— We listened to Dream Girls<\/i>. “A-and I am teeellling you … IIIIIIIII’m NOT gooo-in … you’re the best man I’ve eeeeeever known ….” Holy crap. We used to listen to Dream Girls<\/i> constantly in college – we would put it on at parties … and to listen to it again and again. Man. It’s just as good as it ever was. Can’t WAIT for the movie with Beyonce!!!<\/p>\n
— We listened to Al Green. We LOST OURSELVES in Al Green.<\/p>\n
— We watched (or tried to watch – my laptop kept stalling) Barbra’s first Christmas special. Black and white. She was 22. She wore a sailor dress. Classic Barbra. A total phenom. Nobody like her – before or since. Because my laptop kept stop-starting the action, it made it look like Barbra was doing kabuki. But what a voice. What a presence. Goosebumps!<\/p>\n
— We drunk-dialed 5 people, 3 of them ex-boyfriends of mine. We left raucous messages on answering machines, and voice mails … We only remembered some of this this morning. “Wait … who did we call last night??” We called Luisa<\/a>. We left her a long-ass message. “Luisa … I am drunk, and I am calling you … and this is my bear to cross<\/a>. It’s MY bear to cross … not yours.” Once we started calling people, we couldn’t stop. Only one person was home … and he just laughed and laughed at the image of Mitchell and I, wasted, calling him to say hi. “Hi!! How are you?? We are SO drunk-dialing you right now … what’s up?” Howls of laughter from the other end. It was only 10 pm by the way – it wasn’t like we were calling people at 3 in the morning. Like that makes it BETTER.<\/p>\n — At one moment … the hilarity stopped. Quickly. The martinis hit. We only had two a piece but … within a 20-second time period, we both became absolutely flattened. It was like we no longer had any bones. We flopped towards the bed, moaning: “Omigod, I am so wasted right now …” “When did THAT happen?” We passed out. It wasn’t even midnight yet.<\/p>\n — This morning, Mitchell saying, “Who the hell do we think we are??”<\/p>\n — To anyone I drunk-dialed last night, please know: it was all from love, nostalgia, and alcohol. Please take it in the spirit it was meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — We listened to Dream Girls. “A-and I am teeellling you … IIIIIIIII’m NOT gooo-in … you’re the best man I’ve eeeeeever known ….” Holy crap. We used to listen to Dream Girls constantly in college – we would put … Continue reading