This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 16: And Your Little Dog, Too

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Dear D0r0thy:

Hate you. Hate Oz. Taking the shoes.

Love,

T0t0

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 15: Sight of You (Makes Me Feel Blue)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bikepainter.com/Cat-a-pult.gif

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I won!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I am waiting for the washing machine repair dude to show up to fix the washing machine. Then perhaps I will finally be able to cleanify my clothes again! Oh that will be a good day.

I, um, have spent the last few days not wearing any undawears.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And Chris goes commando.

That's hot.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I did all my laundry last night. Washed the campfire smell out. Which was kinda sad.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww... that is sort of bittersweet. You smell better, of course, and I'm sure people around you are happier, but still... there's nothing like the smell of pine trees and burnt hot dogs.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing at all?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Booo! mine was better!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

But mine is gayer.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the smell of horses and sea breeze?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

liver and brussel sprouts

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing at all. And you got your way last time, Jeremy - no pouting.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the smell of poppers and sweat?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The smell of horses and sea breezes is markedly different from that of pine and burnt hot dogs, and Mr. Stelfox, I am placing you on probation for that last remark.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two of my favourite foods

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

This Is The Thread Where I Gay.

For the umpteenth year in a row, I didn't go to the Pride festivities this weekend.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no pride

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Prove it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Stelfox confusing pride with shame.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

An old boyfriend of mine (from the stoned ages) used to be in a band called Pride, and one of my favorite quotes about them was during a music festival in our little town where the out-of-town music reviewer man with whom I was sharing many beers heard them play and then remarked to me, 'I don't know what the fuck they have to be proud of.'

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to make a joke back when there was this really creepy guy in Regina who spent so much time crusading against the "gay agenda" that the Daily Show came out to cover him. Anyway, he staged a "Het Pride Parade" a few times and I was working Saturday nights at this bar at the time and, well, you guys are all smart.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

How dare you accuse me of such a thing?!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not, either

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sugarstation.com/images/complete/smartees.gif

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Aforementioned band did do a kickass cover of the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood themesong, though. They could have been slightly proud of that. The rest of their setlist sucked balls though, and NOT in a good way.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

In kind of an overly wet way?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.familyhealth.com.au/branding/dc/library/smarties.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I demand that someone send me smarties post haste.

And a bounty.

And everything flavour chips.

Now.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I need help picking a name. I'll probably just go back to being NA but it's so bland.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if we're still making everything flavoured chips. But during the Summer, Lays puts out all these geographically-named flavours like Calgary Stamped BBQ and Quebec Cheese and Newfoundlad Lobster and Saskatchewan Dust.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Saskatchewan Dust. YES. THIS IS OUR BAND NAME.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Though it's a little too Minor-Thirdsy.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Call it what you will, give me the damned candy.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

can you get smarties in the states? and bounties?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't Bounties called MOUNDS?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

At some import stores (which sometimes also sell pickled onion and/or worcestershire flavoured chips, and OH DEAR GOD I NEED TO FIND ANOTHER ONE), but they're hideously expensive and they ain't always gots 'em.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes Mark, essentially, but they taste slightly different.

Don't rain on my candy parade.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, Dave.

Where the hell am I supposed to find a 180" conference table on the cheap??!

As for the Pride name, it's important to think of every bad take on the band name before making it official, just like naming your kid. This is one of many reasons why we don't have a name yet.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish people would check their email when i mail them...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

SARAH, WE DO! THE SASKATCHEWAN DUST!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

my grandmother sends me Coffee Crisps and Smarties in the mail from Nova Scotia. I love Coffee Crisps.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

god you guys write too much.

today's payday and i'm busy paying bills and ordering crazy drugs. by the end of the day less than 1/4 of my check will be left.

chris, i could use $80 to pay my overdue cable bill. how do you do that online gambling shit?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

www.pokerroom.com

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I have had worcestershire sauce many, many times, but I have no idea what it tastes like.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

if your a novice poker player, you may get reamed a new one in no time. some of the other games are easier and just as fun, such as blackjack and the slots.

worcestershire sauce tastes like my city.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I think I have to get some Smarties you fuxors. My city tastes like fabric softener.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

My city tastes like it sounds. But not in a good way.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My city tastes like gin and stale cigarettes.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's just your breath, silly.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Alphabet Smarties?! Best idea ever!

I think "Saskatchewan Dust" would make a great tM3 tribute band. ;-) What flavor is it, exactly? Potash?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the Nfld Lobster and Sk Dust, I just made those up. Sorry.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In other news: I am doing my laundry and it is the best thing ever!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love doing laundry, i hate folding it and putting it away though.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

True dat!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate laundry and i hate mopping. i was just telling that to my roommate

and cleaning cat boxes. total shit.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

you're supposed to put litter in the cat boxes so that there's a lower than total percentage of shit, Sam.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No it's not, I don't drink gin.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this about stale tasting cities?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We're in one.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, just come to NYC already. We taste like yuck, but we have better public transportation.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My city is not vegetarian. Thus I will not be tasting it.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Even the parks have a tinge of sausage to them.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But Nick, Taste of Chicag0 is this weekend!?

I had polish food for lunch and I actually found something vegetarian - potato pancakes. They were drenched in grease though. Anyone ever met a svelte polish person?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, Holocaust jokes are still in bad taste, right?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, yes.

There is a certain amount of Polish food which could be made veggie. Pierogies are the classic example.

I'm not 100% convinced the Ukranian food I ate in Winnipeg with Bryan was vegetarian but it was pierogilicious!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Our city apparently tastes like salsa, according to the Lays potato chip people. We had a similar promotion going on in the USA, where various places got various flavors dedicated to them. The one for this place was a salsa flavored chip, which sounds completely hideous to me.

Hmm. I'm hungry now. Could use some chocolate, though. So if someone could send ME some Smarties too, that would be absolutely WONDERFUL. I can't hack Bounty, though. I very rarely like the taste of coconut.

Sam, are you still up for the mailbox send or are you going to wait until next month, when your money supply is replenished? I really, really, really appreciate your offer and am going to forever think of you for this act of generosity.

Am tired. Very tired. Don't know why, because I'm getting so much sleep lately. But I do kinda feel as though I could drift off to sleep. Am also thankful for this forum for being my centering bit of normalcy in a world that seems increasingly filled with shitty people and things, so thanks to everyone.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no send me yr snail mail dee. like i said i must unearth them first. and like many other ilxors could tell you when I actually take something to the post office has nothing to do with finances and everything to do with my distracted scatterbrained self finally doing it.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody with nothing better to do should check out c_j_t_r(dot)ca (without the underscores) in about an hour.
I've got some interesting stuff and some (old) TM3(which is also interesting). My voice is still kinda shitty from this stupid cold, so you won't have to put up with too much of my asinine bullshit either!
oh, and Tina Turner singing "Louie Louie"!

(i think that "good to me" from her Private Dancer album is my favourite song in the whole that I haven't heard in about 20 years...IT HAUNTS MY MEMORY, but I'm too considered with my hipster ee-mah-jeh to actually OWN that album. My loss.)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't connect through my Mac anymore, it seems. I am listening on the PC though, but you're on Mountainy time now, and I will be off to sign the lease by then, oh well!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI: I am planning on playing "When It Counts"
(it's not sweeps week though)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow! I only know one person who likes that song! [N.B. I might be exaggerating here.]

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Exaggerating up or down?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh. There is one person who likes that song quite a lot, requests it, etc. The rest either don't mention it or think it's too "Rufus".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's RANDY, not Rufus Newman. Your friends are jerks. (just kidding, cuz, that would make me a jerk, though, y'know, the shoe fits, but still, your other friends, I'm sure they're good people.)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, off to the station with me, and not a moment to dawdle!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Randy is nominally better than Rufus.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you sound terrible. Cold-wise, at least.

OK, off to get my new house situation happening.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that's taken care of, but I came home to find my fan is broken! Fuckity fuck! Fortunately it's not as hot as it's been...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i just worked a 20 hr day. i got paid very well to do so but now my eyes are falling out of my head, and hey, if you know any autistic hippies:
LSD-like panic from risperidone in post-LSD visual disorder.
Abraham HD, Mamen A.
Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Risperidone, a novel antipsychotic agent, is an antagonist of postsynaptic serotonin-2 and dopamine D2 receptors. In certain individuals, the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is associated with apparently lifelong continuous visual disturbances, characterized in DSM-IV as hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder (HPPD). Because the hallucinogenic mechanism of LSD is known to act in part at postsynaptic serotonin-2 receptors, it is noteworthy that three HPPD patients treated with risperidone reported an exacerbation of LSD-like panic and visual symptoms. We conclude that HPPD may be a relative contraindication for the use of risperidone.
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― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Just don't take a Risperdal (generic Risperdone) if you've ever done acid. Trust me.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

my sympathies orbit. i'm not woman enough to handle that long of a day. :)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

How can Bounties be called MOUNDS??? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard.

I think Nick/NA should become Ennay.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 June 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, Sam's comments reminds me of one of my favourite comic book covers. In the '70s Marvel created what they called the first feminist superheroine, Ms Marvel. Her first cover had her in combat with a veteran supervillain, and she was saying "Give it up, Scorpion - you're not MAN enough to beat Ms Marvel!" You may gather that their (male) writers didn't entirely grasp feminism.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 June 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. I was kind of depressed about money this morning because I tried to buy coffee and my debit card was declined. So I checked my balance when I got to work and it's negative. My finances got fucked over by moving and then being unemployed for three months, and I've been trying to get to a place where I don't go back to having $0 in my account at the end of each pay period, and I thought I was there, but then the loan company for our laptop called the other night and forced me to pay our bill over the phone, knocking me back to square one and contributing to my current negative money situation (plus I had just mailed off some other bills that morning). The good news is that I got paid yesterday, so I won't be negative for long, but then I have to pay rent in a week and then not eat out or buy anything until I get paid again. Ergh. I know that once I get caught up with everything that got pushed back when I was unemployed, I should be able to achieve some kind of financial balance, but I hate having to worry about money.
But anyhow. Reading ILX made me feel better. We moved into our hotel room last night, it's big and on the 9th floor and it's a corner room so there are nice Chicago views on two sides, plus a little sliver of Lake Michigan between some buildings. I got to watch a Law & Order rerun and drink gin & tonic at the coctail party.
I got the Minor Thirds and Ned Raggett cds last night but I haven't had a chance to listen to them yet.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

start playing online poker.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

im in a horrible mood today. my wife and i have tentative plans with a couple that we are friends with for saturday night. Everytime we get together with this couple we have to accomodate what my friends wife wants to do EVERYTIME. Now she is pregnant and doesn't like to be around people who drink. So he tells me that she would appreciate it if I didn't drink around her if we are together. F that shit. Hey whoopee your pregnant and can't drink but don't expect me not to have a beer in your presence your highness. What does she think shes going to get secondary beer fumes? Yes, im being an ass. And I'll probably feel the same way when I have a pregnant wife, but no way will I tell someone not to drink a beer in my wifes presence. They can f-off.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

am i being unreasonable? i think i loathe the fact that we are all getting old and moving on to the next faze of our lives.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell her if she doesn't want to see you drink, she should stay the fuck home.
And you should point your finger sort of crookedly like Lewis Black might.
I'm full of bad advice.

I don't feel terrible, but I just can't shake the last vestiges of this stupid cold. It's just sort of hanging out in my sinuses, not really bothering me too much, but obviously affecting my voice (which is my money-maker, except not really).

St. Nick (how about SaNtA for your new name?), I know how you feel wrt being broke. I'm only recently finally reflect my new (much, much less freelance $$$) income in my spending. A few times, I've been like "Hey, why the fuck am I broke a week before my next pay period? Oh yeah, because my last freelance cheque was less than a quarter of what it used to be."

But soon, the comedy cash will start rolling in. There's a guy I sorta know in this area of the world who claims he commands US$1000 a night. And he's really unfunny and a big jerk (and probably lying), so with my formidable talent and irregular drive, I should reach that benchmark in no time. Right? Hello?

Moving to a comedy city is looking more and more inevitable. I'm kinda thinking Mtl, since it's closer to Boston and NYC than Toronto is, and I'm very close to ruling out Vancouver, because I have too many friends and family there. Not being lonely ALL THE TIME is for pussies.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what's a comedy city? CHICAGO.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

How long have you guys got that hotel room for? Could I have your apt. while you're there?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

If you clean the litter box.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You could live in the unfinished basement laundry room.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Then I will smell like fabric softener ALL THE TIME.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

which is a good selling point

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i think im going to funnel some beer and throw up on her stomach.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

You could grow a long scraggly beard and not get your hair cut and frighten the other people in the building when they try to do their laundry. And you could teach the rats to do your bidding. I bet you could get some good comedy material out of that.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That could be a good reply to Chris or to Huck.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Teach her what having a baby is all about.

xxpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, that woman is very, very lame. It's not the same one who wanted you to cut your hair for her wedding, is it?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the same friend whose wife wouldn't let him go christmas shopping with you because of somewhere she wanted him to be? (or wouldn't let him go somewhere with you because she wanted him to go xmas shopping, I forget which)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

how long is this going to take...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, none of your friends like you like we like you. Shun the outside world and stay, stay with us. We are your true family.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, all my friends wives are all fucked up. this is another one.

Huck im beginning to believe thats true.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought wives like these only existed in comedy routines and sitcoms.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, the majority of them live in worcester massachusetts and are all my friends. plus im spending a week with these two on the vineyard in september when she'll be about 8 months pregnant. don't be surprised when you see a news story about two people who mysteriously drowned in buzzards bay.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(I like how T0t0 google-proofed himself)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(he has enemies)
(and he's posting from work)
(is t0t0 for sure male?)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the sang "africa" didn't they... i'm lost as to any other references

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

how long is what going to take?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

questions questions, always with the questions...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

are you talking to me?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you believe Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead gave way to Shakespeare in Love?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been trying to get to a place where I don't go back to having $0 in my account at the end of each pay period, and I thought I was there, but then the loan company

This has been me (and still is me) since I started teaching. Except I usually hit zero or negative a couple of weeks before my next pay check. Bar tips and the occasional freelance check are all that feed me.

Chris, where are you and your friends hanging out? I really don't think the wive's request is that unreasonable but of course its your choice whether or not you honor it.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the original plan was to come to our house and play some Trivial Pursuit and shoot the shit. Its my house....if you don't like it you can get the fuck out....

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

your not very sympathetic are you?

I know if I was pregnant the not drinking part would completely suck. It would make me want to cry being around people who were drinking.

I would probably wouldn't want to come to your house.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

she's not very sympathetic to him wanting to get drunk. what, if you go on a diet should i not eat a hamburger near you?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I missed drinking when I was pregnant, but I'd never be ballsy or bitchy enough to tell people they couldn't do it around me.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm diabetic. Please throw that Baby Ruth in the trash"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

sure im sympathetic...but if i want a beer ain't no one going to tell me no. especially in my own house.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think you have to be sympathetic to anything - she's pregnant, she doesn't have cancer. Fuck her.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

right! i won't smoke around her thats for sure and thats a give in but hell me having a beer isn't going to hurt her. sure she may miss the booze but if you can't go without being tempted by booze you shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss having sex, but I still like p0rn.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hear hear

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Thirded.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'all are sinful. SIN. FUL.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Your point?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not so much sinful as terribly hard up with huge libidos and really ungodly filthy minds.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

and computers

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank god for us.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't sympathise with that. Not at all.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You see, oops, masturbation is a very handy (har har) technique for relieving a lot of the pent-up pressures and various other stresses that arise from not having sex very often.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad enough we've got to hide the vibrators and lube under the bed when the parents visit, without the self-denial

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me about it.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys masturbate? Ew groty. SIN. FUL.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Tis what you've got your imagination for, Huck.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to buy a new one. I just decided. Whee!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with the imagination you've got now, jeanne?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't buy imagination

damn, beaten to the punch

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Nichole, I meant "tell me about it" more like in the sense of "I hear you, girlfriend" not like "mmmm, say it again, slowly" kinda thing. But, uh, yeah.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Single people are funny.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My imagination is just fine, thanks. Got much fodder to work with. Believe you me.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Single people wank like *this* (ie all the time)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

After many days of doing nothing at all (because it was too hot out) it finally cooled down and I wound up walking a mile and a half to the supermarket and back yesterday, and then another mile and a half to our new house to sign the lease, and then we walked maybe a mile to have Ethiopian food and then another mile to get back to my place. So I slept pretty soundly and now I'm a bit achey. Normally it wouldn't have been that big a deal except for all the inactivity I've been engaged in lately. Whoo.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh. Thanks for reminding me. An Ethiopian restaurant just opened here. Any advice on what's good? like in general.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that once I get caught up with everything that got pushed back when I was unemployed, I should be able to achieve some kind of financial balance, but I hate having to worry about money.

I feel you, St.N. Tis the that rite of passage the parents don't clue you in about. With the ability to drive and that glossy college diploma comes the plunge into poverty (living hand to mouth). I hit my third decade in less than 10 hrs and I'm still as broke as when I graduated from college.(Actually, I had a job and cash in college, so this is a first.) The trick is finding ways to keep yourself motivated and fed.

Fingers crossed that NYC agencies won't be such a job sinkhole, when I go in a few weeks. The suit's crisp and the CV has been sent out. I'm at the point where I'm willing to slog those overnight shifts as well as any other shifts I can prop my lids open for.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy goddamned birthday, Nichole!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

So I slept pretty soundly and now I'm a bit achey. Normally it wouldn't have been that big a deal except for all the inactivity I've been engaged in lately. Whoo.

CP, you go, boy! Keep to a routine and soon you'll be able to trot miles and not feel a thing. (Imagine how sleek your calves will be in a month!)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I meant that in a good way)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, obviously I've only had the vegetarian stuff. But that's all good. There's a cabbage dish which is I particularly love. But -- you've never had Ethiopian food? They serve it with this spongy bread, injira, which you use to scoop up the food. The food is little glops -- kind of like Indian food in its gloppiness -- and they serve it on the bread, and if you go with friends it's usually all on the same plate, "family style". It's very good and fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that. I kiss you, Huck (though tis tomorrow). Makes my solo celebration a good bit brighter. Lasagna and Bailey's are on my menu.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Normally I can trot miles and not be fazed by it, but when the thermometer goes above 85 I can't do anything, so... My calves are the only part of me that are reasonably in shape. It's amazing what not know how to drive will do to you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it hot? I've heard it's hot.

Also, the vegetarian restaurant we ate at right after you got here back in December is closing. Which is awfully Regina of it.
Though it's not closing because it has to, the owner has decided to concentrate on his organic farming but sadly, no one has stepped up to buy the place. But business was going well.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's very good and fun.

Ethiopian food is awesome, though I've only had it once (before leaving NYC). The meat dishes are to die for, as well.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Normally I can trot miles and not be fazed by it, but when the thermometer goes above 85 I can't do anything, so...

Precisely. Lately, the days down here don't go below 90. The heat is enough to cure insomnia.

My calves are the only part of me that are reasonably in shape. It's amazing what not know how to drive will do to you.

That, and mostly inaccessible transport. Can't wait to get back to good old fashioned car laziness, where it doesn't take 2 hours to go 6 miles.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's been weirdly cold here lately. It's expected to be very hot next week, but in the meantime, I'm still wearing my jacket when I go outside.
Nichole, I would love to come over for Bailey's and Lasagne tommorow night. THose are two of my favourite things. What time should I show up?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Less about food and walking, more about sex k thx bye.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, you're welcome to show. Say 7? Bring cheesecake.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And don't worry about hiding, er, I can't think of a way to say that without sounding like a big ol' creepy pervert.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ack! But it was the only vegetarian place in all of Saskatchewan! And the food was good!

The Ethiopian food I've had has been spiced but not really hot, not like Indian or Thai food. But not as bland as Tibetan food.

Luna, you've had sex talk all morning, you need a breather! This isn't "This is the thread where we gangbang"!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

My calves are the only part of me that are reasonably in shape

I find it difficult to believe that your forearms aren't also in decent shape considering that you play acoustic guitar on a regular basis and often with a good amount of speed and power. I know when I was regularly gigging rock/punkish-type stuff with an acoustic my arms were strong as hell.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But if it were, I'm sure your penis would surprise everyone.

xpost

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Only I get to say when I need a breather, and usually then, I use the safe word.

Now get to it.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Took me a while to catch up with this thread, as I was in NYC over the weekend, leaving friday on a redeye and coming back late sunday. Managed to get sick on the trip, so I only worked half of monday until I felt really shitty and went home. Then I was out Tues and yesterday, so now I'm really busy trying to catch up (tho I did take a break to catch up on ILX while I'm eating lunch here).

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't "This is the thread where we gangbang"!

Gotta have something to look forward to, don't we?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna's libido ownz all.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Managed to get sick on the trip, so I only worked half of monday until I felt really shitty and went home.

Do you know what you got sick from?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she has some pretty stiff competition, jeanne.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, i didn't even realize the play on words in that.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tabioto.com/tune/inst/images/kazoo.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

kazoo!!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.off-road.com/suzuki/campoven/images/banana.jpg
http://www.toadstoolfarmart.com/hammock.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my brain is refusing to let me solve that rebus.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Think "International M4le" catalog.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why my brain is my friend.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't make me google up that disturbing picture of G. Gordon Liddy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Banana hamm0ck!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know what you got sick from?

No idea. We (Jen, a good friend of mine from NYC and I) went to the party at hstencil's place on Saturday, and I only felt a little tired from having only had about 4 hours sleep on the plane the night before. I got plenty of sleep that night and wasn't hungover the next morning. I was a pretty grumpy Sunday and my stomach started bothering me, but I thought it was just cause I was hungry, and I felt a little better after I finally had something to eat around lunch time.

The air on the plane home was the most dry and uncomfortable-to-breathe air I have ever had on a plane, and when we finally landed I got that fucked up pressure thing in my ear where I couldn't get it to pop and it felt like someone was jabbing a knife into my eardrum and didn't go away until I got up the next day.

I'm figuring I caught something on the flight home and was worse off because I wasn't rested enough to deal with it floating around in the air. Jen got sick too, though she didn't seem to have it as badly as I did, and she was able to make it through work without taking any days off like I did either.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.redhummer.com/myhummer/headlights/zelmot.jpg
http://www.primitiveways.com/images/pt-sling.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

weirdo.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So can number 17 be the thread where we all gangbang, then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

If it is, somebody needs to post the proper g/b etiquette for those of us who have never partaken. Y'know, cuz I'd hate to embarrass myself at an event like that.

also, ts: g/b vs or-gee

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

That was me, last week. Allergies made me want to blow my nose. I did, and it felt like my head was underwater.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I can offer some help there... (xpost, I mean group sex etiquette, obv)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm having one of those days where I can't do anything right.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know, cuz I'd hate to embarrass myself at an event like that.

Lack of embarrassment is a ILX prerequisite. BYOC (Bring Your Own Condoms) is a must.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Ask before touching.
2. No means no.
3. Watersports in designated areas only.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

man, a pregnant woman wouldn't have to ask me. I would refrain from drinking or smoking around her just to be polite and supportive.

you guys are assholes.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That's such bullshit. She's the asshole for telling the guy what to do in his own home. If she can't handle it, she either shouldn't have gotten pregnant or she should fucking stay home.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes in being assholes shocka.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as Chris isn't getting fall-down drunk, I don't see how him having a beer affects her at all. It's like eating a steak in the company of a vegetarian.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Being pregnant isn't a disease, nor does it give you the right to be a fuckhead.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes, pregnant women look sexy to me. is that horrible?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a little worrysome to me that this mother can't even be in the presence of other people drinking without getting a craving for the stuff.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Do people find it hard not to drink when others are drinking? There are plenty of things I don't do, either because I choose not to (smoke, smoke pot, eat meat) or can't do (drink red wine), and it doesn't bother me when other people do it (except, sometimes, smoking, since I seem to be a smoke magnet and the wind always points it towards me -- but even then, I deal with it).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes, pregnant women look sexy to me. is that horrible?

This is obviously some Darwinistic quirk trying to keep you from procreating. Do you have self-defeatist tendancies, or is nature simply against you?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

He has to choose?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not horrible - I know lots of people who find pregnant women sexy. It's the glow.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I have to throw up in the morning too?

It's a little worrysome to me that this mother can't even be in the presence of other people drinking without getting a craving for the stuff.

Exactly. Have some self-control.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if some of the problem is this chick is a bitch pregnant or not.

i would hope my friends wouldn't drink around me when i was pregnant.

again empathy folx, i'm just surprised by the vitrol on display. I think I would excuse myself from dinner parties at any of your houses!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm vegetarian, and I'm not bothered by people eating meat around me, as long as they're not being deliberately exhibitionist or offensive about it. I see vegetarianism as a choice for each individual, everybody has to choose what they thing is right or wrong and I can't say what's right or wrong for anyone else. But I'm not really sure how that pertains to the matter at hand.
I think I'm reacting negatively to the wife in this case because of the pushiness with which she acted (or with which Chris is portraying her as acting). As has been mentioned above, this is at Chris' house, she's not just coming in and asking him politely not to drink in front of her, but demanding it ahead of time as a condition of their visit. She is actively placing herself between her husband and her friend, whether on purpose or not.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Multiple typos: "thing"="think," "her friend"="his friend."

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yr last statement relates to my point about his original problem seeming to stem more from her all-around nature rather than this one situation.

a better example, for me anyway, not drinking around a recovering alcoholic.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you can empathize with someone without putting yourself through the things they are experiencing. I mean it's just not being able to drink for 9 months, if she can't deal with that she has problems. It's not like she's a recovering alcoholic.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris isn't talking about boozing it up though, he's talking about having A (or maybe two, hell even three) beer. And he's the host.
I could understand if he was going over to THEIR house and she was like, "We're not having any alcohol in the house while I'm pregnant."
You know, home rules, okay.
But Chris is not pregnant. Unless she's an alcoholic, there's no reason why empathy should dictate him forsaking a beer or two for her sake.

xxxpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

BEER IST LIFE.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I definitely wouldn't smoke around a pregnant woman, but then I don't smoke indoors when anybody in the room objects, and even outdoors I usually move away to avoid the wind carrying smoke into other people's faces (unless they've said they don't care). If everyone else wants to sit in nonsmoking, I'll sit there too, and even if we all end up sitting in the smoking section I won't light up unless everyone at the table says they don't mind.

I don't even smoke in my own house because my girlfriend doesn't.

(Like some folks have said, smoking obv different than drinking b/c nobody drinks second-hand alcohol out of the air.)

I take meds on which I'm not supposed to drink often (and in the past I've been on meds where I couldn't drink at all). Before I was comfortable with it, I just avoided being in situations where I'd feel bad by attending gatherings where I knew there wouldn't be much if any drinking.

At one point I asked Jen not to drink at home because it would bother me. She humored me up to a point, but she never said I had a right to ixnay all alcohol in our house. In fact she insisted that she had a right to have a drink at home now and then, though she said she could hold off for a while until I felt more comfortable. It was nice of her to put up with me, but in retrospect, I think it was a cock thing to do on my part just insinuating that she shouldn't drink because I couldn't. Especially in her own house.

big xpost, but Sam, I don't think you'd have a problem being at a dinner party at our place. It's one thing to empathize, and I often do and will, but Chris' picture of this woman was not one that deserved empathy. She sounded pretty controlling and selfish regardless of whether or not she was pregnant. I figure that's where most of the piss and vinegar came from.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

did you miss an N or is that bad german?

xpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I don't like being called an asshole.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

luna, get a sense of humor and some thicker skin. you know me better than that.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have plenty thick skin - but I think you're wrong about this.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

is it against the law to disagree and argue your point?

I think John might have the right idea. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

No it's certainly not, but that works both ways.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't usually mind getting called names that much, but yesterday I got called "fucking stupid" by an ILX regular (not anyone on this thread), and that pissed me off because this is one of those regulars with a reputation of being friendly and welcoming but has hurled nasty invective at me at more than one occasion. It's probably best not to go into it too much.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, there was nothing funny about what you said, so my sense of humor, or lack thereof, wasn't engaged.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It must be closing in on a fucking full moon because shit is getting ridiculous this week.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree also that a better example of the importance of empathy would be in the case of drinking in front of a recovering alcoholic. On the other hand, all of the recovering alcoholics I know are cool with other people drinking around them. Some of them even have alcohol in their place so they can fix a drink for friends. (This amazes me, but it's true. Makes me think of Captain Cragen on SVU always pouring drinks from the bottle in his desk even though he never has one himself.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

....so about this banana h@mmock...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever. i need to spend less time here anyway. this board is the complete antitheses to productivity.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

This is sort of a personal bugaboo of mine. You should not require the temptation of a certain thing to be totally removed from your life in order to resist said thing. You shouldn't expect people to pussyfoot around you just because you are lacking self-control. Obviously, if someone is blatantly shoving it in your face, then yeah they are an asshole. Having a drink in your house doesn't qualify as such. Maybe if Chris pranced around in front of her with a bottle of gin shouting "Oh glorious elixir! How can anyone live without you?! None for YOU. MINE. ALL MINE.", you might have a point.

xpost NO HUCK THAT IS NOT A SAFE AREA EITHER

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Right. I'm gonna take my toys and get offline.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

do you really expect some to respond congenially and take to heart "get a sense of humor and some thicker skin"?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, banana hamm0ck.. well, you see, it was this thing...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

what about a banana daybed?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It could work, but I think the daybed would require a bunch of bananas, whereas the hammock suits only one.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

well, but you don't need two perfectly spaced trees of sufficient girth for a daybed to function properly...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

no it's true, but with the hammock, there's extra added danger and excitement.

plus the banana hamm0ck really isn't for ... um... bananas.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

so, um, do you find this phenomenon appealing?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Not particularly, it was just something that made me laugh.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

damn.
I just went out and bought one and am (somewhat awkwardly) wearing it right now.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

This is sort of a personal bugaboo of mine. You should not require the temptation of a certain thing to be totally removed from your life in order to resist said thing.

I agree with you oops.

I can't decide which type of person is a bigger asshole though. The ones who insist that everyone around them not engage in whatever temptation they need to have removed or the ones who go out of their way to rub it in when they are doing something in the presence of someone who can't.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

well, on YOU it would be appealing.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

they are both equally self-centred.
I think there's a whole lotta room for more understanding/compassion/consideration/courtesy on both sides.

xpost

Between the leopard print and the novelty elephant head, I had a tough decision to make.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

If a bannana hamm0ck is for banannas, what do we call our bras? Mellon hamm0cks? It doesn't sound as fun.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, sugar, a little help here.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else feel a little resentful/jealous of J0hn Darni3ll3? Like, if I quit ILX, would anyone really give a shit, let alone start a thread begging me to come back?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

tit-slings?

xpost,
I would. Eventually. Maybe.
(I like you)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone else noticed I've been creepy friendly today? this whole week.
fucking camping made me a hippy.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

In case it's not obvious, I am in one of my rare bad/whiny moods today. I am poor and cold and tired. When I get back to the hotel I am going to take a hot bath. Sorry for all the whiny bullshit from me today.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And I didn't mean to fish for compliments. But thanks anyways, Huck.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently in German a bra is called a boostenhalter. I'm probably spelling that wrong.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything sounds sexier in German.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Melon baskets? Nope, that doesn't work.

PICNIC BASKETS!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

omg that's perfect

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

or as the germans says:
Picknickkörbe

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, ILX Ambassador for Germany

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

As ambassador to Germany, I shall teach you the following useful phrases wot I still remember from high school:

Die dicke mann sagt, 'Herr Ober, ein glasse waßer, bitte.'

Alternately, die dicke mann sagt, 'Herr Ober, spaghetti, bitte.'

and finally: der kleine hund sagt, 'wau wau.'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Julia, the correct spelling, should you ever need it, is Büstenhalter, but your spelling is more or less the way it's pronounced. Germans commonly refer to a bra as a "BH," which is short for Büstenhalter. Pretty much the same kinda deal as English speakers calling one a "bra" instead of a brassiere.

Curiously, [der] Büstenhalter is a male-gendered noun in German.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

All dogs say "wau wau" in German. Not just the kleiner ones.

I have this weird old wah-wah pedal from the late 60s/early 70s called the "Wau Wau Machine." I bought it cause I thought it was funny as hell that its name was basically a polyglot version of "Bow Wow Machine," but as it turns out it's a pretty righteous-sounding old analog wah pedal.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

weird old wah-wah pedal from the late 60s/early 70s

Oh yeah... Only reason I know this is the appx date of manufacture is cause I opened it up and looked at the guts. Some of the components are date-stamped or coded near the middle of 1968 and a few are earlier. There's no telling when the pedal actuall got assembled and originally sold, but I'm figuring the parts didn't sit on the shelf too terribly long before they were used. (It was made in Japan FWIW. I find that amusing since the name of the pedal is German/English, and the manufacturer name on it is "Bruno." I've never seen that manufacturer name on any other product.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Also consider everyone's favorite card game, Busen Memo

[The picture is not entirely safe for work for breasticular reasons.]

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

PERVERT

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, my fetish for weird guitar stuff notwithstanding, I hope you were talking to Mr. Casuistry.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

But of course! Cause I'm evil that way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Because of my love of German fetish boardgames?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also consider Ein Arsch Kommt Selten Allein, which I guess roughly translates into "One asscheek knows its mate". It's another card game.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always loved picnics.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, "Ein Arsch Kommt Selten Allein" literally translates to "An ass rarely comes/happens alone." The title is a play on words because in German, the phrase "Ein Unglück kommt selten allein" (literally "an accident rarely happens alone") is used the same way English speakers use the idiom "When it rains, it pours."

I'mnot sure, but I suppose "Arsch" could also mean "asscheek." I know it means plain old "ass" in the two-cheeks sense, and it's got about the same amount of relative vulgarity that "ass" has in English (as opposed to "butt," "buttocks," etc.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Um i just won $2000 playing poker. urgh.. ah... um..shit!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and the sugarcubes "birthday" has been playing on repeat.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So what you're saying is that life is great in the worst possible way?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Die dicke mann

An interesting thing to say in a thread that has also been discussing "banana hammocks."

(When I was 6 I spoke German fluently. Sadly, I have forgotten some 98% of it.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

it just means fat man!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

If I had to make a list of ten songs that influenced my songwriting, "Birthday" would be on that list.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A list of ten songs that influenced your songwriting would be an interesting exercise, though I'm sure I wouldn't want to see it as a thread.

I wonder how long it would take me to refine it to ten songs.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never written a song so my list would be pretty short.
Wait, that's not true. I wrote lyrics for the band I "sang" for in High School. I wouldn't want to examine that too closely.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

A list of ten bands that influenced my songwriting would be pretty easy for me. Drilling it down to individual songs would be a lot harder I think, though it would probably be a lot more interesting as an exercise.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris you are welcome to use the title of a song of mine: "my erection only points in your direction"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The people across the street are bbq-ing in their FRONT yard. The whole fabric of surburban society may be irrevocably damaged. They're Mexican so I really wanna go over there and gank some food.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, do you know James Kochalka's song "Magic Finger (It's My Dink)"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Is that part of the lyrics?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait. "It's My Dink"?!!!!!!?!!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's my dink, it's my dink, it's a magic finger, pointing at all the pretty girls!" is the chorus.

It's not at http://www.americanelf.com/goodies.php sadly. But "Kitty In A Coma" is, and that's just about the greatest song ever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning.

There are foreign students dancing the Gay Gordons in the room next to me, I have fucking awful PMS, my whole future is in doubt as of last night, and I am broke.

On the plus side, my dad gave me a mobile phone for my birthday when I saw him yesterday. It's shiny and cute.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 June 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel, that future in doubt bit is worrying me. Are you okay?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Superficially, yes. If I start to think about anything, no. But not the place to talk about it really.

― Archelle, Friday, 25 June 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(email me if you do want to talk, or AIM or whatever - and good luck)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

best wishes arch - for what it's worth, my future has been hanging by a thread for as long as i can remember! keep smiling, ok.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck, Arch, at least though, you can call the authorities in case of an emergency. Or have "Ode to Joy" erupt from your purse! Either way, cell phones are neat.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The art designer just caught me air drumming to Bowie. How embarrassing.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

better than being caught Sweatin' to the Oldies, though.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I had this dream last night where I was playing high-stakes poker and doing really well, but then all of a sudden it turned into a high-stakes chess match. Between every round, they switched the pieces to a different themed set. We had a set that had a Russian military theme, but I couldn't tell which pieces were which because they were too elaborate. Then it turned out I was missing some pieces, so I had to go into this room of live exotic birds and butterflies and try and find a matching set that I could use in the place of my chess pieces. Some of the butterflies were huge and colorful. There were also cobwebs in the room, and I walked through one by accident (it is an odd sensation to walk through a dream cobweb). This dream was the obvious product of watching Celebrity Poker before going to sleep and reading too much Nabokov.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

No one seems impressed by my surreal and highly intellectual dream. I'm impressed, because I usually just dream about eating stuff or kids I knew in high school.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, it seems you're winning thousands of dollars every time you do this thing. can I suggest you don't give it up, but keep doing it, every day, unitl you're a millionaire?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I'd dream that I could play chess and/or poker, Nick, because I can't do either in waking life and maybe I'd wake up still knowing how to play. Mind you, I dreamt I could speak Esperanto once and that didn't come to anything...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I am terrible at both. I played chess with Sarah a few times and she beat me every single time, within like 20 minutes. But I just read "The Defense" last week.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream that was a musical once, and I briefly entertained the thought of going to a hypnotist to have it transcribed so I could make a million dollars. But I'm afraid of hypnotists, ever since the inci-cluck!-dent.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

My poker skills have been attained by a few years of reading, practicing and playing. Im done with online play. I've deleted my account and asked to have my ip banned. Of course tonight I will get drunk and hop on line and play somewhere else. Or maybe not. But the chances are greater because I will be home alone while the wife is out until tomorrow!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned masturbation?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

St. N.
I'm slacking so hard, I forgot it's lunch time. Boom-shacka!

xpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, seriously though Chris, this isn't gambling, it's earning money using a skill. Unless you think you're being hustled, I don't understand. have you just been lucky all this time? Have you been keeping from us the immense losses in between the substantial wins?

What if I employ you to earn thousands playing poker for me?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Countdown to my lunch - 16 minutes.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i've only been playing on line since last friday. If I lose I quit playing.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a particularly good card player, but I never have any trouble stopping while I'm ahead or deciding I'm gonna start with a small amount of $$ and quit if I lose it all instead of digging into my pocket again.

It doesn't sound like you're out of control or anything. I wish there was an easy way for me to make a little extra money on the side doing something online besides ebay.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I interrupt this day to say that after work this evening, we will be having hours of the happy persuasion at Miyagi's on Sunset and I may, nay intend, to get very drunk.

Thank you, and carry on.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have visions of Pat Morita.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but that's nothing new.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

We are going to see the Blue Man Group with Sarah's work.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I, too, intend to get drunk tonight. Pomegranate margaritas. Rock the house.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It always makes me think of Pat Morita, too, Huck.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

So last night I had a show in this OTHER band entirely that I'm in. This was my first show with them, and I'm playing keyboards. They're slightly different from the other howevermany bands I'm in, because they're going for a more "psychedelic" Floyd-y feeling. Which I guess is a way of saying that the songs tend to become really long jams.

Well, you know, it's fun.

So like I said, we played our first show last night, and it went well. The consensus was that I added a certain something to the band. But, get this: Someone asked one of the guitarists afterwards, "How did you guys get Piuma to rock?"

I'd be pissed if I didn't think it was such a funny and weird thing to say!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got a spam email called "extreme vulvas?"

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

At least I think it was spam.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

vulvas on rollerblades?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris the next Minor Thirds album should be all static and solos. Run yr acoustic through a Big Muff and a Mesa Boogie. I can produce it if you want. Also, you know what seriously sounds good? Distorted xylophone.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the album will be called: "Extreme Vulvas? EXTREME VULVAS!" Picture that in a lightning-bolt font.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The EP which actually did have a song with a searing distorted acoustic-guitar solo is the one that the label has had in limbo for over a year. So the world doesn't know!

Did you get a package in the mail? My mother got hers, this is the first tM3 album she's really liked.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, you know what seriously sounds good? Distorted xylophone.

Another fucking genius-sounding instrument: play a kazoo through any old mic and use a Proco Rat pedal as a preamp with one of those little cheap impedance transformer things.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we got the package on Weds. but we've been in the hotel since then so I haven't listened yet.
I really need a kazoo. I love the Fall songs with kazoo.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll be busting out 4 kazoos for our show on Saturday! But not sending them through any pedals.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I for one am shocked, Luna. Tonight I will be getting drunk AND stoned AND playing foosball AND ordering corn dogs. This place has the best. corn dogs. ever.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The bass player in my old band used to do his own solo stuff with an acoustic guitar and a kazoo taped to a coathanger that he bent so he could wear it around his neck like one of those harmonica holder things.

The thing about using the Rat pedal as a preamp for a kazoo is that you can mess with the pedal to get a good deal of gain that's just kinda "dirty" rather than thickly distorted. It winds up making the kazoo sound really evil rather than making it sound like a completely different instrument. If you crank up the distortion on it though, the kazoo will sound like a chainsaw. I find that less appealing, but I guess it has its applications.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't listened to the Ned Raggett cd yet either, but I want to sample it on the new Scare Quotes album. The SQ album will be a loose concept album about language, and my idea is to have a song called "Numbers VS. Letters," with Ned Raggett samples representing the numbers and my lyrics representing the letters. But I probably won't.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i want drunken phone calls from all!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I sound like I'm in a prog band.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just want to call Ned every night for a week and bug him while recording the calls. Then I'll chop them all up and take the good parts and put them in songs wherever they kinda fit.

It sounds like I'm not as high-concept as you are Nick, but I definitely see the worth in sampling Ned.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm probably going to learn my second chord on the ukulele tonight. Can I hang out with you hipster musicians? Maybe we can jam?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris: They'll be collect phone calls, you realize.

Nick: You should start a twee punk prog band! Your first album could be something like "Moonscapes Of Kittens Against The Wall" or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that I think of it, calling Ned collect might piss him off enough that I get better samples.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I R NOT TWEE! Just because I wuv my giwlfwiend doesn't mean I'm twee!

We should totally have a jam session tonight. Via speakerphone.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! im down.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonight I'm planning on obsessively analysing at long last the recording of my June 7 gig (which I haven't even listened to yet), so maybe we can work that into our supergroup jam session!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello All -
We have recently noticed that some non corporate approved decorations are creeping up the walls of your workstations and taking up residence on the ledges between the cubes. Currently you are allowed to put up tasteful pictures or work related items on your walls, but nothing on the ledges. And, remember to clear up your workstations in the evening and try to put away (i.e. in drawers) as much of your work as you can.
A clean workstations is a happy workstation!

this was an actual email sent out about 30 ago. apparently, somebody doesn't like the stuffed animals/beanies(even ones _GIVEN_ out by the company) or even my statuette of Ludwig Van to be seen over the (shortened) cube walls.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You should file down the top of Beethoven's head until it comes up exactly to the top of the cubicle wall.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, he's a statuette that's only 4 inches tall. he was sitting on the cube wall divider.

they also took down my bobble-head of the company president, given out to all employees two years ago.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ymonline.com/shopping/products/BST-BE.gif

We got one of these for every year we were in a piano recital whilst growing up.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Poo... I don't have a speakerphone at the moment. Jen and I can't seem to figure out where the hell our main phone went when we moved. It's probably in some box we've yet to completely unpack.

If everyone has a decent speedy internet connection and the ability to record on a computer, we could also build a song by laying down tracks one at a time and then sending them on to the next person. (I suppose we could also mail a cd-rom around and add to it as we go if the download option isn't good.) I could probably get an ftp account set up somewhere we could all use to transfer files.

I'll even volunteer to mix the whole damn thing when everybody's added their 2 cents to it.

Easiest way to transfer files between different multitracks is to export every track as a wav file (and stick a little beep at the beginning of each track like a measure before the start so you can line them up again easily), but we could always turn them into mp3s and transfer them that way to save up & download time. Some loss of sound quality of course, but the pros probably outweigh the cons.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I think quality of sound might be the least of our concerns if I'm involved! (which I wouldn't be, don't worry)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, if you record even just a three note solo on a ukulele, I can figure out a way to stick it into a song so it sounds good. I promise.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

If you really want to try this, I'm up for it. CD-R might work better for me since we have a dialup, unless you want me to start and then pass it on. I could do one of my signature "distorted drum machine" beats.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only been playing for two weeks, and in those two weeks, I've only played it twice, so catch me next time.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm down. I'll throw on some accordion or something.

Huck, that would probably make you too qualified to play uke with the Minor Thirds.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay fun!

Chris V are you innerested?

I like how we're all guitarists, but so far everyone's volunteering to add something else.

Um, I can add trumpet. Or guitar or bass or whatever I can generate with synths or my pc.

We could always pass the thing around more than once anyway until we think there are too many tracks.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

sure, if i can figure out my banjo id add that. but it probably will be a guitar part.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY SHIT, THERE SHOULD BE NO GUITAR. WHAT IS THIS, THE '60'S?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll add banjo if Chris doesn't. Also I can add harp.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I can make my guitar sound like a lot of things that aren't guitarish if that makes you feel better, N.

What if I add a backwards guitar part?

I like programming big armies of synth strings. I can also do them in a less overbearing way if necessary.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Also this should be a benefit for something, a la "We Are the World," and we can film a video where we sing into mics with only one of the headphone cups being clutched to our respective ears. (I'm always so much better at the concepts than the actual music).

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to play the steve perry part!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i;ve also added a sample of a velveteen original on the ilx comp thread.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't listen to it at work, no speakers, sorry Chris!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I am downloading your song now, CV... slowly but surely it is coming in.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I shall call you tonight when hammered, Chris. Be warned.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Man that song is well played and recorded, CV. (It's a good song too.) You record that yourself at home or was it done in a studio? I am listening to it again...

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine has a mini studio at his loft.

luna, i will be waiting with open ears.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

of course i named myself after a slut in one of my favorite books.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately you can here me breathe and almost puke in the song.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Saturday, 26 June 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha dude - chris, I remember calling you - was I at all coherent?

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 June 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've found a "new to me" artist to really get into and enjoy.

Um, it's Mission of Burma.

You guys will slap me silly before I get to the "posting pics of me wearing a bikini on the Internet" stage, will you? Please?

Oh, and thanks to someone who pops into these threads from time to time (*ahemJuliaahem*) introduced me to Metric, which I'm really, really enjoying. "Succexy" = really supercatchy tunage.

Oh yeah. Long, long, long day today. I had to take the day off to accompany Mom to the hospital, where she underwent outpatient surgery. I didn't really feel the impact of dealing with events happening just between her and me until today. Wow. Thank God I made it through today. Hopefully tomorrow won't be as difficult.

I want to learn German. Or some language other than Spanish. But I need to keep on learning Spanish until I'm so fluent in it that I can prove to my family that there is no way I can learn more Spanish. Argh. Argh argh argh argh.

oops, about 1/4 of my family barbecues in the front lawn. So it's totally a "Mexican" thing. *laughs* I'm just used to it, though. Though the logistics of barbecuing in the front lawn of my own house would make no sense, so that's not in the cards for us. (We have a heavily sloped front lawn with a tiny little area that's level.)

Okay, off to do some posting. Hopefully there will be less ignoring and more responding, even if it's just to yawn in my general direction. :)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've found a "new to me" artist to really get into and enjoy.

Um, it's Mission of Burma.

huzzah! good for you!

one day, we'll get you into the Wipers, too! and from there, Radio Birdman!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Fisher dude, thanks for being excited about this. Hee.

one day, we'll get you into the Wipers, too! and from there, Radio Birdman!

That will be especially impressive considering I've never heard of those two artists before in my life. Yeah, big shocker, I know. *smirk*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 26 June 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if you would like Radio Birdman actually. Well, maybe after a Martini and a long lecture on the Importance of Obscure Artists to the Musical Canon. Which you will only get if you come to LA and visit me. ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

totally coherent. even after you slammed a sake bomb!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Saturday, 26 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh why are argh why are those fuckers tearing my neighbor's roof off at EIGHT A.M. ON A SATURDAY!?!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

luna you are scarily coherent when claiming to be wasted

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 June 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the only message on this thread in 15 hours?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 June 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha. I get it, I get it. I'm actually really hoping to do a visit thingy first to "Assassination City", hopefully sometime soon, but since things seem to keep on happening to me and screwing with whatever free time I can pocket, I don't know when I'm going to be able to leave the city. But visiting you is totally on the schedule still, and I'd love to learn as much as you're willing to teach me re: good cuisine, good music, and other such good things.

(I reserve the right to Google these artists in the meantime, BTW.)

Oh, and my "obscure musical artists" loves are almost all slightly obscure New Wavers such as Polyrock, Industry, Hilary, Scary Thieves, and The Quick (UK). Ta-daaaa. "See Mommy, I too can get into noncommercial stuff!"

(xpost)

Sorry Chris, hon. We should be more talkative during the weekend, but aren't.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 June 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You should hit L.A. the weekend I'm there!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

metric, Canadian sort of (which means I've interviewed 'em)(i think i interviewed 'emily' so doubt yuks on "'em")
what a horrible horrible weekend. that is all.

― huk-l, Monday, 28 June 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I am covered in sweat.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You should hit L.A. the weekend I'm there!
That would actually be really awesome. When are you planning on doing this?

metric, Canadian sort of (which means I've interviewed 'em)(i think i interviewed 'emily' so doubt yuks on "'em")
Heh. Coolness! Should really Google more info on these folks (plural) or this folk (singular) or something.

what a horrible horrible weekend. that is all.
Aw. Sunshine, do you wish to share what happened?

I am covered in sweat.
*leans in closer to hear THIS full story*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh by the way Luna, I apologize for coughing up a lung in yer ear! "Hey why don't you have another cigarette!" Was the response...hahaha

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i got to walk thru a field of weeds today to get to my building! thank god i was wearing my business-casual shoes!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, guys. I moved back into my apartment (and out of the hotel). I'm exhausted. I've got to make up for days missed at work and I'm leaving early Wednesday to go to Virginia for a week to visit the fam. Have mercy!

And, by the way, I just read every single one of the 300+ posts I missed on this thread.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you guys have any exciting Culkinary adventures in the hotel? (i haven't seen any of the h0me al0ne movies, so I probably don't know what i'm talking about)
weekend's over. closed. locked away. whatever.
but things are looking up already because there's a tM3 album in the morning mail! and I'm constitutionally allowed a paid hour off today so that I can exercise my franchise or something. Acutally I'm not sure if it's a PAID hour off, that might be wishful thinking.
Either way, today's the day I get to decide the future of my nation. Flying cars and silver jumpsuits, which party supports those?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The Minor Thirds album is really good. I think it's better than Saskatchewan. I sent them a fan email.
We had no Culkinary adventures, but we had a culinary adventure, eating at the hotel's superfancy restaurant on the company's bill. It was really really good. The waiters were really funny, they were the stereotypically snooty waiters, but it was like a self-conscious snootiness, so they knew they were kind of ridiculous. They were awesome. I drank two beers really fast on an empty stomach and was ridiculously drunk for our gourmet meal. It was awesome.
So I know I've said like a million times that I'm recording myself over 4th of July weekend, but the weekend after that, the awesome but unnamed Nick + Sarah + drummer band records our demo so we can start playing shows! Hoorah!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I find myself quite eager to get home in 7 hours so that I can listent to this. Oh and not be at work.
We should all have a FAP at the greatest restaurant/bar in the whole world, which is The Cr@zy C@ctus in Saskatoon. I was there over a week ago, but I still dream of it.
It's sort of by the old BMX track, and sort of by my old pal's most famous home (where he lived in Gr. 7 & 8). Did I post about it already? I don't know. But's like, oh man, so obnoxious, but in a totally fun way. They were blasting Big&Rich and Gretchen Wilson and there were a only a few people drinking at the bar, but everyone was yelling, and the waitress was hilarious, and the decor was all lame beer promos and pinatas, and patio lanterns and Lots of everything. And the food was actually pretty good, as far as Western Canadian Mexican goes. But the portions were caricaturishly large. I really want to go there with a big group of people and let the obnoxiety wash over me and get silly drunk and dance on the patio, which is almost in the shade of the freeway.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of a really bad stand-up routine on my way in to work this morning, about how women are so indecisive, there are specific fashions designed around this indecisiveness, like the skort (can't decide between skirt and shorts) and Capris pants (can't decide between pants and shorts). I AM THE SUCK COMEDIAN.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever, there's funny in everything, you just have to know where to rub it.
like, okay, you've got a solid premise there, now let's take it ridiculous, like have you seen those knit-wear bikinis? what the hell are those? sweaterkinis? bikinigans?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

or buttless chaps. It's like, you want the feeling of pants, but you also want your butt hanging out, whistling in the wind.

meanwhile, The Buttless Chaps' record is really good.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw a few of those this weekend with the pride parade.

basically, i hung out with lesbians all weekend. it was nice enough.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, I'm not going to bother pointing it out anymore, but I "know" every Cdn band.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ack!
http://www.wsradio.com/getreadyforlove/images/cathy1.gif

I just worked through my coffee break by accident. and if I don't go quick, I may run into coworkers OUTSIDE the office. GRoss.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk, you should totally change your screen name to Cathy.

I am working too hard.

You know what I did for the first time this weekend? Shots. I had a couple lemon drops and one fireball. Yum.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

for the first time?

― Cathy-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, I'll be in L.A. the last weekend in July (playing some sort of show Sunday night).

For the umpteenth year in a row, I avoided the Pride festivities successfully.

Nick, don't forget "looks like a pump, feels like a sneaker".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and I was all covered in sweat because although it was only 75 yesterday I played a show in a dance space that got really hot really fast. So it was a sweat-a-thon. The second-sweatiest show I've played!

Sadly that's not as exciting a story as it should be, which is why I only told the teaser.

I MOVE THIS WEEK!!! RAH RAH SIS BOOM BAH YAY!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

According to a recent survey, moving house is the third most stressful thing North Americans go through, after losing a loved one and losing a job.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I love those sweaty shows. They are always the most fun. There was an infamous Buddy System (the band that Sarah and I were in in college) show that we played in some kid's garage in the middle of summer that was the sweatiest show ever. We have a tape of it, and it's great because the bass player and I are bitching at each other between every song (we had some issues, though he was a great guy) but we played really great. Completely soaked in sweat.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

BRING IT ON!

No, it's been totally stressful, that why I'm looking forward to it being done.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

That was an xpost. The sweatiest show we ever did was totally fun -- we decided to play in the small "chill-out" room in the venue, acoustically, rather than in the main stage -- and the other band that we were playing with, which was a full-on noisy dance band, also played in the small room. It was all great.

This weekend's shows weren't that kind of sweaty great, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So...I've officially added Chicago to my ever-growing-and-therefore-purpose-defating shortlist of where to move to. One of the big things going for it is that it's not in Canada, and Canada might become a very ugly place after tonight. We'll see. But if Harper wins (though it's unlikely he'll win a majority), well, Canada will lose a lot of what made it special over the last 10 years.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you should move to worcester, we have quite the bustling comedy scene.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone tell me what's in the NOT WORK SAFE thread? I'm 90% sure it's AN VILE HOAX, but not quite sure enough...

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

its perfectly safe mark.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

luna you are scarily coherent when claiming to be wasted

I know people who would disagree.

Oh by the way Luna, I apologize for coughing up a lung in yer ear! "Hey why don't you have another cigarette!" Was the response...hahaha

I think I was smoking as I said that. What an asshole I am!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i had smoked three packs of cigarettes by the time you had called. ugh.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently (according to Sam's website) she is done with ILX. Which is sad, I will miss her posts.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't smoke, l-dawg.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck if you move to Chicago, I'll start a vaudevillian comedy duo with you. We can grow handlebar moustaches, wear top hats, and carry canes. I'll even be the straight man.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This I promise you.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah whatever h-mo.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately you can here me breathe and almost puke in the song.
-- Velveteen Bingo

But puking in a song is punk fucken rock. As for breath noises, I'd rather hear them in a recording with well-done vocals (which your song is) than not. It's a toss-up between having the vocals sound more intimate right up on the mic and having less breath noise. The only way to avoid it is to go in and remove all the breathing with a gate or by editing it by hand on a computer later, and that never quite sounds right.

but we played really great. Completely soaked in sweat.
-- St. Nicholas

I dunno what it is about playing sweaty shows that frequently makes them really good. I have a friend who ran a recording studio in nashville who insists that he gets better recordings out of just about every vocalist if he has the booth warm enough to make them start sweating a little. I've never personally compared myself, but then I get sweaty pretty much every time I play or record because I either bounce off of the walls or stand really still with enough tension to almost snap in half, and both of those will make me sweat.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

im glad you like teh song, i appreciate it. im not sure if thats what im going to contribute though.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll even be the straight man.
I hope so, Nick!

Sam will come back. Who can resist us? Or maybe she has more will power than I do.

Work isn't too bad (knock on wood) after missing a few days after all, at least this time. I was cringing when I dialed into my voicemail, but I only had 2 messages, both of which I'd already addressed. Yay!

Now I'm eating soup at my desk and getting excited about visiting my family in a couple of days.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah... Jen and I got 2 new cats over the weekend.

They are both males. They are likely brothers. (The shelter claims they are a week apart age-wise, but they were strays and found together apparently.) Either way, they're both a little more than 3 mos old. The markings on each are almost identical except for the colors... It's almost like somebody printed the same cat twice with different colored ink.

They sleep next to each other often, and each will clean the other's head occasionally. They follow each other around the house a lot of the time, and this morning they were both in the litterbox at the same time.

That's love, man.

We're still tryin to think of good names for them. The orange one is more frisky than the grey one, but they both seem pretty well adjusted as kittens go. They have little colds from the shelter which may be keeping them from going apeshit like some kittens, but they should be feeling better soon enough. They have a vet appointment tomorrow afternoon.

http://www.mushrush.com/randomfat/tinies1.jpg

http://www.mushrush.com/randomfat/tinies2.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't smoke, l-dawg.

dude, I know - except when I'm hammered and it seems like a good idea.

It never is.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You should name them Calvin & Hobbes.

I R a dork.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

awww. the orange one looks like my cat Fritz. Except fritz is about 20lbs and massive.

Pedro and Manny.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, Chicago just got a star in its column.
Also, re: Skort
Why are women so eager to wrap their asses in something that sounds like canned meat byproducts?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww

call them Steve and Ron

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i like oops idea. Just plain names. my dog is named George.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Some name pairs we are sorta considering so far:

Goofus & Gallant (suggested by Sean C, tho I don't want to name one "Goofus")

Chuck Declaw & Professor Gripp ("It takes a nation of millions to hold us cats")

Dexter & Sinister (at the moment I think this is our favorite)

Doctor Rock & Captain Fantasy (Jen is against Ween references I think, but I still like these names)

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard and Stuart or Howie and Stuie

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Also thought of naming them Crackity Jones and Mr. Grieves, though I did have a cat briefly several years ago which I named Mr. Grieves, so that one's kinda already been used.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I am tired. Can I go back on vacation?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

simon and garfunkle

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(especially if you're not fans)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Pandy and Fackler.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Or The Father and the Holy Ghost, and then people would ask you "What about The Son?"
And you could be all, "What are you talking about?"
That would be hilarious!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Heheh... Yeah if I'm doin Ween references they are gonna have to be ones not referring to retarded prostitutes.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What soft looking kitties! I missed mine a lot when I was down at the hotel.

What about Kid and Play?
or DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince? You could just call them Will and Jeff for short.

I'm stuck in the early 90s right now for some reason.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean and Gene

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sanford & Son

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Wallace and Gromit

Sifyl and Olly

cheech and chong

itchy and scratchy

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Stan and Olly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Catfish and Cornbread

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Pootie and Tang

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX and ILU

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Amos and Andy (Andy is a really really really great name)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurdt & Kortney

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Cat and Orange Cat.

Huck, you are aware of who's in currently president in the U.S., right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Catfish and Cornbread

!! Argh! Genius genius names, but I know Jen won't agree with me on these. What with me bein from the South and her from New England and all.

Many many good suggestions... Thanks everybody... Keep them coming if you feel like thinking of more.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Cat and Orange Cat

At the moment, their names are something like this... We've been referring to them as "the orange one" and "the grey one" or just "orange" and "grey."

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Moxie and Moonshine (you can't get much more New England than the first, or southern than the last)

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, yeah, but if Harper forms a majority (which he almost definitely won't), there won't be a diff. If anything, Canada could become even worse, as Harper and his crew toady up to become top lapdogs.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Moxie is a good cat name, but not for a tomcat.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Moxter.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Moxelater.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick and Nick.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike and Ike

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha ha.

It's too bad you can't see in advance how they'll age before naming them. If these guys get as big as I'm hoping they will (and they show many signs of being destined for such greatness), it'd be cool as hell to name them Hoss and Fats.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother suggested Dig & Dug.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

George and Weezy

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Name them that anyway!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank and Stein!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom and Huck.

Spot and Fideaux.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob and Fab

http://kore.mitene.or.jp/~jamboree/milli.vanilli.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Luke and Bo
Enos and Roscoe

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

no wait! Roscoe and Cooter!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If I ever have to endure an hour with no one in here but the one-I-dislike-to-unappropriate-degrees, I will walk out and keep walking. She spent the whole time talking a little too loudly on the phone and I just wanted to gag myself the whole time, but unfortunately, we're not allowed wooden spoons at our workstations.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What about toothpicks?

Stimpy and Stimpy II.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

We were thinkin of maybe callin them Briscoe and McCoy. Or something else Law & Order related, but we kinda stopped considering that quickly...

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They are sooo shweeeeeeet.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, and you should call them TITS and TEQUILA. I win. Thanks for playing.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ahhhh, I just had a really great interview with a band I was kinda iffy about before, and all of a sudden, I'm excited to see them. I'm such a sap.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and now the interviewee is flirting with me via email.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

note to all other music scribes: don't get too friendly when interview R@ndy B@chm@n!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You didn't complain when I flirted with you!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sammy and William B.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Indira and Slim.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sammy and Rosie

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ps, it's not really R@ndy "Taking Care of" B@chm@n. It's actually a very good-looking jazzish singer.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Whiskey and Coke!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

pps I'm not complaining.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Go for broke: Stone Cold and Savage.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Just took another look at the kitties, and I'll say it again: "How adorrrrable!" ('Kay, so I got a bit squishy.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dre and Easy

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I made them my desktop pic - hope you don't mind, martin!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the greatest skinemax movie titles was on over the weekend: "Accidental Stripper"

the fact that this flick was on HBO at the same time that "G-String Divas" was playing on another HBO channel just means that it was a Great Day for America

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't mind.

Least I can do for bogarting this thread most of today with cat-name suggestions.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Accidental Stripper? As in "I was just dancing and somehow my clothes started falling off"?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i could't be too sure of the plot. i hit the flick right about the time they were showing the non-penetrative fucking...

oh, the things you find channelsurfing after watching the 3am re-run of Jon Stewart on the Larry King show...

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, the things you find channelsurfing after watching the 3am re-run of Jon Stewart on the Larry King show...

Hmmm.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Now, I'm not really that big into kitties, but... KITTIES! CUTE ONES!

Aw.

How about Gilbert and Sullivan for the names?

Chris, I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it anywhere out-of-state on that short of a notice, unfortunately, but I'm not going to predict anything yet. In my dreams, however, I am already rushing to book the plane tickets.

In reality right now, however, I'm currently flossing my teeth and reading various posts. I just finished reading up on the latest Excelsior thread and was totally amazed by Steve.n's posts re: his singing boss. Incredibly entertaining.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I am reallly enjoying Dishwasher Thief, it really is really, really good. Sure beats watching the over-and-done-with crummy election results. Which I don't think could have realistically worked out much better, and maybe that's why I'm so bummed out.

― huk-l, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This has been a long, bitch of a day. Are any of y'all still around?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening to it again. Second time around, this time I'll pay attention to the track listing and try to follow the plot better. The first time, I was just enjoying the way it sounds, because it sounds really good. Way to go Chris et al.

xxpost, I can't believe it, but I'm here.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This is then thread where we lament the fact that huck isn't on messenger.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

sez you.

― huk-l, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yes sez me!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I killed the messenger. Everybody told me not to, but, like Carole King told the Byrds, I wasn't born to follow (which is my favourite Sadies song, even though it's a cover).

― huk-l, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

well hell. but did you shoot the deputy?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

saw Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. it's REALLY not the movie you wanna see whilst going thru withdrawal off your antidepressants. i had enough emotion going thru me to either have it be "how to stave off crying for two hours" or "more reasons to turn dark jedi and let total fury and anger propel you into getting the current admin out of office"

yes, i really thought of it that way. i am a dork.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(psst: jedi aren't REAL... it was just a MOVIE)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Name those cats Harry and Spike.

Or Killer and Bubbles.

Or Sparky and Radar.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh the shame of receiving a msg in the year of our lord 2004, addressed to: "Dear Windows95 user:"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep on with The Force don't, don't stop til you get enough

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

psst: jedi aren't REAL... it was just a MOVIE

LIES

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Would I lie to you? Would I lie to you honey? Now would I say something that wasn't true? I'm asking you, sugar, would I lie to you?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this was the title theme to the John Cusack epic, _One Crazy Summer_. it had cartoons by the guy who went on to do Eek the Cat.

also, demi moore in cornrows, cementing it fully into the modern american pop culture lexicon.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, no.
But I'll give it to you anyway because for a second I was thinking of THe Sure Thing.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I still dig bobcat goldthwait.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm going to bed - sweet dreams y'all. xx

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

aimee, NOOOO.

um, xpost.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Way to scare her away, Chris.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

She left two kisses behind!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

If you and Huck want to split them, you know, that's fine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Which one do you want?

xpost oh sure just cause we're all heterosexual and shit.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Heterosexual in that "bicurious.com" kind of way.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Chris.

― huk-l, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Heterosexual in the "I haven't played with another boy's penis since I was in middle school" kind of way.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't really just post that, did I?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kinda late, dude.

I haven't read up on how Sask did in the election.

xpost oops in nonshockah revelation shockah! ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

well you know what they say about all us homophobes

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Something about three beers?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Sask didn't do so well. 13 out of 14 ridings went Conservative, though many are/were close. I'm not sure what the whole deal is with the automatic recounts, but I'm sure there's a few of 'em. But neither of the crazies got re-elected, so that's a big relief. But, uh, SK (and Canada for that matter) is becoming less and less friendly all the time.
I'm not sure how this is all going to shake out. The Liberals have to make friends, but they don't really know where they're at as a party right now, so I predict they'll team up with the Bloc when they wanna hang to the right (despite the traditionally socialist values of the sovereignty movement in Quebec, the Bloc has been largely usurped by opportunistic right wingers, though that may have swung back, we don't get a lot of news about Quebec here) and the NDP when they want to lose to the left. Har har.
That is funny and made cynical sense to me, but I'm sleepy, I'm going to bed. PS, DT is really good.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hullo?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Just us this morning, huh?
Let's talk ill of everyone else.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah is leaving me on my own for a week to go visit her family, so we can talk bad about her. Who's going to cook my dinner? OH WAIT, I always cook my own dinner. And hers.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Does she at least do the dishes?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss gay men too, you know.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes (that's my answer to Huck and to Luna).

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick and I were getting there, Luna, we just needed this time alone, to, y'know, arrive at that inevitable conclusion.

xpost

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I don't mean full on making out or anything (though there was this one time when I was really drunk and my friend Matt was there, but I digress), I mean smooches. I smooch lots of people.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Thursday off. That's kinda sucky.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But I did go and see Supersize Me last night.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I am feeling much better than I did yesterday. I think I just needed some proper sleep or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Glad to hear, Ned. What was ailing you?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't dissing the kissing, Luna! I was just being altruistic to the straight boys. Life is so difficult for them, they need all the support they can get.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

translation:
Casuistry: "I'm not as hard up as those two sad sacks."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Kisses!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't dissing the kissing, Luna! I was just being altruistic to the straight boys. Life is so difficult for them, they need all the support they can get.

RIGHT. I feel SO BAD for the straight male community. Oh BOO FUCKING HOO.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

But they don't even have a community to fall back on! Anytime I want, I head down to my local community center (it's called "Steam") and get some loving support in the form of hot man-on-man action. It's a good way to relieve stress. Sure, I don't usually take advantage of it, but I know it's there if I need it. Do straight men have this? No. Straight men have spend several times my modest entrance fee to Steam in order to have a few back-alley moments with a willing woman, and even then it's has displaced tender communitarianism with the cold steel hug of capitalism.

I just count my little stars that I didn't have to walk down that road!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea what in the hell your point is. Straight men don't have a supportive community? They sure do -- it's called America. And if they want a quick fuck, there's no shortage of willing women. Give me a goddamn break.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't we all just get along, and kiss each other?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mere, Nick.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we please not get into the "straight/white men have the entire country to relate to" stuff?

Cause I'm straight and white, and I've never felt that way.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Try being a woman.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

More specifically, a gay woman.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Chris is being tongue-in-cheek.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay I'll get right on that, luna.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not upset (no matter how my last comment may have scanned).

My point is just that it becomes a pissing contest re: who has more trouble getting along in society, who is more opressed, etc. And there's no way I'm gonna win that pissing contest even if I wanted to participate, which I don't. I don't want to win it either, cause I don't think white straight males have it worse... I just don't like when straight men are written off that way, because it's a reduction that's at least as incorrect as any reduction of any type of person.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"America" is pretty vague, no? Shall I go down to the gas station or the local Walmart for support?
If women want a quick fuck, all they have to do is ask almost any straight man, cause we're all pretty willing.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Really, let's not do this.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, this is a thread for happiness. no mean.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, obviously I didn't mean all straight men are one in the same in terms of how much America accepts them. But the bottom line is that straight men are more...hmm..."loved" by America than homosexual people are loved by America. And oops, your literal interpretation of what I said is just plain retarded. And as a dyke, I'm not looking for some straight guy to fuck me, thank you kindly.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "this"? who's being mean? we're all friends, right? or at least friendly.

xpost jeanne I was being retarded on purpose because saying straight men have America as a support group is kinda retarded.
Yes, I am aware that you don't want to fuck straight guys. Why would you think I would imply that? You missed my point.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I definitely got what you meant Je4nne. I was just briefly summing up my objections regarding the opening of that particular can of worms.

No mean intended from me.

Here, let's do this one again for subversive measures:

http://www.mushrush.com/randomfat/tinies1.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You're letting little Habanero stand on the laptop?

In other news, I'm the most frequent poster on I Love Books. Who knew?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wrote a really long rambling thing that had no point. Anyway, I'm a straight, white, middle-class-born male, and I'll probably never change any of that, but I love and support all of you. By all of you, I mean just the ones who post here.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't mean to lash out at you folks. Yes, kitties are a better topic of discussion. Call one Pasquale and the other one Julio. I like Italian names for kitties. Hence, my lil guy Enzo.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I call mine, collectively, the Contessas [della'CrashBamBoom] for the same reason, weirdly.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Italian names are a great idea for cats. Mario and Luigi: too obvious and dorky. Jeanne if you get another kitty you should name it Ferruccio (the first name of the founder of Lamborghini)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

there's always my short-lived alter ego, Luigi Vampa (the bandit-king in the Count of Monte Cristo)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Furio

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Brando is italian for 'brillian raven' (okay, he's grey, but I don't see anything for that), and Ignacio means 'fiery' which could be red/orange, right? DONE.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Italian people name their cats Chip or Sally?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to like I Love Books more than I do. There's a lot of potential there, but it could use a little animosity, you know. There has to be some edge. But I was happy with the responses to all of the threads that I've started on there, especially the Books that sell a lot but still have critical cred (or whatever) thread.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Italian people name their cats Chip or Sally?

Yep! And they're wild about an American dish they call Whore Noodles.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Even me arguing with everything you said on it? (xpost, that to Nick)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Glad to hear, Ned. What was ailing you?

Not sure, just felt a bit blah. But today is peppy and happy. Rah!

ILB bemuses me, but gently.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I confess that everytime I see this thread title, my mind reads it as "Fuck you and your little dog, too"

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Martin, because I knew that my POV on that subject is dumb, but it's like a guilty reflex rather than something I believe. It's essentially snobbery, so I don't have any problem with you arguing against it. I thought the discussion was more interesting than my question deserved, actually.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, you chose it.
Should I go look at photos of girls mudwrestling?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, my problem with ILB isn't so much lack of edge as it is lack of depth. I wish there were more detailed discussions of books, ie, symbolism, character development, etc. Instead, it's a lot of "What are you reading?" and "Summarize a novel in 25 words." But I lack the skillz to initiate the type of discussion I want to read.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm off to the bosom of my supportive straight white male community to get drunk. hopefully there will be none of those touchy-feely public bonding rituals known as bar brawls going on. *ducks out before bottles start flying here, too*

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so we finally settled on names for the tiny maties. Thanks for all the suggestions, and thanks Chris especially for calling the orange one "Habanero," since that is now his name.

We named them Jalapeño and Habanero, Super Cats.

They have their first appointment at the Cat Clinic this afternoon. I hope they are not too freaked out by the experience.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap!
I just saw pictures of teenage girls mudwrestling. Oh the joys of being mildmannered and working in a bustling metropolitan newsroom the day after a federal election.
Yes sir, those girls were definitely mudwrestling. No doubt about it. Documented now for all to see.

My problem with ILB is I don't have the attention span for it when I'm at work. And I never think about it when I'm at home. And my reading habits are, I don't know...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

We named them Jalapeño and Habanero, Super Cats.

That's brilliant! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, I haven't left yet! Stop kissing boys! And I wash the dishes, um, sometimes...

Cute names, Martin!

Sometimes I call Lucy (Nick's kitty): Lucciano, el Bambino.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What exactly do you you contribute to your household, Sarah?
If I'm going to live in your linen closet, I think I have a right to know what to expect.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I call Lucy (Nick's kitty): Lucciano, el Bambino.

These guys started developing some nicknames even before we named them. Collectively, they are referred to as the Tiny Maties. Arrrrr!

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I, um, add that special feminine touch to the apartment.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That was an x-post.

Our cats have WAY too many nicknames. I usually call Pepper TOONIE. Where the hell did that derivation come from? Well, for a while I called her Pepperoon toon toons and ... yeah...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah does more of the cleaning than I do, to be fair. I just typically end up doing the dishes for some reason. But she does other stuff (e.g., laundry, general straightening up). And I like cooking, I don't count that as a "chore" at all.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was younger I'd call my Pepper "Pepperino" or "Pepperbarshooganoo". Now I'm all grown up and shit.

Will Jalapeno's nickname be Jal or Peno?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The three cats in my family while I was growing up, with nickname histories:

1) Muffin -> Muff-a-Duff -> Meef-a-Deef -> Meef (or) Deef -> Beef
2) Goldie -> Goldodon -> Don
3) Marble-ina -> Marble

Beef, having lived with us the longest, was subject to the most name twisting, natch.

Note also that the name "Goldodon" was bastardized from "Goldie" because he was an unusually large cat. I thought that "Goldodon" was an appropriate dinosaur name for him.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mt cat's name is Hep and I call him kittypie sometimes.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Pepper's nicknames: Pepperoon, Roony, Roontoons, Toons, Toony.
Lucy's nicknames: Luciano del Bambino, Pudge, Loochee (like a shortened version of Luciano).
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but there are more.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Did any of you see Secret Window? It wasn't so great. I realize that's totally out of nowhere, but we saw it last night.

Pepperbarshooganoo
Ha! When I was little, I called my kitty (CoCoa) COCOABABYLARB.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw secret window, and SPOILER ALERT aside from the fact that camera went "through the looking glass" in the opening sequence and thus tipped off the whole twist, I thought it was okay, mostly for Johnny Depp as muttering whatsit.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

MORE SPOILER ALERT I almost think it was tipped deliberately, because between the time the story was published -- and optioned, no doubt -- and the movie being made, you had Fight Club coming out and everything, so it must have been like, "Well, shit, there goes our shocking twist!" So you had to get the audience to sit for another reason instead. (Better to have them guess it when you've tipped it than to guess it when they weren't supposed to.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoyed it for a while. I just wanted a less predictable ending.

Anywho, tomorrow is a short work day for me!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

argh. . i really am trying to post and in general wanting to break myself away here but someone brought something negative to my attention that i had to deal with and now i've been sucked back in.
:(

I've never left Ilx voluntarily in the three years i've been here but lately it just hasn't been good for me. i hardly post b/c there's not many conversations i care to contribute to. it seems to me that in general people are more bitch and snipey and i turn get bitchy and snipey, towards people i like too. So figure I should leave it alone.

i've also quit all those friend network sites. all in all myspaceIlxTribe etc are just huge time suckers. Time that I need to be using to get another job, pack my crappy messy apt. etc.

but i feel like crap today due to my sleep schedule being off the past few days and therefore am experiencing very low levels of productivity anyway.

so um yeah. hope you are all having good days.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Sam. Don't sweat it.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's difficult to find the right balance with these kinds of sites.

I won! Yay! "Habanero" should also have a tilde over the "n".

I'm packing (tomorrow I move!) and listening to music while I do it ("Dongs of Sevotion"), and it's like, hey! I'm listening to music! I haven't done that in a while. It's pretty nice.

Also I'm drinking coffee, which is pretty nice as well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you'll miss my show tomorrow then.
But good luck on the move.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I won! Yay! "Habanero" should also have a tilde over the "n".

I looked it up... "Jalapeño" always has it, but apparently, "Habanero" only has the tilde over the "n" when it's plural. At least that's what dictionary.com and yahoo dictionary say.

Beats me. I only speak English and German. And I know there are no umlauts in either of those names.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Schoennnnnnnnn.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the construction guys out front are laying asphalt and not wearing shirts or breathing masks.

one would think that having hot processed hydrocarbons in the air would be a bad thing to inhale. 21st Century Black Lung or somethin'.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is Dee when you need her?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

no shirts, huh?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Dongs of Sevotion. I need to do an intensive search for my copy of Supper that disappeared.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That last song on Dongs is killer - "Permanent Smile"?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it just ended. Despite a really boring middle section, it's a pretty awesome album.

Huck, it's sad but true, I might miss the show tomorrow. But I thought I would miss it last week and I caught the first few minutes. So we'll see.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does everyone put on ther A/C in their car as soon as it hits 75 degrees? Isn't that a waste of freon (or whatever they use in newer units)? My mom does it, because she just cannot stand having the wind blow in her pretty little face.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OH WHICH REMINDS ME:

8pm Pacfic time tonight at kpsu.org -- the "other" more "rock" band I'm in (The M0use That R0ared) (see story above about "how did they get me to rock") will be on the radio, broadcasting throughout the universe through the magic of the Internet. I think it's a RealPlayer interface. I play keyboards.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

neat-o

I will still be playing Dishwasher Thief next week (and probably all summer, it's really good, Chris), plus, you've heard it, presumably, so, like, you know what it sounds like.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not yet jaded by hearing my songs played on community radio stations in the prairies. I'll admit to that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll work on that.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have A/C in my cardespite temps in the 90s here. if i did i'd keep that shit cranked all the time just 'cause i could.

i just ate the rest of my roommate's tuna salad without asking b/c she used my tuna without asking. wonder if she'll say anything. it's not a big thing but it's been a long time since i've had a roommate and right now we're sharing my tiny one-bedroom and she doesn't have a car or a job. so, yeah, little things are starting to get on my nerves.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

also, i hate that guy on jeporady.

i'm a fountain of negativity today. i shall remove myself now.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I find myself in the role of "cranky old man" on ILB. Which seems weird.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been all middle child in here lately. I think.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

if i did i'd keep that shit cranked all the time just 'cause i could.

Yeah that's what I figure most people are thinking. Not the best of attitudes.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, come drive my car around town in the early afternooon in about a month

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

putting it on when it's hot as fuck in July does not equate with doing it just because you can, in my mind.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey, what's been happening here then?
I will post a proper update post later, bit busy at work today.
You should have called the kitties Pink & Panther innit?!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've got air conditioning and it's hot out, you keep it on all the time. Why the hell wouldn't you?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Wooooooooohooooo, I just got my annual raise. A whopping $484 a year! Im definately buying that new house now. How sad. Hopefully I will get that damn job I interviewed for a while back. Still waiting with fingers crossed.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been admonished that i can have "posters"(read: art prints) on my cube wall only if they're in my "field of view". i can no longer have them off to the side as they were.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got something for their "field of view", boy howdy.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

you should cover up your monitor with them.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really sure what to post on here today so I'll just post this.
Dee-i saw Franz Ferdinand at glastonbury. They were really great. I thought of you & tried to send you the gig telepathically!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Pink, welcome back!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

also, i need to empty my recycle bin daily, except that they wheeled the recycle cans away two days ago, and no one knows where they are or will be back.

and they actually send out emails that say, without irony, "a clean workspace is a happy workspace"

...

so! who in portland/seattle/austin knows of any open mortgage jobs? i'ma coming before August ends!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Huk-El, how are things going my friend?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

KingF, I should see about buying some art and sending it to you. Last week, I was visiting a friend at his new studio/gallery and he was showing my these big huge canvasses he was working on his big over-arching statement on the self and death and genetics and cancer and all this very heady stuff, but I noticed a bunch of very small little canvasses over in the corner that I really liked.
"Oh, those are just sort of doodles," he said. "I do those first-thing when I get in from my soul-crushing day job so that all that negativity doesn't bleed in to my real art. They're mostly just colour exercises."
None of them are more than maybe 12"x10", and they're very colourful and mostly just sort of riffs on stuff, some of them actually started as notes "Gone for coffee" kinda thing.
But there's a set of two, which are perfectly cubicle-sized and they're sort of those geometric (I really have a shitty art vocab/background) things, I know they're based on somebody's actual art, sort of like a real big close-up of a plaid shirt, y'know what I mean? Anyway, they're very clean and sharp and bright and contain little motivational slogans like "Quit" and "Quit now."
I expressed my enjoyment of them, and he looked at me with a bit of disappointment (his main stuff is brilliant and great, but his little doodley stuff is FUN!) and said maybe he'll give them to me!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost, things are going sort of well. I have tomorrow off, because a bunch of Scottish dudes got drunk on Prince Edward Island 137 years ago tomorrow. So that's cool.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.handbag.com/graphics/library3/boobah.jpg

boobah roolz

― kephm, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that's all good then! :-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello, Pink! Hello, Sam!

I am annoyingly cheerful today since I'm leaving early to go to the airport to go to Virginia to see La Gran Famille.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I read that. Hope you have a lubberly time Sarah. We need some cheerfulness on ILX today, so cheer away. Maybe some kitty pics might do the trick!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe it. I think I'm getting sick again. My throat is acting up. I hate this shit. So help me god, if I'm not well enough to go to the beach this weekend, I'm going to cry. That's right. I WILL CRY LIKE A WIMPY BITCH.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You could cry at the beach...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I move! So. Yeah!

I had a Mountain Dew before the show last night because I was feeling a little bloogy and it was waaaaaaaay too much caffeine [special reminder for our Canadian readers that MD has mad caffeine in this country] which meant that I was kinda spazzed out during our [surprisingly restrained] radio show, which then meant that I putzed out completely during the difficult song, but more importantly perhaps meant I was up until 3am at least.

Whee!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't usually drink MD but it was there in the vending machine and I thought "ha ha, I used to drink this when I was a kid, let's give it a try!" WTF we let kids drink this?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"How did you guys get Chris P to rock out?"
"We gave him a soda pop."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... Don't know if this will work for anyone but me, but anyway...
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/78d0181f_m40d00146/bc/37cf/__sr_/490f.jpg?phTZv4ABBepKg8MF

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/78d0181f_m40d00146/bc/37cf/__sr_/490f.jpg?phTZv4ABBepKg8MF

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, I am on the Noise Dude Enemy List ! All those times where I taunted Jon for failing to leave ILX forever and then posting a picture of Pinocchio finally paid off.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Kingfish,

only if they're in my "field of view"

If you build it, they will ask you to take it off the wall of your cubicle.

so! who in portland/seattle/austin knows of any open mortgage jobs? i'ma coming before August ends!

Okay, so what is a mortgage job exactly? Jen and I made reasonably good friends with the realtor who sold us our house. (She lives down the street from us.) If I know anybody I can direct you to in Seattle, I'll let you know as soon as I figure out what kind of job you're looking for.

My birthday is coming up on August 4th. Not sure what I'll be doing yet, but we'll probably have a party of some kind with the Seattle crew. (Donna B, donut bitch, Matos, etc.) You're definitely welcome to come if you're gonna be in town at that time.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how that Noise Dude Enemy List thread has Jon posting:

LET'S MAKE OUR LOGIN NAMES HUGE!

Jon actually doesn't bother me much at all, but that comment... How old are you guys? Twelve?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you seen any pics of Jon? He is obviously 12.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Man I'm gonna have to start a Geeky Overeducated Self-Conscious Pop Dudes board so I can have a little club of people who like the same music I do so we can act like nine year olds together to feel like we're part of a group that matters.

Have you seen any pics of Jon? He is obviously 12.

I've met him. And Ian, who is even younger.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

right now i'm a mortgage loan underwriter. I'll take any related job i can, as long as it gets me out there and out of this fuckin' place. I have two engineering degrees, 2+ years of mortgage experience, and i'm pretty good with numbers.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What are your engineering degrees in? (I'm in the internet business - design and development kinda stuff. It looks like the market is getting better out here at the moment. That's probably true across the board, but I can really only vouch for it in this particular industry.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Bye, guys! I'm about to delete all my cookies and log out of my email so no one will find out about my double life. :-D

I'm actually not leaving the office for an hour, but I've got tons of stuff to do, so I better get to it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

So long, Sarah!

So Nick, when should I bring the strippers and McCain's Frozen Cakes over?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mccain.ca/ManagedContent/Products/cp_en_des_deepndel_pkg.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(ha ha, Huk-El in being more interested in frozen dessert than naked ladies shocker!)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep n' Delicious?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The move has gone well so far.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I will probably be online, sitting in the dark and nursing a warm beer, every night this week, so IM me.
Actually, I'm meeting amateur!st after work today to hang out, and there's a show I'm going to Sat. night, and I plan to keep busy with music the rest of the time. So hopefully I'll be able to keep myself preoccupied until Sarah gets back.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not really that deep. if it was a pizza, it would be deep, but for a cake, not so much. it is delicious though.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

my degrees are in Aerospace & Electrical Engineering, from Univ of MI-Ann Arbor.

Got 'em 4 years ago, and they've been rusting since. had an auto programming/embedded software job for about 90 days, and everything else has been AMG->unemployment->mortgage stuff.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrm. Have you scoped craigslist?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

NOt yet. it's not a site that immediately comes to mind whenever i sit down to jobhunt.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a site that immediately comes to mind whenever i sit down to jobhunt

I think that's one of its strengths actually.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Arg. I was just in the bathroom, and some guy, some new guy in a different dept. just said "How's it going, [my name]?"
I don't know his name. I don't know who he is. Why does he know me? WHY WHY WHY?
This is as Hitchcockian as my life gets.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It was just like this, except we were both facing the wall.
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/21995a.jpg

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason, huck - that pic with your little caption is making me laugh.
between this and "much amanda" i'd think you were trying to get me fired.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry¡

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'tis okay. i deserve it for being so amanda crazy.

someday i'm going to stop her on the street and ask her to marry me.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So, am I having a bad day or over-reacting or something? This place no longer seems to amuse me much. There are specific people who are annoying, and then there are other people complaining, and then there are people complaining about complaining. Not sure what I'm doing now, but I just wanted to know if maybe I'm just missing something.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

You aren't missing anything, and you're not over-reacting.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

All I can tell you is that it isn't you and it isn't a day, Martin. But that doesn't mean it's permanent.

(All the same, I seem to find myself finding plenty of other things to do lately.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. Oh well. I have been here long enough to watch it wax and wane a few times, but I definitely think this is the lowest point I've observed. There are a lot of people I like around here, but in general the whole of ILE is getting depressing, redundant and often tedious.

I know I don't have to post, but reading and posting used to be one of the fun things in my work day (which is punctuated by many small breaks and makes doing two things at once easy).

Oh well, I'm going home now anyway.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes people just need a break from each other -- I've never known people offline to stomach being around each other every day without getting stupid, I figure online's not significantly different. But yeah. I'm not disagreeing. I just figure, fuck it, even when most of the last week's been ridiculous, there have been a couple of fun conversations today alone.

If I weren't reading the completely-untouched-by-madness ILC, that might not be the case, but it's like I'm already in the building, why not pop in, so to speak.

(I'd say the specifics involved lately aren't the lowest I've seen; but that the number of posters I like or feel neutral about has been reduced the most in the last month or so, maybe two, than any other time. I don't know if that makes sense, but it's the case anyway. And by the same token, it's not always fair to judge people by how they act when everything around them is stressy.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

this is why i start video game threads.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, exactly. A certain percentage of "start threads you like" actually works, although when everyone's distracted by something else, sometimes there's nothing to be done.

(But that hasn't been the case lately -- there are plenty of threads completely untouched by drama and the whole thing.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a good point to note that there are indeed fine and good threads going on, here and elsewhere.

Yes, there's been some hoohah, and I'm not fond of it at all. But I would say, just wait a bit, and things will improve.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

martin this is why i've (unsuccessfully obviously) banished myself from ilx.

except for about 6 months when i had no internet access, i've been visiting this board just about every day since 2001. never have my feelings toward ilx been as they are now: a combination of apathy and disintrest mixed with outright annoyance.

maybe it's just time for me to leave.

it's hard though b/c i do miss you guys (and that's about it). I care about the little details of what happens to you, what everyone's dealing with (house moving, cat getting) and I appreciate having a place to vent. but it maybe it's a symptom of me being too stressed myself, i just find myself not being myself more and more. experience has shown it's best I remove myself from situations then until i feel more right.

for not being in school, i've just felt really fucked. my asthma's been bad but i've been ignoring it b/c i can't afford any more medical care. hank insisted i go to my PCP and paid for it so I went today. she said my lung capacity was at the level of a 60 year old and my asthma was definitely out of control. she hooked me up to a nebulizer there in the office, sent me home with three new medications and wants to see me in ten days.

i know this is important and don't want to end up a. in the hospital or b. with scar tissue in my lungs that will make when i'm really 60 yrs old super-shitty, however the whole time she's telling me the steps we're going to take i just have a cash register in my head adding and adding. . .meds cost me $25 a pop. i can't even pay my bills now as it is.

and my bipolar is not under control either. i'm swinging wildly from fetal position depression to screaming, nutso manic within the same day. i see my head doc tomorrow and am positive i'll walk out with yet more illegible scraps of paper to add to my money worries.

why do i have to be chronically ill in America?

to top it all off my neighbors have been worse and worse. the father is never home and his two teens have a parade of visitors at all hours of the day: smoking pot in the stairway, slamming doors,yelling, running in and out, fighting loudly. just now they were fucking with the fusebox in the hallway, turning my electricity on and off, and i stormed out there, furious, telling them to get the hell out of there. all of them scattered except for the teen girl who lives there (whom i've asked several times, politely, to keep it down). She gave me that up and down, dismissive, 'who the hell are you?' look that i get every goddamned day in school. But you know what? I ain't in school. I lost it and said "Fuck you, you little bitch." and slammed my door.

I could hear her telling her friends, incredulous, what I had said. I really hope her father comes over here to complain so I can tear into his fucking ass.

FUCK

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Sam, I really wish you could get out of there and to a country that has, like, decent health care for its citizens. Australia and New Zealand aren't perfect, but they're a damn sight better than what I'm hearing about how health cover is in the States.

I also hear you about the kids. Man, sometimes I just want those little ratbastards to get a hiding. Just to let them know they're not on top of the fuckin' foodchain.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there any kind of clinic or sliding-scale place, or ... ? I know that kind of thing varies wildly, but being in a metropolitan area at least increases the odds compared to if you lived in Beaumont or something.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. . .i went throught the state MHMR system when I was freelancing in Austin. It's a fucking pain in the ass and probably even more so when you don't live in the state's capital.

my pysch has suggested I apply for disability benefits b/c she believes my work history shows I'm not stable enough to work but, fuck. I may not be working but I'd be broker than I am now - - and wouldn't have ANY prescription coverage. That's completely fucked up.

as far as sliding scale, my annual salary excludes me from that kind of thing. never mind my take home is $15,000 less than that salary and I have unusually high medical bills.

whatever.

i try not to dwell on it b/c there's not much I can do about it except try and get more bar shifts and more tips.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Sam, my sympathies for your situ (medical & otherwise) are def with you. You put up with shit that I can't even comprehend. I know & kind of understand why you want (probably need actually) to leave ILX, but I really do think it would be a shame. Have you thought about maybe just posting on this thread so that we can all keep up with you & find out when you make it as a big writer & get paid loadsa bucks so you don't even consider those bills anymore. *biggest hugs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, I am so terribly sorry to hear that. I am also terribly sorry that that's all I have to offer to the situation. I wish there was some way I could better it for you. I wish that we all were having fantastic, enviable lives and that none of us had difficulties in life. But unfortunately those don't seem to be quite realistic.

Honestly, as far as the board drama goes, I suppose it happens everywhere online, which kinda sucks because I was hoping for this place to be different from the rest. I do appreciate the higher intelligence levels of the participants, but intelligence doesn't matter when people are being immature. And I wish things were different. I wish I had less cause to fly off the handle, fewer occasions to be this full-on bitch. I wish so much and all these wishes keep on being left unfulfilled.

*sighs*

I will choose, instead, to dwell on the fact that someone fabulous such as Pink actually thought of me at Glasto! Thank you. I'm glad Franz Ferdinand rocked the place out. I'm glad to hear you had a good time. Congrats galore from me.

I love this thread series. People, please let us agree to not ever become nasty toward each other. We need a little oasis from this desert built from hatred and immaturity. Or at least I need one.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 1 July 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I didn't get the job I interviewed for. The string of bad luck continues. Luckily Im not really all that discouraged after seeing my wife come home from this company every night and be unbelievably stressed from it. She's actually thinking of leaving herself. We are also considering a move somewhere other than Massachusetts. We've discussed CA, NC, and Canada.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad luck old chap. I'm a firm believer in 'everything happens for a reason' no matter how stoopid it seems. Keep smiling!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What the heck is up with the img posting.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

what are you going on about huh?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Chris. North Carolina is really nice. We almost moved there after I graduated. I don't know much about CA or CA. I would think California would be pretty expensive though.

I had a fun night last night, going to see Spidey 2 with amateurist, but it was weird because I didn't get home until like 11:00 and I still hadn't eaten dinner so I made a frozen pizza and ate it and then went to bed right away so I had this huge lump of dough in my gut while I slept, then I woke up at 4, 5, 6, and 6:30 exactly, each time thinking it was time to get up.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and ILX has DEFINATELY been worse than this in the past. I think the low point for me was b*cky l*cas and the aftermath.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a friend who is moving to Charlotte for his job. So it wouldn't be bad. Plus the cost of a beautiful home down there is 1/2 of what it is in Ma. This is really something I will consider. We have an office in Charlotte too.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend had a baby last week called Charlotte. I think she's too young to have an office though!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hang on, i just wanna test something:

ihttp://http://userpic.livejournal.com/3536698/480800

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

You've got two http:'s in there dude.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://userpic.livejournal.com/3536698/480800

grrr

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, that worked!

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So according to this thread, ILX will be down for two weeks starting tomorrow, which is probably a good thing in some ways (though I'm not having any huge problems with ILX at this point personally). But I'd really like to keep up with the peeps on this thread. Is anyone aware of anywhere we can set up a temporary board/thread to keep in touch with each other over the next couple of weeks? I really need somewhere to waste time at work.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good idea. I am going to be really busy at work so it's good timing in a way, but I'm not sure I want to go totally cold turkey from you guys!

But, er, no I don't know how to get a temp BB. Yahoo do groups/mailing lists but not sure about boards?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe we could hi-jack someone's blog comments section?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Or I guess with the newfangled giant gmail/yahoo/hotmail accounts, we could just set up a master address book and send emails to everyone at the same time. That could get kinda messy though. Nevermind.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A LiveJournal community would essentially give you all the functionality you have here: multiple people can post to it; each post has a comments section; which essentially turns a post into a thread; it can be made members-only, so that only logged-in users who have a) joined or b) joined and been approved by the monitor can post/read; it can be made members-mostly, so that anyone logged-in can post, but no one can do so anonymously; it can be left completely free-for-all. You can post photos, html tags work, you can delete or edit your posts, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a livejournal. you can always use the comment section from that.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I make a new one? Or should we just use Kingfish's? Or does no one care?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Make one, make one! (Just in case, you know.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

might as well.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What about just using a chat room, or do we want a record as such?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

livejournal is blocked at my work. but 2weeks is nothing to me

― kephm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes, i need an alternative, u have no idea!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

photocopy/print out a novel and read it all stealth

― kephm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/stnicholas/
Sorry the thing is under my name, that's kind of lame and I wasn't thinking. But that doesn't mean anything. Right now anyone can comment. If anyone wants to go in and change the options so that it will work better, email me at naamme @ yahoo.com and I'll send you the password. Actually, should everyone have the password?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a way you can turn it into a community, so that everyone can (with their individual accounts and passwords) post to it and it'll note who's posting ... and anyone who doesn't want an account could still comment anonymously. But, um, I have no idea how to explain that better, and haven't created a community in a couple years. Kingfish might know what I'm talking about?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

please can someone email me the details as i'm leaving work soon & i havent got interweb access at home anymore!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OK nevermind do this instead:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/tittwis/
I will try and fix the typo.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool. Also, if anyone's on AIM I am 'Archelina' and will sometimes be online in the evening (UK time).

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How do u actually post in livejournal, i cant figure it out!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

saddam looks slick in his suit

― kephm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

there's probably an easier way, but if you have livejournal, click in 'community information' and there's a button wot looks like a pencil on it, and you can post from there.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ta petal!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, now that luna's awake she can explain LJ stuff as well as I could.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have to be registered on Livejournal already to post/join?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

See u later guys!! *mwah*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lebowskifest.com/newyork.asp

oh, if i just lived in NY...

(i'd hate living there, of course, but i would attend this event)

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

To join, you do, Archel. To post, I don't think so - you can post anonymously.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

K, thanks!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to be registered to join the community or make a post, but not to comment on a post, if you see what I mean -- think of it as not being able to start threads unless you're logged in.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry about the job Chris. Like Pink said I believe everything happens for a reason. (you have to think that really or life can seem inexplicable sometimes.)

honestly one of the reasons I would want to stay away is b/c I feel like we're being watched on this thread by people who never post. I've been prone to sharing more personal details here than I do on my blog which I realize now isn't very smart - - there's not much difference btw the two. So I guess if I stick around here past the downtime I'll just be a little more careful with what I say.

Thanks for all yr concerns about health $$. Just had to drop more at the pysch including a $75 fee for forgetting my appt on Monday. $&@*% I immediately went to Office Max and invested in a calendar.

I think I have links to all of your blogs. If I don't, email them to me and I'll be sure to check in on all of you.

As soon as I get WordPress where I want it mine will be at http://blog.askforjanice.com but for the meantime it's there minus the "blog" part.

and aim. . maybe we should have TITTWIS chats when a few of us are on.

take care

(oh, good news, the neighbors are getting evicted! woohoo!!)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

last night while watching VH1 Soul....Father MC - I'll Do For You came on. I loved it, its been years since I heard that.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a commercial the other day (for some rap compilation) that featured a video snipet of "Rub You the Right Way" by Johnny Gil. Almost peed myself.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll make you a copy of the cd....I own it.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I celebrate the entire catalogue of New Edition spin offs.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeanne if you send me your address I will gladly hook you up with a fine compilation. you can email me at cmvenuti2005@charter.net

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on AIM too, as many of you know: MartinHSkidmore.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, me too chrisv1918. no one ever asks me to join chats though but Neditee.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit, CV, I never knew your IM name. I will invite you to chats if I see you on.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm still GlincyGulon there for the hour every couple months I log on.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

have there been any chats lately? i assumed there haven't been. either that or you guys don't like me anymore. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't been any daytime chats in a while, Sam. There was one in the evening (Pacific time) not too long ago. (I only know cause I was invited, but I wasn't at my computer at the time.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(Hrm. Could also be that nobody likes either of us though.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

im not really on AIM all that much, but with ILX being out ( i feel like im leaving summer camp or something) I shall be on more.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I added you to my buddy list, so I'll look out for you. My IM name is in my user profile here on ILX.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I am baggadix. I will be on more than usual the next few days in the eveningtimes.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know of any good job sites? i've went to monster and hotjobs but don't really know of any others.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

craigslist can be good

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

aim is jdsalmon1976. i used to start many of the chats, but since i play too many computer games nowadays, i haven't been doing that much.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems everytime i go there all i see are creepy sex ads! maybe that's just dallas . . .

i'll give it another try.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=jobs+dallas&btnG=Google+Search

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, thanks oops, i'll check some of those out. i was afraid what broad search terms would produce but some of those look like they might be actually useful sites.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if you that I was or not, but just to be clear, I didn't mean that to be snarky. I had just made the same search for chicago jobs because I'm really frustrated by the 5 or so sites I regularly check.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

no I didn't think you were being snarky. just felt kind of silly that i hadn't done that already.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

NA, I'm so glad you've set up a LJ thing. I'm really going to miss this place, even though I haven't been here all that much lately. Seems I have some catching up to do before ilx goes down...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: http://www.network54.com/Forum/323138

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the fake ILX seems better than my livejournal. But I'll keep an eye on both.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

uh oh. we can have avatars/userpics on the new board. this calls for FUN.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, first name I see on that Network54: Calum...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. This is the first thread I checked, so I don't know what the deal is with the "outage". But I guess I'll check that thread.

The move went pretty well -- I'm checking this from my old place, where the internet is, although allegedly tomorrow the internet will be at the new place. Then a weekend of helping my roommate move and then cleaning! cleaning! cleaning! and then, ahhhh.

My cat is, so far, a bit freaked by the move, of course, but she expresses this by being super-affectionate, so... I should freak her out more often! Or something.

Hope you're all doing well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay for Casuistry and his move! The outage will result in happiness, I assure you. I have faith in these matters.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and if this thread moves elsewhere for the "outage" I'm sure some kind soul will IM me tomorrow with wherever it has ended up. Unless, of course, you all secretly hate me. But... I don't think you do.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

We don't secretly hate you, silly boy. We hate you openly and with vigor.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

and sticks.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This explains why I wake up with the mysterious bruises.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"mysterious"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hola, darlings. After hearing Greece trump the Czechs in today's match, I'm on a buzz. That, and I'm thatmuchcloser to arriving in NYC. (By the time ILX is back up, I should be there, with my red hair.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

hey all, what the hell is going on?
just skimmed through but it looks like somethings a-happening.
anyway, for anyone who cares i'm gonna be doing my radio thing tonight for 3 hours from 8to11 MDT. And I can't play the tM3 disc at the station for some reason. Like it won't read. But (not tonight) I think I've got a way around that.
hope all is well, Canada looks old for her age.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 1 July 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, happy Canadaday. Lame that the disc won't play. Maybe it's some sort of "newfangled" CDR, I don't know. Kids today with the new fangles shining in the sun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 July 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it may be that it was burned at too fast a rate (the disc itself proclaims "52X") and the station manager has said that high-speed-burns sometimes don't register.
but it plays on my discman just beautifully, so I might rig up my car adaptor thing. But I'm going a little nuts trying to pick music right now to dig that adaptor out. three hours is a lot of music. I think I'm going to get a little less conventional than I usually am. More jazz definitely, and, uh, cripes. Three hours.
See you all in two weeks I guess!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 1 July 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't be able to listen tonight anyway because (a) no internet at home and (b) I'm playing another M0use that R0ared show tonight. Which I think is the last one for a while. Phew!

Internet comes tomorrow! Yay! Viva Internet!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 July 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought this place was goin' down?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Early morning tomorrow, Sam -- noon UK time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, that means I'll still have time to wreak havoc with drunk posting after i come home from Sh!ps. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And with a final wave to mes amis, see y'all in 2 weeks to count the survivors....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

in about 5 minutes, I'll be live on www.cjtr.ca

otherwise, someone email me about where we're all supposed to congregate in the downtime.

― huk-l, Friday, 2 July 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

see you on the other side....

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, posting on craigslist for jobstuff. wish me luck.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck-
http://www.network54.com/Forum/323138

maybe?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, stream is up & running, jangle is jangling away.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Friday, 2 July 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn. I missed out on Huck's radio program.

I plan to stay up until the exact moment this baby goes down, posting away like a madwoman, so that by the end of it all I might possibly be so tired of posting away that I might actually not miss this place for a day. Or something. Ooh, temporary new forum....

I've actually been reading various threads at once, so I know how Mandee (thank you, wherever you are!) originally tried to set the temporary community up on ezboard. Thankfully, this did not happen. ezboard is like creepoid central online or something.

Post post post post post post post post. Post.

(Sam, Chris, Nichole, every single one of you guys -- good luck with everything. Oh wait. Temporary forum! La la la la la. Hm. Some of you guys [not the ones who said you'd be taking leave of the Internet] aren't yet on there, it seems. Hm. Oh well.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 2 July 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, you guys check my blogs and i'll check yours. orbit, i never catch you online and i suck at emails but don't think i don't think about you.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 2 July 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Just to let you guys know, it's 5:06 a.m. CDT right now, I'm still up, I'm still reading and posting, if I don't make it fully through to 6:00 a.m. CDT and to the actual temporary closing period of ILX I will be a huge silly, I've joined up with the TITTWIS community on LiveJournal, I'm freaking out because the video for Icehouse's "Electric Blue" is on VH1C at the moment (LOVE this song), I've signed up with Mandee's temp forum, I hope this thread series will continue on that forum, I'm SO going to regret this throughout today, and I'm going to miss the look and feel of this forum something awful.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My brain is wilting. I think it might be a good thing if I lie low for a couple of weeks after all, to be honest. I probably will check in in the alternative places though. Take care all xxx

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

*waves at dee & hands her a coffee*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee's coming to Assassination City! She'll need more than coffee to save her. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, u still not gone to bed?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it's so damn late already. and i'm not sleepy. i never take that second xanax when i'm not in school like i'm supposed to.

how much time we got left? 40 minutes? damn.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweepstake on how many tattoos Dee will have after she's visited Sam: my guess is 5.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the coffee, dearest Pink!

And yes, it's official -- hell or high water, the two female Texan ILXors are going to get together offline. Believe it or not. Will Dallas be able to handle the sheer force of our combined strength? Time will tell. As for now, it's almost going to be 5:30 in the morning. I haven't stayed up like this since Project Graduation post-HS. My allergies are waking up, unfortunately, I'm waiting for VH1C to drag out the New Wave/NuRo vids, I'm developing a slight headache, and damn, this is going to look silly two weeks from now.

Oh well, I'm still clicking on Submit anyway.

(xpost -- seems like a trend tonight)

Hahaha, Mark. If I value my life, the number will be zero. My mom's still alive, you know. And you can't hide anything from her. If the CIA hired her, this country would have NO problems at all with intelligence failures.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww *hugs dee*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll do my best, trust me.

When Gareth was here my artist/friend was willing to open the shop at 3am and ink G. for free as long as he got a US/TX tat.

Our man couldn't take the challenge. :(

I think Dee's made of more mettle. ;)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, trust me. My. Mom. Would. Most. Certainly. Find. Out.

Pink, no worries!! One of the side effects of the LASIK is that it takes me a lot to get to the point where I feel like I can't keep my eyes open. Because I have 20/20 100% of the time it feels as though I've always got glasses on, and the significance between having glasses on and being alert has been so ingrained in me that I can stay up at 4 a.m. and not feel like my eyelids are drooping until my head hits the pillow. But I have to make sure my head never hits the pillow, or else I will feel it when I wake up.

OH MY GOD A DURAN DURAN VIDEO AND IT'S ACTUALLY A NON-"NOTORIOUS" VIDEO FROM NOTORIOUS! I AM A FANGIRL FREAK AND I DON'T CARE!

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

5:56 in the morning.

I will be the last poster to this thread before the temporary closedown.

I think. Anyway, hope to see you guys elsewhere in the meantime!

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently we have another hour, as it's noon GMT not BST... :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Hehe it's not like we're on death row. Well, not REALLY :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel, keep in touch, won't you? Ideally by coming to LONDON soon.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OK! (Ew, London.)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, are you gonna come to cambridge? Arch, are you still coming?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

blah blah blah waheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. see ya in two fagtogs.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

FAGTOGS? why i outta
ILX CLOSES

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.assaulthq.com/emo/bump.gif
Where my TITTWISers at?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Dere!

(Pink, I hope you're going to get bored of those smileys soon...)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, they're pretty annoying and draw a managers eye to a screen like a deer's arse flashing through the woods

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah welcome back yourselves too! jeez!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm bored of ilx already. took about seven and a half minutes

― kephm, Friday, 16 July 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah me too. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the smileys are okay - i approve of that sort of thing generally

i might contribute to these threads more. somehow the return of ILX has put me in a good mood.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone else seen the public television special "hows your news?"

― kephm, Friday, 16 July 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE! I'm in a good mood! It's Friday!

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my God, is it all back? Really? OH MY GOD.

Okay, looking up at the last messages I left on this thing here makes me realize just how right I was when I said "this is going to look silly two weeks from now". But hey, it's kinda satisfying knowing that last message I posted wasn't actually the last message.

I have today off but have to take Mom to another doctor's appointment today and it's some place about ten miles away from here and we're going to have to leave this place maybe twenty minutes from now since Mom doesn't do, nor does she let me do, highways, and I have a half dozen other things to do so I'll just post this and... okay, so a ramble isn't exactly the best thing to do straight off the bat here, but YAY, ILX IS BACK! And I'll leave you with that.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"How's Your News"
OMG, I've seen bits of it, but I also highly recommend the book of short stories by the guy who runs that program, Arthur Bradford. After I read it, I emailed him to say how much I liked it and he said he'd mail me a copy of HYN. He didn't. Lousy jerk.
Still really, really great stories. Like the kind of stories Jonathan Richman might write, with a little bit of that Richard Brautigan loopy gentleness.

Oh yeah, I'm back, y'all. Sort of.

― Huck, Friday, 16 July 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot until Bryan reminded me.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck. This is the thread where I say "fuck." Because I want to. So there.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are all the titty twisters? (TITTWIS)

The band that is me, Sarah, and a drummer recorded a four-song demo last weekend. It sounds really cool. We added percussion and Wurlitzer and back-up vocals to the songs. Someday we'll have a website and those songs will be on it, then I'll tell you guys about it and you can go there and listen to them. Until then, just take my word for it, they are cool. Also we have a band name now: The Fake Fictions.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My TITTs have sadly become very unWISe. Smarten up, boobies!

― Huck, Friday, 16 July 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

still here, still plotting

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm disappointed, mainly by my ire at Calum and Jon and by the fact that there isn't a single thread of interest since we got back. I'm not saying people should have, like, saved their ideas up, but still. Underwhelming.

(nice to see you lot, though!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tru dat.

I'm mostly glad that I Love Comics is back. I've been having fun there.

― Huck, Friday, 16 July 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

but I just posted a new banal conversations thread barry :(

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel, everything you post is gold - I'm sorry about generalising. I'm feeling a little blue today for a couple of reasons, even though it's Friday evening. I'll be fine, but let's just all make sure we make ILX the best it ever can be!

(I feel like some kind of evangelical spreading the word among the heathens or something. Which reminds me, if you want Jon or Calum to be banned, head on over to the moderator request forum quick smart!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, it'll take a little while to get going again. Anyway, have a good weekend people.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

mark c i think you should RELAAAAAAAAX

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a deal. You make Jon and Calum disappear, I'll chill the fuck out. Promise.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY! My wife is in Atlanta, I have the day off. Im cocked. Welcome back fagtogs.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

WOOO! Hello all, I've really missed this place. Haven't read enough to be disappointed yet. Or not disappointed, as the case may be. Just got a letter with bad news, but I'm just not gonna care lalala because fuck it, ILX is back.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in Atlanta with V.B.'s wife! YAY! We're going to take a tour of the Coca-Cola Factory and then drive by Anderson Cooper's house all night. That's all I know about Atlanta.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I asked Sarah at lunch why she hadn't posted on ILX and she got all excited and said she had forgotten that it was coming back today. Then she never posted anything, so I guess she forgot again.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to do this to you Julia, but you reminded me that I got the most retardedly sweet card in the mail the other day from a retardedly sweet person. An actual CARD. Like, in an envelope. I wanted to lick it.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, it's been vacillating between Very Bad News and "oh, there was a misunderstanding, it's just a pain in the ass is all", and then VBN again, and on. Just about all week. But I think it'll end up just being a pain in the ass. I just really wish these people could fucking COMMUNICATE so things didn't intermittantly seem like Impending Doom.

At this point, the damn drug company could send me something saying that my drugs were mistakenly contaminated with arsenic, oh sorry, you're gonna die. And I'd be like, oh, you stupid fuckers, I'll call and get the real story, but I might just want to die if you keep playing that intolerable music while I'm on hold. But eh, no big deal.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

woooo! free beer at work!

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello again all. I have been very up and down lately with the depression, which is very exasperating, as in fact I have very good reason to be happy with my life right at the moment, so I hope the anxiety and stress and sleeplessness and panicking go away pretty fucking quickly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

hi guys, very plesant to come online for the first time in awhile and see everyone back.

it's been a very bad week for me, worse than ususal and i could definitely use the company. i've fucked up a lot of things and i have to go email hank now quickly before he gives up and puts me away. i'll be back.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi everyone.

I'll be in L.A. soon.

Your friend,

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, I'm really sorry to hear that. You know where I am if you want to talk.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i swallowed a bottle of xanax on wednesday. i suspected the dosage wouldn't be enough to do the trick and had been planning to cadge some off someone else and then wash it all down with liquor. But I got too desparate and miserable this week and just downed my own bottle with water.

I slept for 36 hours straight and am still a bit wobbly on feet and in head. i don't have any more plans to harm myself right now but i really kind of wish it would have worked as planned. now i've lost a week and am still in the same quandries i was before. h. wants to commit me and keeps threatening to and just now bascially broke up with me on the phone b/c he can't have a girlfriend like me. which is basically what he said the first time. he told me he thought i had changed. i told him some parts of me (like this fucking thing called depression) would never change. so then he said he couldn't be with me.

so here i am. weak, hungry, no clean clothes, my roommate's been gone a for a week and there's no food in the house. i'm going to try and find a pizza number. i've only eaten once in the past 4 days and i think that's affecting me more than the xanax...

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 July 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'm off. I shall return a week from Sunday! If you want to call me while I'm gone, please do. xoxoxoox

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 July 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that sounds no damn good, Sam. I can't think of anything more to say other than I'm sorry that depression smacked you on the ass and I hope it leaves you alone for a while.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you have a wonderful time, Luna. Sam, I don't know what to say, but I wish you the best. (xp)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear, Samantha, plese try to get by. I don't know what else to say, but please do.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 17 July 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Tuomas, et. al.

I'm better today, "better" being relative of course.

I still have the same staggering set of problems to deal with only made worse by my perpetual/medical mood problems.

Tonight I'm just trying not to be lonely. I've been alone all week, only seen H. for a couple of hours last night and my best friend for a few minutes when he dropped in right in the midst of my benzo haze.

C., my roommate ran in earlier for the first time all week. she was on her way back out to put on a mod DJ night (this is my punishment for living with someone I met on a Blur mailing list) and was very upset to hear what was going on. She offered to take me along but I figure a bar was the last place I want to be tonight. Anyway she promised to be home by 1 and I'm just waiting for her to show up or for H. to get home from his best friend's BBQ and call or email me. That will probably be later than 1.

what a long, lonely fucking night.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 July 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

update: my mom has been talking to my doctor and they are committing me right now. i don't want to go
i don't know when i'll be back. but i've learned my lesson: don't write what you really feel on your blog.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 July 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

good luck, sam. we'll be here waiting for you when you get back.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Saturday, 17 July 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, good luck. A couple of close of friends of mine were committed into psychiatric care in the past, it did both of them good, hopefully that's the case with you too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 17 July 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck, Sam.

― Huck, Saturday, 17 July 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm terribly sorry to hear about all this, Sam, hon. Hopefully you will come back to us in a better place mentally.

I have no idea what I'm still doing up. I know I'm going to regret this later on today when I'm feeling very sleepy and cursing the fact that tonight was yet another exceedingly late night, but I just have to submit this post before going off to sleep.

So here I am, with a brain that refuses to cooperate due to exhaustion, typing away, hoping to drift off to dreamland sometime very, very soon, hoping that tomorrow is finally better than today, wondering when I will be able to do something for myself. I think I'll start by wandering off to bed. Good night.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 18 July 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Good night, Dee.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 18 July 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

o sam.
i like you. i wish this never came to this. i hope you get through ok.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 18 July 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'm off to Nevada and California. I'll be back in a week and a half. Keep everything tidy! Dee, you're in charge of flirting with Cozen while I'm gone, OK? Great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit. i just failed a technical interview test for a job. Feh. I got 98 and 100% on the other two related tests, but not good enough on the main one. oh well.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yikes! Our band has our first show on Saturday! We just found out about it today! There will be muchos practicing this week.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm. I've only just now gotten around to visiting ILX since it came back.

Sadly, it's very much as I remembered it. Oh well.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck with the gig, Nick!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonjour, babes! Firist time I've had more than 2 seconds to get online since Friday. FINALLY got the Net at the house, so I'll be kicking ass more often;> Beauty is I also have a new cell number (those who want it are welcome to ask).

I'm on the way to NYC come Thursday (late B-day prezzie, wahey!) Will still be connected *then*, too....and hopefully working.

(grin) Cool to be back....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi guys!
I'm still at work, but I'm leaving soon. Only two more weeks of this bullshit and then I'll be back to my lazy, ILX-posting-like-crazy-self. In the meantime though, I have full access to every newspaper ever run in Canada over the last 10 or so years. I'm taking requests! Not really. Well, why not? Cuz that would draw the heat down on my narrow-ass, that's why. Oh yeah, good point.
Now I'm talking to myself.
Also, nearing a decision re: getting the fuck out of here. Much as it disgusts me, Toronto looms large.

― Huck, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hola, Huck. Y'know, never pictured you as a city boy, but totally understand the need for a change.

(Sammy, Archel: Depression is a bitch. How are you guys lately?)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure why you never pictured me as a city boy---maybe because you've seen me picking my nose?????????

― Huck, Monday, 19 July 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That's one reason....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I prank called Jeremy P1ven tonight.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi guys. I'm not coming back to ILE, not at the moment anyway. Just checking the Cambridge FAP thread and now this one. But I hope you're all well, and am especially sending good thoughts to Sam. x

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww archel, have I missed something?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So my poker playing days are coming to an end. Im addicted, I played at a friends this weekend and needless to say I came home with $600 less. Teddy KGB I am not.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It also doesn't help that I was 15 beers deep whilst playing. Which maybe explains why I went all-in with a 2 and a 7 unsuited.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm genuinely tempted to back Chris financially on this. As long as he can stay off the sauce, obv.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll come off worse in the end Chris. If you were drunk & managed to lose $600, this doesn't bode well fort he next time you are drunk!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, plus it doesn't help to have "friends" that easily exploit your drunkeness to take all your $$. Oh well, it was a lesson well learned. Luckily it was $ from my past winnings online so it didn't hurt that much. I still have $1400 left.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Which if course you should give to me as your punishment!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. You sound like my wife. Except she doesn't know. All she knows is that I gave her $500 to go to atlanta.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, hand over the cash!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

if you promise to use one glass for three days we'll see what we can do.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I do, it's my boy that doesn't!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

So now we're practicing every night this week because Sarah and the drummer are nervous about the show on Saturday. Whatever. We will rock that shit. But Friday we are going to a White Sox game with Sarah's work. It will be the first professional baseball game I've been to since 4th grade, and only the second one ever. Wa-hoo! Should be fun, except for annoying work people.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, ha ha, we're going on a cruise to the Bahamas in December. But it's for my granddad's 80th birthday, so it will be all with my family (grandparents, parents, aunt, uncle, cousins, sister). It will be fun except: I'm really not looking forward to flying to Florida, and I haven't told anyone in my family about my tattoo, so I have to do that because it will be pretty obvious if we go swimming or anything.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Stick a plaster over it & say 'Sarah just does that sometimes'!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am doing NOTHING right now. I'm at work, teaching summer school, and the kids are next to me and I'm posting here and listening to one of the Afro-Latino Putamayo albums. Yesterday I had a free period and went to the Special Ed. room. I taped a piece of tissue paper over the glass, locked the door, and turned on the AC. I fell asleep for an hour and a half. It sounds idyllic, but it's perhaps the most tedious job I've ever done.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a "plaster" on today. If plaster means band-aid, that is. It has spongebob on it and it glows in the dark. I cut my finger on a cd case this morning. I am not an adult.

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Plaster certainly does mean band-aid Huck. Well done, go to the top of the class. *pats huck on the head* how are you old friend?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

character band-aids... making triage fun, profitable, and into advertising for twenty five years. I used to have Captain Planet band-aids.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, ILXors! Que pasa? I am workin' workin' workin', raw hide! I am sorry to hear about what's going on with Sam. :-(

I am nervous as hell about the show, as Nick indicated above. I feel like I should be skipping work all week to practice. I mean, I've got to prioritize, right? But more importantly, what should I wear?!

What's up, Pink?
Lay off the gambling Chris V! (But you made more in the end than you lost, right?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

do any of you LAers know of the Langham apartment building in mid-Wiltshire? I'm moving to it, I think, in about three weeks. I'd check it out myself but I'm in Boston.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey hun! Don't be nervous, you'll be cool! :-)
Big hassles with the house. *sigh* To add insult to injury, we went to a cat rehoming place the other day & picked out 2 really sweet 1 year old cats. They are brothers & they've had a bit of a nasty start in life. We couldn't reserve them as we've still got 4 weeks til we hopefully move in, but the lady said that because they are black & white, nobody wants them. They have been in since May & not one person has enquired about them. I went to check on the website on monday & they were gone, so I double checked with the woman & she said someone had reserved them on Sunday. What are the chances?!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hiya, Pink!!
I am swell. It's just a tiny little cut on my finger, but for some circulatory reason, fingers bleed lots. The whole Songebob Band-Aid business reminds me of going to the grocery store. Which I did last night.
dn't go to my friendly neighbourhood grocery store, the one within walking distance, oh no, I went to the big crazy one out near the edge of town. The one with no windows or clocks and what the hell was I doing there?
The deals there are only good if you're buying things in multiples of 36. Which I wasn't.
I was curious. And bored.

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Supermarket hell huh?!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the instore knock-off brands though. I like their names, that is. Like Hilltop Moisture and General Practitioner Paprika.

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you ever get really mad in the market, Huck? I find it infuriating for some reason.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The supermarket near my house has a dollar section with knock offs for a $1. Some of them are hysterical "Window X" for "Windex"...and for some reason they all have one side in english and the other in Spanish because for some reason the grocery store feels that only poor latino's shop in the dollar section. Nothing else in the grocery store is written in Spanish except the "Mexican" aisle. I think my grocery store is owned by a racist.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Like when there's 85 people pushing around their oversized shopping carts in the barely-wide-enough-for-two-carts produce aisle? You bet.
Also, when I got home I realized I forgot peanut butter, which was the main reason I went in the first place.

― Huck, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Jiffy X

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so sorry, Pink! There will be plenty of cute cats out there when the time comes, I'm sure of it. I know you probably were already getting attached to those though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah def, we spent the whole of Sunday wishing that we could bring them home with us. We even thought of contributing to their upkeep in the weeks leading up to us taking them home properly. I know that unfortunately there will be loads of cats to take their place in the home & I am glad they got to go home sooner rather than later, but you know.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, you're in charge of flirting with Cozen while I'm gone, OK? Great.

Huh? How does one flirt with Cozen? Why me? What am I supposed to do? You're giving me a hard time! (I'll stop before I type out ALL the lyrics to that song.)

Pink, you are a good person for wanting to take these kittens in. There will be more kittens, obv and yes, unfortunately.

I love some generic store brands. Wal-Mart's canned corn and green beans is the best around. I don't even bother with Green Giant now. And the local grocery store chain has awesome paper towels and ice cream, rather oddly enough.

Someone please tell me how to do stomach crunches safely. I think I pulled some muscles doing crunches last night, which sucks, obv.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm awake and dreading the next ten to twelve days, as well as every second of the rest of my life so what's new, really?

― Huck, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, if it helps you, I understand completely what you're talking about. Real life, huh?

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee, when doing stomach crunches, relax your neck and look at the ceiling, don't pull your head as you raise up or tilt your head to your chest. It's easy to strain your neck if your form isn't right--you're wanting to lead the crunches from the shoulders rather than the head if that makes sense.

Huck, I can relate.

When the time comes, Pink, I'm sure you'll find some cats that you just adore. I promise. Sorry to hear about those kittens you had your heart set on though...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. The Fake Fictions (me & Sarah & drummer) have a website now. It has the four songs we recorded for our demo on it. If you feel listening to some peppy poppy music, go to www.thefakefictions.com. That's just a temporary page design.

Also I just sent some information about headaches to a dude named John Bonham.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Im digging "We Could Destroy You", very much so.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Chris. We need to get some pictures on there, some visual stimulation.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks folks.
So I was talking to my parents about moving to Toronto last night, and they were all "Oh, it's so expensive there, how will you cope?"
"But I'm not really going there to speculate in the real estate market."
"Oh, I don't think you'll like it there."
"But I'm not going there because I like it. I'm going there because I want to do something with my life."
"Oh, but you can do so much more here and it's so inexpensive to live here."
"Yeah, unless you count the cost of sucking."

I mean, I'm not (entirely) of the idea that as soon as I get within Toronto City Limits my life will miraculously change for the better, but it will change. And that's all I'm asking for. I've given Regina a chance. I've given it lots of chances, and in someways I've been very successful here, but in more ways Regina's let me down. Why am I being constantly called to justify not being satisfied with my life here?

― Huck, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

on a similar note, i'm still in the planning stages of my northwestern trip. and by planning stages, i mean that i have yet to actually buy my ticket. ah well. things go apace.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

where are you going Kingfish? details (or perhaps i missed them already)!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i have about 12 different things to do at work all pretty big (websites redesign/renovation, endless debugging, generating annoying maps) and coupled with a couple of freelance jobs and personal projects (actually thinking up ways to make money for once) i am feeling the strain here, not helped by lack of aircon in new office (soon tho) or the soundcard on my PC being knackered so i can't listen to tunes. still things are pretty good really...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm heading to seattle/portland sometime during the first two weeks of august. gunna be out there for a week, i think.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for kind words on the song(s), Chris.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at work and doing nothing nothing nothing. Somebody give me a fascinating and work safe link to explore...

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

NA, I think that song is fantastic too!!

jeremy - www.catandgirl.com

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I want kind words for my song.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I always forget about your song when I'm at home where I can listen to stuff. I don't have speakers at work. Sorry.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've completely forgotten yours! Ha. Kidding.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

songs are for jerks!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wanna say that I know what to do. Nobody's asking me though, so I ain't telling. I hate my co-workers.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Fake Fictions!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And yay Chris!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't tell if my bad mood of the last few weeks has been depression or an increasing amount of stress & alienation at my job. Or both.

fuck it. i'm leaving here in a matter of weeks.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I was TOTALLY and COMPLETELY caught up at work. Then I got here this morning early and even thought about not clocking in yet because I didn't have much to work on, but BANG! there are 10 new orders waiting for me on my desk. I swear some people around here NEVER go home - they just stay here all night generating work for me to do.

Also, I want to be spending my day sneaking into the bathroom to read my book, not doing actual work! Humph!

In better news, I bought 4 shirts at Target last night so hopefully I won't freak out Saturday when it's time to get dressed for the show.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah - calm down you look cool as ever & you'll be fine! I haven't got speakers at work & no interweb access at home, so i cant listen to your new songs! :-(

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You're all beautiful in every single way. Turds can't bring you down. Just thought I'd share that.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.send4fun.com/pages/cutekittens/5.jpg

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh its about time i heard Nick and Sarah's bands songs already

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew, what's that smell?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What's everybody looking at me for?

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, it's Stevem, don't worry. But come to think of it, something has been lingering in here recently. *looks at huck*

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, you know the law, "Whoever smelt it, dealt it." That's like Hammurabian Code.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've decided I'm going to stop eating. Just for funs. Today I've had a cup of coffee and a cup of tea. There's a caramel popcorn in the kitchen but I'm not eating it. I brought pop tarts in case I get hungry but I'm not eating them. I brought a sandwich for lunch, and I'll probably eat it.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

One time in college I decided I wouldn't eat non-orange food for an entire week. I ate peaches, oranges, doritos, squash, sweet potato, and a whole lot of circus peanuts. I was hoping my poo would hue but it didn't.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There's nothing fun about a gut full of souring coffee and nothing else.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that kitten pic. (*everyone gasps in shock*)

Work has been one big crisis after another today. B-but, at least it's Thursday!

(Thanks, Pink, BTW)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, food totally rules, why would you want to give it up! Did I mention I've lost 10 pounds on my diet! I'm a skinny minny not dontcha know! ;-)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What'd you start at? Three months ago I was 176lbs and I'm down to a svelt 148lbs, but the first 10 were insano-hard.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

my feet do not smell bad

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you can't ask me that! Still I don't actually have very much to lose, so it's taken a while.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

...fine. I didn't mean to offend, just commiserate

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am taking the scenic route, no offence taken! :-)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, look at these kitties...
http://www.rspca.org.uk/futuretense_cs/asm/272.JPG
http://www.rspca.org.uk/futuretense_cs/asm/271.JPG

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't they pretty? We might get these 2!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I know we're not supposed to talk about music here, but this is more about a press release anyhow. I just got the new Dwight Yoakam album in the mail and the accompanying press release is sort of funny. I guess it's geared more towards retailers than press but under the heading "Sales Points" it reads "This will be Dwight's only release this year." Like, thank god!
And then under "For Consumers Who Like:" "Dwight Yoakam"
No shit.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea who that is, but you can talk about music a little huck, it's ok. just dont turn the only safe thread on ilx to ilm!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

DY is a country singer known mainly for his receding hairline (usually tucked away under 5-gallon hat) and tight pants. I've never actually paid much attention to his music, and I'm sort looking forward to listening to this record (it's all covers) and he's done some pretty decent acting in Sling Blade and Panic Room.

But like, what kind of market research did the record company have to do to figure out not only that DY fans might be interested in a new DY album, but also that they should probably make a point of mentioning it?

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ehh... fwiw he's fairly decent as country singers go, and does a great cover of Elvis' 'suspicious minds'

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he's somebody I've always meant to listen to, it's just, I mean, only so many hours in a day, and so much to hear, and it sure helps when it comes to your mailbox.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Cute cats, pink! The second one has a funny, poofy head. Sometimes we rub Pepper's fur the wrong way around her face to give her little mutton chops like that.
Are those 2 related?

I am reading The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes. Anyone else read it? I'm enjoying it.

j e r e m y, I'm losing weight too! At my largest I was 182 or so at 5'11", but that was a couple of years ago. Now, I've shrunk down to 5'6" (ha, j/k).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the secret to yer success?

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

looks like i'll be flying into seattle around midnight on august 3rd. here goes nuthin'.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck, my mackarel friend.

― Huck, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they are related sarah, or at least they are in the same pod at the home. they are called mr robinson & mr jackson, but we would change those names. In keeping with the ilx tradition of naming cats, 'pepper' had to be in there somehow, so we thought of elmo pepper pudge for one of them (not necessarily the cats above) & various other names.
I have read loads of marian keys but not that book, I've never heard of that one!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I feel like dancing for some odd reason. Right now im doing pelvic thrusts at my desk to "Lets Get It On". Or maybe its because I woke up this morning with major wood. I remember dreaming about playing poker. Poker gives me a woody.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

and you must keep the names Mr. Jackson and Mr. Robinson...those are fantastic.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. My. God. I was reading this when one of my 5th graders walked in and I laughed my ass off. He asked me what it was, I closed the window and said it was 'Just a joke in an email" and proceeded to tell him "This guy was doing - " before I caught myself.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Im completely obsessed with poker. I watched Rounders last night, I think thats why I had a boner. The thought of going "all in" really gets teh juices flowing.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, aren't you still trying for a baby? Why didn't you put the wood to good use huh?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been trying for 4 months. I've been putting the wood to plenty of use. In fact too much, im worn out. And my back is acting up because of it. Right now she's got the bill so its all about poker wood. I've also bought a real set of 500 poker chips off of Ebay. Im crazy.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I think I'm still drunk. Not kidding.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://vegassuppliesandgifts.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/500royalsuited.jpg

they even come in this case that can double as my sniper rifle case for when i have to make a hit.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, get your lady to do some work & hop on board then you don't hurt your back as much, innit?!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, that is one natty case

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

but according to some articles we've read about conception, that position is not very condusive to mr. sperm. Its hard to swim up hill.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

As soon as you have she gotta roll off with her legs in the air, simple! :-)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

gravity boots! more seriously, are the poker chips in any way concave? if so, use 'em as ladles.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You could actually use them as chips to scoop your dip & then you just suck it all off. Wait a minute, am i'm talking about the sex bit?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate you all.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

this has evolved into the greatest pseudo-fetish evah! poker chips, gravity boots, conception, and a sniper-rifle case. imagine the look on some poor irish policeman's face when he accidentally breaks down chris's door.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, i'd totally play poker with you & your new chips. (def not talking about sex now!)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

next weekend at my poker game would be great.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i've also realized that I despise the song i danced with my mother to at my wedding. Beatles "In My Life". ugh.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

def, it's much more fun when you got the chips!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

j e r e m y, I've just been walking loads since I moved to Chicago. Also, I pay attention to what I eat, which I never did before. Most of the time growing up, I was lanky, tall & boney and figured I could just eat whatever I wanted, so I did. Then I graduated from college and started my first office job and all hell broke loose. It took me quite a while before I even noticed I'd gained so much weight because I wasn't used to noticing that sort of thing before.

I know if I ever played poker, I'd totally become addicted. I used to be a Free Cell addict and that's not even for mula. Then I was a Spider Solitaire addict. It was pretty hard to ween myself. It's 3 am, you have work the next day, and you're alone with a computer playing a card game. It was pretty bad. I guess at least your poker games involve other people, so they're a bit social.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Poker!
I may have allowed myself to be talked into moving to Mtl instead of Toronto. Fucking hell. At the very least, before the conversation I had last night, I had a destination decided. But now I see that Mtl has THREE nights of major open mike nights at three different clubs (four if you count the one in French, "C'est quoi l'affaire avec la bouf sur les avions?") and rent is MUCH cheaper, and coming from a very low-rent town (in all possible senses of the term) looking through the Toronto classifieds has been alarming. But my chances of getting a half-decent dayjob in Mtl are much lower, and...I have to go visit my 90 yr-old grandfather up North this weekend. I haven't seen him in nearly 10 yrs (we've never been close), but my mom is going up and I have no excuse and I'm not really, um, familiar with most of my mom's family (which is weird, I guess, since her sister married rich, like Nazi war criminal rich, or so I suspect) and so I'm sort of dreading it. Plus, 48 hours with my mom.

Making babies! Go VB, go!

― Huck, Friday, 23 July 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you'll be fine!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread doesn't seem right without Luna around, and with Sam missing too it's even less right. Luna is having a great time, by the way - in San Francisco right now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm back. I busted out last night but I still have to go to intensive outpatient therapy during the day. :( And must return to school in two weeks. ;(

When I cried desparately about how I couldn't do school, it's not possible my mom said, "But you have done it. For two years now." I thought, "Oh yeah. . ." Very simple statement but is evidence of the work I've been trying to do in my head for the last week or so.

While in the crazy house I read about 5 books, grew hairy since I couldn't shave, missed listening to music terribly, colored in lots of coloring books (I've discovered the new means to calming my manic-y states which doesn't include alky-hol), discovered I truly wasn't *that* crazy or *that* bad off, and realized I might enjoy being a mental health professional. Someday. Right now I still wear the scarlet "C" and must use plastic forks in the cafeteria.

So, missed you guys. Thanks for the good thoughts and nice emails. I've got lots of blogging and lots of ILx to catch up on.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, also, in my post-xanax induced haze I think I said upthread that h. broke up with me.

that's not true.

we are having a rough time though b/c my illness affects us both and we're not really sure how to deal with it in the context of our relationship.

Communication is minimal btw us right now but he is talking regularly to my mother (?) who assures me that I'm still the only one in his heart and the only one who ever will be. For now, that satisfies me.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. I'm in Oceanside, which is north of San Diego. It's nice here. Hope you're all doing well (I won't be able to catch up until I'm home).

― Chrisuistry, Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Sam, I've been wondering about you. Here's my thoughts ( ).

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, it's great to see you back, and it sounds as if the experience wasn't too horrible, which is a relief. All my very best wishes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 24 July 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Wonderful to have you back, Sammy! Moving mini-house has kept me off the email for a while, but you know I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Anyway.....Jersey Saga, part 2:

I'm FINALLY here. Funny how even the car horns sound welcoming (That, or I'm seriously twisted in my old age.) Supposed to rain through the weekend, so no neighborhood exploring yet. Til I grab an assignment, I wanna keep what small bounty I've got. Though I've got to hit the shops for groceries. (Course, the prices in the markets tempt you to sell your soul for a quart of milk, so being thrifty will prolly be an adventure.)

Now, with so much time to kill today, the toss up will be deciding what to do with it.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Had actually planned to have a NYC FAP today, but it figures I'd create the one event that would keep the folks away.

Ah, well. Their loss.....

(Pardon, feeling slightly touchy)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you have a good time in NYC, Nichole. Welcome back to Sam, good thoughts to Dee, and to Sarah and Nick, good luck on the gig (I don't think I mentioned that I really like those mp3s!)...

I was talking to a friend about childhood crushes yesterday, and then last night dreamed that I went to prom with my childhood crush (not possible, since I'd moved by then). I think I'm watching too many DVDs of shows taking place in high school. I don't want to be dreaming about high school, ick. But I got another Freaks and Geeks DVD in the mail today and am all delighted because I fucking love that show.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was worried when you hadn't posted anything on your blog for a while Sam. I'm glad you fucked it up :) I'll pray for you now - I'm very out of practice, but I remember it as one of those things where the thought counts for a lot. I'm not sending this as a mail, because then you might feel the slightest pressure to respond, and I don't need a response, just for you to keep hanging in there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 24 July 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome back Sam, hoping all the best for you.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

As for me, I've been away for a few days, I was visiting Pori, which is a smallish town in Western Finland. They have a pretty well-known jazz festival there, and my uni mate, who's originally from Pori, was there for the week, and asked me to come there too. We bunked at her grandparents house and met her friends and drank a lot, though I didn't see any of the jazz gigs (they cost too much). The nicest thing about the trip was that I had really good time with the friend, and I had the feeling I'm finally getting to know her well; we've known for less than year, and she isn't perhaps the most open and talkative of my friends, at least not as open and talkative as I am. For a long time I had this sort of a love-hate relationship with her, we were constantly bitching at each other, which is weird 'cos I don't usually do that. But now I feel the "hate" part of our friendship is gone, and that's nice because I really dig her.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

hi honies, I'm home.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Luna, welcome back! You might consider starting a new thread, this one's getting a bit unwieldy.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the thread where I say Pt. : REVENGE OF THE LAMB SAAG

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome back, Lady Luna! (Still gotta send you that disc, I know. I'll wing it to you, just lemme know which addy you prefer)

Hi.

Aussi, CP, Bonjour!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome home! Tell us all about the trip!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to interrupt, but there's a new TITTWIS thread, this one was getting too big.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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