Valentine's Day Hype

And, I can't even picture her attempting it. Which is good, it's not an image I'd like to get stuck in my head.

Speaking of Etheridge - long ago, MF used to launch into a medley of songs after singing "Everything I Need". She hasn't done it in years, or if she has - it hasn't been blogged or audiotaped and shared online. Last time I saw her do it was 2001.... she did it in St Augustine, and I have it on video ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2fbJt--L8 ). Awesome. And a brief snippet of "Come to My Window" is part of the medley.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

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Since Denise is on the road seeing Melissa I thought I'd jump in and point out that she's referring to Melissa Ferrick ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Ferrick ) since I made the same mistake of thinking Melissa=Etheridge in a post once. ;-)

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I completely agree the hype and pressures of Valentine's Day and ludicrous. That, however, doesn't mean that when I was younger, I had a few dashed Valentine's Days because I naively bought into the expectations.

Now, like most other major holidays, I feel a day, is just a day, is a day. What really matters is the day to day love and care you put into a relationship.

Helene
The Modern Woman's Divorce Guide
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ps. I was surprised yesterday, and thrilled, when my ex gave me new socks for VD!!!

I like your "any random Tuesday" concept, it pretty much sums up the way I feel too. I am not a big lover of the holidays, any of them. I like the concept of the holidays, but I think everything is so marketed and over the top these days that meaning is lost. I prefer to do things out of the blue for the people in my life. I think it means more.

That's the one really great thing about being a lesbian in a hetero world, we aren't represented in those idiotic commercials so we don't need to feel "guilty" about them and about not living up to them.

Tonight, we'll be doing what lots of lesbians all over the country will be doing... listening to DRIVE but we'll be doing it in a bar, 3 feet from Melissa. Unfortunately, we'll have a 2 hour drive ahead of us immediately following DRIVE.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

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Just my obligatory plug for Cupid and TinkerTank. I promise, eventually I will do something with this site (t-shirts, short stories, movies, I dunno....) But until then, I'll just remind you to go check out our very modern day Cupid. She's not Melissa Ethridge or anything, but she is a super cute chic with a mischievous sense of humor....

And I am trying to build awareness of our little site so that I can do all the above mentioned things with it.....

So, meet Cupid ( http://www.tinkertank.org/ExecutiveTeam/TinkerTank... ) she's one of the many cool executives at TinkerTank ( http://www.tinkertank.org ). Spread the word - everyone should know her on this special day.

Yes, I'm on a mission to take back the holidays, i'm getting there.....
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Alyssa Royse
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Okay, I've never seen Melissa and have no opinion whatsoever on her music. (not sure i've ever heard it.) I do think she is one cool chic, for damn sure, but that's not why I'm writing....

I love love love Valentines day. BUT, no, it is ridiculous to buy a big fancy gift or pile loads of expectations n it to rekindle anything that you have let wither for the other 364 days. I feel the same way about Christmas, and all the other holidays.

We're an "any random tuesday' family. I actually dislike receiving gifts on the obligatory holidays, it feel perfunctory etc.... But any given tuesday, if someone who loves me sees something that they know i would love, that's the gift i want. the gift of knowing that i was in someones heart at a random moment on a sunny day.

And don't even get me started on diamonds and gold. Look at what the mining for those things does to the planet, the health of workers who mine them for us, the ..... and tell me why THAT is what symbolizes love. Good gods, I could go n for hours about about how I do not want those metaphors anywhere near my body, my soul or the very concept of love and generosity. no no no no no. (My husband looks at me and asks me what and who he should pillage for me in honor of our love. I smile and say, "me please." Now that's a happy Valentine's Day, free, and replicable all year long!)
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Alyssa Royse
JUST CAUSE
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Drive isn't my favorite song either, but it's fun live when she adlibs stuff in the middle of the song. I agree about some of her songs being overplayed, but when I say she didn't play anything old, I mean she didn't play anything that came before "The Other Side." Nothing, Nada, Zip, Zero, Zilch.

Yeah, that's right, I'm the boy. I'll also wear a little black dress when the occasion calls for it. Among our good friends, I go from being called the other wife, to the husband. The interesting thing about our best friends is that my friend Sylvia is the bread winner and her husband, Phollower, is a stays home husband. This is actually a topic I've been toying around with posting. Some of this topic will work into my post for the end of the month.

next to NC and Freedom, darn things are over-played. So, if she doesn't play it I won't be heartbroken. :-) I'm just looking forward to seeing her again, she hasn't been down here since November (or maybe it was December) of 2006! That's a long freaking time for us to go without Melissa live.

Ohhhh stereotypical male roles in your relationship, so you're the boy! haha. That's another post all in itself, isn't it?

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net )

It is weird that I would even feel some level of guilt in reguards to those commercials. I guess I often shoulder the more sterotypically male roles my relationship. I had never really thought to much about the roles we each fill until just recently.

Enjoy your drive to see DRIVE, you lucky dog. I hope she plays it, she didn't play Drive, or really anything old, in the last two shows that we've been to. I understand that as a musician you probably get tired of playing the same songs night after night, but when people (read as ME), drive 2 plus hours to see your show you should play what they want to hear. I'm just saying.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net )

Have fun... I've not seen Melissa in 4 plus years now.

The one thing about this day that bothers me is I wanted to send cards to my daughters and forgot. That was really, really dumb.

nelle ( http://www.nelle2nelle.org/ )