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![GPOY: [Insert Tiny Tim Lyric of Choice Here] Edition
In which my love/hate relationship with summer leans to the side of love as I realize that it’s sometimes pretty damn great to live in California and that today’s as good a day as any to get my annual weird, tiny ankle sunburn that will eventually become my weird, tiny ankle tan, remaining visible until roughly October.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljpt3eEdTS1qa2q6bo1_500.jpg)
GPOY: [Insert Tiny Tim Lyric of Choice Here] Edition
In which my love/hate relationship with summer leans to the side of love as I realize that it’s sometimes pretty damn great to live in California and that today’s as good a day as any to get my annual weird, tiny ankle sunburn that will eventually become my weird, tiny ankle tan, remaining visible until roughly October.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“You Still Believe In Me”, The Beach Boys
Present outdoor gloominess aside, I feel the inexorable creep of summer, a season that I like to pretend to out-and-out hate, since it would be simpler, but which actually fills me with an achy sort of ambivalence, the yearning and regret of a young person undoubtedly wasting her youth, underlined by pervasive heat and missed opportunities for adventure compounded by the reluctance to leave my air-conditioned environs.
Anyway, the Beach Boys are pretty good, right?
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“Hot in Herre”, Jenny Owen Youngs
It’s been a good day, albeit a sweaty one. My god, this weather.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“A Girl Needs A Boy”, Annette Funicello, from the Muscle Beach Party soundtrack
My intense and unwavering love for Beach Party movies merits further discussion.
