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― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I only have the instrumental version of Octagonecologist. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

"The Neverending Story" by Limahl is fantastical and clearly just what you're looking for.
FALCOR, YOU'RE EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN I THOUGHT!

-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com), April 19th, 2006 4:23 PM. (later)

Fly a fantasyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

are all the pics at funnypics as funny as this one?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the theme to the movie you're talking about?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

are all the pics at funnypics as funny as this one?

I like the way the pic tells you that it's funny.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

And if anyone knows about humor, it's the Germans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.buzznet.com/assets/users6/terryvincent/default/msg-1110508883-2.jpg
"I like the way the pic tells you that it's funny."

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

The boy phone is on top and he's bigger.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, how did the whole Wesley Crusher thing even get started?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and: MAN, those sheets are ugly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

But they do match the phones. Composition!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to the Dresden Dolls for the first time RIGHT NOW.

I managed to avoid the CHILX hype for a long time because I thought they were going to be like Demolition Doll Rods or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone else going to see J0sephine Foster at the Hide-out tomorrow night? If so, you'll see me there.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the new record is... good. I honestly haven't listened to it in weeks. But there was that one week that I listened to it a lot, and I liked it then.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think the phones got themselves a nice cozy room at the hampton inn. it's not too cheap, not too expensive, and there's an olive garden right across the street.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

That is clearly a La Quinta bedspread.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know. the tones seem a little muted.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Motel 6 y'all

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Judging by the age of the phones, you're all wrong. It's some 70's era motel along a deserted stretch of U.S. Highway somewhere in the Dakotas that is being run by a mineral rights squatter, his common law wife, and their collection of cats. They haven't had a guest in 3 years, mostly because of the phone copulation scaring away the few tourists that venture down their road.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe the place has ants or something.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

so not gonna happen

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I kind of thought of that too as I was spitting that shit out.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

The "so not gonna happen" pic is one of the few things I have seen on the other board I read long before ILX. Good ol' awkward.jpg.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.avphibes.com/LJ/awkward.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

THE FUNNIEST THING EVER SERIOUSLY EVERYONE WATCH THIS: (might take long while to load, but it's worth it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kKuPVJJjI&search=steve%20martin

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

why do comics always draw their so-called "awkward girls" like what's her face in that teen movie that's a "goofy" artist until she, like, takes off her glasses and then she's fucking smoking.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Possible for the same reason they make ALL female characters hott & chesty unless they specifically want to make someone UNattractive?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.hollywood.com/images/large/l_1092628.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

BIG NEWS IN IMMIGRATION LAW PROTEST LAND!

When I arrived at work today the restaurant was abuzz with people saying (in Spanish) "Are you going to show up for work?" They were talking about May 1, the day of the commerce boycott to promote immigrants' rights.

As I was in the chef's office I saw a list of employees headed with "Si/No." At our pre-shift meeting the general manager asked who planned on not working that day, saying that there would be absolutely no repercussions to taking the day off. All of the bussers present showed their hands as did one Latino waiter and I. One Latina server said, "I waaaant to be off....but I really need to work!" She was booed.

Already 1 other restaurant in our group (of 4 or 5) is closing on that day and it looks like we will too.

The thing that surprised and excited me the most was the fact that the GM told us that she would be boycotting work that day in a show of solidarity. (She said that her boyfriend, who is Mexican, told her that he excpected no less of her.)

iLA GENTE UNIDA, JAMAS SERA VENCIDA!

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

what is "JAMAS SERA"?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nick -- The Great Flydini is great. A little further down the page is a Letterman clip with Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs playing banjo that's pretty ace.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it's not funny, it's just banjos.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZSWfwDWDs&search=steve%20martin

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Jamas = never.

"The people united shall never be defeated." (In order to make it rhyme in English you can say "the people united shall never be divided.")

In Spanish it rhymes with "la gente pudrida jamas sera comida." which means, "the rotten (putrified) people will never be food." Which is funny, in case you didn't know.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kenan. Let's go to the movies for real this time, cuntdog.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

What is ningun? "None"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Just thought I would pop in after work to say "yup."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry: ningún.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

K. was amused because I used the word quizás in her presence the other day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Was she? Did she twitter?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love it when girls twitter.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse and I are going over to Jessa's empty apartment to make full use of her DVD player and digital cable. You're all invited. And actually, I would prefer some company, because otherwise Jesse might rape me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

"It's either movies or hungry buttholes."

His words.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

REDEMPTION.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

When the neighborhood around the Hungry Brain becomes predominantly gay, it will change its name to the Hungry Butthole.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Chris -- explain.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

hey, who was it on one of these threads who played a loft in pilsen? it was somewhere around 18th and damen, the same place that the mexican hardcore show was i think. i'm looking to set up a show for some friends and could REALLY REALLY use a point of contact. please send me and email if you can help.

THANKS in advance.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

I said we could either watch "Audition" or "Cum-Sloppy Buttholes."

I think Chris meant "Deliverance."

(I know that titles go in italics, but don't care)

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrr. I just fucked up a good steak.

A. I overseasoned it

B. I made it med-well when I was going for more rare to med. rare. This is a problem. I need blood....

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

It was a filet!

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

At first I meant "I fucked up a good steak" as in I punished that shit, I demolished it, I ate the hell out of it, etc.

I probably would have liked that steak, for I am a steak heathen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you didn't like steak?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

JORDAN WHY YOU LYIN' TO US? Hey there's a good jazz show tonight at the Hideout and D. is there shooting, so if you go, say hi to my hubs for me. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm, i just got a tax bill.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

i hate money.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

So if they say they didn't get proof of my illinois withholdings, I just need to send them my w2s? I certainly paid IL tax last year.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I know you CPAs are watching.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

hey, who was it on one of these threads who played a loft in pilsen?

That was me. Check yer mail.

xpost: Fuck money.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

DINNER OF CHAMPIONS:

1 Diet Rock Star
1 Bag of Wasabi Peas

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Your stomach's gotta hurt.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

So far, I've had 2 PBRs. I have 4 more.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, this is my pre-dinner. Real dinner is cheese toast and soup.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

I had one glass of red one (considering another), a frozen fish blob from TJ's (flounder stuffed with crab and cheese and other unidentifiable things) and some potato chips. And 2 cookies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

red one = red wine. maybe i shouldn't have another.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I want a happy hour tomorrow.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be in on that.

3 PBRs left.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think what Jordan meant is that the he would enjoy a fucked-up (overcooked overseasoned) steak because he's a heathen who can't appreciate a good steak?

― Jesse C Keh (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

I ate way too much baked mac & cheese (w/mushrooms, tomatoes, wine sauce, etc.) for the third time in the last week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sharks are depressing me with practice w/o me in my own basement.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Well that fuckin' sucks.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

i'm the one leaving. make yr bed, etc.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Right but... um... I don't know, go to White Castle.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, so I am home, and have eaten a lot of peanut butter. Some things:

Jeff -- I would be thrilled to have lunch tomorrow.

Jesse -- I am happy that you are cool, as opposed to lame. This applies to almost any of you at any given time, but right now it especially applies to Jesse.

Dave -- White Castle is the worst thing the devil hath wrought upon this foolish planet. You will accept the world at large much faster if you accept this fundamental truth now.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

????????????

― allyce griffiths, Thursday, 20 April 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Lunch? I said HAPPY HOUR.

I might be at oldtimers at 6. I'll confirm later.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

No happy hour.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Where's ma fookin' coffee?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

woke up late did not have time for my morning mug o'mud. commute seemed to go by at lightning speed due to me operating at quarter speed. need.... shitty..... office.... coffee....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Need PROTEIN. Brb w/ breakky.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Protein AND coffee!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn it doesn't anyone in this office understand that giving me 5 minutes to walk over for a cup of coffee will be for everyone's benefit? give me that spreadsheet now and i'll have it done for you in 45 minutes. give it to me in ten minutes after i've got some caffiene in my viens and it will be done in 15. I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOU 20 MINUTES HERE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

YUM YUM. Beginning to feel I can tackle the purchase orders...but I was planning bikes for the wkend and apparently it's going to be 40 degrees and rainy. Sux0r.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oatmeal + diet coke = good breakfast but I am still having a hard time getting up and moving. I think I need a vacation.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

You need real sugar, maybe. Have a Coke!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just got to work late, already spilled coffee on my shirt, WTF

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha you suck.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

So, phone sex: C/D?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

(aka, "oh god, today is going to EVEN MORE tedious than yesterday so divert me, pls")

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

????????????

-- allyce griffiths (the_blonde_patro...) (webmail), April 20th, 2006 4:37 AM. (later) (link)

Who was this and what did she want?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel - That's just about right -- I have a mountain of work to do and no mojo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

So, phone sex: C/D?

Depends. Talking dirty with your SO for the purpose of driving each other crazy: classic. Calling a stranger to jerk off to dirty talk: can't say dud, since I've never done it, but how could this possibly be any more useful than regular porn?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Who sucks, me?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan: I was kidding. You do not suck. Not IRL.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

You are groggy and you smell like coffee, though.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Understandable -- I hadn't thought about, like, 1-900 chat lines, just people you already know to some degree. I suspect the "driving crazy" is U & K but at the same time is the most duddest dud evah because there is no touch. :((

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

I know. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

but at the same time is the most duddest dud evah because there is no touch.

Well, hopefully there is eventually. Absence makes the heart grow something something.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

but at the same time is the most duddest dud evah because there is no touch. :((

what, are you wearing boxing gloves or something?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I've only ever had phone sex with a girl when I was, like, 15.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't thought about, like, 1-900 chat lines, just people you already know to some degree.

See, I've never done that, either. I've never phone sexed someone I hadn't already had real world sex with.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, yeah. Hmmm.

Otto, yeah, I guess it's all about yr priorities to begin with, and my greatest priority is probably figuring out how much skin surface two people can share at one time (without the dismemberment of either, for those of you who were going there). So the phone version just doesn't hit the spot.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

So... who are you having phone sex with lately? Come on, you can tell us.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

(without the dismemberment of either, for those of you who were going there)

I am baffled and amazed. Going where? Going for the easy "Oh, but if you cut off your limbs and flay yourself" joke?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I haven't tried it on in three or four years. Like I said, it really only makes daily life more difficult and frustrating and that kind of masochism is just not for me. Life is annoying enough and I think no one wants me to be EVEN CRANKIER.

Kenan, maybe I've been spending too long on noize bored? No, Chicago thread is also completely capable of making that joke, stop trying so hard to look innocent.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

There is nothing funny about dismemberment PLEASE GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I'm talking about phone sex on the internet, because I'm TOOOTALLY not, but that's because I've never done it. So I have no idea if it's classic or dud.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Surely phone sex has been replaced by email/IM/txt sex?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Email sex? Now that's a slow hand.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

gmail sex

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's been years but i'm gonna go with dud. years ago i may have held a different opinion. among other things.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Less yappin', more slappin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Goodness.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Lappin' wouldn't be too bad, either.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Phone sex is how my parents discovered their son had a taste for the sodomic pleasures.

I was around 19 and had never had live gay sex and I was calling Puerto Rico and Iowa based phone chat lines (only LD charges applied) to speak with other gay men. My dad noticed the charges on the phone bill and he called one day. I am physically incapable of the cringe that would be appropriate when I think of my father hearing "[thumping bass]Hey stud, wanna meet HOT men who are ready to PARTY? Ohhh yeah! Get ready to get off with other hard guys."

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

My then 80 year old father, I should add.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Our panel of experts has arrived.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Except I'm not sure how much I want to incriminate myself right now. I've had phone sex with both partners and strangers, and sometimes it's been incredible, and other times it's been lame. I'm a fairly verbal/imaginative person when it comes to sex, so when it's good, it's quite satisfying indeed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've had phone sex with both partners and strangers

And in between, no?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sure. I mean, in one notable case, the stranger became a friend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is a day and age in which people's stories of how they met become curiouser and curiouser.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Scenario #1 is that you're at work and the acquaintance/lover/spouse you're most attracted to calls you up - they're not working, in fact they're alone and fresh from the bath, and depending on your job you can talk to them or you can just sit and nod and listen but share in whatever it is they're doing. Scenario #2 is the reverse situation. Not as a subtitute for sex, but as a substitute for daydreaming.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

positively picturesque.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. And at one point I got an AT&T calling card and ran up a $1,000 bill on it (calling numbers with regular domestic toll charges!).

I got really legendarily stoned one day and called customer service. The asshole on the line actually mocked me and said "May I just ask how you managed to run up such an atrocious bill?" It's the sort of thing that seems to only happen when you're stoned.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

With my girl moving away and all, we've tried this a couple of times. It was fun at first but we both kind of decided all it did was increase the frustration after a little while.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Less yakkin', more attackin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Piuma is absent so I will just repeat what he said to me about cyber: "It could be reasonably argued that real life sex is just a poor substitute for [phone] sex!"

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Less talk, more caulk.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I feel as though Piuma is not the most reliable source on this one.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

And this is the part in the conversation where I bite my tongue.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Less gummin', more cummin'.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Less "I am..." and more cayenne.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

"What are you wearing?"
"SATAN CONTROLS MY ROBOTIC VAGINA"

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Depends pretty much on the people involved I guess. I've tried it twice, once when my then girlfriend was out of state and it was just awkward and stilted. The other girl I did it with was really stimulating and erotic, more than I'd ever thought it would be. I think it was just something about her more than the act though.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I made a mix for someone:

1. Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons
2. Arto Lindsay - Ultra-Privileged
3. The Beach Boys - Busy Doin' Nothin'
4. Joni Mitchell - Help Me
5. Chet Baker - But Not for Me
6. Caetano Veloso - Nine Out of Ten
7. Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
8. Amerie - 1 Thing (Siik Remix)
9. Jon Brion - Phone Call
10. The Avalanches - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time
11. Stars - What I'm Trying to Say
12. To Rococo Rot - From Dream to Daylight
13. Annie - Heartbeat
14. Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You
15. Robyn - Be Mine!
16. The Aluminum Group - I Blow You Kisses
17. Sam Prekop - Showrooms
18. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
19. Edith Frost - Emergency
20. Mojave 3 - In Love with a View
21. Dirty Three - Hope

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Let's stop the less ____ more ____ game. I hate when a thread devolves into that.

wow. i just sounded like jeff.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Less Jesse and more messy.

"Help Me"! "I think I'm falling in love with you"! That's going to send a message!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Let's stop the less ____ more ____ game. I hate when a thread devolves into that.

You posted quite a bit on the anal sex thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

"less dronin' more bonin'"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think IM sex is way better than phone sex, because you don't have to worry about the theatrics of your voice and it's easy to send photos too. After a while, the little sound that you got another IM becomes seductive in itself. THE END.

I just found out today that one of my coworkers is preggers and will be leaving once she has the baby. Exciting, huh?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

E: I wondered if I should explain to her that I don't make mixes with messages! I mean, it's immediately followed by the coolly disinterested "But Not for Me." Although I would be lying if I said I didn't choose that Aluminum Group song instead of any of a dozen others because of the sentiment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Sarah has a good point about cyber. Most people are better at it, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I will answer my own question. It IS exciting, because she is my second least favorite coworker.

xpost - John, as IF you would send a negative message via mix cd! ("Hmm.. Maybe if I put this "But Not for Me" song on there, she'll leave me alone!")

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Chet Baker always sends the same message, no matter what the words are.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

even better, phone sex with simultaneous IM pictures.

yeah, i turned off the sound on my trillian messages because they were too ~~annoying~~ hott.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

(I put it on because she likes jazz.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

My boss is taking a couple weeks paternity leave soon -- FUN ZONE!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Stars: "What I'm trying to say / Is what I want to say / Without having to say, 'I love you.'"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dangerously treacly.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

JAY I LOVE THAT SONG. Actually I love that whole album.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I know it’s kind of late
I hope I didn’t wake you
But what I got to say can’t wait
I know you’d understand
’cause every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

You posted quite a bit on the anal sex thread.

I know. That thread was the reason I say what I said. Anyway that thread

1-started off as a throw-away
2-became a joke thread

3-I would hate for our fine non-throw-away Chicago thread to become a big jokey thread.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

That mix looks very much like a mix with a message. Just sayin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, have you heard the Stars song? It starts with this big fuck-off "Blue Monday"-ish synth riff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

John, you didn't put any Mama D1gdown on there? To commemorate your first meeting??

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

3-I would hate for our fine non-throw-away Chicago thread to become a big jokey thread.

Yes, and let's also have it bronzed.

Kenan, have you heard the Stars song?

I own the records, and have never listened to them. Maybe I should,eh?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think a good model for crush/like/love mixtape is "these are songs I really like at the moment, and that I think you would like them too, and oh yeah maybe some of them say things that I want to say to you but can't for whatever reason right now." At least, that is the model I've always worked with in crating such mixes.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan fuck you. Seriously fuck you. Fuck all of you.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

John, you didn't put any Mama D1gdown on there? To commemorate your first meeting??

Followed by Fishbone's "Bonin' In The Boneyard".

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200303/tng-118-wesley-finds-himself-a/240x320.jpg
"So... who are you having phone sex with lately? Come on, you can tell us."

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

huh. i was just looking at the mix songlist and thinking, ooo, good music, mostly (i really dislike joanna newsom, and didn't know all of it).

but i'm someone who doesn't pay as much attn to lyrics sometimes. mixes are tricky that way.

yes, what thedanf'nmartin said.

fuck you too!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

communicator sex, duh

xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've just never bothered with the message part of mixes, because I'm not really a lyrics person all that much, either -- although I think she is more so. My main criterion here was mostly what Dan said about songs I like and she might like too, based on what I already know about her musical taste (i.e. predispositions toward jazz and Latin American and hushed singer-songwriter). I'm usually more concerned with sequencing it well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Newsom song = she took harp lessons once and has never heard J.N.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get the Wesley Crusher as Kenan thing. I've tried but unless there is some sort of past reference.....?

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Read one noize board

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am totally going to cast all you nerds as TNG characters.

LAUREL = GUINAN

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I call Worf

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get the Wesley Crusher thing, either. But then again, I didn't even know who Wesley Crusher was until all this started.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Me neither, and I asked Jon how it all started but he hasn't deigned to answer. (xxp)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Near as I can tell he doesn't like Kenan's picture with his bike.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc = OBRIAN

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc is totally Data and you know it

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i made a mixtape for my first bf in hs, and put the who's "let's see action" on it, simply because i was sick of rewinding to get to the song i really wanted to record, but wanted a bit of who on there (i listened to a lot of classic rockish stuff in hs).

he saw that and laughed. it totally hadn't occured to me that it could be taken as any sort of message...

i suck at making mixes so i don't, really.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Near as I can tell he doesn't like Kenan~~'s picture with his bike~~.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan told me that it just sort of started on the noize board but that there was no real reason. It was just "let's make fun of Kenan by comparing him to Wesley Crush3r!"

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

So I'm...Whoopi Goldberg? ??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Well at least that's out in the open now.

xpost What, you don't see it?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I just looked up O'Brian, and he's played by Colm Meaney.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Kenan is a great authority on the inner workings of my mind....
It's not like he is TROI or anything!

http://hometown.aol.com/cmacmon810/images/troi%20and%20riker.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

You had to look that up?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

People used to call me Data in high school because they said that I looked like him.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I TOTALLY DIDN'T!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Why would I know anything about Star Trek: The Next Generation?"

No, seriously, why would I?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

My name at summer camp was BUFFY (this is right after the movie came out) because I (jokingly) stabbed a kid with eastern European looks with a stake.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

JW = http://memory-alpha.org/en/images/6/64/Barclay_gold.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Because we are "nerds" John.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not that kind of nerd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://startrek-index.de/tv/cdb/image/obrien1.jpg
"No, seriously, why would I?"

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

lolz0rs

xpost: I get that, hence the "quotes."

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Can we PLEASE stop talking about Star Trek? I refuse to be someone who talks about Star Trek on a fucking message board.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I just saw that episode. LT. BROCCOLI!!

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's awesome? 8 oz cans of non-diet soda. It's just the right amount of corn syrupy goodness.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200303/tng-247-riker-is-visibly-agita/320x240.jpg
"Can we PLEASE stop talking about Star Trek? I refuse to be someone who talks about Star Trek on a fucking message board."

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Can we PLEASE stop talking about Star Trek? I refuse to be someone who talks about Star Trek on a fucking message board.

Well, I have nothing to contribute, so you and I can talk about something else, like sodomy or fine wine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I say we talk about Cleopatra's anus instead.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Murdock and his holo-porn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Regular soda is good in 12 oz or 20 ounce cans but non-diet is good in smaller doses.

oh ha ha! I referred to diet soda as the "regular" because that's how I think of it.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dolphincry.com/imzadieverlasting/tngpics/rikertroi/rikertroiwedding5.jpg
"You know what's awesome? 8 oz cans of non-diet soda. It's just the right amount of corn syrupy goodness."

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

make that 12 ounce can or 20 ounce bottle....

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Talking about soda is so much more interesting than talking about Star Trek.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you Amanda. Seriously. Fuck you. Fuck all of you.

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.scotlandsoftware.com/fiona/images/desktops/Riker.jpg

"I saw we talk about Cleaopatra's anus instead."

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha. Fuck you too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! the one result from "fuck you amanda" in a google image search

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:1K1YYQTVpREuKM:http://www.theplayland.com/cpg/albums/fuckyou/thumb_asha.jpg

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you Jordan. For realz though. Fuck you. Fuck all of you.

[now this is some good posting right here!]

― Lovely as Cleopatra's anus may have been, compared to my lady's, hers is a (uncl, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://ccwatergirl06.tripod.com/piks/bored.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I maintain that Ronan and Ethan's exchange on this thread is ILX's finest moment:

Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan and Ethan's exchange on this thread is ILX's finest moment:

Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Wolfe:

Without even realizing what it was, Jojo spoke in this year's prevailing college creole: Fuck Patois. In Fuck Patois, the word fuck was used as an interjection ("What the fuck" or plain "Fuck," with or without an exclamation point) expressing unhappy surprise; as a participial adjective ("fucking guy," "fucking tree," "fucking elbows") expressing disparagement or discontent; as an adverb modifying or intensifying an adjective ("pretty fucking obvious") or a verb ("I'm gonna fucking kick his ass"); as a noun ("That stupid fuck," "don't give a good fuck"); as a verb meaning Go away ("Fuck off"), beat -- physically, financially, or politically ("really fucked him over") or beaten ("I'm fucked"), botch ("really fucked that up"), drunk ("You are so fucked up"); as an imperative expressing contempt ("Fuck you," "Fuck that"). Rarely -- the usage had become somewhat archaic -- but every now and then it referred to sexual intercourse ("He fucked her on the carpet in front of the TV").

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

what a fucking douche.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Star Trek exchange

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was mildly amusing except for the fact that Wolfe seems overly pleased at discovering a linguistic trend that's not exactly new.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

"not exactly" = not even fucking close

That whole book sounds so smug and clueless.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

OMG YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN GUYS YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT COLLEGE KIDS ARE UP TO

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I have some things to give away.

1- a copy of the most recent Cooks Illustrated b/c I forgot I subscribed and bought one at Borders 2 days before my subscription arrived in the mail

2- Three copies of E@gle Games "T0urnament P0ker 2005".

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wolfe seems overly pleased at discovering a linguistic trend that's not exactly new.
...joining the ranks of amateurs the world over. (Myself included.) There is nothing new under the sun.

I think I need a vacation.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

He's not writing about the linguistic trend for us - he's writing about it for the ages. If Dickens wrote a paragraph about the use of "good man!' in the 1850s, it would seem obvious and everyday at the time. I marvel at a paragraph that dense.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Good point Eazy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think it was all that douchey. In isolation. Maybe in context of the rest of the book?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I was looking at it from EZ's point of view.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished A Man in Full and enjoyed it quite a bit, save the ending, which sucked.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Well, actually, it's from fiction (I Am Charlotte Simmons) -- so I kinda like its sudden appearance in the middle of describing a pick-up basketball game.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

He's not writing about the linguistic trend for us - he's writing about it for the ages.

But that's what's so annoying about it. Who asked him?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Who better?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

For pete's sake, who asked ANYONE?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

All writers should put down their pens now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Who asked anyone" = good point.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Who asked him to research and chronicle the times we're in? What a nutty question.

I love A Man In Full - how the miami rap evolves into the Korn-type song on the West Coast, so many accurate details about American business and life in the 1990s with hardly a mention of computers.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind Tom Wolfe, but was totally put off by his marketing strategy for the Charlotte book, because it was basically to come onto talk show and tell bemused stories about the odd sexual habits of college students, and how in his day it was totally different, and it's not like he's wrong, it's just like, "You're in over your head, old man."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

how the miami rap evolves into the Korn-type song on the West Coast

WTF

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost The judgement implicit in his observation of the wild, unhinged, just OUT THERE habits of young people is, yes, very smug, and very off-putting.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Part of why I picked up Charlotte Simmons the other day was because I felt like Tom Wolfe at the frat party Dave took us to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

"judgment implicit in his observation etc"
Is he not writing in the voice of a character?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, there's this song called "Ram Yo Booty" (lyrics made up by Wolfe) - a 2 Live Crew-type party rap - playing during some spring-break parties in Atlanta, and then when the action shifts to a warehouse in Oakland, the guys there are listening to a nu-metal offspring of the song, which is just perfect in that it's fiction but completely believable for a novel set in the mid/late 1990s.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

GOTCHA BACK!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the cultural stuff was pretty good too -- normally I find all sorts of hideous, embarrassing errors, and I've never been to prison, but it sounded pretty accurate.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Believable, but still creepy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, there's this song called "Ram Yo Booty" (lyrics made up by Wolfe)

See, this fills me with hate. I can't defend it, but it does.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

As the rush hour is over I think it's a great time for .........

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants a little dik-dik?
http://www.worldwander.com/namibia/Dikdik.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

What a cute dik-dik!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Beady Eye Factor off the charts!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

SLOTHS!

Newborn 2 toed sloth

http://www.alinereptiles.com/image092803/mammals/new%20born%20baby%20sloth.jpg

Sloth in the Distrito Federal in Venezuela (not as cute as some but I'm not here to judge).

http://www.lukemastin.com/diary/photos_venezuela/federal_sloth.jpg

And then there's this fucker who looks like he's attacking in slow motion like the girl from The Ring.

http://www.times-up.org/images/sloth.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

More dik-diks, please.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Those are some ugly-ass sloths.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you. This is the sloth board now, motherfuckers!

Da dum-da dum-da dum-da dum.....

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh today's sloths do not really have the diarrhea curing qualities do they?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

OMG that last one. [passes out]

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Safari-2005/Images/1374-dik-dik.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

They have weird hose-noses.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

And little faux-hawks.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! What was missing from my image search was an adjective! "Adorable sloth" yields sloths with healing powers.

http://www.cultofdegan.com/images/costarica/sloths/rb.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Haha a pic of Adam Sessler came up in my dik-dik search.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

That dik-dik's nose looks like a churro.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Look what happened on this blog!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMFG!

Today on Just a L1ttle Guy!

http://justalittleguy.blogspot.com/

MORE SLOTHS!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I NEED AN MP3 VERSION OF BUILT TO SPILL'S LIVE COVER OF "CORTEZ THE KILLER" CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME!!

NB I own the CD but it's in MN right now.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have it at home, but not here. Sorey!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sloths be hangin' from stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3230/1685/400/Panda%20cub.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

what amanda said

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

bummer.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Jesse + sloth brings up a bunch of Society for Creative Anachronism pics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have that song but I think it's wrong to pirate music. Sorry dude.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going crazy looking at my computer forever and trying to write some bullshit about Rainer Maria. Boo!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

So I went out a few nights ago and there were all these flyers up for my band's show on Saturday, which none of us had made or posted. It was like a beautiful dream.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it was another band with the same name?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's probably it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

...with a show on the same night, at the same venue? WHAT ARE THE ODDS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I know, there's gonna be some Highlander shit going down. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I NEED AN MP3 VERSION OF BUILT TO SPILL'S LIVE COVER OF "CORTEZ THE KILLER" CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME!!

NOBODY needs this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, dude. Just listen to Neil Young.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I love dik diks. Thanks, Amanda.

So, it turns out this coworker's pregnancy is NOT the best thing ever, because I had to spend the entire lunch hour hearing all the womenfolk talk about the dark underworld of pregnancy. It was all about the things that doctors never tell you. Mostly, it sounded excrutiatingly painful (and not just the birth) and very, very... um... messy. Also, I was trying to eat my lunch.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are so wrong.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

ahahah

http://madison.craigslist.org/cas/151661296.html

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/588611_dougmartsch_200x200.jpg

"Seriously, dude. Just listen to Neil Young."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.boldoutlaw.com/images/qpid2.jpg

"NOBODY needs this."

― Look at me everybody, I'm John Williams!!!! (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

How soon until your move, gbx?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nrk.no/img/184547.jpeg

"Seriously, dude. Just listen to Neil Young."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard "Built to Spill".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pops/listen/images/John_Williams.gif xxp

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! My beautiful beautiful post!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at the jean luc robin hood pic

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Laura!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://a.im.craigslist.org/uV/eU/FlWLrtfaT02WIAVxMiOfe7Gv6bq9.jpg

"NOBODY needs this."

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

(At first, I thought Laura's pic was the third in the Martsch/Oldham series, haha.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://canastamusic.com/images/albums/20050319-TedsApt/TedsApt09.jpg
"I've never heard "Built to Spill" "

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

moving next week-ish.

xp that She Wants Revenge thing is hilarious

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah & kudos jesse

xpost: on both counts! oh the roffles.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

roffles @ dan & jesse

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://canastamusic.com/images/albums/20040731-WickerParkFest/138_3841.jpg
"Why would I have ever heard Built to Spill?"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://canastamusic.com/images/albums/20031206%20EP%20Release%20@%20Subt/131_3173.jpg
"Wahhhhh! I think Chicago is moving too fast! Waaaahhhhh!!"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard Built to Spill.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rustyspell.com/music/neutralmilkhotel.jpg

"Seriously, dude. Just listen to Neil Young."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Oh. Sorry John! In that case

http://canastamusic.com/images/albums/20041208-BeatKitchen/IMG_9553-john.jpg

"I've heard Built to Spill"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

John looks so yeshiva in these pictures.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like the beard! Bring back the beard!

(you don't have a beard now, right?)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fiddler and the Roof.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I found out what "SDC is all about. The idea is that the singer thinks that if only the city were to slow down, then he'd have the chance to have a more considerable impact on it -- but in the end he realizes that's never going to happen, because we're all small fish in a big pond, or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Less slowing down, more going to town.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Less slowin', more blowin'.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.notmilk.com/graphics/pinesol.jpg

"If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I like this town's pace. Anonymity is great. Back home is slow, and usually that kind of slow is grinding sameness.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you can't grow a beard during summer!!

I'm strongly considering getting my first buzz cut.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I'm not going to fucking defend lyrics that I didn't write, and I'm not going to defend being in an indie band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

This town is not that fast-paced is my big beef.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

actually, this is my big beef

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/mirror/nov2003/0/2/0002D3D9-CF62-1FC5-96CF80C328EC0000.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff has a beard right now! It's awesome. Beard time is FUN TIME!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

So why don't you complain to the dude that wrote the lyrics, okay? Just because I'm in a band doesn't mean I am 100% on board with everything the band does -- actually, that's an understatement.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've got no beef with the song. Actually, I think it's your best one.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

The 'Slow Down, Chicago' protagonist is breaking out of a cycle of co-dependency - he suddenly realize that he cannot fix, manage, or control the city he lives in and must look inward instead.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ez-entertainment.net/carpet/nemesis/287.JPG

"Jenny, you can't grow a beard in the summer!"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

The 'Slow Down, Chicago' protagonist is breaking out of a cycle of co-dependency - he suddenly realize that he cannot fix, manage, or control the city he lives in and must look inward instead.

And that's why we pay Eazy the big bucks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I honestly hope that some day Diane Amos overcomes her typecasting and has a fulfilling career. Of course that assumes that playing a stereotype to shill Pine Sol isn't fulfilling. Maybe it is. Who am I to judge?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

So why don't you complain to the dude that wrote the lyrics, okay?

Just shut your mouth.

How can you say I go about things the wrong way?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Jesse, I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/pinesol13/piny.jpg

"I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I still want to do some 12" remixes of SDC, mostly with the intro and a echoey, trebly distortion on the gang-singing part of the chorus.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jfiles/files/img/tori_amos.jpg

"If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think ol' Jay Dubbs has started a new chilx meme perhaps.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/culture/2005/08/31/rachel_ray9_e200x253.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs13/goodtimes2.jpg

"If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really just still saying things about that song long after I stopped caring. I liked it when I heard it at Schuba's. But seriously, it would work better if it was Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New Delhi or New York slow down. (Except that NY would be horribly cliched. As would LA.)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

All these photos with captions.... a certain tool has given us a tool for amusing ourselves.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

And like all good things, it came from mercilessly mocking Kenan.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think ol' Jay Dubbs has started a new chilx meme perhaps.

-- Holy makkara, Toivo! (thedanmarti...) (webmail), Today 2:00 PM. (OutDatWay) (later) (link)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sorry. I saw "Dubbs" and thought it was about Bush.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.famous-amos.com/images/q1_fa_prods.jpg

"If you can't take the heat, get out the kitchen."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://jonnyeye.typepad.com/maninapanic/images/pine_sol.jpg

"I think ol' Jay Dubbs has started a new chilx meme perhaps."

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Can I play the 'get out the kitchen' game too?"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

asl aseodfop8iaw8[9o fuckcuffjflkas

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Bert_Williams_blackface_2.jpg/275px-Bert_Williams_blackface_2.jpg

"Can I play the 'get out the kitchen' game too?"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sorry. I saw "Dubbs" and thought it was about Bush.

I can see some similarities, now that you say that!

xpost: roffles@jenny

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Eazy, I'm going to see a SENIOR CITIZENS' THEATER COMPANY tonight. It's a bunch of short that all have to do with prescription drugs (a friend wrote one of 'em).

Old people be actin'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Jenny: if only.....

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

hey

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_movie/cocoon.jpg

"Old people be actin'."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cybercentric1.com/Images/Navy_Days_images/Gerrit%20
"hey"

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.screenselect.co.uk/images/products/4/35644-medium.jpg

"Old people be actin'."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

LOL JW.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/s/images/space-cowboys.jpg

"Old people be actin'."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

um "Old people be actin'"
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/goldengirls/CastA11.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tomgpalmer.com/images/stallions.JPG
"Hey."

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I so stupid.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tomgpalmer.com/images/stallions.JPG

"Hay."

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/8660112687833180.JPG?0.10094124002831761

"Look, I'm not going to fucking defend lyrics that I didn't write, and I'm not going to defend being in an indie band."

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news15/images/news707_2.jpg

"Old people be actin'."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zuga.net/freelessons/livingston/hay%20bales.jpg
"Hey"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ibiblio.org/sigmaman/content/images/public_domain/general/mlf-skeleton-pd-05-kj002/mlf-skeleton-pd-05-kj002.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jordan, that sounds like fun, especially if they're doing their own plays. (Hey, I wasn't around when you were talking about the Mpls. dude who wears white or black tux jackets, but I saw him all the time when I lived up there - on the bus, etc.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/exhibits/imgs/visible_skeleton_lg.jpg

what a great image

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/exhibits/imgs/visible_skeleton_lg.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think the playwrights are young and the actors are old. Hope they remember their lines.

(cool, I only actually saw that dude once at Luce)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

EZ's comment reminds me for some reason:

Today while waiting for the bus, I saw this guy riding around a bike covered with stuffed animals, streamers, the stars & stripes, etc. He was wearing a shirt that said "HI" in big letters and some short shorts. When I saw him he was on a road divider near State and Lake talking to a street dude. He kept taking one of the stuffed animals off, making it do little dances in front of the guy, and then putting it back on the pile. I was really hoping he didn't come over and talk to me, because there would have been no way I could keep from cracking up laughing at him. Maybe that's the point.

Anyway, have any of you ever seen this dude? It can't be a one off thing.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca/features/featureimages/atroc.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/Doug_martsch.jpg/180px-Doug_martsch.jpg + http://gfx.filmweb.pl/p/90989/po.87884.jpg = http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/imperial/key-concepts/images/livros_03temp_000_000.jpg ?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand how broken bones relate to insertion of a diaphragm???

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nor do I. I wish I could find the one that's a cross-section of a blowjob in progress.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

C'mon, who's with me? Martsch + Yorke = Coetzee?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I buy it, John. Blokes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Who?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think it just needs to be Martsch + the ravages of time.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Built to Spill singer Doug Martsch + Radiohead singer Thom Yorke = South African novelist (with whom I share a monogram) J.M. Coetzee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

South African novelist (with whom I share a monogram) J.M. Coetzee
This is the part I didn't know. Maybe you were writing the first part for the ages.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ah ha. Here we go. nsfw.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

ATTENTION: Does anyone want to get dinner with Sarah and I somewhere tonight? Our requirements are: 1. Has outdoor seating. 2. Has margaritas (not a stringent requirement, I don't think). Mainly we want to sit outside somewhere and eat and hang out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I wouldn't have known what Coetzee looked like, either, except I'm editing something about colonialism and his photo popped up on a website.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Nick, that sounds like a good idea, except K. and I are going to see Inside Man after work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Which K. is that? Your gf K.?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

We also talked about going to see Brick but we're too lazy to get to Landmark Century Center and the Esquire sucks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, my gf. Truth be told, I'd rather see Brick, but she prefers seeing movies at the Davis -- which is fairly close to us, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Coetzee came to my college and I went to whatever the fancy pre-reading dinner was. Very very formal man in a very very formal black suit. There's a Lorrie Moore story that he clearly seems to be the inspiration for, can't remember the name but it's in Birds of America.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm... I am intrigued by this "dinner" idea, Nick. Let me run it past el esposo and see what he says. Do you have an idea of what "time"?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

nick, go to tuman's. it's close and they opened the outdoor seating two weeks ago. i'm unavailable for dinner as i'll be doing laundry then heading to sub-t tonight for some kick ass rock n rollery. and probably leaving before the headliners go on because i have to work tomorrow and they didn't impress me the last time i saw them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe kind of latish? I have work I have to do tonight to, and I'd rather get it out of the way before fun, but I won't know how much work I'll have until about 5:30.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Jeff-o doesn't get done with work until six, so there's that.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you need a gmail account so I can IM you all the time from work (ha! That has nothing to do with a post of mine earlier in this thread...)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

I want to eat my new name.

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Dinner info:

1. Jeff would also like to get a drink at Old Timer's after work, so that's more time.
2. He's ameniable to going to dinner after that.
3. He's concern that he will be cold sitting outside because he doesn't have a jacket.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I want margaritas.

Hey, maybe we can go for TAPAS! somewhere?

Jeff should skip drinks with coworkers and make us a priority. It's more fun to sit outside when it's still light out.

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Sarah.

I think Maddie's going to Chicago tomorrow to see Ladytron and the Presets.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I really hate outdoor seating.

/jeffness

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously though, I do. It's either chilly or too hot in the sun or too shiny or stinky or noisy or blowy or crap in the airy.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

If you want something fancyish sometime, Feast has a delicious apple/blueberry cobbler with cinnamon ice cream on the side (and outdoor seating).

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

He's not drinking with coworkers, I think he's just drinking with me. Plus if Nick wants to go later, the drinking should work out okay, jah?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also people eating their dinner on the sidewalk that you would like to walk home on sucks. Also, having them stare at you, the pedestrian peon, while they slurp up their meals and wait for their valet-ed cars. Who walks any more???

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mainly it's the glaring sunshine I hate. Oh and the bugs. And those goddamnedable pedestrians!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

So what time are you thinking, Jenny? And where?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Do you slurp your meals, Dan??

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, suck it up.

I am down for some sidewalk cafe action. Maybe even a margarita. I haven't had one of those in an age.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey I'll be in that area later this evening, depending on where you are maaaaaaybe I'll meet you out too. I just need to get to the Hideout around 9:45.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

More KV?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a little earlier. No, this time it's Josephine F0ster.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working tonight anyway.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out we're celebrating a bday in the office at 11:30 tomorrow morning. Then just about everyone other than me is leaving for a trade show. Yay!

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any places! Help me!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Do you slurp your meals, Dan??

Sometimes, when I eat soup!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I eat soup like a dog. Messy, ineffective, but always attention-getting.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Who walks any more???

uhm, i do. tonight i'll be walking to retrowash then walking home then walking to subterranean then walking home again. tomorrow morning i'll walk to the bus then walk to my building at work.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

What would you say to Cafe Iberico? I've heard it's quite good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is it only tapas? Jeff has an anti-tapas bias.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Nevermind.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

There appear to be entrees.

Nuts, I've always wanted to try that place. And it's four blocks away from work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

uhm, i do. tonight i'll be walking to retrowash then walking home then walking to subterranean then walking home again. tomorrow morning i'll walk to the bus then walk to my building at work.

Yeah man, I walk all the damn time. I was trying to adopt the voice of a yuppie sidewalk-eating (read: sidewalk-blocking) jerk, in mid sentence. Stupid not remembering the internet is not like normal speaking...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

The menu for that place sounds really fucking good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

cafe iberico is great, though of course i haven't been there in eons.

kenan, i've seen you eat soup and YOU LIE.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I walked by that Irish pub on Milwaukee last night and the sidewalk was full of obnoxious louts. I would think that the punks and anarchists would beat them up.

Oh, and Quimby's yesterday I saw what looked like a pretty fascinating book, published by Routledge, about artistic communities and the history of Wicker Park in the 1990s - very academic anthropology, and the index has things like "Ubis Orbis, pp. 14-15, 26-27, 55-59".

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

My brother got that book for Christmas.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard Iberico is awesome, inexpensive and has great drink prices.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I walked by that Irish pub on Milwaukee last night and the sidewalk was full of obnoxious louts. I would think that the punks and anarchists would beat them up.

Were the streets full of kids that just moved to town?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, they have entrees. I'm checking with Jeff... hold please...

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I got my dad's favorite xmas present at Quimby's:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0922915997.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Iberico for dinner. Now i'm jealous....

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is pretty awesome: I got a parking ticket in Evanston about a month ago for being parked in a 2-hour spot for more than two hours, but they were wrong because I had just moved my car to a new spot. I was pissed, so I contested it online, figuring I'd get the brush off and have to pay anyways, especially because it was my word against the meter maid's. But I just got a notice in the mail saying they agreed with my contestation, so I don't have to pay the ticket. THE SYSTEM WORKS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, is that a book cover? THAT IS AWESOME. Because at first glance (and second and etc) I assumed those were a little custer of buildings, and then I was like "why such bright, well-coordinated colors?" AND THEN VOILA!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

NICK AND SARAH WE'RE IN!!!!!

What time shall we meet?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Were the streets full of kids that just moved to town?

No, the streets were full of what seemed like loutish MBA guys (and I'm not quick to judge like this usually), including one guy who was wearing a polo shirt and a backwards baseball cap who must've been closing in on 40. Bad news - and who would care except that they were all at the sidewalk tables right on the sidewalk.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I thought they were buildings too!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's the cover. It's a great, funny, awesome read, too. Especially if you're a fan of remote locations, struggle against the environment, and Shackleton.

xxpost One more reason to hate sidewalk seating!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

7:30?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

yuppie sidewalk-eating (read: sidewalk-blocking)

normally this doesn't bother me. i know that restaurants, by and large, are a VERY dicey way to make money so if the owner can do something like put out some tables and chairs on the sidewalk i don't really care. it's only a few months out of the year. but on division where inn-joy and small bar are there IS NO WHERE FOR PEDESTRIANS TO WALK!!! there's about 36 inches between the tables and doors to the restaurant which is enough for one person to pass by. sidewalks are for bi-directional traffic!!! plus there are the yuppie idiots who tie stand in that passageway with their idiot dogs (note, i'm not holding the dogs responsible for being raised by idiots).

whenever i have to come to a complete stop there (which is, y'know, EVERY GODDAMN TIME I WALK PAST) i take that moment to light up a cigarette. YOU CAN STILL SMOKE OUTSIDE CHICAGO!!!!

sorry for all the shouting.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I feel you, my man, I feel you.
http://balkansnet.org/otpor.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

7:30 is fine, but I am unclear on the venue.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

CAFE IBERICO. It's on LaSalle, a block or two south of Chicago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I probably won't be joining you then, since it's gonna be tough enough to get from where I live to where I'm going, I don't have time to jog around town all that much. Oh well, next time.

Why do I have to go home first?

Dogs.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy, at least you responded to my wink-wink-nudge-nudge, unlike slocki on some film thread, who didn't seem to notice when I quoted a line from his podcast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid dogs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay homiez, I am leaving work and the comforting glow of the internet now. 7:30 sounds good to me. Please conduct any more planning in which I need to be involved using amazing cell phone technology and text messaging and probably Jeff since I'm going to yoga class from 4:30 - 5:30.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

OK CAFE IBERICO AT 7:30 EVERYONE

John, fuck a movie, come eat tapas. I think sangria might be involved as well.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, fuck dogs, come eat tapas. THEY'RE DOGS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

no dog fucking k thnx bye

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

According to reviews on metromix, there tends to be a wait. We can make a reservation if we have at least 6 people. Let's see... Nick, me, Jeff, Jenny... Kenan, are you coming? If I can get a count, I'll call them.

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

How about this -- I'll think about trying to make it there. It sure sounds like fun. Assume I'm not coming, but I'll text someone if I change my mind. How's that? I will not eat dog, but I've enjoyed Spanish sausages before. Spicy Spanish sausages.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can't come, no. Sorry kids. I have to work tonight and go to bed all early and not drink sangria wine.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

OH well. Nick and I have this problem where we're extremely punctual, so we'll get there a little earlier and put our names on the list for 4.

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I would go, but I haven't cashed a paycheck in 4eva.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

cash one, then

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Make me.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

GBX are you having a going-away party?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Or will you sneak away in the middle of the night?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

not sure, really. maybe?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I realize this is from 400 posts ago, now, but: REDEMPTION was from the thread title. Thanks, Sarah!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, "When Doves Cry" was the #1 single on the ILM 80s Poll. I mentioned this to Nick, but if anyone wants a copy of all 100 singles, let me know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I DO I DO YES PLEASE

ANd that's a fine choice for the #1 spot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Obsession" by Animotion in the top 100?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

No, and someone pointed out that there's not a single Tears for Fears song in there, wtf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Nor is 'Sex over the Phone' by The Village People.
Un-freakin'-believable.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

No "She Drives Me Crazy," no credibility.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

There is another mix waiting to be made here. The songs that ILX forgot. But I guess that's with any list.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

It pains me to say it, but Prince is overrepresented on that list.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

"When Doves Cry" might perhaps be the correct answer there.

I would also probably like such a compilation, but I might have most of the tracks already.

Although no Tears For Fears is d-u-m-m DUMB.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Did "Manic Monday" make the top 20? Because if it didn't, then the list might have even less credibility.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna be poor forever. :(

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes, I was eating dinner and watching Vh-1 classix and I was reminded of the atrocity that was "Don't Shed a Tear" by Paul Carrack. Will someone remind me who that guy is and why he managed to have a deal with Arista and a big fancy video!?!?

Choice lyrics include: "A slim chance in tight pants is what you are" and "A locked door on a candy store is what you are" among other gems. Who was that guy?

I sure wouldn't mind having a copy of that greatest 80s songs.

― The Milkmaid is a slim chance in tight pants (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

You're not gonna be poor forever, Dave. Remember -- if you're patient, poetry pays LOS BIG BUCKS.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

One more thing before I leave:

It's springtime, isn't it?

English vs Americans: Who's better at S-E-X? (57 new answers)
The Most Inappropriate Background Music For Sex. (4 new answers)
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― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't paul carrack the lead singer for squeeze?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

OK, there's a good answer. Seriously, though, the song I just heard sucked big time.

― The Milkmaid (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was recently mentioned in the Oregonain thanks to POETRY. Now I am a very rich man and am getting laid left and right.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Warning: That link will probably be annoying and want your zip code. But it does mention me and quote one of my poems.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Look, it's the lyrics to that horrible song:
http://vagalume.uol.com.br/paul-carrack/dont-shed-a-tear.png

― The Milkmaid don't want no crocodile tears either (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha... (others presented greater transcription challenges)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of sidewalk blocking the new channel 7 studio is stupid.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

stoned. (and the 420 part is only a coincidence).

i've heard cafe iberico isn't that good. what was your experience, gang?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I'm back. Waiting on tables of sassy saucy black women was not an ideal way to spend an evening. Especially when one of those women is having a birtday, an event which I think she confused with inhereting a throne. I had hundreds of dollars of comped food and drinks to people who were were pleasant and content until the bill came. Then they remembered how disappointed they were with their server (me) who rushed them and then left them for dead. And one woman was mad because I didn't introduce myself by name, which we never ever do. I haven't done that in a restaurant since....well just never.

How was Iberico?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

FREE FUN ANNOUNCEMENT

I have 2 comp tickets to BACK OF THE THROAT at the Silk Road Theater in the Loop. It's a play I've been wanting to see. Who will go with me? WHO?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I used to be
Mr. Broke Iambic Pentameter
Then my rhymes went gold
Got my own dope Hammatime
Rhymes spun gold like a fairy tail
I'm a rich free-verse hustlin' hairy male
James Tate and Ashbery, a one-time listen
But my own fresh double-sestinas glisten
Put on your sunglasses, here's my villanelle
My driver's out back and he'll keep chillin' 'til
I'm back in the Jag kickin Ezra Pound
Keats up, Yeats down and I'm out (out out out out out - fade)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

What the fucking hell kind of a way is this to sell a car?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/car/153090959.html

1986 Honda Civic HB Gas Saver. Must Sell Now - $350

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― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think dude's trying to bring the car back to life.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw Nashville for the first time. Great movie. So many beautiful women, too. And Lily Tomlin is a fucking goddess of acting!

Also, I have decided I will not be poor forever, but I must do a couple of things:

1) Apply for jobs, and
2) Possibly accept the possibility of not working at P!tchfork after graduation (at least not at the office, and even if so, probably not twice a week) :(

I am brewing plans.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

Has everyone heard the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy?" Because if not, I want to post it to the blog.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

we've all heard it. I was listening to it earlier. 'S good.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

I just woke up from a dream in which the white light of my computer sceen was actually morning light, and it was white because it was snowing like crazy outside. I felt so relieved when I woke up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Iberico was kind of weird. I thought that atmosphere was weird, mainly, we were in this huge room with like 8,000 other people and so it was really really loud, and it was dark but didn't seem classy, just kind of dark. Food was pretty good and cheap (the tab for me and Sarah was like $32 pre-tip for five tapas and half-pitcher of sangria, which was plenty). Had artichoke salad thing (good), cold Spanish omelette thing (really good), olive plate (ok, but had kind of an odd seasoning/aftertaste thing I couldn't place), grilled veggie salad (which I didn't try), and spicy potatos in a tomato-y sauce (really good). But yeah, really loud.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

And then, to get out of the restaurant we had to walk a gauntlet of irritating, high-pitched women in strappy lingerie tops who were too busy trying to make the most noise and therefore get the most male attention to realize that you have to MOVE when people are trying to walk by.

Jeff and I had paella - Jeff had seafood and I had "assortment of somewhat unidentifiable meats." It was pretty good, especially for the price, although it's not the best paella I've ever had. I had two Spanish lagers which were also good.

The place was definitely loud, and you have to just stand in line to wait for a table once it gets busy, which is the kind of thing that tends to irritate me.

In summary: Go, but go on a week night and go early to avoid the irritation. Don't take the easily startled or hard of hearing.

By god, Paul Carrack was in Squeeze. And Roxy Music, too. Cripes.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

And just to be contrary, Prince could never be overrepresentated on an 80s singles list, and The Bangles could never be underrepresenated on an 80s singles list.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

OTM.

To go along with my other blunders yesterday, a black pen somehow found its way into the laundry. It wasn't even in a pocket, most have gotten rolled up in something, and now I have a big, black, wet stain just below the ass of my favorite jeans.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, when you're contrary and you dis the Bangles I feel you are so far away from me. :(((( I tried Prince, it was ill fated.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are all nuts.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I love Prince, I'm not saying that. But he had, what, ten songs on that list?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

and The Bangles could never be underrepresenated on an 80s singles list

But "Manic Monday" is a Prince song!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

BUT WHAT ABOUT HAZY SHADE OF WINTER???

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Meh. Simon and Garfunkle covered it better.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that version, but I can't believe it. Which reminds me: Kenan, did you ever mail those mixes?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel's right - "Hazy Shade of Winter" must be in the top 100.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel -- I have not forgotten. I was meaning to get to the post office this week, but ended up partying, working, and sleeping instead.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

5 for the top 100: Animotion, "Obsession"; Dead or Alive, "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record"; The Bangles, "Hazy..."; Young MC, "Bust A Move"; Eurythmics, "Missionary Man".

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Meh. I was really hoping to get to work early today, but no go. I went to bed at 8:00, slept until 6:30-ish, but hadn't eaten anything since lunch the day before, so my blood sugar was lying on the floor, whimpering. And so I just lay in bed for an hour, almost totally unable to move, feeling flushed but cold, listening to the alarm go off. It's kinda scary when that happens.

I made it out of bed, had some juice, and am now having leftover pizza. I'll be ok.

xpost "Bust a Move" is definitely on there.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah the last time I heard "You Spin Me Round" was at a certain ILX wedding recep, and that may have been the happiest I saw Dan Perry all night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Missing from the list: "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)". Petty complaints about the Bangles are one thing, but really now. Come on.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Here Comes the Rain Again" may be even better than "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to prefer Prince songs when Prince performs then (see: I Feel for You, Nothing Compares 2 U). And I just never liked the Bangles. "Walk Like an Egyptian" was cute, but not that cute. I'll fully get behind The Go Gos (but NO Belinda Carlisle solo stuff, no way) and the Eurythmics, however.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Dreams, Here Comes the Rain Again, Would I Lie to You, are all totally excelent but my fave is Love Is a Stranger. (I've got a thing for Annie Lennox, ya'll.)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

The 1984 soundtrack is great (only single was "Sexcrime (1984)") - a few songs are just instrumentals and scat-singing. I listened to 'Be Yourself Tonight' for the first time in probably 10 years, and that's got some really good songs too, esp. "I Love You Like A Ball & Chain". All of their records before 1990 have at least a few great songs.

Oh, 'Love Is A Stranger'! I forgot about that - that's one of the best.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to have to say this, but Paul Carrack's song "Don't Shed a Tear" blows beyond doubt. I'm sure he was super-duper in Roxy Music and Squeeze and in bed and the kitchen, but that song sucks!

In other news, I attended a show last night where the audience was approximately 60-70% female. It was kinda sloppy and there were countless tech problems, but lots of awesome psych freakouts, which are even better when Jojo is singing. Everything is better when Jojo is singing.

The Go-Gos "Head Over Heels" -- did that song make it to the top 100? Because it's among the most jubilant songs ever.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

i think i prefer 'here comes the rain again' to 'sweet dreams etc' as well. i am lazy with typing.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

i do too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I attended a show last night where the audience was approximately 60-70% female

i was at a sausage party at sub-t. only women there were either in the bands or married.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

You shoulda been at the Hideout! TONS OF GURLZ. It was really cool to see so many females out at 1AM on a Thursday. Some of them had reticent-looking dudes in tow, although some of the dudes looked like they actually wanted to be there, but mostly it was ladies. Gals. Chix.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://shadowy.brainiac.com/chix-lp.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Have you guys ever heard of yo chicago dot com?
They asked me to write for them.. um.. for free, because they liked my blog. The problem is I don't really like to do things for free. But maybe it would be fun?

Cafe Iberrrrricccc000 was weird, but entertaining. I think I'm still a little drunk this morning. SANGRIA! AY AY AY!

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse knows what I'm talkin' about.

― Peach Cobbler McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, Sarah, they look like a business web site ("A fresh look at Chicago homes, apartments and neighborhoods") and they are affiliated with "New Homes" magazine, which is certain in busines to make money, so I would not write for them for free. I would if it were like, a Gaper's Block or Bookslut type thing that was more about the love with a possibility of being about the money later, but this is strictly business and they should be paying people.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Serving Chicago and north suburban new-home buyers"

Yeah. That's not a nonprofit venture, there.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I um.... I am getting cable TV. Why do I feel guilty about that? And there will be DVR involved. Because it's cheap and everyone who has it has said "It will change your life" (exact words, which is weird).

Now to get my TV from Samsung....

xpost Sarah-- I really don't know what you're talking about.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. About being drunk in the morning? What kind of thing is that to say?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Racist.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

to cite who said "It will change your life" for Jenny's benefit:

-Courtney
-server named Heather
-manager named Hammer

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I meant you would understand my love of sangria because of your heritage, jesse.

Ok, screw that site.

― Ayloct Doranna Candystore (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

you know what life changing thing i miss? having a dishwasher. i don't cook as much anymore because i know i'll have to clean all that crap up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Just like I understand a love of kringla because of mine.

Should I bother writing the guy back and saying no? He probably sends out tons of emails like that hoping to get a bite. (a bite o' me kringla!)

xpost - otto, I haven't had a dishwasher since... I lived back home.

― Ayloct Doranna Candystore (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Cable TV will change your life" isn't the kind of statement that needs sources. It's an opinion, or a recommendation, like "House on the Rock is like looking directly into the eye of God." If you said something like, "The net income of people with cable TV increases seven fold within the first year of signing up for serivce. Lots of people say so!" I would want to know where you got the info.

xpost: Dishwashers are pretty awesome.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet Jesus, you're right about the dishwasher. I never had a dishwasher until this place, not even at my parents' house, and MAN does it make a difference. I use dishes with impunity!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I do feel sort of spoiled though. I admit that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/16/22665485_471f9dbd77_m.jpg
Get in my belly!

House on the Rock is like looking directly into the eye of God.
That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

― Ayloct Doranna Candystore (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm never again living without a dishwasher.

Somehow I managed to forget my motherfucking GLASSES this morning. I didn't realize things were blurry until I was in the coffee shop.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

One day I will have a dishwasher. You know, I get a kick out of washing my travel mug in the dishwasher at work and bringing it home clean because it's just one less thing we have to wash by hand.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

those look like bagels that you posted, but now i'm kinda craving donuts. fatty sugary goodness.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

They kind of look like challah. Mmmm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

It was actually the DVR that people said would change my life. I'm really looking forward to that as much as the cable itself. I don't think I'd bother with cable w/out the DVR.

Dishwashers! I have been seriously considering getting a portable dishwasher (on wheels). I'm really sick of hand washing in a 1 tub sink.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's a sweetbread.

I also appreciate bagels, donuts, and challah.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

What's DVR?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

You know what else? One day I will have a clothes washer and dryer, even if it's one of those little stackable versions.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

FREE FUN ANNOUNCEMENT

TONIGHT

I have 2 comp tickets to BACK OF THE THROAT at the Silk Road Theater in the Loop. It's a play I've been wanting to see. Who will go with me? WHO?

I would like to go but not alone.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have utilities guilt because I'm living Sarah's dream.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

DVR is digital video recorder. It's basically Tivo.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to work. If anyone wants to go to the play with me please call me. It's a good play and I'm a good me. aiewaojo8aw4eht089w3yt0932u

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

No, Jordan! Don't feel guilty. Just thank god for the many blessings that have been bestowed upon you!

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, how were the elderly?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! How were the elderly? If ever have a band (un-fucking-likely), I vow to you that I will call us The Elderly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.1771.org/images/events/wash..jpg

Washing Day

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'll thank my landlord!

Old peoples' theater was pretty good. Some of the plays were eh, some lines were forgotten, and some of the audience was pretty smelly, but it was still entertaining. My friend's play was by far the best, and contained the line "he lived in a house made of dollllllhouses".

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

'manda, this will be our post-punk band when we're in the same retirement community.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

Actually, that sounds pretty fun. I think when I get old I'll intentionally make an ass of myself a lot, since I can.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Jesse, are we still going to yoga tonight at 5:30?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

xp - "...and the difference between that scenario and right now is....?"

(I had to say it before someone else did)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

why wait?

xp yeah.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

ILM Top 100 singles of the 1980s (full list in one post)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

My new apartment now has both a dishwasher and a DVR, both of which have dramatically improved my evenings. How did I ever live without a DVR? VCR what? Now, as soon as the washer and dryer get hooked up in the basement I will be content. No more hauling bags to the laundromat for me.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh they're called the Stones Roses. I've been getting that wrong all along! After all, it's a music list, and it's on ILM, so it must be right.

This might be a good time to reiterate that I generally hate ordered lists.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I do too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/members/perry/usa_for_africa/africa02.jpg
"So do we."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Loggins has a nice shirt. Tiny collar. Comme des Garcons?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hallandoates.de/images/TV-Video/WATW01.jpg
"Love will tear us apart; it's poignant 'cause it's true."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

when i was living with jen (speaking of life changing things i miss) we had a dishwasher, TWO dvr's, and two bathrooms. i didn't think we really needed two bathrooms but man was that handy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Two bathrooms is AWESOME.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

not as awesome as the diswasher. i'd never had one before, my parents never had one when i was a kid so it was a whole new thing for me. wanna make something that requires melting 2 lbs. of cheese on the stove? ok!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I know! It's like having a robot maid.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

This is pretty sweet...the local live karaoke band is covering two whole albums at the High Noon tonight - Remain in Light followed by In the Jungle Groove w/Clyde Stubblef13ld on drums.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, that's awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN Jordan: There's a Dutch jazz-funk band that covers DJ Shadow's "Organ Donor" (which of course was sampled from ... something else) -- you can stream their whole album here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I will listen to that tonight, thanks.

Sometimes I hate internet journalism. The Onion's blurb on the show tomorrow says that Reb1rth Brass Band hasn't put out an album since 2001, when in fact they've released a couple -- they're just not listed on allmusic.

(I know, it's a quibble, I'm just glad they picked it)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

hey, e sharp is gonna be at the bottle tuesday! in the span of 11 days i will have seen half of NRSK (peyton pinkerton was handling guitar duties for the joos last week).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

REWIND: Did someone mention the Stone Roses?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Stones Roses, Laurel.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Stones Roses
http://www.bsnpubs.com/philadelphia/abkco7509.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know, picking on typos is pretty low. BUT IT'S ALL I HAVE

xpost: lol2k6

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

The best Stone Roses song is "I Wanna Be Adored." There are a couple other good ones, too, but most pale in the shadow of that masterpiece.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

no way, i gotta go with "the hardest thing in the world" or sally cinnamon.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://myspace-299.vo.llnwd.net/00643/99/23/643353299_s.jpg

"Why would I have heard the Stone Roses?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Really, search the first album, because it works very well as a complete album. Destroy everything else. (This is not revelatory information.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

(no offense John, I just mean that this time I've never heard the band that everyone else has)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have this weird CD version of the first album that doesn't have "Fool's Gold" on it. The Stone Roses remind me of slumber parties in 1990. Good times, good times.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

The best public access preacher ever?

Supposedly this guy is from Chicago.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

i just a glimpse of myself in the mirror and if any of my co-workers children came to them today and said "daddy, what's a hangover?" they could take that small child by the hand, walk them to my cubicle and say "that. that is a hangover."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I hate hangovers.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's not a bad one by any stretch but my god, i look like day old hell.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

No way. Stone Roses search: She Bangs the Drums, Standing Here, Elephant Stone

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I like that one album a lot. I never listened to any of their others, but I don't hold them any ill will.

So that 100 best singles of the 80s list is pretty hot. I would like a mix of those songs.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

John, that Dutch band sounds great, actually. The drum sound alone is spot-on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

And downright SLATHERED in organ.

...

I just realized that there are three people who work here that routinely say hi to me and address me by name, even though we don't work in the same department, I have no idea what they even do, and in two of the three cases we haven't even been officially introduced, which means that I didn't even know their name. The interesting part is that they're all African-American.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

slather that organ elsewhere.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Must not click on cocaine thread again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sfterra.nl/HTM/Interviews/Colm%20Meaney/Meaney-DS-10.jpeg
"Must not click on cocaine thread again."

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's no defending the indefensible.

In other news, I flashed all of State Street today when I walked over an air vent thingie. You're welcome.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

See, I just did it again. Grrrrr.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard of Stone Roses, but am not familiar with their music.

I have heard of cocaine, but have never seen it being used. I have, however, seen it spread out on a table before.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Someone pls to photoshop Amanda's head on Marilyn Monroe's body kthx

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200303/ds9-434-miles-o-brien-----perh/240x320.jpg
"See, I just did it again. Grrrrr."

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey -- anything going on tonight? I am having dinner at Feed, a new soul-food shack at like Chicago and California -- but might be available afterwards for FUNZONE. Although I'm pretty beat, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think we are staying in, I am making white pizza and we will probably watch a movie. You could come over and watch a movie if you want. J&J and us were talking about having a movie night soon. Movie night?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am pretty broke. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am having dinner at Feed, a new soul-food shack at like Chicago and California

i love feed. quarter light, mac and mashed is what i usually get. the okra is good too. and banana pudding for desert! mmmmmmmmm.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Question: When you wish to indicate on email or IM that you are laughing at something, how do you type it? Seems like lots of people do the ironic LOL, while my coworkers all type "hahahahahahaha" which seems like overdoing it to me. Lately, I've taken to using the clean, simple, yet expressive "haw."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm not sure about "jaymc-as-Colm Meaney." Not very accurate.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

heh

What are your plans for the white pizza?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if the greens at Feed are cooked with meaty juices.

Nick: I usually do either "haha" or "heh" -- the latter reserved for something more dry or droll. "Haw" reminds me of Emily RoxyMuzak.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am sleeeepppyyy. Nick, Hi.

Feed sounds good, but I'm full right this second on lunch and coworker birthday treats.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I think Chief Jaymc works -- it's the hair!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I say..

ha ha

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

he, he

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

damn, now i got a jones for bird from feed. which is better than the jones i was getting reading that other thread.

xpost- i also use heh.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Why aren't I outside?

White pizza: I'm going to make dough from scratch for like the first time ever. On top will probably just be olive oil, some herbs and garlic powder, maybe onions, maybe black olives if we have them, and then I bought a bag o' cheese that I think is intended for salads that combines feta, mozzarella and provolone.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I'M HUNGRY

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, go outside.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I love you, but... but GO!!! It's for the best!

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Anyways, if people are interested in a movie night, let us know. It's short notice, but we're going to have a movie night whether anyone else comes over or not.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Now I will go outside.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nice. Although I thought by white pizza you meant some kind of cream or alfredo sauce.

I can forward on our dough recipe if you want.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, please, Jordan. You could put it on our Recipes and Songs page, eh?

Hey, look, Everyone! Nick went outside!
http://static.flickr.com/13/17784927_e3db9a724e_m.jpg

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Haw haw.

I will do that, Sarah (when I get home).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm not sure about "jaymc-as-Colm Meaney." Not very accurate.

Yeah, John doesn't have that much gravitas.

Kenan = Wesley, I have to admit, gets at the heart of something.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

The heart of what, though? What is Wesley Crusher all about?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I watched half an episode of Next Generation last night, pretty much because of the recent activities of our friend Jon. God that shit's terrible. I almost spit out my beer when the Kingon females were talking about gang raping Number One.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

The heart of what, though? What is Wesley Crusher all about?

Well, he's supposed to be this super genius on the show, but he was so dopey and eager that he was hard to take very seriously. I mean, that's a reduction, but... yeah. I get it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know... I see WW as being rather innocent, which HARDLY describes you after the age of 12, I'm guessing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see the similarity at all, to be honest. Maybe I don't know you that well.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Search any old Star Trek board, and chances are 100% you'll find a lot of fans going, "GOD I just wish Wesley would shut up."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://atthetime.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/bea-arthur-73-741567.jpeg
"Maybe I don't know you that well"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

God, that picture is scary.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes. Wax one lip.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Next Gen is fantastic. I read that whole Ronan/Ethan thing again yesterday (for like the 10th time).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend is going to be a straight party. Clyde tonight, two gigs tomorrow, friends in town, and my infamous local deli is having an Earth Day cookout.

I'm going to be in meetings for the rest of the day, so have a weekend y'all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

TS: a straight party vs. a gay old time.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

vee dee/brian glaze/gris gris at sub-t tomorrow night. gris gris melted my brain at last year's blackout, they were so awesome. by far the least like band of that weekend because they weren't loud/fast/angry allatonce like the other 15 bands.

gonna be a good time. hey hey hey.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

there is a guy standing right outside my window, hosing down the roof or something, and it's really creeping me out. how fucking long does it take to hose off the little area right by my window? go away creepy guy. arrrrgh.

rufus wainwright just came on though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Movie night! But not tonight... or tonight, but then I can't come. I've got to get home and finish my trial prep for Tuesday and THEN I have to be a witness in another student's trial tomorrow at 8:30 AM and THEN I have go study for my wills and trusts final and THEN I have to prep one of our three witnesses. Phew!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, you let me know if I need to go bust some creepy guy's ass. I'm feeling saucy today anyway.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, like you're not always up for an ass-busting.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I'm too sleepy.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

i should have made obscene hand gestures or something, but instead i just hid behind my computer. he's gone now, yay.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

He was hoping for belated Easter boobs.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

He was hoping for belated Easter boobs.

aren't we all, really?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

and now that we're talking about boobs, it truely seems like friday.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, anyone looking for some free nudity should have been on State St. today -- there were some belated Easter buns. I guess that's not the same.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have the hookup on free nudity tomorrow night, it seems. That ol' burlesque troupe again. I don't know what the situation is exactly but there may be some room for hangers-on if any of y'all want to go. I'll keep you posted.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am all for nudity in the form of burlesque shows. I hope I never end up in another strip joint in my life, though.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.belmontburlesque.com (you might not want to open that at work, just sayin')

My friend is T. Touche. I think jaymc has met her.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Um, she hot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that goes without saying.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

i can not remember the last time i was in a skin bar.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately, the thrill of seeing her mostly nude just isn't there. We've been friends since childhood.

Now, a couple of the others... rowr.

By the way, Amanda, you were totally right about "spring" upthread.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's spring AND it's Friday. Seams will burst.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

There once was an X from place B
That satisfied predicate P
He or she did thing A
In an adjective way
Resulting in circumstance C.

(source)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

STOP TALKING ABOUT SPRING. Gah.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

So hi.

I am going to work. More. Tonight.

Samsung? Just called from New Jersey. I have to fax my proof of purchase to them and they will replace my TV. FI-NUH-FUCKING-LEE.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'M gonna go visit the cocaine thread for a while.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) ONLY IF YOU STOP TALKING ABOUT COCAINE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Biting my tongue re: coca

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I only made ONE POST. It's not like the thread topic is a secret, it's right there in, well...black and white.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh jeez, A.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am hiding from my bank because of an overdrawn account, but now I can't cash paychecks. Only currency exchanges cash paychecks unless you have an account at the specific bank you want to cash it at? Where are all the people giving money away?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

HEY GUESS WHAT GUYS I'VE NEVER DONE COKE AND I PROBABLY WON'T EVER! LOL I AM TEH LAME.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you Oh jeez-ing me?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Jay, do you think we think you're lame? Or do you sort of feel lame-ish under thread duress? Because if you hadn't said anything I wouldn't have thought about your coke non-habit one single time in connection to that thread.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

i've spent most of the afternoon trading emails with my sister who is expecting her first child. they still have not settled on a name for him.

my suggestions:

james hayward
morris thorpe
curtis jackson
milton reese
warren coolidge

or
harris
barney
wojo
fish
yemana

i think warren coolidge would be a great name.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

OMG James Heyward X1000

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Or do you sort of feel lame-ish under thread duress?

Yes. I just can't believe how many people I know who've done coke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

So? I can't believe how many people I know who smoke pot. Yes, that's a much larger number since I started hanging w/ the NB. But still. I just pass when it goes around, a'ight?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, #1) it's not a badge of pride, and #2) it's not crack, fer chrissakes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

jackson was always my favorite. right up until he walked into that liquor store hold up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

John, we cannot have a proper Steely Dan party without cocaine!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

It is kind of crazy, though, I feel you jay.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Were you thinking that I had tried it and that's why I'm biting my tongue? If so, you could NOT be more wrong.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

#2) it's not crack, fer chrissakes.

Yeah, but my point is that I just didn't know how common it was until recently.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, Amanda. I don't know why you would be biting your tongue otherwise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jive Miguel
He's in from Bogota
Meet me at midnight
At Mr. Chow's
Szechuan dumplings
After the deal has been done
I'm the one

It's a glamour profession
The L.A. concession
Local boys will spend a quarter
Just to shine the silver bowl
Living hard will take its toll

Illegal fun
Under the sun

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

You guys, though, I just figured something out that's pretty illuminating! I asked Renee what it meant to "smoke a bowl" because I've heard this jargon for years and years and didn't know what it meant -- I assumed it had something to do with bongs or some other absurdly complicated method of marijuana intake. Turns out I have smoked bowls myself! I just called them pipes! But the bowl is part of the pipe, so people just say that for some reason.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It ties back into the whole smooth jazz thing. You listen to smooth jazz, you have white furniture and french doors, and for your recreational drug of choice, you -- not everyone, mind you, but *you* -- can afford cocaine. It's a statement.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

No WAY dude. Never have, never will. I was biting my tongue because I feel rather strongly opposed to the substance for various sociopolitical reasons and I (1) didn't want to argue about that and(2) didn't want to piss off any of my friends who disagree with me since I don't expect everyone to feel the way I do about it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Those are awesome names, for the most part.
I knew this guy named Fish in high school, but it was really his last name. He was messed up. He thought he was a vampyre, for starters.

Chill, John, Chill, m' brother! I feel you, man.
I wore DARE shirts growing up, but with no irony. I've never smoked a cig. If it weren't for my coworkers, I wouldn't have tried pot. That was within this past year.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I like that you spelled it "vampyre."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I knew this guy named Fish in high school, but it was really his last name

my exgirlfriend's best friend married a fish. she hyphenated her last name making her "savage-fish" and also giving her the coolest surname ever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was in Operation Snowball for two years in high school. Oh, the shame. (Although funny now with the snowflake/snowman connotations of cocaine, cf. Young Jeezy et al.)

Amanda, do you mean the way cocaine is smuggled into the U.S., i.e. use of mules, etc.?

(How many more Latin abbrevs can I fit into this post, e.g. "e.g."?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I went through a pretty hefty drug phase. I tried many things, mostly only once.

Now, apart from ethanol and reasonably frequent THC, I don't have much interest in mind-altering substances. I wasted too much time with them as it was. I'm seriously considering cutting out one of the remaining two as it is.

I really liked mushrooms, though. If my arm were twisted enough I might do them again.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

As it is, as it was, as it were

Smoke Weed Every Day

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

"ethanol"? Isn't that corn-gasoline? Or am I thinking of something else?

Shrooms is the one drug at this point that I would like to try.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, do you mean the way cocaine is smuggled into the U.S., i.e. use of mules, etc.?
Yes and about 100 other reasons too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oddly enough I am wearing the same shirt and sunglasses today as I am in that pic that Sarah posted of me today.

I recommend the newest New Yorker (the "Journeys" issue). Come for the loooong and awesome piece on Werner Herzog filming his new movie, stay for the stories on the Donner Party, digital map-making, euroJet and RyanAir, and smuggling Chinese immigrants into the U.S. Oddly enough, no stories about Journey.

I haven't done any illegal drugs since I was 15 or 16 and have no real interest in doing them anymore. Sometimes pot sounds kind of fun but usually just seems dumb. But no more dumb than drinking, I guess.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it is. It's also the proper name for the alcohol you drink. In fact, I think you could drink corn ethanol (unmixed with gas, of course), it just would give you a really bad hangover. One of my friends is from a town in MN that had an ethanol plant that converted to making fancypants vodka. All they did was add about 6 more levels of distilling. xxpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I know!!! Let's line up in order of our opinion on hard drugs!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Haw.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, do you mean the way cocaine is smuggled into the U.S., i.e. use of mules, etc.?
Yes and about 100 other reasons too.

Amanda crazily OTM. You have to know that every time you do cocaine, you have blood on your hands. It's worse than diamonds.

But really, the reason I don't do it is because I don't like the way it makes me feel.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.projecta.net/afbeeld/scarfac3.jpg

"I went through a pretty hefty drug phase."

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Let's line up in order of our opinion on hard drugs!

i think i'm probably far to the left on this line.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc's comment reminds ms of AP Chemistry:

methanol
ethanol
propanol
butanol
pentanol
hexanol
heptanol
octanol
decanol

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

You have to know that every time you do cocaine, you have blood on your hands

and in your nostrils.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

drunkahol

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

A boring office sketch. Also, a true story:

I answer the phone.
Someone asks a question about funding for a draw for a property I don't handle.
I transfer the call.
A minute lady, the woman I sent the call to intercoms me.
Who was that? What did they want?
I explain it all to her even though she has a voicemail she could check.
She says, come back to my desk.
She writes down the woman's number who just called, tells me to call her back, and tells me what figure to give her. Then she says, you could have found this info on your own computer.
I say, yeah, I know, but how could I know the funding was ready and.. blah blah blah... and this is your project and I don't usually give out those figures and blah blah blah...
So she says, uh huh, so call her back and say this.
So I do and the lady asks questions I can't answer because I don't know.
I don't feel like asking my coworker all these questions and playing the Middle Woman. Instead I say, THIS is what I know.
She says, ok, would you mind putting that in a fax and sending it to me?
I say, yeah, how about I just give you this figure again. It's only one figure.
THE END.

Am I a complete bitch? It's not my fault my coworker doesn't feel like doing her job this afternoon.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm probably far to the left on this line.
You mean a line of coke? ha ha

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, did you also just so happen to be wearing your sunglasses upside down today?

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

How are you even the bitch in that story, Sarah? It's all her. And I feel it, sister -- my boss used to do that kind of thing until it because clear that my job was changing and requiring a lot more of me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus H. God how I hate people.

xpost to Sarah

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I just feel like I was bitchy to the woman on the phone. It wasn't her fault that my coworker didn't feel like dealing with her.

This coworker is the same one that just announced she's preggo and leaving when the baby comes. I guess she's decided to go ahead and stop working.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to work at alone for 20 hours a week and then wait tables for another 20. And be comfortable.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

You mean at home?

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yes or in a very isolated office where no one was allowed to talk to me.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

You sound like me now.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm out of here. Going to work early for a rum tasting. Actually it's going to be rum cocktails including the vile sounding combination of 10 Cane rum mixed in champagne. They call it "Rum and champagne"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's a fancy name!

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

J., it seems like you've found something to replace your former alienation about not-dating. You could toot any time you want to, and you're no less a man for not having done so. "Oh, that's John, he's a coke virgin." C'mon.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Nick looks a little like the very entertaining poker pro Marcel Luske.
http://www.pokerresourcenetwork.com/images/MarcelTeaching.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I was going to say the same thing but was worried it might come off sounding too mean.

Making pizza dough is FUN! All that kneading.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, give me reasons I should not drop everything and drive through the night to Michigan in order to sleep with my gf. I reallyreallyreallyreally want to.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Say the same thing about John that is, not the thing about me looking like a poker pro.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Why not, Dan?

Nick, You should practice on my back!

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

So, IS anyone doing anything tonight?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

You could toot any time you want to

The only time I've been offered coke was by that dude Todd I went home with that one night. It's not really around me ever.

Also: are you kidding, it would kill me. Heart attack city.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, give me reasons I should not drop everything and drive through the night to Michigan in order to sleep with my gf. I reallyreallyreallyreally want to.

#1 it would entail going to michigan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Suggest a great movie for us to watch at least.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

though i have driven from chicago to ann arbor and back to chicago for similar reasons.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno... it just doesn't seem... responsible? Plus it's like 7.5 hours, I'll fall asleep and drive into trees.

Argh.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

But you guys are right -- this all stems from the same sense of bitterness and regret I get from simply not having had more life experiences -- sleeping around, doing drugs, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, give me reasons I should not drop everything and drive through the night to Michigan in order to sleep with my gf. I reallyreallyreallyreally want to.
Do it! That's beautiful.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

uhm in one night. nothing like an 8 hour drive for the woman you love(d).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Dan, unless you have big plans for tomorrow, DO IT. Does she know you're coming? Take half-hour nap at rest station if you need to.

Shut it, Otto.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

life experiences >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> drugs

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

As for tonight, I'm pretty tired, so I'm going to wait to see how I am after dinner. And then if I'm feeling up for something, I'll make a couple calls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

life experiences = drugs

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

You could always just pick up the phone, Dan...

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Nice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

You could always just pick up the phone, Dan...

Aaaand the thread comes full circle.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/cookin4my3boys/dough.jpg
"I need you to knead me."

Send that to your gf, Dan and tell her you'll be there pronto for the kneadin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Shut it" was re: Michigan.

Also, my dad used to drive from NJ to MI to see my mom for the weekend, and that was despite the fact that he knew he'd be sleeping on her parents' sofa. He'd leave right after Sunday dinner and get back in time for class on Monday AM.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you can only go if you surprise her and bring a present. Maybe her roommate or someone could be in on it?

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

NO, DRUGS = DEATH EXPERIENCES

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. You're all weak. It's sunny outside with a 100% of continuing astonishing pleasantness, and I'm in the outdoor cafe mood like you wouldn't believe.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, then he asked her to marry him and she said no because a) she was too young and b) he wasn't a Christian. My parents are funny.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Think of it... sitting, chatting, sipping a fine beverage, watching beautiful people walk by...

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Nicolas used to drive on weekends from Bard College to University of Michigan to see his girlfriend. (Nicolas is also how I met Hstencil, several years ago.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe her roommate or someone could be in on it?

This might be difficult. Her brother is living with her right now. This also complicates the sex part.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

OH COME ON! You can do it anywhere. Just go! GOGOGOGOGO!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Does she have a car? Could you meet in a motel in Lansing or something?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

This might be difficult. Her brother is living with her right now. This also complicates the sex part.

-- Holy makkara, Toivo! (thedanmarti...), April 21st, 2006 4:02 PM. (OutDatWay) (later)

Dude, three-way.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

For pete's sake, you could do it IN THE CAR. Although I never have -- is that fun? GO.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Lansing would be the long way around, but it's a good idea in concept. We have done the same thing with Green Bay.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It's not so much "fun" as "naughty." Not optimal, though, no.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

It it isn't fun in the car, but everything else is.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

YOU HAD A THREE-WAY WITH GREEN BAY

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Anal Cunt song name alert!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just riffin' over here, never mind me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Parenthetical sub-title: (You're gay)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of Anal Cunt outside of ILX.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! Go to a motel!
Barring that, didn't you go to college? You can have sex ANYWHERE. It's AMAZING.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pokerresourcenetwork.com/images/MarcelTeaching.jpg

STRAIGHT RIFFIN'

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

XP: ANYWHERE??

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha -- when I was at a Slant 6 show (which I mentioned the very first time I posted on this thread!) there was a guy wearing an Anal Cunt t-shirt. It was pretty funny.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Barring that, didn't you go to college? You can have sex ANYWHERE. It's AMAZING.

I didn't have sex in college. :( < /predictable >

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't have sex in high school.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight...I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off it..."

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

From what I understand from movies, I was supposed to be having the sex of my life back then.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Just think about your girlfriends from high school though, John. Aren't you glad you didn't sleep with them?

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

It would have just complicated things. You probably weren't ready then to appreciate it. Also, what if one of them got pregnant?

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

i went to a catholic college where there was a rule that you could get kicked out if you were caught having sex. i don't think the rule served as much of a deterrant.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I only had two girlfriends in high school. I'm glad I didn't sleep with the first one, but we only dated for like six weeks, we barely even kissed, and I was 13. I wouldn't have minded sleeping with the second one, since we did lots of other stuff and stayed friends through college.

Also, what if one of them got pregnant?

What if one of them gets pregnant now? The risk is still there anytime you stick it in.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, you went to Marquette, right? I didn't know they were that strict.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

John, you gotta talk to a professional about this. You're going to waste a lot of energy with this inferiority and regret, and may out-drug and out-slut all of us in order to get past these feelings.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

yes i did. i don't know if it was actually enforced, but everybody always joked about it.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

"Yeah we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight...I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off it..."

LOLZ

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

xposts: I know, John. But I would think most high school students would be a lot less educated when it comes to protection. Also, a lot of high school girls can't get the pill because they need a parent's permission (which they either can't get or are too scared to ask for).

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

The pill ... fascinating concept. I'd like to date someone on the pill sometime.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's freaking wonderful.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

er... or not.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, if you're in the mood for increased crying jags and decreased sex drive, be my guest.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

increased crying jags
Someone knows what he's talking about.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, totally. It was pretty bad for a couple of months, there. XP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-b-but..

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've been on the pills for an eternity, so I know of which I speak. Then again, it's better than having babies I neither want nor can afford. Da Pill: classic in spite of itself.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just saying that putting all your trust in a condom is foolish.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also, different people have different life experiences. You have your own set of them, John.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

The pill effects different women differently AND there are a number of forumulations that might better serve women who don't do well on the pill they tried. Not to say that it's for everybody! It's totally not. But it's also not an automatic reducer of sex-drive and increaser of craziness.

Like, I've done well on pills and I've done poorly on pills. I'm doing pretty well with the nuva ring and it's very low dose of hormones, but I'll eventually get fitted with an IUD when I have a spare $500 lying around.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

But it's also not an automatic reducer of sex-drive and increaser of craziness.

No, that's true. You have to kind of mess around with it for a while, like you do with anti-depressants.

cue rant about "when will someone please sink some money into developing reliable male birth control stupid society blah blah" you all know the arguments in your hearts.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Amen, sista. Though it may be true I sometimes blame my mood on hormones/PMS, I don't want people thinking that all women on the pill are crazy emotional freaks.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

i will refrain from going off on the pill because i have my own sensitive physiology that deals with drugs rather...interestingly. i regret having ever gone on it.

i've never done drugs, save the prescription kind, which have convinced me that i don't much want to ever try them.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I had to fiddle around a lot with different pills before the crying stopped.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, none of the doctors at my (normally very progressive) gyn would do me an IUD cos they said it's too difficult/painful to get through cervix pre-childbirth. I think there are new models in development that're shaped diffferent & fit better -- do you have any tips?

The first time I typed that, it read "(normally very progressive) gym." HUH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I mean BC pills.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've been thinking about the IUD. You trust it? I've been worried. When I was in Colombia they told us about these clinic that they would set up in the suburbios (outlying areas where the poorest people live) and insert IUD after IUD on a cot behind a sheet out in the open, outside, where sewage flowed like so much mud. That image has been tied to the IUD for me and now I wonder if it's something that I want to do. Also, the chance of it dislodging? Or not working?

EEk.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, dudes. Time to start my weekend. Go have some nice, protected sex.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about "nice"...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

That verse was changed in the Bible early on. The one where God says, "Go forth, my creation, and may the fruit of your loins be contained by a protective latex sheath."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I had a long rant about life experiences and how it really bugs me when people mope about not having had crazy wacky life experiences and resent people who have had crazy wacky life experiences, but I deleted it because, well, I did.

As for an IUD, I'm not a medical professional, but IUDs are very reliable, cervixes are very dilatable (pre and post childbirth, although it does hurt), and in Chicago and NY you aren't going to have to be fitted for an IUD behind a bloody sheet in a wattle and daub hut. (Maybe in South Dakota, though...)

I think some doctors are reluctant to provide them to women who haven't had children, since it requires another doc's visit to get them back out. But that, of course, is bullshit patronizing pateralistic medicine and not at all in line with the idea that women can make their own medical decisions regarding when and if to have children.

I don't know too much about risk factors. I think that the Dalkon Sheild stuff in the 80s (80s?) gave them a bad name in the US, but they are currently in use in Europe and doing well there. I haven't done a lot of research because my getting one is a ways off, but I'm happy to share anything that I learn!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

While I was peeing I realized that it sounds like I'm trash talking Laurel's gyno - I didn't mean to come across that way. I go to school with two women who are childless and in their early 30s who got IUDs and love them. So I'm guessing that gyno opinion differs.

But as for cervical dilation, they have to dilate the cervix for D&Cs and abortions, so I don't see why they couldn't do it for an IUD.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm interested in finding out more about this. I'm sort of tired of hormonal bc methods.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

OH, that's okay, Jenny. I'm not bothered. Except when I say they're normally very progressive, I mean that every time I forget their street address and have to google the office, the result I get is a transexual advice board recommending my gyn for hormone treatments. So I don't think the "taking charge of her own fertility" is the barrier, here. But I will inquire further.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia article on IUDs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUD

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

The IUD is the greatest invention of the modern age.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.soxlovers.com/BeaArthur_146x178.jpg
"The IUD is the greatest invention of the modern age. "

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about this sometime. Not online, I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm most bothered when I feel like certain things that I may have once considered crazy and wacky have suddenly become normal or common and I feel alienated.

Eric's also right that I need therapy, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

i was actually going to email you on the same subject, jmc, but then i lost track of what tabs were what and deleted it.
xp

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

"tabs"?

If you feel like rewriting sometime, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

For a second I thought you guys were talking about IUDs or Jaymc's fabled excel spreadsheet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

"We were having sex, and the IUD accidentally got deleted!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

"And that's how you were conceived, Warren Coolidge."

Okay, now I'm really going the fuck home and starting my weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I really SHOULD create an ILX spreadsheet. Just because it would be funny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah me too. I don't think I'm hitting the road. Maybe next weekend. :( Le sigh. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

i almost wrote something, too, actually. it involved concussions and how i've gotten them. ie - NOT GLAMOROUS AT ALL< DUDE

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's not about the glamour, it's about having done it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand how you can feel bad about having made good decisions in your life.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

"good"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Check your inbox.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't you feel like you've made good decisions, John? At least re: drugs? I mean, I've known some smart, interesting people who have done a lot of drugs, but I've also known some boing, dumb, generally dull people who have done a lot of drugs. The drugs are not the defining factor here. And to be perfectly honest, I can't see you on cocaine, or not even LSD. (LSD breaks yr brane, that's what it does.) It's just not who you are. I mean, if that makes any sense. It's not who I am either, but I was so stupid and unknowing of myself that I did drugs anyway.

And you've smoked pot, and had fun times on it. That's the only (illegal) drug I'd even consider anymore. Oh, and maaaaaybe mushrooms, because I've giggled a lot on mushrooms. If you feel the need to experiment more, if only just to get it out of the way, I'd recommend a low dose of those.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

boing = boring, obv

Boing people are great!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

If you feel the need to experiment more, if only just to get it out of the way, I'd recommend a low dose of those.

Yeah, did I say this already upthread? I don't remember. But yes: shrooms are the only thing I really feel comfortable trying right now, and so I would definitely like to at some point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

YES I READ "BOING = BORING" TOO

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I have known many, many smart, interesting people who have never touched an illegal substance. I should have added that. Not having spent long nights all coked up does not automatically make you Jean Teasdale.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh good.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Just... consider who you're trying to fit in with. Your friends are not judging you. There's no reason you should be judging yourself. At least, not by this standard.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost haha

Julia I will never respect you if you don't do liquid acid with me this weekend and go for a long walk down some train tracks.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you, kenan.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

later.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

ha.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

shrooms are the only thing I really feel comfortable trying right now, and so I would definitely like to at some point.

Please call me when you do this, as I have never tried shrooms either and would really like to. Also, if you want to tuss with me sometime, I would be up for it. I stopped doing it (only did it twice), but I would do it again in the right company and with the knowledge that it wouldn't become a regular thing.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

NB don't do shrooms alone, in foreign countries.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you. I easily could have made that mistake.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

here to help

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, if you want to tuss with me sometime, I would be up for it.

Oh, Dave.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty much what I thought.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey people. Do any of you know someone that wants a job? Evidently there having a hard time finding a hardware support person at work. If you know computer hardware, swapping out parts, imaging machines, setting up offices, working with blackberries and laptops, etc. I'm sure it pays well, I just dont know how much. LET ME KNOW.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have never drunk enough cough medicine to bring on hallucinations.

Also, I just want to apologize again for getting all IUD ranting. It really sounded judgmental and I didn't mean for it to. Or I did, but not at anybody here, just towards THE PATRIARCHY. So yeah - new year's resolution: think first, then type.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://mattfitt.com/gallery2/d/23091-2/SmashPatriarchy_large.gif

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Gg_estellegetty.jpg

"If I had a hammer... I'd SMASH Patriarchy!"

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you're mean.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Dave.
-- Gilbert O'Sullivan (--...), Today. (kenan) (later)
That's pretty much what I thought.

-- Holy makkara, Toivo! (---@yahoo.com), Today. (OutDatWay) (later)

Haha, awesome. I said I only did it twice. And don't plan on doing it again without blah blah blah. Whatever, I am totally sweet.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.apocatastasis.com/images/shining-dvd-image-02.jpg

Jesse's not here, Mrs. Torrence.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've had "Panama" running through my head for the past few hours. Something from 1984 (please not "Jump") should be in a top 100.

Old housemate back in town, we all went to the sushi buffet. Oof.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

Eric's also right that I need therapy, though.

The thing is, if and when you do go to therapy, this would be a good specific thing to talk about, this playa-hating.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking about this when I saw the singles list, and there are some songs that I love dearly that were singles, but the whole album is so good that it belongs on the "albums poll" instead. 1984 is an album, not a singles collection, and... oh, let's not get into this. Not that I trust ILM with any list, necessarily. No more than I trust Pitchfork.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

the only person i trust w/lists is john.

(born in '81, btw)

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

I"M A PLAYA HATA TOO.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

But you're already in therapy.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan! Got your message - I've got a ton of homework to do. I have to prepare for my faux trial on Tuesday and I have to get up and be a witness for a classmate wicked early tomorrow morning.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

And I am NOT arguing about cocaine in real life.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

DURNK

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Talking Heads/James Brown show was great. Clyde rulz.

Oddly enough, coke/shrooms and the doing thereof came up in casual conversation w/Evan tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NOT DRUNK.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

ME NEITHER

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

DROP DEAD LEGS

PRETTY SMILE

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

HURTS MY HEAD

GETS ME WILD

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP

CAUSE YOU DO IT RIGHT

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

I semi-drunkenly posted a recipe for pizza dough to the blog.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

While eating cheese & crackers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

being wide awake, at nearly 2am, when yr pals are either out of town OR sleeping at their girl's house totally fucking sucks.

BOREDZONE

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Evan? Are you still fuzzy?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

CANNOT FIND MY MOTHERFUCKING PASSPORT ANYWHERE

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm finallllly listening to the Scott Walker YSI Jeff sent me. It reminds me of the Sunburned Hand of the Man song--er--track that has the voice saying "no it smells bad in there. please don't make me go....i'll try harder. i pwomise!"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

hi john why do you want your passport?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Because I'm going to Canada in a week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

The funny thing is, the whole time I was living at my old apartment, I knew EXACTLY where it was. It sat on this cart in my bedroom, next to my box of change. Since I moved, it could really be anywhere. I have been pulling out drawers and opening boxes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

HOLD UP. FOUND IT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

wtf it was in the bottom of a drawer full of blankets, duffel bags, videotapes, and a stuffed parrot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

why the hell do you need a passport to go to canada?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

why did kenan say i was mean?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

i am still drunk/bored.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you're forgetting one thing:

http://members.aol.com/Jrice49/sep11-eagle.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

GBX, I ASKED YOU IF YOU'RE FUCKING FUZZY, YOU FUCKING RACIST HOMOPHOBE.

john-- i will never forget.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

i like neither mexicans nor gays.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

I forget when it changed to passport, but as of last summer you could still get into Canada with just a driver's license.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, my passport expired and I'm playing in Toronto in early June.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY?

I asked on the Montreal thread I revived, and slocki indicated that I definitely needed a passport.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

So I was wrong about the rum tasting. It was actually a Champagne tasting THEN a rum tasting. It was pretty fucking cool.

Eazy, if you're there this is for you:

We tasted Krug Champagne followed by 10 Cane rum. Krug was dericious and I was fortunate to have tasted it for free. After that we did a tasting/sniffing of 10 cane side-by-side with Bacardi. Now 10 Cane's purveyors are going to be doing secret shopper quizzes w/r/t their product at certain restaurants in Chicago. The best salespeople will get some sort of premium.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

I hate redheads and white boys with keyboards.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Eric, you're here! I tasted amaazzzzingiagna;oginagoij Champagne! It smelled like apple pie with caramel!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.a1c.yahoofs.com/personals/5887f0dc/personals-1065980422-149261/__sr_/722d.jpg?psAKeSEBSl54DwZJ

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Krug! Holy moly!

New Requirements for Travelers Between the United States and the Western Hemisphere: Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires that, by January 1, 2008, travelers to and from the Caribbean, Bermuda, Panama, Mexico and Canada have a passport or other secure, accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States. This is a change from prior travel requirements. The goal is to strengthen border security and facilitate entry into the United States for U.S. citizens and legitimate foreign visitors. The U.S. passport is the document of choice because of the incorporated advanced security features.

Travelers to and from Canada will be required to have a U.S. passport or other secure, accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States. For land border crossings to Canada, other documents that we anticipate will be acceptable are NEXUS and FAST program cards. No other document is currently available that will be an acceptable substitute for a U.S. passport, NEXUS or FAST card

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Krug! Holy moly! ?

are you being sarcastic?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

I hate you too, Jesse.

I had a weirdly intense conversation tonight at the Cali Clipper with (odd couple) Kenan and Renee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

No no I'm not being sarcastic at all, I'm saying that you got to drink one of the greats!

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

I (re)learned an interesting fact: luxury items are controlled in a big way by LVHM: the house of Louis Vuitton, Hennessy and Moet. Their subsidiaries are a who's who of indulgence.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the B0und Stems last night and thought that the gal in the band was Renee's spitting image.

LVHM has an amazing portfolio.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

john is a white boy w/a keyboard.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's like the Illuminati of bougie-ness. Their parent companies and owners are as impressive.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

gbx-- you stay fuzzy. don't you let montana change that. ever.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

I smell smoky.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

Smokey?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

i was once fuzzy. but then i lived in montana for 5 years. am i fuzzy now? no.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Neither looks right.

HEY COPY EDITORS< HELP ME OUT EH

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Looking at photos of the Bound Stems gal: I can kinda see it.

http://www.boundstems.com/web-pics/26.jpg

Haha, that Harvey Danger dude looks like a cartoon wolf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

so this bitch scott walker? he's fine by me.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.boundstems.com/web-pics/10.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

Smoky. No E, except for in the contexts "...the Bear" and "...and the Bandit."

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid smoky Hungry Brain.

So I went there again tonight, with my friends that live around the corner. There was a girl there who was amazingly cute. Short dark hair, curvy, pretty much fuckin' perfect. Also, she had one arm pretty well sleeve tatted - normally I don't find large tattoos attractive, but in this case it just worked. Of course she was hanging with a bunch of douchebag looking dudes. Why is it always that way?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://us.a1c.yahoofs.com/personals/5887f0dc/personals-1065980422-149261/__sr_/722d.jpg?psAKeSEBSl54DwZJ

hot for no good reason

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

No worky.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

i know! malfunctioning link dudes are hottest!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

I got to find out many of the interesting inner workings of the Chicago cab racket on my ride home, too. Or so it seemed. I had seen a SUV cab, a Checker Cab (the green and tan/yellow ones). It was a Dodge Durango. I mentioned this to the driver tonight and he went off on a long, complicated rantstory about how cabs could be managed into a lucrative business.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bored with the thread I started as a joke (right under this one).

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I heard a long story about this too. My driver told me that the medallions in Chicago sell for 30K (I think). In NYC they are supposedly worth 10 times that. Naturally the mob gets involved.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, Scott Walker is fuckin' awesome by me, so I'm glad he's good by you too. You should date him and punch donkeys in the streets of Galway together. That would be a fun first date.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

which thread under this one?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

I hate cabs. They remind me of... jail. This is also why I hate living in Hyde Park.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just kidding, I love everything. I totally got to ruin a peer's attempt at hooking up with a freshman funguy. She deserved it, haha.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm out. Yoga tomorrow beckons.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR SECRET GOTH SHAME

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Holy fucking shit.

http://static.flickr.com/55/132751376_c88e760262.jpg?v=0

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

i have a million things to say.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

1,000,000: I love Arthur Russell

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

999,999: the pill is awesome

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

999,998: i am going to bed.

to be continued.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 22 April 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

I want to start a Your Secret Hippy Shame thread. I'll post pictures of this time I was in a band with a guy who wore a flower-head a la Peter Gabriel. Note: I sewed the flower head.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

YES I'M UP AT 7:03 AM ON A SATURDAY. FUCK YOU LAW SCHOOL. GO TO HELL AND DIE.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am up at 8:15. There's no worse time than 8:15 am to step in a pool of cat vomit. ass cat.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can wake up early, too

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 22 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Not me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Today's little extra thing at work promises to be a little boring. We're having a rep from The Mighty Leaf teach us all about their teas. Meh. I don't like their teas because they're too blended. I like chamomile that tastes like chamomile and mint that tastes like mint, not a bunch of 'complementary' botanicals.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

That is somfin else.... Captions cannot express.
http://static.flickr.com/55/132751376_c88e760262.jpg?v=0

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wait. John, is that the pic you were going to scan?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

You see, I only sent Jesse one track from the latest Scott Walker album. He has no idea about his 60s stuff and beyond. Would he like the rest?>

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

! I just sent you an email.

How's about you send me the latest album and then a sampler of earlier stuff, eh?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

no, you get it all.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

After seeing that, I wrote an old ex girlfriend to see if she still has pictures of me in drag.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea because I'm just getting into Scott Walker myself, but if he likes any of the smoother stuff at all (like the last track on The Drift), he might dig Scott 4. Also, you probably can't go wrong with Tilt. "Rosary" is kick-ass.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

In case anyone was wondering, Beanie Siegel is totally awesome.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the song that says something like "famine is a tall building....I'm the last person alive"

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

tall tall tower a building left in the night

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

But yeh Jeff, send it all then. You, Send It!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Off to yoga.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can't yousendit all, I'll burn a dvd.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

My new neighbors are blasting Damien Marley, awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, those are the pics I was going to scan. I decided to just take photos of the photos instead. They turned out well enough, I think.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

They did indeed. Did you get my email?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I did, and thank you. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mark, which Arthur Russell album should I get?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, I just left you a message begging your forgiveness for whatever the fuck Renee and I were talking about last night. It's all kinda fuzzy.

I just found my hairdresser. This is very exciting. His name is Antonio, and he is bald, which makes me trust him more somehow, since I don't have to look at his "stylish" haircuts, and I figure without any hair of his own, he'll pay more attention to mine. And I look like a hundred bucks.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well, ok, I look like thirty-five bucks, with tip.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

my mother keeps calling me in the mornings. she doesn't seem to have learned, through three decades of knowing me, that I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON. she very much is. she's all super-chipper and i answered the phone a few octaves lower than normal, sounding like hell and not completely aware of what day it was or what planet i was on or much of anything, which is how she astutely caught on that maybe she had woken me up and i was in no state to carry on a conversation that made any sense whatsoever. i couldn't get back to sleep and now will be sleepy all day (not so unusual, but grr anyway).

why is it that my automatic reaction to someone asking, "did i wake you up?" is "no". when in fact they did and i'm still partially asleep...but i suppose it takes me a while to be able to discern my state of consciousness.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

john, i like 'calling out of context.' i'm hardly a specialist though. do you have any idea which album showcases his disco production? is that compiled anywhere?

god, i was so fucked up last night...

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

god, i was so fucked up last night...

yes.

why is it that my automatic reaction to someone asking, "did i wake you up?" is "no".

yes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just posted to the blog. Because... well, because.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Check my bookshelf.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/me_april_2.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

After that we did a tasting/sniffing of 10 cane side-by-side with Bacardi.

yeah these people are doing tons of marketing in new york. they're sponsoring lots of parties. last one at some magazine party they were giving away shots, but with a lime wedge half dipped in sugar, other half dipped in coffee grinds - and you were supposed to use that as a chaser. it wasnt bad.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

with a lime wedge half dipped in sugar, other half dipped in coffee grinds - and you were supposed to use that as a chaser. it wasnt bad.

That sounds kinds awesome. Or at least, it sounds the kind of thing I'd try, if only not to like.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

As a poet, the Silver Jews are supposed to be, like, my favorite band, right? So why do I not really care for them at all? I mean, "I loved you to the max, I loved you to the max, I loved you to the max, etc" just doesn't do it for me.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

If it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you, and don't sweat it. (I'd have bruises on my forehead if I asked myself, "Why do I really not care for [insert hot indie band] at all?" When the answer is, "Well, half the folks into it now won't listen to it ever again in a year or two.") Berman was a student of Charles Wright, and it took me about a decade to get into that guy's poetry.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't really a paragraph, just a string of sentences. Anyway, try "Slow Education" if you aren't into the current SJ record, and give up if that doesn't work - maybe Berman is to poets what Steven Jay Gould is to biologists.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Boooooooored. I have projects and chores galore but the nearly total lack of daylight showing through about three miles of cloud cover has got me down. I could put on a stupid movie and nap halfway through, but then I'd wake up with far too much energy for what might be a Saturday night in and NOBODY WANTS THAT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'll do a long pampering thing involving a bath and mud masks and disgustingly girly stuff. If I've learned nothing else from Sydney Bristow it's that even super-deadly secret agents need shiny hair and the perfect lip gloss.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, sorry you're bored. :( Here's something for you to do: add me as a friend on myspace. /differentcinematography

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Silver Jews are a hot indie band?

American Water is still awesome.

I don't like poetry.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I can't see your bookshelf, you're standing in front of it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I should have disclaimed that I'm really banging my head against the wall, just musing. I just switched from Tanglewood Numbers to American Water, and I like that one. More laid back. 'S nice.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

That is, I'm not banging my head against the wall.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

No pampering yet but I DID take mildew-remover to the tub & shower curtains, to sparkling effect! Seriously, I don't think my roommate could even tell me when it was last cleaned. And the floors? I'm not looking too closely, I don't have all night to spit-clean the stupid place and once I NOTICE the layer of grime, I might be compelled to.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

That is, I'm not banging my head against the wall.

You're ruining my mental image of you.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm making a BEEF ROAST for dinner. and turnip greens. turnip greens flavored with smoked turkey necks.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

This is not roast beef, but I made these a couple of weeks ago. Not true chicago dogs, but close enough:

http://static.flickr.com/49/133103097_2445b98b42.jpg?v=0

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

What constitutes a true Chicago dog?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to "No Competition" in preparation for a poetry reading I am about to read at.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

hot dog
onions
poppy seed bun
mustard
pickle spear
tomato slices
sport peppers
bright green relish
celeary salt

I didn't have the onions, poppy seed bun, and I used turkey dogs.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

mmm those look goooooood

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

though why would you go to all the trouble of making chicago style hot dogs at home when you can go down almost any block and buy 'em for like $2

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 April 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted something slightly healthier.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh, makes sense then

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME TODAY???

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

You will never guess.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I will tell you.

1. I was eating lunch at Potbelly's and somebody stole my wallet, right out of my purse. (Because I'm a dumb bunny and wasn't maintaining CONSTANT VIGILLANCE - I had my purse hanging on the back of the chair, unzipped, with my wallet right on top.)

2. While walking home from the train, thinking about what all I need to cancel/replace, a bird pooped on my head.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bummer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

As a poet, the Silver Jews are supposed to be, like, my favorite band, right?

This may be just me, but I find that my love for language often doesn't come into play at all when it comes to listening to music, which I listen to for the, um, music. Certainly there are lyricists that I like -- but I don't think it's as strange as other people seem to when I say that, despite being a writer, I don't really pay much attention to lyrics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also Tanglewood Numbers is just okay, but there's a song on American Water that I really love -- I don't know the name of it, but it's the one where he sings "air crickets, air crickets, air crickets."

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I've been having a pretty good day so far! Renee drove me back to the Cali Clipper where I left my car last night, and I took the opportunity to hang out in Wicker Park for the afternoon -- first to Reckless (purchases: Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, Hole's Live Through This, Arthur Russell's Calling Out of Context, Alan Braxe and Friends' The Upper Cuts, Stevie Wonder's Talking Book, Mojave 3's Excuses for Travellers, and Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story), and then to Earwax, where my meal (the usual: sweet potato quesadillas w/cilantro pesto) was unexpectedly paid for by a trio of women tourists, to whom I had given some helpful advice, and finally to Small Bar with Nick and Sarah, whom I'd called on a whim since I was in the hood -- and then I sat in my car for an hour and talked to Kelsey.

Will be spending the early part of the evening cleaning up around the apartment and uploading my new CDs, and then I'm meeting Krista as she gets off work later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Silver Jews are dumb. I don't think his lyrics are particularly strong poetically, usually they read like a collection of one-liners rather than as something cohesive. And his one-liners still are nowhere as near as good as Mark E. Smith's. And his music is boring. This is all based off of the one SJ album I've heard though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

where my meal (the usual: sweet potato quesadillas w/cilantro pesto) was unexpectedly paid for by a trio of women tourists, to whom I had given some helpful advice

on what?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I don't know anything about poetry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

They asked me where they could find a good grocery store, since all they were able anywhere to find was bananas (huh?), so I told them there was a Jewel three blocks south on Milwaukee, if all they needed was just a standard supermarket. Then a few minutes later they said, "Wait okay, but so where do you shop?" And I said, "Well, to be honest, I usually go to Whole Foods." And then they got all excited and said, "Where is there a Whole Foods?" And I was trying to figure out if it would be easier for them to go to the one on Ashland vs. the one downtown, they said they were staying at the House of Blues, and I said, "Oh, well, yeah, it's just like four blocks north of the hotel."

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

do you think they were maybe trying to get you over to their hotel room? "we're staying at the house of blues. do you know where we can find some thick juicy bananas?"

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the pizza I made last night, which turned surprisingly awesome:

http://static.flickr.com/48/133149204_5cbbbd1125.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, I think they were lesbians actually!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

phil, give me a bump

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

and then I'm meeting Krista as she gets off

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

I took three sapphic gals to a wedding today.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jeff....so the Sc0ttt W@lker song you sent me is from an album that is not yet released, right? Can you just YSI that to me? The Drift?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

this thread title freaks me out.

that is all.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

phil, give me a bump
i dont have any of that evil, dictator-supporting, stuff. i wish i did though.

does anyone know of any sort of unique event spaces in chicago? i have to help my publisher find a place for a book launch party there

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

OMFG! It's called "Jesse"!

the story of Elv1s' stillborn twin brother and hallucinatory visions of Septb 11, ("Six feet / of / foetus / flung at / sparrows / in the /sky . . . . Famine is / a tall / tall / tower /A building / left / in the / night / Jesse / are you / listening? / It casts / its ruins / in shadows / under / Memphis / moonlight").

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

I meant a jump. My battery's dead.

ha ha ha ha.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

im so bored. its pouring here like crazy and its cold, so im inside in my pajamas. maybe going to watch some more world war 2 documentaries

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to watch the simpsons season 7 till i sleep.

but first i'm going to listen to this scott walker song some more.

phil, would you happen to have any recent sc0tt walker you could ysi off to me tonight? (drift or tilt)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

sorry i dont

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

then i must put you into my 'currently useless' list. you can work hard though and perhaps escape. don't let it get to you.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 23 April 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I've been offered coke was by that dude Todd I went home with that one night.

how many of these bi-stories does jaymc have?!?!

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

gris gris fucking destroyed tonight. much dictator-supporting substances around afterwards. i chose a hot dog instead. probably the wrong choice.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 23 April 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why in the hell am I still up now?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 23 April 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Too much blow?

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am up! Of course it's 2pm so no real joy, there. And I have a war wound -- I went to a crazy show last night and got banged in the head by a mic stand and now have big criss-cross owie right above my eye. It kind of looks like stitches, actually. Nuts!

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

gris gris fucking destroyed tonight.

FUCK. I almost went to that, but went to a buddy's show instead, followed by awful Wrigleyville bar where I wasn't allowed to wear a hat inside wtf.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's weird.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck Wrigleyville bars.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

They have the best tv's! (them and Crew).

I hate bars that bill themselves as sports bars yet have 4 tiny 17" tvs behind the bar.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 23 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Better than getting banged in the head by a Mike.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night & Laurel was in it . . . sorta. I was trying to meet up with her but I didn't have her number. I frantically tried logging onto ILX to find her . . . then my alarm went off.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/pdeyes.jpg

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 April 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, sooooo cute.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 24 April 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, wieners.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

I got up at 4:15AM today.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

what time did you go to bed?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

10:45.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe 11? I dunno. How was the roast? You missed a great show on Sat.! I met Paal N-L and he was nice.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

roast = good, I would cook it less next time, it wasn't pink enough, although it was still juicy. 160 degress does not equal = pink.

I need more advance warning with shows, you should put them on upcoming! that way they pop up in my rss reader.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

I just think I would be so much more productive if I could get things done from 4am to 7:30am. The problem would be getting in bed by 10-11pm every night.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, ok. I sorta forgot about that thingie. What about this Thursday? It's a new configuration called something like Powerhouse Sound (I think?) that has people from Tortoise and KV and maybe Hamid Drake? I can't remember. It's at Schuba's. Put that in your RSS reader and consider joining us.

Getting up insanely early - You get used to it. Ask Otto.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Doubtful about Thursday, I'll probably be working till 11 that day.

Another problem I have is that I medicate to sleep and that tends to require at least 5 to 6 hours in the bed. If only I could split my pills into eights.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck. I guess working until 11 makes getting up at 4 difficult. It sure would for me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Allo allo. Kelsey don't fret -- I'll still love you if you're late (I'm always late). Stand me up, though, and WE'RE THROUGH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Getting up insanely early - You get used to it. Ask Otto.

last night i went to bed at 9:30. it was great. i was out of bed at 5:10 and felt great. which is insane BECAUSE IT WAS 10 PAST 5 IN THE F'ING MORNING! but yeah, i'm kinda used to it. i'll never like it though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I had no regular sleep schedule but I noticed a while back that I go to sleep at 2 and wake up at 9 very very consistently. I feel a lot better knowing that.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I sense another ChILX line--up-by-____ coming on)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

i was on the bus saturday (i don't remember if it was western or division or addison) and saw an suv with the illinois license plate CHILX 43.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sleep felt so great last night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bite. In bed by 11, up by 7. And yeah, I slept like the dead.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny-- I woke up at 9 today thinking I had to work this morning and I rolled around thinking how exhausted I still was. But then I remembered that I switched my schedule so I'm off this morning and I immediately got out of bed.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

That is funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend was pretty good. Good gig, good food, good hang.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing is I heard about something completely horrible that happened to a musician that I know, and I can't stop thinking about it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was in bed by 10 last night, because I was up until 6 Sunday morning. I got out of bed at 7 today.

I just found out that one of my favorite Yooper musicians, Syc@m0re Sm|th is playing with C@n@st@ at the Hideout in late May. Amazing!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, even I didn't know that!

I get up around 8, usually -- but the time I actually go to bed varies anywhere from 12 to 4.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

BTW: Julia's new apartment is beautiful. Great place, and the view! So awesome! The Loyola building is just a few blocks away, residential towers stretch up the lakefront, Evanston is in the distance, and there's a whole lotta lake. Somehow it's better than any view you get downtown.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Wow, I must be "in the know" about "the scene." xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Julia must in IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!!

HALLO! I live about a mile or so up the street.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Note, I do not live in a residential tower.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's the Granville stop.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

REMINDER:

C4n4st4 show tonight at Schubas. Show starts at 8 pm with Austin band Moonlight Towers, then at 9 pm the ALUMINUM GROUP will perform (OMG), and then we'll take the stage at 10 pm.

Four of our songs will feature guest lead vocalists, including Matthew from Brighton MA (ex-Scotland Yard Gospel Choir), Elia from SYGC, Tony from Warm Ones, and our friend Mat C.

Then stick around for joy, cuz me and Nick are gonna DJ upstairs until late.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think I can be there for that. I think I should, anyway.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Canasta,

Next time, don't schedule your "residency" during my last month of classes, you jerks.

Love,
Jenny

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

John-- Schubas has an upstairs? What will you be spinning? NEW SCOTT WALKER???????????????????/

I work tonight and may stop by after my toiling is over.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there's an upstairs, but it's never open except for special events like this. But it has its own bar and everything.

No Scott Walker -- I made a playlist of approx. 80 songs to choose from, and it'll prob be stuff along the dance spectrum: De La Soul, Gnarls Barkley, Hot Chip, Superpitcher, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a flyer for a band (that I hadn't heard of) doing a 'residency tour' in four cities at once. I.e., every Monday for a month in town A, every Friday for a month in town B, etc.. What a weird and kind of cool way to tour, if you could pull it off.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I like that idea.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. I am working hard.

Did you guys know that the Chicago Botanic Gardens are very very nice (and big?). Here are some pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x77tigersxus/sets/72057594114058133/

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, been there. It's beautiful!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

The flowers are nice, but for my money, it's the kissing that really makes that photo series.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

After a TON of research on Amazon, I purchased these.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002K6Y9E/ref=ord_cart_shr/002-7053177-3482457?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance&n=172282

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xpost- I hate couples. I like the individuals in couples, but I don't care for couples.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like the window photos. Nick fighting the demons in his head is very funny.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I'm sorry. That sounded like bitterness.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's this fucking springtime getting to me again. God how I hate this time of year.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the companion to Nick's demons-in-his-head pic:

http://static.flickr.com/45/132756303_ae01215335_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost- I hate couples. I like the individuals in couples, but I don't care for couples.

i don't like happy couples. angry, fighting in public couples are my favorite. actually, it's not that i dislike happy couples. i just don't like them as much.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

All of the photos from the CBG shoot look so CRISP.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

There was a priceless crazy guy on the train today. He was ranting and raving about all kinds of things. Most of it was unintelligible, but I did catch him saying that he knew what everyone was thinking. I figured this was true, since it was pretty apparent that the other people around him on the train thought he was fucking nuts!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the craziest thing on the train yesterday. There was a guy on the train and his skin looked BLACK!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's only crazy if you're on the Brown Line.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

The brown line is MAD in the morning. I had forgotten. The blue line spoiled me. Hell, you can get a seat on the blue line at 8am if you play your cards right. The brown line -- forget it. You're lucky to get something to hold on to.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

From Bryan A. Garner's Usage Tip of the Day:

e-mail; email; E-mail. The first is still the prevalent form in modern print sources. The unhyphenated and unsightly "email" might prevail in the end, but today "e-mail" is five times as common as "email" in contemporary print sources. The "e" -- not a true prefix but short for "electronic" -- is sometimes capitalized, but the trend is to make it lowercase.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrossssss.....

This twat sent me a MySpace friend request.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=1982003

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

unhyphenated and unsightly

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

VINDICATED

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

play your cards right = get on at any stop before Damen

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming you're riding in from the NW side, of course.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hell, you can get a seat on the blue line at 8am if you play your cards right

what direction? because the blue line leaves forest park with 80% of the seats taken. the rest are usually filled at harlem and by oak park they're all gone. i used to get on at austin at 7:10 and you were lucky if you got to stand in the right space in front of the right hand doors.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who doesn't like happy couples shouldn't hang out with me or call me for a while now.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Getting a single bucket seat on the Brown Line at Damen is the bomb. I love the whole skyline view as opposed to the red line too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Alternatively, whoever does like happy couples should hang out with me or call me sometime soon.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Getting a single bucket seat on the Brown Line at Damen is the bomb. I love the whole skyline view as opposed to the red line too.

I firmly endorse every part of this post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't dislike the people contained within the happy couple unit, nor do I begrudge people their happiness, but I don't particularly enjoy the company of Egregiously, Obnoxiously Happy Couples. I always wonder why they can't be more quietly happy, why they have to smear their happiness all over the lens like petroleum jelly instead of quietly knowing that it's there and being content with that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to plant some flowers after work today in my backyard.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I apologize for my obnoxiousness.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

why they have to smear their happiness all over the lens like petroleum jelly instead of quietly knowing that it's there and being content with that.

yes, that's it exactly. i'd prefer to be in the company of a couple who are outright hostile to one another rather than in the company of two people sharing a syrupy sugary love. it's more interesting if nothing else.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

PS Sarah, I obvs don't mean you or I wouldn't have said that. Hopefully that was clear.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

...what

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

uhm these are just my feelings in general and in no way are they directed at anyone who posts here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, what she said.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't really think you guys meant me, but I am posting kissing pix online.

― Ayslim Chancinne Titepants (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.teenslivingwithcancer.org/images/familyFriends/elephant.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

You're allowed to gloat a little John, it's only been a couple of weeks. If you're still like this in 6 months, Jesse, Otto and I will give you the stern beating you deserve.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not talking about me.

http://childsuicide.homestead.com/files/elephant_in_living_room.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, John.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.art-attic.com/CATALOG/PIX/Illustration/fedorova/images/elephant_in_the_room.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just a Grinch.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost That one's cool.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a grouch. Also not a fan or purveyor of PDA.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

What is this elephant you refer to? Is there something we don't all know about?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who doesn't like happy couples shouldn't hang out with me or call me for a while now.

They can hang out with me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'll explain myself in a couple of hours. I hope I didn't come off as a bitch!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

You nasty, bubbly, deliriously happy person you.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, I love you guys, I'm just feeling a little dark.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.panopticist.com/graphics/sassy_april1992.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I love that elephant in the conference rooms. And S & N's photos look great - John's right, they're really sharp.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Are those out of the Powershot?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow is TAX DAY. Also, CABLE DAY. Also, CANCEL GYM MEMBERSHIP DAY.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm interested in your opinions on headphones. Particularly the ones I purchased. I didn't want to spend over $30.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002K6Y9E/ref=ord_cart_shr/002-7053177-3482457?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance&n=172282

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a pair of Sony noise-cancelling headphones for $40 and they work really well. I like them.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm cleaning house a lot today. Part of that involves washing the keyboard. Since I eat at the computer for most of my at home meals, it tends to get really cruddy. So I wash it in the tub.

I have a spare that keep clean. The other one I soak in hot water and detergent or bleach for a while and then let it dry very thoroughly and then I store it until I clean the other one.

BRILLIANT.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be too scared of fucking it up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I usually just spill coffee on my keyboard and get a new one before it gets to that point.

Too bad you can't do that with laptops.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Um, ok. So what I was going to say is that Nick and I got engaged over the weekend.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

:-D :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.shweety.com/sigs/SHW-yflower-congratulations.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

That's 2 couples I know of that got enganged over the weekend. Couldn't happen to nicer people.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

That's awesome, you guys. Now you can get married onstage at an FF show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

SO SOON??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

YAAAAAAY! Congrats!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bring on the smoochy photos and cheeze!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! Really?! Congratulations!

Jesus H, everyfuckingbody is getting married!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I knew because I hung out with Nick and Sarah on Saturday afternoon, but I was waiting for them to spill the news themselves ... :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://i3.tinypic.com/wbp6br.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Happy love photo, happy engagement!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

One thing that's great about that photo is that it seems like the person taking it is just as drunk as we are.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

That person was me. Hehe. You may be right.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah!

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - indie engagement ring - did not match any documents

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

hey congratulations you two! i almost responded "did you get engaged or something" when sarah said people who don't like happy couples shouldn't hang out with me for a while. i'm so perceptive. *continues patting self on back*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations on your perceptiveness, otto!

Excuse me while I do The John:
;) ;) ;)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Otto, I said the same thing but I only said it to Amanda.

Congratulations and many happy returns/anniversaries/sold-out shows!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

so when's the big day?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, that is so awesome you guys! Are we still hanging out after your show on Friday at the HPK? Because if so, I'll totally buy you an engagement pitcher or something.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

She did! I can vouch for that. OMG I don't know if I'll be invited but if I am, I eagerly anticipate a dance party.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Man. I'm actually jealous. Only because the one person I've felt that strongly about up and moved 417 miles away before I had a real chance to do anything about it, and now who knows what will happen...

Sorry, I sound like a killjoy. I really am happy for you guys!

(And I, like Otto and Laurel, had a sneaking suspicion that something was up upthread! We're such S-M-R-T people! And good looking!)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

you guys have a show friday? what's the hpk?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATS NICK AND SARAH! you guys are awesome.

and i am all cheery and sleep-deprived because i'm in this great new apartment and i couldn't sleep because i was all happy to be here. i love having my view of cityscape and lake. it ROCKS.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

because the one person I've felt that strongly about up and moved 417 miles away before I had a real chance to do anything about it,

yeah, well when that one person moves 2,200 miles away WHILE you're doing something about it come talk to me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Have you told the in-laws yet?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Otto: OUCH. That is a lot farther...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, well when that one person moves 2,200 miles away WHILE you're doing something about it come talk to me.

Were you dating the Flash?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Finally, Nick and Sarah can consumate their love physically!

ihttp://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/misc/Phone_Sex.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/misc/Phone_Sex.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

People gotta stop moving so far away. It's really destroying my plans for arranged marriages.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh, dan, that show isn't happening at that loft you told me about. looks like it will be at cal's. but thanks!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, we told the parents. I even told my ick stepmumsy because she answered the phone at my dad's. But first I made some quick smalltalk because I was feeling happy and gracious (more than the usual, Is my dad home?).

me- I bet your garden is beautiful now!
her - No.
me -?
her - There's just construction EVERYWHERE. I hate it. Also, there is no garden to speak of at this place.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

WHPK is the radio station at University of Chicago. Pure Hype is one of their shows. We're playing on the air Friday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i love having my view of cityscape and lake. it ROCKS.

Seriously.

Holy shit you guys I just had the Monday meeting of my life. I just balls-out told the member services team why what they're trying to do with the website as a quick fix would be far less efficient and less successful than rebuilding the whole damn thing. To quote myself: "It's not wrong because it's green instead of blue. It's wrong because it's just wrong." And then went on to explain that it's not poorly put together (white lie), but that it arrived at its current untenable state by having various people make thousands of tiny changes over the last... oh... ten years that added up to one big train wreck, instead of doing what needs to be done, which it stripping the old site for parts and starting over.

I'm still a little shaky. What have I done?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Only a few more weeks until the 2005 baby-name data is revealed!

(Sorry, that has nothing to do with this conversation...)

(OR DOES IT?!?!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like at least 75% of the sites I have ever worked on. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

you guys have a show friday? what's the hpk?

WHPK playing the show Pure Hype. So it's not really a show, more of a broadcast. Still...

xp: ha!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, are you shakey because you had to speak truth to big powerful people, or because you have just signed yourself up for a ginormous redesign/reprogramming project?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

how did they react at the meeting, kenan?

sarah, that's great you have the family-telling over with, or some of it. my sister had a hard time of that with my parents when she got engaged, and when she told me, i was so surprised and happy and overcome that i wasn't quite sure how to react, and i doubled over laughing. which probably seemed a little odd, but i guess i'm odd sometimes. she's my sister, so she was totally unfazed.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

SUMMERTIME DRINKS

Rosewater.

Yes or no?

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

i am drinking lemonade, with a ton of extra lemon juice in so it's all souriffic.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, are you shakey because you had to speak truth to big powerful people, or because you have just signed yourself up for a ginormous redesign/reprogramming project?

Both.

how did they react at the meeting, kenan?

With horror and good-natured support.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I am not moving to the middle of nowhere (ie anywhere other than New York) to further your arranged-marriage schemes. But keep trying! May I recommend someone from the Crown Heights/Prospect Heights/Fort Greene/Bed-Stuy area?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you should have just said "fuck you, you fat, stupid, sons of bitches", and then they would have said "I like your style! We need more straight-shooters around here, somebody give this boy a promotion."

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

If only Biggie were still alive...

xp Bed-Stuy

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

"This boy's got upper-managment written all over him" xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

i had an awesome raspberry lemonade at flat top on easter. i had a not so awesome lemonade from a vending machine at the laundromat yesterday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Your breath would smell good, Jesse.

Julia, were your parents not gung-ho about her choice?

Kenan, you were honest with them. Good work! It was probably a lot harder for you to say than for them to hear.

Speaking of honesty, my coworkers' brutal honesty about pregnancy, birthing, and the aftermath will keep me baby free for a while to come now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I am not moving to the middle of nowhere (ie anywhere other than New York) to further your arranged-marriage schemes.

SRSLY

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

milkshakes

WITH BOOZE IN THEM

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

(yes Dan, I've still got Mr. Show on the brain)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kalevaindia.com/rose.jpg

Rose water made from rose syrup like this, but different brand. It's an Asian treat. I'm still trying to figure out if it's good or terrible.

I think it would be good as an additive to lemonade.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

milkshakes

WITH BOOZE IN THEM

i used to work with this guy who made awesome ice cream floats out of coca cola, jim beam, kahlua, and coffee ice cream. it doesn't look as good as it tasted.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

HEY, I LIKE MILKSHAKES WITH BOOZE IN THEM.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

you have just signed yourself up for a ginormous redesign/reprogramming project?

Well, one of my main arguments is that it won't require that much scripting. The developer has so much on her plate that rescripting the whole site is months and months away for her, and she's terrified that someone will ask her to do it immediately, as I would probably be in her shoes. It's the "public" section of the site, not the "members" section, which of course would involve more back-end-y stuff. Only non-members ever see it anyway, and it should be totally dedicated to marketing. None of it needs to have dynamic content, none of it should need to be updated very often, and the parts that do can be updated by hand (as much of the site has to be already). So my job, really, is to convince them that a) working with what we have would be a mess, and b) as long as we keep it simple (which it should be, anyway) I can build it from scratch all by my lonesome.

I'm rambling, and you don't really care. Really I'm just talking to figure it out myself.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, fine.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Last summer my gf and I regularly made the shit out of our own "Shamrock Shakes" with (a little) milk, vanilla ice cream, creme de menthe, peppermint schnapps, and (sometimes) vodka. They went very well with grilling out in the back yard.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also: creme de menthe is quite difficult to track down in Logan Square. I probably hit up a dozen stores before I found some.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, were your parents not gung-ho about her choice?

it wasn't that--my bro in law is great. they like him, but my mom acted really quiet and weird for a while and my sister was afraid that she totally disapproved or something. turned out that she was really happy for them. my family can be strange and stoic. and then there's me...i have the strange part down, but never could manage to be stoic.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like how EL's parents reacted when she told them she and Jeff got engaged. She says they don't deal with emotion very well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

"EL"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't you previously expressed bafflement that I have a friend named EL? Yeah, EL. Elizabeth. Plays violin in my band?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, okay. She shouldn't have gotten engaged to a guy named Jeff, it's too confusing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

sorry for killing thread :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

You bitch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

So yeah, we're not playing a show show on Friday, we're playing on the radio on WHPK at U of C. HOWEVER, we have been told that we can bring a few guests to make noise, etc., between songs because listening to the cd of the last time we played, it's weird when we end a song and there's no reaction at all (because there's no one there). So if anyone wants to come down to UofC and sit in a tiny studio for an hour or so and party on Friday at 8:00, let us know. We can't give anyone a ride unfortunately.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wish the show were during the workday :(

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Warning: It's a REALLY tiny room.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and: OMG ENGAGED

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://ngagemedia.ign.com/ngage/image/engage2.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Today I'm obsessed with the song "Try to Make It" by Sloan. Part of what I like about it is if you just listen to the choruses it sounds like it's about something big and inspirational, but if you listen to the verses too you realize it's about something totally mundane.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

You mean like Once in a Lifetime?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Um, kind of. I put it on the blog. Warning: it's very power pop.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATULATIONS NICK AND SARAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I told my mom that Jeff and I were engaged (there wasn't so much a "proposal" as an agreement to go ahead and get engaged), my mom said, "Oh. Okay." and then went on to talk about something entirely unrelated. I don't know what her problem was (my family does emotion just fine - we're a huggy, crying bunch of saps) but she got over it. It might have been the nonchalant way I told her or the fact that I wasn't waving a big old ring around, who knows.

Anyway, this is very exciting news! HUZZAH!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

With EL and maybe with N&S the parents might be proud and emotional but may be like "no duh" - like a coming-out shocker that doesn't surprise anyone.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, look what else is going down in HPK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/education/edlife/MAGAZINES.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if Bret has a copy of that magazine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

All right, dudes, I'm off to Schubas now. I'll see some of you at the show, cool?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

oh, shit, congrats nick and sarah!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I might be there. Late nights this weekend took a lot out of me, and I'm starting back up at the gym today after about a 4 month hiatus, so pain is in the cards for the next couple of days (weeks?) xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am feeling suddenly assy. Got great sleep, but only because I was wiped out totally. Felt good all day, but only because I had, like, nine cups of coffee. Now again, totally wiped out. I WISH I could go to this show. I wish it devoutly.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

It would greatly behoove me to get to work at 7am tomorrow, considering the shit I pulled today.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Here is my plan for the rest of the daylight:

1) Go to the Brown Elephant, buy some much-needed slacks and shirts with collars. They don't have to be great, they just have to be slacks and shirts with collars. If I plan to keep this job, I need more of those.
2) Pack a bag with tomorrow's clothes, then go over to Jessa's place, feed her evil cat, and sleep for many hours on her bed, which has nice new cotton jersey sheets. I will make sure I smell good first, as I do not plan to wash the sheets.
3) Go back to work ass-early.

Now you know.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

New plan: same as before, only with the purchase of an iron and an ironing board thrown in there. Because I am living without those, and it is a sad, wrinkled, and frumpy existence.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT: I JUST BOUGHT TIX TO MICHIGAN FOR THE WEEKEND. It's a huge relief, I didn't think I could afford to go to see my sister. But I won't have time to come to Chi-town, for which there aren't enough sad faces on the keyboard.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

We understand. Don't even try for all the necessary sad faces.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

UGH... Vita... boring! "Hey guys, check me out. I'm sexual!" I will be happy to graduate. Also, because of idiots like this.

Sarah/Nick, I'll totally come to the radio station and make noise. New plans afterwards, though. I have a friend's party to go to, so unless you want to come to that (you're welcome to, but of course you won't know anyone except me), we should just go for A drink or two. Instead of the all-night DRUNKZONE style. I'll still buy for the happy couple, though.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

"...we’re exploring the idea of gay sex, the idea of going down on a girl.”

By covering these sexual relationships for the first time, Rutherfurd said that Vita will be able to better fulfill its mission of generating discussion about sexual life at the University and in general. She said it was important to emphasize that the magazine is making these creative decisions in order to express its artistic and intellectual values.

(bolding mine)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

This Chicago Maroon is living up to it's name fully, in that Bugs Bunny sense. What a maroon.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

I thought U of C was supposed to be brainy. I guess their thing is winning Nobel Prizes for physics, not Pulitzers.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Brainy, but (according to lore and my severely limited first-hand knowledge) socially inept.

Sample themes from wikipedia:

"Where fun comes to die"; "Where the end of the world began!" (with appropriate mushroom cloud picture); "The level of hell that Dante forgot"; ": Where the squirrels are more aggressive than the guys"; "Where the squirrels are cuter than the girls"; "Where the only thing that goes down on you is your GPA"; and "Our Ivory Tower is bigger than yours."

(No dis, Dave.)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Has a line like "Where the squirrels are cuter than the girls" ever gotten anyone anywhere laid, ever?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no, come on. Dave has to admit that he's on that spectrum somewhere. No shame, it's a U of C thing. Dave, you're a big dork, and your college is where cool people go to either die or become so amazing that no normal person will ever speak to them again. Try not to play the middle on this one.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dis away, Dan. Kenan's right. I mean, of course I'm on the spectrum, although I have had strange reactions to the U of C. In some ways, it has made me more traditionally masculine than I was in high school (not sure if this is hard to believe or not, ha ha).

It's also got me hating on a particular brand of academic elitism that looks down on those who haven't read Marx or Locke or, worse, Kant. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm glad that part of the reason I will never be an effective hipster is that I enjoy reading more than posing (not to mention the fact that I don't dress "cool").

Of course, I take a bit of offense to the "big" part of "big dork," but that's probably neither here nor there. The important thing to remember is that, while I am certainly a dork, I am a variety of dork that is not particularly common or stereotypical at the U of C. I am a music dork, an overearnest dork, an eager to please, performative, theater/improv (read: attention-wanting) dork, and a bit of a lit. dork (and definitely a writing/poetry dork).

Compare this to the traditional U of C dork who is introverted, malnourished, completely oblivious to other people, and not a little condescending, and I think I look good by comparison. Again, though, of course I'm going to win when I'm doing the comparing, and a lot of this is neither-here-nor-there type speculation with me defending my social tendencies in a forum where my doing so will just contradict itself. Of course, the fact that I take the bait is probably what makes me a U of C student in the first place.

But the important point here is that the U of C has horrendous student publications. Econ Nobels do not quality journalism make. God, they are so bad. If you want a laugh, you can look up my name in the archives and find an old music column I had two years ago.

Also, at least "the squirrels are cuter than the girls" rhymes. "Where the squirrels are more aggressive than the guys"? What is that shit? It's so bad. And Dan, the fact that you ask if the line has ever gotten anyone laid just means you were smart not to go here, i.e. lots of people here would rather just complain about the uglies than try to get the uglies to date them, myself frequently included.

Okay, Dave's dissertation on the social dynamics of the U of C and his place therein now concluded. Stankonia is a lot funnier and more awesome than I remembered.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

But, now, if we contrast the U of C myth to the reality of that Friday night a few weeks ago...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

nerds gotta party, too, dude.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Eric, that's why the whole thing crumbles once you stop dealing in stereotypes. Well, maybe not the whole thing. The local color is still a bit different, but it's also still a college.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a pretty nerdy school, too. Just isolated as fuck and with like a 4 to 1 m/f ratio. Plus it was mainly engineers who (for the extreme most part) are there to learn to make things like car motors and don't give two shits about Kant, Locke, or Marx. I actually paid attention to that stuff, and I still don't think we ever read Kant for class. Most of the jokes/lines there were more blatant. "Snow cow" comes to mind.

xpost There were also some very wild parties there. Some of my friends had Wes1ey W|11|s write a song about their house party getting bustedm for example. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before,

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, that Wesley Willis thing is totally awesome. And yeah, I've never read Kant, either. I'm up simply because, by going here, I have the gloss on all those dudes and kind of have a feel for who is more full of shit than the rest of them. I think I'd probably like Kant. Actually, I'm not sure about Kant. I know I'd like Kierkegaard, though.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, did you go to IIT?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, MTU.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh, ok.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan----buy shirts at M@arshalls, TJ M@axx and F1lene's Basement! You can get gorgeous dress shirts for (well) under $20. They also have a lot of polos and the like. It's nice to have the crispness of a brand new shirt to go with your grown-up job.

Also? Shirt laundry is a real value. You can't beat 99c for the starchiness and convenience. Hell, it'll probably pay for itself with all the raises you'll get when you confidently march around in your crisp clean shirt making bold statements about HTML and usability testing.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to go to Schubas tonight but I worked late. It was a weird one. I fucked myself hard without lube when I accidentally deleted a CC payment on a $50 check. With tip, I thereby shit myself $60 tonight. :(

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/54/130487462_2f29d65a95.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/49/128217175_24c95cad6d_o.jpg

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about the money shitting, Jesse. That sucks. :(

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that does suck. ive done that a few times when i waited tables

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Can we all take a moment and observe a German country band covering "Hey Ya"?

I mean, seriously, "What's cooer dan beeng coor?" "Fucking coor."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Some of my friends had Wes1ey W|11|s write a song about

Dead schizophrenics don't Google.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

DJ set tonight:

1.
Go Home Productions, "Rapture Riders (Blondie vs. The Doors)"
Call and Response, "Nervous Wreck" (hi Laurel!)
De La Soul, "A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturdays"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
Chicken Lips, "Without Sound"
Pebbles, "Mercedes Boy"
The Rapture, "Sister Saviour (DFA Remix)"

2.
M.I.A., "Buckey Done Gun (The Claps' NoMeansMaybe Remix)"
Salt N Pepa, "Push It"
Supersystem, "Everybody Sings"
Stacey Q, "Two of Hearts"
Ministry, "Every Day is Halloween" (request: Matt P.)
Michael Jackson, "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" (request: Neptali F.)
George Duke, "I Love You More"
Prince, "Erotic City" (request: Pat L.)
Violent Femmes, "Blister in the Sun (request: Renee W.)
Young MC, "Bust a Move" (request: Ben I.) (aborted b/c of beer spilled on the iPod)
Gwen Stefani, "Hollaback Girl (Reverso 68 Mash Edit by Luminfire)"
Snoop Dogg ft. Justin Timberlake, "Signs (Metro Area Mash Edit by Luminfire)"
Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Baby Got Back" (request: Audra E.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

...and all the Philly steaks you can eat.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh totally! Forgot that one!

I think it was after "Blister in the Sun."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

("that one" being Boyz II Men, "Motownphilly," obv.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Filene's Basement

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Just think of what a releif it will be to graduate, Dave, and not have to think about and carefully analyze the v. small UC universe so closely.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I ended up in a thrift store on Milwaukee that looks like it has lots of nice jeans, but no slacks. I got a couple of cool vintage shirts.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Nick gets to work at home today. When I left, we was cuddled up on the futon under a comforter with the laptop, Pepper, and a cup of coffee.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Even your freudian slips are cute (he -> we).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I think of that relief all the time, Jenny.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, geez. I guess I'm there in my mind.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell is wrong with me that I would drag my ass out of bed, S, S, & S, eat breakfast, and ride to work with a cold like this? Stupid midwest protestant-esque work ethic. I want to go home.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

i only got two of those s's in this morning and did not have breakfast.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! The cable guy? A REEEEAL ASSHOLE SO FAR.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a cold, but my legs are totally sore for some reason, the weather is miserable, and I didn't go to bed until 3:30, so I'm sleep-deprived. Ugh.

Mango juice and a 7-11 banana nut muffin (underrated!) are only slightly redeeming my day so far.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm running on coffee and a bran muffin, as well as sore limbs and miserable weather.

Man, I almost had a really healthy day (muffin and salad for lunch, fish and salad for dinner) yesterday until the three-beer rock n' roll practice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

shhhhhh.... here he comes!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus. If this guy does another soul-exhaling sigh? I'm going to strangle him with a coaxial cable.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

No chance at free cable, then/

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

his first act was to explore the whole house and immediately find my big Box O' Porno

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

HE DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Our cable guy was cute and smelled of cologne.

xpost: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA holy shit. Twice he found your big box o' porn? HA!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

You have to kill him. He knows too much.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he planted the porn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

No! He keeeeps going "shewwwww" and heaving a big old sigh.
He just informed me that he will not be completing the hold he started in my wall, but will instead be coming in through the bedroom window. Which means that he will be stringing 40'+ of wire!

Tehre's askd;

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Toss him a bottle of lube.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Just fling some on him from around the corner. He'll love that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

You should have done like we did when we got our cable hooked up, Jesse. That is, bribe a comely female friend to wait for the cable guy, and then the job will be done quickly and relatively painlessly. Of course, the real reason we did this was because the UHaul had to be picked up at the same time the dude was coming over, but I'd like to think our friend had something to do with the expediency and completeness of his work.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am the dumbest. I told my mom something about a week ago that it turns out was told to me in confidence by sister H. So then my mom calls sister L and totally goes off on her. Then sister L calls sister H crying and crying and brings up this thing my mom "found out about." DOH! I was the only one she told!

In other news, Hi.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm never going to be able to post on the Noise Board again, am I? I came home last night to find myself unbanned, so I put up a hot pic of Rachael Leigh Cook on a relevant thread, and immediately Joel is all "who unbanned jaymc?" On the admin log, there's a note from Rob (Stormy Davis) that says "Locked user: jaymc (who keeps unbanning this loser?)"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

REMINDER WHO WANTS TO HANG JUNE 7-10?? IM LOOKING AT YOU, MR BANNED AND MR ENGAGED AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I WOULD LIKE TO HANG OUT W/PETE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

We'll all be there and square.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jay, if I ever get ops I'll always unban you. Of course Jon already knows that, and once he figures it out he'll un-op for me eternity but I can work with that (after all, he has to deal with me in person several times a week). Stence is just cranky.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, it's not a big deal. The whole thing is just kinda juvenile.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

NOIZE BOARD IN JUVINILE INTERNET SHOCKA

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

joel was probably the second person i met in chicago when i moved here. just thought i'd throw my random j0el hun+ linkage in there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.satchmo.com/cashmoney/juve999.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I just found this shit on eBay. I'd like to give this seller what for.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Ladder-Shape-Bookcase-Bookshelf-DVD-CD-Rack-Holder_W0QQitemZ4418206197QQcategoryZ3199QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

(hint: look at the cost of the bookcase and then look at the shipping)

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Holy guacomole.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

The banning itself is maybe not as bothersome as knowing that people are motivated by this weird hatred of me to do it.

Yeah, I met Joel a few times in Chicago, too. The first time, we actually saw Gosford Park together, haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

my cable guy was here yesterday and it all worked out fine. i didn't think my being female had anything to do with it, but i was just glad it went smoothly. no porn was involved.

my tv didn't get set up til last night, though, and now the reception is weird because of some settings thing i can't figure out, grr.

now i just have to wait a few days for dsl. getting sick of dialup.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

For a board that is supposed to be about noise, they sure edit a lot of shit.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

did i just accidentally reject someone's IM?

Dan makes a salient point.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of a fascinating community, to be honest -- esp. the constant hand-wringing over what is and what isn't Noise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's because various members post a lot of shit without the approval of the subjects of the postings! And just a lot more inappropriate/offensive stuff in general, and lots of people have ops there, so if someone finds something totally unacceptable, they can edit it. Of course then they have to defend that.

Jay, i wouldn't call that hand-wringing -- you do realize how thoroughly it's all a joke? I mean, I rewrite things in my ANALOG life to be more noize, because they're funnier that way (cf a cheesy text message I got a couple of weeks ago that needed ironizing).

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone explain to me why it will cost me $81 more to fly american airlines to san diego than it will to fly american airlines to mexico city? i mean wtf, really.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have admin privs anymore, j, sorry.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

you do realize how thoroughly it's all a joke?

not that i read the noize board or anything so this isn't necessarily directed towards it or anyone who posts there, but can you still call something a joke if it isn't funny? if something is so lame and tired that it fails to evoke ANY emotion can you still claim it as a joke? if not, what do you call it?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think inside joke is a better term, having been involved in many, many such unfunny-to-anyone-else type jokes before.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Additionally, Otto, as a wise yellow man once said: Don't ask me how the economy works

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

ah, never mind, i'm not sure what my point was anymore.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

wow, only took me 90 seconds to completely lose my train of though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

It reminds me of 7th graders and their secret clubs. Do we like this? We don't? Oh. [throws unicorn calendar in the trash hastily]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's because more people from this area want to go to Districto Federal than sunny San Diego?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jay, i wouldn't call that hand-wringing -- you do realize how thoroughly it's all a joke?

Oh I know. But you don't think there's maybe a tiny kernel of truth in that characterization? I get the sense that I'm banned partially because I'm not "noise" enough for some posters.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

that wouldn't explain the disparity in the number of flights per day to sd vs mc on aa.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I get the sense that I'm banned partially because I'm not "noise" enough for some posters.

I think you're banned because it bothers you to be banned.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN OTM

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I'm not going to defend the NB to this thread (and I know no one is asking me to, really, but I feel oddly compelled to and I AM NOT ARGUING ABT THE NOIZE BORED ON THE INTARWEB).

I'm not very noize either -- after Jaymc I'm probably the most earnest regular NB poster! But I guess I get to call a lot of people's shit in person and/or hang out with them without the burden of their message-board personas/issues.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

But I guess I get to call a lot of people's shit in person and/or hang out with them without the burden of their message-board personas/issues.

haha that's how we roll on the chicago thread, too.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

And Kenan/Stence eternally OTM on this -- you think JW can't smell weakness like a cup of strong coffee? P-lease.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I defend the NB all the time! So there's this weird thing where I really like the community there and a lot of the posters, but then periodically something will happen where I feel unwelcome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Rob is banning me because it bothers me to be banned. I think Rob bans me because he thinks I'm a dork/creep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dyingdays.net/Guided_by_Voices/gbv_1995_king_shit_and_the_golden_boys.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're looking at it backwards.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

. . .

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Explain yourself. Both of you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I thought we'd already covered my "red puckered asshole" theory of stormy.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I met Joel a few times in Chicago, too. The first time, we actually saw Gosford Park together, haha.

omg baaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "backwards" then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

im trying to picture hstencil and jaymc holding hands and sharing popcorn & raisinettes. ohhhh so funny

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

in your dreams, phil.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Re what Laurel said about JW, I don't really understand what's pleasurable about preying on weakness. But I guess this is part of what excludes me from being a BRO.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know Stormy at all and I have no idea what has transpired between the two of you at any time, and I think banning you has become a meme all by itself which is BS and not funny but is being picked up by people who don't/shouldn't have any beef with you in the first place. But on the other hand you ALWAYS BRING IT UP ON-BOARD. Someone is unbanning you, dude -- do you know who? (Don't answer here!) Make your own alliance/s and work that angle instead of appealing to the group, because the gestalt is hugely more likely to be bullshit.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I remember Stence was carrying a large package with him (?), and Mercury Rev's "The Dark is Rising" was playing in the theater while it was seating, and Stence pointed out that All is Dream was released on 9/11, and the song's lyrics took on a spooky significance thereafter.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

well whatever, i guess. i went to see brian wilson with rob. it was fun

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Haha oh jeez, "alliances" -- what is this, Lord of the Flies?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

well whatever, i guess. i went to see brian wilson with rob. it was fun

Wow really -- he takes you seriously?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

There's a song called "The Dark is Rising"???? Is it in any way related to the book??

JMZ: YES.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what the book is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've been to Brian Wilson's HOUSE.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wow really -- he takes you seriously?

i dunno, not sure what you mean by that. it was fun though. then we went to smart bar to see morgan geist.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also I am hardly the person to qualify/define "bro-ness" but it has nothing to do with being predatory and I don't want to let that stand. Any...opportunistic meanness is coincidental overlap in personalities.

Book = The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, it's the first volume of a young adult fantasy series with vaguely Arthurian roots and I LOVE IT FOR EVER AND EVER.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I guess that was a bit inscrutable, Phil. I was just thinking, one of the things he seems to hate me for is having horrible musical taste, and I tend to like a lot of the same stuff you do. I can't imagine that you bro down with a 12-pack of High Life and get yr Led out all that often.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

reading about that other board has me questioning my participation on this one.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Not to derail this scintillating conversation, but I am totally obsessed with this website that sells old lady clothes.

Look, muumuus!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Otto.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was wondering if i was supposed to be insulted by that or not. i love high life though. i wish more places in ny had it instead of pbr or reingold.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry about that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, I realized right after I typed that that you bought me a High Life at the Hot Chip show the last time I saw you. ;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY MACKEL, AMANDA, how did you know I LOVE housecoats?!?!? I am totally ordering.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Exclusive clubs center on exclusion. It's not exclusive if there aren't people who care whether or not they're included. By caring you're giving them affirmation. (Not that I've ever seen the board.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've enjoyed a housecoat in my day too. Dusters are the new gaucho pants.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy's smart. Listen to him.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

working working working, from hoooooome

Take the noize-board handwringing somewhere else please

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

EZ nails it. Additionally, what fun would it be for them if they didn't have a little obscure corner of internet to lord over?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I need to order some of those to wear around the apartment after the wedding.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's fun to wear housecoats because underneath YOU'RE NAKED.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. I didn't even mean to make this into a thing. I just made an idle comment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

You're all going to turn into flashers

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's fun to wear housecoats because underneath YOU'RE NAKED.

Wait, WHAT?

Is a housecoat = a robe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's fun to wear housecoats because underneath YOU'RE NAKED.

I'm imagining white terrycloth, for some reason.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

2 grueling hours later....

I HAVE FREE HBO

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am never happier clotheswise than when I am clad in sweatpants, an old tshirt, and my robe. Pure comfort.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Housecoats are almost as sexy as labcoats.

Nice, Jesse! K. and I will try to get you to host Sopranos night.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.givingtreeonline.com/zeusrobe250.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Additionally, what fun would it be for them if they didn't have a little obscure corner of internet to lord over?

"they"

Doesn't this suggest that the NB is much more single-minded than it actually is?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, stop campaigning to get unbanned already.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

THEY ARE WATCHING AND THEY ARE NOT IMPRESSED

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Can we ban jaymc from the Chicago thread until he stops talking about being banned from the noise board?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, doing a GIS on "housecoat" shows a lot of robes and a few nightgowns. They're not really coats at all, are they?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I DIDN'T MEAN TO TALK ABOUT IT, BUT IT BECAME A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.assistireland.ie/uploadedfiles/Product_Images/Clothing/Nightwear/Housecoat%206139.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's me in 40 years.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

time for a new thread.

Chicago: robe or housecoat?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I said "they" because it seems to me there is a little ruling cabal on that board. Am I wrong?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Do you imagine laurel is part of a "cabal"? I don't think she's the type.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

can i ask chicago for a bit of advice?

i did this totally freakish thing. A dumb thing, really.

So i started temping with this temp agency. yesterday they called & said that i'm one of their top choices for this temp-to-hire job that pays $16/hour. the deal is that the company will look at their top three choices & pick one of the people. i'm in that pile. it could start as soon as monday & last three months & then possibly be a permanent thing. it's with a community developer
anyway, i have this plane ticket i bought to go to china. i'm 99% sure i'm going. maybe the right job would keep me here?
i haven't told the temp agency that i'm going to be gone for a month & now i'm freaked out about this job & how i need the money & how it would look really bad on me & the agency to send out someone who can't be there the full time. so today i called my rep at the temp agency & left a voice mail message where i rambled on about a 'family emergency' & the possibility of me having to leave town.
now i have to call her back b/c she left a message.
do i maintain the facade? do i construct a story about how my parents are paying me to look after my grandmother who is going to move into their house until my mom is finished with school and/or they get a nurse? OR do i actually tell the truth & say, 'i don't know why i lied. the truth is that i'm going to china.'

why did i get myself in this pickle at all??

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Not going would give you a) the financial security from whatever $ you would spend in China over a month and b) the financial security of working steadily now through then. On the other hand, in 10 years you'll remember your trip to China and you won't remember the office work much.

Lying takes time and stress. If you can skip that part, better to lie by witholding than lie by making things up.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

better to lie by witholding than lie by making things up.

This is usually my strategy. Reading that bit about your grandmother made me feel really weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

So yeh. The cable guy wasn't an asshole after all. He just had NO customer-relations skills (ie filter that kept him from expressing what a pain in the ass things were going to be).

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

but will it be well received if i fess up to the slight lie? i already mumbled something on the phone about a family thing. i feel like an ass. this is not like me to do stuff like this.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

I love it when girls twitter.

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