02.17.06
Molly: Flogged

Being treated to a concert ticket, 2 $7 beers, tiny T-shirt: Rule!

Times Square Nokia Theater: Horrifying.

21+ shows: Everyone is bigger than me.

Men with arm tattoos: They're so dreamy!

Mosh pit full of fat people from New Jersey: Like being trapped in an angry bowl of Jello.

200 (non-racist) skinheads sweating all over my last pair of clean blue jeans: Lame the next day, when you need pants.

Not getting a black eye: Rule!

Elbow to face, bloody nose, bloody T-shirt: Good way to terrify the tourists riding the A train at midnight.

Bruised elbows, bruised jaw, pulled shoulder muscle, whiplash: ...perhaps a sign that I'm getting too old for this.

Boyfriend who understands concert-related injuries, and won't hold them against me: Rule!

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