This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 23: We Had to Go Home at Nite When the Streetlights Came On

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This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 22: ...and then you'll hear some blood-chilling feminine screams!

I was getting sick of all that feminine screaming.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

In other words, "shut up, bitch."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Why do I feel as though those remarks were aimed at me?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Can I do some masculine sobbing?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Ack!

Continuing from the last thread, that's terrible Archel was attacked! :-( :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

(I don't really feel the need to sob, don't worry.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Welcome back, luna.

How many of you participate in Secret Santa at work? I'm trying to decide if I should or not. We're supposed to spend $15 on whoever we draw, but we can opt out of it. I was thinking definitely not, because I'm a po' folk, but a couple of coworkers just assured me you get exactly what you ask for...

I'm eating jelly bellies.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna be a REAL secret Santa at work. I get here before everyone else does in the morning and I'm going to take the opportunity to leave evidence of reindeer in people's desks.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago)

How magical!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Huk, I've decided to have a hunky canadian one night stand in my NaNoWriMo story. Tell me all about canadians. What would a hunky canadian man say? How would he dress? Which part of Canada should he be from? I need answers fast as I'm working on this at my desk at my work NOW. Ready set go!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

mounties!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Huk, I can only hope this means you're responding with a very long, detailed post.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Put him in a Mountie uniform and have him say 'aboot' a few times, and Americans will believe in it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Shove in a pet moose and you'll get praised for detailed research.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

What about "Eh???" That's canadian, eh?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Have him be the wealthy son of a maple syrup baron.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago)

A baron who rustles up his syrup every year from the wild herds and brands it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

And he's trying to protect his maple herd from the evil maple rustlers.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Who swarm down from the frozen hills on moose.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Have him be a liberal arts-educated farmer, wise in the ways of the heart AND the land. He should say things like "Let's go get a two-four" and "the medium is the message."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Muttering their chilling battle cry: "Eh? Eh?"
xpost

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

"evil maple rustlers" henceforth referred to as "hosers"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Um, what's a two-four? Is that important? Maybe I should just throw that stuff in without explaining it or giving any context clues.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)

His name should be Tim Horton.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Either that or Gordy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I have done exactly jack shit on my nanowrimo novel - maybe it will be more of a nanodecwriwihtmo novel

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Maybe only Huck will get this, but here's a hunky Canadian for you, Sarah:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bshurb/hunkybill.jpg

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago)

a two-four is case of 24 beers

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago)

You can learn a lot from Bob and Doug McKenzie, Sarah.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Do Canadians use "beer" as the plural of "beer"? Because there's this Kids in the Hall sketch, the one about how rock'n'roll is dying out and will be replaced by jazz, where Dave Foley says something like "Now say you have six beer. And say three of those beer represent Ladysmith Black Mambazo..."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

"Bottles of" is implied.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Some do, but I don't. But then I also say things like "there's a herd of deers!".

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Have him not go on about the plight of the First Nations people.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Also, have him come from Biggar, Saskatchewan. Then he can alluringly say, "Do you want to see why it's called Biggar?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

What should his name be?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Awesome.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Angus Metcalfe

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Aren't these mountain men supposed to be really hairy?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Have it be slightly improbable. Jackson Mackenzie. Or else Mackenzie Jackson.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Argus O'Reilly

even some of us Butte men are hairy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Horation McMann

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Does "Angus" have a nickname? Ang?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Lon Chaney III, Biggar's favourite son.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Well, "Gus".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.choosebooks.com/users/user_2738/images/002846.JPG

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

This really should probably be its own thread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. I derailed the thread about nothing!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

We already push the limits of most people's Saskatolerence to begin with, I suspect.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

You can't derail a thread that isn't about anything.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

"As I went in one eveing, into a small cafe, a forty-year-old waitress, these words to me, did say.
I see you are a logger, and not just a common bum, cuz nobody but a logger, stirs his coffee with his thumb."
That's from memory, too.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I've only seen that song in books. Did someone actually record a good version of it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Ok, change of topic? The sales lady I hate most just called and went off on me. See, long story short, she didn't get me the answers I needed on a job, so I made some 'executive decisions.' Then she calls saying I want this, this, and this (eventually). I freak out because I requested different finishes. So yesterday morning, first thing, I build up courage to call her and tell her what happened. She said, "Oh, no, that's what you were supposed to do." Then I guess she looked at her notes since then, because now she just called and went off on me saying, "I want to see where I told you to do that?!"

Hate job again.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Yell back. "Remember how you weren't there when those decisions needed to be made?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm at work and no one is here and I have nothing to do. Normally I'd go home, but I kinda need the hours. But I do feel a bit bad not actually doing anything.

But my boss is having a meeting up in Seattle and I set a lot of it up, and I feel as if I should be around "just in case".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I hate her. And these sofas, loveseats, and chairs are only made to order AND I know for a fact they have already stained them. I have no idea how I'm going to get out of this one. Of course, if I'd just waited forever for her answers, the order wouldn't be able to ship on time, but the right decision is never the one you make.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Have you thrown attitude at her, though? Some people, especially people who like to bark at underlings, can only be handled if you sass them back.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

She will see you have moxie and invite you out for tony lunches!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Tony lunches? I don't want to lunch with her. Plus, she lives in New England (this isn't a bad thing - I'm just saying she doesn't live around here, thank god).

I'm stuck on my story. NOOOO!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Did you introduce the kitten?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Grrrrrreeat!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

In my first NaNoWriMo novel (last year), I introduced a kitten. Then I got bored so I introduced another kitten. It works like a charm, at least as far as keeping MY attention goes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.converse.com/LiveFiles/1/262/1J892_220.jpg
Okay, so I bought these shoes about a month ago. I love them. This morning when I put them on I noticed a rip in the side in the suede, clean, like it was made with a knife. I have no idea how it got there. Should I contact Converse? Will the store take them back? Has anyone had a similar experience?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm now killing time by going to Orbitz and looking at lavish multi-city flight plans that I would love to do for the holidays. I just checked for what it would cost to be in Regina for New Years. Now I'm going to look into Addis Ababa.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

You don't want to be here in January.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I was there in December.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

And I had a great time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

No you didn't.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I have pictures to prove that I did!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Okay, maybe you did.
Still, the first week of December and the last are two different realities. Though that's probably exciting to you. THe Harsh Harshness of the Harsh Winter Harshness.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

It's not going to happen either way, I'm beyond broke. But it's nice to dream.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Did you experience the remarkable sensation of having all the moisture either sucked out of you by the dry or frozen by the cold? It's rad.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)

It's not as if you guys have a monopoly on cold, you know!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)

You do have something of a corner on Arctic winds, I'll admit.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)

If we don't have the cold, we don't have anything!
Except the Roughriders!!! Go GREEN!!! Blah!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

So there's this new chick at work that I already hate after two weeks. My friend here just imed me this, which proves that I was right.

"well, david, me, and new girl went to eat at a korean place on thursday night. on the way back, she said, "i'm always suspicious of white people.... like they'll say something stupid."

david said, "yeah, i don't like white people."

this all occurred AFTER i've told them that my boyfriend is white. so, they're racist. especially this girl."

No wonder she won't talk to me.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

You're WHITE?!?! OMG!WTF?!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I know!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I admit I'm always suspicious of MYSELF that I'll say something stupid, but that does seem a little too much on their part.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago)

First Luna is white, now Ned is?! Next you're going to tell me that Huck is, too.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)

(Are Canadians white?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I emailed the woman at school district headquarters who's kind of 'in charge' of me as far as my going through the alternative certification route this morning to complain about all the crap my pricipal's been doing. In addition to being givem a mentor from the "new teacher" dept. she's put me on an intervention plan b/c she says I would fail the evaluation if it were today.

I accepted all this at face value b/c I never question my bad teaching but then speaking w/other teachers I began to question. She's been going after a lot of teachers here for really indefensible things. White teachers. Nobody can come up with a black teacher who's gotten into the kind of troubles the white ones have. :/

I usually never listen to that shit and hate to even consider it but I emailed the woman downtown, mentioned it and she showed up an hour later. she's going to talk with my principal and kind of feel her out. *sigh*

I'm becoming convinced that this job is more trouble than it's wort

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry to hear that, Sam. :-( My mom works at a historically black college and is constantly facing opposition about her teaching style/ability.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes, only white people ever say stupid things. (xpost)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Luna, just wait till she finds out you've got a white son. All hell is going to break loose.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I know! Maybe I should start wearing a dunce cap!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

You should start asking her how to do everything, even though she's the new girl.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I hope she asks me something soon, so I can say 'aren't you worried that I'm too STUPID?'

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago)

why would you be worried/afraid of someone saying something stupid anyway? ain't no skin off your nose.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm not worried or afraid - it just fucking irks me that this kind of abject stupidity exists in the world and that I have to work with the snobby bitch.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

(Canadians are off-white)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

xpost, no, I mean the person who said that.

>i'm always suspicious of white people.... like they'll say something stupid."

I don't understand the cause for suspect here. ..

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Ooh.

She's an idiot.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but is she hot?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha no.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Hey Pinxor! You wnat a fast song or a slow song or maybe even a public enemy song? I think I'm gonna devote the second hour to the $ad!es and related-music, so none of that for you! But I could maybe play "Spooky Butler" as a teaser for what's to come. Okay it's settled.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that tomorrow?

I am in a funk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

I could dance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Not that kind of funk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Pee-yew.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I leave it for the jury to decide whether it's that kind.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Would someone please devise a grad program that covers precisely what I'm interested in? Kthxbye.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you can get a PhD in Titties.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago)

haha I was sitting here trying to formulate that joke properly.
I'm more of an ass man, though.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I think looking for a degree in Industrial/Organizational Psych and yet wanting nothing to do with the dirty inner workings of business is a weeeee bit of a fool's errand.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)

You can get an MD in titties, though, quit being so liberal-artscentric, Casuistry.
Yeah, it's tomorrow night, btw, but I'm trying out this new "planning in advance" business, and y'know, I think it's really going to change the industry.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago)

But I'm busy tomorrow night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:45 (twenty years ago)

You're always busy tomorrow night.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Huk, you have missed the obvious for your love scene: your hero is endowed with sexy Canadian citizenship, lots of maple syrup, and a very long hockey stick.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Well, uh, I though that those were so obvious that they, uh, went without, y'know, saying. Yeah, that's the ticket!
(hmmm, must make a point of saying "that's the ticket" more often)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago)

They can make love on a thermal blanket in a snowdrift while birdwatching.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Man, it looks like I need to do a heck of a lot of catching up to do with these threads! Actually, I've taken some time to do some pondering, wondering, reflecting, and remembering, and yeah, at least one of you guys were right, before, when a claim was made that made an allusion to my living off of people feeling sorry for me. I am terribly sorry about that. I guess that, during my frequent insecure moments, I figure that since I have nothing to distinguish myself from anyone out of the mediocre mainstream (not a plea for sympathy -- an honest self-assessment) that having people feel sorry for me would be the only way for me to get others' attention. I'm sorry about slipping into that mindset. I'm sorry about bringing things up that didn't need to be brought up here. I need to remind myself that you guys are not the enemy, that you guys aren't part of the problem, that you guys are all individuals with individual wants and needs and to insist that my worries and problems demand so much of your attentions that I should feel free to ignore what it is that's keeping your mind preoccupied is incredibly selfish and terrible.

So I'll cool off from fully participating in these threads for awhile. How long it will take will be up to how long it will end up taking for me to reassess my priorities, how I've treated you guys, etc. But I know that when I do come back, I will never make the same mistakes I made before. I will treat each of you as people with feelings and needs and wants and desires again, as I *think* I did when I first started participating here on TITTWIS. I will remind myself that you guys are decent, kind people and to think in any way otherwise is stupid and delusional. I committ myself to this.

I love every single one of you. I know I'm not "supposed" to say that, since this is just a message board community and you guys are all faceless names on a computer screen, zeroes and ones in the cyber universe, but I can and do recognize that behind each screen name, each one of you (save for those who are trollbeings) is an actual person sitting at the keyboard, trying to deal with the same real world I'm trying to deal with, with similar issues and concerns, and the fact that you guys have managed to find it within yourselves to actually care about whatever it is that I type is quite simply amazing. And I do have feelings for everyone here -- appreciative, grateful, happy, friendly feelings.

Thank you.

― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Argh! Dee, no, no, no. I'll see you on IM.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I spent all that time trying to find a picture of Hunky Bill and no one cared. Even though it's only been seven months since the last time, I think I need my head examined.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Who the hell is he?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago)

He's a Canadian culinary and cultural icon.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Geez Dee, What's the matter. Why on earth shouldn't you participate? What's going on? We all love you. I mean if you need a break that's ok, but considering yourself selfish isn't right. You are very supportive of other people and I hope we are supportive of you.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Pierogy maker! Now I want pierogies.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Dee - what on earth is wrong hon? I certainly don't think any of what you said is right. I mean if that's the way you feel then of course I understand, but I for one certainly think TITTWIS is a better place for having you around. You are always considerate to others. I don't think you can single yourself out as being selfish, because if you do then I could say I am selfish too, along with everyone who talks about their problems on this thread. That's what this thread is about. I hope that you read this as I think it is sad that you consider yourself in this way. The only thing I will say about you, is that you put yourself down far too much & I think it's a shame because you have so many beautiful qualities that you don't even realise you have. *big hugs*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Huck, Can I have Ass & Titties? That's not a music request, by the way.

(Dee don't you dare leave. We love you too - and I'd say you moan a lot less than most of us! But, in any case, that's what this thread is (partly) for. It seems to me you're in *exactly* the right place. You're beloved. You must stay.)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago)

my uncle who lives in Kamloops is named Mully Moulaison.

Dee, you are not allowed to leave.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I also woke up this morning with Sisco's "Thong Song" in my head. I decided today would be a good day. Its starting out ok, thong song, gingerbread latte and my wife got paid.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I can sorta understand what Dee is trying to say, and it's kinda funny that when she says she doesn't want plea for sympathy, people give her exactly that (but that's to be expected, since you're all nice folks). Anyway, it's good that youre doing some self-analysis, and it's also truth that lack of self-respect can lead to the sort of constant sympathy-seeking you're describing, but perhaps you're still overreacting a bit. Anyway, I think it *is* important for you to build your self-esteem (and it's a long, hard process, I know), but you don't necessarily have to leave ILE because of that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago)

I think what Dee needs to do is avoid standing behind, or excusing herself because of, the tenets that she holds in life (her abstention from vices, etc.). None of us are trying to make her drink or fuck (not until we meet her in person, anyway) - we just want to communicate with her, learn about her and have her contribute her own unique experiences and opinions to the debate.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

It's odd you know, but I am always in what Dee says, but she shouldn't excuse herself when she says it. I mean her opinion is as valid as the next person's opinion.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago)

My kitties, Molly & Mungo. (I'm just testing here really, but I thought I'd let you lot see them-if it works!)
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/c95f.jpg?phS2gkBBRhIermzq
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/1f12.jpg?phS2gkBBFueharg6

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Cool! Not the greatest pics of them, but you get the idea!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I can't see them!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Humph! I can, I wonder why you can't.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

because my computer is teh gay.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I think it might be Yahoo's policy on linking images - let's try the urls... No, cutting and pasting didn't work for me. Have you got a photobucket account? That works very well for me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah its yahoo's policy.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought that was whole point about having a yahoo account. i was sure ken uses yahoo & that works ok. pls tell me what i need to do!!! *cries*
You can only register with photobucket for free at certain times of the day!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

really? weird. Perhaps you have to tell Yahoo to make your images public - that's what you have to do w/ photobucket.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago)

ah i'll see!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Can you see them now??!!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Nope. I wonder if the url is effectively you, logged in, so people without your cookies can't access the page? Is there any way of giving us a simpler url?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago)

well i used imageshack above but that didn't work either.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/c95f.jpg
ihttp://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/1f12.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I've had some of the same feelings - I was very angry at myself for starting a whining thread a couple of months ago when feeling very low, for reasons not quite the same as yours but not unrelated. I think you're wrong in what you say, though, because you aren't ONLY relating to people and forming relationships on the basis of asking for sympathy, you're forming them on all kinds of other grounds too, and good ones. That's why there's so much genuine affection for you here - it's absolutely not just sympathy, though I think we all have sympathy for one another when it's needed, and that's clearly a very good thing.

Personally, I have tried to restrain myself when saying anything that is looking for sympathy of late - within reason, as there are things I want to say for other reasons. Could you not stay here, but settle for trying to shift the emphasis to a balance you are more comfortable with?

You know how to find me if you want to talk (MartinHSkidmore on AIM, if you've forgotten, and the email here is real).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago)

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/c95f.jpg?phNjhkBBS4X4rmzq
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/418f92c5z19658823/5c43/__sr_/1f12.jpg?phNjhkBBDf_larg6

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Now i can see! Pretty kitties!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Hooray!!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't see them, but I can imagine.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Stupid fucking pictures, why wont it stay there? :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago)

and here i was thinking of having a long whine about my life! hah!

dee, you seem to have an all-or-nothing attitude about a lot of things. if you enjoy this thread and the people there, leaving altogether does nobody any good. since you like the people here, you'll miss us, and we'll certainly miss you. lots of people upthread otm but yeah, as martin said, it's best to just try to find some balance.

aww, i still can't see your cats, pinxor, and when i try to open the link in another window i get '403 forbidden'.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

The 403 Forbidden Cats of Pink! Starring Vincent Price and Peter Lorre!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Screw you, 101 Freely Available Dalmatians!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Pink, I am imaging they're both sleek and sexy yet cute and loveable. See, we don't need pictures!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~germ43/resources/biographies/photos/lorre-p.jpg http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Cats/BengalKits.jpg http://www.cataumet.net/carolyn/vincent%20price.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Could Pink email those 2 pix to someone who could post them for her?

Embarassing Story Time!!

First some background: Quite some time ago, my band was leaving our space for the evening and Nick stopped in front of a door to another space. The locks weren't on there, so he figured no one was in the space any more. Of course, he opens the door and VOILA there's an entire band standing there with their instruments. Whoops!

So, last night, we were leaving the space, and I saw the SAME door with no locks on it. We hadn't heard another band up there or seen anyone, so I was positive the band had moved out. I told the drummer in my band. He said, "Hey, maybe we should move in to that space." I put my hand over the handle, but then stopped myself and joked to him, "Hey, remember what happened to Nick?" and we laughed about that for a while. Then I opened the door and there on the floor was a guy and a girl and they were scrambling to put clothes on. They just stared at me. So I was like, "Um, I thought no one was in the room?" I got no response, so I shut the door and left.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Some dude on the subway this morning blatantly scratched his dick in another guy's face. See, the dick-scratcher was standing and the other guy was sitting--eye-level with dick scratcher's dick. So basically, one dude scratched his dick two inches from another dude's face. I felt bad for the sitting-down guy.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

haha, some people. they should really make more noise when having sex, to avoid such situations. (xp)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the sitting-down guy liked it. Maybe the whole thing was part of an elaborate exhibitionist fantasy they were living out!
"Hey dude, you know what gets me hotter than anything?"
"What?"
"Seeing someone scratch their dick on the subway."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Let's do it."

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I see Pinx kitties. They are cute. The second one has a very long neck!

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

x-posts Nick joked they were turned on by our music.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago)

you need to start covering Teddy Pendergrass.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago)

You evidently don't.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Pink, Public Enemy is GO! It'll fit in nice with the new Blues Explosion I wanna play that has Chuck D on it. It has a swear in it, but I'm gonna try to gloss it out.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

The second one does not have a long neck, what is this madness? he is a big fluffball!

Cheers Huck dude, that roxor the big fat one!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

are you calling me fat?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I am having an awkward day. I put in one of my contacts this morning but used up the last of my contact solution in doing so. No problem, I just got a new bottle at the grocery store. So I open it up, squirt it on the other contact, and put it in my eye. Only to feel a terrible stinging burning sensation in my eye. I rush in horrible pain to try and get the contact out, then flush my eye out with water for a couple of minutes while swearing. My eye is all bloodshot and red. It turns out it's some special contact solution that you're only supposed to soak your contact in overnight but NOT use to rinse them out or to put in your eye, basically the stupidest invention ever. So I'm wearing glasses today, which makes me feel even more awkward because I can't see as well. Then I went to Starbucks and, as usual, their stupid cup design resulted in me spilling several huge drops of coffee on my shirt. Argh redux. Anyways, I'm not having a bad day or anything, just feelin' kinda clumsy and out of it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Dude, not fat, sexy-canadian!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blockhead.com/bacon.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Nick my day has been creepily close to yours. That protein cleanser stuff burned my eyes yesterday, even though I thought I rinsed my lenses, so today I am wearing glasses and coffee splatters.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

mmmm maple bacon!!! *slurp*
x-post

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I wear glasses every day. Because I'm hardcore.
I have nothing to do today. Today is usually my deadline for a lot of stuff, but because tomorrow is a holiday (Remembrance Day), yesterday was the deadline, so, like, I busted my ass yesterday, and now, I'm already 3/4 done everything I have to have done 5 hours from now. I may leave early, if I can do it sneaky-like, to get to the comic store before the high school kids! Or something. My life is so sad and empty.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

NO GLASSES U R ALL BLINDX0R

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I like wearing my glasses, they are cool, but my vision is really bad and the contacts correct my vision much much better than my glasses. I wouldn't want to drive anywhere wearing my glasses, I wouldn't feel safe. But I feel like I look cool and smart in my glasses.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

When I take off my glasses, nobody recognizes me. Actually, I recognize nobody, because the world is a blur, but it helps feed my Superman fantasy.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I am convinced that when I do need glasses (give me 5 years or so) they'll make me look much more handsome - as it is I have a big, round, bald head with little to attract the eye. If I had glasses it'd break up the vast expanse of pastyness.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Is this the point in the day when Americans knuckle down to work after persuing ILE over their morning coffee? It always goes quite as the afternoon (UK) progresses.

I am getting edgy about the glaziers currently fitting new windows to our flat. Sarah isn't there either, and I can't help thinking they have unheard-of access to all our stuff. I suppose as long as I don't find evidence that they've been nosy I'll live with it, but if I do I'll feel very uncomfortable indeed. Hmm.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

It's almost lunchtime for me. I'm so fucking bored. I'm 12/13's finished my work for the whole day, and, uh, don't even have any writing to work on or anything at present. I think I'm going to skip lunch, skip eating lunch that is, to save money for the comics. But how will I fill the next hour? If I stay at my desk, people will annoy me. People annoy me anyhow. People, where do they get off?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, but last night, I watched Bargain Hunters on BBC Canada. What an odd show. The host is repulsively compelling! What does "Naff" mean?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Mark - you should totally paint a target on your head, that would attract the eye!

I organised a fundraising 'Pink day' today & we raised just over £200! How cool is that?!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

naff=a bit rubbish & tacky.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Or you could go with a bow and a piece of tape, Mark. :-D

I am not one of those hard working Americans. I've just been playing on ILE and emailing all morning. I'm bad to the bone.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I only seem hardworking. I wonder what would happen if I just didn't come back from lunch. I mean, I'm done all the work I had to do today, and it's not like anybody talks to me, so would they even notice? Which would be worse, getting into trouble on Friday, or knowing for certain that nobody acknowledges my existence?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Dee, you love us, we love you, stop being so damned hard on yourself. You aren't perfect, no one is - we value you for who you are, and think that you do indeed have many qualities that separate you from the herd. You have to believe it, too, though, for it to be of any consequence.

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like you! xoxoxo

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

B-b-b-b-bad, bad to the bone!
x-post

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)

the lady with the smelly vagina who sits in front of me has a big sign on her pc, "OUT TO LUNCH". I wrote underneath it "THATS AN UNDERSTATEMENT". I hope I get fired.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I answer the phones for EVERYBODY here during lunch time, and whenever I tell a caller that so-and-so is out AT lunch, they always say "Heh, sure is, heh heh."
THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID, Mr. MAYOR!!!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

"At lunch" is code for "fucking the intern".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I thought that was "Grabbing a sandwich"?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

So, I just signed a "farewell" card for someone I didn't even know was leaving, and was asked to donate MONEY for a going away present. A few questions later, and I know he's leaving for a much better-paying job, and he already makes a lot more money than I do, and I'm like, YOU SHOULD BE GIVING ME A PRESENT! And that's what I signed in the card. Not really, but, like, LEAVE ME ALONE WITH YOU MORTAL CONCERNS OF COMINGS-AND-GOINGS, I'M TRYING TO WATCH THE UNIVERSE EXPAND!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.threerivertechreview.com/Galactus.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I am still in a fog. I am looking forward to our show tonight. Since my glasses make me feel kind of dazed and out of it, I figure if I wear them while we play, I'll seem like I'm stoned, and thus, cool.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I could write you a reference letter w/r/t your coolness, if you want.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Also glasses are inherently sexy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

*blushes*

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Glasses are sexy. Nick walked in the bedroom this morning wearing his glasses instead of contacts and I was like, "YOWSA!"*

*I wouldn't really say YOWSA! but it works with the story.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

grr, bad day. phone stolen by kid. grr. just now told of staff development i must go to after school tomorrow. grr. hate job/life.

dee don't go away.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

So Sarah, how come you won't believe that YOUR glasses are sexy? You look cute in your glasses!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

My glasses are slightly crooked. Which is hot.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

My glasses are REALLY crooked, which must be SUPER HOT to the 25th Power!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Awesome!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Are swimming goggles hot? I wore swimming goggles at a show once, I think they were pretty hot, but I need an outside opinion.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago)

They were blue-tinted.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Amen! Huck, you should play lots of songs tonight about how sexy glasses are.

xpost Swimming goggles are also hot, but only when you're swimming.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't know any such songs...you should do an album about it!
I'm gone to the comic shop and then Radio and then Remembrance Day tomorrow.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Have fun, Huk.

My glasses are crooked on me too. Can't you see them? I'm wearing them right now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago)

"I Wear My Sunglasses At Night", maybe?

Well, you could do songs by people who wear glasses, then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I've been away from home/computer all day and this thread has grown huge!

The glaziers have not done things as we'd hoped, I'm afraid. They may drive me from the house for another several days at this rate.

I just yelled "BITE ME" at W. on the TV saying something about how everyone wants freedom.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Freedom from the sideways looks of 'are YOU one of the ones that voted for him?????'

My next t-shit will simply say 'NO FUCKING WAY'.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I'd wear one. I feel like my face says that without my trying, though.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahhaha, "t-shit" hahahahahahahhaha (xpost)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I can't imagine what a t-shit would be. It seems unlikely to describe shape, surely...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

wow. I totally didn't see that typo!

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

haha - neither did I!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

we were at a restaurant in hammond indiana and my brother was wearing a Texas tshirt. A talkative local asked if he had voted for Bush and my brother said, "hell no." The guy said that he did and my brother mumbled something about being against the war. Then a group of about six soliders in fatigues come in.

He says he's going to be a little less free and easy with his opinion in the future.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 November 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey sam, sorry to hear you had such a crappy day, hope today improves somewhat!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)

Huck - did you manage to play my PE song?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago)

It's -8 C (17.6 F) outside but I have my bedroom window open. It also smells like split pea with ham soup outside. I should close the window.

Hi Pink! I'm all drunk and have a nasty fucking headache! Yay for me, huh?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Aww bryan! You are s'posed to get a headache when you have sobered up!! What up dawg? *hugglez*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago)

That's kinda the problem - I should've kept drinking but my Heine smelled like a hiney. I was at a party where a crazy girl was screaming at me for being nice. I called her a nihilist and told her to stop yelling at me. 3:30 am...I s'pose I should try to sleep. I hope you're doing well.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey, that's right, I bought ice cream today!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I'm good darlin! You get some sleep hon, you'll feel better ~~in the morning~~ later on! xxx
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― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to start a thread 'ILXors that don't like me' where ppl can mention other ilxors that they think dislike them for whatever reason. Somehow I don't think this would go down too well. I could certainly put 2 ppl on there straightaway!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, my problem with a thread like that is that I know certain ILXors don't like me (Jon, Onimo, Ronan, Marcello, etc.) but there are no doubt dozens of others who also think I'm a bullying, patronising cunt and to be honest I don't much want them to come out of the woodwork and tell me so.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago)

(and then again there are people like Ally and Tom who I honestly thought liked me but lay into me with gay abandon on this bitch, which is even worse)

< /emo >

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago)

It wouldn't be a thread for ppl to say 'I don't like ****' it would be a thread to say 'I don't think **** likes me.' If I like someone & I think they're being an ass, I tend to call them on it cos I class them as a friend. (at least in the ILX sense of the word.)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:09 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think this was appropriate on the other thread, so I'll put it here.
Martin - you have done a sterling job as mod of ILE & I am sorry to see you go. I think it is the best thing to do so that you can concentrate on you for a while without all ILX's petty hassles. *applause*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Pink, yeah, I know, but it would only take one person to say "well I don't like X" and it could all go off. Also, say you said "Momus doesn't like me" and you dearly wanted Momus to say "oh but I do sweetie" and he DIDN'T - you'd be distraught!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how Archie is today?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

If I like someone & I think they're being an ass, I tend to call them on it cos I class them as a friend.

Yeah, I noticed :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Also, say you said "Momus doesn't like me" and you dearly wanted Momus to say "oh but I do sweetie" and he DIDN'T - you'd be distraught!
Heh, no I wouldn't!!
I wonder how Archie is today?
Yeah I wondered that, hope she is ok.
Yeah, I noticed :)
My bad?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago)

i love the markelbee.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

especially when he's pissed and lays into people.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Do you really though, Chris? I mean, I feel pretty RIGHTEOUSLY FURIOUS when I do it, but I seldom feel it was really justified in the cold light of day. And I do end up apologising quite a lot.

But thanks all the same, G :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Pink. I know there is at least one regular on this thread who doesn't share your opinion of me!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Do not listen to the minority Martin!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Of course I like you mark. im glad you express your anger, because its justified most of the time.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I am having a dinner party tonight - small, nine guests, and it just occured to me I only have 7 chairs / couch spaces! Do I need to go buy chairs, or can I just cook finger-food and expect everybody to stand?

Arrrrgh on the poorness!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

My friends always sit on the floor, the dirty hippies!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

-- Markelby (boyincorduro...) (webmail), November 11th, 2004 3:55 AM. (Mark C) (later) (link)

and there are people (yours truly) who found you that way at the beginning and now like you. I'm a strong admirer of strongly-opined people, but it did take some getting used-to. AFAIC, Pink, the "ILXors who don't like you / ILXors you don't like " idea is only going to end with hurt feelings. I suspect some people dislike me, but I'd never like to know with certainty b/c then I suspect I'd stop trying to be outgoing towards them. The pressure of having to bring people to your side, to win their confidence and trust, is something I LIKE about interacting on this board, and something I think keeps a lot of posters more genuine than they might be if they were in their ultimate most. comfortable. peer. circle.

No?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Make sure your roomate doesn't shit on the floor or something Remy. I

Im sure there are plenty of people who don't like me, but I could give frogs fat ass what the general consensus is.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

(In Finland we don't wear shoes indoors.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

We had a pretty good show last night but the best part was coming home and being totally famished for some reason and having a huge snack of Cheez-Its, pepperjack cheese, and dill pickles. Mmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Jeremy, you're rad.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

thanks, man. I'm a big supporter of Candor lately. I heard it's in contention for new ewok homestate.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I wouldnt want a census at to who does & who doesn't like (pls say you do!!;-)) I just wanted to say to those ppl who are always snide etc that yeah I have noticed your subtle bitching. This way, you could always be wrong though!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I apologize if I sound callous, but it still amazes me that the "virtual personas" on this board could mean so much to you (the collective you) that you'd *worry whether a poster liked you or not*.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

hm, I guess I see the utility of that -- still, at least personally, I'd not want to know.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I mean honestly, does it really matter what someone halfway around the world whom you've never met and probably never will meet thinks about your opinion on [enter stupid topic here] thinks?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago)

(yeah okay, remove the last "thinks." I'm smart.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, well, yeah, it does. But in the case of, say, Tombot, I've met him, think he's fucking great, but sometimes I think he thinks I'm a dick. I don't want him to (though maybe I shouldn't have banged on about scabies for 20 minutes that time).

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I've met Tombot too, him and Dan made me drink something that tasted like a bulls asshole.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I thought about that too, Jeanne, but then again, I guess ILX is different things to different folks. Also, some of the folks here do know each other in "real life", whereas I know none of you, so that might make my approach different.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

No I couldn't give a fuck tbh jeanne & no it doesn't really matter, but if it is pissing me off when i'm on ilx & someone continually snipes at me, it's gonna bother me. I am not talking about liking ppl in general as very few ppl have actually met irl, but it is still possible to like/dislike an online persona. Oh & does it change things when they're not halfway around the world?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough. I hope I didn't sound like I'm passing judgement on a person's emotions.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)

lets go back to happy things. tuomas, hows things with your icelandic crush progressing?

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough. I hope I didn't sound like I'm passing judgement on a person's emotions.
It probably does bother me more than it should, but then that's just me i s'pose.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I think that if you were to start the thread right now, Pink, it'd be unfairly lumped in with Nowell's -- and for that matter, given the recent plethora of threads about liking people/how do you know if you like people/how do you know if they like you/social insecurity in general, it would fade into that general static. But it sounds like your main concern is pointing out the sniping to the snipers? You could certainly still do that, although probably best to do so privately.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Tep. Tbh I don't really think I would start a thread like that, but the outcome would be a big old mess. There is one person I manage to snipe back at quite happily, but t'other I just cannot seem to get over it you know. Ah well, as Jeanne says, why should I care?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

That's understandable, though, cause you're not just talking about whether or not someone likes you, you're talking (I think) about how they act around you. (Which is sort of what Mark is talking about re: Tom, maybe, too.) Luna might secretly hate me for buying the last of the Pepsi Blue in the country, but as long as she keeps it to herself and I never know it, we're all good.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah totally. It's like I can guarantee there's a follow up post you know?! Still who cares, I'm out of here!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Martin, I apologize for being a prick on that other thread. I just feel that there is no real reason for you or any one else to be bothered by Calum or any other poster as much as you seem to be, and it frustrates me that you let him get to you. The rest of the internet is beyond your moderatory (?) control, and anyone can say awful things about you whenever they choose. I would question the intelligence of anyone who took at face value what they read about someone on a message board.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Im sure there are plenty of people who don't like me, but I could give frogs fat ass what the general consensus is.

-- Velveteen Bingo (formerlypoopsmcge...), November 11th, 2004.

I like you cos everytime I think of Worcester now I think of you!

― aimurchie, Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

YAY WORMTOWN!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Are you going to apologise for the Luna-related dig too, Oops? That was the one that angered me the most, because it dragged someone else into it.

It doesn't bother me what a lot of people on ILE think of me, but there are exceptions - surely there are for you too, Jeanne? People who I like and like to imagine I'm friends with, for instance, and there are quite a few of them here, some of whom are in that 'probably never meet' category.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I have already apologized to Luna.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)

That's deliberately evasive.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

You may view it as evasive, but it was not deliberate. It would behoove you to not try to read my mind and ascertain my intentions.
I apologized to Luna privately, and I only apologized to you publicly because I do not interact with you off-board ever.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Luna's a big girl. I don't think she needs you as her knight in shining armor.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

oops, have I told you lately you're a cock?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I did yesterday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

yes and you followed it with a devastating crack about my mother.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

That was awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Well this gets less and less like an apology, frankly. I asked for an apology for your comments about me hitting on Luna; you say that you've apologised to her, and don't address same to me; I didn't ask you to apologise to her (though it's right that you did), and you accuse me of acting as her knight in shining armour?

I can't accept this as an apology at all, I'm afraid.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I misunderstood then. I apologized to you for everything, and didn't think you'd be asking for a seperate, specific apology for one remark, and therefore thought you were suggesting I should apologize to Luna.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Now can we all lighten up a lil? Poop pee tinkle fart!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Yet another Thursday we can't get through without a dance-off.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Martin, please accept oops' apology, I am sure it was properly intentioned.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Can I change the subject? My relatives, who haven't emailed me in severeal months, just emailed my sister to sign this petition:
http://www.afa.net/petitions/specter.asp

They didn't bother sending it to me. ha ha

I am tired, but I have no boss today! And there's this mistake I made on a job which involves our company having to eat an $800 error, and I didn't get reprimanded for it!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Um, sorry to kill the thread. REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

It's too late, Sarah. It's flatlined. Time of death: 18.17 GMT.

< covers thread with sheet >

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

The Christmas decorations are already hung down the main street in my neighborhood. It's crazy-early, but it looks so great. I done love Bklyn.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

We had Chistmas cookies at work yesterday.

I love having a tree up. I'm making myself wait until after Thanksgiving though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I saw the the first Christmas advertisement already in mid-October! That's got to be a new record.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

ack, no time to read all of above. quickly, thanks pink. Martin, where are you going? (not away I hope)

don't start any Ilx hate threads. I don't really want a certain person to have a grand opening to go at me. (nor does anyone who has a similar situation going on.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

It feels like the weekend. I guess because my boss isn't here and usually when she isn't here it's on Friday, so it feels like Friday. But it might as well be the weekend, since she won't be here again tomorrow. Yay me! Tonight = housecleaning and then coffeemaker shopping.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I can't get any work done, but my head hurts from playing online for so many hours straight. Oh no! I might actually be forced to turn to the pile on my desk to rest my eyes. And I haven't gotten any NaNoWriMoing done today!

But anyway, I'm still in a good mood.

Oh, Nick, BTW, Hev & I are def going to the movie tomorrow night, so cuddle away (I'm going to buy tix online now).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Geez, I take a day off and, um, whatever...
Yes, Pink, I played your song, obviously you didn't listen, and I feel betrayed (not really, I fully understand the time difference).
I had a good show though, other than the first and last 15 minutes, I basically focused on two sets of musicians/bands/whatever and it worked really well. I can't do that very often, and maybe shouldn't have blown both barrels, but whatever.
Also, I GOT A JOB OFFER TODAY!!! A very good one. Not a real job-job, but someone wants to hire my services in a way that I approve of. It's not going to be enough to quit my day job immediately, but will certainly put that into the realm of real possibility.
I never get jobs that I apply for, but things always happen where someone recommends me for something and I get an offer and the moral is, Huck shouldn't put effort into anything, because good things happen randomly.
Of course, I understand that's not true, that this opportunity is a combined result of me being very good at what I actually want to do, and having the very good fortune of someone who has a bit of influence actually having noticed that.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 11 November 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago)

It's all about networking, baby!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago)

And I'm only very good at this stuff, because I paid lots of attention to why I sucked at it for the first four years or so.

And furthermore, on the topic people not liking other people, I'm a fucking duck. My back is hairy and full of oil. I mean, there are a few people who seem to actively dislike me on ILX, and I'm not entirely sure why, but I don't worry about it so much because it's people I don't actually interact with that often here and have no opinion of them, myself.

xpost
Though I guess there was a time when I wasn't as benign a presence on ILX as I feel like I am now, so maybe it's from that, in which case, it doesn't bother me at all. Whatever, I've got an opportunity to take control of my career and I'm pumped, and also probably won't have as much down time to loiter here, but I'll do my best to slack when I can.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes,

I never normally post at midnight, but tonight I will! I was at tonight's fap, and met NITSUH omg! He is way cool!!

Love to y'all,
Mx

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago)

I just made ravioli and gorged myself on them omg arghghgh... So yummy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Congrats Huk! Your sexy Canadian citizenship just became even more sexy! Ooo la la!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

So after the follow-up email that went into a little more description of what's being asked of me, the one that ends with "But enough about us...what would YOU like to do?" I'm beginning to think that this is some sort of con, some sort of put on, like when Homer Simpson went to work for a Bond Villain. Y'know, like maybe I'm being asked not jsut to do something I really love in exchange for glory and money, but, uh, while you're at it there, Huck, would you mind poaching a black rhino?

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Pink, I played your song, obviously you didn't listen, and I feel betrayed (not really, I fully understand the time difference).
I had a good show though, other than the first and last 15 minutes, I basically focused on two sets of musicians/bands/whatever and it worked really well. I can't do that very often, and maybe shouldn't have blown both barrels, but whatever.
Aww cheers dude. I thought I said I wouldn't be able to listen, I just wanted a sexy Canadian to play a song for me! I am most grateful!! xxxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey everyone!

Huck must be feeling pretty good right now. I'm most impressed with the number of times the phrase "sexy Canadian" has been mentioned in the last week. If anyone would like to reference a "sexy half-Italian Englishman" I'm here to absorb the lurve.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't really have the same ring or visa conitations mark!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago)

ugh i am so tired. i went and played at a local coffee house last night. did it up nick drake style. i wore a corduroy blazer. i played a joni mitchell song, i made my wife cry, i played three songs. i had a muffin. they asked me to come back.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Aww that sounds soo cool Chris!! You better have gone home and made babies! Oh hang on, you made your wife cry in a good way didn't you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)

yes. she gets happy when i get over my anxiety and get up there and let it out. i used to play father and son and dedicate to my stupid father, but i wrote my own song about my father and last night i debuted it, made my voice crack when i was doing it and she cried. I played:

Joni Mitchell - All I Want
Ray Lamontagne - Hold You In My Arms
and my song

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Aww, that just made me well up a bit. I'm so rubbish!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Okay, apology accepted.

Martin, where are you going? (not away I hope)

I'm not going anywhere, Sam - I'm just resigning as a moderator. I'd been doing it too long, almost on my own for the last several months, and it's time for at least a break. My perspective had become too distorted by having to constantly deal with the bad side of things here.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I was perfectly aware that you weren't going to be listening, Pink, and if I was to get upset over every person who didn't listen, I wouldn't have time for anything else.
I think it's quite remarkable to be deemed sexy by the sole criteria of citizenship, but I'll take what I can get, yes I took what I could get, and then I looked into her deep brown eyes and said: "You ain't seen nothin' yet! B-b-b-b-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-n-nothing yet!"

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Ha Ha.

Chris, I wish I had some mp3s of your songs to listen to at my desk today.

I am full of surprise sneezes today.

Also, I have ADD today. OH, and I'm meeting my sister at the airport after work! Yay!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I love that song, it has served me well. I cited it in my first every essay for Gr. 9 English (talking about Midsummer Night's Dream). Randy Bachman used to be so great.

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I was perfectly aware that you weren't going to be listening, Pink, and if I was to get upset over every person who didn't listen, I wouldn't have time for anything else.
Are you being mean to me Huck? you know I'd listen if I could, not having interweb access at home severly limits things though!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Work is kicking my assss right now, so I'll probably be laying low for a while. I have a huge project to work on, no one seems to know how to do it correctly, and I have huge amounts of Access reports to run (which I didn't know when I started this, Bah) I am going to see The Incredibles this weekend, I think. (I keep calling it the Invisibles, like the Grant Morrison comic, which would be an interesting choice for a Pixar movie. c'mon kids, murder, secret societies and Voodoo are great choices for animated films.) I hope everyone has a great weekend.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

No, no, I'm being compassionate and understanding, Pink.
I'm probably gonna go see the Incredibles this weekend too!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

i am so busy this weekend. i have a friends 30th b-day tonight as well as an engagement party for the last of my friends to tie the knot. and tomorrow i have another b-day party in beantown. luckily we are taking a limo. steady pimpin

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to fancy london tomorrow!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

apparently we had a bomb threat here at work yesterday after i had left for the day. they evacuated the whole building and everyone got to go home. we probably lost a shitload of money for closing early.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Have good w/e's y'all! xxxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

w/e = water enema?

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes.
Huck, congrats on the potential job dealy. I updated Invisible Crutch today, you've been slacking off, duder.
I want to see The Incredibles, but there are like 5 other movies I want to see that are playing (Sideways, Primer, Undertow, ok that's only three) and I don't know when I'm going to see them. Tonight is CHICAGO ILXORS DUDEZ NIGHT OUT because Sarah and her sister are going to see Bridget Jones, and tomorrow is Fake Fictions playing with Canasta (jaymc's band) so awesome!
I think I'm going to go downstairs and buy some cashews.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I'll do an update sometime in the next day or two! Dang!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I really want to see Sideways myself, I am a fan of the Giamatti.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I woke up this morning with "Part Time Lover" stuck in my head for some reason. It's still there. So now I have to decide... will listening to the song help or hurt? I really want it to go away.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

i suppose its better than "Easy Lover" the Philip Bailey and Phil Collins beaut.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

She's got a hold on you, believe it.

Oh, damn you!

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

'k. Listening to it now. It's not near as bad as it was in my head. Pretty good, actually.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should go for a "Part Time Lover"/"Smooth Operator" double header!

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

bleh, mornin'

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

its snowing in massachusetts today. yay!

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

aww, man! I wish I were home. It is sunny and 70 here, and I really miss winter.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i miss it up until it happens and it takes me 2 hours to go to work which is typically a 20 minute drive.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Heh, that's how it is driving anywhere in LA! I live 2 miles from work, and it takes me between 20 and 40 minutes to commute. At least if it snowed (though this would likely cause major accidents among Koreatown's less-able drivers) I'd have something nice than smog to look at.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

aww, man! I wish I were home. It is sunny and 70 here, and I really miss winter.

Me too. It kills me every autumn.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

You know, I've heard that there are sexy half-Italian Englishmen hanging around ... I bet they're HOTT.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

luna, i saved some leaves for you to put in your package i am sending but they turned crusty and brown. :( i tried.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

aww thank you so much! The thought definitely counts - I kiss you.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

luna, wanna have a mini-fap this weekend and mourn not being somewhere cold?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I created a flamboyant, gay character in my novel named Remy. He's an interior decorator. I realize gay stereotypes can be annoying as hell, but they also have added a lot to my word count! (Remy, you inspired the name only)

Also, my Canadian hunk is named Angus Mann (shoutout to Huk), Gus for short.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm famous!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Ha! Well, I'm flamboyant if not exactly gay.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I can't this weekend, sugar, I've got to go to San Francisco to see my friend in the hospital again - maybe next weekend? Or mid-week? We can drink hot buttered rum and talk a lot about the blizzard of '33.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Okay, let's do it sometime. I still need to meet you (orbit too, if she's up for it!)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry dudes, I'll get enough winter to go around!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

change it to Hungus Mann.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I hate sexy half-italian Englishmen as they make me look like the bald, pasty, pudgy old twat I really am.

(but thanks for the thought, Luna, you're a darl :))

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

but the sexy implies... SEXY.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Organic bananas are small, but they are SO GOOD.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I think I am quite possibly the only person in the world who gets turned on by the Kim Carnes gem "Bette Davis Eyes".

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, songs that turn you on... I have to say "Star Guitar" by the Chemical Bros gets my blood pumping, as do "Cowgirl" by Underworld, "Heroin" by the VU, "So Glad You're Mine" by Al Green and (it's a bit obvious, this) "French Kiss" by Lil Louis. I'll try and think of some others.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I burned a copy of Keith Sweat's greatest hits album today, Chris, and thought of you.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

"I'm gonna do it like this / Do it like thaaaat...."

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what songs really turn me on, but the bassline in 'Been Caught Stealin' always makes me want to get naked.

I suspect this is because I dated a bassplayer when it came out, and well.. you know the rest.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

pavlovian response.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Plus, I like to take my clothes off.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm turned on by girls, not songs. I guess I'm a weirdo.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"Good To Me" by Tina, from the Private Dancer album. It was in my head for years, and I finally picked up a used copy of the CD a few months ago. I still prefer the one in my head, but DAMN!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I am dancing at work today. I downloaded an assload of house music, and everyone is out to lunch for a while, and I'm looking good in my tight jeans and v-neck t-shirt and carefully planned stubble. How can I not dance?

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, shake it baby!! Wooooooooooo! < /catcalls>

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, you're very striking looking. I imagine that people who fancy you REALLY FUCKING FANCY YOU. You look intense - I suggest targetting exchange students looking for holiday lurve.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

hmm... not a bad plan, that.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I sometimes wish that the people on this thread could have a picnic together. I think it'd be really fun.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I also think there would be teh fucking.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

OMG it's a Sade house remix! I am in smooth heaven!

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna see Sade tonight!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm listening to Sade now!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago)

It's kismet.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

but it isn't a house remix.. that sounds like more fun

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually,
http://www.amplifiermagazine.com/pic/webex_cdreview_sadies_stories.jpg

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Argh! Sabotaged by manners! I've just been duped into interviewing someone I have absolutely no interest in! Someone I tried to fob off onto someone else! How do you tell someone over the phone that you hate their music, without even having heard it?

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Recommend me a good online radio station that won't be as likely to buffer every few seconds, TITTWISers.

DO IT!

Also, everyone, shake it! I feel like listening to Basement Jaxx at my desk, but I'm going to have to find something slightly more tame.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I was in the middle of a meeting just now and got a nosebleed. I was saying my ideas with my nose pinched and my head down. I was all nasal-sounding and red-faced, clutching a bloody tissue.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Forget PowerPoint, Je4nne's got HUMAN BLOOD!!!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I've got an idea for our new product! BLOOOOOOD! Can I get a witness. yeah!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

In other words I've gone completely insane.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

WHEEOOOO WHHEEEEOOO WHHHHEEOOOO! HI I'M AN AMBULANCE, HERE FOR JEEEEAAANNNNEEFUUUURRRYYYY? DID SOMEONE CALL FOR AN AMBULANCE? WHEEEEOOOO WHHHHWWWOOOOO WHHHEEEOOO!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

You should yell that through a megaphone at the beginning of every FF show!

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago)

You should begin your next FF show by scaring everyone by playing the "Slim Shady's back" intro.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I get confused and think that Nick and Sarah are in the Fantastic Four, which make them Mr. Fantastic & the Invisible, respectively.

― Huk-L, Friday, 12 November 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Is Mr. Fantastic the stretchy one? I want to be the stretchy one. Actually I just want to be Plastic Man.
Is anyone else enough of a dork to have the They Might Be Giants "Then" box set thing with the intro tracks they used to play before they got on stage? Those were great. But I think I'm going to steal the Public Enemy one instead: "LONDON ENGLAND.....CONSIDER YOURSELF...WARNED!!!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

People are Morons, Pt2322:
All the temps at my work after to sign in and out each day. It's just a sheet of paper, nothing gets mechanically time-stamped or anything. BUT you sign in underneath the last person who did, so the times go in order from the top of the page to the bottom. This girl signed in and wrote her in time in as 8am YET THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED IN ABOVE HER WROTE DOWN 10am. Hel-LO! It doesn't take a genius to see what you did there, slick. She was canned. Apparently two other temps were let go in the past couple months for doing the same thing.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)

People are Morons, Pt2322:
Oh and I didn't notice but apparently she occasionally wore her pants backwards, Kriss-Kross style.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I don't know how that heading got in there twice

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe she was late because SHE MISSED THE BUS, UH HUH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHE'LL NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER DO AGAIN.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Kris Kross]
I missed the bus.. I missed the bus..
I missed the bus.. I missed the bus..

[Verse 1]
I went to bed late but I didn't think late would EFFECT ME
Early came around then late wouldn't LET ME
Wake up - WAKE UP - so I can get dressed
I guess my body was mad 'cause I gave it no rest
And when I finally did awake it was a quarter to 8:00
Jumped in the shower and I know I was late
Stepped out put on my jeans and my uni'
And said to myself if I miss school I'm ruined
But I ran down hill and I RUSHED RUSHED
I ran down the hill TRYIN TO CATCH THE BUS
Now I'm hopin to myself everything is cool
Standin on my block like a fool
But (1) I'm all alone and (2) the bus is gone
(3) if I miss school this weekend I'll be at home
Can somebody come real fast to my rescue
I'm stuck at the crib and I don't know what to do

[Chorus: repeat 2x]
I missed the bus [ohh]

I missed the bus
I missed the bus [ohh]
And that is somethin I will never ever ever do again

[verse 2]
I was up - HE WAS UP - but I laid back down
Thinkin I could chill 'til the time came around
And I did - HE DID - but a little too long
Cause when I woke up yo the bus was gone
I almost broke my neck, tryin to get out the door
And I chased the bus 'til my feet was sore
On the trail - THE TAIL - but I couldn't catch up
I guess it must have been my day for me to have bad luck
Cause I lost my lunch money, book bag busted
Scuffed up my sneakers and I'm really disgusted
And when I got to school it was the same old thing
Stepped in the class and the school bell rang
It was nothin I could do, I tried to explain
But the teacher treated me like I was playin a game
YOU LOSE YOU LOSE - the day was a no win
I learned to never miss my bus again

[Chorus]

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

People who are Morons, Pt2323:
Me, using "after" instead of "have to". My brain is deteriorating and in a couple months, every word I type will be a word that sounds vaguely like the word I really meant to use.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I mean that backwards shit wasn't even cool the day after that video came out. And don't even try the "it's so uncool it's cool" tact, girlfriend.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating mamoul. Yummy yummy. Don't you all wish you were eating mamoul?

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago)

What is mamoul?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:52 (twenty years ago)

He's the gardener.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

No, it's middle eastern pastry, not too sweet, filled with dates and nuts and such. The pistachio is my favorite.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

All I really want to say is "I don't like dates" but I know this will inevitably lead to a string of bad puns and jokes - wait, that's a good thing.

"I don't like dates."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago)

There are plenty that only have nuts.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago)

All I ask is that my dates not have nuts.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I date a nut.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Are there any puns that aren't bad?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

A pun once saved my life.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

oops, if you're not careful, you're going to be looking down the barrel of a pun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I don't feel dapper enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Okay see that one wasn't bad, nick.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Chris, I think we all feel that way a lot of the time. Except for Andre 3000.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking I should get some new clothes though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)

What do dapper dudes wear when it's cold outside?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Zoot suits. And fur coats.

Ask Humpty.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Today is a leather day. Or at least I hope so, because that's what I'm wearing.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

A...red leather day?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

There you go!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Sweatervests.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

A...red leather day?

My shoes are red, so yes.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't normally post here, but I'd just like to note that I just listened to the Fake Fictions EP and its terrific. When I finally heard a track I thought was painfully amateurish, weak and embarassing (as one tends to worry the recordings of people they know will be) it turned out it was one of the songs he put after the EP to fill up the CD. Evidently n/a likes listening to bands that aren't as good as his own (is that intentional? you're one smug dude if it is). Anyway, if you haven't heard them yet you should. I could describe my take on the sound further but I don't want to make them self-conscious. Carry on.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

they *are* great, aren't they!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)

They really really are. Thirded.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Here's a handy link to the FF page so you can check out the mp3s, too, if you haven't yet.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was blown away when I saw them. I mean, because it's just Mick and Sarah, you know? Except they're good.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Mick = Nick, obv.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Now the Rolling Stones have to cover "We Could Destroy You"!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I have also been impressed with the Fake Fictions and their various attributes.

― Cynthia Plaster Caster (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:32 (twenty years ago)

I really don't understand any of these "this is where I say" threads

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago)

I'll go start one on the noize board.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Surely the entire noise board is one of these threads, just all noized out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE I SAY PART OOIOO: NOIZE DUDES DO IT IN TEH BUTT

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

tonight's soundtrack:

162,Skywave - Don't Say Slow
320,Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave
118,Fizzbombs - Sign On The Line
124,The Futureheads - First Day
176,Dinosaur jr - 06 - Pond Song
248,New Order - Regret
207,Chameleons - The Fan & the Bellows
162,Stiff Little Fingers - Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Materials - 12 Alternative Ulster
202,Mc Chris - fett's vette
211,R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk
124,Nerves, the - Hanging on the Telephone
164,Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
258,Nwa - Straight Outta Compton
130,The Von Bondies - It Came From Japan
351,Pulp - Common People
195,Husker Du - 59 Times The Pain
125,The Futureheads - Alms
187,Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow
204,Superchunk - Seed Toss
217,U2 - I Will Follow
233,Dinosaur Jr. - Raisans
280,William Shatner - Common People
275,Jay-Zena - 99 Luft Problems
334,Lil' Jon and The Eastside Boyz - 19 get low

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 06:13 (twenty years ago)

GOOD LUCK TO OUR NOIZE DUDE SISTERS!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 06:46 (twenty years ago)

Just found out the goddamned Riverboat Gamblers are moving to Austin. Lately there's been a flow of local bands pulling up stakes and leaving town. But the fucking Gamblers. . .one of our best and brightest. Dammit!

I feel very bile-y now and unhappy.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys it's nick at kenan's house and kenan is telling his cat to chill and i Just want to give one love LUV to the people who say nice thigns about the Fake Fictions. KEnan's cat is INSANE IN DER MEMBRANE!!!
love,
NIck
ps I'm drukn if it'
s not obvious

― n i ck (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:22 (twenty years ago)

pls don't lez up. k, thx.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago)

hi dere! ur not hte only one

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Ok, all clear. They're gone. No lezzing.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:54 (twenty years ago)

It was close, though, wasn't it? We listened to D'Angelo!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 November 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Hi. I've got nothing to say.

― Huk-L, Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't stop me, Huk.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

RE: Remy way upthread. I'll be at the Warlocks show at the Troubador tonight if you wanna FAP.

Hello to everyone else. Sam I hope your work situation gets better.
Huk- your citizenship is still K-WROR!
Kenan- Nice to see you round these parts

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I keep wondering - how naked will ILX allow me to be? I have this strange desire to be naked for you all.

The best I can do eithout making people look at penis is this:

http://giganticmag.com/images/P1000426_web.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Wrong picture. All for the best, I think.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)

There's actually a thread for it. Donut Bitch linked to a picture of his wang, and I believe Martin offers to send a reveaing file it to those interested.

But please, for the children's sake, make it a link rather than an embedded picture.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that was why I offered a photo rather than, as I was challenged to do, put it on the thread. I have sent it out to five or six people so far.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

'k.

This, then.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Also Martin gets to keep a little database of who's received it and what they've said about it. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Well, he's more hardcore than me. I just want to post a nude of myself bewcause I'm a bit of a perv.

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I've not kept any notes, and I keep the requests private. The offer is a permanently open one, and I haven't taken the piss out of anyone who has asked.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago)

(I'm just teasing, Martin -- you are a gentleman. If my remarks seemed anything other than friendly, I take them back, and offer apologies instead.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

No, I did know it was a joke. I just wanted to assure anyone who is tempted/curious that no one will know, and I am always happy to send it out. It's not really worth this amount of fuss, obviously, as it is just a naked photo of me, and I'm far from great looking.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Come to think of it, I wouldn't send it to absolutely anyone - there is at least one current ILXer who is not an adult, and there are some who would only want it for nasty reasons: obviously I wouldn't send something like that to a troll, for example.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

You guys are the biggest pervs!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I've met bigger.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I should say, after whining on these threads various times in the past, that I am currently ecstatically happy - the minor reason can be seen on the Japanese Fine Art thread, but just after posting that I got what was by far the best news I've heard in years, and was, absolutely literally, crying with happiness. I wish I could tell you all about it, but I can't - but I thought it was worth saying how great I am feeling right now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Yay! That makes one of us!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm going to dinner tonight. I don't really feel like it. Greek food. Maybe I'll have some Ouzo. Sorry for posting something so utterly pointless.....

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago)

hurrah martin! and hurrah ouzo!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Hi teeny!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago)

I am having the lamest day ever. Maybe I will have some ouzo too!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago)

If we don't have ouzo in our house, we panic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago)

My cat spent some time outside, and that, combined with her newish collar, makes her smell like a little package of salami from Cracker Barrel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you're happy Martin and I hope you enjoyed your dinner Orbit. mmm dinner.

I just got back from Austin where last night I wanted to start the rumor that I was moving back. By the time I laid my head down (not alone, ahem) at 5am this morning, I was believing it too! Now I'm looking at job openings down there. There are some decent ones. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Austin is a nice place to live. There's lot's going on.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Go for it. When I left, I left a big gaping hole of cool. You should go fill it.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I'm really glad you're back.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I left for a reason though and wonder if I would rediscover that as soon as I returned. I just get itchy after 2 or 3 years in the same place. It's been almost 4 in Dallas now.

Thanks Jeremy.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

What do I do with a fresh pomegranate?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

I won a free beer during the pub quiz thing for the third consecutive week. Also, my team, which I think I don't actually like, except maybe three of them, won first place.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago)

I just heard that ODB has died. I hope it's not true. :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Morning, Pink. It is true, sadly. Mark and I heard about it on the radio yesterday.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Ah man, how sad. (Morning SGS - I hope you are ok & had a good w/e)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago)

I just played 6 hours of Texas Hold'em (ended the night up $4.55; it was just nickel ante) and I feel sick. We listened to a bunch of Wu Tang rekkids and if we had 40s they would've been poured off my friend's balcony. I feel really old right now.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Hi Bryan. I am feeling really sad today.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago)

It's sorta the time of year for it. My best buddy sat beside me all night while playing cards and I watched him be the big loser, quite often on the kicker. My CFL team lost today (though I'm sure Huck won't care - it's the Regina team) in overtime because of a missed chip shot field goal and that made me sad. Saddest thing about ODB dying was that he had supposedly cleaned himself up while in da joint and then he drops dead. Shitty. He wasn't much older than me.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago)

It would have been his 36th b/day today/ :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Matt is in denial. He was working yesterday and didn't hear any news or anything, and he won't believe I'm not just making it up :/

Meanwhile, I had three days off work in the end last week because I was still feeling like shit after Sunday's events. Now I'm much calmer, although a bit annoyed with the police because they haven't been in touch at all and aren't returning my calls.

Hope you're all well, dudes. I missed you x

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Glad you are starting to feel better Archel - I have missed you!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago)

I listened to Shame on a Nigga in honour of ~~Archel~~ the passing of Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Martin, that's such good news! I hope the happiness lasts and seeps into your other worries.

Sarah and I spent all yesterday either a) in IKEA or b) rearranging my bedroom. It's the first time I've moved stuff around since I moved in. It looks pretty decent, though the symmetry is slightly off and I know how to fix it, only it involves shifting some Fucking Heavy Furniture. Ah well.

I also bought a chair called "Stefano". I might put him together tonight.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

And my eBay shoes arrived!

http://i6.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/b8/c1/c6_2.JPG

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I will post our purchases in a bit! i am wearing the best trainers today!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago)

John Balance from Coil just died, too.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago)

My roommates went up to IKEA and bought a bed and some bookshelves yesterday. They assembled it today. Apparently assembling this bed involved dropping it heavily upon the floor a few times. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

^^Oh yeah, that's always U&K with Ikea stuff!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I vomited on my wifes car this weekend. I apparently was hallucinating as well because I told her to pull over because there was a big parking lot for me to vomit in. there was no such thing.

I was so hungover yesterday that a Blink 182 song "I MIss You" made me friggin cry. I hate Blink 182.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha Chris! I love how hangovers do that. I always cry at "99 Red Balloons".

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Man i hate fucking popularity threads, they suck! And yes is it cos I'm never fucking on them. fuck you all!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:54 (twenty years ago)

those threads are ridiculous. pink if i did that thread you'd be in my top 5.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Cheers dude!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago)

That's the cool thing about this thread - most of the people on it owuld be in each other's top tens. I haven't appeared once in the top ten thread - I had kind of hoped that, while lots of people hate me, there'd be a few (along with Chris) who actually like the way I post. It would seem not.

(though I was only hurt by a couple - not in Ailsa's top 20, for example, when I think I am the person on ILX she's known the longest. But I guess we haven't been close for a good few years, so fair enough)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Ah no worries - she hates me anyway!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I would probably have a totally different top ten of favourite posters (represented solely by their utterances on this forum) and favourite *people*, tbh.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I think you and her are both sensitive in the same way - magnetic poles repelling or something :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Archel OTM (and, I have to say, very much in my top ten of both)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Is there one of these pernicious threads active at the minute then? ~~I hope I'm popular.~~

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

im going to post mine here and not numbered because your all number 1.

pink
mark
luna
n/a
sarah
archel
julia
remy
ned
dan
nickalicious
dee
sam
bryan
chris
tep
oops
martin

theres more and i forget

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Archie, yes, but it's a depressing thread.

Your Fucking 10 ILXors

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)

So instead you can see my lovely new shoes!!
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/s-decades.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/s-terms.jpg[/IMG]

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago)

haha, oops i forgot ilx doesn't do it like that!
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/s-decades.jpg
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/s-terms.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Ah fuck it. I hate ILX!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

All we have to do is click, Pink!

They're very you :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/s-wearing.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Mark, what's the prob, why arent they coming up in the thread?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago)

You are pressing return after the address, right?

They're pretty big pics, both in dimensions and in Kb. Maybe you're breaking one of the size limits?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago)

damn, why isn't it a case of just uploading my pics & posting on here?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Do you not have a photo editing programme in which you can shrink the pics?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I do too care, Bryan! I'm not anti-everything! I was totally bummed out. First of all, the Riders shouldn't have allowed that last field goal anyway. They started celebrating after their last touchdown instead of clamping down on BC to keep the win they so fucking deserved. Still, what an incredible game! The CFL rocks.

I'm bummed out about ODB too. "Shimmy shimmy ya" was the bed track for the promo for my radio show.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago)

see i forgot huk in my list.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't gonna say anything, just take it as it a hint that you didn't like me. BUT now I know you do!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

and i forgot Jeanne too. my mind is mush today.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Also passed away this weekend: Harry Lampert, creator of the original Flash superhero.
http://pc59te.dte.uma.es/cdb/series/dc/bitmaps/flash1.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

and me!

― gollum (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago)

That's the most implausible running position. (xpost)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

see!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

PinXor we want photos of you too, not just your feet.
Kenan has those black plastic glasses that make me feel kinda swoony when I see them on cute men.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

(Did you catch Jocelyn's subtle hint, Chris?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I had an absolutely fabulous weekend (no relation to the TV show AbFab though).

I mean, I seriously think it was one of my top - maybe even 3 ?! - weekends ever. Quick recap: Got to hang out with sister who I hadn't seen in 4 months, played a fun show Saturday night which involved a dance party afterwards, and got to see THE PIXIES!!! OH MY GOD!!!

On a more serious note, what happened to ODB?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

So I watched the first bit of the American Music Awards, and not to post out of place, but, uh, Gwen Stefani can't really sing can she?

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

yes i did, Chris.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

x-post
Oh, I'm just joking. I don't mind at all not being on anyone's list.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I see a list (any list) that I'm not on, I give myself a point under the "Keeping It Real" column.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah i don't mind either.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

(I meant your reference to Kenan.) (xpost)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

PinXor we want photos of you too, not just your feet.
I'm having a bit of a dip in self esteem (whodathunkit) at the mo, so as soon as it passes, I'll post a pick just for you! ;-)
Sarah - ODB has died. :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

(just sticking my head above the parapet among this post-pradnial avalanche of seppos and moose-shaggers :))

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh & Jocelyn, any pics of you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

What happened to the naked picture of Kenan? And Kenan, who is "Gina"?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Was it taken down? I admit, I didn't click on it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I know ODB died, but how? Did he get shot? (sorry to assume the stereotype)

My mood just plummeted because I was a dumbass and let myself read the top 10 thread.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago)

He died in the studio. Just kinda up and died, apparently.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

He collapsed in a recording studio. Reason unclear still I think.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking of making some apple muffins.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Not because of ODB. Because I want you all to like me more and put me on your lists.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

What kind of idiotic recipe asks for 3 teaspoons of something?!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

know ODB died, but how?
Sorry to assume you didn't know!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I would have put more of you on my list, but if there's any purpose to those threads it's to let people know you're liking their style who may not otherwise ever find out. I sort of feel that you guys know I like you already which is probably BAD and LAZY but hey. Anyway, just to clarify: you are all great. Can I have a muffin now?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

And Kenan, who is "Gina"?

Um... I don't know. Should I?

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)

And as to what happened to the naked picture of me, well... I decided I needed to be more oiled. So later I'll go home and grease up real good, and then I'll post a bunch more naked oily bohunk pictures of myself.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I had a dream last night that it was not ODB that died, but Jon Stewart. And he died by driving off this 100-ft-high freeway ramp into a truck full of something that explodes a lot. Gruesome. And this was sooooo depressing. When I woke u and realized that Jon Stewart is still alive, I knew it was going to be a good day.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Since we don't get Kenan naked, I am in the blue shirt. An absolutely awful picture, but the only one I can find. We are very drunk.
ihttp://www.monadarling.photosite.com/~photos/tn/58_1024.ts1086737140000.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

The dude on the left looks like the guy who owns my bar!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

(I wonder if jocelyn thinks I'm as cute as I now think she is.)

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

x-post
Pink, no biggie (Biggie, R.I.P., of course) - you guys said upthread ODB had died. TITTWIS is my #1 news source. Then, I somehow mustered up the energy to go read an article online about his death.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn - i really like that pic of you! IS your hair still the same?
x-post
heh, that's cool Sarah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I put ALL of you on my top-10 list, and some of you more than once! Don't feel down about the popularity contest, everyone is always LUVVVED in TITTWIS.

YES, this was an awesome weekend. The FF show on Saturday night was so much fun, we played as perfectly as we ever have, people were really receptive, jaymc played keyboards on a song with us, a bunch of people said really nice things to me afterwords, so much that I got a swollen head, the dudes who book the place asked us to open for their band (though we can't because it's on thanksgiving weekend and our drummer will be out of town), and then we stayed after the show and danced at the DANCE PARTY and didn't get home until 2:30 AM. FUN!!! The drummer from jaymc's band took pix and so I should be able to post them somewheres on ILX soon.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Your bar?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

What NIck said.
Also:
Cute pic, jocelyn!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Muffins are in the oven, by the way. There are 12 of them, and I'm having one, so I'm afraid I can only pick TEN of you to have a muffin. Er, because I'm having two. I'm hungry. And I made them.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Nick, Sarah, and Jaymc -- sorry i didn't make it Saturday night. I was not... um... feeling well. Not by a long shot.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Nick I want the TITTWIS Exclusive band fotoz. Argh I still have to e-mail jaymc about the ILX comp. I feel weird emailing people I don't know. PinXor my hair is a bit longer now, and it's actually redder than in that picture. Justin, (the guy on the end) has lovely ginger hair but you can't tell that either.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

The bar I love to go to. The one I took you to.

So, let's say someone sends you a press release about their musical career or whatever, and they want you to interview them. And even though you've never heard their music, and you're not exactly willing to, you agree to, just because, frankly, it's easier than explaining why you don't want to. So you're reading the press release, and this performer calls one of their songs "doom-weighted". Doom-weighted. Dim-witted, more like it!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

jaymc is nice, don't worry about it. He's an easygoing kinda dude.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Muffins are in the oven, by the way.
Twins, Chris? Although, I guess then you'd call them BUNS.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

OK, the photos from the show are on our website, our drummer put them in some kind of dorky slide show and shrank them down, but they are at: http://www.thefakefictions.com/photos.html.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

The bar where we hid in the corner to avoid people? Where you hadn't gone for months?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

So any chance of a FF cd yet? ~~for those of us who cannot listen online & do not live in Chicago.~~

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

(Muffins are done, by the way.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn you look rad and really happy! That's a great pic - if you don't like it you must be a HOTT FOXXX the rest of the time.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

The bar where we hid in the corner to avoid people? Where you hadn't gone for months?

The one and only. Can you imagine how I act at bars I don't like?

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

They probably drive you to drink.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Pink, we've only got 5 songs recorded right now, and they're kinda demo-quality. Last week we did a really fast recording of 5 or 6 more of our songs, but we have to add vocals and stuff to them before they'll be ready. But once we've got them together, we can send you a cd of all the demos, as long as you're not expecting some slick professional-sounding thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

What do you fill the rest of your set up with? Allman Brothers covers?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Witty Banter

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Though we have about 14 songs written, we play an 11-song set, 10 originals and one cover, and it usually lasts about a half-hour what with instrument switching and stalling and lame banter. I'm a big big fan of short sets, "leave 'em wanting more," etc. Even though the Pixies show last night was fun, it drove home something I've felt for a while, which is that I don't even want to hear bands that I really really like play more than an hour.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind as long as I get to sit down.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I cannot believe how slowly this day is going. And I have to stay here until 8pm :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Dudes, i just want to hear what y'all sound like!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

We sound like Beethoven, Wendy Carlos, and Chuck Berry fucking and having a simultaneous orgasm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

only better!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago)

hey people-answer me this. about 20 years ago, as a small child, i either (a)had this dream (b) read this story or (c) saw this movie/short film, and i cannot remember which is the case. i am leaning towards (c) and want to know if anyone else has seen this.........the story is set either on another planet or on earth in some future time. in the story, the children are at school where they may or may not live. apparently, it is about to become summer. all of the kids and the teacher are excited. they will get to go outside and enjoy it.the catch is that "summer" only lasts a few hours. anyway, the school bullies lock this one kid in a closet or coat room of some sort that has no windows and he/she is stuck inside there all day and misses summer. it is horribly depressing. i think it was a movie because i seem to recall the flowers blooming and such in time lapse, but maybe i imagined that as well. also, i associate it with ray bradbury but i am not sure if it was a story that he wrote or if i just thought it seemed like something he would write. anyway, it is a vivid but blurry memory that i would like clrified if anyone can help. i didn't think it required a thread of its own, sorry to blurt in with this but ignore it or answer it as you wish.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys! I was a bit shocked about hearing ODB's dead too; I mean, he wasn't even my favourite Wu-Tang Clan member, but this is the first time any musician I cared about in any way has passed away. Now I can sorta understand those friends of mine who cried a bucketful when Kurt Cobain shot himself.

I other news, today I'm finally going to see "Before Sunset" with a couple of friends. "Before Sunrise" is my all-time favourite romantic movie, so I have high expectations for this one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Damn poxy fule!
Hi Emily - sorry i can't help you, but it certainly does sound depressing!
Hey Tuomas - how are things going with your girl?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)

It does sound like Bradbury. I know he wrote a story called "Nightfall" set on a planet with two or three suns, and it only gets dark every 1000 years or something, and when it does, men go mad.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago)

emily, it's a movie based on a ray bradbury story, and it's actually a place where it rains all the time, and the kid gets locked in the closed for the ten minutes of sunlight they have every ten years or something.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

The story is called "The Long Rain" I think but I'm not sure about the movie.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Crud, it's actually "All Summer in A Day."
http://www.intermed.it/bradbury/Allsummer.htm

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Woo, I remember that story! I used to love Bradbury!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Bradbury was totally the Grant Morrison of his day!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195517/

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

how are things going with your girl?

I'm sorry to disappoint all of you who were interested in this story, but I don't think anything romantic is happening between us. I like her quite a lot and we're still seeing each other, but it feels like there isn't enough spark to try anything that would go beyond friendship. I guess this is quite a common thing to happen with crushes, but the surreal way this whole affair began kinda left me hoping for more to come out of it. I'm not sad though, just a bit disappointed.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Does sex count as "beyond friendship" where you come from?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Can someone ask me some basic questions that I can answer in Japanese? I need to practise for tonight as I missed last week's class.

(BTW, Tuomas, you do know that by even mentioning this girl on ILE you were actually signing a contract stating that you will *at least* marry her or do whatever else it takes to ensure our continued entertainment, right? Just checking.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Hoshiniga wu kokeo?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Arrgh, ask me the question in English! I'm supposed be feeling clever!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

In English, "Whath us merrible?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

So I tried blue cheese for the first time on saturday night, and concluded that it tastes like a wax crayon. I then spent the rest of the evening wondering when I had tasted crayon.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I thought it didn't look quite right...

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

That's crazy, blue cheese is great. Well, unless it's bad. Which it sometimes is. Blue cheese can vary quite a bit in quality.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I assume everyone has noticed that I didn't sleep last night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

take a power nap!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

My last experience of blue cheese was kind of off-putting, in that I had ordered a bagel with mozzarella, tomato and basil and received a bagel with blue brie, tomato and basil. And I don't even know if the brie was supposed to be blue.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

No, I have to go to work in a few.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Also, sleep deprivation is one of my favorite intoxicants, but I rarely have the strength to enjoy it. Hence my sudden burst of chattiness and nonsensicality. This is how I am when I'm drunk, too.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Emily, I remember seeing that movie at school too.

There's a Cars song on the LITE radio station here at work. It's always a pleasant surprise when I hear something I enjoy on there.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Is it the "Who's Gonna Drive You Home Tonight" song? Because tM3 has long thought about covering it. But first we need to find about 30 oscillating fans to scatter about the stage, which Charlotte will sing "ahhhh" into.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Sarah I reposted my mp3 if you still want to listen to it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wait. I'm not that kind of fan.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the movie info, guys. now i can stop cursing my broken brain. and i would also like to add that you can get "something wicked this way comes" on dvd now. be still my heart.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I finally got on someone's list! Though there's no real reason why I should be on anyone's list (not a pity post) as my best work is done on the ILComics board, and by best work I mean, hunting down images of Batman & Robin in homoerotic poses.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

And of course, I won't do a list, because I didn't even vote in the ILC best comics ever poll, so I just generally suck.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Ew. Perhaps it's meant to taste like wax crayon and those who like it have never eaten crayola so cannot notice the similarity.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

That's the one, Chris.

Other Chris, I will ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I was awake at around 3:30 this morning for no good reason and out of the friggin blue, I can hear my downstairs neighbors bumpin' uglies. Super.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Did you start clapping your hands and stomping your feet in baseball chant style?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)

That's slightly better than what I heard at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. My elderly neighbour seems to be losing her mind and she was trying to get into my apt. I helped her back into her apt, and she nearly fell, despite having a walker, twice. I called the property management company yesterday and left a message that she may be unfit to live alone anymore. At the very least, they should see about getting her from the third floor to the first.
She doesn't seem to have any regular visitors, and it strikes me as quite sad. She's a very interesting woman though, when she's not trying to get in to my apt. at 4 a.m., that is.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago)

No clapping or stomping. I only heard the dude. This happened in my old apartment too. I hear the evidence, but only the male evidence.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Cue up the Cat Stevens, Huck.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Popularity contests suck. I think you're all fabulous.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Taking popularity contests too seriously sucks even more, though.

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes that's true.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Popularity contests are rad. I think you're all medicore.

just kidding!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Sone de wa, ja ashita TITTWIS-san. Osakini!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Hikeba!

(Was my Cat Stevens joke too subtle?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

This is quite sad, yesterday the Aquaculture lab on campus burned down, the fire burned for about 6 hours, and thousands of fish were killed and research for a lot of people was destroyed. Now the entire campus smells like burnt aquarium, which is unpleasant.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I know I shouldn't have taken that thread seriously, but also I know myself (ie: that I would anyway, to some extent). I just shouldn't have read it.

Anyway, I'm over it. See? This is a pic of me now:

:-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Google's language tools won't translate into Japanese!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Poor fishies.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Re: Cat Stevens
Msg rec'd l & c.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

OK, good.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Good morning, thread!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Good morning starshine!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Hey Orbs! Hey everyone else! I'm about to go home and it's cold outside and Sarah won't be there to cuddle me when I get in! Enough self-pity, though - I can play Football Manager and eat warm food and wait for her to get back and punce on her and cuddle her till she's sick!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

You're going to eat worm food?!?!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

So there's this dude, who's sort of kooky (as you'll see), who's always in and out of legal trouble, who claims to have put a copyright on his name and charges $500K per use! Ha! Ha! So he's like, all, "You guys can put my name in the paper, but you'll have to pay me each time it's used!"

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Yay, Markelby! :-) It's not that cold right now, but chilly enough. When I get home we're renting a movie and watching it together while eating warm food under a blanket on the couch. At least, that's my plan. Only about 4 hours left of work today!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Three and a half, even. I'm counting down as well. I'm getting my bike tuned up today, and then maybe going shopping, and maybe ordering a really expensive, decadent pizza. Huzzah!

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

1 hour, 38 minutes.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

13 minutes until break time...Now I am hungry for Chicago-style pizza.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

M.B.N., Huk.

3 hours, 13 minutes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

M.B.N.?
My beautiful nympho? Maybe Before Noon? Make boogie now? Margerine, butter, nuts?

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Must
Be
Nice

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's terrific.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh boy, oh boy, ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy! I just got the Spongebob press kit in the mail. Oh boy!

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Someone please shoot me in the fucking head.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Did you mention to him that you can't copyright a name? Tell him it's "de minimis" and suggest he try trademarking it. It won't help him any but it will keep him busy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I think I'll register his name as a domain and then offer to sell it to him for one billion dollars.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I never usually read these threads, but was bored and just came across this:

Aw, Mark, I never included Ally, Madchen or anyone else either. People that are actually my friends in real life shouldn't need to be included, your assumed inclusion should go without saying :)

Ah no worries - she hates me anyway!

WTF?!?!?!!?!? I don't make a habit of hating people I don't know (hell, I don't even make a habit of hating people I do know).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

(This explanation is not designed to make Archel feel she isn't a friend of mine, by the way. I have a theory about why some people were included and others weren't, but it doesn't lend itself very well to being explained)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey wow, a "co-worker" is rifling through my desk!
"Are you looking for something?"
"Oh, ah, no, just looking."
"What?"
"I'm just looking."

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Huk-L SMASH.

Actually, Huk-L go home. 8 minutes.

― Huk-L, Monday, 15 November 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that awesome, Huk? What about when coworkers are passing by your desk and then stop to read your computer screen? Sometimes, they even ask me what I'm looking at (these aren't my supervisors either).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys,

my attempt to catch up in one post:

-teeny's right re: bradbury story. it's in our 8th grade text. nice story.

-top ten thread. i tried to kill that thing when it first started to no avail. It doesn't really hurt my feelings but I know it really does others so therefore it must die. I think people who do that are idiots.

-ODB, learned of this in a post-party Austin chill out. Was sad. Group I was with began discussing all the people who have died recently. One guy went off on how fucked up it was not enough people knew who Greg Shaw was. Yeah, Austin's a good place.

my ex, H., has been suffering a lot lately too. About 3 months ago a friend of his in his 40s shot himself in the head. That really shook him up and he's been off ever since. Then, on Wednesday, a friend of his who was only 30 died in his sleep. A couple of days earlier they had just decided to start playing together again. I don't understand the cluster of deaths that have been happening.

-I didn't go to school today. Unintentionally. The stress that has been threatening to turn into depression kept me sleeping till nearly 2pm. My principal called my mom. She's going to . . .I don't know. Try even harder to fire me now. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I've been grinding my teeth so hard in my sleep I have trouble swallowing and chewing b/c my muscless are so sore and my tongue's all chewed up. I'm eating a banana split right now.

What do we think of Colin Powell resigning?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Colin Powell Resigns

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I was asking the TITTWIS!! (no I saw that thread later. eh.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I think kind of the same things I've been thinking about Powell for the last couple years -- either, "Who told him to say that?" or "That poor bastard."

― Kenan (kenan), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I enjoyed your latest blog entry.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoyed Huck's latest blog entry - oh wait.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Sam I hope things get better. I will voodoo your principal.
I chomp my tongue at night sometmes, it sucks.
Email me on myspace if I can help. :-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Hi, guys. I've been home all day because I've been feeling very ill. High fever -- 103 at last reading -- with lots of aches and general sleepiness, on top of the coughing I've been doing and the chest congestion I've been feeling for the past four or five days. Anyway, I haven't been doing much bed rest because I've been needing to help out with clearing out my bedroom. It's getting a much-needed paint job starting tomorrow and hopefully wrapping up by Thursday. Anyway, I won't be able to go online in the meantime (school has a strict policy against using its computers for anything aside from research and course-related things, so I won't be able to go there, and work -- well, I've talked to enough tech people from there to know that they do things such as monitoring keystrokes and so obv I wouldn't want to risk things there, either), so I just wanted to post before I left.

I've been thinking over a hell of a lot of things since the last time I posted here, and you know what? That "Your fucking 10 ILXors" thread, which I've unwisely checked out over and over again like a masochist, is really an overt expression of the unspoken sentiments I've been getting from this forum community as a whole for a heck of a long time, outside the TITTWIS thread series *. A couple of days ago, I expressed to one of you guys in an e-mail that I was feeling like there was probably a 25% chance of my coming back to this forum; well, if you're talking about the forum as a whole, the chances are less than 10% right now. I might just end up coming back just to post here on this thread series, because the chances of my reentering this thread series are much greater at 90%, but... I don't know. I mean, I tried so hard to be nice to people here and... well, it didn't work. I failed miserably. And I know that if I were to come back here to this thread series, I'd probably end up wanting to participate in the rest of the forum, and I know I'd probably feel like, "What's the point of trying to be nice and polite to everyone else * here? I might as well be an asshole to them," and I might end up pissing them off by posting things that would also piss you guys off, and I don't want that to happen, so....

Anyway, this forced extension to the sabbatical might be able to settle things in my head. I'm hoping. Maybe. I am optimstically shooting for Friday night as the first time I'll get back online again, so maybe by then I'll have a final decision (and I'll feel better, too). All I know is, I don't want to be a nonentity, and as much as I love that you guys don't consider me as one... well, that's not true for the community as a whole *.

*: There are a few exceptions to this, I feel. Anna F., Suzy, and Dan Perry have all been great to me when it's counted, so I'm grateful to them for that.

― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Were I to make a list - which I haven't because I think they are exclusionary and stupid - you would be on mine.*

*My cell phone list doesn't count.

Don't rely on this place to make yourself feel worth it, Dee - too many people here don't care about anyone but themselves or the people they know in person, and it's just going to make you feel bad. Don't post here because you want validation, you won't get it. Post here because you have things to say. And you do. I've seen 'em.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I know I don't always respond to your posts, but I think I can empathize. I've met a lot of ILXors in person and still don't make their lists. But you know, I only really felt down for like a second today because some people pointed out that it's not really that big of a big deal. I know a lot of people who would make my lists, and I also know a lot of people who really do seem to like me that might not put me on theirs. I'm sure the same goes for you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Dee, the thread's got nothing to do with it. Most of that thread has nothing to do with people making lists, and most of it that does is people complaining about what a bad idea list-making is. There just aren't enough lists there to feel bad about being excluded from any of them, and implying that not making a list means it wasn't worthwhile being nice to people would be passive-aggressive bullshit if you meant it -- and I don't believe you do.

There are no odds. There is no roulette wheel in your head. There is no angel on your shoulder playing poker with the devil on the other. There are no ponies to play. You simply can't decide, and it's probably because you're making it out to be much more dramatic than it is. It's not like this is a job or a marriage or even an apartment -- it's very easy to come and go, and there is no particular significance and absolutely no binding to either decision.

Post when you want to, what you want to! Read when you want, if it sounds interesting! There's nothing wrong with that, and plenty of people do it. There's no drama to the decision unless it's imported.

If you must take time off to think anything over, make sure you're not just bottling things up to reinforce everything you already think.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago)

I realize how critical I sound, but history suggests you'll interpret it as criticism whether I phrase it that way or not: this way the song at least comes through correctly, even if the bass is off.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Hypothetical situation: You go to a party. Almost everyone there doesn't know you and ignores you, and the more drunk they get the more exclusionary they behave. But there's one person at the party who heads away from the main crowd at one point. He bumps into you, apoligizes, offers to fix you a drink. You decline, he asks why, it starts up a conversation, and he spends an hour or so talking to you. It's a good conversation. It turns out he's a barista at the coffeeshop next to one of your haunts. He goes back to join his friends and tries to get you to come along, and you try for a bit, but it's not your thing. Feeling uncomfortable by the rowdy and obnoxious group, you head home. The next time you go to your haunt, you stop in at the coffee shop, just in case -- and he's there, and you have another nice conversation, and he makes it clear that you can come back to the coffee shop any time.

OK, which of these statements best describes what happened:

1) You went to a party and everyone hated you and you felt uncomfortable and went home.
2) You went to a party and met a new friend.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)

what everyone said, but Luna especially! I hope you get to feeling better and I want to know what you're up to! Me me me! I've been out of the loop for a while and I don't know why you're at school again. I haven't gotten the chance to tell you about Andy P4rs0ns from San Antonio who I met because he came to St Louis to work on the Kerry campaign, he's a Vietnam Vet and so incredibly nice and it made me want to visit SA all over again. Me me me! Deeeeeeee!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago)

2 Chris

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Dee, what are you talking about? Who is it that you are so worried about? Don't worry about them. We obv. like you! Hell, I don't burn CDs for just anyone ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago)

While I was removing some extra things and made sure this bedroom resembled as close to nothing as I was going to make it resemble, I started regretting posting that thing upthread. Yeah, luna's right -- I should post whenever I want to say something, end of story. I guess I started thinking of this place as a sort of social circle that I had to work hard to find my way inside and when I wasn't finding that... well, I figured it was another social failure I'd go through, when in reality there was nothing there for me to penetrate. Okay, so Tep's also right. I am so shameful right now. Really.

I was going to post something immediately afterward that stated that I might be a bit oversensitive because, for some reason, I've become incredibly impatient, in that I want things to happen Right Now, instead of waiting around for a long time, and I've also become incredibly needy, because I feel like I'm hungry all the time for something which is not food-oriented, and no matter what, the hunger is never sated. Hm. You know what? All of you are right.

And I guess I shouldn't call this a "forced sabbatical", but rather "some time that has been sprung upon me to get me to force all these inner demons to shut the hell up long enough to think rationally about things". I'm sorry. I'll try not to be this way ever again.

― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's because you have a fever.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago)

My thought patterns get weird, self-analytic and repetitive during fevers; I think it's something to consider, like Orbit sez.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to come down with a fever I think, and a few times today it felt like I was on some weak acid.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

ugh! Do you have weird time-dilation effects?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago)

The worst fever I ever had was part of a disproportionately fucked up response to prescription-strength Robitussin, and resulted in my staying up all night watching Anything But Love on Lifetime and writing panicked notes to my girlfriend on the floor of the sunken living room so that the Cheez-Its (on the table in the dining area overlooking said LR) couldn't see me.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah sorta. I was driving back from getting lunch, and it seemed like I had been driving down the half-mile section of road for an hour. felt...out of myself. ick.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Tep, I want to party with YOU.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Half the time I'm paranoid about crackers, the other half I'm making panna cotta! It's like food bipolarity.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Cheez-It panna cotta! (eww.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago)

It's all clear now. You are fascinated with food because it is your dark overlord.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)

I must master the crackers before the crackers master me!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago)

You must not be the only one who's aware of this, because I've often heard people saying how fuckin' crackers are the ones running things and controlling their lives.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had a fever.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago)

SEE?

Also -- what clued me in when I was on the fever: remembering the cheesy (so to speak) 1930s gangster movie dialogue, "Cheese it, the cops!"

CHEEZ-IT = THE COPS

All my notebook notes on the floor were about the Cracker Police and how they were going to get me.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago)

haha, I also get stuck repeating the same thought in my head. Last time it was:

"Good drama is comprised of a single character's drive for a single, clearly defined goal, impeded by an internal force indicated by an external signifier."

I must have repeated that dumb phrase a hundred times, and got stuck on all parts of it trying to 'climb inside' the meaning.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago)

I really like this singer/songwriter guy who has the same last name as me. Well, some of his melodies are a little too obvious, even for corny old me, but some of his songs are really terrif! Good small town desperation stuff that I'm a stone-cold sucker for.

I'm going to write a major blog entry tomorrow. I have to be very jealous with my blog/journal type impulses from now, because I may be able to use them for this wonderful opportunity that fell in my lap last week (this is what the blog entry's going to be about--my fear of success and track record of self-sabotage, not just in career spheres, but also love, and what's more interesting or important than LOVE?).

I just realized today, during the Star Wars action figure derailment of the big nasty whatever, how little of ILX I read/post to anymore. Like, when j-m-c put me on his list, I was bafflegabbed a little because I don't think I know anything about him. I think not having much geographic sympathy with most ILXors, as well as as being somewhat absent-minded, affords me a wonderful laissez-faire (and as a sexy citizen of an officially bilingual nation, I'm constitutionally entitled to use french expressions n'importe ou) attitude, and as such I don't really know much about any one either not regular on these threads or who really lets it all hang out. I don't even know a whole lot about my fellow ILCors beyond their comics views. And that's okay. It's personal, but not personal. It's casual. Okay, baby? Can we just be casual? You know, like, I like to wake up alone, unnerstand?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago)

I think that's a large part of what I like about ILC.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago)

But Huk don't you remember that night in Saskatoon?
My sleep often gets interrupted slightly when the radio switches from classical to Morning Edition at 5 am, and often phrases from the news repeat themselves in my head, telling me to do things. For the past few morning I keep thinking that the news is reviewing the Fake Fictions at Ashcroft's resignation as presented by Jordan.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago)

ILX Jordan Cleft n' Cloven, not Jordan the Page 3 girl.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:49 (twenty years ago)

What about Jordan the Real Genius girl?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Huck, it's cuz you make-a me laugh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:53 (twenty years ago)

What about Jordan muthafuckin Catalano?!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Jordan MARSH, bitch!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago)

I mean "nice lady"

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Guten nacht!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Cool.

Hey Jocelyn, do you ever listen to CBC One Saturday mornings?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago)

For instance: Too Much Information RE: Growing Pains

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Also, my namesake, sometimes he tries a little too hard to be Elvis Costello.

xpost. oh yeah, did you see that I updated that one recently?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Re: the top ten ILXors thread. I don't think it's meant to be serious, never was, and isn't worth getting panties in a bunch about at any rate. When I first saw it, I thought, "Oh how stupid," and posted a list of pop songs instead. But as the list wore on, I reconsidered my hardline stance. People were posting lists of astounding randomness, and I thought, waitaminnit, that's half od what we do around here, right? Make lists? So I made a list, which was just as much off the top of my head as the list of songs I posted. None of the people on my list are my favorite ILXor anymore than "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot is my favorite song. So it's just a list of "who have I thought about in th last ten minutes." It shouldn't depress any of you -- it really is meaningless. Really.

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago)

*cries*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago)

But remember, Sam, I forgot you on my first list. So you see?

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Kenan OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago)

File under "cool": Jessa's always trying to pawn off any books she gets about music onto me, and I'm weak so I always accept, even though I will never, ever read The Autobiography of Keith Richards. For one thing, it's like 1000 pages. Maybe if I get polio.

But today I got a brand new, fresh, free copy of The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD, seventh edition. OMG this thing is so cool! I smell some serious record buying binges coming up real soon. This is going to be for the 30-yr-old me what the Rolling Stone Album Guide was for the 16-year-old me (read:expensive).

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago)

I didn't read the lists Kenan so I didn't know either way. *cries some more*

upthread, thanks sarah. :)

I should go to bed. signs of deepening depression on my part: insomnia at night, completely unable to wake up during day. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Well, OK, I got about 3 hours of sleep there. Now I'm back awake. Fun!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago)

I admit I wasn't fully committed to sleep when I conked out earlier.

Good small town desperation stuff that I'm a stone-cold sucker for.

If only I hadn't spent so much of my life growing up in New York City, maybe I would have some interest in writing this sort of stuff.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it's not like it's hard to fake!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to do it right, though.

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Ouch, burn!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:24 (twenty years ago)

I mean, you can't just copy John Cougar Mellencamp lyrics. People will catch on.

― Kenan (kenan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Huk for assuming that you weren't a Riders fan. I thought you said something once that suggested ambivalence. Anyway, it was sad and even sadder that they dumped shit on McCallum's lawn (though it could just be raked in and be beneficial) and that some dinks have threatened him. Making an announcement about it in the leg was maybe a little silly but what else do they have to talk about?

While driving home from the laundromat with the girls tonight Jodi was talking about a possible merger between MB and SK (not sure if she heard about it or if she was just being crazy like usual), and the names suggested by us were Saskatoba and Manatchewan. You guys have any better ideas?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:26 (twenty years ago)

"Greater Assiniboia".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm not a huge fan, but I go to the odd game, and certainly watch playoff action.
Why would Manitoba want to merge with Sask? Possibly an Ottawa ploy to coagulate all the semi-left-wingers in one place to make privatizing health care easier?
Maskitobawan

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Dee - I would miss you so very much if you didn't post on this thread. Pls can we keep in touch via email?

Don't you think it's funny how you write stuff on this thread & forget that other ppl are reading it? Maybe it's like Beetlejuice or something!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Ohayou gozaimasu!

[Translation of last night's bit: 'Well then, see you tomorrow TITTWIS. I aplogise for leaving work before you.' Only in Japanese would they have an actual *word* for this.]

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Bless you! Oh hang on.... ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago)

I kind of wish I was up and posting when this thread is at its peak - great as it is to read 82 new answers when I get back to my desk, I wanted to join in, dammit!

Chris P's meeting-a-new-friend post was one of the smartest I've read in a long time. Chris really is the bomb. And, assuming ILX is the party and TITTWIS is the new friend, I'd say Dee's done pretty well, actually :)

As for the list thread, well, hmm. One thing I love about this thread is that, by and large, we're not trying to make big points, argue dense subjects, prove our worth/intelligence/hilarity - we're just people, pretty decent people for the most part, hanging out and being friends.

Without being too twee, the bond that we have because of this thread is almost certainly stronger than that between people and their list-heroes, and that makes me happy. I'd love people, strangers even, to include me on their list (and yes, I was sad enough to count the number of posts before I was mentioned - 3 hundred and something, and then it was only because there was a mini-TITTWIS invasion), but it seems that either my plus points just aren't plus enough, or my abrasive side puts people off who might have liked me otherwise.

I can live with that. If Ailsa's reading, I'm sorry I guilt-tripped you there - I was just feeling sorry for myself and I know you didn't mean anything by it.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago)

It's funny that whole thread thing, i really don't know why it bothers me. I guess it's just that you spend so much time on here that you figure that you made an impression on someone, then it turns out that you didn't at all.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know what you mean. I would love for just ONE person, maybe in Oregon or something, a student, or a househusband, or a barista, who's into IDM or James Joyce, to just think "hey, that Markelby's funny/cool/personable, I really enjoy his posts"

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah for sure. Still, we're just a bunch of boring whingebags!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago)

That's one of the most specific attempts at generalizations I've seen in a while.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Yes we are. However, I've just had another look at the thread, and a LARGE part of the lists is middle-ranking indieboys wanking over the alpha-indie boys who they so obviously want to be, with maybe a cool chick thrown in there to make them look less gay.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to think putting the Canadians at the top of my list was my attempt at making me look more gay.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Ha!

I obviously have weird self-esteem issues because if anyone DOES put me on my list I just think 'oh how little they know me, otherwise they'd never want me on their list'. And if they don't put me then I am neither surprised nor bothered.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Chris - you talking to me?
x-post
I think the thing is with me & ILX, I portray myself as a twee person with no opinions. I am that twee persons who like to post about kittens & include smileys, but I very rarely post about my opinions. I mean what's the point? I only ever get shouted down by some moron who doesn't have a clue. All it does is upset me, it's not worth it. I learnt a long time ago to not bother on ILX. Apart from the fact, I like most of the things that the ILX collective loathes. I am involved with another forum (nothing like ILX) which I much prefer as there is no judgement of a person's attributes. I know, I know, more fool me for giving a f@#k.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

pink i only made one list! im teh cool.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I was referring to Marquelbi's Oregonian IDM-loving barista or Midwestern Joycean housewife or whatever he was going for there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Chris you are at the top of my 'love machine' list!
x-post

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago)

And my "why, if I was a homosexualist" list.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh & why the 'big baby bingo' name? Did I miss something?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago)

It's an ODB reference. Right? Big Baby Jesus, I can't wait!

Canadians keep this place (ILX) civil. It's just like Cyprus or some place that Canadians have managed to keep civil. With our baby blue hats.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Baby blue is SO your colour, Huckles.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Do they call it that because of the way babies have a hard time breathing right after birth?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! (add that one to the joke list, unless that's where you got it from) :)

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh I made that one up all myself!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

It's an ODB reference. Right? Big Baby Jesus, I can't wait!
Ah of course, that was why i didn't ask yesterday, because I already knew! leave me alone!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. I signed up for yahoo messenger. I'm trying to listen to the radio on there, but everything I click on says I have to get yahoo messenger plus or some crap. So now I'm listening to the free alternative rock station, but it keeps playing stuff like papa roach. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

damn! Sarah - did you get my email? (my work email is playing up today)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn, where do you live again? I forget. Somewhere Midwestern though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Yep ODB reference. Sarah try 3wk internet radio its pretty good.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

West Lafayette, IN (two hours from Chicago)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Pink, I emailed you back.

Ok, I found an indie station for free. Boo ya.

By the way, Chris, I was shocked by your mp3. Your voice is COMPLETELY different than I had imagined. I don't know why. Also, it's a really slick recording. Did you do it at home??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

What, where, how...oh, hi everyone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Hi ned!

cheers sarah - i got it!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so Wisconsin is even further away for you. I was wondering if you would be able to come to any of the FF shows in Wisconsin this weekend but that doesn't make any sense. OH WELL.
Yesterday was very dull, and was followed by a very lazy evening of watching the first three episodes of The Wire (which was awesome). Today I anticipate another very dull day, followed by another very lazy evening of watching the 2-hour first episode of the new season of The Amazing Race. HOORAY FOR LETHARGY.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Sarah, my friend has a studio thinga ma jig in his loft.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Lethargy is nice. I must go get some.

Chris is one of those rock stars, those polished smooth vocalists -- why, he secretly only wants to sing Michael McDonald songs. I KNOW IT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)

i never seem to get anything cool in the post, who wants to send me something?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I can send you a stuffed anteater.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

if only i had a beard.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

if only i had a beard. im assuming you thought i had a big tony soprano voice eh?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

if only i had a beard. im assuming you thought i had a big tony soprano voice eh?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

N/a Get Jordan and Begs2Differ to come to your show! They live in the Cheese state, I believe.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

hmm 3 times dope.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

gee thanks!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Jordan is coming to the Madison show, Begs2Differ is going to be out of town.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I will watch over it all peacefully.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Meet your new cheese overlord, Ned.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

When are you touring the UK, Nick? You can sleep on our sofa if you like...

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Meet your new cheese overlord, Ned.

Rah! (It occurs to me, Jocelyn, I have completely forgotten where in the world you are located.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, I aske dyou a question!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

cool, i have the wire coming from netflix soon, glad to hear it's a good show. dvds keep disappointing me lately, i'm sick of it.

in addition to the ref, it seems that big baby bingo could be referring to, uh, big bingos in the making of babies, all that fun stuff.

lethargy is pretty overrated. with good company and good dvds, though, it can be cool.

it took me a while to figure out who ol' prune face was. i r slow. slow to post, too, xp galore etc whatever.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

HEY JULIA, how are you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)

HI JULIA!

Markleby, there's a decent chance we'll make it over to the UK (and France) about this time next year, but plans are still pretty vague and uncertain.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)

You two better come over!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago)

HI JULIA!!
You should get MSN, as I always forget about AIM.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Stop it already!! I accidentally had caps on!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't really making fun of Pink, I was just excited that Julia was here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

HI JULIA!
I am not sure of the CBC program you are referring to, Huk-El. Is that Canadian?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sla.purdue.edu/images/stew-winter.jpeg
Right now, I am here. But without now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wait, NPR calls their morning thing Morning Edition too, don't they? Never mind.

"without now"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

snow, perhaps, although it is more existential in the above form.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn more pics please! Of you as well as your hood, obv. I just got told I have *too many pics of myself*, hmm.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I need to replace my phone. I'm not sure I like anything that Virgin is currently offering, but what do you think?
http://www.virginmobile.com/mobile/phones/search?type=all-phones
I can't spend more than £50. Influence me!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

HI EVERYBODY! it totally made me smile getting such enthusiastic greetings. it's just a good day too, i had the aforementioned good company and dvd-watching night last night, and today i'm just feeling all happyish.

oops, i have msn, add me!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Funny Archel I'm doing the same thing today after work.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

now y'all should add me on msn too!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)

HI EVERYONE!

Pink, You know I've been trying to get around to sending you a package for... what... the past year? I think I sent you one last year, so this will be my annual package. I made you a mix cd, right? Maybe I can get you something by Christmas! That would be a good goal.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)

i still owe people the bingo rub you the right way mix....they are coming i promise.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

...coffee...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Hey Luna, Hey Jeremy, Hey Chaki and anyone else in LA come out to Toi (Thai food) and karaoke with me and Di on Fri Nov 26th

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't babydoll - I'll be in San Francisco again.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

NNNoooooooooo!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so every year my mom is in a talent show with her coworkers in which they dress up as the Supremes, and sing and dance along with some songs (and yes, they have their own choreography). She sent me some pix, one of which I put up on my desktop.

So, a coworker of mine just saw the screen and was like, "Sarah, why do you have a bunch of large ladies on there?" Grrr...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

say to her 'are you always this rude? that's my MOTHER - the mother who taught me better than to say the first thing that popped into my head, AND TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR THAT.'

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

heh. I wish I had luna on hand at all times to provide the perfect rejoinder when I can't think of it (which is always). Maybe like a mini portable luna who can talk through my PC speakers or something?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I hope you're happy, Nick. It's not about either of the things I thought it would be, but it is what it is.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I responded with, "Actually, since you asked, that's my mom." She wasn't apologetic enough though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

aw Archel... I'm just bitchy.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Bitchy when bitchy is required, dude.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I hope you're happy, Nick. It's not about either of the things I thought it would be, but it is what it is.
-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), November 16th, 2004 11:42 AM. (later)

I have no clue what this is in reference to.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

This, maybe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Don't be modest, luna. You have a talent there.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

ah, yes.

xpost

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, dudes, I have to write something about Smile by 8:30 tonight. It's a mess in my head, although I am going to make bizarre references to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Waiting for Guffman, even if they don't make sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Ah. Well done, Huck. I am enjoying the stylistic and contextual diversity of our co-blog. Except I'm writing about music too much.

jaymc, why do you have to write it by...oh, SQUEEZED. Hmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

You mean about how Brian Wilson's lost solo legacy is like Coleridge without Wordworth, a chance to flourish on his own, and then write in the lyrics to Stool Boom?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

jaymc don't listen to me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Write it about the Ride singles collection of the same name and claim you didn't realise there was another Smile!

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

"Stool Boom" is such an awesome song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm a "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars" man myself - "BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

What's weird is that "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars" is ostensibly a reprise of "Nothing Ever Happens in Blaine" -- which you see them rehearse (Lloyd: "...while half of you sing BLAAAY, without the N") but IT ISN'T ACTUALLY IN THE SHOW.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago)

The DVD has like 3 extra songs from the play on it, maybe it's in there? I just remember a really long one about the flood.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I am suffering from a degree of lethargy that could stop even Dav!d L33 R0th.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I need to get that DVD. I've heard about that song -- "This Mighty River"? You can hear traces of it in the overture.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Well, the day it has gone, the night it has come,
The woods are all dark, but you're still a bum.
The moose go "MOO!," the deers are there too,
And the monsters are cooking up a disgraceful soup for you
At the party in the woods tonight,
At the party in the pale moonlight,
So we gonna get on the floor, let's rock some more
At this party in the woods tonight.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I was effusive enough about Huck's blog entry. I REALLY LIKE YOUR BLOG ENTRY, HUCK!!! I can't tell if it's fact or fiction but I guess it doesn't matter. I think I need to start writing some minimalist fiction (in the vein of Donald Barthelme) in our blog.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Some namesw have been changed and some locatoins obscured, but "ruby" really devasted my heart, as I wrote.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Although my favorite is definately Parker Posey's deleted monologue. (I had typed the best part here but I realize from Jaymc's comments he has not seen it yet)
I really liked your blog entry too. It had that great nostalgia to it that I love in writing. You could make it your own "Goodbye Columbus"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

It was one of those, I could either call her or write about her moments, and I think I'm better off not calling her today when I'm so filled with longing for the feeling of being 18 and carefree (but not realizing how carefree).

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Good Tuesday kids. Hey Julia! ::hugs::

Orbit, are you talking about Lady Di? Man I so wish I could go.

I just posted a bulletin on MySpace asking for scrap paper to use for copies here at school. how pathetic is that?

Fortunately my friends with real-jobs that do things which make sense are coming through. Cause you can be damn sure I ain't buyin' no copy paper.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Sam: Yep the Lady Ms. Lurex! Want to hop a commuter flight? We could have fun. It's the total Thai evening, food first and then an awesome dive Thia-run karaoke bar with an insane list- everything from Sinatra to the Sex Pistols! Come out! Come out! Bring Dee!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Nick, did you just now get my txt msg?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

(Yesterday you said TEXT ME L8R BOO!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

OH! Yes, I just got your text now and I was cornfused! Ha ha! I am very slow today (see: Huck misunderstanding upthread and the PLAYGROUND TAUNTS thread).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Aw, shit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3099757a4560,00.html

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

This is the thread where I say I am completely fucking insane.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago)

No, this is the thread where I say I am not insane, but I figured out why I *thought* I was insane, and ahy it was in someone's best interest to *make* me think I was insane. It took me two years for all pieces to fall together, and there it is. Sinister. True. Disgusting. My faith in human beings as a race is completely shattered.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago)

I am finding a certain amount of comfort in scrambling and then solving my Rubik's cube lately. It is nice that some things are solvable.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Luna, every time I drive past the restauraunt 'Luna' on Western Ave, i think of you.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Models? Hand models, maybe.
I didn't feel like posting that to the Amazing Race thread, sorry.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Orbit, you had faith? wow. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm quite the pollyanna, actually, always believing in the basic goodness of people, expecting them to take the high road, to do what i would do. It's what makes me me, and what makes me a sucker.
I'm sorry for that little outburst up there, I had a spaz,a really bad night but I'm a little better now.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 05:51 (twenty years ago)

What happened, hon? Sounds like some kind of sinister "Gaslight" scenario.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:08 (twenty years ago)

You mean about how Brian Wilson's lost solo legacy is like Coleridge without Wordworth, a chance to flourish on his own, and then write in the lyrics to Stool Boom?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Wonderful. You're better at writing about music than I ever was, which I guess is why I stopped doing it. Thnx for that.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Aww shucks. Thanks. I don't think I'm great at writing about music yet. That was the first piece I've written in ages that didn't feature lots of descriptions of what various instruments are doing, which is my crutch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Musicianist!

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:51 (twenty years ago)

I also liked the NYTimes piece, which referenced the inarguably rockist anti-disco incident in Comiskey Park in 1979. Here's a piece of Chicago history that I don't know, but am very interested in learning about: how did a city that inspired what amounted to an anti-disco riot also become the birthplace of house music, which is easily disco's most direct descendant? Can we chalk that up to mere diversity, or was some kind of backlash involved?

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:55 (twenty years ago)

I forget you don't read ILM anymore, Kenan. You probably won't be surprised to learn that NYTimes article spawned a gigantic thread.

As for Disco Demolition, I could be wrong, but I don't think Chicago had any more anti-disco sentiment than anywhere else; it's just where it happened to take place, you know? It could just as easily have been a DJ from Kansas City or Pittsburgh or Seattle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago)

I have decided that Steve Dahl and Jim Derogatis are the same person. Dero is clearly just an old, fat, pock-marked Dahl.

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 08:16 (twenty years ago)

morning kids. I don't think anyone took Ned up on his offer to give away a stuffed anteater, up there! Send it to us, Ned. I mean, STUFFED ANTEATER! That would liven up the apartment some.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago)

hi sarah! did you hear about that job yet?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

no :(

must contact them today somehow :((

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Ah sorry!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey hon, are you sure we have space for a stuffed anteater? I mean we can make space, indeed we must, but where do you think it should go?

Maybe give the guy who interviewed you a call - all you have to say is "I was wondering if you'd made a decision on employing me yet" and leave him to reply. If he's not able to offer you a job, you might want to have an alternative suggestion (work experience maybe?) ready so that you can take advantage of his feeling bad for not offering you the job.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago)

that's okay. Must do it! Must be persistent! Must fight anxiety! etcetcetc.

I'm also trying to eke out the motivation for a trip to the gym. I've had to be out of the house all day until late at night the two days since we went to Ikea, and haven't had a chance to put together any of my new furniture or re-organize and clean my room, which I would sort of rather do than leave the house. I dunno. Faffy faff faff, that's me.

xpost--Mark we could put it on the coffee table ;) Or use it to put our feet up on, instead of the coffee table. It might be more comfortable.

I was gonna email him, since he's quick about responding to them, and otherwise I'll get nervous, tumble over my words, and not say what I mean, I'm afraid.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, an email should be good. Don't mention work experience or anything in a first email though - just a quick, simple "Have you had a chance to consider me" note would be best.

Yes, an anteater footstool! I see where you're coming from. Maybe we can then expand - a chinchilla pillow, say, or a vietnamese pot-bellied pig doorstop.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago)

or maybe steal Beryl Bainbridge's moose! Much as I may find them creepy, taxidermied things would blend in well with the whole museum vitrine/barrister bookcase/antique science instrument interior aesthetic about which I daydream.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I must admit, I am not liking the direction you two are heading in!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)

It's okay Pink, we're allergic to cats.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Dude, it aint just the cats I'm concerned about!!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago)

think of the anteaters!

really though, taxidermy disturbs me far too much to have it in my house I think. My museum, though, that's different ;)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Think of the Lost Boys, that should put you off!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

yesterday i got a new cell phone, it is the coolest. its tiny though...it doesn't feel like im holding it right or something. sure beats the shit out of the brontosaurus of a phone i had before.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago)

hmm, a stuffed vampire might be interesting...

hahaha that just reminded me of the Jeremy Bentham cabinet from UCL! Creepier: taxidermy-ing one's pets or oneself?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago)

mmm, i wouldn't mind a stuffed keifer sutherland in my bedroom!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

i think last nights baby making may have been the one. as the donald says it was "yooge".

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

that and the fact that i haven't rubbed one out in a week.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

hahahah! best of luck dude!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago)

thanks.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago)

is it time for a new thread?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Where's Luna? I think it should be called "the baby making thread"

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I started a new one. Pt 24...make some babies.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago)

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