunset district. after several blocks, i turned around and realized that his dog had gotten out and followed me. it kept several paces back so i had no idea, also maybe cuz i was, like, 8 and was too busy smashing pumpkins on the way home. i yelled at it to “GO BACK!” but it sat there instead. after several more blocks, i turned around and realized it had followed me that much farther. wtf? “i should just bring the dog home and call them” i thought.

when i got to 19th avenue light, i crossed the street and managed to get the dog across the street without a leash.
mind you, it was bigger than me! but, when another dog showed up across the street, the FUCKING DOG RAN ACROSS THE STREET AND A MINIVAN MAKING A LEFT TURN HIT THE DOG!!! everyone ran over and, because there were no cell phones yet, i ran home to call them and the driver called the tag numbers, which i suspect was also them?? i was only a block and a half away from my house! how terrible!!! =(

ever since, i couldn’t play with alex. turns out that his mom told all the other moms that my mom used them for daycare because she’s a single immigrant woman without a man and no money.

i fucking hate dill.

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when i was 9, i came home with a dog from the park who also followed me home. it was a golden lab. it had no tags and just followed me all over the park one day and all the way home. i thought “maybe this guy is hungry…” so i took it home and fed it. we hugged the rest of the afternoon.

mama gets home from work around 9pm after a long day of commuting and selling insurance. whenever she gets home, she gives a big “phew” before she takes off her heels and lies on the couch.
that night, she gave a “phew”, took off her heels, and sat on me and the dog! IT STARTED BARKING!!! and she was screaming!

when the dog stopped and she got herself together, i asked “so….can i keep him??”

guess what she said.

bye dog.

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omg, i totally let lxndr talk me back into playing music again at the beauty bar on wednesdays, the same way we did last summer! haha! well, not exactly the same way. this time, we wanted to just keep it tight and play more scene friendly stuff.

sort of like a venue for us to just play the music we share with our girlfriends and closest buddies we love nerding out with. so kinda like sweet and soft to bitter and hard but always classy and sassy with a dash of douchebagalicious.
(alex will probably kill me when he reads this)

anyways, WEDNESDAYS at The Beauty Bar will be on us and dewar’s scotch, so you and your entourage can have a place to be besides the places your ex hangs out at.
remember, WEDNESDAYS at The Beauty Bar…say it!

here’s the unofficial flyer, but tell only your trusted friends!