A study in contrasts

So I'm watching the Olympics last night with D, who is gay, and C, who is straight. And yes, D and I gave appropriate, aww, he's cute and has nice hair, to that Canadian diver. But after reading acres and acres of vaguely slashy but overtly pervy odes to swimmers on my flist, I was very surprised to hear this from the two of them.

We were watching tape of Kerri Walsh and Misty May celebrate their gold medal victory in beach volleyball—and I don't know if anyone has seen this or was paying attention, but first Kerri smacks Misty on the ass, and then Misty hugged Kerri and they flopped down into the sand, with Misty on top:
( ah, the femslash )

I thought their eyes were going to bug out of their heads! The boys were making all these slashy comments during the interview after as well.

Hmm, didn't see anything about that around here. What, do we not like girls in bikinis hugging in the sand?

Oh, and Huntington was great, much much fun there, and we're going for a drive today.

So, weddings.

So the reason I was at the Huntington yesterday is my college friend J, who lives in Pasadena. We met for lunch and she mentioned that she had just been at a family wedding this past weekend and said she was "not a wedding person." C asked why, and J explained that weddings are a celebration of young love and romance in a very culturally sanctioned formulaic way that obliterates the very necessary idiosyncrasy of any relationship, turning men and women into brides and grooms and making even the most intelligent of ladies into a doe eyed idiot in a backbreaking white gown, and this is no way to begin a life-long relationship with anyone.

So we changed the subject.

Now, full disclosure: J is an heiress who had a very large society wedding to her college boyfriend and then realized not bisexual, sire, but gay, and left him. She now has a very nice girlfriend, actually. And she made it clear that she may be anti-wedding, but she is definitely pro-marriage. So C and I are wondering:

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two good recent C quotes

On cacti in the desert garden, and human nature:

"I think all of nature is about advertising how scary and mean you are and hiding your sweet juiciness. Actually, so is all of human nature."

On rhythmic gymnastics:

"I can't get into this ribbon shit."

and now, we hit the road.