This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 26: And the Reindeer You Rode In On

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Merry celebration of some sort of holiday on or about the winter solstice.

This is the Thread Where We Say Pt. 25: Yeah, um, good thanks...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Word 'em up!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Just posted this on the other one, but I found some crazy pics of my old band online:
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pjsykes/bands/theid/theid01a.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pjsykes/bands/theid/theid03a.jpg

Also, the grad school program I am somewhat curious would cost about $60,000 total (with books, room & board, etc) for a one-year program. Is this normal? That sounds fucking insane to me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

for grad studies in English?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So, did you ever just start popping & locking at your desk and human beat-boxing and stuff? I just did. For NO reason. Everyone was staring at me.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah what school/program is that? then again I wouldn't be surprised if you said SAIC.

My boss did eventually call (for those of you following this inane storyline from the other thread) and gave me work to do. But there has still been much faffing, oh yes. And more will follow. On one of my "errands" this pm, I rounded it off by buying myself a new pair of trainers. Tis the season.

Some xmas cheer for y'all: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/bronxxmas/pelhamxmas.html

In other news, I now have to write an email telling one of our artists to send us what he has and not bother doing any more work, since he's done so little to date and he's supposed to be full-time. I'm supposed to say this nicely/whatever but it feels like firing someone to me and I am all of a sudden paralyzed about what to write. I sort of think this would be better coming from my boss, but it's been delegated to me. Tactful suggestions please?

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

btw I should've just signed myself,

― Our Lady Of The Overpriced Education (sgs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Remember when you were a kid and you wanted to sit around and do nothing all day? NOW YOU CAN!"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it at Northwestern? It is bloody expensive because it's a "private" university.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread that as "pirate" university.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd hope it was private because if that was public, yeurgh.

I am here! But I am busy with work. Feh!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it is, joce.

I actually had to do some work for a while today! HARUMPH! I'm back to slacking now though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I finished my giant project! Round of drinks for everyone!
I looked at Northwestern's cost and my eyes about fell out of my head, esp. compared to U of C.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

now i wanna go to pirate university. i wonder if at orientation they immediately rip out an eye and amputate a leg, thereby readying you for the patch/peg leg combo. ooh, and you get a parrot. sort of like the owls at hogwarts.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it was the journalism school at Northwestern. I hadn't thought about the private/public university thing, DUH I AM DUMB. I wonder if I qualify for in-state tuition for Illinois yet. Probably.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

argh.

I think I'm settling on something like: [boss] asked that you go ahead and send us what you've done to date, [boss] has the rest of the designs covered b/t the other artists, so go ahead and finish up and invoice [production company] for your time.
(in slightly different wording. does the message come through?)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That's pretty slick. It seems more like an invitation to ask for his money than an invitation to eff right off.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i sent it.

in the mean time, I can't believe it's 8pm and I'm STILL AT WORK and have no need to be here this late. I am a dumbass.

But a dumbass with a fly pair of Stan Smith's to wear tomorrow!

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

n/a, I almost went to NW j-school for undergrad, I couldn't believe the prices. What do you need to go to school for anyway?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

So I can have a career instead of a job. I have no special qualifications to do anything but shit office work for the rest of my life, so I feel like I need to do something to move me towards doing something interesting or fulfilling with my professional life. Going back to school seems like the most obvious way to do this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I threaten to go back to school all the time. It's not like I could be MORE broke, right? It could? Oh, geez, but at least, afterward I'd have REAL earning potential, right? I wouldn't? But I'd get to mack on impressionable young English Majors again, wouldn't I? Okay then, let's do it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this back on, then?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it looks like ILX is back in normal operational mode at this time. Which means that maybe we'll be getting the usual amount of craziness pretty soon, unless people will be so busy with holiday-centered activities that this place will end up being not quite itself for a few days more. Oh well.

I really should be in bed at this time. I don't have any homework to keep me up until about 3 a.m., and I feel a general sense of exhaustion, but... I don't know. I think I'll just ramble on for a bit more and then, well, yeah.

n/a, good luck with your pursuit of grad studies! I myself went back to school after finding that the first degree I earned wasn't going to get me anywhere locally (I'd have to move to Houston or Dallas and, with family situations being the way they are, that'd be next to impossible), so I decided to go with something else that caught my fancy, and I think I'm doing pretty well at it thus far.

You know, I think I *am* going to crash for the night.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi everyone! I played 8 hours straight of GTA:SA yesterday and I feel like a new man. But I want more! MORE!!!

― Jesus Christ, Paraplegic (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning all. I feel all disembodied and weird, not being able to log in :(

Off to my mum's tomorrow for Xmas. Matt and I have never cooked a Xmas dinner before, let alone in someone else's kitchen, so that should be interesting...

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee you are a hero for saving those lost days, I love you as always!!

Loads of ppl on these threads at the moment, all good for sure. I see Lauren & Emily! *waves*

Howdie to the regulars!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Howdy right back Pink! and everyone. My new shoes are very squeaky.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Are those the ones you posted before Sarah? If so they were truly lovely! Just as a matter of interest, can you see on the new answers page when there are unread new answers on a thread?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck school become a carpenter like me.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My newest shoes are these babies...
http://www.assaulthq.com/files/dpm_term_02.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Pink! Andrew's disabled that feature for now, apparently, as it was causing problems. Not that I'd noticed anyway since I am in the logged out wilderness...

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Archel, how are you? Haven't spoken in ages, what's new?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Not much dude, sooo bored at work since all the students buggered off for the holiday. Eating lots of choccies though!

How are James and the kitties? Are you at home for Xmas or doing the family rounds?

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no Pink, those brown ones are lovely but gave me the sore toes.

I got these yesterday:
http://www.schuhstore.co.uk/images/product/3404981620.jpg

I haven't had white sneakers in ages! walking around today I keep thinking my feet are glowing.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

James & kitties are fine thanks. Although, the kitties are quite big now tbh!! Mungo is a huge fluffball bless him! We are at visiting James' folx on Christmas day morning & then off to my folx in the afternoon/eve. We are then having our own day with the kitties on the Monday. I am really looking forward to everything this year. My mum finishes her radiation treatment on Christmas eve, so it's like a double celebration this year! Are you going to your mums?

Nice shoes sarah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

We're going to mum's tomorrow until Boxing Day am. Then to Matt's parents from Wed-Fri ~~arrgh~~.

Hope your mum has an extra good relaxing Christmas!

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ARGH I have just found out that this one project I've been working on may've been fucked up to great expense. I don't really think it was my fault--case of a printer doing way more printing than necessary, but they are going to be mad at me when they call back I fear, and I feel bad that they mistakenly did way more work than they should've. UGH.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel - do you get on with matt's parents?

Sarah - will you have to explain the mistake to them?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I will--I am trying to brace myself so that I can calmly talk about how they read the wrong post-it notes in the negative packets. This is so absurdly understandable that I will have to keep reminding myself to stand my ground--that I thought I had explained clearly. I totally took them out and showed them--and they didn't have me fill in any forms, but nodded along like they understood.

― sgs might hyperventilate (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Try not to stress about it too much S, if it's their fault!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I get on with them in that they're nice people, but we don't have that much in common. And they're not a bunch of rowdy alcoholics at Christmas unlike me and my family, wahh :(

Good luck sgs!

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning Huck, how are you petal?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure. I have the next two days off, and I'm still way ahead of my work for the day, so I should be happy, but I know that the next two days are just going to be stress-filled shopping nightmares, and my 21 yr-old brother (my only sibling out of three in the same town anymore!) would rather hang out with his girlfriend than hang out with me. I don't get it.

How are you, sugarplum?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, radio 1 is playing Stay Another Day! I love this song despite it being incredibly rubbish. Getting in the festive mood now :)

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Do any of you Brits love Bargain Hunt--or more to the point, David Dickinson--as much as I do?
http://www.ofah.net/images/filming4.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning kiddles. In my quest to further my quota of jackassery, I left my parents' house two days ago without my apartment keys. I noticed this yesterday at the holiday lunch right after my boss told me she loved me and I kissed the VP good-bye. Clearly, my mind is gone, never to return.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

So have you just been sleeping on the subway?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Matt bumped into (literally) David Dickinson in Brighton when they were filming Bargain Hunt here. But although he was the ironic student icon of choice for a while there, I must say I have tired of him at this point.

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I had to take the bus back to my parents' house.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see how that would happen. Both that he'd become an ironic student icon and that you could get tired of him. He's sort of like the British Adam West or Shatner.
For now, however, I remain enthralled.
http://www.jla.co.uk/images/Artists/DickinsonDavid1P.jpg

xpost
That's good.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

How are you, sugarplum?
Life is good thanks flower! When do you do your comedy thang? (from the posters i mean)
Archel - i just heard that, I love that song! *hangs head*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh Nick & Sarah, I like the new look of the FF site!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeanne, have extra keys made and hide them somewhere safe or entrust them to someone reliable. Two months ago I left the house to catch the bus, realized I didn't have my wallet and bus pass (my kitten had distracted me before leaving home) so I turned back only to realize to my horror that I didn't have my keys either. I did have my phone and after several calls, found a friend (part of an elite cat sitting crew) who has keys so I was only 45 minutes late. Still it's most annoying.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I did it last Friday. I killed. For the first half. Then my lack of preparation started to show. Also, I have a hard time staying committed to some of my older material. Though a coworker who attended said he loved the last half. He said my Batman joke was "classic."

But my newer stuff, which I led with, was hot. I think I'm really starting to find my own voice, and it's a little absurd (surprise) and I played the tape for my brother over the phone last night and he said it was dark. I didn't think it was dark, but, uh, okay.

So I guess it went better than I thought. I feel good about it and I'm really eager to get doing it more.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh right, sorry I must have missed the relevant posts. Glad it went better than thought. It would be cool to see your routine some day!

Oh & Orbit, I came up with another suggestion. Come to the UK! I've got a spare room and kitties! Perfect I reckon!! ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I posted much about it last week and I didn't mention it after ILX came back, so thanks for asking!
I'll come to your town on my first world tour.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the photo on the Fake Fictions site, OMG. In related news, my friend Rachel last night asked me who the band was that played Squeezed a few months ago. She said that she'd been thinking of how good you were and wants to know when you're playing again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll come to your town on my first world tour.
You better sunshine!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats, Huk! I'm really eager to get doing it more. This is a good sign. (Either it went well or your a funny masochist, or both.)

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, both. I get really nervous beforehand, and I'm still not a very strong performer, I just stand behind the mike the whole time, though I did incorporate some arm gestures.
When are the Fake Fictions playing Regina? Can I open for you?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, I am sure it was better than the TERRRRRRIBLE stand-up comedian I saw last night. (I booked him, though, so it's partially my fault.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh & FF, when are you doing your world tour huh?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have dealt with the stressful work mistake of the day. It's still pricey, but pricey as per boss's order. Big Relief. And I have only one present left to buy! I think. My mom's gift to us arrived in the post today and I should heave it home tomorrow I guess.

Huk I admire you for getting up in front of crowds and doing well. Usually when I have to speak in public I'd rather slit my wrists and get in a bathtub.

What's the FF website address again? I should know this, or maybe it's just upthread and I'm blinded.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my jokes is really terrible. It's sort of, um, I had an idea for something, but didn't know where to take it and then I forgot that I didn't have an ending or a punchline or anything for it when I last did stand-up in June, so I started into it and then totally just let it trail off, and a few people thought THAT was funny, and so when I did it on Friday, I made a big point of how the end was lame and the when the audience just stared at me I let a beat go by and then stuck my arms out like "TA-DAAAAA!" and people laughed.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, slitting your wrists and getting into a bathtub on stage is a surefire way to get the audience's attention.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got another presentation coming up in the spring. I'll consider it.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh i like the new Fake Fictions site as well. Well done. That picture is awesome. smug fuckers.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloodletting beats powerpoint any day.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

AAAH! I didn't even know the FF site was redesigned! HA HA! That's one of the fancy promo pics that we took a couple of weeks ago. There are more, some in the woods and some on a tennis court. HA HA!
It's www.thefakefictions.com.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It just changed again. Ben must still be working on it.
We don't really have any shows right now, we're taking a minibreak while we finish up the cd and write new songs. We have another show in Madison, WI at the end of January. Other than that, nada. But once the cd is done, we're going to get it set up so that people overseas and far away can order it with a credit card.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I order it with YOUR credit card?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. I liked the first incarnation better.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The kitty is cute and Sarah looks deliciously arch, like she knows something no-one else does.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Well rub-a-dub-dub. I'm all done my work for the week. I still have an hour left though. But then I'm off until Monday. I'll probably stop by (unless I get an Xbox, which I won't, since I didn't tell anyone I wanted one, and nobody actually loves me), but if I don't, MERRY CHRISTMAS FUXORS!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Merry X-Mas, Huk!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMN I am just now about to leave work :/

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

what should I buy for dinner on the way home? M&S salad? should I scrounge the fridge I would end up eating old eggs and stale bread and maybe PB&J.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, enough work. I'm ready to go home and have sex with my harem of nimble women. Or just go home.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bye, Jeanne. Have a good holiday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's snowing today in Dallas town. That's all I have to say.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wha?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I won't be around tomorrow, and those of you who post from work might be away for a time: happy Xmas everyone! Have a great time!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

You too, Martin.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't all leave me!! I still gotta work right up until Christmas Eve & all of next week! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw Pink that sucks! I will only be here until about 11am today I'm afraid, then it's Japanese lesson followed by department drinks followed by home, packing and then off to mum's.

Happy Christmas everyone!

― Archelll, Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www2.b3ta.com/banned-aid/

NSFW? Although I am at work so too late for me...

― Archelll, Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah well! Have a lovely Christmas Archel!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still around pink. i don't do holidays. 'cept I'm going to bed now b/c I'm about to freeze my ass off. brr. lata

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

See you later hon! Sweet dreams. x

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still around too (in work today and tomorrow), so I thought I'd share my word for today.

http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/Cummingtonite750.jpg

This is (Mg,Fe)2(Mg,Fe)5 Si8 O22(OH)2, also known as cummingtonite. Hahahahaha! Cummingtonite!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Christmas TITTWIS! Tomorrow, after I've visited my parents, I might be spending the Christmas Eve all by myself, since all my friends are with their families, and I definitely don't want to spend the whole evening with either one of my parents and their new spouses. So, if I get really bored, hopefully someone's still online then.

Oh, I forgot to say, I was glad to hear the Secret Santa gift I sent got through safe (and sound, I trust). Hope you like it, Dee.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Same to you Tuomas! Have a wonderful Finnish Christmas! Everyone else have a wonderful Christmas as well! I'll be thinking of everyone while I drink Norwegian beer and eat mutton.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love to have been included in the secret santa, but I came to the thread far too late & now it's gone forever!

Happy, happy Christmas to all of the TITTWISers!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Pink, Big Baby and T-Dawg - Xmas cheer to you all! Let's keep this thread motoring along today as office life is BAWRING and you guys ROXORS.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

We do, we do!! Man I am so bored today & I've got a ton of work to do!! damn!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed!

I wonder if Dee's around today--if you are, last night I caught the last 1/2 hour or so of a Queer Eye thanksgiving special/reunion and thought of you. They showed clips of shows from the season that I haven't seen (like the ice-skating couple) and my heart was warmed as they all talked about their traditional family thanksgiving food, and I realized that Ted's description of his family's southern cooking sounded very familiar.

Then today my mom sent me my grandmother's recipe for chicken & dumplings, known to our family as "gummies." The recipe begins, and I quote: "Boil one chicken."

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I can't wait to have parsnips par boiled & then coated in parmesan & flour & then roasted in the oven. Yum!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Stupid NTfuckingL! Still havent sorted my shit out. They were supposed to raise me a cheque a month ago. Just foned them up, still no cheque has been raised!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Why has nobody laughed at my humorously-named mineral? Here's another one - Unununium. Hahahahaha!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, because it's not funny?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Cummingtonite!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The words "flogging" & "dead horse" spring to mind!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Cummingtonite: very useful in thwarting dead poets

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

hi all! merry christmas for those who are going away, and everyone else too! i'll still be hanging out here til christmas eve, i suspect everything will be pretty quiet. and here i've gone and drunk all of my egg nog.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

We are going to make egg nog, or a variation thereof, at the w/e!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey dudes. I will be around. I am at work until 3:30 US Central time today, though we might get out even earlier possibly. Then I will be around Chicago all through the holidays, so who knows.

I have nothing to do today. But if my boss comes in I'm going to have to pretend like I'm doing work. Suck.

I have no idea what we're doing on xmas day, aside from opening presents. We don't even have a fancy dinner planned or anything.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 December 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you could just have veggie burgers & sausages nick!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 December 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I just woke up!
Well, half an hour ago. I've got a lot of running around to do today, I need to go to the parks dept to get a year long parks pass for my parents and then to Cdn Tire for some camping cookwear and a new water jug (after my discovery last summer that my parents still have the same water jug they had when I was 6!)(my dad started canoeing again last summer after not doing it for about 12 years, because he gained a bunch of weight, but now he's lost it, and he used to race and stuff) and then to the comic store (for me, because I've been nice this year, and because Green Lantern is out today, er, yesterday) and then to the bookstore because the funny females travel books came in (for my sister) and also I really, really need to laundry.
But it's -31 C and I'm kinda thinking I should go back to bed.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, guys. I'm feeling down today, and I'm working way too hard for my last day of work before my day off.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

but isn't it really quiet around the office, with christmas coming? you shouldn't have to be working hard! it shouldn't be allowed, the thursday before xmas.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My apt is hot and humid like a sauna. How can I leave it? Christmas is cancelled this year due to me having a cozy place to get drunk before noon.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Sarah. Sorry I couldn't talk to you, I have to do work today too unfortunately. But we are getting out at 3:00 now apparently. Don't be a Miss Grumpynuts, it's almost XMAS HOLIDAYS and we get to meet the mysterious adam nordicskillz tonight and eat yummy Costa Rican burritos!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Give Adam my regards. And give them to yourselves as well.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I just discovered I don't get NYE off but I get the following Monday off instead. What kind of consolation is that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

N + S: Adam is going to call me around 5:30, but I'm going to suggest we meet at the restaurant at 7. Let me know if you want me to pick you up, since it is fucking freezing outside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not supposed to get NYE off. NYD is the holiday.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, if you could pick us up, that would be awesome, I'm not eager to walk that far when it's this cold.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, I know, but since NYD is a Saturday, they have to give us a day off somewhere. I just thought it would make more sense to give us the Friday rather than the Monday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink I just saw your invitation upthread. I'm all for it! Thanks :-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a car.
I just spent 4 hours doing what could have taken about 1 hour. And I walked from one end of town to, um, the middle. And it's fucking -30 C.
I may never be warm again.
And my stupid parks pass thing didn't work out. "We don't do that anymore," they told me at the Parks office, when just the other day someone from that same office told me over the phone that they do. Dirty government fuckers.
Seriously, I'm cold.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello. Two hours of CSI and I am about to fall asleep standing up. I now only have two 9V batteries to buy and then MY XMAS SHOPPING IS DONE!

(I got Sarah's gift today and I think it's quite good and I hope she agrees with me)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I could get used to not working on weekdays.

― Huk-L, Friday, 24 December 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink I just saw your invitation upthread. I'm all for it! Thanks :-)
Yay! How are you doing hon?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 December 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Band Aid 1984: Bananarama, Bob Geldof, Culture Club, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Heaven 17, Human League, Kool and the Gang, Midge Ure, Paul McCartney, Paul Young, Phil Collins, Spandau Ballet, Status Quo, Sting, The Style Council, U2, Wham!

1: It's Christmas time
There's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time
We let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmas time

2: But say a prayer
Pray for the other ones
At Christmas time it's hard
But when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing
Is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring
There are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time
Feed the world
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

3: And there won't be snow in Africa
This Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time again

BRIDGE:
(Here's to you) raise a glass for everyone
(Here's to them) underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

END: Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmas time

END: (repeat & fade)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(It is so super-late for me right now, so all I have time for right now is to say happy holidays to each and every single one of you and to thank you profusely for being there throughout the year on this thread. You guys are a true gift.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Christmas Dee!! *hugs*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Morning Pinxor, how are things? We have a George Michael album playing in the office, and only 6 (out of 27) staff are actually in. It's quite pleasingly mellow, actually.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Things are ok mark & with you sir? I'm leaving at 12.30 to go to the pub to meet my boss. oh to get home for those white russians though....

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Not bad thanks! I don't know when I'll be leaving, and I still have some pressie-wrappin' to do later, as well as (in theory) giving the house a bit of a tidy. I then need to shave my head, hoover up the clippings, have a second shower of the day, and help Sgs make "gummies" (is that right?) which is her traditional family Christmas eve fare.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What are "gummies"?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know! Something involving boiled chicken, flour and shortening. Delicious I'm sure!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

aka chicken & dumplings to most people. It was my grandfather's mother's recipe which was then handed down to my grandmother. It includes absoultely no quantities of anything, except maybe for the "1 small can of evaporated milk" bit. It's traditional xmas eve dinner for my family in Arkansas, which is then followed by the opening of gifts. My mom and uncle also cook it for themselves as comfort food, but neither have yet to make it taste as good as my grandmother does, even after at least 20 years of trying. I fear the results of my first try tonight, so I planned to have a backup meal just in case.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 24 December 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

there is some bad grammar in that post. "neither have yet to make it taste as good as" would read better as "they have yet to cook it as well as"
(/english teacher)

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 24 December 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps gummies can feed the world?

― aimurchie, Friday, 24 December 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Do they know it's gummy time"

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pressies" sounds dirty.

― Huk-L, Friday, 24 December 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pronounced "prezzy" if that makes a difference. I haven't wrapped any, or done any tidying, but I have finished the CD for my mum. It has "99 Problems" on it, which never fails to make me think of ILX.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 December 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the word 'pressies'. it sounds cute.

hope everyone has a great christmas!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 24 December 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

'chrimbo' is even better!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 24 December 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to use Chrimbo tonight when I go over to my parents.

― Huk-L, Friday, 24 December 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Crap. I need a last minute Chrimbo Pressie for my dad! It sucks because his birthday was just a few weeks ago, and so he's already stocked for scotch and crime novels well into spring.

― Huk-L, Friday, 24 December 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so not getting people Xmas presents this year! Yay! Except I think I ought to get one for my roommates, since I believe they are getting one for me. But I think what I get them will also subtly (or not) be a present for myself, evil! Also I need to get some cat food. But that's not so much a Xmas present. Maybe I will get her some more toy mice, since she's lost all the ones she has.

Ah well. Merry merry!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just counted up, and I have bought presents for 22 people this year, and received presents from five. I feel kind of bad about something like ten people who I wish I'd got presents for.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, this is obviously a big deal to you. If it upsets you that people aren't as appreciative of you as you are of them, you either have to accept it as the selfish side of human nature, or become more hard-hearted yourself.

(I bought presents for 16 people this year. That seems about right, even though realistically I may get 10 myself)

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 25 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't mean it like that - I feel pleased that I could buy presents for a lot of people, and I genuinely feel a hundred times worse about not buying them for a bunch more than I feel anything resembling resentment or upset for the other side of it.

Remember I am a severely depressed person: I don't think I remotely deserve to be liked as much as I seem to be, let alone more. I know more or less where I am with other people, and it would have come as a huge shock if anyone from the majority of my gift list had bought me anything.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(none of which is to deny an element of self-pity in my feelings, of course)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 December 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I like you Martin! If I lived in the UK I would buy you comics for Christmas.
I am done with all of my wrapping, finally, except for the present for my closest friend. It's a lambswool scarf so I'm trying to keep it somewhere safe where the cats can't get it, because one of them is insane and could smell sheep through the wrapping paper.
Last night I made M&M cookies and Mexican wedding cakes, now I am off to make dough for shortbread (to be chilled) and then watch a movie with my mom.
Merry Christmas everyone!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Saturday, 25 December 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am getting exceeding tired of Christmas music though, esp. George Michael. So I played "The Moldau" very loudly twice today to combat the music doldrums.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Saturday, 25 December 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not at all tired of Xmas music - I am not sure I have time to play all my favourites today.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 December 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a sure sign your parents no longer consider you a rakish youth capable of anything you set your mind to when they give you a slow cooker. "Cooks for up to sixteen!"
I wanted an Xbox (which wouldn't have really fed my self-delusions about being a swashbuckling rogue either).

― Huk-L, Sunday, 26 December 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome to adulthood, Huck. I've been receiving Useful Gifts for the past three or four Christmases, even though last year's Useful Gifts were so incredibly awesome. (I'm currently using the most awesome gift I've ever gotten, in fact, i.e. my Compaq Presario. I love my little Compie.)

Martin, I wish you were local, because that way I could've invited you to tag along with Mom and me to at least one of our family gatherings. You would've eaten a TON of food, heard a lot of old family stories, watched all the little ones open their gifts, and you would've felt the Christmas spirit. And you'd have sampled my delish pear bread!

Meanwhile: I have a ton of cookies, both homemade and -baked and the type bought from a store. I will be eating cookies until the end of January. Not that I'm complaining, mind. :) And I'm SO glad I'm off right now. I'm happily staying up, chatting on AIM, eating a cookie, drinking soda, watching The First Wives' Club (for the fortysomething trapped inside me, and because I LOVE Diane Keaton) on TV, and typing this post up. I've actually been updating my LJ once a day for the past three days, too. Because I feel the energetic motivation to.

This ramble sponsored by Sugar: making people hyper for over 1,000 years.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 27 December 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Dee - I've been sort of okay, not happy but not badly depressed either. With a couple of nights out coming up, I'm pretty sure I'll get through this next week comfortably enough.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning, Starshines. I wonder how many people will be working this week other than me?

I just called this vendor for the FIFTH time in the past month (And I sent a FAX too) and they keep saying I need to talk to this one guy who never calls me back. GRRR!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Dee! Adulthood sucks!

Hi Sarah! Want me to fax them. I'm pretty good with that kind of thing.

Hi Martin! Glad to hear you're "sort of okay." I hope you know I have nothing but respect and admiration for you, esp. w/r/t your alarming knowledge of Silver Age Superman lore.

Hi Huck! How does it feel to be one of the only people at work today? Kinda weird and sad? Yeah, tell me about it. Frankly, you coulda showed up naked. Except for the -20 C weather outside. But then, that's what overcoats are for!

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am one of three people in my office today. It's actually pretty awesome. YEAH!
Hmm. I love my iPod. It's not new or anything, I just love it. I listened to the RTX album "Transmaniacon" this morning and it fucking rocks so hard. YES.
We got a ton of Fake Fictions stuff done over the 3-day weekend. We have three new songs now, we remixed and added some stuff to a song we had recorded but which didn't sound right and now it sounds really good, I drew an album cover, and we got offered a show to play on January 6th. OH YEAH.
Hi everyone! Oh, and we met Adam Nordicskillz and ate burritos with him.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi everyone! I did a guest spot on Fluxblog today! 3000 people are reading my notes on Les Baxter and Holger Czukay, which is probably safe to say the biggest audience I've ever had. Awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Fake Fictions -- Where are you guys playing on Jan. 6?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Subterranean.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Naughty!

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This will be the most molasses-slow week ever. I hope everybody had a pleasant holiday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What do people think of the album name "Fact Friction" for the Fake Fictions' album?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'Fake Friction' would be funnier.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Frakes Friction? It'll sell well with the Star Trek slash crowd.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Freak Falcons" better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

pear bread sounds great! what else is in it?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fakir Factions"
Everyday, esp. when reading all the music reviews, blogs, and etc. just connected to ILX I realize that there is so much music out there that I have never heard, it makes me sad.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

If you heard most of it, you'd be sadder still.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And what if I heard the saddest music in the world?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What if my aunt was my uncle?

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Then we'd have to fill your glass leg with beer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, the Fake Fictions album should be called Peter Falk's Fuck-Ups

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. I'd go for that, but I doubt Sarah would. What a spoil-sport.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

If I ever proposed something like that to my band, there'd be all this anxious fretting about "our older fans" and "our parents," not to mention "what does it mean?" and "does it really convey who we are?" Sigh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU ARE SUCKING THE FUN OUT OF ROCK AND ROLL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You have groupies?

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. They are all in their eighties, though. We wheel them in from the nursing home down the street from our practice space.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(Scene: This morning, at my work)

My boss: Hey, (insert warehouse guy's name here), why don't you go cut down our first salami of the season?

Warehouse guy: Eh?

My boss: (Joyfully) Yeah! The first salami! Cut the first salami!

(and then)

My boss: Sarah will never be able to enjoy the salami! Will you, Sarah? And it is so spicey and good!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 December 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, John, for your featured post!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 December 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Thx!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

John? I thought your name was Jay!

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you can call me Jay...

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

All right, you're a taxi!

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

John, this is the post where I say just say how awesome you are.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Right back atcha, kid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I got kinda pissed last night because it turns out the DVD of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I got Sarah for xmas is the full screen version, not the widescreen. Is that a stupid thing to get angry about?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Anger, fear, outlandish plot devices, these are the ways of the dark side, young jedi.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I may have missed the post where people said how awesome I am.

Ignore me - I got stupidly drunk last night, lost my phone, made a friend walk out of the pub and not come back, and I've been feeling terrible both physically and emotionally today. I think I may actually have some genuine new year's resolutions to make this year, which are going to be centred on DON'T BINGE DRINK YOU STUPID FUCK and IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE, DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.

Anyway, Sgs and I are back from two nights at my parents' and she's making us hot chocolate while I set up "Babycart in Peril" on the DVD player. Merry post-Xmas y'all!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You and I should drink together sometime. I, too, have a penchant for (once I'm rolling) not wanting to ever stop drinking ever and also saying very pointed things to people who don't really deserve such harsh treatment.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And when I say 'we should drink together' I really mean, neither of us should ever drink ever again.

― Huk-L, Monday, 27 December 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just spent half an hour reading this, http://vkhokhl.blogspot.com/ , about the elections in the Ukraine. It's fascinating and sad and really puts the US to shame, in a way.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss the later function. (boo hoo)

I drank three nights in a row this past weekend which is really unlike me. I am a lush.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fake Fiction's political album "Fuck Factions!" is the one I'm looking forward to.

I am really hating this ILX without the "new answers" technology, which is one reason why I'm not around so much.

Also I'm at work today and no one is here. I have nothing to do. La la la! I am typing typing typing! La la la!

Also, la la!

Dee, send some of those cookies to your friends, don't bogart the cheer!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, we were talking about how we wanted to write an album of really profanely sexual twee pop songs, which we were actually going to do until we got embarassed, but no one really liked my idea to call this concept album "Fuck Friction."

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Funk Function.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I need an answer to this question in the next 5 minutes: What do I feel like listening to on my commute home?
- a hip-hop mix by Adam Nordicskillz
- Woody Allen "Stand-Up Comic"
- MF Dooom
- random songs
- something else?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

- RTX "Transmaniacon" (AGAIN)
- Dee's '80's mix
- Talk Talk

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the hip-hop mix might be winning, I've only listened to it once...

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That Woody Album allen is really good.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello everyone. 8 hours since the last post! Sgs and I are sitting around watching Miss Marple (an activity that takes up about 25% of Sarah's life), though I have vaguely been worrying about doing useful things around the house.

How is everyone?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Worrying about being useful, Markelby? That's how I spend a lot of my time.

Yesterday was really quiet at work, but from the looks of my voicemail and email, a lot of people are back to work today and ready to make me do my job.

In other news, my tummy hurts. That's right, I said tummy and I'll say it again.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I am okay. I stayed up late reading comic books, but it's okay, because my editors are letting me write a year-in-review comic book piece that may become a weekly or biweekly column. So I will get paid (not much) to read comic books. And I will never have sex again.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Being back at work is as uneventful as ever. I think I'll build something out of paper clips and post-its.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i just had a job interview. it went really well. work it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I ended up listening to the hip hop mix and it was really good. Especially "The Potion" by Ludacris.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a lot more people here today than there were yesterday. Shoulda worn clothes.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bingo -- I wanted to let you know that my cousin who has been trying to get preggers for a while is finally with-child. She did all the crazy techniques and fertility testing and all that. She had her poor husband on-call for sexing, like it was some kind of military operation. Then they gave up. And shortly after, bam. Baby in the womb.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome! Thats what we have decided to do from now on. No more business arrangements...just some casual lovin.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it was the formal wear that was causing the problems. Cummerbunds are a well-documented sperm-reducer.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I'm done my year-end music Top Ten List. It's pretty lame and I'm ashamed of it. But my year-end Comics list is AWESOME GO SHE-HULK!!!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey hey!

Hope your Christmases were good. Hope you get good news re the interview soon Chris, hope you are feeling better Mark and Miss Marple was good.

Having spent three days at my mum's watching TV almost constantly (apart from 4 hours cooking dinner and 2 hours playing Trivial Pursuit) I am now getting used to being at home again and making my own entertainment. Meaning: posting to ILE.

Alcohol withdrawal setting in also. Luckily chocolate supplies still abundant.

I got a digital camera for Xmas so expect lots of lovely pics when I have worked out how to use it artistically rather than just drunkenly :)

― Archel logged in as Matt (what?), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I am full of LOVELY FROTHY CAPPUCINO!!!

I have been on a real cappucino kick lately.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Just found out that my friends are going to be in the new Br!ght 3y3s video. I imagine they'll be the token older lesbian couple.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

At least I made it onto Dee's top 10 list. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember any lesbian rabbits, but I've only seen the film once and not read the book.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew - just watched 5 hours of "The Million Pound Property Experiment" and got totally into it. I discovered, too, that it's not just reality shows that make one debate the nature of people - I found it fascinating seeing the presenters' personalities unroll in front of me.

(now, however, I get to watch Match of the Day and don't have to feel guilty about it :))

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello guys, where are all the posts? hope y'all had good holidays, I am back at work today, boo!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Pink! Hope you had a fantastic time over the holidays. I was back in work yesterday and I just can't motivate myself at all.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Me either!!! I've got so much work to do too! :-( Is sounds like our goals for 2005 are very similar Rumpy!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you had a good Christmas btw!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, had a great time. Looking forward to getting the new year started now and putting all my good intentions into practice. We'll see!

P.S Where is everybody?!

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, guys! I'm here! My boss has been lurking around my work station a lot lately, so I haven't been on here as much. I seriously think he's just bored to death.

Christmas was SO relaxing. Usually, I'm tired after Christmas from all the running around, but this year we spent most of it in our apartment alone. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds nice Sarah, it was just Kev, myself and my mum on christmas day, ten minutes after dinner we were all lounging in our pyjamas like slobs. Perfect!

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey sarah! how was was your Christmas?

I slept awkwardly last night so my shoulder & back hurt! grrr!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sicky.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocelyn, NOOOOOO!!!

Pink, It was very very nice. I almost had a panic attick on Christmas Eve Eve because both of my parents and my one sister who still lives in Virginia were all depressed that the family wouldn't be together this year. Everything turned out ok, though I don't think my sister will ever forgive me for having to console both parents individually as they cried. (whoopsies)

I didn't sleep well either. I'm reading this great book, but in it the main character was raped. This is what I read RIGHT before falling asleep. So I had a bunch of nightmares. Then when my alarm went off this morning, I finally had that feeling that I could fall into a nice deep sleep, but it was too late.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not upset about being sick as the fact I missed seeing a friend who was in town. What are you reading, Sarah?
This morning I woke up to someone on the radio talking about "Then they cut out her eyes, and then her fingers" which really disturbed me until I realized they were playing a sound clip from Unforgiven because it topped some Film Poll.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no Jocelyn, hope you are feeling better!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, that sounds harsh. I hope you managed to enjoy your day despite this!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am about to create a coffee + hot chocolate mix creation. I am all about the caffeinated sweet hot drinks lately.

So our drummer Ben is on vacation all this week and he's being really productive. Yesterday he made a silkscreen for our album cover and so last night we printed part one of our cd cover (it's going to take a few passes for each cover). It looks pretty bitchin'. I'm just bragging, you can ignore me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am THIS close to planning an actual holiday. I may go to Vancouver for a week in Feb. I should know by mid-Jan, cuz it's all gonna depend on what my freelance business is in Jan. And whether or not I win the SuperBowl and get that sweet bonus.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

We were going to book a holiday for Kev's 30th in March, but time has just ran away from us (so has money) and he's now resigned to staying at home. I feel bad cause of this.

We're going away with my family in August but he was really keen on the two of us celebrating his birthday abroad :-(

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a bunch of people in Vancouver supposedly clamouring for a visit from Ye Olde Huk-L Buk-L, and I'm almost, "Put yr money where yr mouth is."
Like if everybody who wants to see me so badly ponied up $50, I'd for sure go. Like really, I could stay home and be miserable, I'm fine with that. They're the ones who love me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

If you go all the way to Vancouver you could also visit Seattle and Portland.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Under the same theory that when I was visiting Sask I swung by Winnipeg to see Bryan. It's about the same.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've revived my blog if you want to link me or some dumb shit.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, you were traveling by automobile, and everyone I know in Vancouver still gets around by horse and buggy.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I really need to take a vacation. This is getting ridiculous.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris V: :-(

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! shall i fix that?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

fixed.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocelyn, I'm reading She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. My sister recommended it to me. It's very good. Though, I'm feeling kind of disturbed right now from that one scene (and the fact that I just read something disturbing online).

Christmas was still good.

Chris, I've had your link up for a long time, even though you didn't have new posts. I'm loyal like that!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Loyal or lazy? :_)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris V: :-| (I shouldn't have said anything as your assessment was quite fair from what anyone could gather about me anyway)

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah thats one of my wifes favorite books. We went and saw Mr. Lamb at a local bookstore last year when he was promoting his last book: "Couldn't Keep It To Myself"...which was written by ex female inmates. Really good stuff, the ex-inmates were there to tell their stories and read some.

Probably lazy...Bryan..your my northern doppledanger in the shittin dept.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and Sarah there is no link to me on your journal!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha. After I said that, I checked it and saw I had lied! I put a link to yours up on an entry a while back, but didn't add it when I started Blog Rolling. Well, I just added it.

Thanks to linking to mine and the FF site, but also I noticed you put an extra http:// before the FF addy so it doesn't work right.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

tanks i fix now.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, Chris, I just went to the Iron & Wine site to listen to a song. It's perfect Sunday morning music. Goddamn do I wish it was Sunday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Which song?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Lion's Mane, Track 1

I was getting away with reading at my desk for a few minutes, but then the VP's sister started wondering around looking through my files. The nerve! (pronounced - the NOIVE!)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Vioxx topples porn as spam king!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hey Chris you should really listen to the new emiliana torrini, and also the new stars if you haven't heard it. I'm just stupid for these two records, sorry I keep going on about them. http://starstarstar.net/mx/

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

so I just got my official rejection letter for a job with a congressman, but my best friend put in a good word for me at her PR firm. Everyone wish me luck and happy employment.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

On a related note:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/266322p-227980c.html

xxpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"HOT LESBIAN ACTION made the list of most frequently sent junk e-mails"

hahahahahhhahahahaa

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck! Happy employment!

BTW, where's Aimee?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the fuck says "EJAC"????

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds like a computer from the 50s!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A sexy computer.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Many men suffer in silence from premature ejaculation, too embarrassed to seek help, experts say. As many as three men in 10 are reckoned to be, well, trigger-happy.

"It's something most guys don't talk about, because they can still get erections, they can still have sex," Stein said.

OMG SILENCE = CUM

We have to get this out in the open, guys!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(seriously -- the best way to improve performance is extended foreplay.)

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, it's mostly women who consider this a problem. I mean, uh, y'know...

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, that's funny, I've never heard any of 'em complain....

― bad joke, I know (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Since when did effeciency become a dysfunction?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So for xmas my boss gave me a gift card to eat at any restaurant owned by this particular group of restauranteurs. Sarah and I decided we wanted to do something fun and exciting tonight so we decide we will go eat at one of these restaurants, which is downtown. We spend like 20 minutes on the phone deciding on a restaurant, deciding that we should just go there directly from work instead of going home, changing, and going back out, trying to decide where we should meet, trying to decide how we should get there, and trying to decide what time to make the reservation for, before realizing we can't just go there after work because the gift card is at home. D'OH.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like the Stars.

I'm sad because I was hyped for good pasta.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We could go to Settimanna Cafe if you can find the coupon. Or we could go home, get the gift card, and go back out to the place we were going to go to originally. Or we could go to Trattoria Piazza Bella. Or we could go to one of the 8000 other Italian places in Chicago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick and Sarah, can we hang out with you if/when we come to Chicago? Your lives sound very much like I wanted mine to be a few years ago.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or an insult. But of course we can hang out!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My yr in rvw is on in about 10 minutes (8 p.m. CST) at www. c j t r .ca if anyone's really really bored.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I'm sorry I missed that.

This is the thread where I say I'm Sam Baker and the only person who's being my dad is, well, my mom.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(And: At least I made it onto Dee's top 10 list. ;-)

Ha ha ha, I'm SO sure you guys consider that a HUGE shining moment in your careers. Note massive doses of sarcasm.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Teeny. Are those links going to be up for a bit so I can dl when I get home?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 30 December 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

yep!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeep!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi guys, it's Thursday but really it's like Friday because of the long weekend, and I get out at 3 today, whoopee! I'm drinking hot chocolate made with coffee instead of water again, whoopee!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They found ANOTHER giant squid in Newfoundland. Giant squids are awesome.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny you say that, because last night I was playing Katamari Damacy, and I got to the last level, which is Make the Moon, where you're trying to roll up enough stuff to Make the Moon, and once you get big enough to pick up buildings and stuff you can roll around in the ocean and pick up giant octopi and giant squid.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And I ended up Making the Moon and, thus, beating the game!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Congrats!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that game is so awesome.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks guys. I really want to thank all of you for your support, especially my lovely girlfriend Sarah, who was content to read her book while I rolled around picking up stuff for an hour or so, my agent, and our lord Baal.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, do you have a link for the giant squid story?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll find one. I just saw it on TV.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Je4nne, can't find one right now. I'll keep an eye out though. The weirdest part of it is that they found one in October, and then the newest one showed up around Christmas. And Giant Squids are pretty rare (or they used to be), so that's freakin' spooky!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Be afraid!

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4811363%5E13762,00.html

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, welcome our mollusc overlords with open arms.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tentacles, Huk, open tentacles. Lose the mammalian jargon.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Kneel before Zoidberg!
http://www.lapropagationduchaos.net/what/futurama/futurama_zoidberg.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Great. Now I want grilled squid.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Check this out. I have NOTHING to do today, but I have to be here until 5pm. Now most of my coworkers are at lunch. My eyes hurt from playing online so much. WOE IS ME!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you playing, Sarah?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

SEVERE WEATHER! HIGHWAYS CLOSED! I may be stuck at work! Or I could walk home, SUCKERS! Because I live downtown, I'm on the qui vive! I don't have to take the freeways to the wind-exposed suburbs like the rest of you nimrods!
But this week's comic shipment, already delayed due to Boxing Day probably won't make it in today:(

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yqr.ca/capture.1.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing Bounce Out, Michael. A little ol' game called Bounce Out which I am obsessed with like I obsess over any computer games I allow myself to play.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's cold. It's windy. It's rainy. Everybody's complaining, but at least I'm not in Canadia, or whatever place that Huk's in.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

People are starting to go home. The wimps. I ride the bus, you fools!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This game is sooo dumb but I can't stop playing it.

http://www.teagames.com/games/topdog/play.php

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm done for the day - happy new year y'all! xoxox

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy New Year, Luna!

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

'night, luna.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy New Year, Luna.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You're on the qui vive? Have you been reading Krazy Kat annotations or something?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I did read the novel recently.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In a rare move, my comics article is on the front page (near the bottom) of the corporate website!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

....of...?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

DUDES. I am leaving work in like 5 minutes, so happy nude years.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoppy Gnu Ears, n/a.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hippy Nad Shears!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

You all are doing more fun things than me for New Years, I'm betting.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you working at a Junkie Hotel?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha ha. I can only hope next year is happier than this past year's been.

My yesterday was interesting -- went to Pizza Hut for lunch and then went to the movies to see Spanglish (which I found disturbing -- I now weep for the Deborah and Bernice characters, and Bernie is *so* the most empathetic character in the whole of the film). Why? Well, it was my birthday yesterday and, well, no one acknowledged it except for my mom, who was my luncheon/movie partner. That's right -- no one. Not even any of my family members, nor even my offline friends. Not a single phone call or e-mail or anything. That's why I posted that I felt like Sam Baker... it's a Sixteen Candles reference. The only person in that film who remembered her birthday on the actual day was her father. Well, my mom was that person.

*shrug* Oh well. I did get SOME acknowledgement and marking of the day, right? And Mom even gave me a new computer chair for my birthday, which is cool (I just finished putting it together and am sitting on it).

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(A quarter of a century old. Yikes. I feel old now.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee - happy birthday for yesterday. I'm embarrassed and sorry I didn't pay enough attention to be aware of it :(

If you lot weren't all 5-8 hours behind I'd suggest those of us who'll be at home tomorrow night have a conference call/AIM freakout for NYE. But you are, and I have less of a life than y'all I'm sure.

(Sgs is worse today :( I'll send her your love in anticipation)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck SBC. I don't have a home phone because they take two weeks to process online payments (why?!), so my ontime payment was counted as being late enough to warrant disconnection of my phone, and now they are demanding a reconnect fee as if I'd never had a phone at all, and I want nothing more in the world than to say, "Go fuck yourselves you evil, lazy extortionists, I hope you get some kind of collective stinky ass rot and leak for the rest of your life and no one ever again regards you as human or worthy of love," but I can't say that because there's really nowhere else to go, and I have to have a home phone for business. This is so fucked up.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's ok, Markelby. You're more considerate than most of my relatives and pretty much every one of my offline friends. *hugs*

I do hope your sweetie (and one of our very own!) improves. Aw. She doesn't deserve any of this at all. Please give her my best regards.

Kenan, that actually doesn't surprise me. I mean, I've never had anything like that happen to me with SBC, but our local electricity board can be like that. Just to have the acct changed over from Mom and Dad to Mom and me, we had to make three separate payments, all of which turned out to equal $300 for the equivalent of one month's service. Well, on average we only use up maybe $150 worth of service for the time period in question (August), and in fact that's the highest amount of electricity usage for us for the year. So they essentially ripped us off. I won't even go into what happened with Carmax, except to say that even if you've purchased a vehicle from Carmax, it'd be better to take it to a different dealership for servicing than to return it to that particular company.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, that was a nonsensical ramble, wasn't it? Um. Anyway, yeah, Big Organizations can and do rip people off, so.... But, yeah, never had anything like that happen to us from SBC. They do take a long time to process online payments, though, right? I think it takes us maybe 10 days to see a payment take effect. But we do send in the payment only maybe five or so days after I get the e-mail notification, so thankfully that sort of thing hasn't happened to us yet (*crosses fingers*).

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll probably be on aim for new year's, i have such a rocking life.

oh dee, happy birthday, belated. i hope that you can have a day that is all that you want, to make up for a disappointing bday.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Happiest of Post-Birthdays, Samantha/Dee!

Julia, You know you're welcome at our apartment if you're up for an adventure! :-D

I'm happy because I get to leave work early (at 4! in 10 minutes!).

That sucks, Kenan. When I first set up online billpay, I felt carefree. Then a few months later I opened some bills and found out I'd been paying late fees EVERY MONTH on a few of them just because the payments were staggered and didn't meet up with the due dates right. Anyway, now I have to pay more attention to it. I don't want to even think about it though. I hate hate hate bill paying. Best of luck with that.

HAPPY MEW YEARS! :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Birthday Dee!

So I just got home. My usual 5 minute bus ride (i'm spoiled) took 25! and then another 10 minutes to walk through the 3 foot snowdrifts from the bus stop to my apt! WINTER. I love it. Who's up for some tobagganing?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, happy birthday, Dee - I'm sorry I didn't know before.

Happy New Year to everyone - especially SGS Sarah - get well soon!

Actually I'll be around tomorrow early, at least - I have a party to go to, at the home of one of my oldest and best friends, and I think I'll very probably feel up to getting there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Birthday, Dee!!

I'll be around tomorrow, a while, at least but if any of you (lucky bastards) aren't, I'll say Happy New Year to youse.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you ever so, Julia, Sarah, Huck, Martin, and Michael. I'm catching up to you guys age-wise. ;)

I feel better now, thanks in part to some good chats and also thanks to the fact that a relative ACTUALLY CALLED ME. One of my aunts called in to wish me a happy belated birthday. This is an aunt who is currently in Mexico with relatives to celebrate the Christmas/New Year's holidays, so I can sorta understand how she might've been a bit too busy to call yesterday. But she did apologize, which *was* nice, yes.

Happy early New Year to those of you who won't be seeing this message on the actual time of passage. I will have to respond to each one of you later. Have dinner to prepare.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread still moves too fast for me. ah well. happy birfday dee.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Happiest of belated birthdays lovely! You really do need to send me your address you know! *hugglez for a pretty lady*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hihi! Sgs, who is looking and hopefully feeling a little better today, thanks all y'all for your wishes. We're going to watch "Return of the Jedi" in half an hour to complete our Star Wars fest of the last three days - thanks ITV (and that's something I don't say very often).

I don't have any anecdotes right now as I've barely left my bedroom for the last three days. I did lose my phone over the festive period - in fact, why don't I call Orange right now and try and get a new one?

Hey pinx0r :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Mark, glad to hear Sarah is feeling a bit better. It's so crappy when you are ill over the holidays.
What are your plans for this evening?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

PINBACK. MMMM NEW YEARS FUN.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 31 December 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

let's hope a new years baby Chris!

I hope you all have fantastic new years, y'all deserve it! *hugs*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ME TOO. AND YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD NEW YEARS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY AM I IN A SEMI-GREAT MOOD? BEATS ME.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 31 December 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

because babies need to be conceived in joy! or something!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

here's to some great new year's sexing, then!

i've been having some really bad days, maybe 2005 will transform all that. well, probably not, but it sounds nice, anyway.

glad to hear sgs is a bit better...i hope that trend continues (and faster, because it sucks to be sick!).

happy new year's all!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy new year julia, I am sure good things are in store for you next year lady!! xxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I missed a memo. I'm the only one in the whole building so far. There are usually about 300 other people here.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

then go home huck!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Bye then!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Awwww, people are starting to show up.
I've got stuff I need to finish and I know I have Monday off. So I'm here until noon probably.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah well, it's 2.40 in the afternoon here if that's any consolation!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 31 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

DId I mention the ungodly amount of snow we've had in the last 24 hours? It's awesome.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink, nothing - Sarah isn't well enough to get out of bed in any case, so if we had had plans we'd have had to cancel. I just hope she's feeling a little better by then, though to be honest I can't see it - she's still not eating.

Anyway, Sherlock Holmes is n telly so she's relatively content right now. One thing I'll say about being off work on Xmas week - the quality of daytime TV is FAR better than normal.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 December 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

get well Sarah!

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've already been given the go-ahead to go home as soon as I'm done what I'm working on. Because they're turning the water off for a few hours.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I'm watching "Trading Spouses" for the first time and they're SUBTITLING it, wtf?

(at first I thought they were just subtitling the black kids but no, it's everyone. Freaky)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That's been the strangest reality TV trend. I wish they would have subtitles that totally didn't match what the people were saying, or even better, they were just off a little.

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy almost New Year, everyone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy new year, Nedz0r.

I was just thinking - I pretty much post every dumb thought I have on this thread and I suspect it prevents me from starting new threads (the thought process being something like "if I start a thread about [subject] everyone will probably think I'm lame, but if I post about it on TITTWIS they'll humour me and smile benignly and I might get a few friendly responses"). Am I emo?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy near year all.

Depends on your glasses, Mark.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy New Year Almost Everyone (you know who you are!)

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for making me paranoid, Huk.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not you, Michael White (is the name of my new book for small children)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant for all of our Chinese (and possibly Ukrainian?) TITTWISers, quit being such a sucky baby!

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I realise I don't know who I am.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thefourthrail.com/images/reviews/121304/identitycrisis7.jpg

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll take 'consequences' for $200.00.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 31 December 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm done my work for the year! I'm going home until Tuesday! So long! Happy New Year!

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy New Year, Huk.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 31 December 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy New Year, MW! I KNOW WHO YOU ARE

― Huk-L, Friday, 31 December 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What a remarkable night. I came as close to making a terrible hateful post as I'm going to make on here, got really drunk on a variety of boozes, know I'm gonna wake up feeling like shit, and yet overall I feel very clean. Perhaps it was the walk home in bitterly cold conditions (it's -23 C or -10 F right now and I walked 2 miles home). I still don't know what the point of ilx is, but then I don't understand much. I hope you're all safe.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 1 January 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Bryan, I hope you managed to excise your angry feelings somehow, and I'm also glad (from reams of bitter experience) that you resisted the temptation! I am having my first non-hungover NYD in years thanks to our quiet night in, and it feels pretty good.

I'm off to see AFC Wimbledon this afternoon, and hopefully we'll start the season the way we intend to continue. Come on you Dons!

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 1 January 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Happy new year, Bryan. May it be a better one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 1 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

For you too, Chris.

No Mark, nothing is well excised, but then this really isn't the place for that for me. I feel foolish enough for typing out any angry words on a messageboard. I was happy to discover that chaki thinks I'm a dick. I hope it wasn't just for the post. I do indeed feel like shit right now, a nice combination of hangover and pain from trudging in knee-deep snow. It's gonna be a fun day.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

happy new year, bryan and chris and mark and all. i hope it's better for all of us--some of us because we sorely need it, some of us may have had good/ok years but better is always BETTER, so.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

AFCW lost today, 2-1 at home against Whyteleafe. First home defeat in just under 2 years. Kind of depressing, but it's only football.

Bryan, I suspect I have a very good idea how you feel today. You'll feel better tomorrow, I promise.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Markelby are you a Dons supporter?
Everyone is in such a bad mood around town the past few days and they're all driving like idiots. I'm making more of an effort to be kind to overworked sales staff, etc.
Now I'm off to my closest friend's house to watch Anchorman and drink the Margeritas we never even got around to last night and play with this electronic "Q20" 20 questions game that's FREAKY. Does anyone else have this? It's eerily accurate, even when thinking of bizarre things like zombies and Jack Russell Terrier.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

haha, if you are trying to wind Mark up, you have chosen the right tactic!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

hi dere, all -- I didn't read the rest of this thread, because I'm so out of the loop I think it'll make me feel vaguely mopey. I'm just outside Boston now, with parents and no car, and I have a week before I go back to LA. It's cold, and claustrophobic, and I'm bored as sin. I wanted to see Jon and Ian, but they're both poorly-planned dickheads and left for New York the day I arrived so it was impossible.

― Remy Snush The Night Away (x Jeremy), Sunday, 2 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

This would be an excellent time to brush up on your juggling skills.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 2 January 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, yes I am - why do you ask? Are you? I am VERY excited if that's the case, though I'm not certain I'm not misunderstanding :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 2 January 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I've barely been online the last week so happy new year's all and happy belated birthday dee. i'm sorry I missed it.

luna, can you email me your address? i've lost it.

I hope you all had good holidays. Mine improved when my new boyfriend from Austin came up Xmas night. We went to Marfa and far west texas for a few days -- a trip I've dreamed of for years but have never been able to afford to make -- and had a fantastic time. I love west TX and Big Bend. Think I could definitely love life out there.

Unfortunately we came back to discover my oldest cat, Bengal, had suffered a stroke. We found her paralyzed and blind. The emergency vet could do nothing. An xray revealed a strange mass between her heart and lungs and she suspected a cancer that had been long building. She said I should put her down but I took her home instead. She hung on for a couple of days, never moving but still purring when i talked to her, and then finally passed early New Year's Eve morning. She would've been 16 in April.

My boyfriend is gone now and it's just me, my other cat, and chingy the lizard. I feel dreadfully lonely and miserable. I emailed my ex-husband to tell him the sad news of our kittie and he was heartbroken. He asked me to call him and catch up. I haven't talked to him in over two years and when I mentally reviewed what's happened in that time to catch him up on. . .well there's nothing good. nothing but a couple of hospitilzations, a suicide attempt, the death of a life-long career dream, looming joblessness and the first month of the new year finding me with no rent money. Who wants to be caught up on stuff like that?

I have to go back to school tomorrow and don't have the grades done that are due. It's pouring rain here and so far, 2005 isn't looking too good to me.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 3 January 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry about your kitty, Sam. Maybe the new year will bring something better for you. Teaching is a high burnout profession at any level--I burned out on it too, though I was teaching college. I hope it's your decision to leave, though, and that you're not pushed out by asshattery.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 3 January 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Sam do you still use AIM?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 3 January 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes yes. I've become lax in nearly all of my i'net things. My blog has gathered dust and I've got to rememdy that. My AIM handle is SamInTheEDT

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 3 January 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

aw Sam, I'm really sorry to hear about your cat. I hope things look up for you a lot this year.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 January 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Hugs for Sam, and belated birthday wishes for Dee.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Good morning.

The first thing I did at work this morning was check my work email to find a long, formal email from my supe scolding me for supposedly not following procedure on something. GRRR!!!

Happy stuff though that happened this morning:
* Went to pay rent, which was overdue, on my way in. CHECK!
* Filled up the car with gas and cleaned out the floorboard some. CHECK!
* FAXed a resume to apply for a job (from my work!) CHECK!
And, the best:
* Found a $20 bill in a puddle.

:-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I just hope today goes by really, really fast.

But in line with Sarah's format, a GOOD THING for today is that I'm thinking more seriously about grad school for journalism, taking the GRE, etc. which may ultimately pan out to nothing but it gives me something in my professional life to look forward to (ie, not working here forever).

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

OH, and Sam, I'm really sorry to hear about your loss. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I'm sorry to hear about Bengal. Poor kitty. At least she was at home with you when she passed.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

My condolances, Sam. I agree with Je4anne, at least she was with you and 16 is a respectable age for a kitty, though I know that's meager consolation.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the sympathy guys. I know she was getting up there but I was still holding out for a few more years. And of course my mind wanders over the past few months and ways I could've been more loving to her. :( I let the other kitty sleep with me last night and he nearly kept me up all night with his purring. My new boyfriend had returned to Austin and with both he and Bengy gone I think we were too lonely to sleep alone.

Akin to finding money in a puddle I lifted up my school stuff this morning to find my guy had hidden enough cash there to pay for her cremation. It made me cry. I hate being needy.

In good news, I've made up my mind and plan to quit at the end of Feburary, after the kids have taken their big state test. I don't know if I can find a job in two months (I couldn't when I was looking this summer) but new job or not I'm gone come March 1st. Even if I have to put my stuff into storage and move in with my grandmother I decided that it would be better than staying in this hell. Coming back this morning was like walking the green mile.

hope all your mondays are good.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 3 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

It's going to rain for the next 4 days. It's been gray for 24 hours already. I'm kind of enjoying it, actually. It's like the opposite of all the razzmatazz of the holiday season.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Where is everyone? Huk? Casuistry? Sarah? etc.?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm here, Diet Cherry Cokin' it up.

My computer is all screwed up though. All of my icons disappeared on my desktop. Any idea how to get them back? (it's a PC) I don't even see the RUN/programs box.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Yell at the computer. It never works, but it's fun and it makes people think you're tough n shit.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

THanks, Jeanne. Also, I've got big black boots on, so I could try kicking.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

YOU'RE WELCOME

http://hometown.aol.com/dumbblondeforsur/images/jimmy38.gif

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I was all working. I think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Big time Sunday evening feeling tonight :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Sam you are welcome in Long Beach - I have a comfy couch.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Okay, like, someone give me the Cliff Notes on TITTWIS cause like I totally skipped the last, like, 8 chapters and I heard there's totally gonna be a fucking quiz, and now I'm all like, fuck!, you know? Fuck.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys. I am gonna fail the TITTWIS quiz too.

Sorry about your cat, Sam.

I cannot sleep. First day back at work tomorrow and I can't sleep. Not because of that, it's just annoying that I can't have a lie in to make up for it. No, I guess it's because Matt's not here and I am a big wussy about sleeping alone these days.

What shall I do?

― Archel still can't log in (what?), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

make the moon is hard

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Make sure to get all of the vegetables from the gardens and later, all of the trees.

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I know I'm totally behind in checking up with all your lives, all of you who post here on TITTWIS, but... well, I decided to look back at some posts I'd made awhile back, esp during the most trying time I'd ever had (which you guys were there to witness), and the amount of compassionate humanity and true selfless and giving sweetness I observed and experienced is a visible and potent sign of just how truly wonderful and lovely the people who comprise this forum can be and are. So many of you have such pure, true souls, and I can't put into words how much I appreciate that.

I hope your lives are full of joy and that the real world gives you more fair breaks in this new year. Much love from me to you.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey Dee! You are great.

And look! I'm all logged in and shit :)

Exhausted though as I didn't go to sleep until 2am and woke up at 7 feeling like I hadn't slept at all. Oh well, not much to do at work today.

I hope everyone is finding 2005 to their liking so far.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear about your kitty Sam. Plenty of good thoughts are on their way.

I hope everyone is ok & that this years brings good things.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

2005 hasn't really started yet, though ice-skating at Somerset house was a treat. Back at work and my mind is numb - I just can't get into the necessary mindset for the life of me.

I think I may buy shoes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I start the year off as I expect the rest of the year to be, skint. :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

ECHO!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

(ECHO!!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

(echo!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

(echo)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

(echo)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear about your cat, Sam. My cat died (she was about 15, we got her as an adult, and never really knew how old she was) in Dec. of 1998. She had a tumour in her jaw and it was really, really sad.

On a not much lighter note, it's -50 C (-58 F) out there (including windchill). That's just wrong.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Woah. Just raining here...

I want to come to London soon. 2005 = my year to be sociable! (Becuase once I'm married I'll obviously be chained to the sink and will see nobody but the milkman. Except we don't get milk delivery.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

OKAY I WANT TO FUCKING TELL SOMEONE OFF NOW I WISH THE FUCKING FIRE ALARM TESTING WOULD STOP ALREADY IT'S BEEN A HALF HOUR. really, how long does it take to see if a loud noise works? oh, let's see if it still works if it's sustained...maybe if we repeat it over and over again in short bursts...no sustained, again, just to be thorough. and all of this first thing in the morning, of course.

grrrrr. maybe i need a headache helpline.

the good part of 2005 hasn't started yet. i wish it would.

so, so sorry to hear about your cat, sam. it can be so incredibly sad to lose a pet...just heartbreaking.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Okay, negative friggin 58 degrees is like, the tundra. Huck, you need to move.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm married I'll obviously be chained to the sink and will see nobody but the milkman

...who will look suspiciously like Robin Askwith.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

And then your children will look suspiciously like the milkman.

x-post That's very very cold!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone even get milk delivered any more? (Apart from my mum and she wouldn't have time to shag the milkman anyway.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

my Mum gets milk delivered too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking about that yesterday. I remember when I was a kid, before I started school, the milkman seemed like the coolest guy in the world. Driving around, bringing milk to the people. Then we got a fridge.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

My sister used to want to be a milkman, er milk delivery operative. For a reaaaally long time. I think she just thought she'd get loads of free dairy products (this is after all the same girl who used to eat margerine out of the tub, with a spoon.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, were you just teasing me about being a Dons fan? :(

No milk delivery for me - my parents stopped about 10 years ago, I think. I remember delivered milk anything but fondly - I don't know if schools got lower grade, older milk or what, but the mini-bottle of milk we had to drink every morning was *always* starting to turn, though it was never actually rancid. In retrospect, I feel maltreated by this.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I think school milk was already a thing of the past by the time I was there. Though at the Steiner school we got apple juice and bread and honey at break time.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

No, I wasn't teasing, I just thought it was unusual that a Londoner would be a Dons fan, since I remember living in Aberdeen and everyone seemed to know they didn't have a very good team but aw, we love 'em anyway. Except for the people who spray painted ABERDEEN KILLS ALL VISITING FANS under the railway bridge that I used to pass everyday on the way to work.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

oh yes, thanks Markelby for bringing back bad bad milk memories! Those little third of a pint bottles of milk we got in infant school were always left in their crate at the front of the classroom for several hours before we got to drink them. I rememeber the 6 year old me thought he could spare himself the trauma of drinking the rancid cowjuice by chewing the straw so that it no longer worked but the teacher thwarted his efforts by getting a new straw and making him finish it, grr.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Mark (C): Did the Altoids ever get to you?

Huck: Check your gmail, dude! (not for Altoids)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

What do kids get with school lunches now if not milk? Oh, please don't say Coke. I mean, I hated that milk too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Dang. I can't check my Gmail at work (stupid old computers).

I just found out Will Eisner has died. Over the last month he has become my all-time favourite comics creater. I've been reading (out of order) all 13 volumes of The Spirit Archives, and they're just phenomenally awesome. Easily the most literate and "adult" (though not X or even R rated) comics of their time (they started in 1940). I feel sad. He was 87 and still very actively working.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think kids get to actually CHOOSE what they drink now, Sarah. Madness if you ask me. Kids should have as few choices as possible, they're KIDS.

Here for no particular reason is a lovely picture [huge] of our street taken by Matt yesterday:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/LansdownePlace1.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

wow that's nice. Makes me happy to see a picture of the sea at the end of a street for some reason.

(Tep, there is Altoids bounty at our house now! 10 Marrick is sourlicious :))

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

It makes me happy too, every time i come out the door :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Dang. I can't check my Gmail at work (stupid old computers).

Whoops, gmail was the only address I had for you -- no biggie, I have some stuff on CBR that I can burn to disc for you, but wanted to make sure you'd want it (Flash vol. 2, through 213; I don't remember if your computer has issues with downloading or with viewing) and get your address.

It's a very strange thing to think of Eiser being dead, because he's been there for the whole of comics -- I'm glad his how-to books had their revival after Understanding Comics, and that he was "rediscovered" while he was still alive.

(Tep, there is Altoids bounty at our house now! 10 Marrick is sourlicious :))

Excellent -- there had been some confusion about mailing to the UK, and I wasn't a hundred percent confident they'd get there.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh cool. I'll check it out when I get home this afternoon.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm saddened by Eisner's death too - I'd spent a few hours talking to him, years ago, and he was a really interesting man, and still very enthusiastic about the comics medium.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm a very recent fan (and have yet to venture beyond his Spirit work), but he always seemed to be looking towards the next thing, a rare combination of being prolific as well as visionary.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

And I just learned that he actually handed out each and every Eisner Award. Classy guy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Tep, before you think I'm an ungrateful bastard, the Altoids got to me last night - they'd arrived a couple of weeks ago, but the postie had left them with my neighbour, who brought them over last night. Sarah will vouch for my enormous ~~cock~~ gratitude, and I'm sorry I forgot to thank you straight away. But they are fab and delicious and I love you.

Jocelyn, the team I support is nicknamed the Dons, but isn't Aberdeen - it's AFC Wimbledon, Wimbledon being where I went to school and where most of my friends lived when I was little. Oddly, though, my great grandfather was from Aberdeen, so I can claim some kind of kinship with the other Dons :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I throw damn fine pity parties. Last night I bought myself filet mignon, Chinese veggies, and cous cous and cooked up a feast and a half. I'm having the leftovers for lunch right now. Nummy.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

What do you put in the loot bag for a pity party? Other than tissue, obv.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Iced oatmeal cookies.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Will Eisner too? People need to take the next two months off from dying.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Archel, I made your pic my desktop photo so I can see the same beautiful site every day (not intended to sound creepy!). It is very pretty anyway.

---

My coworker: Sarah (mumble mumble) do you thinks that maybes (mumble mumble) you can lets me take some soup for me to give back to you when I go shop on day?

Me: I'm sorry, but I don't have any soup.

My coworker: Dees soups that I mean are dry and you put the water in them.

Me: Yeah, I know. I have those sometimes, but I don't have any with me today. I have lots of other food though. Do you want a Nutrigrain bar or maybe some popcorn or...

My coworker: No, you sees, I can not keeep anyfink down, you know? And so, I only eats dee soup today.

Me, in my head only: STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DESK THEN, YOU FLU BAG!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh, no, don't be silly -- I wouldn't have checked yet, even, except I was asking Huck about his email. I hadn't paid for expedited shipping or anything, I don't think, so I figured it could be quite awhile. I'm just glad they got there!

I had also ordered RASPBERRY Altoids at the same time, but the store got back to me and said they had listed them by mistake and they don't actually exist. (!!!)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I didn't know you worked with Boris and/or Natasha.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

"Because... Goof Gas effect the brain, and, no brain, no effect!"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Aw that's so cool Sarah, I like to think of you having the pic up. It's on our desktop at home too, so we can be desktop buddies!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

hey fuckers

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Great pic Archel!

fuckers huh? maybe that's where you are going wrong! ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Do you have the picture of Archel's bum as your desktop, McLusky? Or am I missing the point again?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Yuh huh! When did I post a pic of my bum here??!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Hi Chris by the way. How's your 2005 going?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Not bad so far and you? Besides the fact my good friend moves away tomorrow...its ok. I've been at home since Friday because my car was getting fixed. It hasn't been finished yet, I have to go back again today.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Mine's pretty good (no car trouble as no car, so no excuse not to go to work though). And I'm getting married in July by the looks of it :)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Wow! Congrats!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

It took me one hour to get the subway this morning. I missed my badly-needed acupuncture appointment as a result. The L train can suck my crusty balls. Good morning.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

ANother -50 C morning! Whoo-hoo!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

My balls? . . (actual size)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Mornin'. It snowed here last night. I'm wearing silly violet boots today my sister got me for Christmas. They are totally impractical, but also cute and warm.

H I.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I just got Found Magazine #3! I have also run out of work-related tasks to do today. I think I'll read it now.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I think I might be the only person in the world who enjoyed the movie "King Arthur". The new one with Clive Owen and my girlfriend Keira Knightly.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Hey Bingo,
I hope that my joke on the hobbies thread didn't come across as crass and mean-spirited. I like you and really wish you and your nothing but success in starting a family, and I realize that this can be a stressful and frustrating time for you and I just saw an easy joke and hope I didn't come across as a total fucking asshole.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

No, no. I laughed at it! Come on you know my sense of humor.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Okay, good. Your response on that thread was a little ambiguous. Phew.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha I could only sit through the first ten minutes of King Arthur. Keira Knightley hadn't appeared yet, maybe I should have stuck it out for that.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Bea Arthur.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Keira Knightly has no boobs though, at the end when she gets all feisty and stuff. NO TITTIES.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Feisty needs the titties, it's true.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cinescape.com/multimedia/Master_Site/Movies/Master_SiteArticle288610.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

The brassiere doesn't help much.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

It looks like it hurts>

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you should help her take it off, Huk.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't think this is a good time for her. She's going all Braveheart and shit.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Boadicea, I think, is the better comparison.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I meant
http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/carebears/poseable/braveheart.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Why did the manufacturer even bother with the wisp of actual hair on top of that Care Bear's head? And the toenails are menacing.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

(I am such a curmudgeonly bastard, sheesh.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Voo doo

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Who do?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

TITTWIS that I'm sort of worn out and since I had a couple left over vacation days, I've been staying home to try and become un-worn out, but it's sort of not working or anything, but if you're lookin' for me (unlikely, but still) gee mayle me.

Thank you and good afternoon.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey, luna.

Ever post something to a thread and then a million more posts pop up right afterwards attacking yours and you feel like you've been machine gunned? Yeah, that's how I feel right now. And I don't even care about the confederate flag that much. *sigh* I need to do a better job picking my fights.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

FYI, I wasn't attacking your post, I don't know if it seemed like I was, I was just "riffing". Like Eddy Van Helen.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I know, Huk-L. I just worry a lot of people suddenly see me as this racist rednecker. I hate it that so many people think the South is evil/dumb. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I keep trying to call you but you're not picking up the phone! Call me at my desk (if you want)!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

My boss just decided to have a fit. There's a banner ad at the bottom of the web page that's been there since before I became employed here. "What is this?" he says suddenly today. "Kenan [in the most patronizing tone he can manage], you have to tell me about these things."

Five months, and he's never scrolled to the bottom of the page before? Is that even possible?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I hear you, Pears. My ex boss still has my name and title description up on his webpage because he doesn't know how to change it. Bwah HA HA!

My temper tantrum is over. How's everyone else holding up?

It's really snowy out and I don't wanna come to work tomorrow.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Hello?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Hello!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Ice Storm! I walked to work this morning and it was beautifully treacherous. I don't know why we're here, since we're in the middle of a computer upgrade and have not been able to do any work for 3 days.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Only 4 more hours then no work for 10 days for me!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

SNOWSTORM IN WORCESTER!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

It's -40 C/F (it's where the two systems meet!) out this morning. After a few days of -50 C, it's remarkably bearable.
LOOK HOW HEARTY I AM!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

What are you wearing to combat these temperatures, Huck? Not in a pervy way. I've just never encountered weather that cold and I'm curious.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Just regular winter wear for now: big, heavy coat, tuque, giant nerd earphones, gloves, etc. I'm not outside for more than 10 minutes at a time, so I haven't had to break out my hardcore winter gear: Sorrells, windshell pants lined with live lambs, neck thing (scarf?), mittens on strings, etc.

I'm not even wearing long underwear today. I am, however, wearing underwear.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I want some long underwear, maybe for when I go to Amsterdam. But be honest, the live lambs are just for kicks aren't they?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Well...yeah.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm drinking hot cider at my desk (with a cinnamon stick!). I feel like I went through a war to get to work today. The snow is so deep that with some steps my leg was burried up almost to my knee. And yet, my work doesn't close come hell or high water (or snow). And everyone was making a big deal about our receptionist being a few minutes late!

Anyway, it is very pretty (except for the slush, ugh).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

SWEET JEEPERS MALLOY, WHAT AM I DOING AT WORK!?!?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Snow up to your knees? Is it spring already!?!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I want snow!! We had flurries last night but they were the wet kind.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

My mind has just been blown.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I want one.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I see what you mean Jeanne!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Arrrgh. The link is blocked here at work. Anyone care to describe for a blind man?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

oh it's the orange thing! it's pretty cute, it's a photo tutorial on how to make tiny tiny tiny clay oranges.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

That is pretty cool, and looks really simple when you see it done like that. Maybe a future hobby beckons!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

And I'd make them out of Marzipan.

I just bought boots! Like, shoes that aren't trainers!! I got them to give me them in a bag without the box - and, it seems, they have no branding on them whatsoever! Which I quite like, actually, though it make it pretty hard to post a pic of them on here...

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Woah, I'm good - I managed to take a pic on my new phone, email it to myself and upload it to the web!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/boot.jpg

Bear in mind that the light is terrible - you can barely see the nice detail - but that's muh new boot! I'll try and take some better pics with my proper camera when I get home.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Wow they look kind of swashbuckling Mark!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

They are a bit (they have a zip all the way down the side, the strap that you can sortof see, and a kind of wood (!) effect on the widest parts) - other than boots for various winter sports, I don't think I've worn anything above the ankle since retiring my last pair of DMs. Which reminds me - I don't actually remember throwing away any of my pairs of DMs, so presumably they must be lurking somewhere in the depths of my parents' house. I must try and find them.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I misread that as "I managed to take a pic of my new phone," and I was like, That's the coolest phone ever.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Serious question: is a stupid email "interview" with Roger Ebert better than no interview at all? I hate doing email interviews.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, Ebert's an extremely busy guy, so take what you can get, I guess. I mean, he sees EVERY movie.
But press him a little.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he'll agree to let me call him once he sees that my questions aren't just stupid yahoo website magazine questions? Or maybe he'll give really thoughtful answers that will suffice. Either way, yeah, I shouldn't turn that down.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm always leery of allowing writers to email their answers. Part of me feels like that gives them too much control. But...it's wicked if you're lazy (I'm lazy) because no transcription req'd!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Emailed answers from people who write for a living are the worst. You just get more of their writer personality, and none of their person personality.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 6 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I have to answer the phones over the lunch hour, nd I just took a call from my arch-nemesis. He doesn't know who I am, but I hate him. Hate him good.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 6 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

That orange thing is amazing. I kept expecting it to stop at one level, and then it would bump it up a notch!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Markelby, those boots look very old fashioned.

http://www.oldfashionedclipart.com/boot.gif

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Possibly they are! I like yours though - are they for Chinese women without any feet?

(Rar - just back from shopping - sgs bought a green coat which looks super-hott on her, and we had a gorgeous Japanese dinner. Mackerel sushi is my new favourite thing. Now for another ep of Six Feet Under and some camomile tea)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm drinking water like it's going out of style. And rapping out loud to the Transplants "Tall Cans In The Air." And McLusky, those boots gave me a stiffie for two seconds (when I thought they were dominatrix boots). "You bettah hope you fuckin miss me when ya see me drinkin whisky." ((Is it time to go home??))

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 6 January 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I;m ok.

― luna from under the bed, Friday, 7 January 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey Luna! What are you doing under the bed hon?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Not a helluva lot - just hiding out. It's the grown up alternative to having a fort.

― luna from under the bed, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

im getting my drink on tonight the hard way. im also going to a harvard bah to fuck up some smaht kids.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

that's wicked awesome.

― luna not logged in, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

i bet i vomit on the street.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

yay, you truly are my hero Chris!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

friday night telly is now the suck. i'm going to end up staying in and watching celebrity BB.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

eh, there are worse things.

― luna not logged in, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

watch it you may get a rambling incoherrent phone call from me at 3am!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

oh and i also watched my male cat give cunnilingus to the female cat last night. i heard this awful sound and turned around to see him going to town on her. whole new meaning to eating pussy. ugh. excuse me.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I'll skip the catlingus, but the phone calls are always welcome.

― luna not logged in, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

crap...i don't have your cell. email it to me!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I believe I am the only person in the history of the world who did not know that Robert Plant was the singer in the Honeydrippers.

also, I am listening right this minute to Lou Gramm 'Midnight Blue.'

And I don't care who knows it.

― luna not logged in, Friday, 7 January 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I like Animal Collective....i tried to get into it but i ain't feelin it man. In all honesty how do bands like this put out albums?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Hmm...I think it's pretty, but maybe your stereo doesn't have the requisite built-in translator component. Maybe you have to be used to listening to really fucked up stuff for it to sound the way it does to me??

Jeanne, You can pretend those are Dom boots if you want. Clothes from the Victorian era are pretty damn sexy in general I think (but, like crazy lingerie, I wouldn't want to wear that shit every day).

It's Friday, guys. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah i think its just too out there for me to like. i bet if i still smoked weed i would dig it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Woo! I was in such a good mood at lunch, eating lovely falafel and loving whatever radio station they had on. "Here I go again on my own..." was followed by "love will tear us apart" and then later "run to you" and "once in a lifetime" played.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I am sleepy.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Hi all, sorry I haven't been posting as much but they've hinted pretty heavily at my work that they're cracking down on personal internet use, possibly even tracking traffic, so I'm trying to avoid posting on here except for before work and during lunch. But I'm doing pretty good. And it is Friday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

LET'S PRETEND TO BE 'THE WHO'!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I shall be zee drummer wot has a bomb in zee drum kit!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to curl up under my desk and have a nap. Somebody wake me up for lunch.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Loads like a top idea Huck, although, pls can someone wake me when it's time to go home?!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Chzzzzzzzz

(Will Eisner used that for snoring in a Spirit comic I read the other day, and I like it better than just straight zzzzzzz)

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

That incinuates a little snore at the beginning methinks!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

It's Friday, guys. :-D

Sadly, this means little to me. I don't have to go outside all weekend, but I do have to work my ass off.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

well i just busted a nut....kings of convenience playing in february in boston.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Andy Kim is playing here on Valentine's Day! Though KofC would be cooler.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

ugh thanks for the V-day reminder huk. *sigh*

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

just bought three tickets...im going to shit. i;ve been waiting years for this. yes i am a geeky fanboy.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

3 tickets? (oh & go to the toilet)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

i had no idea who andy kim was until i went to his website and was bombarded with "SUGAR" as loud as possible.

three tickets, the wife, myself and my pesty sister who despite driving me nuts for three months has come to like the music i have forced on her.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

ah, such a generous brother!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

xxpost Also - Tuesday Feb 22 at the Double Door in Chicago. TWEE INDIE CHICAGOANS UNITE!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

First saw the Kings of Convenience in the basement of the poetry cafe in the summer of 1998... they came on stage saying "today we're called the Kings of Convenience - tomorrow we'll probably be called something else". They played beautiful sad music, which was all the more poignant as I'd been dumped about an hour earlier.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

So perfect!

I am teww as all hell, I realize. And a little girly. 50 First Dates made me cry last night. Go ahead, laugh.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

teww=twee

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I missed them last time around which was about 4 years ago. i also like the fact that the show is 18 plus...which means no teenie boppers and their fancy shoes.

i am captain twee, im getting all emotional over the fact that they are playing here.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

yes, mark that is a perfect setting. just hope my wife doesn't divorce me an hour before the show.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Canasta is going to try to get on that Double Door bill. I am crossing my fingers, as that would be AWESOME. I want to hug Erlend Oye.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Erlend was the very first person I met when I became part of Sinist3r!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

at this point i am ready to toss him on gears couch.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I have not heard these kings of convenience. Maybe I'll pop across the street to the record store at lunch.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

obviously from me all three albums come highly recommended...

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

did you ever d/l that emiliana torrini chris?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

yes i did and i love it! so does the wife....which is always a good sign.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I just remembered, jaymc ranked them on his top 2004 Singles which he is kindly sending to me, so I'll just wait and listen.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

im big on "sunny road"

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to Versus a lot recently. Maybe the best "remix" album I've ever heard. Every track works, which is a little amazing, considering.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

when versus came out i got all huffy...but of course it grew on me in an instant.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

30 minutes to go! Nobody has rang me, emailed me, or sent me any work on the system in like 2 hours. I may just go home 15 minutes early, oooh.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Hellos to Pink and Luna!

I have not heard the Kings of Conv. And damn am I ever jealous of jocelyn working across the street from a record store.

Last night I kept forgetting to pick up one of my free drinks at the show, so right after we played, I practically ran to the bar at the back of the club to get a rum & coke before they closed. Then I had to help pack up so I practically chugged it. It helped me sleep really well.

What are you working on this weekend, Kenan?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

my god, the kookoo woman in front of me is on the phone telling someone that her son is a backup singer for Method Man. YAH Ok!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

xpost Making the company website look a lot more like this one, hopefully without just ripping him off.

I'll burn you some KoC stuff, Sarah.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I find the rain unpleasant. I wouldn't do well outside of Southern California. I want it to stop. I don't know how you east coasters and Englanders stand it.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

rains okay, it's when the wind joins in that things get shocking.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

At least today in SF it's kind of dramatic which, while it does not diminish my annoyance at being cold and wet, at least adds a little pizazz to my misery.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

A palm tree leveled a car parked in front of it when it fell last week, down my block. I'm parking next to the house tonight.....

SF rain does seem less annoying somehow--all those trench coats and black umbrellas and strong coffee.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

hey, teeny, thanks for posting that emiliana torrini stuff. i really like her, i'd dl'ed 'unemployed in summertime' from your blog over the summer sometime i think...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm parking next to the house tonight.....

So no worries then 'cause there's no more tree to fall or eeek! the rest are likely to fall too?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Hellos to Pink and Luna!
Hey Sarah! I'm hopinh to put pen to paper this w/e finally!!

Hey Julia, how are things?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Hi Orbit!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Hi Pink! How are you?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

We lost 80 million trees in the Great Storm of 1987 grumble grumble

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Hi Pink! How are you?
I'm peachy hon cos I'm just about to leave work, how are you? How did the holidays treat you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Great Storm of 1987

I was in Paris then and did quite alot of damage to Northwestern France too as I remember.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm off, hope to catch up with y'all on Monday morning with my cup of tea! Have good w/e's luvvies. xxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

hi pink, i'm pretty good! i might be moving in a couple of months i hope i hope! keep your fingers crossed...

xp bye pink...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I just tripped and nearly wiped out in the bathroom....*inside the handicap stall*. I hate myself.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Great. I said "wiped out" -- nice choice of words for a bathroom anecdote. Myself hate I.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

So I was on my lunch break, doing my normal thing, solving the crossword and sitting alone, when a bunch of my coworkers came in on their coffee break and sat with me.
"We always miss you, because you're on a different schedule, this will be fun!"
So I just sat there, in silence, thinking of another word for "rapier".

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Like a tuck?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

foil, saber

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

saber=/rapier

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I are dumb.
epee?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

It was epee.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

epee in French is sword and in English usually denotes a fencing sword where pints are scored with thrusts (as opposed to strokes).

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

How Freudian of me. "Don't award me points, you stupid judge! Give me a pint! A pint of plain's your only man."

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Are you a fencer, Michael?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

It's always epee in the crosswords, that's the first thing you learn!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I have some sabers but I've nver really fenced outside of a couple of weeks several years ago.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I just realized that my post above erroneously sugests that I did a lot of damage to Northwestern France in 1987. The damages I was responsible for were merely superficial.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

The charge of the White brigade.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

yes, the most freudian thing about that sentence about thrusts and strokes was the reference to pints.

fencing seems like it would be fun. all that gear you'd have to wair would be annoying though.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

That's what was so frustrating about it. I knew it was epee, and I already had the Es at either end, but I felt like it would be actively antisocial of me to work on the crossword while my coworkers were there, as opposed to the passive antisocial behaviour I exhibit everday by simply keeping my damn mouth shut.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

wair=wear. i used to be able to spell.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Spelling is fascism, JuliaA.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, hey, I just got a last minute assignment to review the Symphony this weekend!

Shit, I am OLD. I deserved the slow cooker.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

What are they playing?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Symphonic Beatles--so...it's not like...y'know, I mean, the Beatles are OLD anyway.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Symphonic Beatles in the Gyne? And you get to endure tundral weather to take the bus there? Dude, sweet assignment!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Someone just IMed me "Australians love their piss" and I don't know what he meant.

The great thing about the Symphonic Beatles assignment is that you don't technically have to go, just call and find out what they are going to perform.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it's warmed up to about -10 C since yesterday and it's nearly balmy. Prairie people get so weirdly conditioned by the weather. Like yesterday, when it was -30 C after two days of -50 C, people were all, "Oh, at last the cold snap is over!"
And then as soon as it hits zero in March, people will be wearing shorts. But in mid-September when it gets down to +15 at night, people will break out their parkas.

xpost, yeah, I was considering that. I could (and probably will) prattle on for a few paragraphs about how purists on either side (of the classical vs rock divide) are pouty babies, and how the Symphonic Metallica used in Neil LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors kicked fcking ass.

― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm really bored so people better start posting more or I'm going to talk more about the implications of Symphonic Beatles and no one wants that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

So since I'm not supposed to be playing online at work now, I spent a good portion of the day secretively reading Moby Dick.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I am not looking forward to walking home in the cold. What do you think of Moby Dick? I haven't read it in 7 years and should probably give it another go, this time at an age where seeing the word "sperm" doesn't make a gaggle of 17-year-olds giggle.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm only about 75 pages in, but I'm really diggin' it! It's a kooky krazy romp, a WHALE of a TALE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Wait till you have to learn about 500 years of the history of whaling, and interminably wonder how it all fits in.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

this time at an age where seeing the word "sperm" doesn't make a gaggle of 17-year-olds giggle

I hate to break it to you, but it still makes gaggles of 17 year-olds giggle today.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Hey CP what became of those "songwriting milestones" you were compiling some time ago while I was talking to you on IM? I'd be interested to see a compiled list of them.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

maybe 'piss' = bad beer ?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Does anybody else ever get email-list-emails for things they're no longer involved in and feel compelled to chime in with your utter irrelevant opinion?

Also, Busta Rhymes, c. 1997, was the shit.

― Huk-L, Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh. I, uh, went to sleep and forgot all about it, is what happened! I'm just that careless with my good ideas! Whoo! Margaritas for everyone!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I am SO HIGH.

― luna not logged in, Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

and it's sort of not a good thing.

I'm alone and it's kinda wigging me out.

― luna not logged in, Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear luna, hang in there and get a nice blanket to sit under or something.

Just popping in to say goodbye as I'm off to Amsterdam on Monday. Have a good week everybody! xx

― Archel (Archel), Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm jealous! Amsterdam!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Blogger just ate a whole fucking post of mine, no fair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 January 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

BLECCCCHHH!

― Huk-L, Sunday, 9 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Is this the end of TITTWIS? It seems no-one has anything to say. Have we all forgotten about Dre?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

*sniff* tis a sad day. I read this thread this morning & thought, no one cares anymore! *whails*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

How are you doing, Pink? I have a sore throat and am not feeling too great all round, but not sick enough to leave work so I may as well get on with it.

I was intrigued to see Dee describe herself as an emotional prostitute on the "typical post" thread - emotional exhibitionist (though without any bad negative connotations - it's kind of what this thread is all about, after all) would seem more accurate, unless she feels she is doing this to titillate us in some way. Or does she feels she's selling herself out? Dee?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah i'm ok, just debating whether or not to join a gym. the pros are that it's cheaper to join & pay weekly subs than pay for 2 individual classes per week.

I haven't seen that thread cos I've not really been keeping up with ilx as a whole, just this thread.

Sorry to hear you're poorly.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm a sick-a-bed too, but I'm at work as well. Blah. I'm drinking peppermint tea and answering the phone with a voice more Marge Simpson-like than usual.

Speaking of possible gym joining, a coworker approached me this morning with a "You seem to be gaining weight, Sarah," instead of a Hello. When I asked her to repeat herself, she said, "I was joking. I said you're gaining weight." Ha ha. So, I say, "Actually, I haven't been walking as much since it's been so cold out." She says, "You should start riding a bike to work and lose weight that way."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Sarah - you missed the part of story out where you told her to f@#k off & punched/kicked her to the ground.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

So, I watched Hitchcock's Vertigo last night, and realized I've been living a lie for like 20 years. I was convinced that I'd seen it before, but I've now come to the conclusion that what I saw was Mel Brooks's High Anxiety. Kim Novak is way hotter than Cloris Leachman.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

The new interns are here and they're like 12! Seriously, what the fuck is going in the world???

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, a co-worker pulled that same shit with me a few years ago, but it went more like this:
"You're not going out as much anymore are you?"
"No actually I haven't"
"You look like you're going straight from the cubicle to the couch."
"Thanks."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

That's some cold-ass shit. I've never been so happy to be completely ignored at work.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I really cannot even imagine someone saying that to me. That said, one woman at work (who is notorious for things not coming out the right way said) "oh you looked so pretty when you were slim." She got such a verbal torrent of abuse (her ass is the size of texas) that she hasn't really said that kind of thing again!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

her ass is the size of texas oh, but such wonderful sunsets!

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Dude, i try not to get close enough to see those sunsets!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

just thought i'd say for those who didn't see it, everyone should get over to the 'i got in a car accident' thread and send chris v much LUV.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Yus. Also, is Jeremy back yet?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

So I'm having a quiet pint in a pub on Friday night with a girl friend and while I've been to the toilet a woman who we barely know decides to come over and join us (because we had 'friendly faces' and starts crying about how rotten her new husband is (he is in the same pub playing on fruit machines). We nod and sympathise best we can until another bloke we don't know comes over (let's call him 'innocent guy') and says hello to her, which makes her husband finally come over and kick off on the bloke coz he thinks he's chatting her up (he wasn't, he knew her already). They walk off together to fight, gentleman style, outside. But then 2 more blokes step in to help the 'innocent guy' out and the husband runs off and escapes out of a fire exit. Probably a wise move as the 2 new blokes were the size of houses.
Me and my friend decide we've had enough and go home leaving the crying girl to sob in the arms of the 'innocent guy'.

And the bloomin wind has damaged the tiles on my roof.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Shit one!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I've got to interview a really old, really boring country singer in about 7 minutes. i've got NOTHING to ask him. Absolutely ZERO curiosity about the guy. I saw him in concert two years ago, and he was fucking boring. BORING. and also old.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

"What's your favourite colour?"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I would have no idea what to say either.
But I can say OMG SLEDDING! I did this on Saturday and it was pure joy. I also got in a snowball fight at 3 am in a pretty tony neighborhood.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"How does it feel to be so old that most people alive today don't give a crap who you are?"

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Huk-L, one of my company's sales reps just told me over the phone that he can't get the information he needs from some vendors because they are Damn Yankees.

Ok, today is not my day in relation to getting along with coworkers. Another one just came up to me and complimented me on my boots.
Why, thank you!
Then, she says, "Wow. Wow. You've got some big feet there. How big are they?!!"
Me: "Size 11."
Coworkers: "Wow! I could tell they were really big, but WOW, size 11! I wear size 5 usually."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

xpost, I miss sledding, or rather Tobagganing, as we call it up here. THere are no hills where I live, and it makes me sad.
The best thing to go on are the Flying Discs, the little plastic circles. THe new fancy sno-racer GTs with steering wheels and shit are kinda lame. On the discs, though, you get that real out of control feeling, especially when you start spinning!
I need to move.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

A neighborhood full of pretty guys all called Tony?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

howdy, just stopping in to say hello. today i get to wash my hair...i look like a fucking rooster.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey good looking rooster boy!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

We shall call you Tony the Rooster!

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Sarah - you missed the part of story out where you told her to f@#k off & punched/kicked her to the ground.

I dig this girl.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

MCLUSKY = dead. Sorry Sarah.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Huk, it's like interviewing a 3rd rate actor -- you ask for stories about the legends they might have performed with, back in the day.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Yup. that's pretty much what I did.
Now I have an interview with a guy who forgot to tell me how shitty his music is when he called asking for an interview.

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

also, my little phonejack thing for my tape-recorder isn't working so I'm interviewing by hand today (which is actually good discipline, but I prefer being lazy)

― Huk-L, Monday, 10 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I need to get my hands on a trumpet, fast. And cheap. Well, not "need", but "want".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

SaM I wish you were on AIM now...

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I dig this girl.
I learned from Luna the Master! ;-)

Orbit, you ok?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha, so I just agreed to interview a band being "managed" by the guy that my, um, semi-boss would like to replace me with (but the real boss likes that I'm not afraid to do the symphony or a giant feature on comic books, so my not-real job is safe!)

Also, anybody else have a drawer full of 24 pairs of identical socks? Have you ever given blood just so that later on you could drunk on the cheap?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

HOLY FUCK.
Speaking of comics, I just got an email from Dee Cee in re: my big comics feature, AND THEY'RE PUTTING ME ON THEIR MAILING LIST!!!

HOLY FUCK I AM THE COOLEST FREELOADER ON MY BLOCK!!!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Nice one Huk. I heart free stuff.

So yesterday I won these on eBay, though they were more than 75% of the cost price so I don't really feel like I've put one over on the man. And today I'm mooching round the house with tonsilitis and it's a bit boring really.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I am so bored today. Bored & so very fed up & I don't really know why.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm pink as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm better this morning Pink, thanks. :-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Good to hear darl! x

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I just realized I am Michael Bluth. I've just organized my mother's birthday present, co-ordinating my two brothers, one a hopeless mama's boy, the other a prospectless entertainer, and my dilettante sister! I always thought I was more like Gob, but I guess that's just who I'd like to be.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

i hate the new interns.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Gob? Do you believe in Gob?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I slept for an hour and a half last night.

For the second night in a row.

Someone please send me a marching band. Extra brass.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

What's going on, luna?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I read Will Eisner's A Contract With God last night. Beautiful. And then I slept for about 3 hours.
For the 800th night in a row. (i'm a terrible insomniac)(actually, I'm very good at it)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm good at it too, but normally I can drop off by 2. I feel like a zombie.

No one thing is going on - just sort of everything, you know?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Why do you need a marching band? Couldn't a mariachi or ooompah band do?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I have found that reading comic books often puts me down, what with the fun escapism and what not. Sunday night, however, I finally finished reading Dan Kennedy's hilarious memoir Loser Goes First, which eerily parallels my own life, except for the ending where he gets a book deal, and upon finishing, I placed head to pillow and spent the next five hours bemoaning the unlikelihood of me getting a book deal.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Most. Pathetic. Marching band. Ever.
http://www.alienbill.com/photos/album/04.senioryear/054.a.marching%20band%20with%20eric%20clean%20marine%20carlson.jpg

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

x-post Yes. My sleep schedule has been completely off, and I just have this intense feeling of dread for no good reason.
A Contract With God is a bit of a downer, too. I got 4 Will Eisner books from the library in memorium.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

For Luna:

http://www.wdw-photos.com/101703/elecumb4.jpg

(I tried to find a picture with a hot girl in it, but the search "cheeseburger babe" did not match any documents or whatever)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn, it reminded me a lot of Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brookly, though far less brutal. I really liked the Catskills story.
I also read The Dreamer the other night, and found it really inspiring, and I have The Will Eisner Reader waiting for me tonight. All from the library (I've exhausted all 13 of their Spirit Archives volumes--I only started reading Eisner about 6 weeks ago! Fool, me!).

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm hungry AND tired.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Christ, woman! There is no pleasing you! Are you going to be like this all night? I should have stayed home with the kids. Goddamnit, you do this ALL the time.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

WHy are mommy and mommy yelling?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

*bursts into tears* See? You don't love me! My mother was right about you! All I wanted was ONE NIGHT OUT, and you go and ruin it!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Huck, it's okay. Really. Sometimes mommy and I just get stressed out. But we're still deeply committed. No go to your room and leave us alone so we can make up.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I'm Barry White. Don't fight. I'm Barry White.

― Barry White (Chris Piuma), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Why don't we send the kids O-U-T-S-I-D-E...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I can;t make my face into a heart!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Hi hi!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm feeling really low today. I feel guilty about feeling bad, because I got a really lovely surprise yesterday in the form of a scarf that Teeny had knitted and sent to me as a present, and that made me really happy.

But longer term, things are bad, and I'm generally low. I'm desperately worried about someone I love who seems to be going through a very, very tough time, and I can't help at all. I didn't manage to get out to a very close friend's birthday gathering on Saturday, due to a horrible panic attack when I tried, and I feel guilty about that.

Some may remember a very, very desperate thread from me last Summer. Today I finally had the psychiatric appointment, after being promised an "urgent, earliest possible appointment" on August 2nd. This meant an hour telling someone about the end of my marriage, my suicide attempt, my job being at risk and all the other stuff. Add a cold that's making me cough and feel achey and tired, and I feel very low.

I don't want to overstate it - I'm not feeling suicidal, or anything like that, just miserable and rotten and all that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

This picture has two of my favourite things in the whole world (three if you count television) and maybe it will cheer you up for a second, at least.
ihttp://www.comicreaders.com/images/pictures/mainstream/yearinreview2004-miniseries.jpg

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

much love to you today, Martin. I'm sorry you're feeling so low - I feel kinda crappy, too, so while I can do nothing to make you feel any better, i can sympathize and empathize. xoxoxo

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Thank you - I don't think I'm likely to be able to feel much better while still feeling rotten with a cold, and and all that, but this really does help.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Hi all! hope everyone is doing ok. been doing lots of reading and sleeping. listening to the new Archer Prewitt...good stuff. Met with my lawyer yesterday...follow up drs appt today. whoopee.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Glad to hear you are resting Chris!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Hi dudes. I'm still off work, but my malaise is only physical, I think - hugs to Martin & Luna and damn, anyone else who needs them (and trusts that my nasty bacterial friends at the back of my throat won't hitch a ride).

You lot know me fairly well. What do you think I can focus on in my currently-defunct blog to make it interesting to write and interesting to read? God knows my day to day life doesn't qualify, and anyway I tried that and I need a change.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Food mark, now that is interesting!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

you could write about Putney, since you collect related things. You could do Putney-based book reviews, pub or "site" reviews, post those old postcards, etc

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I could I guess. But it would probably have a very limited range of interest for punters. Ideally I'd like to write something that a good number of my friends will enjoy reading.

(Food is interesting, but my talents are a bit too limited, and I don't experiment/go to fancy restaurants enough)

Thanks for the input though! I need to go and have some lunch but I can't face swallowing anything solid :/

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

THe sequel to last week's giant storm is on the way!
People are all freaking out. The weird thing is that right now, it's really calm and almost nice out. But we're expecting 60 km winds and lots of snow!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Big storms in the UK at the moment too!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

It's going to be 64 here tomorrow. Wack.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

they don't mention El Nino on the news. surely this is El Nino again? or is El Nino too 90s?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm kinda glad because I think this storm will get me out of all the Radio Station stuff I was supposed to do tonight. Ha ha!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm hella reading this thread on RSS now! Sweet!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

What is RSS?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

RSS & you

It's a way to get headlines from websites, with links to the full articles. Except Graham or whoever set up ILX's RSS feed lets you get a feed for an individual thread, with all the messages appearing as the descriptions of the... well, anyways, you can just read the thread on your RSS reader. Which means if you only want to read this thread and not the rest of ILE, you're set.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

My mouse is squeaking!

The universe becomes ever more literal.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm working on a story that I have no interest in, and no concern for. I'm totally bored just by the thought of it. How will I finish it? I look at my notes, and I think, "there's no story here."

I think I am sooooooooooooooooooooooo not cut out for the Entertainment Press Corps, what with my whole "there's no story here" attitude. I guess I've known this for a long time.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Update: after some love yesterday, I felt a good bit better, and listening to some Basement Jaxx I had downloaded, then the Soul Brothers Six's fabulous 'Some Kind Of Wonderful' three times in a row left me in a positively cheerful mood, surprisingly. Then I went to bed, and had a horrible night - sweating, shivering (even chattering teeth at times) and coughing, so I slept maybe four hours, tops. I felt fucking awful in the morning, but just about managed to crawl into work and make it through the day. Weirdly, despite feeling crap physically, I still feel pretty good mentally.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

good to here.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

er, HEAR.
About the feeling pretty good mentally, not the sick stuff.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

ha, a moment of confusion just now - my first phone call since getting broadband. I'm not used to being online and the phone working. Rather anticlimactically, a wrong number...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I just came back to check my message boards. Is my friend Aaron here? How 'bout the dude who makes the really long posts?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I am so bored at this moment I can feel the cells in my eyes clamoring for escape.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." The same goes for eyebrows, too, I'm assuming.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

How 'bout the dude who makes the really long posts?

Ken I hope you're not talking about me, cause I'll have you know most of my long posts are actually edited down to about half their original size before I send them off.

At least I'm making an effort, you know?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

C'mon Martin. Three letters of the alphabet lie between the first letter of your name and the first letter of that of the poster in question.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Ooooh a puzzle. I love puzzles!

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

It ain't that hard, martin.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Well, I don't know of any posters who have names that start with Q.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Or I?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Ichabod Quane?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Queen G (never heard of her)

queenoftheharpies (nor her)

quincie (nor her/him)

Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Hmmmm?)

Questionizer (Don't get'em started on religion)

qbert (nor him)

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

It has to be Questionizer surely?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

For the record, I don't think we should get anybody started on religion. The ones who are already on religion can stay on religion, but we have to stop getting people started on it.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

http://slhs.lafourche.k12.la.us/Rousse/sttng055.gif

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Now you're just tempting me to get started on religion. At great length, too!

― Qasuistry (Chris Piuma), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh goody!

― Miqael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

So, storm is here. No actual new snow, but winds up to 60 km/hr (that's 180 mph, for you americans), and the snow (already here) is all granular so when a gust comes up, it feels like a thousand tiny daggers in your face!
In good news, I was at the supermarket and French Toast bagels are back!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

who wants to come to my house and beat the blue guys in Prince of Persia? THey keep kicking my ass!

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

I might if I knew what it was.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Unless that was a really cheesy euphemismm...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

because in that case, I'll be over in 10 minutes.

HA!

I kid.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

for fuck's sake, will someone hit me in the head with a bat already?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Whoomp! Hey, wanna get together sometime? I owe ILXors dinner at my place.

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

(23:15:49) jeremy7211: I am taking a class called 'Hip Hop XXXXXXXXXXX "
(23:16:07) jeremy7211: and today we watched an introduction to the class by Afrikaa Bambaataa. Cool.

(23:16:18) jeremy7211: This chick, we'll call her (and deservedly so) 'J|_|lie'
(23:16:39) jeremy7211: was sitting next to me. The tape ended and the projectionist couldn't find the lightswitch for a few seconds.
(23:16:46) jeremy7211: While sitting in the dark the professor
(23:16:56) jeremy7211: started rapping for us
(23:17:08) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: hmm
(23:17:21) jeremy7211: and I asked the girl, Julie (who I'd never met before) if she wanted to make out
(23:17:27) jeremy7211: she said 'later, if you're serious'
(23:18:03) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: howd it go
(23:18:05) jeremy7211: about ten minutes into a film we were dissecting intot he class, she put her hand inside my collar (I was wearing a turtleneck sweater) and said "this looks nice on you, but it'd look nicer on the floor.'
(23:18:18) jeremy7211: I laughed very hard
(23:18:25) jeremy7211: and she wasn't kidding.
(23:18:33) jeremy7211: But she had severe halitosis
(23:18:43) jeremy7211: so I had to write it off and watch Style Wars instead
(23:19:14) jeremy7211: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008MTWY/imdb-adbox/104-1884196-9020733

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Huck, I'd tell you to move, but I fear for you leaving the apartment. Like, even into the hallway.

Remy, welcome back.

Everyone else, hey, did I mention that I accidentally poured boiling water onto my foot yesterday? I regret doing it now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Ouch. You need to be more careful with yourself, Chris. Unless you've got a clone somewhere that you're keeping for spare parts.

I actually had to go out twice last night. Well, just once. The second thing I did because I was bored. But, it's even worse this morning.

Why am I living in a city with comedy infrastructure where it's not terrible unusually for the temperature to reach -50 C? And also where I never get laid.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

i am so bored of being stuck inside. i need beer NOW!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

There's no minibar in that hospital room of yours, Bingo?

xpost:
Chris, I knew a guy who did that once. He was cooking pasta, maybe for a date who would soon be arriving, trying to make sure it was cooked "al dente," - "to the teeth," he explained in teling me the story. When it was done and it came time to drain it, he forgot that the colander had holes in it or he forgot to hold it over the sink or something, causing a similar foot-scalding incident. Anyway, hope your foot gets well soon.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

NO BEER IN MY HOUSE! Follow up Doctors appt confirmed knee damage behind the knee cap. sweet.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm home early today, because that flu has just got worse and worse. Bizarrely, my mood is still pretty good, despite feeling terrible physically.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

So, I'm done all my work for the day, but still have 4.5 hours left at work. I could use a beer. Or 12.
I need to come up with something I can do to advance my "career" (whatever that may be) while I'm at work. I could work on my Great Canadian Novel, I guess. It's about a nihilistic robot navy that was looking for the Northwest Passage back in the olden days, but got shipwrecked in Hudson's Bay and frozen inside an iceberg, but now global warming has freed them and they have to get real jobs in a mid-sized Western Canadian city. Also, they're looking for true love.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Maaaaaan, I just had a big fight with a really good friend and now I feel like shit. NEWSFLASH: I am boring. I do boring things. I don't like fun. I suck. Hey, everybody, look at me! I'm a big fat disappointment!! Wheee!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

How can you be boring, you're a lesbian in NYC!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Bouncing all week between some kind of poignant, wintery wistfullness and a flat, gray, hopeless numbness and I can't decide which is less bearable.

Also, Je4nne, what Huk said.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh Jeanne, don't be ridiculous! You're SUPER!

I'm on the mend, I think. I feel less dazed, and I was able to eat my lunch with fewer soothing gulps of water. Hurray! However, it does mean I have to go into work after three days unexpected absence, to discover what I should have been doing, what I didn't do, and in what ways I made my bosses' lives more difficult.

Though my NEW SHOES might be waiting for me at work, which would partially make up for it. GO NEW SHOES!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Your shoes got to work before you did? Are they magic shoes with an uptown look and downtown attitude?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I find it unimaginable that you could be boring, Jeanne.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I bought my shoes on ebay and had them delivered to the office as I didn't think I'd be at home to receive them Oh the ironing.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

OK, gotta get my lunch. When I get back, I'll just drop in, to see what condition my ILX addiction is in.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Are you having "mind in a brown paper bag" for lunch?

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

If "boring" means "not being able to do everything that everyone wants you to do", then I think you're doomed to be boring.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

And yes, it was totally a pouring pasta into a colander thing, something I've done a bazillion times. I have no idea how I "missed", since the pasta ended up where it was supposed to be. I blame angry, bitchy, petulant invisible demons.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who has done the 'open oven, not paying attention to the fact that I forgot the oven mitts, reach in and pull out pan, listen to skin sizzle for a second or two before what I have done occurs to me?'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I sometimes forget that if the oven mitts get wet, they let all the heat through.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Yup, did it a couple of months ago. Sarah had to cut a bit off our aloe plant and coat my thumb in the gunk inside the leaf. It hurt for days.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

No, I've touched burning hot pans too - are you okay?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

And I set one of my oven gloves on fire, so it now has a charred hole at end-of-finger level.

Man I want a pizza.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

We are all lucky to be alive!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh I didn't do it today or anything - I just have done it in the past.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

The other day I forget I had just had the aluminum kettle on and I learned my arm against it. It was definitely one of those hey wait a s... oh my god it burns us moments.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Upon further contemplation, ONE of us is not lucky to be alive! But I won't say who. You know who you are.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Is it me?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Do you know who you are?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right. I don't, so it's not me.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. Guess what? I got a new job. I gave notice this morning.
:-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Is this a Cheech and Chong routine, Chris?

If "boring" means "not being able to do everything that everyone wants you to do", then I think you're doomed to be boring.
Seconded. But after all, in the words of my hero Huey Lewis, it's hip to be square!

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

MARGARITAS IN CHICAGO TONIGHT!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

But I'm going to miss your stupid coworkers, Sarah. You can't do this to me!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Career Opportunity 1 Coworker Description Hijinks 0
xpost:
But in the words of my other hero, JERRY Lewis, as channeled by the Beastie Boys- "Hey Ladies!"

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, Sarah! Is it a good one?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Go Sarah Go!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I think so! It pays more and is much closer to home, the office is nice, and I'd be assisting architects and interior designers.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"Closer to home" is more of a benefit than you yet know. Living a mile from work changed my whole life. Made it better, even.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

TS: Reading on the way to work vs. going home for lunch.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Reading on the way to work is nice, but spending as little time as possible in Chicago January weather is much nicer.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Pears, I just take Division to the new place. It's near Division/Halstead.

luna, I see you've had sleeping troubles. Moi Aussi. The night before last, I DIDn't sleep alone in bed and Nick DIDn't sleep alone on the couch. We were each worried we'd keep the other one awake. I was propped up on two pillows because I was sick. The room got stuffy so I opened the door, so then my kitty Pepper came in and kept burrowing under my neck and purring really loudly. I haven't slept a full night total in the past three, I'd bet.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Me either. I'm starting to feel really not so good.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

We bought a mattress yesterday (not to be delivered for 10 days) and I'm hoping we'll get some sleep then.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I hope you're not having it delivered to your office!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Dam, I didn't realise I could pass on this flu over the internet. Sorry!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I just agreed to play Dungeons and Dragons weekend after next. I fear I have crossed some personal boundary for which I will never be able to forgive myself.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Original D&D?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Um, the guy in the office behind me is all pissed off and so he's been shouting "oh fuck ME" for the past 10 minutes. And the guy across the way has been groaning (out of frustration with a bitch of a client) for the same amount of time. I feel as if I am caught in a sexual tension crossfire and it makes me feel dirty in a very un-fun way. Yech.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I just agreed to play Dungeons and Dragons weekend after next.

WHAT?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah, with Rudy, the librarian's boyfriend. He plays sometimes, and invited me to make this girl who has also never played feel better for her first time. It's all very ritualized. We're supposed to be the non-nerd element at the party, I guess.

He's a funny guy, though, so I doubt it will be excruciating at any rate.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Yay Sarah! Good luck!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 14 January 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Sarah!

I just finished listening to my 15 voicemails. When can I just start telling people, "Yeah, you see, I don't really care because I'm OUTTA HERE!"?

Kenan, I guess you won't be showing up in costume then?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

-37 this morning with no windchill. I realized, as I walked through the tundra of an abandoned parking lot to the bus stop, that I could probably live on Mars and not notice a significant in climate (other than the whole oxygen thing).

― Huk-L, Friday, 14 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I smell like french onion soup. I can't wait until I am able to shower...this bath shit ain't cuttin it.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Don't shower before we've had the chance to make stock, Bings.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I get my sutures out today. big time scar.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Are you covered in a layer of cheese, Bingo?

xxpost

― Huk-L, Friday, 14 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

so bloody glad it's friday, looking forward to a chinese and watching my Shining dvd tonight.

If anyone can I beg you to watch Neighbours this evening (uk tv) just for the hilarious PTA meeting on gay issues. Just watch the extras acting attempts!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 January 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

huk, i might as well be. time for my bath, later dudes.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/austercita/cookie_monster.jpg

YOU GUYS RULE! THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE TREATS. FATTY IS HAPPY. I LOVE YOU GUYS!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I can't get away with this sentence, can I?
Legend croons sweetly and tastefully, avoiding the obnoxious Alicia-Keysisms that make people like Alicia Keys so obnoxious.

― Huk-L, Friday, 14 January 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Maybe clarify what "Alicia-Keysisms" are? Melisma?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Aw. Who sent you COOOOOKIES, Chris?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Thatks for the word, Jaymc. I switched the centence around and it's not as funny (to me), but it won't get me in trouble with the editor who's alread skeptical since my other review this week of a guy who shares a last name and home province with me and looks like me but as far as I know is not related to me.

― Huk-L, Friday, 14 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Yay! Dig in, French Onion Soup Man!

(A bunch of us sent him some cookies on behalf of TITTWIS.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I really, really, really need to catch up with this thread again, and I'll probably find some things herein that I'd have liked to comment upon but the time will have been way too late for that, and maybe there'll be some other things that I'll comment on and that'll mean the end of the discussion, etc., etc., etc., but... um... well... what's interesting to me is that I'm chatting with this longtime penfriend right now, someone I've known for about 7 1/2 years, and all this stuff about how my life is going right now is just pouring out and I'm totally telling her tons and tons of stuff. Which is odd, because earlier I was chatting on AIM with a couple of ILXors (who shall remain nameless) and I felt like I was really struggling to come up with things to IM them back with. I have no idea why this is so, and believe me, I wish I could've been as free with them with the words as I am right now, typing this rambling bit of nonsense out while I just totally uncork on AIM to this LTF. So consider this an apology to these two people who shall remain anonymous, because you didn't get the full me tonight, nor do I think you've gotten the full "me" in a long while. I hope I can end up really opening myself up again soon.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 15 January 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry. This is totally abrupt considering what I've heard has been happening here on this thread, but I felt like if I didn't post this now, I would probably never post here again, and, well, um, I'm sorry.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 15 January 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Stop stressing, start chatting. Had any good food lately?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

I hope you're ok Dee!

I can't believe this thread wasn't on the new answers page. Is it cos all of your US tittwisers have got the day off?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps TITTWIS needs a rebranding? A new feature, something that shouts out "new and improved!" Nudity tends to work.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Hm, not in my case, i would scare everyone away! Do you think it is the end of TITTWIS? :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

oh dear, i can't believe i have only just got what TITTWIS means.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

what holiday is it? Is it MLK day?

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone watching the Simpsons anymore? Here's what I missed last night:

Simpsons cross border into Manitoba seeking cheap Canadian drugs
EDMONTON (CP) — Seeking cheap Canadian prescription drugs, Homer Simpson crossed the border into Manitoba Sunday night.
The affable cartoon character was welcomed to Winnipeg — a city known for its booming cross-border Internet pharmacy industry — with a sign that read “We were born here, what’s your excuse?”
With his father Abraham, Ned Flanders and Apu in tow, Homer loads up his vehicle with a plethora of pills at a Canadian pharmacy to deliver to residents of Springfield, starved of drugs after the city’s employers eliminated health-care plans.
The group obtains their phoney health cards from an ageing Johnny Canuck, who promises they’ll get “enough drugs to make Regina look like Saskatoon.”
They’re also offered up marijuana by a Canadian Ned Flanders clone who cheerfully quips, “Would you like to puff on a reeferino? It’s legal here.”
But Homer’s career as a drug-mule comes to an end when Mounties at a border crossing suspect Apu — wearing a towel as a turban — is “expressing his faith, eh.”
Sunday night’s drug run wasn’t the Simpsons’ first visit to Canada.
When the family went to Toronto in 2002 Marge was immediately impressed with how “clean and bland” everything is.
References to Canada are not uncommon on the long-running cartoon, which has had several Canadian writers over the years.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to Laurie Andersons Big Science album at lunch today and now when I re-hum 'O Superman' I feel slightly euphoric. this is good.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Hellloooooo. Government workers in the US have the day off, but not everyone. I'm hoping this means I will have a nice, quiet day since the government is our customer.

I have such a stack of stuff to do here and my coworkers keep piling more on there. It must be because they know they'll have to absorb my job when I leave for no extra pay (well, they're looking for a replacement now but they'll have to train this person, etc, and it will take a while).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

So, s coworker is passing around a card for another coworker, and I just want to point out that in May, I will have been here for 4 years and have never ever had a card, or even a casual greeting, like "Hey Huck, Happy Birthday!"

OMG, four years. I hate my life.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Huk was that a local news tidbit about the Simpsons up there? If so I love it.

I also love O Superman. I have had so much caffeine today and am now having EVEN MORE since I didn't get much sleep last night. People in my office are being decisive, which means I can force LA people to be decisive also. Hurray for GETTIN SHIT DONE.

Sarah, congrats on your new job!

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I just feel like i really have nothing much to say to anyone anymore... I dunno why.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

ilx is getting close to that stage in a marriage where you just kind of grunt at each other.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Welcome to the last dozen years of my life, Luna.

(though I have at least been jotting down ideas for the possible resurrection of my blog lately)

x-post - teeny OTM!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

You think I didn't see you roll your eyes when you said that, but I could tell from the tone of your voice that you rolled your eyes. Don't you dare roll your eyes at me, mister.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

*I'm* not interested in what's happening in my life, why would anyone else be?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

This Is The Thread Where We Make Up Lies About Ourselves In Hopes That We Will Find Ourselves More Interesting

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

OH JUST ADMIT IT TITTWIS YOU ARE *NOTHING* WITHOUT ME.

But I'm back now children so everything's gonna be ok.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Welcome back, Arch!

Huck, that Simpsons ep was weird, really hammering in the Big Pharma message. The Canadian stuff was cute, though. And those were pretty much all the good Canada jokes in that article.

I have today off. I didn't really see it coming! But it's rainy and yucky out, so it's just as well. It was really icy here on Saturday, and my roommates and I stayed in and played board games and watched MST3K and watched people try to walk along the street outside the icicled window. Good times.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Someone in the office pointed out that Groening's father, named Homer, was born in Sask, to which I pointed out that Groening probably has as much to do with the writing on the Simpsons these days as Col. Sanders does with the K-Frying of chicken.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

What the devil is MST3K? Tell me!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I've been drinking lots of Diet Coke on a mostly empty stomach so my brain is frying and I demand distraction!

Hey, luna.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Don't play with a nail gun.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Or, if you do, point it at your coworkers' heads.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

And don't forget, when you're done, to check the inside of your mouth for nails.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

My direct deposit is finally set up! Yes! Yes! YES!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it great, Chris? It's SUCH a luxury not to have to go to the bank once a week to deposit a check - at least I think so. And OH MY GOD is online bill pay awesome too...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I love both direct deposit and online bill pay. Really, I'm terrible at managing my own finances! Oh wait, I just realized I forgot to pay my rent this month. SEE THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

You must have a sympathetic landlord! It's the 17th already!

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

What Huk said!
(I like to mix it up sometimes - not just 'OTM' for me today)

The accountant here just said to me, "Sarah, you must really hate this place if you're willing to take such a big step back in your career." Asshole! I'm moving up I tells ya! Up!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

"Not this place, just you, fuckface."

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

This has happened before: what I usually do is write out two rent checks at once, for this month and the next one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

That working at home thread makes me want to quit my dayjob and work at home ALL DAY.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know, right, Huk? Because, it's not like it's a REAL job or anything... (ha ha j/k)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Neither is "this."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Aww Luna, I hope things pick up for you!

Archel - how was the dam?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Hi Pink. Hi everyone.

Amsterdam was great - although they were building a new metro line RIGHT outside our hotel so it was kind of noisy. Matt bought a nice manbag in Hennes, we went to the Van Gogh museum and on a canal trip, and of course vegetated in coffeeshops playing backgammon and doing crosswords. I recommend La Tertulia.

This morning we went to register to get MARRIED. That was exciting! But nobody told me they take you into spearate rooms and ask you questions about each other like on Green Card! Fuck! We both got each other's job title wrong but hey, they're still letting us get married. In July. Woo!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Really? But yay archel!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I've been offline since my computer started dying last Friday - I'm posting this from work, but I have a new computer at home, so I hope to get my email started again this evening. I've felt really isolated. I visited here first, and I'm disappointed and surprised at how little there is!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

I know what you mean Martin, this is pretty much the only thread I keep up with in ILX now! Still, how are you doing?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

A coworker was just griping to me about the "blizzard of paperwork" involved in getting the health benefits reimbursement. Because I do the mail. I stopped myself short of "I don't even get benefits you fucking arrogant cocksucker."
Because, clearly, that's no way to start your day.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

But on the bright side, it was +1 C when I left home this morning.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Personally, I HAVE to start my day by calling someone a cocksucker. But maybe that's just me. My job is sinking to new levels of crap today. Half of our SELF-STUDY centre has been taken over by teaching, hence I am dealing with dozens of angry students with NOWHERE to go. I started eating a bagel for lunch (at my desk) at 12.30 and couldn't finish it until 2.30, I was that busy. Plus all the tutors are sending students to us with instructions to watch 'some Spanish video'. Any idea which of the 150 Spanish videos that would be? 'No, my teacher said you would know what I meant'. HA! HA! And none of the DVD drives work and my stapler is dying.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

That's when you throw the contents of the reserve shelf at them and yell "You're actually supposed to do research in college, I don't know nothing about no steekin' Spanish video! Ya cunts!" And then proceed to unravel the contents of the all the Psych tapes on hold and dance.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I've got a wisdom tooth coming in (should this still be happening at 27?) and it hurts like a bitch!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Ouch! I have one which comes through a bit every few years - agony - then just decides to stop and stay where it is. Weird.

I like that idea Jocelyn! As soon as I sent that last post, a tutor came in and INSISTED that I keep her own copy of [Spanish film title deleted due to paranoia] behind the desk to hand out to students even though we have two copies in our collection already. Well fine if you MUST give me more work, but don't blame me if they get mixed up or stolen, lady. Hm that gives me an idea...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I have a wisdom tooth that has poked it's top bit above my gum but hasn't moved any further. It's not sore right now and hopefully never will be - the dentist wasn't certain that I'll get away with it, but I'm sure I'll find out soon. last time I had a wisdom tooth out it cost me £10 PER SECOND. Admittedly it only lasted 20 seconds but still - most expensive service ever!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I have a job interview today and I have NOTHING TO WEAR.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

You're a shoo-in!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Re: My tooth. Yeah, it's coming in straight and all that, and it sort of edges a few millimetres closer to the sun every year or so. But it's just killing me. Shooting pains all up the right side of my head and all that. If I was working at home, I could dowse it in whiskey and have a nap.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Luna, you're supposed to imagine *them* naked.

(though I like your tactic - hope it works for you!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Top o' the mornin' to you all.

I woke up before 5am in a lot of pain, including, but not limited to:
heart burn
stomach cramps
womanly cramps
dizziness
nausea

I kept rolling around in bed moaning (in a very unsexy way). I thought I might die. I'm such a wuss when it comes to pain.

The plus side is that I came in to work late. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I just popped a couple of extra-strength tylenols. I'm freaking losing it over here!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Good luck, luna! For my last interview, I went to Express and bought some black dress pants. I was in and out in less than 30 minutes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Last night I was feeling particularly silly or something, so I went into a gay chat room that I used to hang out in many years ago, just to see what it was like these days. The Portland room was pretty dull, so I wandered over to the Sask room to see what was going on there. That was also somewhat dull but the people were more attractive and they were at least chatting. I wound up being chatted up by this Mexican guy who was studying French in Montreal. He only spoke French and Spanish, so we stuck to the language we were both worse at. (And it's true, it's easier to speak a foreign language with another student of that language than it is to speak it with a native, no matter what other languages that student speaks.)

So that was all pretty surreal. I never could figure out why he was in the Sask room to begin with, nor could he figure out why I was there, so it worked out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Do I hear wedding bells?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Wait, that's just the dull throb of my tooth.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

good luck luna! my job interview I had for today got postponed again, but that's fine because maybe the company will be inclined to hire me out of guilt.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

The tylenols have worked, and it's so wonderful. You're all wonderful. Everything is wonderful!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

You used the ones with codeine, didn't you?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Good luck for the job interview, Luna! You'll look fabulous whatever you wear, obviously.

All set up at home again now, waded through about 250 emails (over 200 actual emails to be read), and I'm now catching up on ILX. I'm not terribly well - last week's flu got really horrible before it started to fade, and I'm still coughing fairly badly now and then, and I'm still weak and tired - my first hot meal since last Wednesday will be ready in 13 minutes, and I'm not sure if I'll manage it. I've not racked up any sick days at work, and have now missed just two days in over three months, which is getting towards saving my job. I feel in a decent enough mood now that I am back online.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I just lost (well, gave up on) a debate with a lady who was trying to tell me that her Christian thing shouldn't be listed under the "Church Events" section of the community events calendar I handle. She argued that since AA and the like are faith-based and they're listed in the "secular" section, her Christian discussion group should be too.
"It's not really the same," I tried to tell her.
"Well, have you ever been to one of our events?"
"I've never been to an AA meeting either, lady. But in the promotional booklet you've just given me, your group calls itself a Ministry."
"Well, we're reaching out to people who wouldn't otherwise set foot in a church!"
"So, um, no offense here, you're trying to hide the fact that you're a Christian group?"
"My word, sir! We're doing nothing of the sort!"
"Um, okay, look, I can run these under the main heading, I really don't care."
"Maybe you'll think of joining us?"
"Yeah, maybe."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

You're going to run in the "church" section, anyways, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Guys, I have a confession to make. I've actually been on ILX all this time to sneak in bits of my ministry.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Testify.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Amen, Brother Chris! Praise the Lord!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I did a google of the group (it's a very large non-denom group that seems mainly popular in UK and Canada--it has a Greek name). And it seems really creepy. It's designed to seem very non-threatening, which, in my experience, means it's very threatening.

Oh, and I cut my radio show back to one hour a week, beginning sometime. Whenever someone new is ready to come in. Which will probably be never. The other folks on the programming committee are probably just humouring. Like the time I tried to quit.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Hi Martin, glad you're back online and hope you feel better soon.

I'm veering between two moods today - happiness because of getting married (planning invitation designs as I write) and anxiety because this morning I'm attending the video ID parade where I may or may not see the man who mugged me. At least it is just looking at pictures on a screen though, not seeing him in the flesh. But basically if I can't pick him out then there's no case.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

I hope the interview went well Luna.
I hope you are feeling better soon Martin.

Try to be strong Archel, i'll be thinking of you!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Well I managed that hot meal, and I managed the ham & cheese ciabatta I routinely have for lunch (threw some away the last two days), so I think I'm on the mend. I feel okay other than a bit weak, really.

Good luck, Archel.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, that was extremely unfun. However, both the other witness and I picked out the 'right' man ie the suspect. So that's a positive development.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Good work, Archel!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Archel Avenger!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

hi guys. i am so bored. been wasting the time playing online poker. whats new?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Not much. Oh, I did become President-For-Life of Planet Earth yesterday, but, uh, it's no big deal, really. I mean, I'm still the same guy. It's just that now you are all my slaves and must spend the rest of your retched lives paying tribute to my largesse.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

You want us to retch on your largeness? Whatever you say, your Hugenificence.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Chris, are you still winning ca$$$h? Cos if so, this enforced rest could make you the richest man in the world!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Chris, I'm sorry you're bored. Is some of this paid time off?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I think I missed something. Chris are you injured?

So, which of the DVDs that arrived in the post today shall I watch when I get home?
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
The Sicilian (starring Christopher Lambert bleccchh)
some episodes of Star Trek (don't know what they are yet)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

The interview was okay - I didn't get a strong feeling about it one way or another. They're supposed to be contacting people for second interviews later this week or early next, so we'll see whether or not I wowed 'em.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey was directed by sgs's current boss, Archie! It's a great film - that's my recommendation.

(Chris was hurt in a car accident - there's a thread about it here)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 27: And So We're Told This is the Golden Age

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

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