Four Weird Things

1.
Last night on the milonga side of the Turn a guy thrust his leg hard in between mine. He said it was part of a move. I told him I don’t do that one. He said, “Most women like it.”

2.
Last night on the practica side of the Turn, a lead I like led a gancho. I dislike the move and I don’t do it well, so I skipped it.

Do you know gancho? he asked.
I don’t do it.
Are you conservative?
Yes.
Are you … Catholic?


3.
I have web tracking software that lets me see how people have come into my site. Today I see that someone came in through the Google search:

spun duckie woo woo

I don’t want to know. (Yes, I do!) (Maybe.) (If it’s not nasty.) (BTW, woo-woo is David Hodgson talk for the esoteric aspects of tango. I bet that whoever came to this site looking for ducks left enlightened.)

4.
Ohmigod, did I tell someone I am a conservative? Is this how it starts? The lie of panic, then of convenience? Am I going to become compulsive about this? Am I already sliding the slippery slope? I am a heathen socialist! I do not watch Fox News, I love Al Gore and that Chavez guy in Venezuela except for his dictatorial tendencies, I believe global warming is real, I rarely laugh at Rush Limbaugh’s jokes--only the one about the Clintons’ health care plan but it was really, really funny and did nothing to shake my support for their plan--I haven’t worked for the Republican party since I was a fat kid in the tenth grade and they promised me cake if I’d stuff their stupid envelopes and then there wasn’t even any cake and that was my Watergate, the first crack in the veneer of my trust … but I don’t do gancho and if in this world of tango that makes me a conserv … ohmigod I can’t say it, so bring it on boys and I’ll kick your butts!