{"id":795,"date":"2004-09-03T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/03\/i-am-the-alpha-penguin\/"},"modified":"2004-09-03T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T23:45:00","slug":"i-am-the-alpha-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/03\/i-am-the-alpha-penguin\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the alpha penguin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Have you never heard of No shirt No shoes No service?<br \/>\nYeah &#8211; from the seventies. Back when you could put a sign up front that said NO MEXICANS.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in my life, I have been asked to leave a place of business for lack of shoes. This amuses me to no end under the circumstances as I have been a regular customer for the last six years at this particular shop. Not only have I the habit of wearing no shoes as a matter of course, I have in the past also come in with no shirt. Sweaty middle of summer, cooked feet on the pavement and it&#8217;s nighttime summer. Sticky, hot, and salt tasting skin, believe me when I say that if they had reason to comment, it would have been then. Keep me where I belong people, let me pad around. No! The young impeccable man who informed me that I wasn&#8217;t welcome without footwear doesn&#8217;t like me now. I didn&#8217;t tell him off, not exactly. I just turned a little on him without saying anything in particular. The way I do, with a grin that kneads into sarcasm with a bloody knife.  It&#8217;s worth so much more that way. A comment on his hair and he&#8217;s ruined. The facade of polite dropped utterly and all I did was compliment it. I think I&#8217;m a bitch and I&#8217;m not from your country.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me I should have a concience. My fish died today.<\/p>\n<p>Winged Migration proved its excellance by being wonderful to watch in spite of being shown on a rumply sheet screen in a cold orange lit park. Chilly doesn&#8217;t describe the numb fingers nor toes, though maybe blue does. A thank you to Ethan for being warm and a biologist.<\/p>\n<p><!--more now - the ZIM!!--> Speaking of movies nights, I have these pictures to finish the set&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>this was sadly not part of my Placebo night, but taken a few weeks ago for the sheer technotart geekery<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.halkeye.net\/foxtongue\/pic\/000d9c20\" height=394 width=585><\/p>\n<p>during&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.halkeye.net\/foxtongue\/pic\/000dak1x\" height=394 width=585><\/p>\n<p>half empty as everyone&#8217;s taking a breather between CDs&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.halkeye.net\/foxtongue\/pic\/000dd7d9\" height=394 width=585><\/p>\n<p>the smokers on break&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.halkeye.net\/foxtongue\/pic\/000dc37w\" height=394 width=585><\/p>\n<p>fanservice&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.halkeye.net\/foxtongue\/pic\/000dep07\" height=394 width=585><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you never heard of No shirt No shoes No service? Yeah &#8211; from the seventies. Back when you could put a sign up front that said NO MEXICANS. For the first time in my life, I have been asked to leave a place of business for lack of shoes. This amuses me to no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/03\/i-am-the-alpha-penguin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am the alpha penguin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}