After a wonderful week if internally celebrating in our heads, we can finally put all that pent up sexual energy to use, its Friday after all.  So here, we go…

Friday

• Drink wine for charity:  well sort of…drink 5 wines at 5PM for $5 at Whole Foods this afternoon to benefit the C’VILLE BIKE MENTORS, a group of “expert” riders that educate us lame car driving folk how to bike better and ultimately save the world.
• Checkout cvilleMuse for info on gallery exhibits and a movie about our favorite Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers (AKA CLAW)
• Girls in short shorts:  UVa volleyball plays UNC tonight.  This ain’t your high school gym class style of playing.  If you have never been to a real volley ball game you should
• X-Lounge:  live music and dinner bail out (one small and one big plate for $21, tues-sat 530-8pm)

Saturday (after the jump)

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Inspired by parlie’s curmudgeonly diss on the current iPhone buzz, I decided to compile this list of “things that used to be cool in cville but are no longer because too many people do them.” Please, discuss, argue, and add your own 5 cents in the comments! (Why 5 cents instead of just 2? Because we live in Charlottesville. Even our opinions are overpriced!)

So here’s my take on a bunch of things that matter almost as much as my opinion about them! </toungecheek>

#10. Pretending not to care what people think of you - The only thing less painful than being judged by how you look and what you do is being judged for how you don’t look and what you don’t do. Too many folks wearing Birkenstocks? Get yourself some Crocs. That’ll show ‘em. Is everyone listening to that new band on the radio? Go find some “indy” group to proclaim as your FAVORITE. And OMFG people are getting excited about a new product from a popular electronics company? You better not get sucked in, or it will just look like you’re following the crowd! You don’t want to do stuff that other people do, do you?

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When I dine out with my parents, I order the wine for me and my dad. He knows I will revel in it more than he ever could, and I know he will retract my open invitation to come home if I choose an expensive bottle. He even finds me to be quite reliable in choosing something we like. (To that, I say only this: Argentina.) He and I are positive individuals, so we approach unpleasant wine the way we approach Chanel No. 5: “Mmm, musk!” We don’t really discuss wine at too much length at the dinner table, because we have acquaintances we’d rather not sound like (and probably aren’t qualified to do so anyway).

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