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Catch You Next Tuesday, originally uploaded by emilyrems.

OK, here’s how it went down. LCF and I were having a lovely stroll through the meatpacking district on our way to watch the sun set off of the Chelsea piers when I spied this enormous chandelier in the reception area of a hair salon. Since I always seem to have the most base primate reaction when confronted with huge shiny objects, I immediately started swooning over it and politely inquired at the desk if it would be OK for me to take a picture of it. The bizzatch at the counter looked at me as if I were the grimiest scum of the earth, exchanged an exasperated, too cool for skool glance with the bleachy homo beside her, and started in with the questions. “Why?” “What is it for?” Are you from out of town or something?” I just kind of shrugged and told her I thougt it was pretty so I wanted to take a picture of it, that was all. When I said this, she deeply exhaled, rolled her eyes once more at bleachy, and snottily offered to email me a picture if I really wanted one (to show my pals back in Topeka, Kansas no doubt. They’ll never believe this!!!!) I told her to forget it and turned to go, but that’s when LCF decided to break into action. Taking on an equally imperious tone to hers, he informed them that I was a VERY IMPORTANT magazine editor who had interviewed many VERY IMPORTANT and FAMOUS people, and that it would be in their best interest to let me take pictures. Suddenly Mr. and Mrs. McCunt-a-Lot were all ears, inviting me to take any pictures I wanted and besieging me with business cards. So I took this picture, but only to post on my beloved blog along with this direct account of what a sad, petty, sickening town New York can be, and to testify to how helpful it can be to have a hilarious partner in crime by my side while attempting to navigate through it. Far be it from me to start a flame war with some bougie-ass salon by naming names, but if you happen to get your hair did at a place that rhymes with “schWonderland,” than I suggest you go somewhere more better, like SuperCuts.

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