elektra x is that really your name?

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The story behind elektra x and are you married. . .well yes and no. My absolutely amazing boyfriends name is Eric and we did get married years ago . . . I even wore black – my grandmother was not amused! We put on the play The Frog Prince – changed the play a bit. Poor Eric had to wear a huge Frog head and green tights! At the time George Bush Sr. was President so the play centered around “The Evil King Bush” who was played by my father in full King costume! The Evil King would not allow homo sapiens and amphibians to marry. But we were in love . . . So our friend Jeff playing the jester put some sugar cubes in the kings coffee (to sweeten his mood). . .My dad got all “happy” danced around in his King costume to the song I can see clearly now the rain is gone. He was fabulous. So anyway in the end he changed the law and we were able to get married. But when we kissed Eric turned into a prince. Later we realized – we gave everyone else tons of lines but we did not have any! It was a most excellent wedding! Then after being married for a year we both started reflecting on how people treat you so differently since being married. For one all my birthday checks (I am the only child and only grandchild on both sides of my family) came to Mr.and Mrs. Eric Kent. I was like ‘scuse me some of you have not even met him yet! . .Also, it was like it legitimized our relationship as well to so many people. Even though we had been together for four years – now it is for real?

Besides there are so many people who can not get married because of bigotry in this country – the whole thing was just too hypocritical. Anyway we decided to get divorced and have been living happily ever after since. We had a fantastic divorce party – there were prizes for guessing my new name. Oddly enough a friend of mine who I had not seen for years guessed it – he also guessed my reasoning and everything. Having to have either your fathers name or your husbands name – it made me just feel like a second class citizen. So the letter X seemed perfect as that was how people signed their name when society standards kept them from learning how to write. Elektra was another guess – I liked it so much that I made it my middle name. Plus I have my porn name if I ever want to get into that. . .

four things meme. . .

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Four jobs I have had in my life

  1. Working with autistic children. . .
  2. Artist. . . hmmm. . .not much else at least I never had to be a plague burner

Four Movies I could Watch over and over:

  1. Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell of course. . .I always knew I never wanted to have children – I just wanted to be an eccentric auntie.
  2. City of Lost Children – gorgeous, creepy and fantastic
  3. Eddie Izzard Dressed to Kill

Four TV shows:

  1. The Daily Show
  2. Mr. Show
  3. Larry Sanders Show
  4. Buffy (I have a few dvd's that I watch in Italian with English subtitles and visa versa to practice my Italian. Buffy is amazing in Italian!)

Four Places I have been on vacation

  1. Italy
  2. Mexico
  3. New York
  4. Vancouver

Four websites I visit daily:

  1. Various blogs
  2. flickr
  3. eBay 

Four of my favorite foods:

  1. Spaghetti
  2. Port Wine Cheese
  3. Cherry Cobbler (yes even it being called poltergeist in the school cafeteria did not dissuade me)
  4. Red Wine and Red Bull (although not together) . . . I seem to dig red food and drink?

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. Italy – Genoa in particular at a focacciaria
  2. "Floating" up to the bar on a little inflatable pool raft at one of the poolside bars in Mexico
  3. Drinking wine in a small little town (bandol maybe?) in provence although being here is all good. . . |inline

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