I've been seeing a lot about this Diablo Cody, former stripper-now-screenwriter of the hit movie Juno. Haven't read what I've seen, though, or very little...too annoying. Makes me too envious. She wrote a blog, did a book, wrote a script, and now the movie has made more than a hundred million dollars...

This isn't what strippers are supposed to do. They're supposed to entertain Sir Cranky and his ilk, not live out HIS dreams...

I'm from the generation that thought women were supposed to be nurses, teachers, housewives, B-girls or strippers...well, maybe that's my father's generation, but this particular wormy apple didn't fall far from the tree...

I once got a dance from an Ivy League-educated stripper who thought she was hot stuff... she wasn't, and I think it was partly her education that got in the way of her dancing...in my experience, the best strippers are the ones who strip for their supper and know that's the only thing they can do well enough to buy the vittles and make the rent...anyway, Miss Ivy League was a published fiction writer who told me that she was going to be "one of the major voices of her generation" even as she took my money with a particularly smug demeanor...gee, I thought I was going to be one of the major voices of MY generation, and here I was, my voice but a whisper in the teeming throng of anonymous men, handing over Jacksons into her avaricious garter...to her credit, she did publish at least one novel I know of, and a book of stories, and to MY envy I once saw her interviewed about her writing on the very television screen hanging near the stage in the damn stripclub! I thought, "Fer crissakes, why is SHE on tv, and not me...?"

Because that's just the way it was, I guess...

Sometimes I think I try to justify all my behavior by writing as well as I can about it...and fifty years ago, people were interested in reading about the scamp-like behavior of men. Not so much anymore...women have become the scamps, and their exploits capture the "zeitgeist" like ex-ecdysiast Diablo Cody obviously seems to have captured it with her script for Juno...

Oh well. I soldier on. Maybe someday I'll get another lapdance and have something juicy to write about again...meanwhile, in the next few days I have to finish paying off last year's freelance taxes...so I don't think I'll be getting any dry-humping any time soon.