Question: chauvinism

So, chauvinist is the male equivalent of feminist? Well, not really, actually. But that's how the word is used. Chauvinism is any kind of irrational loyalty to an idea or nation. Weird.

Two of my friends, Jeff and Lauren, have read the book Female Chauvinist Pigs, they loved it.

Actually, the male equivalent of feminism is masculism or masculinism. Word of the day.

Travel to St. Louis!

This is for my friends Jeff and Patrick, who (hopefully) will be returning the favor and coming to visit the Gateway to the West soon. Since St. Louis is pretty spread out and favors the over-21 set, our options are limited, yet exciting. I'm going to give as comprehensive of a list (St. Louisans please add on) as I can for them for them to choose from when they come to visit:

The Obvious:
- the Arch (w/ ride to the top)
- Cardinals game (schedule)
- Ted Drewes Frozen Custard (menu)
- The City Museum (crucial)
- Westminster Christian Academy

Neighborhoods:
- the Hill (Italian neighborhood) (restaurants)
- East St. Louis (guided tour)
- North County (guided tour)
- The Loop (shopping/bars)
- Central West End (shopping/bars)
- Laclede's Landing (mostly bars, some restaurants - kind of seedy)
- South Grand (shopping/restaurants)
- Downtown walkabout
- the Fox/Moolah theater area (SLU)?

Restaurants not by anything else:
- Carl's Drive-In (not actually a drive-in, just a tiny diner kind of like Town Topic in KC) (City of Manchester)
- Crown Candy (for the milkshakes) (Old North St. Louis)

Forest Park:
- St. Louis Art Museum (free)
- STL Zoo (free)
- general running around (map)

Places I've never been:
- St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum

Other necessities:
- riding on the Metrolink
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(all images - STL Style)

Senior Tour Update

(wikipedia) Columbia, MO

Well, it's been awhile since I started the Senior Year Tour project, and I've crossed a couple things off of my list. And I've added a couple things and crossed them off. Here we go:

1. Tonic nightclub: more enjoyable if you get there at 11pm instead of 10:30pm, like we did. Awesome event of the night: I was standing, looking over a railing, and I saw a guy out of the corner of my eye check me out and walk over. He started grinding his butt on me and I started laughing. He said "go ahead, you can touch it. I worked out for 10 hours today, go ahead." I just laughed and walked away.

2. True/False film festival. Fantastic. One of my favorite quotes from the event was when a yodeling musician was playing before 'American Teen' (very very good - check it out), who was in his mid-twenties and pretty cute. A woman in her fifties beside me leaned over and said, "He can yodel at me anytime." This made me want to date a guy whom older women think is attractive. I feel like they know what they're talking about.

3. Universal Thrifts update: Not open on Tuesdays, or whenever Jeff and I tried to go, but is most likely probably open on Saturdays only.

new things on the list:
7. Go to a Mizzou basketball game
8. Figure out where the 63 Diner is and go there
9. Go on a walk around downtown in the morning.