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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Where wasn't your bookstore?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

THREAD TITLE IS SCARY!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear, so you're the reason I sucked at calculus...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jazz concert: The JazzMN Big Band, directed by Doug Snapp, and the Hastings High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bob Casperson, will perform a joint concert at 7 p.m. Monday at Hastings High School. Buy tickets at the door: $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, Twin Cities Jazz Society members, KBEM-FM members and JazzMN season ticket holders; $5 for students. Hastings High School is at 200 General Sieben Drive. For more information, call 651-633-7178.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.doney.net/aroundaz/celebrity/DA_kingman_hastings.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Annual raptor release: Watch raptors return to the wild at the annual Spring Raptor Release from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center, 12805 St. Croix Trail, Hastings. The program also includes hands-on activities, educational shows and entertainment. The free event is co-sponsored by Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center and is presented by the 3M Co. Foundation. For more information, call the nature center at 651-437-4359.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I still have some of an HHS Christmas concert (from my senior year) on a videotape. Priceless. (Of course back then almost everything but the plays were free...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.twincities.com/images/twincities/twincities/14482/209741139570.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, can you help me set up a website dedicated to streaming video of HHS theatrical and musical productions? Damn, my interest is already fading.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bookstore: there might be one there now (although Just Thinking... Bookstore closed). When I was a kid I went to Westview Mall to spend my allowance on Sweet Dreams romances at the Bookshelf... then that closed and there wasn't a bookstore until after I left for college. (And then there was the year the public library burnt down...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, this thread is my hometown's county seat.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Meet "Planet Patrol: A Kids Action Guide to Earth Care" author Marybeth Lorbiecki and illustrator Nancy Meyers. Planet Patrol Jeopardy, Sketch and Jot Scavenger event and Species Spy Book construction. Earth Week lesson plans available for teachers and home-schooling parents. 1 to 2:30 p.m., 12805 St. Croix Trail, Hastings. 651-437-4359.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fire: Hastings Library, Dakota County, Minnesota—June 1993. A devastating blaze, believed to have been caused by a faulty computer surge protector, destroyed about 80 percent of the library’s holdings. The fire had probably smoldered undetected for several hours before temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees blew out floor-to-ceiling windows, melted glass light fixtures and telephones, and sent flames up the side of the building. Besides the effects of the tremendous heat, the collection also sustained extremely heavy soot, smoke, and water damage. Fortunately, valuable archival material that belonged to the Hastings Historical Society and was being stored in the basement was spared. Constructed in 1964, the building was not equipped with a sprinkler system or fire alarm, either of which might have prevented the extensive damage.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

My VP/GM just moved his family to Hastings from Chicago. His kids are already complaining about how boring their lives are. He asked what there is for them to do.

I replied, "Get drunk in a corn field."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ironically, part of the reason they were planning to build a new library at the time was that the collection was too big for that little building to handle anymore. (Also have to say that I was fond of the old library because it was my first job where I was not employed by my father!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear, suggest "join theater department for many wacky adventures." (okay, sometimes the cornfields and booze were involved, that is true...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

You people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Until recently, a practicing witch owned a bookstore on 2nd street.

Which still looks remarkably like this:
http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/gfx/Postcards/ThenandNow/2St_post.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Really?

I met a woman at my daughter's ECFE class who claims to be a massage therapist working in Hastings. Again, somewhere downtown, I think. I found this mind-boggling. (I guess Second Street is more exciting than it used to be?)

I did enjoy Professor Java's, but my "book club" stopped meeting there because they kept changing closing times.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, the aforementioned witch is a mutual aquaintance of ours.

Dude, my nephew used to hang out at PJ's.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

They call the store Hastings because it has Tings. I'm going back to work there for the summer. Minnesota, so much to answer for.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Okaaaaaaaay. I know more than one witch? Personally? (I'm sure the witch I know doesn't own a bookstore in Hastings.)

Your nephew?! (Okay - so... your brother's son? I don't remember you having a sister...)

Professor Java's = very yummy chai shakes. I heard they were closing but kind of lost track of that. (I could ask my writer friend. She moved from Boston to Hastings. But she was originally from Cannon Falls, so that almost makes sense.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE WORK HAS SLOWED DOWN

VP/GM's kids could also go BOWLING!

Also you guys know that B3rt Casperson is an art teacher at the high school now, right? (FB maybe we've had this conversation before? Oh we totally have, at the BIERSTUBE!)

(xpost: Jeffy has a sister! She's a good bit older than us.)

― Dan (BIERSTUBE!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

...Bierstube. Is this like Burgerpipe?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Bowling alley closed down.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bowling... Bierstube... LOL... (I had forgotten that Hastings was the County seat. What does that say about Dakota County?)

Dan, thanks for explaining about FB/Jeffy's sister. I either never knew that or it was randomly deleted from my memory.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

The corn field shut down, too. Now, kids must drink in E Space.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

...Bierstube. Is this like Burgerpipe?

Oh no, it's much better.

― Dan (OMG ROAD TRIP) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, many moons ago, I worked with a friend of yours at Intek (plastics extrusion factory). Her husband owned the bookstore, if I remember correctly.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

OKAY CAN WE PLZ FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT THERE ARE FOUR OTHER BIERSTUBES IN THE TWIN CITIES AREA????????

― Dan (New Life Goal) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

(Blankly) There are?

(Sidenote: I think this is why my parents are still in the booze business. It sells regardless of the economy.)

FB - you don't mean @lsb@th, do you? (Mind boggling... although that would make some sense.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Click the link in my post upthread!

I'm seriously really really happy to learn this.

― Dan (Gotta Drink At 'Em All!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oooooh. Bierstube Roadtrip!
http://www.sierracampaign.org/TheStand/images/mudding-3.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

That pic = driving to John's or my house in April.

― Dan (Circa 1989 Anyway) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Authentic German Dishes
(All $10)
Sauerbraten “Marinated beef” with special seasonings served in traditional Bavarian style with
spätzle and red cabbage.
Wiener Schnitzel Golden brown “pork cutlet” served with German potato salad and fresh
asparagus.
Schweine Kottlet Center cut “smoked pork chop” smothered with sauerkraut, spätzle and red
cabbage.
Schweine Haxen (When available) “Smoked Pork Shank” tender and delicious, smothered with
sauerkraut, spätzle and red cabbage.
Bratwurst Platter One bratwurst, (smoked beef sausage with mild garlic), and one metwurst,
(spicy smoked beef sausage with hint of white pepper and mustard seed) served with sauerkraut and German
potato salad.
“Hilde’s” German Meatballs (1st Saturday of the month), Boiled red potatoes, 2 large
German meatballs smothered in Hilde’s delicious white creamy German gravy. All you can eat!
All of the above served with special homemade German gravy, toast
and choice of dinner salad or soup of the day.
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Jaeger “Hunter” Schnitzel “Boneless center cut pork steak” . . . . . . . . . . 9
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A sample platter of our German dishes: sauerbraten, wiener schnitzel, schweine haxen, bratwurst and metwurst.
Also includes red cabbage, sauerkraut, spätzle, toast, and our authentic German gravy. Guten Appetit!
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, [places finger on nose].

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

My kingdom for a bottle of Jaeger “Hunter” sauce!

― Dan (I MUST DRINK AT ALL THE BIERSTUBES) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hilde’s delicious white creamy German gravy

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

So much about you is clearer now, Dan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I remember Mr. Pauletti (P.E. teacher who worked at House of Wines until he died) mentioned that the Bierstube had an excellent asparagus plate. (If only I knew how to xpost with the "is asparagus spicy?" thread).

So, next time I visit my parents I know where to ditch out on them (and leave the kids behind...).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, so rude. ARE YOU NOT A LOVING DAUGHTER/MOM?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

LOL on driving to those houses out in... well, we used to call it "BFE."

This is all cracking me up.

FB - got it.

Am I a loving daughter/mom? Ummmmmmm... sometimes?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

(P.S. to Ned: just so you don't think I'm truly horrible, I'm about to take my 3 year old to gymnastics class...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe, I tease. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I like how the 'Stube is becoming a defining characteristic of your personality, now that you live in Boston.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am cracking my ass up at this thread. All Minnesota moms are priceless FWIW. Also my dad used to live in the hellhole that is Eagan, and I used to have to go there from my comparative urban setting in St Louis Park so I must say I feel your pain.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Suzy! Dude, Eagan is SO NOT HASTINGS. St. Louis park is at least biking distance from civilization.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

St. Louis park is at least biking distance from civilization.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

By the time I reached my thirties, my brain had been strip mined by a combination of drugs, alcohol and the chemical solvents used at the refinishing company where I worked... Still, there were moments when, against all reason, I thought I might b agenius. These moments were provoked not by any particular accomplishment but by cocaine and crystal methamphetamine — drugs that allow you to lean over a mirror with a straw up your nose, suck up an entire week's paycheck, and think, "God, I'm smart."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was in Hastings last weekend, for a baptism. After the service, a parent of a high-school classmate stopped me and informed me that several classmates were putting on a party, that night, in Cow Town. I had to send my regrets, sadly; it's disappointing to miss an opportunity to socialize in Cow Town.

The Bierstube is great, only less so if you don't eat flesh. Luckily, what it lacks in authentic Germanic tempeh it more than makes up for with cheap pitchers of Hamms.

― subgenius (subgenius), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha initially when Daddy Dearest moved to Eagan with the wifelet they lived in a development called RiverGate which my little sis rechristened RiverGhetto. Later on my dad came into some cash and they moved to another part of Eagan where ecch the next-door neighbour was apparently a prick of the highest order in 1990. Step forward, Tim Pawlenty (OK no more of that, I'm done).

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I must add that I am from the portion of St Louis Park where it is possible to throw a rock with force and hit...Edina. Shall we have a periodic go at Edina, then?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Having a go at Edina is like driving really fast down Hennepin avenue on Saturday night. Which is to say, fun...and literal; it's illegal, not immoral.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drunk. I had to come back to get my umbrella. I'm going to play poker in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is like Hasings, but further away from St. Louis Park. And Hell, which squats over Edina.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wisconsin is like Hastings in many ways, but with more cheese. (My husband is from Wisconsin and I always jokingly refer to his parents' house as "the Fiber Free Zone.")

Madison is kind of different from the rest of Wisconsin. I know a chemistry prof from Olaf who once famously referred to UW Madison as "the home of original sin."

Eagan and Edina... I remember when driving to Burnsville seemed like an adventure to the "big city." I still don't feel comfortable once I venture out of the St. Kate's/St. Thomas/Grand Avenue area of St. Paul. (I know, I know... and Dan, do you remember driving to St. Kate's on our way to The Cure concert using my Dad's completely incorrect directions -- which involved pretending to be an MTC Bus?)

Something else in the back of my mind: I went to Pinecrest, but I don't think I know where Jeff, Dan or John went to grade school (or possibly I knew once but I forgot). Pinecrest featured the bane of my existence, Mr. T@ffe the phy ed teacher. I don't think I've ever recovered from that...

LOL to Cow Town.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely NONE of my friends went to Olaf, because a) why do that if you can get into Carleton and b) presumably because my friends like things like being able to have whichever visitor they want in their rooms whenever, or Dacey Moses House.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear, sober up and vacuum the mini-golf course, stat.

― subgenius (subgenius), Saturday, 13 May 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

I transferred to Olaf from a place that made it look like a wildly liberal crazy place. (My reasoning for choosing my original college, St. Mary's - Notre Dame's sister school? Very far away from Hastings and my family. And that school actually enforced their visiting hours; St. Olaf did not. I was an R.A. there and my now-husband was on one of my floors. Trust me, visiting hours were not something any of us paid attention to. Ahem.)

I do have a huge amount of Carleton envy, but I didn't apply when I was in high school (see above - I was 17, somehow Indiana sounded like a fun place) and they don't really accept transfers at Carleton. However, I do get to hang out there on a regular basis since 1. I live in Northfield and 2. my husband is employed there (in administrative computing and btw, Carleton has fantastic employee benefits). I also 3. proctor exams there for finals (essentially they pay me to read my book and watch students take test... wow I love them).

Olaf wasn't so bad, except for the population of super-right wing "Christian" people who mortified the population of lefties. The vast majority of students there were musical blond Norwegian types. I didn't exactly fit in, but that wasn't a new thing for me. (However, at St. Mary's I was the only person with anything in common with me, which did become a serious problem as I suffered a nearly crippling depression. I can thank my friends from Hastings for saving my life, sometimes with gestures they probably didn't even realize were big deals to me. (Dan, the friendship bracelet you made for me and I wore almost all the time I was in Indiana.)

Er, sorry to get so personal and downbeat. If you want I can post the alternate verson of the Olaf fight song!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a more light-hearted reason that my SIL chose Olaf over Carleton: she was freaked out by the Carleton interviewer, who clipped his fingernails during the interview! (And that is how my husband wound up at Olaf... aimlessly following his sister.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a party last night and met a woman that is related to all the Burrs in Hastings. Also, we discussed Koch Refinery, the city of lights, and drunken mistakes involving firearms, electricity, and patricide (pick only one).

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that sort of sums up Hastings, doesn't it? (Sandy Burr. OMG, flashback to 6th grade...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

FB and I went to Kennedy. Subgenius went to Pinecrest. John went to some poncey elementary school up in the Twin Cities.

I thought about applying to Carleton but I really wanted to study computer science and they told me that their computer science department consisted of a lab filled with Apple 2c's. Also 45 minutes was far too close to home for high school Dan to deal with.

You know, I don't think I ever went to a party in Cow Town! I am such a huge nerd.

― Dan (Memories All Alone In The Moonlight) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Subgenius? (please clarify!)

Carleton, clearly the center of the known universe. (Yeah, you chose Harvard over that? WHY?!)

I've been to parties in Cow Town in the last several years or so, oddly enough. But that is where MJ and Tony (wait, Tony went to Carleton, too...) lived after Tony graduated from Harvard with an MBA. (Boston to Hastings, a route that still boggles the mind.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I suppose going to parties in Cow Town with "grown ups" doesn't count to make me not a nerd, does it. Damn.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

(subgenius = M1ke Sk0glund)

― Dan (EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE ELSE) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Got it. Small freaking world, n'est-ce pas?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, so M1ke was subjected to Mr. T@ffe, Miss S@b0 and all that nonsense? (M1ke D0nndel1nger is the only M1ke I remember from grade school. He inexplicably became a psychiatrist.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

How I may be spending next weekend (lurking at my parents house w/kids while DH does this craziness):

MAY 21 - Apple Blossom Half Marathon - Hastings, MN

21st Annual. 8am/half marathon, 10K & 5K; 11am/2K Fun Run. Half marathon is a scenic, hilly course on country roads passing several apple orchards along the St. Croix River. CR male: 1:14:10. CR female: 1:24:44. 2005 entrants: 200-half marathon Avg. temp. 72. *

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think I never once entered Hastings until I was summoned for jury duty.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

And now you can't get enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

The closest I've been is on the river in my granfather's houseboat, which was moored at Inver Grove Heights, where my dad's old blues bar also was - across the road from the marina. I like that smalltown Main Street architecture but I'm close to some of that in Hopkins and my dad's birthplace, Excelsior.

Sara, even back when I was 18 I wouldn't go NEAR anything with a church affiliation on principle (and especially not Lutheran churches, long story). One of my best friends from school went to St. Olaf and is now a gay activist/property developer in St Paul, which makes me really happy. My *bestest* friend from school was only allowed to apply to Carleton on early decision so as to live out her mother's dreams but enjoyed herself anyway even though she really didn't want to be so close to home (her dad is old, her mom is shall we say exacting).

When I'm back home for a visit I am going to have some kind of Throw a Rock at Edina FAP.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Many of the people at the party I was at last night were Bethel graduates. At one point, Alena mentioned that if I had gone to Bethel, I would have been killed.

Further inquiries into why were answered by my stony-faced silence. Then I drank all of their beer and went home. Good times.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, how can you leave out my 2 year stint at Kennedy? I walked in to class, having moved to Hastings mid-fourth grade, and there was this funny dude with a desk full of Dr. Who books.

BFF!

OK, I have to go shop vac the mini golf course we built into the back deck.

Careful, if you throw a rock at Edina, you might hit the baxkside of hell, and I have no idea what the consequences might be.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

HEY, WHERE THE FUCK IS GBX?

Also, Eric H., where are you from?

We need to increase our numbers, become stronger, crush the rolling Chicago thread with our SHEER WILL.

Ned and Suzy, you are awarded honorary Hastings status, whether you want it or not.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, did you temporarily forget what the initials of your screen name are?

― Dan (Heh) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy, no church affiliation in 1990 = Mom and Dad not going to pay. (I did briefly consider going to Macalester but Mom freaked about "boys and girls living on the same floors. Suffice to say she's spent the last 20 years puzzling over where she went wrong with me.) Part of leaving SMC was part of my fleeing the Catholic church on a permanent basis. (lapsed Catholics have the most fun?)

(Do I know your Olaf friend? Possibly. Mom thought I was a lesbian partly because most of my friends were gay...)

Throw a Rock at Edina for me. (My best friend in grade school... M1che11e Fr@uensh*h. She left to go to Breck. Later we met up again at Olaf, but were no really pals. Her Dad is a big-time rich guy and Bush supporter. So yucky.)

John, yes, you would have been killed at Bethel. (A fun party, was it?)

Now I get to go to Miesville to my sister's house... the fun never stops.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'll have you know that I went to SEVERAL poncey elementary schools in the cities. Just to set the record straight.

Also, when I informed the Bethel Grads that I went to Carleton, they all shook their heads in silent understanding. Presumably, several of them have included me in their prayers.

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― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Since Fluffy is out vacuuming, now would be an oportune time to mention the time where he was nearly beaten for being in the Hastings Perkins late at night in a dress. I was also in drag, but apparently looked quite fetching, and thus was safe from harm.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear is most likely the most famous furry ever to come out of Hastings. With the possible exception of Craig Kilbourn.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was one of Burnsville's lost children. Now I live too close to Edina.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ned and Suzy, you are awarded honorary Hastings status, whether you want it or not.

Oh, I'm in. Keep in mind I think you are all crazy for growing up in a place not near an ocean, but this is what having a dad in the Navy does for your perceptions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, Ned. I love the ocean, too, which is why I burn gasoline and squeeze cows, even though I don't have a car or a farm. I am trying to bring the ocean to my doorstep.

Dan my reading comprehension is poor.

However, when one translates your post into French, back to English, then into Portuguese, and back again to English (which is what I have been doing ever since the accident) one can see how I arrived at a faulty conclusion:

The BFR and I had been Kennedy. Subgenius was inside Pinecrest. John to one was determined preliminary school of poncey for top in the twin cities. I thought to apply it Carleton but I really wanted to study the process of data and I had indicated me that its service of the composed process of data estêve of a fulled laboratory of Apple 2c' S. Moreover 45 minutes was too much remote close to the house so that daN of college treats. You know, I you do not think of that I was always to a part in the city of the cow! I am a thus enormous package.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and everything John says is true. You may not believe the famous furry bit, but you should believe the Perkinds incident. Our friend M!ch3ll3, who's clothes and makeup I was wearing, nearly ran one of them down in the parking lot. Why? Because the crazy hatred was so intense as to drive the subject to try and block our moving car with body and limb.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bethel! HAHAHA. Bethel, where atheist = satanist, like it's the same.

Sara, my friend was J4y Ludk3. More later, Dr. Who on.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

(back from Miesville, it hasn't changed, do not go there).

Suzy, I knew a J0y, possibly the same person - can't remember her last name. I will go dig up yearbooks and look. (Was she adorably blonde? Dumb question, practically every other woman there was.)

Now I want to know why John and Jeff were in drag. Sooooo much. (I have to add that my friend M@arn1e always referred to John as "John Werewolf," based on a photo I had of him (I don't think they ever met). Possibly this was based on John's eyebrows. I'm having a hard time with the "quite fetching" in a dress. My God, in Hastings, you guys are lucky to be alive!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wait Suzy, before I brave the Centipedes under the Stairs (I really hate those things), what years was she at Olaf?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, you are experiencing gender confusion: I wrote JAY. A BOY. Class of '91. He wore nothing but Matinique from Dayton's and loked like Liberace in the smile department.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, didn't L4ra go to Bethel? Or am I misremembering? I should log onto Friendster and ask her (and then get her to post here).

― Dan (I Am A Thus Enormous Package) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, more gender confusion.

I got to Olaf in fall of '91, so likely didn't meet him. (However, next time I talk to some of the OLGA people who were there the year before, I will make sure to ask them if they remember him!)

(Thanks for saving me from the centipedes. Waaaaaay too many legs.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Vas ist Cow Town?

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

How to define Cow Town. Um.... sort of like The Other Side of the Tracks or something. I was always disappointed when we drove through to go to Hastings Marina (during my parents' "boat phase") that I never saw any actual cows. I was pretty geeky (ask anyone here) and not invited to the sort of parties that might have gone on in Cow Town. (My little sister, on the other hand... possibly. I spent years of my life watching her toss her cookies after she got home from parties. So sad to not be the Pretty One!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

(For Suzy: as promised, alternative Olaf "fight song")

We come from St. Olaf, we wear cashmere sweaters
We live on the Hill to be closer to God.
We don't smoke, we don't drink
(at least that's what they think)
And in between the sheets it's Um Ya Ya Ya!

(continue with the silly Um Ya Ya nonsense for however many you're supposed to sing)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Thank FUCK there was no Fight Song at Sarah Lawrence, alternative or otherwise.

My sister was kind of the same as yours, and went to Hopkins and the Roller Garden to meet potential suitors (until my mom banned her from the latter to prevent White Trash Nightmares). Although I more or less had the opportunity to grow into good looks, but was an ugly git until I was 15, my sister was one of those MN blonde cuties with Diana Spencer eyes who got served through owning a set of HUGE BOOBS.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, He@ther is still tiny, but at least my boobs are bigger than hers. (ha! Take that!) Of course, this is mainly because she is a size nothing. Also, she weirdly married a guy I graduated with after going to college in Colorado (I'm not bitter or anything, but I did notice that my parents took her out there and it was NOT church affiliated... ahem). I have kind of taken to liking being the Smart One. It wasn't so funny then, but now it is. (possibly I think this because my husband isn't completely bland, as hers is, though). Because she married Br1@n, she comes to my class reunions. At the last one one of my classmates leaned over and asked me - in all seriousness - "aren't you He@ther R0b1ns0n's sister?" It was Just Like High School!

Regarding the fight song, I finally learned both versions the night I graduated. I have no idea why to this day. (My 7 year old thinks it is hilarious, though. That poor kid is going to be so screwed up.)

Oooh, Sarah Lawrence. Now I am jealous. My dream college was actually Smith, but it was "too far away" and "too expensive." So I didn't apply, instead taking the passive-aggressive "go wherever is the furthest you'll let me go" route. What can I say, I was 17. What year did you graduate?

(I like the idea of inducting Ned and Suzy to make them Hastings graduates. Does this mean they have to reminisce about Fungus Amongus Day?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, now all I can think of is the MST3K episode where they kept making that joke. (Which I realize is not Minnesota specific but still.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I like the fact that you are googleproofing R0b1ns0n in your posts, despite the fact that it appears in your login name. Hastings education strikes even our best and brightest.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, which MST3K was that? (My all-time favorite: Giant Spider Invasion. "This can't be Wisconsin; there are no billboards for Tommy Bartlett's Water Show!")

Yay, M*l1ss@ G00dm@n (of Hastings!)will be at my house shortly. That usually yields hilarity.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yes John, but if I don't do it consistently, I won't do it at all. (As with S@ndy this a.m. because I was pretty fuzzy. J won't sleep in. I'd think she was not really mine except she was the only baby born at Northfield Hospital this weekend.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Crap, I mean that weekend. (She's almost 4!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, which MST3K was that?

The Being From Another Planet, starring your friend and mine Ben Murphy (also seen in Riding With Death).

My all-time favorite: Giant Spider Invasion.

"It's a giant spider invasion of savings at MENARDS!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sara's idea of paradise:

http://www.menardsguy.com/images/RAY_STORE.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, that's because I always dig on guys with that type of glasses and awful hair. (Ask anyone!)

"A young Bill and Hillary try to make it..." OMG, going to have to watch that again...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, John and Jeff deep in their college level studies:

ihttp://mst3k.booyaka.com/episodes/images/810%20-%20The%20Giant%20Spider%20Invasion/_810-17_dr_.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Fiddlesticks.

http://mst3k.booyaka.com/episodes/images/810%20-%20The%20Giant%20Spider%20Invasion/_810-17_dr_.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Our high school fight song had a line which was clearly put there in the '20s which goes 'because you've got SAND, Park High' (sand meaning GRIT here). Fight songs are ALWAYS wack.

My sis is three years younger than me and has been the taller one since she was 10. She is very sporty and did figure skating to double-Salchow standard so the issue of having an older sister who was locally famous for being the Smart One didn't hit her too bad. Also our mom (and aunt and uncles) went to the same HS and most of our teachers with serious tenure had also taught her, and she'd say who the bitches and the jerks were. Also the Assistant Principal of the HS was also the MAYOR and my mom hated him too (we say now that between me not needing excuse notes and my sis forging hers, dude never had a proper example of my mom's writing to go on). She has a touch of the Harper Valleys in her I think. I graduated HS in '86 and have a reunion coming up.

Luckily my (divorced) parents had no money to spend on my education so they had no right to tell me where I would complete it. You have to also bear in mind that I was just the sort of kid who'd point this out to an adult. My grades and relative poverty bought me a full ride and I was VERY aware of what I could get in return.

Ned has been desirous of honorary Minnesotan status ever since they invented MST3K. The teenager who was part of the writing team was in my sister's class in school, and his older bro is my friend.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ned has been desirous of honorary Minnesotan status ever since they invented MST3K.

Nah, ever since they invented Prince.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately, we failed to build him to scale. He's like the Stonehenge of our Spinal Tap.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I don't know what image you were trying to post, but that large blank space looks exactly like the inside of my brain during college every time I cracked my organic chemistry book. I swear I had a line on my forehead all year from falling asleep on it. (The worst part is that the sum of what I remember is this: carbon has four bonds. Still wondering how I passed that class.)

John and Jeff might have had giant spiders in their minds while studying in college. This is not something on which I care to speculate. (Didn't John have a pet tarantula, though?)

Suzy, learning to figure skate is one of my many alternative future plans (and probably the one that would lead to the most injuries). Double-Salchow. Ow! (I'm not so sure I was the Smart One, but more like the Bookish one. People from my year would visit my house regularly to visit Little Sister and loudly wonder why I was there. (The same last name possibly not a revealing enough clue. This is how, in comparison, I actually was considered Smart in Hastings.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 14 May 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I don't know what image you were trying to post

Weird, shows up on my end. (It's of three characters from Giant Spider Invasion in a classroom intently looking at pieces of paper and/or staring off determinedly into the middle distance.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 May 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

Because she married Br1@n, she comes to my class reunions. At the last one one of my classmates leaned over and asked me - in all seriousness - "aren't you He@ther R0b1ns0n's sister?" It was Just Like High School!

OMG. That is just insane.

How's M311is4?

― Dan (Ah, Hastings) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 14 May 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ned... hmmmm, maybe it is my Web browser (when I recover from sleeping 12 hours straight I will check! Man, I like this Mother's Day thing.)

The class reunion was sooooo Just Like High School, except for I think L1s@ S@und3r's husband might have been hitting on me a bit (he is so icky, although he did say I looked younger than Little Sister, so he gets points for that. Yeah, probably a lie, though). I was always friends with more people from other grades, so it was fun but not that fun. I'm always happy to see M@rk K13ff3r because - although he has changed dramatically in many ways, he still has no tact and it cracks me up.

M311is4 is fine, and still hilariously funny. She is a patent lawyer and still working at the same firm (the one with M1ke C3r3s1 in the name...). She just bought a house in St. Paul and closes on July 7. Despite random sightings of mutual acquaintances of (many of) ours (K@t3 J0hns0n and Ky13 J@cks0n, she is unable to identify their offsprings' sex or ages. Just that they each have a kid. She's even met K@t3's kid, still no sex, age or name information! I think M311i4 and K@t3 work in the same building.) She brought gifts for my kids (unnecessary but awfully sweet) and played a ton with J, who is about the age H411i3 was when we were in high school. (H411i3 is goign to be 20! Horrifying.) At any rate, she wanted me to say "hi" to all.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ned - okay, I tried it in all four web browsers on my computer and I can't view the pic in any of them for some reason (I'm sure this is my husband's fault somehow; he is the computer person, not me. Two of the browsers show a vast white space after the link, which I also cannot explain).

Based on your description, it sounds like you think we looked more like the heroes of the movie than the victims. This is spot-on, including how we dressed at the time. In fact, I still regularly wear that 70s era white pant suit. We all spent a lot of time avoiding the Skipper in those days, too... (none of us like to be called "Little Buddy.")

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

it sounds like you think we looked more like the heroes of the movie than the victims. This is spot-on

Oh my.

Anyway, perhaps this will help?

http://mst3k.booyaka.com/mstview.cgi?01ss=episodes/images/810%20-%20The%20Giant%20Spider%20Invasion/

Second row, furthest to right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, that helped - thanks! (I'll let you guess which is Jeff and which is John.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 14 May 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=hastings+hs+fight+song&spell=1

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

OMFG

I go away for a week and look what happens.

DUDES. Where did YOU have your reunion? I had mine at THE ISLAND.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Knights of Columbus Hall in all its glory.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a fun game: what last name could muster the most troops?

I say: S0RENS0N

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hastings is crawling with L@ng3nf3lds and M0l1t0rs.

15 year reunion was at the Hastings Country Club. At least I knew exactly where it was. (Food mediocre, drinks very good.)

Random quote from my chat with M3l1ss@ on Sat. night (regarding the Meat Beat Manifesto show we went to long, long ago), "I couldn't name one song that they played; all I know is that the evening ended with glitter in my underwear." I had forgotten that detail... but I do remember finding that the glitter was all over in my clothing, too

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES. Where did YOU have your reunion? I had mine at THE ISLAND.

Treasure Island?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

THAT IS CORRECT

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

gbx and Eric H. - what years did you graduate?

(As noted before, I am Old, class of 1990).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

YOUNG-ISH: '99

sis graduated in '96

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not just "young-ish;" that still qualifies as young!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

BHS class of '97. My ten year is coming up next year!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

i bet christa mcauliffe wasn't even INVENTED when you guys were around.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

My God, I'd better go take some Geritol. (I remember my 10 year reunion as if i were yesterday. That was the same year Moses was born...).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Listen, mi amigos, if 34 is old, then we are going to be old for a good majority of our lives. If 25 is only "youngish", then all of you have to stay away from me, lest I get infected with the old, because I am not buying what you're selling.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

i bet christa mcauliffe wasn't even INVENTED when you guys were around.

Just about true. I happened to be home (probably faking sick to avoid something in phy ed) the day the Challenger exploded. I flipped the tv on to veg out in front of some soaps and... well, they showed footage of that all day. To this day I won't watch shuttle launches (my husband grew up without a tv and missed this whole thing; he loves to watch launches and wishes he was an astronaut. It's too scary for me!).

(Aren't you sorry you mentioned that?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

FB will never be old, even when he is next door to me in the Old Folk's Home. When I'm 100, he'll still be a sprightly 99!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

wait. y'all are.....MARRIED???

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I kid, obviously. Half the ppl i graduated with were hitched in about a year.

whether they liked it or not, sometimes.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

10 Year reunion was at Knights of Columbus Hall.

Stupid, but strangely appropriate.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I, by the way, was BORN OLD. You fuckers.

gbx, are you in MN right now, or what?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was home sick during the Challenger explosion, too!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

NOT MARRIED. JUST OLD.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not old, you freaks, and I'm 35.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

God bless you, Ned. God Bless you. You and me, brother.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Don't trust anyone over 110.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good, good...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, because over 110--that is some freaky supernatural shit (at least until we start figuring out thoose teleorons or whatever they're called).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually married (over 10 years now), which makes me feel a bit old compared to you, but it is the two kids I have (ages 7 and 3) who make me feel 100 sometimes. J wakes up in the morning and I'm always say (in my most soothing voice), "don't you want to sleep a bit more?" and she says, "but Mommy, it's morning!!!!"

My theory is still that this gives me an extra decade seniority over you young kids who graduated the year after I did....

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was home sick during the Challenger explosion, too!

FB, were you really sick, or were you, like me, likely trying to avoid a volleyball tournament?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, now i'm in MONTANA. And, I just found out that, despite what the academic calendar said, I have a CHEMISTRY FINAL EXAM on JUNE 23rd.

JOHN JUSTEN, GUESS WHAT DAY THAT IS?!?!?!!? FUCK.

good idea/bad idea: making a bid to take the test early so i can drive home for BOREDOMS

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, are you exceptionally good or exceptionally bad at chemistry? (Chem is soooo not my subject, so changing dates probably wouldn't have changed my grade - I guess I could be wrong about that, but I got straight Cs through majors chem and organic chemistry and just never Got It.) How early would you have to take it to get where you want to go? And are you wanting the grade to get into chemistry grad school or something or is it just a class you are taking to fill a requirement? Also depends on how much you want to complete your alternate 23rd plan.

(Yeah, that clarified nothing, but I couldn't just let the question sit there. Sorry.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, aren't there something like 8 bazillion Bauers living in Hastings?

― Dan (Catching Up) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bauer, Bauer... I think there was one in my class, wasn't there? Or more? I remember a St@c3y. I don't recall being a fan... I think this had something to do with (again) phy ed class.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Bauers:

http://abbeynews.com/wp/lgm_s.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

HAHA! The Bauers are a tily red "x" located in the upper-left hand of a white box.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

They're small but proud.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

They're Shakira's breasts!

― Dan (You Won't Confuse Them With Mountains) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the Bauers. Christ, there's a lot of them. M1ke B4auer was a killer b-ball player.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

im from mpls

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think anyone else here is as huge a dance fan as I am (if at all), but I think the Northrop is hosting the Alvin Ailey Company tonight and they're finishing with Revelations, their signature piece (they almost always close with it). I've seen it twice in person (although I think it is better seen in a smaller venue) and wow, it's incredible. (Not that I'm encouraging Minnesotans to be inside when it's actually nice out...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, I am older than Ned.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

im from mpls
-- and what (an...), May 16th, 2006 1:43 PM. (ooo) (later) (link)

WTF

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, I am older than Ned.

Ah, you senior citizen you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

In what language does "ned" mean dirt?

― Dan (Tagalong?) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

im from mpls
-- and what (an...), May 16th, 2006 1:43 PM. (ooo) (later) (link)

followed by...

WTF

Hastings is close to Minneapolis? (And Mpls people want to be as cool as Hastings native? Wait, that can't be right).

Now I'm happy because two people are older than me. I'm so easy to please.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the "WTF" is that I never knew Ethan ("and what"), who lives in Atlanta and whose identity I gather is very much wrapped up in being a Southerner, was from Minnesota.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well that makes a ton more sense than my lame theory...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

i've been staring at this thread, dumb, for days.

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

R U ALSO FROM WASTINGS???

― getit?@wastings!!!.lolz (skowly), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

LOL Twins Stadium

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

(OK, that was kind of a nonsequitir but whatever)

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

I went to HS with a D4v3 B4uer in Burnsville.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I like to treat the massive, gaping empty space at the bottom of this thread as a promise of the Chicago-sized thread to come.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't we crushed Chicago yet? Who knew it would be so much work?!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

i just said that to crash the jaymc database

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Dan:

i want to change my password for ILX

now lives in the idiot thread repository. Sad times.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

i just said that to crash the jaymc database

LOL

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

John, thanks for that link. Don't ever let me say you never did anything for me.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

You'll be held to that forever, you realize.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Trust me, I knew already.

I was just re-reading that thread (insomnia sufferers need laughs to sleep) and thinking, jeez, maybe I should be more sympathetic to my husband's talk about computer end users. I don't think they are mostly that bad at Carleton, but still...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

You know, now that I think of it, I think I am maybe his worst end user. Sigh. (I'm just lucky I can still remember how to type.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

HASTINGS LINK OF THE DAY #1:

http://www.barbkobe.com/justice.htm

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't looked at that yet but hey, you know what? In Europe, nobody named Barbara is ever, ever called BARB.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Impressively creepy. But not, you know, in a good way.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am afraid to click on the "About B4rb K0be" link.

― Dan (Terrors) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff's Self Doll

― Dan (I Didn't Know!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, and I thought the doll my daughter brought home from a garage sale was creepy. (looks like my insomnia problem is only beginning...) I'll never fear Barbies again!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh MAN

http://www.google.com/search?q=hastings%20mn%20cafe&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

AWESOME. HELLO GOOGLEFUNTIMES!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to say "Market Boulevard???? Where the fuck is that?" but then I went to the page and realized that street didn't exist back in my day.

― Dan (I AM OLDS) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

The racial makeup of the city was 97.16% White, 0.43% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. 1.14% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Hooray for the census confirming what we already knew.

BTW:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_MN

Edits? Truthful or otherwise? Where is the Ned Raggett section?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

0.04% = N3na W0lford

― Dan (Hi!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think I almost saw Hastings while up on the Foshay observation deck this afternoon.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

In the distance, like a vast sea of whiteness?

Soon, we should have an inaugural Hastings thread FAP. Dan/Suzy/Ned, book your flight now.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

The official "HASTINGS,MN CAFE Mascot Competition" commences.

The first submission, via John Justen:

http://www.barbkobe.com/Pic-Healing%20Dolls/wolf2front1.gif

I have the power
I am the mother
I am the Justice
Koo Koo Kachoo

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

WTF I thought the obeservation deck in Foshay had been closed for years! I'm so there

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's settled. 40 ozs. on the Foshay observation deck FAP. Anyone who passes out gets shoved over the edge, HASTINGSSTYLEEE.

Hey Fluffy, your old apartment is about to be my new apartment. Now, I just need someone to live there with me. (Sadly, not in Hastings) Also, do you have any idea what FAP means, or can we continue to keep you in the dark?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it just reopened last month.

Mitigating factor for prospective FAP = $7 admission. (The Empire State Building doesn't even cost that, does it?)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Creepy dolls optional.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

NO. REQUIRED.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely buying some sort of sleep-inducing drug tonight. The Creepy Dolls on Foshay image is not going away anytime soon.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I recommend Colt 45.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, I take your considerately offered idea under advisement. As usual, you know best.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, that last time I drank 40s with you guys it was a BAAAAAAAD scene.

― Dan ("If I Could Move, I Would Kick Your Ass") Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize you had been paralyzed, Dan. (So sorry to hear that!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, I can help you hold one of the required Creepy Dolls if needs be.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Two birds, one stone:

http://specialed.umf.maine.edu/Positioning/Images/Doll_With_Wheelchair.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

My eyes! My eyes!

Brain bleach now, please.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

The word "Positioning" in that URL is incredibly sinister.

― Dan (And Now The Legs Fit Nicely Over Your Shoulders) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Any confusion about why I couldn't sleep during high school has disappeared.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, were you there for the infamous Dan Chugs 80 oz Of Malt Liquor In 25 Minutes And Ruins New Years For Everybody Incident??? If you were, WOW is my memory shot!

I mostly remember threatening John's cousin, slowly sliding down the stairs from the attic, and puking electric green out the car door at a gas station.

― Dan (Good Times) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely not. (But what I wouldn't pay to go back in time to be a fly on the wall...).

Every New Year's Eve party I've ever been to has been restrained and dull. Okay, that might not be true (a year or two ago a friend offered $100 to whomever could eat the most of her PhD thesis; predictably, D3@n won), but by then I think I had lost touch with you. (Alternately, I was at some other party, hoping to avoid being assaulted by Baby New Year.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, I felt bad about making you so unsettled, so I thought I should give you some happ, non-threatening puppets:

ihttp://www.imagepuppets.on.ca/blatex.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you did not ruin New Years. You were obnoxious, bitchy and you couldn't walk, but that's how bad the New Years was; 4 people stuck in an attic with John's cousin.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

LOL... thanks. I think I've seen those at local garage sales, too. (Just another reason to sleep in on Saturday mornings if possible.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's settled. 40 ozs. on the Foshay observation deck FAP. Anyone who passes out gets shoved over the edge, HASTINGSSTYLEEE

Definitely buying some sort of sleep-inducing drug tonight. The Creepy Dolls on Foshay image is not going away anytime soon.

When did you guys start cribbing from King's unreleased manusctipt for IT:II?

I read IT a few years after I moved to Hastings. Boy, did I identify.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

4 people stuck in an attic with John's cousin.

This reminds me that in high school I devoutly believed that John actually did not have parents or any relatives at all. After meeting her, I wanted to trade Moms with him. How bad could his cousin be? (and why an attic?!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

BAD. THAT IS WHY WE KEPT HIM IN THE ATTIC.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

FB, you are not the only person to have read that book and gone... wait there's something familiar here...

(Dan, didn't you and I read It at about the same time? I seem to remember some sympathetic conversation about that during bio class. Of course that might be entirely fabricated in my mind; I just want someone else to have jumped away from the sink after hearing suspicious gurgling noises.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

“[Hastings] is a violent place to live in an ordinary year. But every twenty-seven years – although the cycle has never been perfectly exact – that violence has escalated to a furious peak… and it has never been national news.”

"We all float down here."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

“Maybe sometimes things didn’t just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up.”

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

John, I always suspected some kind of VC Andrews stuff was going on out there in the boondocks... just didn't know how close I came to seeing it revealed.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

FB, the It quote that always reminded me most of home is, "Nothing much happened for the next two weeks."

Good times.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know Tim Curry was a Juggalo.

http://chesirecat5.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pennywise.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

RE: My cousin.

Less like this:

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/images/082105book2.jpg

More like this:

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/1880090171.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(Actually, more like this):

http://ledrapeaunoir.free.fr/drunk-asshole.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmm... I'm sorry to hear that?! (Well, hopefully it is just the one cousin... it's not good to keep more than one relative in the attic. Costs too much to feed them.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

that's a pretty funny game!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Bathing in beer?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Bathing in beer is not a game. IT IS A FULL-TIME JOB.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody contact Funny-games.biz. They are making fun of my lifestyle choice.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Good:

http://www2.gol.com/users/durf/Images/franzia.jpg
Better:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/university/2003/derby_freshers_ball_2003/images/270_squirting_vodka.jpg
Best:

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/9344/beergoggles7do.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

BTW. Never, for the love of god, make the mistake of doing a Google image search for "shitfaced".

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

damn i alway come late to these threads!

anyway, I worked w/a girl at Stub N Herbs in Stadium Village (where I fry cooked for like 5 yrs) who waterskiied in one of Tommy Bartlett's shows! She said he was a nice old eccentric gay dude...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

The more I learn about all you drunks the less I'm surprised.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Stub N Herbs in Stadium Village (where I fry cooked for like 5 yrs)

oh my lord above dude

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

what can you say about a place that smells like fresh puke at every hour of the day?

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

(other than WE'RE SO THERE)

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Stub and Herbs. For fuck's sake. I used to get drunk there every Tuesday between my day and evening classes from 2001-2004.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, scary leaky bathroom in basement of S&H - super creepy.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha oh shit...okay.....i prolly cooked for you! enjoy yr buffulo wings! of course by the end of my tenure i pretty much just got drunk and took smoke breaks, but I had earned it in the fiery pits of GOPHER HOCKEY NIGHTS!

hey did either of you two ever man up and eat our GIGANTIC GROSS BIG 11 1lb burger...god i have nightmares abt. that....we used to have to mash two regular patties together to for a deformed monster patty....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

No. I was the king of the French Dip. Which was FUCKING AWESOME.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, did you know that my former boss, the owner of Stubb and Herbs, Sue Jeffers, is running for governor? (she got really pissed abt. the smoking ban I guess)....anyway, please give generously!

http://www.suejeffers.org/

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

No. I was the king of the French Dip. Which was FUCKING AWESOME.
-- John Justen (johnjuste...), May 18th, 2006. (johnjusten)

haha the most delicious mystery meat ever! loved it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

i heard about her candidacy; i thought she was a libertarian? challening pawlenty from within the gop seems about as fruitful as run as a 3rd party candidate. good luck sue.

you know i think i've heard that about S&H, more than once: "oh god that place is fucking gross. ...french dip's not bad tho."

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Stubb & Herb's isn't as bad as you guys make it sound.

Sally's though: http://www.ugo.com/channels/dvd/features/fridaythe13th/screamqueens/janetleigh_1_th.jpg

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

(the face of someone waking up from Rohypnol slumber)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

sally's TV COMMERCIALS are certainly http://www.ugo.com/channels/dvd/features/fridaythe13th/screamqueens/janetleigh_1_th.jpg but the food is ok! i mean, bar food, never great but can't be fucked up too much.

xpost haha actually a girl a year behind me in grad school was IN one of those tv spots. she was a numbskull.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Big 10 is totally unassailable. half pastrami no onion, just sayin.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

A numbskull, in grad school!? IMPOSSIBLE

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

They charge you like $10 for a sub at Big 10

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

there's trails of gold leaf in the salad oil.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sally's nearly killed me with drink once.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Only once?

― Dan (Slowing In Your Old Age) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i didn't think stubs food was too bad, if i do say so myself.

the only problem w/sallys is the people that hang out there.

where the love for Village Wok?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like drinking at establishments, the business patterns of which do not correspond to hockey night.

I like drinking flat Miller at my local delapitated bowling alley than S&H.

Nothing against anyone on the board.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

omg @ the beer mask. i need to find that picture of the bongmask. or that picture of me with the double texas side-pull on two 5L Carlo Rossi's. YIKES.

I don't think I've ever even been to Stadium Village, let alone S&H. I'm more of a flat Miller/bowling alley guy myself.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

God, moving out to Boston really did turn me into a trendy fuckface because I'm all about going someplace with $40 martinis and glitter on the walls these days. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY CRED?

― Dan (Sigh) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, now I want a martini.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, if you're ever home when I am RED DRAGON will supply all your glitter and martini needs, and cheaply too. There will also be Rick James on the jukebox.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

There are a lot of reasons to go to the Dragon, but it's not for the martinis. Actually, I think a good Martini depends more on the bartender than the location. It's a deceptively simple drink.

The two bars I went to that consistently made the best martini's are both out of business: Chang O'Hara's and Galivan's.

Just to make sure I haven't misrepresented myself: God bless the most excellent and (nearly) unimpeachable Red Dragon!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAY!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=hastings+drunk+mn

Rising to the top, from the bottom of the gutter.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray for I am the daughter of a bartender and former blues bar owner, ergo I SPRECHEN SIE BARKEEP. Last time I managed not to grab myself a Dragonover due to combination of Chris K pilotage and judicious instructions. My martini instructions are: vodka martini, whisper of vermouth, black olive hence very, very dirty. Works every time.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Attention. Hastings site of the day:

http://www.rivertownminis.com/

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rivertownminis.com/amber04-r.jpg

― Dan (Okay....) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

John, the first thing that site made me think of was that girl from our class who had a horse and who whinnied and trotted everywhere instead of walking. What was her name? 4nnie something...

― Dan (Ah, Memories) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Can't quite remember. In the meantime -

http://www.weirdspot.com/images/uploads/horse2legs.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

4nnie Gl3nn3. She got first place in the 4th grade high-jump, and she could do it while remaining perfectly verticle. Seriously:

http://www.opticaltoys.com/MUY-horsejump.JPG

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Photoshop.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

ORLY?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

THANK YOU FLUFFY BEAR

Also thank you John for providing her picture, if not her name.

― Dan (Remember her Crazy Foster Sister J3ssi3?) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear is a SKEPTICAL furry.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

saying bad things about stub n' herbs does not hurt my feelings. at all.

places i drink:

turf club
hexagon
cedar inn
billy's victorian (st. paul)
mendota VFW
columbia heights VFW
muddy pig (st. paul)
acme comedy club (downstairs from work)
cuzzy's
the foundry (st. paul)
triple rock

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hastings+mn+furry&btnG=Google+Search

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

GOOD LORD. This may only be of interest to Hastings people, but go to this site and look up Sn0w01f.

http://www.furcen.org/fgc/furalpha.html

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I thought to myself "I bet that leads to B**** K*****" and then looked at the site. I need to buy about a million lottery tickets.

― Dan (PSYCHIC BLACK MAN) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

okay what's going on here...i sense some downlow hastings voodoo at play....who is sn0w w0lf?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

OMG.

I remember some of the other K____s. Weird as balls. Except J___. She was cuet. And maybe not related?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

But where is FB's listing?

Dan, $40 is way too much to pay for a martini, I don't care where the hell you live.

John, I should have taken your advice about the booze; instead I tried a Unisom and I did sleep well but my elbows and knees feel weak and heavy today. Fun! I can't wait until my dance class tonight.

M@tt H, when you say "Billy's Victorian," are you referring to Billy's on Grand (near Victoria crossing?). That would make me irrationally happy since I've actually been there in the last two decades...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

...i thought he was joking about the $40 martinis. He wasn't?

SEND ME YR MONEY, DAN, I'M JUST A POOR COLLEGE STUDENT. AGAIN.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Fuzzy, your crown has been stolen.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have never actually paid $40 for a martini. I have paid $40 for a steak.

Did I mention I have no savings?

― Dan (Poor Financial Planning) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's what credit cards are for. Reverse savings!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I have never actually paid $40 for a martini.

That's a relief. (I was thinking, what did they teach you out there?!)

I'm sure we've paid more than that for steaks (in the recent past, too). Small savings, sure to be sucked up by the need for a second car, more school, some kind of emergency or just sending 4l3x to day camp this summer... and preschool for J. OMG, I don't care how much that costs, she's going in the fall.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Did I mention I did that credit card 7 years ago re: wedding and then got laid off and have only recently started to recover from the resulting fallout?

(The most expensive martini I've ever had was $15. The most expensive bottle of wine was $85. The most expensive meal I've paid for was $135/person. These were all seperate occasions. I can't spell "occaision" to save my life.)

― Dan (Mmm MBNA I Hate You) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Credit cards.... soooo evil... but soooooo fun... hate that.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

nope this is actually north of snelling, off of dale a bit in frogtown...little neighborhood dive....nice old dude runs it....billy's on grand is a pretty big college rarty type crowd.

Awesome Midway Bars that RIP:

Johnny's (excellent microbrews AND you could cash you paycheck there!)
Cromwell Liquors (best $6 steak in the state!)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

billy's on grand is a pretty big college rarty type crowd.

Another place that my parents took me that, in retrospect, just Doesn't Make Sense.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Photoshop:

http://www.w1k.com/entries/45500/45532DjLI_w.jpg

It's true.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

What's all this about British Knights and Furries?

http://www.childrenuk.co.uk/chukmar/mar2000/knights.jpg

http://www.costumeshopper.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/55816.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

billy's on grand is...not so great. i went there on more than one occasion with my "team" when i was working at a cell phone store...

but the muddy pig is one of my favorite bars since moving to This Side of the river. if they ripped the TVs of the wall it'd be perfect. great big beer list, very well selected too, none of this william's uptown peanut bar we have every kind of miller ever nonsense.

and the replacement to Chang O'Hara's, the Happy Gnome, is great too (same owner as the Pig i think), despite a dippy name.

c o'h's went under after a big sekshul harrassment case, i think. maybe it's coincidental, but i know there was one, and i know it's gone now... so yeah.

i still have not been into the Lexington.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

The harrassment case was the reason behind the ownership change. Bad blood all around, as I understand it.

Where do you live now, geoff?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

I felt bad for my friends w/the Chang's deal...they had booked the upstairs for their wedding reception then found out with ONE WEEK before the wedding that it had gone out of business....i thought he was going to have an aneurisym.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

i live about a block away from st. thomas. it's pretty nice over here, and still pretty close to everything via 94.

i don't know much, but i know that you can't fuck with wedding plans without someone calling for blood.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, $40 martinis? Jeeps, dude.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002L64.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

(That is me posting ned's picture)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

This is probably as good a place as any to mention that I need a roommate for my new place on the corner of St. Clair and Cretin for either July or August 1st. STUPID CHEAP, btw.

Geoff, you and I are within a mile of each other, I'm guessing.

Ned, you look much different on that album cover. Also, I never new how well you played latin percussion until now.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

billy's on grand is...not so great. i went there on more than one occasion with my "team" when i was working at a cell phone store...

I should clarify a bit here: my memory of Billy's on Grand is not a bad memory, just an old one. I almost never go out these days (parenting will do that), and if I get to, it is usually a food thing (Kikugawa, Ristorante Luci and the damned Cafe Latte dessert case call my name all the time). I just went dancing a couple of weeks ago with friends after not dancing in public since... well, one of those friends weddings. In 1997.

they had booked the upstairs for their wedding reception then found out with ONE WEEK before the wedding that it had gone out of business...

OMG, that is horrible. Like weddings aren't the most stressful thing ever anyway. Yikes!

John, I hope you find a roommate. (Moving sucks, you have my sympathies there).

Ned, I had no idea you were such a sexy... ummmm... ????

My sister called me tonight to tell me she's having another baby (#4!). So this has been a crazy night.

And dance class re-confirmed that I will never be a belly dancer or a percussinist (freaking zills). But at least the Unisom seems to be out of my system.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

FOUR?????

― Dan (I'm A Bad Breeder) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. That's why I was like, "oh... congratulations!" (Thankfully I was on the phone; I'm no actress, God knows.) I don't know how she does it, truthfully. I'm so done, I can't tell you. The only way I'm ever having another one is if I'm one of the last two people on earth. (And that other person better be damned attractive, too.)

(Man, this makes me sound like I hate my kids. I love them to death. I just know I can't handle anymore. Plus the whole physical experience of pregnancy is kind of a disaster for me. And I really need to do some stuff that is not just about being with my kids all the time. I'm way more selfish than Little Sister, that is for sure.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if you haven't read it already, you should read this thread and take your mind off of things.

― Dan (Helpful) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, and I thought my cats had crabby looks on their faces before. That is hilarious! I'm trying to decide if I can do that and somehow have Cutty Sark and Mizu not realize it. (They seem to like to walk around my computer keyboard a lot. On the other hand, they are dumb as posts.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

4 kids? I have dozens all over the Midwest, and I don't hear anybody calling me selfless.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, have you actually met any of them?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

They won't return his calls.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well that explains everything!

(Did I imply that H. is selfless? I don't think it's exactly that... it's just one of those things that I Do Not Get. I remember when she had her first two within 18 months of each other. That is when I realized that for sure one of us must be adopted.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even know your family was catholic.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chick.com/tractimages415/0071/0071_03.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chick.com/tractimages415/5023/5023_03.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

John, your memory sucks. (FB, nice cartoons).

If I have more time later today I'll regale you with tales of what going to confession is really like.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how I connected to that first picture. The second is much more to the point. Save yourself from the false Christ!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do you get to take shooms?

http://www.bernardphoto.com/pure/photos/confessional.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Quick clarification: everybody but me is still Catholic. (Don't tell my Aunt, she's been praying for my crazy religious Uncle to come back to the Catholic church daily for years, apparently. And he's actually religious! Catholics are kind of weird.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, my relatives are fundie protestants. That is an entirely different universe of weird. Not Jack Chick weird, at least that I know of, but weird enough.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

FB, do you remember the whole, "as long as your friends are good Christians?" thing w/ my mother. No matter how many times I tried to explain that some were atheists and one was Jewish, she'd just say, "well, as long as they are good Christians." (So apparently "good Christians = reasonably polite in mixed company" with Mom.)

But yeah, the fundamentalist Protestants aren't my favorite, either. I like the local UCC church here (a.k.a. the "F.U.C.C."). They let A. and I be godparents, no questions. (I did wonder to M4rn13 if they would not let us do it if we were Satanists... and her reply was basically, nah, that would probably be fine, too. One of the more surreal moments of that year...)

FB, are you the only Black Sheep in your family?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

To answer your question (no disrespect, FB), NO.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 20 May 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't it more like "Is Ch3sl3y the only white sheep in the family?"

― Dan (Heh) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Lucky. Sigh. Actually, I shouldn't complain, since DH will hang out with me, and I have a cool cousin and a cool SIL (plus her husband, too). Some hoidays are fun anyway...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 20 May 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, here's what I always hated about confession. I could never come up with adequately interesting sins. The priest just sits there and listens while you talk, and it always seems like he is expecting to hear something more interesting. It is just weird when you're a little kid and all you can come up with is, "I was mean to my sister," and "I swore" or "I talked back to my parents..." but they still look so expectant! (I used to fantasize about confessing to a whole slew of murders and stuff like that and then ending with, "and I lied to a priest!") Of course, by the time I actually did have something more interesting to say, I had lost any feeling that going to confession was something remotely worthwhile. Oh, the humanity.

And no, FB, no shrooms. Maybe that would have helped?!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 20 May 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think my family is a mix of Lutheran-minister-descended-great-depression-surviving-sturdy-Norwegian sheep (and their more liberalized offshoots), urbane-cosmopolitan sheep (and their suburban offshoots (see also small subset of hippie CA sheep)), fundie-Campus-Crusade-For-Christ-self-help sheep (and their moderate offshoots), crazy sheep and depressed sheep (scattered liberally throughout). None of these are more than two generations away from poor family farms with outhouses, manual-pump wells and oil-burning stoves (Rural electrification didn't reach the house my father grew up in until he was in the army).

I don't know about black sheep.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

The only little black sheep in my family are the poodles.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

FB... interesting. I sort of remember your parents seemed like they defined the word "nice" to me. Also watching endless bad movies in your basement. (Wes Craven's Shocker! Hilarious). AND I think I knew you before I knew most of the people I knew in high school... because didn't you used to go over to St. John's Lutheran Church on Saturday nights for some reason? (I have no idea why I was there except probably L1s@ invited me. ??? I can't remember. Was that called "Bread Basket?" I never got that. It sounded vaguely obscene.)

I always wanted to be Lutheran when I was younger. It seemed like they had better potlucks and they could sing.

Suzy, we may be black sheep but we are not little! I'll have you know that I'm almost 5'3"!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

When all's said and done, I still go to the Red Dragon.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

CORRECT.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Now you're just taunting...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Perkins age 17 ~ Red Dragon age 24

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

See, I'm a decade late. Horrors.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ugo.com/channels/dvd/features/fridaythe13th/screamqueens/janetleigh_1_th.jpg

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

I rarely shower in public, thank you...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

What's Red Dragon age 32, outta curiosity? I wanna be ahead of the curve.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I know; I'm 34. Is there someplace I'm expected to be and I'm just missing it? (I'd like to think so since I had one of those days that ended with me thinking, "I'm a horrible mother!" Again...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't you supposed to be at the strip club when you're in your 30s?

― Dan (That's My Excuse) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

In your 30's? Tripple Rock Social Club and Bunk Bowl, predominately. Big V's and the Turf, when in St. Paul, Sakura for Sushi. This hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese soup place on Nicollet, the Lake Nakomis Bowl bar (4 stools, 4 booths). The chair in front of home entertainment center, 1st floor of my residence. Back deck golf course (19th hole haha) - temporarily collapsed. At least that's where 30-somethings hang out right now, the cool ones.

In aprox 2 weeks I will be at a strip bar in the middle of the woods in Wisconsin. Usually reached by snowmobile in the winter. One quarter mile from dudz cabin on 100 acres. Named Rocky Raccoon's.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also watching endless bad movies in your basement. (Wes Craven's Shocker! Hilarious).

Speaking of the small subset of hippie CA sheep, my cousin:

Janne Peters

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0783232101.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Strip club, no (I enjoyed Diablo Cody's book, but not so much that I want to go to one), Sakura for sushi, yes. (Mmmmmm sushi. Also they have mochi for dessert and I am a huge sucker for that stuff). Haven't been at Sakura since the weekend of the Twin Cities marathon.

Your cousin was in Shocker, FB? All I remember is thinking that movie was strangely funny...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Mel1ssa's cousin in "The Princess Bride"?

Sarah Stud3nski was on "Ally Macbeal" once!

― Dan (FAME!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Terrible movie, but funny. She played the attending physician at his execution, with aproximately 1 minute of on screen action. She killed some cops, if I remember correctly. Netflix time!

I can't find any pictures of "Doctor" from Shocker. Damn. But I did find this poster, which may have been the first to adorn my bedroom wall:

http://home.att.net/~naslpics/teampics/76_kicks.jpg

Go Kicks!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Really?! (I slept through Ally Macbeal - it was on too late for me to be awake when it first started. Pregnancy meant I had to be in bed by like 7:30 pm to function). Sarah once told me that our name spelled with an "h" meant "princess," but without it meant, "witch!" (What did I ever do to her?)

And here I thought the only actor I'd ever personally met was my ND boyfriend's sister, who was in Home Alone. (As I recall, she was insanely interested in feeding me some chili. Strange woman.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Terrible movie, but funny. That's pretty much what I remember... that and nothing more!

I rarely watch horror movies anymore (and no zombies since I live in front of a cemetery). I'm really glad I didn't see Jurassic Park with you people. Anything with little kids in danger and dinosaurs... I still can't sit through it!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is/was insanely funny! Were you still in high school when she got on her animal activism kick???

― Dan (Hahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Animal activism? Nope, not unless I'm blocking it out for some reason... Her mother was really nice, as I recall; she once brought us DQ treats when we were working at the library. Was her older brother Chr1s? I vaguely recall him being in Bye Bye Birdie... the musical that still haunts me to this day with "The Telephone Song."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think Stu was a body double for Flockhart. I forgot about the Princess Bride. I've worked with about a half-dozen extras from Jingle All the Way. Any more feeble fame stories?

NO ACTUAL NAME DROPPING ALLOWED.

Hey, love Janice, she's awesome, but was she selling diamonds or perfume here:

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/72/75/79m.jpg

Or is it, like 1940?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

My roommate cried throughout The Cronicles of Narnia, because the animals were getting hurt. She had to walk out during the big battle.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Chronicles. Nokomis.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

She was still as think as Flockhart? That is scary. (Wow!)

I don't personally have any more feeble fame stories, but my best friend's husband knew Tina Fey in college, as well as several other actors who have made it at least to soap-opera level fame. (He also wanted to be an actor, but gave it up for reasons still not clear to me.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I meant "thin," not "think."

FB, your roommate was aware that the movie was fiction, no?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody needs to get ahold of Sarah and arrange our 15. I will have editorial control of the invite list. We will use all the money collected for those memory books (or whatever the hell they were) that nobody ever received, and fly my friends in.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly a better plan than we had for our 15. Was Sarah your class president? I don't think poor T1n4 0tt had any idea that she was in for a lifetime of high school related tasks...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are making me laugh. I've got the 20th this year and all I can think about are what impossible-for-Minnesotans-to-acquire shoes I will "call in" to wear, and what dress to wear them with - the reunion is being organised by a fearsome clique of JAPs who used to inspect other girls for forged designer labels at the age of 12*. Well, girls, I still weigh 100lbs and I never became a soccer mom. What shall we discuss? So it's Pucci or Ossie Clark for the dress and those MAJESTIC S/S06 YSL heels which are at least $700 if you are not borrowing from the press office.

*Except for the girl whose family had a REAL Liz Taylor Warhol print. She knew armwrestling for quarters when she saw it.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I however, will be recruiting an army of mutant children to rise up out of the corn-fields and slay the unbelievers.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.esplatter.com/images/am/childrenofthecorn.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, when I GIS'd "children of the corn", this pic inexplicably came up:

http://w6dek.com/435Photos/kf6abr/ABRDOG.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy, I puzzled over your message for like 5 minutes before I remembered that you have just recently been integrated into Hastings-ness. (Then I had a second thought where I was like, my God, how does Suzy know my mother?).

FB, still raising an army of mutants. Well, it's good that you are keeping your hobbies up.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about that. Do they even have JAPs in Hastings?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

(That is me posting ned's picture)

Well now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Never noticed that was M@tt tried to post it. How easily things grow askew.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me: Big V's, this Saturday, Maps of Norway.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh you rock stars.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bring my earplugs and make sure to squeeze in a nap before the show.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about that. Do they even have JAPs in Hastings?

We had WASPAPs.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Studensk1 clan was LEGION; I think they had 8 kids (2 of whom were adopted). Both Chr1s and B3n were S4rah's older brothers and her younger sister was M33 Ran.

The animal activism was hilarious! We were all at a party (I think at N1ck M4lm's house) and S4rah was going up to people and saying, "Do you want to see a picture of my bunny? He's really cute!" People said, "Aw, sure!" and she would show them a postcard of a rabbit that had had the fur and skin scraped off of its side by razor blades. As people screamed in disgust, she would chirpily say, "See, this is what companies like Gilette do to cute defenseless bunnies when testing their products. Please remember that the next time you're buying something at the grocery store and avoid Gilette, okay?" and then bounce over to the next unsuspecting group of kids. It was absolutely brilliant and insane.

(I, of course, now almost exclusively use Gilette products partially because of her. Thanks for feeding my contrary streak, S4rah!)

― Dan (Also The Driving Stories! LOL) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/images/photo121p.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Okay WTF.

― Dan (LOL) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

FB, stop taunting me with your ability to have fun on Saturdays.

Dan, love the Stu story. Gave me a huge flashback to Consolidated and you (and John and FB) obsessing over eating McD's hamburgers. (Then a flash to when I was pregnant with J and I had to have a burger. I hadn't had one in about 10 years. A. was completely baffled when I sent him out to Burger King. I totally thought of you guys! And wow did I feel better after eating that burger...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, where is she in that picture??? Because that is totally the type of accident she'd have. She is still to date the only person I know who has driven across an almost empty parking lot and hit the only other car in it.

(xpost: LOL the Consolidated story! My favorite part of that is when we asked people who weren't with us and they all wanted burgers, too!)

― Dan (LOL^2) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

AND I think I knew you before I knew most of the people I knew in high school... because didn't you used to go over to St. John's Lutheran Church on Saturday nights for some reason? (I have no idea why I was there except probably L1s@ invited me. ??? I can't remember. Was that called "Bread Basket?" I never got that. It sounded vaguely obscene.)

Yeah, Bread Basket. Somehow i don't remember Bread Basket being anything like this:

http://rogouski.com/albums/battlecry-1/10_G.jpg

It began with fireworks so loud and startling I screamed. Lights and smoke followed, and a few kids were pulled up on stage from the crowd. One was asked to read a letter.

This was the letter that opened the event. Its author was George W. Bush. Yes, the president of the United States sent a letter of support, greeting, prayer and encouragement to the BattleCry event held at Wachovia Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia on May 12. Immediately afterward, a preacher took the microphone and led the crowd in prayer. Among other things, he asked the attendees to "Thank God for giving us George Bush."

http://rogouski.com/albums/battlecry-1/27_G.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the last few posts explain just about everything, don't they...

Bread Basket: mostly harmless circa 1988. Consolidated: doing harm to their own cause just by existing (but in a fun way). Good times.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Any more feeble fame stories?

I slid into 3rd base in the opening scene of Little Big League!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

My Friendly Fascism shirt actually provoked a lot of interesting conversations with young Republicans at school. My favorite was when this really nervous dude sat down next to me and said, "You know, trees grow in garbage dumps." After about a half-dozen non sequiturs, we actually engaged in a pretty interesting conversation. He was nonplussed when I said Consolidated was silly.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I slid into 3rd base in the opening scene of Little Big League!

Sweet!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Who was the lucky lady, gbx?

― Dan (Mrs. M4ttson?) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh snap

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, this is an evangelist evangelizing:

http://www.forceministries.com/images/forcesky2.jpg

Let's hope they keep their prostletizing within our borders.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Woah that Battlecry thing is super creepy.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you are cruel, cruel. (That is why I like you.)

gbx, I'm totally renting that this weekend now.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Evangelize through the FORCE/ Special/Op Parachute Team

I shit you not!

― Fluffy Bear ROFFLES (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

While at WDW this past March I saw a little boy with a t-shirt on that said "Soldier in the Army of the Lord." He couldn't have been more than 4. Soooo creepy.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously fuckin A. Is this Minnesota or Idaho!?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

there's a slow motion on MY FACE.

also: good for the kids! :D

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Finally, a plan for Saturday night that I can not be embarrassed by!

xpost Is this Minnesota or Idaho!? Sorry, WDW = Disney World. Tons of crazy people down there (although you can find a lot of similar in the exurban areas here, too). I did have to stop myself from glaring at his mother.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

X-post I think that was Florida. RULE ONE FOR PARENTS: if your child cannot read what's on the t-shirt or can't understand it, they shouldn't be wearing it. What this means is your kids are not billboards, people.

If you want to see a stellar selection of kiddies in WWJD shirts from outstate, get one Minnesota State Fair. It makes me feel better knowing their Lord can't save them from cheese-curd related arteriosclerosis. When does it start, anyway? I will be home in the beginning of August, all things being good.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

but what about kids in shirts that say "daddy drinks because i cry" ?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

FYI, the Battle Cry pics were from Philadelphia. Liberty!

Notes from the Minneapolis "Ron’s Run to the Battle session":

THE PLAN
- OPERATION WILDFIRE
- EVERY WARRIOR
- 1. Every Warrior agrees to win and disciple 7 people this year
- 2. Double and disciple your youth group
- Capture the hearts of adults
- Get them books about your generation
- Read them a “BED TIME STORY”
ITS TIME TO RUN TO THE BATTLE
- Any Warriors willing to go?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

"there's a slow motion on MY FACE".

I'm refraining from comment. It is too beautiful on its own.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, how gross, it's like they're asking the little warriors to flirt with age-inappropriate people. PIMP MY GOD.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.christian-t-shirt.com/images/aptjcr.jpg

http://www.christian-t-shirt.com/images/aptswe-frnt.jpg

http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/210000/213600/213670/Products/6340863.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus is Whassup! in my life

Why do I love that so much? How am I going to stop myself from walking up to strangers and saying that?

How's it hanging? in your life

I'm chill. in my life

how Excellent! for you

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I really want those last two!

― Dan (Sweet Savior!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Me too! in my life Those would be excellent. in my life I can't stop laughing. in my life OH NOOOOOOOOOO!!! in my life

Can you even say "sweet savior" without sounding sultry? in your life

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

KING OF KINGS, BITCH!

― Dan ("You Got Your Savior In My Lord Of Lords!") Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

WHASSUP IN YOUR LIFE?!?!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

("You Got Your Savior In My Lord Of Lords!")

ROFFLES IN MY LIFE!!!!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Christ is WHASSUP! in my (stereotypically black/fratboy) life.

― Dan (Respeck Knuckles To The Holy Ghost) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

You got your alpha and omega in my lamb of God!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

You got your Son of Man in my Rose of Sharon!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

You got your Mighty one in my Suffering Servant!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Whassup in your life?!?!

http://www.poorasdirt.com/graphics/hottub2.JPG

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

You got Right Hand Of God The Father on my Prince of Piece!

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

No wonder I've missed you guys... LOL...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

OMGIML! I just noticed this:

Respeck Knuckles To The Holy Ghost

God Bless Dan Perry.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, all acronyms will now be ammended with "IML" in my life.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

(Looking back that "Prince of Piece" phrase is probably the best typo I've ever had.)

― Dan (Extra Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

That did take me back to a most disturbing "God as love-er" discussion from a religion class in college. (One of those things that just sounds sooooo wrong, or like it might be made into a horror film I would just NOT want to see.) Sometimes it was good to be a biology major. You might have to pith a frog, but at least the class discussion wasn't going to go places we lapsed Catholics just don't want to go.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

WHASSUP?!?! in your life

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, that was so NOT a typo.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me: Big V's, this Saturday, Maps of Norway.
-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), May 23rd, 2006. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows)

ALERT....we are not playing this show...someone got a DWI and is on house arrest!!! (not me)...no shows until July 20th now...sucks.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

(Insert frowny emoticon here)

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Play concerts from inside the house.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

The man has a point.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

yep...it kinda sucks, we had to cancel three shows...including a 6/6/06 show we were going to learn "Don't Fear the Reaper" for....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://celticdan.com/images/sm_shot_glass_map_or_ireland_1.jpg

http://www.souvenirsaustralia.com/images/aussiemap&flags.jpg

http://www.epier.com/store/outpostflags/ItemImages/85_ShotNorwayclear.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

including a 6/6/06 show we were going to learn "Don't Fear the Reaper" for

This is tragic, dude. I'm sorry in my life.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

not tragic, just dumb and unfortunate. oh well, minneapolis/st.paul will find other bands to play poorly attended bar gigs i'm sure...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

it kinda pisses me off that we have to cancel shows, though, i've never cancelled shows with any bands i've been in...i feel bad to flake on the bookers...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

flake on the bookers
flake on the bookers
flake on the bookers

It gets dirtier every time I say it!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

i will commit hari kari.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

F on Bs?

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

i will commit hari kari.

So not worth it. Considering how long just a tea ceremony takes, you'd be seriously old before you could commit hara kiri. Better to suck it up and keep existing.

Sorry to hear about your band's troubles, though. In the meantime, you can entertain yourself with listening for the phrase "flake on the bookers" in idle conversation...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theguillotine.com/highsch/0405/results/dec/1231clashphotos/0412clashj1a/0412clashj1a_4359.JPG

Fuck you, Nebraska.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck a Foshay Tower - new Fall FAP site.

http://www.cornfieldmaze.com/sites.php?ID=&username=mnhastings

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I PRACTICALLY LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THAT PLACE.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, yes. Pack your 40's in paper bags, people. Public exposure imminent. Foshay Fap in Afton MAiZE.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Nudist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh you kids... still going places naked.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's a calling!

― Dan (That's My Defense, Judge) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/45/152601429_4818508d17.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahaha

― Dan (Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I could never do it; I'm afraid the "burst into flames when the sun hits is white" skin would blind people inadvertently. Plus, I look better in clothing.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, what is it about youth that makes you take off all of your clothes and then jump ona trampoline?

― Dan (Man, We Needed A Movie Theatre) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Lack of supportive undergarments?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, what is it about youth that makes you take off all of your clothes and then jump ona trampoline?
-- Dan (Man, We Needed A Movie Theatre) Perry (djperry@gmail.com), May 24th, 2006.

My uncle Ted, after a few pulls of corn liquor?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I always wondered about John's extended family. The picture I'm getting isn't pretty.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just happy he said a few pulls of corn liquor.

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

a few pulls of corn liquor

A phrase that will live in infamy.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, what is it about youth that makes you take off all of your clothes and then jump ona trampoline?
-- Dan (Man, We Needed A Movie Theatre) Perry (djperry@gmail.com), May 24th, 2006 1:29 PM. (Dan Perry) (link)

hahaha. K4te was not amused. Didn't special agent F4 try to get with you after she tried to get with me after our friends left because they were wondering why they were standing around watching a bunch of naked idiots flopping about?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't the trampoline night! That was the night we went cloudbusting up by MacAuliffe and I rebuffed her advances on me as she leaned in for a kiss by shouting "RACE YOU!" in her face and running back to the group.

― Dan (I'm So Mean) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy hormone stories. SCARY!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Find me a trampoline, some booze, and a truss, and I'll show you what eternal youth is all about.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought that was all a dreammmmmm...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, cloudbusting. And to think, this was our inspiration:

http://www.robin-williams.net/images/fisherking/thumbs/fisherking6.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I SEEM TO RECALL NAKED PEEPLES BEING THE PRIME MOTIVATION.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

http://static.flickr.com/55/152646916_1895c1985c.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

NO, I MEAN FOR EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER DONE. PARDON THE CONFUSION.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Naked Nia Peeples has been an inspiration for everything I have ever done, too.

― Dan (Mmm) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Naveen Andrews. He wears too much clothing on Lost.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I make a random comment about nudism and look what results.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was maybe a mistake...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ned sent me this and I think I need to share it with the hometown crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Y6PchDYfw

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

LOL, priceless! That reminds me of a really bizarre clip that is in my photo album from the year I was at SMC/ND. It is of a basketball game and the text underneath reads something like, "with a look of intensity, ____ muscles his way inside." You'd have to see it to get the full effect, but I think you can get the gist here.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Er, I should make clear that the photo is of two random men, neither of whom I know. (Anyone who has ever met me knows that I don't play basketball...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, are we talking something that looks a bit like this?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― Dan (Oh No) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, and that one is in color, too!

Yeah, a bit, only one guy is sort of coming up behind the other... I think it is the combination of the text, the looks on their faces, and their positioning that never fails to crack me up.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, I think the only thing I wrote in the photo album next to it is, "I think this speaks for itself..."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

The tongue makes it.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wow guys. Thanks for taking my comment about being entirely motivated by nakedness and making it dirty.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

You're welcome any time, I'm sure.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/44/152671192_2837d914af.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.whatihaveread.net/i/1425.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, the name for that coin-opperated kiddie ride is Mr. Blobby Boat.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Daddy, can I go for a ride on Mr. Blobby Boat?"

"yeah, here's a quarter."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

"I have to pay you now? Aw man..."

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, that jpeg (not mr. blobbly boat)is from this terrifyingly thorough website of self-reported lunacy:

http://www.whatihaveread.net/

Good times.

"Dad, I played on Mr. Blobby Boat after school today!"

"Was he in the parking lot?"

"....."

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

So I click on the link provided by John, not really having any idea what I might see... wow. There are people out there more obsessive-compulsive about book lists than I am. I'm not sure if that is reassuring or terrifying. (I especially like "the longest books," starting with the book that continues to defy me, Les Miserables. Freaking sewers of Paris.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thank god I'm obsessive, compulsive, and lazy. My god.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

OCLD?

ORLY?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/50/152151966_0576fe8369.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

If anyone I know is OCLD, John...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

...it's practically everyone you know?

― Dan (GUILTY) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

All that inbreeding up there. Or is it the cheese?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

WE ARE NOT WISCONSIN

― Dan (Although There Is Cheese In MN, I Can't Front) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I knew you would first complain, and then retract.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, you make that sound like a confused teenage sexual encounter.

― Dan (Gross) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Who want's to start a new Google bomb?

Dan Perry

Also: Lutefisk & Inbreeding. HAHA.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Do not bring Lutefisk into this! That stuff is wrong on so many levels. Fish Jell-o. Yuuuuuck.

Nothing wrong with cheese or Wisconsin. At least nothing wrong that smuggling in some fiber-y cereal won't fix.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fiber, jello, cheese...it all suggest so much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Suggests, rather.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

A delicious Lutheran potluck! (I still want to know what is with the grated carrots in Jell-O thing. It's disgusting.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Don't call me rather.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

ANOTHER WRONG KIDDIE RIDE!

http://abracapocus.org/images/duck_me1.jpg

― Dan (Wow) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, you forgot the SMELT FRY. My grandfather said smelt was so named because it smelt so terrible.

BTW I was in an elevator with Naveen Andrews once about 10 years ago, we did eyebrows at each other (blush).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy, thanks, I am going back to being a vegetarian now. (That should last as long as it takes until I drive past one of those blasted Culver's. Mmmm, grease.)

OMG on the Naveen Andrews thing. Those eyes! I'm entirely jealous now.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it was when my magazine was based in this building shared with a listings magazine; he must have been there to do something related to Kama Sutra (awful film). But yeah total hottie alert. The most bizarre eyebrows aloft experience I have ever had ought to be rechristened eyebrow aloft - I was minding my own business wearing this fake fur coat at last Manics/w/Richey gig ever and suddenly it was apparent that the person next to me was stroking black fuzzy coat, but not in a crude way. I look over. Uh-oh. Liam Gallagher in white fuzzy coat. EYEBROW.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm still jealous. I have Bride and Prejudice on my To See list for no other reason than those damn eyes. (Silly!)

Love the eyebrow story! DH is perpetually annoyed that I can arch one eyebrow and he cannot. Our son was doing it within days of birth, too - and he was 6 weeks early. DH is surrounded...

(Confession: I had to Google Liam Gallagher. I am that out of it. I was at a Sephora store yesterday and one of the workers there said something I was buying was "the bomb." I tried not to gape at her like, "people actually say that?!" I've spent a Very Long Time getting to know Big Bird and Elmo...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

I had to Google Liam Gallagher. I am that out of it.

What type of mid-nineties Britpop fan were you? (Answer, obviously: none at all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously.

No need to get into details, but suffice to say I've been trapped in early 90s rave and techno land for a looooong time.

Sort of kidding. I lost touch with Hastings music fans (Dan, John, FB), worked a lot, got married, had kids and was mystified by local radio stations for many years. DH got an iPod, then a shuffle and I was kind of whatever on the whole thing until he gave me an iPod for Xmas. Oh yeah... I forgot that I like music. Duh.

Watch out. Someone once told me that kids suck your brains out. They were right in some ways. (However, it also turns out that the kids loooooove music, too. Very funny to listen to their choices.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

suffice to say I've been trapped in early 90s rave and techno land for a looooong time.

Ah, no wonder you're friends with Dan! ;-)

I've no doubt the kid/rest of life balance is indeed its own rollercoaster. As yet I'm not it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

A two winkie post!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, no wonder you're friends with Dan! ;-)

DH is so the rave/techno person here. (But gotta love Dan for a million reasons, music included.)

Actual conversation from last night at my house:

A: What are you and C. going to do at the Mall of America?
Me: Ummmm... head-bang at the Sephora store.
A: That isn't rock music, that's techno!
Me: My God, sometimes I forget that you're One of Them, too!

We've also had a long-time 80s versus 70s war going on, but let's not go there... just got lost in the 90s a bit. (But if you have suggestions for his b-day, it's coming up and I'm at a loss here - was thinking of buying him a couple of cds along with other stuff. But he keeps mucking it up by buying random stuff on iTunes.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)
Oh yeah, and Ned - regarding the kid thing. It's fun, but I was serious on the best advice thread about the epidural. I've done it both ways, and you'll be happier with the drugs, too. ;)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

I want to know about the good old days of rave/techno in Minnesota. Teach me you guys.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dan and John and Subgenius are the music people. I am only along for the ride. I love music (who doesn't), and I'm very opinionated about what I like and don't like, but I couldn't write a music review column to save my life and I don't know a lot of band member names, trivia, theory, etc. (but I can tell you a little bit about the lineup in Pigface and LARD, if that tells you anything). Now, I'm not even remotely as helpless as Sara, but my continuing exposure is mostly due to the skills of my aficianado friends.

Must follow up later with MN rave scene stories. SPOILER ALERT: unsurprisingly pathetic.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

FB, the continuing exposure counts. So there. Of course, now you've tagged me as musically helpless I will fail to be nice to you in the future. (Okay, I guess I won't since you're basically correct. Um, I can still sing that "do re me" song, though!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, "do re MI."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

Do me, babeeeeee....

― Dan (That Song?) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'm never going to recover from the radical revision Julie Andrews' image went through in my mind... yikes.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.festival-larochelle.org/images/films/1750.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Refresh yourself with something else. (Scroll to my revival today to get full YouTube mania.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

HEY HASTINGS FRIENDS!

Have you seen this one on teh Internets:

http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/4464e68ez52863c2f/a901re2/__sr_/be15scd.jpg?phY0ddEBk80XWWb3

― Dan (OH NOES) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

That's it. I'm never sleeping again.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

God bless Tim Curry and God bless America.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, what were you linking to?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That image popped up a while ago on an ILE thread and I remembered it today, so I thought I'd share.

― Dan (It's More Likely Than You Think) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can't see it. Which makes "It's More Likely Than You Think" very cryptic. Must be firewall at work. (?)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

GUESS WHO'S GETTING AN EMAIL????

― Dan (Haha) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I could see it earlier but now I can't (thankfully), so I don't know that it is the firewall at work. (So far as I know there is no firewall at my house!)

Um, enjoy your email FB. I'm not saying anything more about this!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Odd, I can still see it.

― Dan (FREE PC CHECK) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I am such a 12-year-old boy.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've long suspected that my computer wants to hide things from me. I don't know why. I'm afraid to look any further into it, though; I saw too many X Files episodes in the 90s.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Can't see it. Dan is a fibber.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

We need a defibberator.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

HEYO!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

That does it. Next time I see you, yer getting a slap.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

And on Thursday no less. Contrarian to the core...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

GUESS WHO ELSE IS GETTING AN EMAIL????????

― Dan (Stupid Yahoo Photo Site) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

SLAPS FOR EVERYONE!

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, and violent on Thursdays, too. But at least you're sharing equally with everyone...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

(M1ke, are you lurking? Do you want an email too?)

― Dan (A Great Joke Ruined By Technology) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
Call it a love slap. Velvet Glove of kindness, etc.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dan: also very good at sharing. (Your grade school teachers would be proud!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I love you all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Love is like an open hand
Stings a little when it lands

― Dan (I SAID LOOOOOOOOVE) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, thank you for your kind words. I regret to inform you that you will still be receiving a slap, out of fairness and a sense of duty.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I love you all.

That would be your first, fatal mistake...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Are you all happy with your slap total? Or would you like to risk it all in the DOUBLE YOUR SLAPS speed round?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, my favorite game! Yay!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is it okay if I pass all of my slaps over to Ned?

― Dan (He's Gagging For Them Anyway) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Gagging for slaps speed round.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

That would be your first, fatal mistake...

Don't be ridiculous. I keep you all at arm's length. For now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

More old ILX goodness:

TS: "Pieces Of You" vs "Fat Boy"

― Dan (If I Say So Myself) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

The longer it goes on, the more this thread makes me feel Burnsville is half a world away from Hastings.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha that's because IT IS!

― Dan (Branch Davidian North) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

It is, it is.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

(Branch Davidian Cow Town)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, Eric H! Your correct answer has DOUBLED YOUR SLAPS. Now for our long-distance slap dedication, Dan (Witticism Goes Here) Perry would like to let his old friend Ned know that he has booked him a bonus slap...and if I might be so bold, I'd just like to say, may both of you be slapped within inches of your lives.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

See, that is what I love about this game. It's not necessarily predictable. (Guys, always look out the window before opening your front door).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

one time, in sunday school our teacher made us lift weights...the first time she'd play rock music and the the next time she'd play christian music...i guess the idea was that it was an experiment to see if god music made us lift weights better....i was skinny and got embarrassed cuz i couldn't lift shit no matter what music was on.
-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), May 23rd, 2006 6:28 PM. (Matt Helgeson) (link)

I just love that story, and I want to share it with the rest of you.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, that is so everything-I-hated-about-Hastings that it kills me. (Wow, maybe those pointless CCD classes weren't so bad after all. Now I want to know what the heck religion poor M@tt was! At least my religion traumas were separate from the traumas of phy ed...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gospelgreeting.com/christianecards/viewCard.asp?cid=208&catid=4

HI DERE. FEEL MATT'S PAIN.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT: SPEAKERS REQUIRED FOR MAXIMUM ROFFLETASITY.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

LOL (IML). Who knew that existed? (So M@tt's teacher wasn't the only one with this notion?!) Man, next time I lift weights, it's going to be a while different experience.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, liftin' for THE LORD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that won't seem out of character...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

Are you belittling my faith?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'M PUMPING THE SHIT OUT OF THIS IRON. FOR JESUS.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Not at all. (OMG, the mental image is so strange it's painful though. If my head explodes, you're going to take the blame.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

John moves in a mysterious way. As it were.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Daft punk is playing at my house, and I am moving in a mysterious way.

Around the world will do that to a guy.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Probably nothing that a good decade of professional dance training would cure. (That's my prescription for everything, though.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

What did it cure you of?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Falling over every time I try to cross the floor. (Actually, that took more like 15 years. And I still broke my wrist and shattered my elbow last time I was pregnant. Turns out my balance was a little off...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

You should guilt trip the young'un in question about it, and then he/she can grow up to be a happy well-adjusted psychopath. (Actually, scratch that idea.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

She's already a psycho and she's not even 4 yet. Our only peaceful moment today was when I gave in and agreed to make tea. (Yes, my 3 year old likes hot, black tea with cream and sugar. At least it's decaf.)

Anyway, it wasn't J's fault, it was mine. I slipped on something on the kitchen floor (which I knew was there... but I forgot...) and fell. Hard. On ceramic tile. Now I have a pretty scar and 11 pins in my arm. (The wrist pins came out; I tried to console myself with the idea that I was the only person I knew with pierced wrists.) Oh yeah, and no more ceramic tiles in kitchen or bathroom. EVER.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, Eric H! Your correct answer has DOUBLED YOUR SLAPS.

Since this thread is becoming the hub of thread connex, allow me to cross-check jaymc's biracial fetish thread with this.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and no more ceramic tiles in kitchen or bathroom. EVER.

Your Faye Dunaway inflection is close, but we need to have you quiver more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

If you can't do it right, don't do it all, Helga.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

That isn't Japanic, that's Japudin'.

― Fluffy Bear Deserves The Eternal Lske of Fire (Japennence) (Fluffy Bear Hearts R, Friday, 26 May 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.neurodiversity.com/graphic/screams_1965_slap.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cellycel.net/slaps.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Win a free! LapTop" is actually the main reason I posted that last one.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

Celly Cel should have used the LapTop's grammar checker before giving it away.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's 2:30 in the morning, I have to work tomorrow, and what am I doing? Watching some HS study hall make constructive use of their time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okAK2Y-S000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jopvlPuHj5g

This is the movie I think we all wanted Elephant to be.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

High school never really changes, does it?

― Dan (CHARLEY HORSE!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect that somehow it would have been worse if we had digital cameras, YouTube and podcasting.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

There but for the grace of technology go we...?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Memorial Day/weekend drunkenness? Anyone?

Also, my roommates' band S4nt Eli4(yes, plural apostrophe use, and correct due to two roommates involvement, so eat it.) is playing tonight at the Entry, if anyone is really bored, and/or wants to gaze lovingly upon my visage.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

There but for the grace of technology go we...?

And believe me, you have no idea how happy I am that my old college newspaper record reviews are beyond retrieval. ;-) Though at the time people said it was the most readable thing in the paper, which perhaps says something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Memorial Day/weekend drunkenness? Anyone?

Sadly, I'm too short to reach the liquor cabinet. And tonight I'm lifting weights for Jesus. (See how fast I turned around on that one?)

Ned, I doubt those college newspaper records are completely unavailable... that is the kind of thing that shows up when you least expect it and bites you in the posterior.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Their online archives start in 1994.

― Dan (LUCKY NED) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, that doesn't mean that someone out there doesn't have the paper copies. (Remember paper?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, you're safe until some freekishly obsessive library assistant starts scanning back issues.

That would be so excellent if, for some unfathomable reason, dudz scanned an uploaded issues the Hastings Raider Gazette from '87-'91.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, you're safe until some freekishly obsessive library assistant starts scanning back issues.

I'll see to that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

That would be so excellent if, for some unfathomable reason, dudz scanned an uploaded issues the Hastings Raider Gazette from '87-'91.

FB, there were actual paper copies floating about at my 10 year reunion. Scary memory jogger. Come to think of it, I might have stuck one in one of my scrapbooks somewhere long ago. (Not that I know where the scrapbooks are... for NOW.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I have some, I just want to be able to email them to my friends coworkers and such.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, i used to write for the gazette. and by 'write,' i mean sneak out and go get milkshakes.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

FB, I bow down to your superior organization skills.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

...and not just McD's milkshakes. 30 cent milkshakes from the dairy store!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

and by 'write,' i mean sneak out and go get milkshakes.

Mmmmmm milkshakes. Now I'm green with envy!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

30 cent milkshakes from the dairy store!

You don't mean the Creamery do you? (My friend T0dd's Mom has worked there since God was a baby...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, right by that big old mansion

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the LeDuc mansion (or as my son calls it, "the spooky house" - I think they've opened it to the public or something now, come to think of it).

Dammit, now I have a milkshake craving. Fie!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

That would be so excellent if, for some unfathomable reason, dudz scanned an uploaded issues the Hastings Raider Gazette from '87-'91.

-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), May 26th, 2006.

Someone has (no joke). I will begin my research now and find them.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have this bizarre image in my mind now of John riding off to some crazy wizard archives with a really long white beard. (Yeah, I saw that first Lord of the Rings movie too many times. I can't say John ever reminded me much of Ian McKellan, though.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

"C'mon get your jock on babe"

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 27 May 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

"I want you to knock his cock into his watch pocket."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 27 May 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

FB, what have you been drinking tonight?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ethanol.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 27 May 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Straight from the source.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

Is this where the phrase "a few pulls of corn liquor" comes back into play?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Was it a rousing statement of yore?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Only if this week counts as "yore..."

(pssssst, Ned; look upthread!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

North Dallas 40.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 27 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fluffy Bear is determined to be mysterious. (Or possibly he is still ethanol-impaired.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

T-minus drunk in 58 minutes.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's good to have a plan to execute.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

And WHAMMO!~ plan commenced. Soon I will hunt Fluffy and Subgenius down and pour (more) liquor down their throats.

Because I just can't stop giving.

Also, courtesy of me, the bartender in the Entry now knows how to make a Mr. Saito.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Enjoy! (But okay, I'll bite: what is a "Mr. Saito?")

I'd better pull up a chair to stand on and look in the liquor cabinet to see if there is vodka in there. I have a recipe for some kind of slush thing that involves pink lemonade, frozen raspberries, vodka and ice and I finally have an excuse to make it (picnic on Monday). But it's kind of pointless if all we have is rum and Austin's gin (ugh, I hate gin).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit dudes, i'm bored. maybe i should do....homework??? on a saturday night???!?!??

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 27 May 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, that is not the thing to do, gbx. If even I have something to do, surely you can find something. (Admittedly, my big plan is having a college friend stay overnight, but she's bringing wine and I'm sure she'll crush A. and I at a game of Scene It later.)

On the other hand, I think I did study on Saturday nights in college sometimes. Based on that experience, I do hope you find a better plan!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i had friends :((((

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, now you are worrying me. (Plus I can so relate to that feeling, if for no other reason than I have spent a zillion years at home with two kids. I used to turn the tv on during the day just to make sure there were people still speaking Adult in the world. Oh yeah, and I think I was the Queen of "I Don't Fit in Here" for about a thousand years, not just at S.M.C.) I hope you find something to do - and I'm sure you have some friends there. (Ugh, I remember how awful it was when I was an R. A. on a dry campus and my friends didn't invite me to do stuff because they knew I could get fired if I was there... I spent a lot of time in my room that year, feeling like Everybody Hates Me. Hell, I'm 34 and I still get that!) Am I remembering right that you are at college? Is there some kind of event on campus you can just go hang out at? I vaguely remember that I used to go hang out at dances and I could usually find someone familiar to hang out with...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh, don't worry! there's shit i need to do (ie - homework/shopping), and i can always call up some of the ppl in my program (i'm a 25 yr old college grad in a post-bacc pre-med program) or whatever. also: it's only 5.30 here, remember. and i've only lived here for two weeks. i COULD go and hang at the bar and try and make friends, but i might just get drunk.

i'm definitely not a shut-in or bad at meeting ppl. i'm just a little bored. but now i'm going to the grocery store! fun!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Whee, the grocery store! Who knows who you'll meet there...

I'm sure you'll find fun stuff to do tonight, whatever you decide to do. (Argh, I don't miss being a pre-med. But I'm going back to school in the fall for nursing, and the part that freaks me most is the idea that I'm going to a program where I don't know a single person. And I even have a family to come home to! Good luck with your program. Have you gotten to organic chem yet? I freaking hated that class....)

Time to get the kids into bed so that I can have fun. Enjoy your evening gbx (and everyone else, too!).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! To all that. Upthread looked at and I see some sort of LOTR thing, I can't imagine being interested in that. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

orgo in the fall/spring. right now just chem/physics, which i'm pwning (thanks mr cruse!).

i haven't gone to the grocery store yet, because i am drinking a beer.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

sort of LOTR thing, I can't imagine being interested in that.

I'm tempted to make some sort of crack about my fatal attraction to orcs but I'll resist. The funny part about me enjoying LOTR at all is that I didn't expect to; I went to the first film entirely to humor my FIL. D3An (who I dated through most of high school) loved the books and made me so mad once quoting from them instead of responding to what I was saying that I almost pushed him into a swimming pool we were standing by.

gbx, I really should have taken chem and physics in high school, that would have helped a ton (too late now though). Mr. Cruse always seemed like a decent sort, though; his classroom was across from Mr. Hebert's, where I spent way too much time obsessing about biology stuff. (It's weird to me how I can be so frustrated by chemistry but love microbiology, genetics, immunology and anat and phys stuff...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

wait, how could you NOT take them? i thought we were required to... even BACK IN THE DAY. Then again: i'm one of like three out of ten in my program that appears to have any sort of familiarity with stoichiometry, vector math, and so on. Other students be strugglin.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Back in ancient history, we were required to take a semester of some kind of silly thing that they called "practical chemistry" and a semester of "physical science," both in 9th grade; after that, you only had to pick one of the big 3 (bio, chem or physics) and take that at some point during the rest of your high school career. I didn't take bio until 11th grade, having been turned off by the first two classes - and then I fell in love with bio and took advanced bio my senior year (all the fun of my fetal pig, Pepperoni, plus Hebert's weird habit of having us sometimes cook stuff in the lab to eat...).

Practical chemistry was literally my first class of 9th grade, taught by a guy who lived right next door to us (can't remember his name). He had a serious alcohol problem which was somewhat entertaining for me since he used to get drunk and mow the lawn at all hours of the night. His class was entirely useless. People used to literally smoke paper towels during lab time (ah, Hastings). One time we managed to explode a thermometer (how?!). He also didn't always try his labs out ahead of time and our class was the guinea pig for a lab where we made acetesalycilic acid (aspirin). OMG, it was so strong that people had to leave the room and no one else did that lab for the rest of the day.

All I remember about "physical science" was that it was taught by Mr. Flaten, who once yelled at the students who were present about how so many people were out sick. I hated that class.

Yeah, having the high school background probably would have helped a ton, but... water under the bridge. I did enjoy my S.M.C. college chem prof's British accent (loved how he said, "significant figures..."). I don't think anything would have helped me with orgo, though... if I close my eyes I can still see all those carbon-centered formulae dancing in front of my eyes.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Flaten crowed to the class about how I didn't get the highest score on the final in his class. Keep in mind that I took said final three weeks after my brother died.

― Dan (Dick) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

My GOD that man was evil. I just didn't know how evil... yeah, I preferred the drunk guy to him for sure. Even though I actually feared for my life sometimes.

I don't even know what to say to your story. Most of my Hastings stories are "this is so lame and crazy you won't believe it;" I'm lucky that way.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps Flaten is now boiling in oil somewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or if not, maybe we can help him along with that...? (Is he even still alive?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

GRAVE ROBBERY

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

LOL, Ned you read my mind... (wait, are you sure you've never been to Hastings?).

I also considered voodoo, of course. It's not good to mess with the standards.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also a Hastings standard: levity to deal with being seriously pissed off. (Or was that just a Sara Robinson standard?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone else go to school with any of the C@rls0n's? I've known B@rb forever although she graduated before me (1987), but she has 7 (or more?) siblings and she's right in the middle. (I can think of some of their names: M@x, Gl3nn, ummmm... R1ck I think?). They also lived out in the boondocks and B@rb says shared the bus route with the Stud3nsk1s.

For a while one of B@rb's brothers was married to the girl from my class who was pregnant with her third child when we graduated.

On that happy note: Happy Memorial Day!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

R1ck was class of '91. At one point I knew the names of all 8 of them but I've stalled out at the 5 you named (I do remember that B@rb and M@x were the only girls).

― Dan (Big-Ass Families) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they really are all Catholic anyway... and I think they do have an older sister (Th3r3se?), too. It's confusing because B@rb and D0n have a ton of nephews, nieces, and godchildren as well. B@rb is the best. (And not just because I'm actually taller than her and also not because she gave me two jars of her mother's homemade pickles today. She just is.) I'm glad I remember some of her sibs' names (jeez, after 20 years, do ya think?).

B@rb had Mrs. Stud3nsk1 for kindergarten somehow (I'm jealous now!). We also had the oddest conversation about the old middle school (we're all lucky to be alive I think...).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 May 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Th3r3s3!

Remind me to tell you my Mrs. Studensk1 story off-board sometime.

― Dan (JUICY!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, now you're taunting me. (Send an email, why don't you? Jeez.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/59/153618141_42178dffc9.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

FB, are we to infer from that image that you had a pleasant (or just very hazy) weekend?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I just wanted to share this image:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g195/redmcclain/529533cf.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

(wait, are you sure you've never been to Hastings?).

I clearly have been there in spirit.

As for that image, I have no doubt that both Washington and Lincoln would pray for help for that hapless mofo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

WTF THE FUCK IS THAT

― Dan (Seriously) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

his classroom was across from Mr. Hebert's

Kenan??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

As for that image, I have no doubt that both Washington and Lincoln would pray for help for that hapless mofo.

haha. that's exactly what I though when I saw it. Dan, you can pick it up at your nearest megachurch bookstore. It's a framed print entitled "praying for peace".

I like the idea of Washington and Lincoln laying hands on Bush.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Especially bare-knuckle.

― Dan (Historical Beatdown) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I've seen that painting before. (Not in person, though, I promise). I think one of my trying-to-convert me to Republican relatives sent the image to me. Honestly I had NO CLUE how to respond and still be considered polite. (Hey, that is what I do at holidays, try to be polite. And keep the kids distracted from some of the conversation.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Happy nostalgia time! Remember the summer I was in Germany and you all went insane?

― Dan (Remember That?) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

(Hahaha never mind, I appear to have gone insane myself circa the "WTF THE FUCK IS THAT" post)

― Dan (ATM Machine! PIN Number!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/78/153625312_7a6eb445dc.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I beg to differ. I've always been perfectly sane. That was my doppelganger (FB and John back me up here please).

(Plus I liked that post with the double WTF, I thought it was FUNNY.)

FB I'm not even going to try to puzzle that image out...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

It means that Dan is a transforming robot from another plannet, and I am trying to communicate with him...in rebus.

I hope that clears things up.

(I didn't notice the superfluous TF, which is the key to making sense of Dan's last two posts).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oddly, that makes total sense. (Yes, I still speak Hastings.)

Always suspected there was something different about Dan but I could never put my finger on it. Of course, he's a robot! Why didn't I realize it before?!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

A robot of love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, who told Ned?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://robotlove.biz/pictures/RL_05main/RL_hello_web.jpg

2648 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis , MN 55408

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://store.robotlove.biz/shopwithrobotlove/picserve.cgi?picserve=/IWG_sept_1.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Now that robot is hot. No one can deny it.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't notice his other (intentional) acronym abuses, either. I am so used to hearing people say "PIN number", I don't even process it. I think I'm going to adopt the Dan (Again Again) Perry FUBAR Acronym Protocol (the DAAPFUBARAP Acronym Protocol).

LOL out loud!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Robot Love is possibly the best thing to happen to me in the past 2 years.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's getting rather personal, isn't it?

(BTW, A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. is a friend of mine; don't tick her off. She'll sick you with a copy of the MMMPI (Modified Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.))

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

You speak in riddles, sahib.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Well, kind of hard to explain, but suffice to say that's the uh... code name... for a friend of mine who had to take the original MMPI once upon a time. The rest of the story is not exactly legal, so I'll just have to say this: she wrote her own version of the test. (OMG, the things we used to get up to. I, of course, was completley innocent, having not been there at the time.) ("I wasn't there!" Yeah, that's usually my excuse.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

If any of you knows what happened to my motivation, I'd like to get it back please. I can't even find anything appealing to read, which never happens to me. What the hell, sudden ADD at age 34?! Or just some kind of spring fever? Suggestions?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading Shalimar the Clown, which I'm thoroughly enjoying. Great Apes by Will Self is on deck. Looking forward to that.

Sara, you were there when we tacked up all those "will cut gr@ss" parodies around H-town.

You are a fuzz magnet, you naughty little thing.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Did we do that the summer we all went insane? Dan surely would have been involved in the composition if he were around. Maybe not the execution, though. Come to think of it, was this the same summer that Sara's brother let us onto the g0lf c0urse?

Friggin' Robinsons and their siren song of deliquency.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmmmm... okay, yeah, I vaguely remember that. Cough cough. (It's not nice to make old ladies turn pink, FB. Remember that!)

Thanks for the book suggestions. I don't know what is with me right now. All I want to do is nothing!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, FB, that was the same summer. Oh sure, blame the Robinsons! Whatever. Just remember, I have a journal from that era (and a good thing I keep it hidden, too; A13x can read you know). Actually, there is some rather hilarious stuff in there, too (my all-time favorite line is from a guy from St. Olaf, for example. It's the only good line in my horrible NaNoWriMo romance novel!).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

NaNoWriMo! A fine fine thing, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no. Kind of a scary disaster actually. My book should be called Little Cardboard Vampires. The idea is okay but the execution is very, very silly. DH got further than me last November, but I still pick at mine.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Come Anticipate (Robert Altman's) "A Prairie Home Companion"

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

The most I've ever written for NaNoWriMo was... 1500 words. PHEAR ME.

Ned, OTOH, finished his in a week.

― Dan (BASTARD) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I've never done NaNo WriMo. Who want's to rock it this November?

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Hmm? C'mon.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, that is just SICK. (I looked at my document and I have over 2,000 words, but some of them are recent, like from last week or so... I probably had about 1500 at the end of November.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I've never done NaNo WriMo. Who want's to rock it this November?

See, now this is what I love about you guys. You not only know what the hell I'm talking about, you actually think, hey, let's all do that. (Every other person but DH that I mentioned this to last year was like, you want to whaaaaa? Except MJ and she cranks out a book a month anyway.)

I think I only have to take one class this fall and I don't have my schedule for that yet, so... maybe?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I should add: or you have done it before and sometimes done it better (Ned... I've never met you and somehow you're making it to my Envy list.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever someonne mentions that contest it puts Ya Mo B There straight onto my Internal Jukebox and I want to Lysol my brain.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

See, I'm dancing in my office chair now.

― Dan (Ya Mo Beeeeeeeeeeee There...) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Suzy! (So I take it from that that you don't want to play Write a Book?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

(Ned... I've never met you and somehow you're making it to my Envy list.)

Thank you, I try. ;-) And yes, in a week. Twice, actually.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Straight from the Envy list to the Bitter About It list...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's got to be some kind of record. ;)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's amazing, the effect I have on people. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, that kind of writing strategy would be an utter mental health disaster for me. Please don't hate me but if you have seen Mall Rats, imagine the insouciant girl with the book deal but without the slut factor. That's pretty much me at 16 (I was offered a deal by a publisher my uncle had met about turning his cases into books and then films, but turned it down on the basis of not wanting to be Daisy Ashford or something). John and Jeffe will vouch for this, at least what I look like!

Book recommendation for Sara: jPod by Douglas Coupland, should be out by now (I've had a review copy for months).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Here's what I can find of my last attempt at this:

It's hard to give a sincere apology when you're caught with your pants around your ankles balls-deep in the new au pair but I really felt like I had nothing to lose.

Perhaps I should start from the beginning:

My name is Jeremy Tesnik. I'm 33 years old and right now I'm completely, totally utterly, royally screwed.

You know how you can fool yourself into thinking that you're an untouchable god, master of all you survey and impervious to the trivial laws that govern the common man? I'm sure you've experienced it; the uncommonly intoxicating mixture of success and blatant sycophancy that goes straight to your head and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do, like snorting a gigantic bag of cocaine with the seventeen-year-old you're paying under the table to teach your children, ripping off her clothes with your teeth and giving it to her like her orgasms will produce candy? We've all been there, right? Lovely female candy orgasms that call to your soul like a foul temptress, turning you against your lovely and not-quite-as-brainless-as-you-hoped trophy wife? It's serious hot water time for yours truly, I can tell you that.

So, as I'm rolling off of nubile young Helen and desperately looking for my boxer briefs, my wife is shrieking something unintelligible, or at least something that I'm hoping is unintelligible because it sounds a lot like "YOU CHEATING BASTARD I AM GOING TO SCRAPE YOUR NUTS OFF WITH A CHEESE GRATER AND FEED THEM TO YOU THROUGH A STRAW!" I'm trying as hard as I can and no matter what way I slice it, I can't get it to sound like, "Oh baby, you need some help with that?" or "This is all my fault for not liking anal." Also I'm dodging cutlery. It's amazing; pissed-off women have wicked arm strength and accuracy unseen outside of Major League Baseball. It doesn't help that the room is lurching around like a Tilt-a-Whirl and that the throes of our passion left my clothes on the opposite side of counter.

"Jenny, calm down!" I say. "It isn't want you think!"

There is a pause as the three of us consider the sheer audacity I must have to even attempt this line. Jenny's eyes bug out ever so slightly; I entertain a brief thought that the outrageous denial of her eye's evidence will cause an aneurism.

"THIS ISN'T WHAT I THINK? I THINK YOU'RE FUCKING A CHILD IN MY KITCHEN, JEREMY! HOW THE HOLY FUCK COULD THIS POSSIBLY NOT BE WHAT I THINK? DO YOU THINK I'M A MORON?"

Drat. No sudden blood clots or mental implosions. I dodge some more of the wedding china and wonder if I can make the back door without taking a teapot to the dome.

"Look, stop throwing shit at me and calm down! We should talk about this!"

"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM THE FUCK DOWN YOU CHEATING JACKASS! GET OUT AND TAKE THAT WHORE WITH YOU! I SWEAR TO GOD YOU WILL NEVER SEE YOUR KIDS AGAIN!"

This seems like a good cue to dive for the back door. I hit the back deck in an action-film roll, bounding to my feet and accelerating to my top sprinting speed (100 meters in 11.7 seconds; choke on that, Ben Johnson) before Jenny can do permanent damage. Helen is right behind me; she is turning out to be surprisingly fleet of foot for a naked teenage bombshell. Neither of us stop running until we hit the end of the driveway and crouch behind a tree, safely out of range of Jenny's slider.

I shake my head, wheezing for breath. "Damn," I say to Helen, "now what do we do?"

Helen looks at me incredulously. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

I'm taken aback. Seriously, I scanned through the range of possible responses and expected something more along the lines of, "I don't know, hot stuff. Why don't we think about this while you're making hot, passionate, dirty sex with my lady bits?"

Helen continues to put the clamps on my ever-burgeoning blue balls. "Thanks to you and your stupid drugs I'm out of a job. Now I'm gonna have to move back in with my MOM! Thanks a lot, asshole." She turns on her heel and stomps off. I'm impressed because she actually makes it about two-thirds of the way down the block before remembering that she's completely bare-assed naked and diving into a hedge. I must say I didn't expect to see those pert buttocks for the last time vanishing into a thorny rosebush but it's kind of hot in an indignantly squealy, abrased way.

I glance down at my watch, thanking the fates that I never remove it during sex. It's 10:15 in the morning, my marriage is over, my mistress has dumped me, I'm standing practically naked in the street, I'm probably homeless and I'm staring a potentially bankrupting custody battle straight in the face. This is not shaping up to be a good week.

My neighbor is a permanent bachelor named Ed. I think he's Canadian or something; he's got a slight accent I can't place and he's super super nice for an eternal philanderer who has a new girlfriend every week. I kind of idolize him, a failing which probably led me to think having ostentatious porn sex with my au pair but I should probably own my issues and move on. I figure if there's anyone in the neighborhood who can sympathise with losing everything you didn't know you cared about over a hot piece of jailbait, it's Ed.

A lot races through my mind as I wander towards Ed's house. Is he even home? Would he be able to give me any advice? Why is his house that vomit-green color? God, maybe I should give Jenny the house in the divorce; it's not like property values in this neighborhood are going anywhere. And Christ, his lawn is horrifying! Didn't the neighborhood association send him a letter about keeping his lawn up? God, what an eyesore. Also, what the fuck was in that cocaine that's making me care about irrelevant shit? I thought that shit was supposed to make you paranoid, not aesthetically picky. Oh my God, was that actually cocaine??? Maybe I'm completely bombed on something else and I paid hundreds of dollars for some bullshit! That's it, I'm finding that dealer and beating him with a tire iron. I mean, what if that shit does some permanent damage to me and I end up sterile???

Ah, there's the paranoia. That must have been coke after all.

― Dan (Hmm) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have to run to lunch in the Cities, so I'll read yours when I get back Dan. All I'm sharing is my pathetic last paragraph. (All you need to know: Daniel is an Irish Catholic guy, seriously conservative; Lilly is a vampire. Of course Daniel does not know this...:

His hands brushed against hers. Everything stopped. Lilly lifted her face to look into Daniel’s eyes. “Your hands feel cold,” he told her.

“Ummmm… well, they always do.” She hesitated. “I’m … I have poor circulation…”

Daniel’s hands closed over Lilly’s. “I think everyone with cold hands should have someone with warm hands to warm them up,” he said softly. Tilting his head, he gently place his lips on hers, one hand moving to the back of Lilly’s neck. They kissed shit how do you describe KISSING?! Crap.

LOL. (Also featured in this selection: the infamous line from my journal that some Olaf guy actually said to me. Shouldn't be hard to pick out.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

PS Dan - sorry to borrow your name. It's actually one of my favorites.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

They kissed shit

I have found the problem.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'll do this Nanoonanooowhutever thang. You can now look forward to 50000 words of utter godawful obscentity come Nov. 30th.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

'OORAY.

My four completed ones so far were a slice-of-life drama, a story about a spy/Satanist/stamp collector, a psychological horror piece based indirectly on Jandek and a very odd (even for me) satire called Dead Gay Men, Inc..

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

They kissed shit how do you describe KISSING?! Crap.

LOLIML. Yeah, I have a lot of incomplete fiction with bizarre editorial content woven in. Actually, a style that could make for one very hillarious short piece. One.

Nanoonanoo it is! We have 3 for sure. Any others?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I dodge some more of the wedding china and wonder if I can make the back door without taking a teapot to the dome.

No you didn't.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have just invented the word "obscentity" apparently.

Now I have a working title.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

OBSCENTITTY: A Melodrama In Two Spheres

― Dan (Do You SEE...?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well done, you great and filthy pervertalist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Can the author of "orgasm candy" really be considered a pevertalist?

Ned, did you coin that phrase?

teapot to the dome teapot to the dome teapot to the dome. I have a weakness for puns, you bastard, and now I'm stuck.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Word, rather.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.oldmencrying.com/images/Dan%20Rather%20-%20Dave%20Letterman%203.jpeg

(coug, cough, sniffle). Word, Jeff.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was really, really proud of "teapot to the dome"!

I was also really proud of the exchange between Jenny and Jeremy.

― Dan (Hahaha I R FUNNIE) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't know, hot stuff. Why don't we think about this while you're making hot, passionate, dirty sex with my lady bits?"

is Whassup! IML.

I had to rechuckle.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I hate to break it to everyone who saw it (Fluffy and Subgenius), but my fantastic handlebar moustache is no more. We parted ways sometime around 3AM...sad times. Too many new "friends" who wanted to talk about the "4th reich" at the hotel bar...

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Before and after pictures may be forthcoming, if they turn out.

It was, if I do say so myself, a glory to behold.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

John, why do Nazis always want to be your friend?

― Dan (Hirsute Hitler) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I can only assume that I give off some sort of prisonlovin' musk.

Well, that and all these pamphlets I keep handing out.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers to John's stache.

Jeers to shaving it off.

Cheers to the hotel bar.

Jeers to the 4th Reich.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean Bouquets and Brickbats?

(Am I imagining that Hastings reference?

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

)

ahem.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, re:that godawful prarie home companion thread, Fluffy and I know someone in that movie.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking Tip Of The Hat/Wag Of The Finger.

(xpost: Really? Nice!)

― Dan (Yay Thread Title Reference) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hirsute Hitler:

· 1/3 oz Jagermeister
· 1/3 oz Goldschlager
· 1/3 oz Rumple Minze
· 1 oz. Peach schnapps
· Balance orange juice

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ladies and gentlemen, I present my referenced PHC pals:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=11755591

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO FLUFFY AND SUBGENIUS (and anyone else who is within 100 miles) THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DOING SATURDAY:

Saturday June 3rd
8 Bands, 2 Venues, 1 cover
A benefit For Ray
$5 minimum cover/ $10 suggested
9:30PM

The Turf Club, Big V's, and 8 of the best bands in the Twin Cities join forces to help out our dear friend Gina Kent's step-father who had a terrible accident. We have high hopes to raise enough money for any medical needs.

@ The Turf
Superhopper
Malachi Constant
Signal To Trust
Falcon Crest

@ V's
Seawhores (a very special set)
STNNNG
The Chambermaids
Assassins

******The Shim Sham Shufflers will also be making a very special appearance. We will have the set times staggered so you can try and catch at least half the sets of all the bands. Not only is this a line up of superior bands, but its for a great cause. So come out and party and do something worthwhile at the same time.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

this thread makes me wonder if i still know how to speak minnesotan!

btw john those shows are dope....i hope to go to one of them (or both)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still trying to wrap my BRANE around the Hirsute Hitler.

― Dan (Blargh) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Bouquets to sodden man-fest in Webster Wisconsin.

Brickbats to missing benefit for Ray.

Bouquets to Gina and the SSS on PHC.

Brickbats to the implosion of so many ilx threads like PHC.

Bouquets to new concoctions.

Brickbats to teeth rotting on contact.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I leave for three hours... where to start?

Dan, I'm waiting for the rest of that manuscript. Very entertaining. Get writing, stat.

My serious problem with writing romance: lapsed-Catholic-writing-about-sex block. Yes, even kissing (apparently). (Wait, maybe if I tried taking more of those Unisom tablets... ) Still willing to do NaNoWriMo, just maybe have to drink more or something. (?)

John, I tried valiantly at lunch to get you a roommate. (Friend moving back to the Cities after finishing law school). Sorry, I was not persuasive enough.

Suzy, thanks for the book recommendation!

I am technically within 100 miles of the Cities, but must beg off on the delightful sounding show since Carleton has finals this weekend and I'm scheduled to proctor Saturday night until 10 (ugh, and Sunday and Monday nights, too). Since I only work 9 days a year it's a little hard to beg off. I hope your friend's Dad is okay, though. (?!) (Can I send ten bucks and pretend that I went?).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have a roommate. And all of the actual (not honorary) Hastings people on this thread know him.

Harharhar. It's going to be fucking amusing, I'll tell you that much. In a good way.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is it Br1an K1mmes?

― Dan (SN0W0LF!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

No wait, I've got it; BUDDY H1TE.

― Dan (I'm Right, Aren't I?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

...wait, how could i possibly know him?

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

M@TT G00DMAN?

― Dan (Cross Generation!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, did you know M@tt has a daughter?!

Oh, I can't even guess at John's roommate. No imagination.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

...

M@tt has a child. Holy fucking shit.

― Dan (Holy Shit) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

(There is an implied "... and I don't" in there)

― Dan (Clarification Gimp) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't think it was exactly The Plan. I can't for the life of me remember how old she is... dammit, I'm just as bad as M3l1ss4. Her name is M@1sy (like the little cartoon mouse).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

what??

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

John's roomate's first name was recently adopted by an up and coming opera star.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like Matt's reaction because it is so universally applicable to any post on this thread.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY SHIT @ M G-MAN HAVING A DAUGHTER.

wow.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, I think you might know younger siblings of my future roommate, but I might be confusing Hastings epochs.

My future roommates name can also be a synonym for something sharing flavor characteristics with a specific fruit.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Can you remember all the people you've had sex with?

WHY DEAR GOD WHY?

BAD TUOMAS. NO! NO!

What the fuck is in the water supply in Finland these days?

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, your new roomate is Tuomas?

― Dan (Clarity!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also the true comedy is over here: For all the braggadocio, today's rapper sure is insecure (Oprah Vs. Hip-Hop: Round Three )

― Dan (Breathtaking) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

DAN, WHAT KIND OF FRUIT SYNONYM IS TUOMAS? WITH THAT SORT OF SLEUTHING, YOU WILL NEVER UNRAVEL THE DAVINCI CODE.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

DAN, WHAT KIND OF FRUIT SYNONYM IS TUOMAS?

Oh man.

― Dan (Gritting Teeth... Too Many Awful, Mean Jokes...) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jeff, re:your offsite inquiry, here's that link.

http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/findex.html

xpost: Yes, well, you brought it upon yourself.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Okay I actually spent some time thinking about this and the only candidate who comes to mind was getting married the last I heard.

― Dan (BOGGLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

John just likes to be opaque.

I won't say what I came up with because it doesn't make a shred of sense. Thus, it must be horribly wrong.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

I came up with C4sey K0hn.

Hahaha.

― Dan (Actually P3rry M0rtensen) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Who, two names that haven't been in my head for what seems like decades. (I think my favorite P3rry moment was when he asked me if I was wearing pink eyeliner when I'd clearly been crying. John had the sense to move him out of my general vicinity.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

DING DING DING!

Dan wins within his parenthetical citation. Double points, and you may award your slaps as you choose.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

No longer getting married, BTW.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I'm going to have to put double locks on the door. Again.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

No longer getting married, BTW.

O RLY?

― Dan (Wha' Happen?) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wedding planning can kill anything. (Dan, we're both lucky to be alive, much less married to people who are, you know, also alive.)

(Of course this is only my wild guess.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to provide levity but I gather the thread has turned serious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just me or do threads like For all the braggadocio, today's rapper sure is insecure (Oprah Vs. Hip-Hop: Round Three ) remind you of

http://www.bostick-plantation.com/images/buck_bucket_feeder/buck_bucket_feeder_3.jpg

and then you think, oh fuck it, I'll just

http://homestudy.ihea.com/shootingskills/targetondeer.jpg

and then you think, "I'm sick. Why can't I just stay away." Or maybe it's just the jalepenos they put in my cook's revenge. Maybe it's just indigestion and general crankiness. And beer. Also, I have no idea what Sara's talking about. Take that, kettle.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I was just trying to deflect what sounded like personal information. I'm terrible at that, though.

desperately searching for something cheery to say...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I have no idea what Sara's talking about.

Evil florists, of course. They think you know something about flowers other than roses. They are inevitably wrong.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, this thread will never turn serious. If it does, I'm going on the road on a killing spree.

GIVE US YOUR LEVITY, OR GIVE US DEATH.

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

...and because of this, there are dinosaurs.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

To answer the wha' happen - he wised up and realized that marriage is a whirling hell-hole of terror. Present company excluded, of course.

(Dan, please don't let Joei kill me.)

― John Justen, the archetypal shit head generation (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

marriage is a whirling hell-hole of terror

Because you have to dodge the freaking dinosaurs!

I'd say having kids is a lot scarier.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Where does the orgasm candy fit into this whirling hell-hole of dinosaurs and terror children, and what does it have ot do with Tuomas fruit?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm, now I really want to meet Joei if John fears her.

(BTW kids are scarier because they are not dissoluble if they don't work out. Plus you just don't know what is going to happen with them and that is even scarier than dinosaurs.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

HAving kids is a lot scarier. That does nothing to diminish my previous statement.

FB, stop trying to fit your orgasm candy into the Tuomas fruit.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Where does the orgasm candy fit into this whirling hell-hole of dinosaurs and terror children, and what does it have ot do with Tuomas fruit?

Can't tell you because you're not married.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like being married. Of course this could be one of my quirks, like being afraid of dinosaurs.

HAving kids is a lot scarier.

See, we agree on something. (Welcome the apocalypse...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

No no no. What I want to know is, does Dan take his watch off before or after he's balls deep in the new au pair? Also, Jo3i is not scary. She's adorable. She is, however, clearly in charge of Dan, and I feel like he's in good hands. Dan's orgasm candy is Jo3i's business as long as she stays away from the Tuomos fruit and the marriage dinosaurs.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

First!

― Fluffy Bear Hearts June (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

LOL (IML)... I'm at a loss here.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Goodnight, moon.

http://www.killsometime.com/pictures/images/Drunk6.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

I larf to think what Dan will say when he sees all that. (I have met the lurvly Joei and she rules the roost and is a sweetheart. :-) )

As for DEMANDS OF LEVITY, I can only say that if you want to read the original draft of my 2002 NaNoWriMo entry, go right ahead...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Joei is, in fact, a sweetheart. With talons of steel.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

New usernames are AWESOME.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic

All credit due to noise board thread. BTW, Dan, apparently you are now an admin. Who knew?

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 1 June 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, Dan you're an admin!? Unban me! haha

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 1 June 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

PANIC! At The Disco

― Dan (So Sinister Now) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

FB, now I'll never be able to read that book to the kids again!

Ned, thanks for sharing your book. I read the first few sentences and now I may never leave my computer again (I'm sure J will be fine...).

Random story: Yesterday I called my former clinic to try to find out when my last tetanus shot was. The person on the line said, "well, I'll have the Injectionists call you back this afternoon." I blurted out, "Injectionists. That sounds rather sinister..." and started laughing. Humorless receptionist seemed irritated. She also seemed a little confused about my name. I've never had someone try to spell the Coolidge part starting with "Ku" before." (And people wonder why I switched to a new clinic...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Question for John and Dan: Did you guys live close enough to Prairie Island to get their annual instructions for what to do in a plant-related emergency? B@rb was describing the old instruction booklets in rather entertaining terms.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely lived closer than the C@rslons did but I don't remember seeing that booklet ever. My parents were busy shielding me from things I wasn't even aware of!

― Dan (Like Nuclear Meltdown) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered if you'd ever seen it. Apparently one of the primary instructions was "fill your bathtub with water." B@rb and I were speculating on the reason for that. (Sip verrrrrrry slowly... I'm sure you can outlast the fallout.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

"That's right; duck and cover."

― Dan (Oh, Reactorpaws) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Love the nanoonanoo entries posted and linked to so far. Will read more.

Dan, so promissing. Are you going to do it again this year?

The confluence of Reactorpaws, penis panic, and childlessness begs the question, Is your orgasm candy Sweet 'n' Low or all-natural ungranulated?

― Fluffy Bear, Seduver, Spy, Satanist, Stamp Collector (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbow, Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

May I hazard a guess? Turbinado.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, that could be taken more than one way. Sometimes I am such a moron. (Please forgive my idiocy!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh baby I like it Turbinado.

― Fluffy Bear Had To Google Turbinado (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Love you guys...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

damn! although I now understand only 36% of this thread...I should have thought of this sooner

my good friend from college Ben is the managing editor for the Hastings Star Gazette (in fact i think he may even be editor in chief)....crazy thread connection: He was a long time bartender at Stub and Herbs! Full circle! (actually John, I'm very certain he would have been bartending a lot during at the least the early part of the time you said you were going to Stubs a lot)....anyway...full circle....he's a nice dude.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

although I now understand only 36% of this thread...

Trust me, that's probably all to the good...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, by the way, M@tt, your paid admission at either Saturday show gets you into BOTH shows. Meandering University frenzy!

http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/shop/pics/products/f-frenzy.jpg

FRENZY!!!!!

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 2 June 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

woah! i'm tripping my nutsack in a frenzy of dikplay

― Dan (Word Connections) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Suuuuuuuuuure...wordplay. Just don't get caught, Dan. You're at work.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, there's a mental image I wasn't prepared for this early in the morning...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I Love Inscrutability

― Dan (Google "Dysfunctional Family Circus") Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Googled! Stumbling across incriminating things on the Internet

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just when you think you know a person...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! J. got into the preschool program I registered her for (in March... I guess they had to look at her grad school transcript carefully or something). I will get three mornings a week alone!!!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, thanks for sharing your book. I read the first few sentences and now I may never leave my computer again (I'm sure J will be fine...).

Yer welcome! (I've been away and been busy and all you peoples have been talking like crazy! I R amazed.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

(I still haven't decided on whether or not I'm going to let Joei kill John, BTW.)

― Dan (Decisions, Decisions) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

She might just give John a teapot to the dome.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

You should never be amazed by Hastings-related chattiness, Ned. Talking was one of the few things we did in Hastings. (other than go insane, drink in corn fields, etc. etc.). I've totally been entertaining myself with your book. (Sadly, I can't take it with me to proctor this weekend because that Carleton building has no Internet access.)

I went back and picked more at my kissing scene. The best part is that it takes place sort of because of a leaky sink. Because as I've always said, nothing spells romance like bad plumbing.

Oh, just let John live this time. The plane fare alone would make the whole task an awful lot of trouble.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

How many disgusting out-of-context images can you conjur out of this paragraph:

I went back and picked more at my kissing scene. The best part is that it takes place sort of because of a leaky sink. Because as I've always said, nothing spells romance like bad plumbing.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Sara, Spelling is definately not one of my useless superwowers.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

That, and proofreading.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Talking was one of the few things we did in Hastings. (other than go insane, drink in corn fields, etc. etc.).

This I believe. I must.

I've totally been entertaining myself with your book. (Sadly, I can't take it with me to proctor this weekend because that Carleton building has no Internet access.)

Oh, it'll be there. And if you're really interested I could send along a copy of the rewritten and expanded version.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

FB mocks my romantic notions and my useless superpowers. (How dare he?! Oh wait, now I remember... that is his M.O. And why I like him.)

Ned rewrites and expands on NaNoWriMo stuff and is willing to believe what we say about Hastings. Now we've got him where we want him...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I'm willing to believe Hastings is full of liars as well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe. But I'm not one of them. (Or am I?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Cretan!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

FB: always the flatterer...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not mocking your romantic notions or your useless superpowers. I'm mocking my spelling skills. However, inverting an innocent comment and using it as yet another opportunity to be self-depreciating is in fact one of your useless superpowers (you silly goose).

Also, I qwas refering to Epimenides paradox.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Huh and I thought my only useless superpower really was giving birth irrationally fast! (Does your spelling suck that much? I never knew...)

Now I have to go Google Epimenides paradox. I'm sure this is because I didn't major in philosophy. Dammit anyway.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Googling accomplished! (and now I finally get it... ha!)

If you think leaky sinks aren't romantic you are probably right. But you never know what someone might write in a romance novel. I read one last year where a man's chest hair was described as a "crisp curly mat." (What, did he put mousse in it?) Ever since then that phrase has been haunting me at odd moments. (Ew!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

superwower!!!!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 2 June 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Huh and I thought my only useless superpower really was giving birth irrationally fast!"

Are we talking elapsed time or velocity here?

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Both. Okay, maybe not exactly. But I did have several panicked nurses running around helpfully saying, "don't push!" (as if), the ER doc barely made it in time, and I would have told A. to get his @ss to the end of the bed to catch the baby (because I thought someone should be there) if I could have caught my breath. A little more exciting than I was expecting. I knew it was going to be fast based on 4l3x's birth, but it was still kind of amazing. (With 4l3x I had an exciting ambulance ride to St. Paul while in labor, complete with the inspiring words, "if it looks like you're going to give birth on the road, we'll just pull over." Luckily we got to United and I got some drugs. No giving birth on 35E.) Terrifyingly, there is a lot more to both those stories, but those are the highlights.

Good times. Poor A. There's a reason my two are four years apart...

And that is my entirely useless superpower. Cuz I'm not using it again.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah: elapsed time with J was from 5 cm to delivered in 12 minutes flat. (I kind of doubt that means anything to anyone here though.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 June 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ARE SPEAKING VAGINA MOMMY SPECIFIC MOONMAN.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Saturday, 3 June 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, cervix really. Ahem.

So. Laundry folded? Check. Cats fed? Check. John possibly traumatized by stories? Check. I think my work here is done for the night.

BTW, John, I think you'll enjoy this tidbit: the doctor assigned to me when I got to United to have Alex's name was David Lynch-Salamon. (Great guy and totally got into the spirit of my post-epidural wise-cracking ways.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 June 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Creepy. (Therefore, great.)

May Gordon's tales keep ya guessing. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 June 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, my friend N's second birth was surprisingly like that: she basically woke up in the morning to find the baby had nearly crowned and 15 minutes later, practically in the hospital reception, she gave birth.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 3 June 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

LOL, at least I got to the hospital before the excitement really started! Although by that time you don't really care where you are or who is around. (Yikes, waking up to baby crowning... well if she slept through most of that, then at least she wasn't likely in too much pain. I don't remember J's birth being that bad pain-wise, but that might be my brain making me forget.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 June 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person that remembers P3rry M. falling out of the back of my Dad's Forerunner at the cast party at the M@tu1@'s house - right in front of an about-to-pounce cop? Or so the cop thought. The M@tu1@'s house being possibly the driest in the tri-state area...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Bizarro.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Birth freaks me out. I was about 11 when this chick's twin brother was born on Tee Vee.

http://www.tvacres.com/images/v_starchild3.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha Sara, I don't remember that at all! Was that "West Side Story"? Must have been, P3rry wouldn't have been around for "Joseph"...

Ned, Papa M@tul@ was our local televangelist, so any cop hanging around his house looking to bust drunk teens was really not thinking things through very well.

― Dan (Even More Bizarro Than You Think!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a dance hosted in their church. The DJ made us all pretend we were pushing shopping carts when he played "Push It".

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Did he make you all pretend you were unicorns when he played "Me So Horny"????

― Dan (Wow) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

This is basically why Footloose couldn't happen in Minnesota.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just went to Hastings! and we went to Bierstube, for like a second, and then went somewhere else! to RJ's actually, and got burgers. And I took some cell phone shots of that ruined mill down on the stream by the VA facility. I'll try to put them up somewhere later today.

My girl and I were trying to find those old ruins of factories that are off 55/52 behind the Koch plant. I'd messed around in one of them about a year ago and we couldn't find that one again. We found one but it was mostly fenced up. So we decided to go into Hastings and get drunk.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

LOL! IML (xpost)

Dan, he did that with a whole slew of songs. I don't know about "Me so Horny", but you can believe that he did make a bunch of church kids think really hard about "Push it". Ten bucks says somebody came home preggers that night.

Suzy OTM.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

geoff, looking forward to pics of the Old Mill. Bonfires, idiots, and cheap wine. Memories.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Birth freaks me out.

It should.

xpost Was that "West Side Story"?

Yep. I can't remember who else was in my car, just that we had a good laugh at the fact that this cop thought that we were drinking something stronger than Mountain Dew.

xpost2 I went to a dance hosted in their church.

Why?! Remind me to tell you sometime about when I went there once for Wednesday night prayer meeting. Pretty different from the Catholics, I'll say!

xpost3 I just went to Hastings!

And you had fun, didn't ya? ;) (Actually I have to go to my parents house to pick up some Scotch, but I don't anticipate it actually being fun at all...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ten bucks says somebody came home preggers that night.

Not from Wednesday night prayer meeting, though!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Why did FB always get invited to better religious events than I did...?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

(Actually I have to go to my parents house to pick up some Scotch, but I don't anticipate it actually being fun at all...)

B-b-but SCOTCH!

― Dan (Instant Fun!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

The family that drinks together...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

It's a gift for my Father-in-law, guys. Jeez.

(A. loves gin, which I hate; I'm more of a mixed drink with suggestive name type. Or margaritas, dacqueris... yeah. Anyway, tomorrow is A's birthday, btw - he's so proud of being born on 6/6 at 6 am - I want to maybe get him something at the liquor store, too, but I literally can't tell what is in our cabinet because it is above the refrigerator. A. is home today, so climbing up on a chair is a bit obvious.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, have you ever tried drinking with my family? It's the most surreal thing ever. (They do have a lovely new bar area in their new house, though, which I'm determined to fix so that the liquor selection is less bizarre.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's a gift for my Father-in-law, guys. Jeez.

Your in-laws give you alcohol and you act all complaining. SILLY PERSON.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

She is giving alcohol to the in-laws from her parents. SILLIER PERSON.

― Dan (PWNED) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, I'm giving it to them. Silly.

(They did send me a box of chocolates last week, though, and so I won't complain about them at all. Believe me, I fit in far better with that family than my own. This is so true that right after I got engaged I told my future SIL that "I'd always wanted a sister." Then it dawned on me that I do have one and I'd been sharing a room with her for practically my entire life...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

She is giving alcohol to the in-laws from her parents.

Sort of. I'm buying it from my parents to give to my in-laws. Our families have met exactly twice, ever, and we pretty much keep them apart deliberately.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, have you ever tried drinking with my family?

I have been drunk exactly ONCE at a family event. Never again.

It's a gift for my Father-in-law, guys. Jeez.

Sara, denial is a river that flows through Egypt.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, frankly all these extra explanations make much less sense than my brilliant and basic insight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I don't need to get drunk at family events. (Okay, I probably do, but I just can't drink around my family much. Must be the kids.) Besides, I'm already guilty in my aunt's mind of turning her daughter into a raging liberal (so not what happened).

Denial? Nah. I've never tried the Scotch! That is FIL's drink. I don't imagine I'd like it much... still kinda wimpy that way.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, frankly all these extra explanations make much less sense than my brilliant and basic insight.

They'd make more sense if you met my parents... I think.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sara makes perfect sense. It's just that her dialect sounds an awful lot like Crazy Talk, which is from an entirely different branch, etymologicaly speaking.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Clarity. And now I am intrigued by the mysteries of Sara's parents.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, maybe it would help if we explain that my parents own liquor stores? (Also, FB understands me perfectly because I do speak in Crazy Talk but either that is Hastings thing or he just remembers my dialict disturbingly well.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, maybe it would help if we explain that my parents own liquor stores?

Then you can be a lush on your own time! (I'm not helping, clearly.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, Sara. And not on your father's dime.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm a paying customer. They are just kind enough to bring it to the house for me so I don't have to drive all the way to the store (those extra 2 or 3 miles would kill me, I'm sure).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTCH SCOTCH SCOTCH.
SCOTCHY SCOTCHY SCOTCH.

Ahhhh...say hello to D4rryl for me, Dan. He is my Scotch brother.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 5 June 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Unimous approval of gift for FIL. At least so far.

(Okay, I know FIL likes it, we almost always get him the same thing; 15 year aged Balvenie. Still, all the approval gives one pause. Or at least me.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

God bless Will Ferrell and God Bless D4rryl Perry.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

The connection between the two remains murky. But I'll second.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

On an entirely different note, this cracks me up:
http://www.msxnet.org/humour/terror_alert

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of D4RR3LL (who would stab you for misspelling his name), check out his group's website:

http://www.poemcees.com

― Dan (PIMPED) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

This one wins for clarity.

http://www.msxnet.org/humour/image10.png

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that means "amputate hand with door," doesn't it?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I just made the purchase. Ca-ching! Poemcees just became Richemcees.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, I think you nailed it.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe, but I'm still puzzling over the why of it. (Did the terrorist attack in question incurably destroy manicures?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Um....I was uh, googleproofing his name. In fact, any time I spell things wrong, I am googleproofing. Just so you know.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, penis-melter.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Intolerance of the "life-style decisions" of others hurts us all in the end, Ned.

It takes a village to melt a penis. A thousand points of light and so on.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

In this case, it takes kibbutz to melt a penis.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even have one and the notion makes me cringe.

(On the other hand, the song "Detachable Penis" never fails to amuse.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 June 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

You don't have a Kibbutz?

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not even a little one.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Vestigal Kibbutz...

― Dan (Duh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Or is it the other way around?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are incorrigible.

Probably why we always got along so well.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Alls I'm sayin' is what if it was eve's rib if ya knows what I'm sayin' is what I'm sayin.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Blasphemer.

There was a HUGE storm that seemed to be centered right above my house last night right after midnight. When it finally woke A. up I was like, "Happy Birthday! So you were serious about that 6/6/6 thing... still thought you'd wait to end the world until after we had cake..."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, that's awesome. Dude, how many kids do you think are being born today to superstitious women? Years and years of antichrist jokes. Hot damn.

How'd the little beast do in his first day at school. Bet he moves to the head of his class and unites the world under the UN!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh you mocker of the spiritual. Er, I meant 'stupid.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Listen, Madge, all our kids have the flue. Could you tell little Damien here to at least wait until the rapture, fer Christ's sake. And no bugs! Although, I could stand to lose a few pounds...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

You know, A. is getting the weirdest birthday messages from our more religious friends, too. (Possibly they are seriously worried?)

Regardless, the storm was fantastic, totally worth losing some sleep to watch. I'm not much of an outdoor person, but wow.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

And no bugs! Although, I could stand to lose a few pounds...

Shudder.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

The fifth horesman:

http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/hatchetweb/chapter9akiko/images/flue.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Storm was rockin' the mini-apple too.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered about that. (But not so much that I got up and turned the tv on to watch the Weather Channel.)

I left Carleton last night at about 10 pm after the final finals were over and wanted to sit out there forever. You could literally smell that a storm was on its way. Loved it.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-devil06.html

Fluffy Bear, are you psychic or do you just read the papers?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. I totally fucked up by not inadvertantly knocking someone up 9 months ago. Now I have to wait another Century to have a demonspawn goatchild.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

i will get those pics up, god get off my back already.

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. I totally fucked up by not inadvertantly knocking someone up 9 months ago. Now I have to wait another Century to have a demonspawn goatchild.

I'm sure you'll still be up to it. Waiting is half the fun anyway.

i will get those pics up, god get off my back already.

If you don't hurry up, I'm gonna start nagging. BEWARE.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

You know, every time we allow this thread to fall off the top of the new answers, a little part of me dies.

My spectacular ladyfriend A13na returns from Ireland in two days. This is a good thing...any interested parties can join in a celebratory drink-o-rama/storytelling session at the Red Dragon on Saturday 9pm.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

You know, every time we allow this thread to fall off the top of the new answers, a little part of me dies.

John's mortality was never this fragile in the 90s. I'm just sayin'.

Ireland? Okay now I'm jealous (but welcome back to her anyway).

Okay, so yesterday was A's birthday, tomorrow is 4l3x's birthday, today was the last day of school, and Saturday is 4l3x's birthday party. Add in to that the belly dancing rehearsal I have for our lame 1-minute performance Sunday night and... yeah, I don't even know where to go from there.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

To the Red Dragon. That's where.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Drunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously you people have not experienced my driving skills in many years.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Almost ready to make plans to get home, speaking of Dragon things. I think I will be bringing Pimms back.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Get that treated. Last thing we need is a PIMMS epidemic.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well Suzy, can you make it back by Saturday? Because against my better judgment I have persuaded DH to come with me to see you guys Sat. night and found someone to watch the kids. I probably won't escape the house that late in the evening again for another decade, so if I don't meet you now it might be a while. (Warning to everyone else: my only good story is about my former neighbor lady who thought she saw the devil one night during a storm.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Sara! Goodnight fire. Goodnight moon. Goodnight crazy neighbor lady. (again! again!)

Ten bucks says, two drinks into it, it's nothing but sloppy birth stories.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ten bucks says, two drinks into it, it's nothing but sloppy birth stories.

LOL, that might be true if I were going to drink that much. I do have to dance the next night and I haven't danced on a stage for I don't remember how long. It might be best if I remember the steps since the teacher has put me in the front of two small rows...

PS What version of Goodnight, Moon have you been reading? Cuz it's sure different than mine.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

crowningbritneyspears.jpg

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

ahem. crowningbritneyspearsSTATUE.jpg

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Who will have the triumphant 1000th Hastings post?

FITE.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/47/162662723_e55dff9ae5.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/55/162662064_cf4a8ce089.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/66/162662063_f1f97e6b4a.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/64/162662062_eca3575667.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/56/162662061_45df1c9ae0.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/63/162662060_f26f0fbde2.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/71/162662059_8a36180437.jpg

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^WINNER

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I was looking at those pictures and trying to figure out what essence of Hastings was missing. Then I realized what they needed was a BIGASS MONSTER TRUCK MUDDING THE FUCK OUT OF ALL THEM LIL' UNDERBRUSH CRITTERS! WHEEEE-LAAAAH!

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

america number one.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, geoff!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I HAD THIS HOTCYCLE I HAD THIS HOTCYCLE I HAD THIS HOTCYCLE I HAD THIS HOTCYCLE

that is all

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Geoff, you make Hastings look so idyllic, I almost want to go there. I have numerous photos in my albums that bely the bitter truth, however. (But still, beautiful job.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Geoff, the Wordsworth o' Hastings.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

This was in the youtube thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWhVSPngBw

DJ Perry I need to know; did Hastings have show choir and were you in it? Have you done jazz hands? If so were you ashamed afterwards

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wait WTF I mean obv. HAstings had show choir but were you in it!? Do you worship at alter of Fosse Fosse Fosse

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

What is the deal with Hastings and choirs anyway?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

There is more than one person from Hastings on this thread who was in show choir; I have PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF.

Despite being in show choir, I had no real clue who Fosse was until the "Chicago" revival happened. Hastings is all about choirs because there's shit-else to do and drinking in the woods only gives you trips to the emergency room, not Chicago or DC.

― Dan (The Lullaby Of BROADWAY!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can go you one better, Dan, I have video evidence of at least one show choir performance. I taped the 1989 Christmas concert off cable to appease my mother's fixation for the song "Peace, Peace" - with the Silent Night countermelody. And it's still on that tape (along with a lot of other embarrassing stuff, but trust me, you guys are the highlight).

The show choir performance I remember best had you guys singing some sort of religious praise-type song. I remember this clearly because it was your senior year and L1s4 and I were in the audience. L1s4 asked me what John looked so happy about and I told her that obviously he was filled with the Holy Spirit. (Possibly you have to have known John in high school to realize why we had hysterics directly thereafter.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Come to think of it, I have a friend who retains tapes of all the plays as well. I believe no less than three people on this thread were in Joseph, one of whom wore a completely hilarious white beard (We'll call him Jacob, or Israel.) My permanent image of that play is of him being fawned over by several wives.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

That person must have been big pimpin'.

― Dan (LL Cool D) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Best looking gentleman in a white beard I've ever seen!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, technicolor paws. My first musical performance. Do you people remember how atrocious I was? Poor L4r4 had to sing my part with me because I couldn't harmonize. And the video. My orange overalls, bright red sweatshirt and red hair clash so brilliantly, the tape is downright flumoxed. Fuck you, Kodak, you pussies. I look like I'm on fire. I am a solar flare with a pale dab in the middle making the freaky big-eyed O-face of song.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Luckily you looked just fine in person.

And to think that I was always so envious of your red hair! Of course I quit dying mine red because it made it too difficult to find an appropriate lipstick color. (I assume you rarely had that difficulty).

You know, the photo of you, Dan, F4, H31d1 and I still sits on top of my desk... you and I look weirdly sibling-like in that picture to my eyes. (Nice black glove! And Dan -- the croquet mallet?!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

MUST SCAN PHOTO AND POST TO THREAD

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, show Jo3i the Joseph video and explain that this is simply how things will be. It's nature, sweetie. Do you remember when you were going to dye your hair white? I am so sad that you never did.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha the croquet mallet! An actual conversation with H31d1 from that day:

"Dan, why do you have a croquet mallet?"
"Because it goes with my outfit."
"Oh, cool!"

I should start that shit up again.

(I am very happy I didn't dye my hair white after seeing it on N4te M0rr0w! Yikes.)

― Dan (Useless Accessories Rule) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

That was the same day as our "let's leave a spot for Elijah at the table" silliness at Perkins. ("My fork is dirty... I'll just trade with Elijah!")

I'm not sad that Dan never died his hair white. I didn't see it on N4t3 (although I don't know why not, I think he hung out with my brother) - but I think the white beard was enough for me. (oops, gave it away!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

This was circa 1992, when dude got shot at that barn party while playing Russian Roulette. I remember seeing a newspaper pic of N4te as a pallbearer with Sisqo hair and being glad I never succumbed to the urge.

― Dan (Maybe Dreds Would Have Made A Difference) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Hastings... sometimes I think I made up some of the most awful stuff in my head. A cursory look at back issues of the Star Gazette would disabuse me of this notion.

1992. Another banner year of bad choices, horrible consequences and questionable hair in Hastings.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

This will have to stand in as a place holder.

http://www.originalalamo.com/images/saved-by-the-bell.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://epguides.com/DegrassiJuniorHigh/cast.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

3ll3n C4rr0ll was on Degrassi High?

― Dan (OMG) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://tvphotogalleries.com/data/583/1hc03.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

3ll3n c4rr011 OTM. LOL IML.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Head of the Class... but where is Mrs. M4tts0n?

(All of those photos look a lot more multicultural than our high school. Of course, so does the photo on my desk.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched Paranoia Agent. Frickin' awesome! I thought it had a pretty socially conservative tone to it. Dude, Bus Uncle could totally be an episode of Paranoia Agent!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Come to think of it, I have a friend who retains tapes of all the plays as well. I believe no less than three people on this thread were in Joseph, one of whom wore a completely hilarious white beard (We'll call him Jacob, or Israel.) My permanent image of that play is of him being fawned over by several wives.

I WAS JOSEPH. I PLAYED THE YOUNGEST ONE, WITH THE CALYPSO SONG.

Also, I probably have tapes of plays I was in. Which was, like, a lot.

Also II: my mom just sent me a clipping from the Gazette about the last of the three kids that did that WTF double murder last year to go to jail. Anyone else follow that??? People don't believe me when I try to explain how weird our little town can be sometimes.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS IN JOSEPH. I PLAYED THE YOUNGEST ONE, WITH THE CALYPSO SONG.

Also, I probably have tapes of plays I was in. Which was, like, a lot.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

oops.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, did you know j0n p3t3rs0n? ('97)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was in Joseph. Was it that odd R4ndy person that choreographed that steaming pile o' shit?

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

YES IT WAS RANDY!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

THAT WASN'T A PILE OF SHIT I HAD A SOLO FUCK YOU

― Dan (*sob*) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

All choreography looks brilliant compared to bad liturgical dance.

You guys were fun to watch, really. (I think I sat through Joseph 3 times, including the whole "let's make them perform the play two more times on a Monday morning for the whole school" mystery).

J4rr3d M4tsch was your Joseph, right? (My strongest memory of him was from the year before. He got ticked off at me for cracking up - silently - backstage when one of the flats got knocked over by the Wells Fargo Wagon during The Music Man. Of course when I pointed out that he had snagged the flat with the wagon himself he was a bit nicer. Crap, he was Joseph, wasn't he? Or am I confusing that with Bye Bye Birdie when he was Elvis-esque?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I might be thinking you guys were fun to watch because I have a curiously clear memory of FB and John rolling around singing "Grovel, grovel..."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Choreography was better in WS. Joseph was a marvelous trainwreck of an adventure, but nothing will ever compare to the special hell that was Pip's Life Sucks For Hours on End.

Also remember how Ry4n thought "Mick! Spick! Wop!" was a series of sound effects, like "cracko-jacko!" cLASSIC

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

And to think that I bitterly complained that I had to go to Florida for a week of Pip rehearsal. OMG, the images that that play conjures up. (The hot dog! The wooden spoon breaking onstage closing night when St3ph G00d3n hit Kyle with it! Ms. O's perpetual horror with the whole thing... yikes). I've never been so glad to not be an actor in my entire life. And I still hate harpsichord music with a bitter, bitter passion. This is a serious problem for me since my in-laws have two harpsichords now (musicians...).

West Side, much better, but still some strange miscasting going on there.

Also remember how Ry4n thought "Mick! Spick! Wop!" was a series of sound effects, like "cracko-jacko!" cLASSIC

I myself puzzled over "wop" for a while until someone explained it to me. Didn't someone have to smoke onstage for West Side and they used real cigarettes (how shocking) or was that some other play?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

They used American Spirit cigarettes! HOW TRANSGRESSIVE

― Dan (Oh, High School) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

The smoker was D4ve Uss4t1s, who I lost track of a few years ago.

A good guy.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I bow to your (somewhat troubling) total recall of details.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

D4ve Uss4t1s! That's right. He was incredibly decent and kind, as I recall. (Of course, everything else about him - other than his face - is a total blur. He was good friends with M1ke D0nnd3ling3r... I think.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

It really depresses me that there are people out there who remember high school this clearly. Makes it more likely the people I went to school with will remember what I was like. :(

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Sara, you are correct, both about the ultra-nice qualities and the M1ke connection. Also, St4ff0rd G1ash4n and D34nn4 R0we.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Thursday, 8 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

M1ke was super-nice, too, but we were never friends until West Side. (I let him write a guest entry in my journal that spring - it's quite amusing). St4ff0rd G1ash4n and D34nn4 R0wen. Names I haven't thought in about a trillion years. Also surprisingly friendly. I sometimes think my entire childhood would have been different if I had been born a year later or earlier - or if I'd gone to a different grade school.

It really depresses me that there are people out there who remember high school this clearly. Makes it more likely the people I went to school with will remember what I was like. :(

Not to worry, Dan P. just (apparently) has total recall of everything, ever. I kept journals, which helps - but still I don't remember lots of things, just really clear memories of particular incidents. (Great Expectations induces dread in my mind, but a lot of the detail of that is blessedly lost.) Honestly, how bad could you have been? You didn't kill yourself or anyone else; in Hastings, you're already ahead of the game!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

I block out the unhealthy memories of terror and evil, like when John tried to drag us all into his suicide cult, and when Dan almost shot the park ranger. NOW I HAVE INTIMACY PROBLEMS THANKS A LOT

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 9 June 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

THE LADIES HAVE NO IDEA HOW LUCKY THEY ARE.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 9 June 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

I should know better than to look at this thread when I'm drinking a glass of milk. That's all I'm saying.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR MOM KNOWS HOW LUKY SHE IS

Wait...if a then b...carry the 3...FUCK

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 9 June 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

DUM FB NOT GO TO MAN MAN SHOW BEST SHOW SINCE FIREWATER NOT KIDDING YOU ARE DUM HOLY FUCK. STOP.

FOR FUCKS SAKE STUPID GOOD. BUY YOU A CAR AND COME TO FANTASTIC SHOWS W/O GIRLYMAN WORKWORK. ENDSTOP.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 9 June 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

LESS ILLICIT DRUGS = LESS CAPS FROM JOHN. SLEEP PERHAPS TOMORROW.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Work tomorrow...likely difficult. Hope for the future...nonexistent.

PARTYTIME USA? IN fULL EFFECT.

BTW, FB and Subgenius, I have new Sh4ne B4sk3rvi11e (H3lv4) project in hand, ready for the taking. Wh1sk3y D1ck. It's...pretty good. Upcoming showdates to follow.

Also noted...N4te C011is 4tmosph3r3 national talk show tour de force. Booyah!

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like how John google-proofed whiskey dick.

DUM FB NOT GO TO MAN MAN SHOW BEST SHOW SINCE FIREWATER NOT KIDDING YOU ARE DUM HOLY FUCK. STOP.

FOR FUCKS SAKE STUPID GOOD. BUY YOU A CAR AND COME TO FANTASTIC SHOWS W/O GIRLYMAN WORKWORK. ENDSTOP.

If I still don't have a car in 2010 (sounds so sci-fi) and you have been drivig me around the cities aprioximately 200 miles a week (including to and from work and concert venues), then I will listen to your taunts.

Looking forward to next man man installment. Sounds rockin'. That said, I have not been to enough shows lately. Why aren't you driving me to more?

BTW, I'm late for work. I'll be waiting outside. Bring me coffee.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 9 June 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm suffering from a surfeit of birthday cakes. Summer vacation is evil. And I want some coffee, too.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.shannonwilson.com/offices/anchorage.php

WOAH DUDES

― Dan (Hasstingsites All Over The World) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I vaguely remember St4ff0rd was going to do something in Alaska (didn't he go there for college?). I guess he must have liked it there...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

M1ke H0pkins definitely did (on a skiing scholarship no less).

This is probably not helping dispell the "Dan remembers EVERYTHING" rumor.

― Dan (Honestly, I Don't) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

M1k3 went to Alaska? I saw him at our 10 year reunion and I think he was living in NYC. By far the strangest conversation I had that night was with Sc0tt M0st, though - if I'm remembering right, he was trying to be an actor in California while working as a bellhop or something. (Okay, conversation with N4t4li3 Gr0tj0hn possibly was stranger come to think of it.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

"HeLlO sArA hAvE yOu AcCePtEd JeSuS cHrIsT aS yOuR lOrD aNd SaViOr YeT oR aRe YoU sTiLl GoInG tO hElL?"

― Dan (Remember Winnie The Pooh In Junior High?) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

And Dan, you can just admit that you remember everything ever. Because the rest of us know it is true. (I wouldn't go up against you in a game of Hastings late 80s/early 90s era trivia).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It was more the fact that she was already pregnant when she had, like, a 3 month old or something that stands out in my mind. (Irish twins! Fun.) She didn't bug me about Jesus, she probably realized I was a lost cause of the Catholic variety (if she only knew).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I see a woman with an infant who is already pregnant again, I always get a voice in the back of my head shrieking "BUT BUT BUT DOESN'T YOUR COOTER STILL HURT???"

Of course I also get that voice when I see hot pants so I kind of ignore it now.

― Dan (I Don't Remember Everything! Honest!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

LOL, thanks for the graphic image there. Having been there, well... I'm just not going to go there.

It also violates my whole theory of children: if they can't walk or talk yet, you really have no idea what you are in for.

Hot pants ha! I'm traumatized by Victoria's Secret catalogs. (Thongs. Why?!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, do you remember how many fingers I'm holding up right now?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

If the answer is "one on each hand" I am so teleporting to the Twin Cities to kick your ass.

― Dan (Smartass) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

You guys. (Fondly, but rolling eyes.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.freewebs.com/catmosverden/rolling_eyes_glasses.gif

― Dan (CREEPY) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

PWNED

http://not-too-shabby.net/eats/images/ladyfingers_done1.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I really do pray for my retinas to fuse.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ammala.com/Middle%20Eastern%20Open%20Stage.htm

My class is performing our 1 minute dance in this after 8 lessons. I can't decide if this is "something I'll tell my grandchildren about" or "worst idea ever."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

THE RUBE!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Sunday, 11 June 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever FB wants, FB gets. (At least that's how I heard tell it).

It was way too fun to see you FB, John, P3rry and subgenius last night. (And subgenius if you are lurking, sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you, but just rest thankful in the knowledge that you didn't have to listen to me rattle on about my kids.) 4l3n4 seems very nice - god another marathon person, no matter where I go they surround me - and I liked that C4lli3 person from library school. And I'm still trying to figure out if John was kidding about scurvy.

Horrible oversight: not telling the story about my insane ex-neighbor. But yeah, the Rueb awaits. Just not too soon, since I've got in-laws coming to visit in a week or so. (time to panic!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Don't panic, just tell them stories about me, the gentle genius. Or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten that I could John a scurvy bastard and be 50% correct! JOY

― Dan (Abuse Is What Friends Are For) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I've seen your photo and you look strangely like my friend Tr0y, who is a supersweet guy. And I love the hair!

Scurvy. What the HELL were you eating John?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I've seen your photo and you look strangely like my friend Tr0y, who is a supersweet guy. And I love the hair!

:-D Why thank yer. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

You're welcome. (But now I will confess to long hair jealousy - I cut mine last year and every time I do that I'm just like, dammit, that was a mistake!)

Also, I'm completely in love with this thread:
3 (possibly erroneous) facts you have learned from songs

Except for the fact that it has created a permanent loop of "I'd do anything for love... but I won't do that" in my mind.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

(I need) SCOTCH!!!!!!!!!!!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTCH!!! Which reminds me, yay for D.C. and the anchoress.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Monday morning Scotch cravings. And to think I was contemplating some sort of cereal...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Even I won't put scotch on cereal.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I used to put coffee on cereal with milk, but that was in the desperate days of the St. Olaf cafeteria. T0dd once put Hershey's syrup on a bowl of cereal and ate it at a party. I don't know anyone who would put Scotch on cereal. Although if I had to pick a person who would, John...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

F4bian used to put orange juice on cereal. Actually, he got me doing it for a while; it was REALLY GOOD on Honey Smacks!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

F4bian!!!! I almost forgot him. Wow and I always think my memory is so good. Once again Dan is ahead of me!

(oj on Honey Smacks?!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

For that savage glow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

So that's what I've been missing... I thought it was just because I can't tan.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

We have a customer at the shop that is a tiny eurometal version of F4bian. Well, equivalently tiny, I suppose.

His name is not Tuomas.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't F4bian there mostly when I was at St. Mary's (so, you guys' senior year)? (I'm looking to excuse my own lapsed memory here.)

(I heart parentheses.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't you people use maps? What is wrong with you people? Use the map. No, give me the map. Aieeeeeee!!!!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, so I'm not the only person who used to drive places without a map and not worry about it? Is this some kind of bizarro Hastings disease or something?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

F4bian was here during our senior year, Sara, so I'm not surprised that you don't really remember him.

I have a dilemma now; I need to go to the gym tonight but I also need to DRINK SCOTCH. I can't go to the gym before 8:30. WHAT SHOULD I DO?????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Do what two of the other belly dancers I danced with last night did: drink beforehand! (Okay maybe that wasn't exactly a serious suggestion, but it is still true.) Can't you have some Scotch as a night cap before bed or something? Or maybe save one activity for tomorrow night?

I do remember F4bian, but all I remember is his name and a vague face/shape. I hope he enjoyed Hastings more than I enjoyed Indiana... although sadly, I'd say that's almost a given.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, noone ever NEEDS to go to the gym.

The same can not be said of drinking SCOTCH.

― John Justen, Penis-melting Zionist robot combs (johnjusten), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

ARE YOU REMIXING, MANG, OR WHAT???

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

John is right. If you have a treadmill and endless Buffy DVDs, you can stay in shape at home and also have time to tipple afterwards. Not that I would know anything about that, of course...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

gbx...must download "sexy clave free-for-all" plug-in first. Also, lap steel waht is it made?

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

gbx...must download "sexy clave free-for-all" plug-in first.

!!!

re: lap steelz -- i'm still interested, but i gotta size up my finances, first. college is $$$$ :(((

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

OKDEN.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

More 6/6/6, complete with incorrectly spelled Satanic graffiti:

http://www.todaystmj4.com/_content/news/topstories/story_3019.asp

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Who doesn't worship washable fabrics...?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, Sanctus/Little Kitty is disappointed that you don't like Cat Fancy magazine. (I would have written this on your Cat Fancy thread, but it has been overtaken by Ewoks, which is a bit terrifying when you think about it. So don't).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Your cats speak to you, do they?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not usually. Besides, my cats names are Cutty Sark and Mizu (mizu is water in Japanese, so sort of whisky and water...). I'm taunting Dan with my Total Recall of pet names. (Of course I think he had more than the one cat... I just remember that he disagreed with his mother over what to call that kitty.)

My cats do communicate, they just don't talk (er, that I know of anyway). Cutty Sark loves me and likes to show it by attacking me when I'm sleeping on occasion. Mizu is terrified of everything, including inanimate objects.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Actually it was Sanctus/Baby Cat. But I still don't claim to remember everything!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, so close.

Sure, you don't claim to, but that doesn't mean that you don't!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Kosmos - Do You Remember.mp3

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am now humming "Chains Of Love" to myself.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Guess who performed a citizens arrest yesterday, replete with tackling and restraining the perpetrator?

John Justen, keeping the streets of MPLS crime free.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've always suspected John was secretly harboring a dream of being a law enforcement officer.

I just got back from the park where I regaled an acquaintance with hilarious stories of St. Olaf and Carleton circa the early 1990s. (The Nude Olympics! I'm still cringing over the toboggan race these many years later... ouch.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hastings related site of the day:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=85391575&ifid=85391575&indicate=2

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I love you, but the next time I see you I'm going to punch you in the throat for using the word "cooter" upthread.

An example must be made.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Going into myspace caused me to go through John's page to get back to Jeff's page (so I could beg him to be my friend of course). Two things stand out about John's page: 1. the music (did M3liss@ ever tell you about her dream about you guys and artist/band names?) and 2. I don't remember John as looking quite so feline. (Insert your own Manimal joke here.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

For John:

http://perso.orange.fr/chmetal/Photo%20Cooter.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

No christmas cards for you, Dan.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cooterfestival.com/images/logo.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

John's personal bus to HELL:

http://www.thecooters.com/cooterart/promos/CooterBus-500.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

FB, the guy in the middle looks UNCOMFORTABLY similar to your brother. And I hate you.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you resist your mustachioed and smoked glasses wearing alter ego, John?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Argh that last photo is high school all over again.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

NO NO NO I AM NOT ON A BUS WITH NO BRAKES TO COOTERVILLE.

no.

Apparently, this is the thanks I get for being a crime-stopping hero.

Speaking of which, I'll probably be calling Subgenius later tonight for preventative legal advice. FUNZ.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been so grateful in my life that I lived close to the school.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

The cooterville school?

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Litigation prophylactic! Sweet.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe we should let John give an account of his heroics. (I will refrain from mean jokes for at least half an hour. Or at least try.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't Go Back To Cooterville (Reformed Sapphofile remix)"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been so grateful in my life that I lived close to the school.

-- Sara Robinson-Coolidge (sr...), June 14th, 2006.

The cooterville school?

-- John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjuste...), June 14th, 2006.

This is what I get for being slow on the uptake. NO, the high school. It is not a mean joke to say that you are still incorrigable.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I feel compelled to make a "cooterville" mix?

First up, "Beaver Patrol" by PWEI.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't Go Back To Cooterville (Reformed Sapphofile remix)"

ROFL. Maybe my mother thought I was a lesbian because of you guys! I never thought of that possibility.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAY

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

RE: Jr. Policeman, what details can you provide? To email with story if that is better.

Also,(xpost) that guy on the laft is Satin.

http://www.todaystmj4.com/img/uploaded/Sign20060610054801.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I really wish that the monkees had in fact, written "Last Train To Cootersville".

How many standard ILXORs do you suppose have wandered into this thread and left silently, shaking their heads.

LURKERS ANNOUNCE YOURSELVES.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, it doesn't take much to make you happy, I can see that now.

xpost Hail Satin (and also Silk and I kind of like Cotton, too.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

HAIL OUR DARK LORD VELVASHEEN. UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU.

― John, Justen, REMIXING, MANG, WHAT??? (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

John worships at the local dry cleaners.

How many standard ILXORs do you suppose have wandered into this thread and left silently, shaking their heads.

You forgot to add, "thankful in the knowlegde that they'd never have to live through the torment of (insert random Hastings reference here)."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

*cue harpsichord music*

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan wins on cruelty points alone.

I'll never forget M@rk K. sitting in the auditorium with me, watching rehearsal for a few moments and saying to me, "there's only so long you can beat a dead horse until there's nothing left."

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Memories of one of the few times in Hastings history where "Psssst....we all licked that sausage." ISN'T actually as bad as it sounds.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, memories. (Who was the poor little girl who witnessed all that backstage insanity the last night? I'm sure she's seeking psychiatric treatment for PTSD by now.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Are you thinking of Fluffy Bear?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite "Great Expectations" memory happened during the week where practically everyone in the cast except for me and (I think) Kr1st1n Hoffman took off for that mass youth group skiing trip and John had to stand in for people and read their lines, culminating in a five minute session of John having a conversation with himself as he dashed back and forth between various marks before stopping and asking Ms. 0, "Um, isn't this kind of pointless and stupid?"

Also good for a chuckle was how everyone ate all of the rolls we were using for props on the first night and no one bought replacements, so the second night I had to ad-lib my entire monologue where I infodumped about Miss Havisham and Estela while correcting Pip's table manners because 80% of my speech revolved around how Pip should eat a fucking bread roll.

ALSO: "I like your friend Drummell... except for that he's TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY LATE!"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Are you thinking of Fluffy Bear?

No! (Are you looking for cruetly points, too? Okay, you get some. Jeez.)

Dan - LOL. I was gone, too that week (to Florida), but was supposed to be stage managing. No wonder John looked so haggard when I got back! I was afraid to ask. Instead I just sat at that desk in the dressing room with a headset on and tried not to upset anyone. John helpfully assisted me in doing numerous unrelated tasks, such as dropping Math Analysis. I finally understand why he was so malleable during the rest of that play.

The rolls!!!!! Okay, I'm sure I didn't eat them. Well, pretty sure. (I totally blame FB and John.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

St3ph G00din ate all those rolls. I know she did.

OMG Sara, you missed the excellent "Sound Of Music" letter of doom!

We decided we were going to make N4talie L0vejoy (Mother Abbess) crack up during the scene where she sends Maria (L1z T4nner) out to the von Trapp house, so we decided to write something really gross on her notepad. The idea of eye warts filled with pus came up, so we ran onstage before showtime and started writing... only to realize that no one knew what the adjective form of "pus" was. We all stood there looking at the sentence we had come up with:

"I HAVE PUSSY EYE WARTS"

Of course we left that, closed the notepad, and gathered around the monitor for that critical scene. N4t opened up the notepad, looked at the note, and, without missing a beat, tore out the page, folded it, handed it to L1z and gave her line: "Here, take this to Captain von Trapp; it should explain the situation." BACKSTAGE HYSTERICS. L1z carries the note without unfolding it to the next scene, where she hands it to Captain von Trapp (Kyl3 J4ckson, who was not in on the original shenanigans) with the line, "The Mother Abbess asked me to give you this. She said it would explain everything." Kyl3 takes the note, opens it, reads "I HAVE PUSSY EYE WARTS", looks at L1z and gives his line: "I see!" MORE BACKSTAGE HYSTERICS.

L1z didn't find out what had been going on until intermission. GOOD TIMES.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, now I'm really sad I missed that because as frustrating as Hastings was, SMC was so much worse on every level. Plus, that is really REALLY funny. You guys never quit, did you...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO: "I like your friend Drummell... except for that he's TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY LATE!"

Dan, I remember watching you pantomime tapping your watch on the back stage monitor. The scene looked totally unfamilliar. I had nevver seen it from that perspective because up until that performance, I had been in it.

And then I ran like the wind.

Also, my frozen snarl becoming more ridiculously demonic with every performance.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Some of you may be wondering, what was Dan's watch doing on the backstage monitor?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think that was the first play that the monitor was used. I tried desperately to ignore it for the most part (but I see that you guys were more clever and found ways to make it entertaining). This is how I never knew the story of Great Expectations until I actually read the book right after J. was born. Honestly, I don't even know what parts you guys had. (All I can remember is Kyl3 as Pip, L1z as Miss Havisham and St3ph G. as Pip's mother. Who the heck was Estella?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Estella = H0lly C0ughlin!

"Coarse little monster, why won't you cry? ...Cry? ...Craw? ...CAW! ...CAW!!!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

The best part about the play is that the scene changes were so fast and furious, we didn't bother with the crew. The actors had to change the sets as they came and went between scenes. We had to do this in the dark with only glowtape to mark our path.

My favorite was having to chug a carafe of juice, stack the chairs and carry the table backstage. The first night, I inhaled the juice and choked the whole way back, carrying the table, with Kr1st1n barking at me the whole time to shut up.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, didn't you go charging off stage into a tower of precariously stacked furniture?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Familiar name, but no face to go with it in my mind. (Typical.)

Did you guys know that Ms. O taught at Olaf for a while - during the era A. and I were both working there? It was more than a little unnerving the one time I ran into her. I was pregnant at the time, though, and really ill, so that probably fed into the fight or flight reflex that kicked in at the sight of that braid...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

FB, were you guys being punished or did the running crew just run away? Or both?

I lost track of T4r4 years ago, but she shared my horror of harpsichord music - I can't even remember how it came up but I explained why I thought I hated it and she was like, "OMG, you're RIGHT!"

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Coarse little monster, why won't you cry? ...Cry? ...Craw? ...CAW! ...CAW!!!"

HAHAHA IML! I forgot about that.

The last time I ran into T4r4, I found out she had played a corpse on murder She Wrote.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, it doesn't take much to make you happy, I can see that now.

Well, the crazier the happier. As the last few posts have done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:

Type casting?

Now, that wasn't nice.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ry4n R01g3r and I mooned half the audience in an attempt to make Whatshisface R0w3n miss his lines.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Did it work? (And did the audience notice?)

John is trolling for more cruelty points.

Ned fits in perfectly.

I'm pretty sure this all adds up to Armageddon. Of course I've thought that before...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, 911 response time in MPLS to the uptown area is approximately 20 minutes. It may be longer if the criminal in question is not THREATENING THAT HE HAS A GUN AND IS GOING TO SHOOT PEOPLE.

Public Enemy was right.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I've been talking smack with Ned on various Internet forums since... 1995? 1996? He's almost family!

John, you don't see me talking irredeemable smack about YOUR exes, do you? Because I could! (tollhouse)

FB is thinking of PAT R. I am assuming the audience was too asleep to notice. Also I do dimly remember charging into furniture during a precarious scene change but that isn't as vivid as the memory of sitting in the comfy armchair borrowed from my parents' house to use as a set piece during a backstage moment only to discover that the shadows completely hid the fact that J0hnny Whatshisface was already sitting in it. TEH HORROR

(T4r4 played a corpse on one of those "HELP US CATCH CRIMINAL" shows, I think "America's Most Wanted".)

(WTF why do I remember these things????)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

When we chased down the purse snatcher by the CC Club, response time was 10 min. They caught the perps within a total elapsed time of 20 minutes. They might have been faster because nobody was waving a gun around.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

To clarify, he didn't actually have a gun. However, that is only a small comfort after the fact.

Might as well spill the whole story...car I'm driving (41ena's) gets sideswiped while in the cheapo driveway (no real damage), I pursue the driver for three intersections where he hits another car. Twice. The driver of the car (Tony) that has just been hit gets out, I tell him that the guy just hit us, park the car, return to the scene, crazy driver (who will be referred from here on out as "Crazy") is throwing his truck into drive and trying to push his way back out, staring forward and not listening to us telling him to stop, we go through a sequence of reaching in the window and putting the truck back into park. Big fun. Tony gets into the back seat of Crazy's car and tries to remove the keys from the ignition while I force the car into park and hold the guys hands. Keys removed, Tony gets back out, I step back and call 911 (this, by the way, is the fifth call to 911 so far.) I stop talking to the operator when Crazy announces that he has a gun and is going to shoot us. Drop the phone, move away from the window and behind the drivers door, and hold it closed with my hand on the doorjamb. Crazy is currently digging through his center console, and keeps nervewrackingly enough pulling his (empty) hand out of it in a quick motion. FInally, he pulls his empty hand bak, wedges it behind his side and lets us know that he has his gun and is going to get out and shoot us. Due to his incapacitation, he is unable to OPEN HIS OWN CAR DOOR and amazingly enough getures to Tony to OPEN IT FROM THE OUTSIDE SO HE CAN SHOOT US. Tony and I agree that we can't keep him in his car forever, and it is still possible that he might just not to be able to find his gun...so we agree that if he gets out of the car, we will need to (ahem) subdue him. I pull my hand away, Crazy gets out and starts lunging towards tony, having apparently forgotten that I'm still around. I tackle him from behind, throw him face-first into the pavement, pull his arms behind his back, and Tony kneels on his head while I put my knee in his back. We are now in the second lane of traffic, guy is bleeding profusely from the head wound I/the asphalt have inadvertly caused, fun is not being had by all.

Humorous things such as a guy in a SUV yelling at us to move the cars, to which I respond "Can you tell I'm a little busy right now FUCK YOU I'M HOLDING DOWN A CRAZY PERSON". 5-10 minutes later (NO LIE) a plainclothes cop appears, cuffs the guy, decides (thank you very much) not to cuff us. Several squads and an ambulance show up, some FUCKING YAHOO who informs us he is the MANAGER of the Tires Plus this all happens in front of wants to make a statement that we attacked the guy for no reason, to which I respond "he hit both our cars than said he was going to shoot us with his gun and by the way FUCK OFF." Cops seem cool, as they are moving the guy he is doing some sort of I'm fucked up crazylegs walk, they do a blood test on the site, the guy is HAMMERED (the cops description, not mine) has multiple priors, a cancelled license, no insurance (of course), etc.

SO ANYWAY, it was a long day, and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't have any trouble BUT the guy was bleeding a lot from the head, and I can't help but remember all of those "Burglar breaks in and cuts hand on window and sues unfortunate homeowners" bullshit.

FEH. That took a long time.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I thought about posting this as a seperate legal advice sort of thread on ILE, but I didn't feel like having M1ck3y/M0mus compare it to filesharing or Tu0m4s ask me how firm his buttocks were...

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

WOW. What a comedy of dickfaces! (WTF re: the Tires PLUS manager? Was he really short and flexing his Napoleon complex?)

(xpost: hahahahahahahahahahaha)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

YIKES. Glad you are okay. What an afternoon you had! Crazy drunk people are strong and dangerous. Hopefully you won't have any more trouble about it.

911 time is much shorter in Northfield. But I've only had to call them for my own stupidity.

I don't remember Johnny Whateverhisnamewas, but I'm getting an image. And Dan, I'm so sorry.

I don't pick on other people's exes because I have no room to talk and I know it. (I'm just thankful you guys didn't know the guy before D34n. Made everyone after seem completely brilliant.)

Ned, I hope there isn't an initiation ritual into Hastings-ness.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:

RE: Tires Plus manager - YES. "Sawed-off" would be my most accurate description.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

YIKES! (I like how Dan immediately finds the comedy in the whole thing.) Seriously, you are lucky, though.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

how to beat a crystal drug test cheap

BLEACH!?!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

J0ei once had a grown man pull a knife on her in the subway for no particular reason. (Well, maybe he bumped into her and she told him he needed to watch where the fuck he was going but pulling a knife in response seems to be a little excessive/dickish/worthy of slow, painful death if I ever find him.)

(xpost: That thread started on the mod request board! Hahahahaha)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Drinking BLEACH!? Yeah, that will help you... to die. (Remind me to tell you guys sometime about my friend C3l3n4's theory of bleach... off thread.)

Between John's and Dan's stories I am developing agoraphobia RIGHT NOW. I'm never leaving my office again.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Um. I think I know C313n4. Ahem. The same one?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, same one. Cough cough. (Did she explain this theory to you?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I recall...now I am intrigued. I think.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

OFF THREAD JOHN. I'll send an email to you.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

WELL FOR GODS SAKE OF COURSE OFF THREAD.

I don't THINK she ended up hating me. Of course, those were blurry times for me...

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't think she wound up hating you.

Blurry. LOL. I was perpetually sober but always distracted, so I can't offer a lot more insight into that for you. (I think this was during my whole 3r1k/M4tt drama, so I was REALLY distracted.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. One less person wishing me ill in the world. Today is a good day.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gritting my teeth to stop from making some really bad jokes about Wednesdays.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hush, you.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Teeth gritted, but silently cracking up.

I shall compose myself at once, if for no other reason than I have to keep a straight face at dinner.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

holy fuck john! i wonder if the fact you were on a cell phone delayed anything. it's not supposed to, and it's depressing either way, but still.

nice takedown tho bra

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Grraarrrr. CTHULU SMASH!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, after seeing the video for "Seattle" on VH1 Classic, I have a question:

Why did anyone take John Lydon/Johnny Rotten seriously after Dana Carvey came on the scene? Dude looks and acts like a Carvey character and now seems about as counter-culture and menacing as you friend's weedy uncle.

(Yes, years of Sex Pistols antipathy is fueling this "sudden" realization. I mostly think it's funny that Lydon and Carvey resemble each other.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, shouldn't you be asleep, not up watching old Sex Pistols videos? Jeez.

This morning I discovered inadvertently that my 8 year old son loves "Destroy Everything You Touch," apparently a Ladytron... song(?) that A. had on a disc in the car. (A. is kind of a quiet, introverted type, but that should give you an idea of what I'm living with here.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

(It was a Public Image Limited video but point taken.)
(Also Ladytron is totally capable of rocking balls at times.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh you crazy music people. Grumble grumble. I'm sure you know I'm clueless about PIL, the Sex Pistols AND Ladytron.

Something else that A. did that cracks me up is that the kids like to have toasts to things and - even though A. has never seen Rocky Horror Picture Show - he tried to teach 4l3x to say, "A toast... to absent friends!" (My own fault as I used to say it all the time as a sort of joke, so much so that my mother actually used it on Thanksgiving once...).

And those are my last random stories about my kids for the night, I swear!

Anyway,

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched Bongwater. Sober. I'm going to have to apologise to the folks on the stoner movie thread, oh, and my net flicks buddies.

Punk rock isn't menacing. Try going to a tent revival with a girl sporting Tammy Fae makeup. Her uncle is the preacher. You play bible verse volleyball (a reprieve). You are 15.

Fucking Johnny Rotten is a tourist cunt.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 15 June 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who wants to take the piss out of Johnny Rotten/Lydon should watch "The Filth and The Fury" first, and measure themselves by their sympathy for what seems to be an uncharacteristically really nice fucking guy.

FB, I honestly can't quite parse what you are talking about. I assume that Bongwater is a movie, not the thing or the band I am more familiar with?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dana Carvey? Really?

Hmmmm:/

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. Cranky from surprise development of deep tissue bruise on upper cheekbone/eye socket courtesy of yesterdays tackling extravaganza. Carry on w/the funny.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen enough things where Lydon was being a graceless, miserable cunt that I really don't know if I'm capable of watching him with having a gigantic screaming bias telling me he's a dick.

Deep tissue bruises suck. I hope you get to testify against Herr Trinkarsch.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/34/72165657_047e0f59df_m.jpg vs. http://www.yeraze.com/images/articles/20050919225337151_1_original.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Is she signing dogs???? HARDCORE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

John, have you talked to lawyer friends yet? Also, you need superhero alter ego. Your first arch villain was Crazy Asshole Drunk Driver and his sidekick, The Diminutive Tire Salesman.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Alls I'm saying is, which one would give the best rendition of "Pretty Vacant"?

I didn't notice the sharpie. That's awesome.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

HAY HASTINGS BUDDIES

Have you seen this yet?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'm still trying to recover from the Sound of Music/letter anecdote of yesterday (every time I closed my eyes yesterday night I'd get a flash of the text of the note and start cracking up to myself); are you trying to kill me here?

I fear Tammy Faye. Seriously.

John, very sorry to hear about the bruise. Ouch. Maybe one of your superhero powers can be magically recovering from them quickly. I'm sure FB and Dan would love to design a costume for you. (May I suggest the addition of glitter?)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing that drinking can't handle.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

HAY HASTINGS BUDDIES
Have you seen this yet?

-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), June 15th, 2006. (tracklink)

Is there a Hastings reference, or just the amazing prose of 14n r33s3 that you would like to draw our attention to?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Now THAT's awkward googleproofing...

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I just wanted to share the amazing prose and invite you all to my own personal cuddlestein mountain.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

no shit...his stuff on there where he's talking about what went wrong w/sid is really sad and touching.

also, from bollocks through flowers of romance he's, like, a true fucking genius and one of the best rock singers ever.

yes, he often acts like a complete douche now but really nothing for me can sour what he did at his peak....and there's a bunch of later PIL stuff like Seattle or Disappointed that I think is cool art-new-wave as well.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

my own personal cuddlestein mountain.

This phrase made my afternoon.

I talked to my sister this afternoon and she told me someone is opening a Carbone's in Hastings again. Yay for pizza and also yay for the fact that this time I won't have to work there and accept dates with random customers (anyone else remember this? 1991 again...).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Okay cyber-save-a-Rottens, I was making a relatively harmless joke, not fingerbanging anyone's mom. Also I think PiL is pretty much unfuckwithable from the generic album onwards (John, you should remember this! All of your memories are supposed to be about MEEEEEE). I do have an issue with the dude (and with punk in general; racial factors make a lot of the symbol-fuckery associated with that scene INCREDIBLY uncomfortable, which is why for example I didn't really invest any time in Siouxsie & the Banshees until Ned basically poured them down my throat) and I know it's way more my issue than his.

Sara, I have no recollection you having to accept dates in exchange for pizza sales! WTF??? (Was this also during the summer I was in Germany and you all went crazy?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, same summer. I didn't have to accept dates, I just did because I couldn't figure out how to refuse politely. In retrospect, that summer is like a huge mishmash of the worst dates ever (okay, nothing compares to when L1s4 set me up on a blind date the following summer - the one time I ever actually stormed out on a perfect stranger, wow was I mad). The particular disaster I have in mind from 1991 was R4ch3l Kl3ffm4n's perfectly nice older brother T0m (but sorry, just not meant to be). And then there was the mess with W4d3 K., which defies description (the night I came home to find FB and K4t3 had been at my house trying to microwave a calculator - and that was the highlight of the evening). Dan, what can I say? You missed some drama.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wait.

WAIT.

YOU WENT OUT ON A DATE WITH T0M KL3FFM4N???

LIKE, SERIOUSLY?

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― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I know. Sigh. I felt guilty about ditching him after that, too.

See what happens when you leave the country?!

You should have met W4d3. I think I really offended his religious beliefs that night. (He's never spoken to me since then.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Did you ever see his baby pictures? THEY LOOK LIKE A LITTLE BABY WITH A FULLY=FORMED T0M KL3FFM4N HEAD.

Oh, the joy received when your friends date your neighbors...

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, today's Hastings-related link is subtle yet still joyous.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

ONE date. That hardly qualifies as "dating." Well, just barely anyway.

LOL on the baby photos. Scary thought!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you are evil.

The last time I saw him he was working at the Barnes and Noble store that I had worked at years earlier. I'm not sure he realized who I was. Which I was sort of thankful for, since I was sitting in the fiction section nursing Alex.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Browse T0m Kl3ffm4n's body of work

There ya go, Sara.

Major xpost: Was that the same night K4t3 and I stole the quarters from the change cup?

Also, ditto what Dan sez about PIL. Happy is still one of my favorite all-time albums. I'm not shittin' on Rotten's entire career, but "menacing as you friend's weedy uncle" seems about right.

My summer of '88 revival date was more menacing than just about any performer you can name.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

FB, also evil. Ha.

Major xpost: Was that the same night K4t3 and I stole the quarters from the change cup?

How am I supposed to know what you guys did when I wasn't around?! If it was at my house, though, probably. That being said, I was just a little distracted by spending the evening avoiding having my hand held and realizing I should never have said what I said to W4d3 about religion.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I know. Sigh. I felt guilty about ditching him after that, too.

You threw him over and it led him to his life of crime. And you laughed. Oh I know.

So anyway, more thoughts on Gordon Nightingale? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Sumer of '88? Are we back on the death cult again?

Also, was it "Great Expectations" or "West Side Story" where we were drawing the "______ on a Stick" ads on the back of the set in honor of things you can buy at the State Fair and FB came up with the mind-alteringly brilliant "Jesus on a Stick"?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Carbone's is good pizza. There's one right by my house on south Cedar in Mpls.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I may have laughed grimly, but if it was at anyone it was at myself.

Gordon would totally be my type: Satanist and stamp collector. And seducer, of course. Well, unless he is blonde. (Must read more closely!)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Did T0m get a chance to tell you the story of how he knocked out his front teeth with a fishing lure?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Teenage suicide: don't do it. (I suppose 1988 was pre-Heathers, though).

Loved the pizza. Sometimes even liked working at Carbone's. (Actually, M@tt, my mother is famous for never keeping food in the house, so it was the only time I ever ate much, too). We did have a completely insane kitchen manager named N4ncy, though and I don't miss slicing onions. I don't think I've been in a Carbone's since... I don't know, many many years.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Did T0m get a chance to tell you the story of how he knocked out his front teeth with a fishing lure?

We went to a movie! Honestly. And... I don't know, some fast food place to eat. That's ALL. All I remember is a very awkward conversation and some weird movie.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Gordon would totally be my type: Satanist and stamp collector. And seducer, of course. Well, unless he is blonde. (Must read more closely!)

I always pictured him with dark hair so I think you're good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

What a relief!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Wait! If you think all I can draw is fish, you’ve got another thing coming."

DULY NOTED, T0M. WHAT SORT OF "THING" DO I HAVE COMING?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

WHat fuck is this? HOORAH. (sound required)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-qBkS_2jw

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9330&feedId=online-news_rss20

VINDICATED!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, but I think my worst memory ever of drinking anything was a night that I combined alcohol, caffeine, and Advil for a headache or something. (I guess if you drank them separately...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, you can't get fucked up off of Advil...

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

JOHN, that is not what I'm saying, exactly. I just did not feel well at all that night. (BTW, this is long before I knew you, so long ago indeed. I think it was a New Year's or Xmas party at T0dd's house. I'd be hard pressed to say what year it even was, but the funny part is that I know exactly what I wore! I was probably just sick that evening, I admit it. Are you happy now?!)

I always admired my friend MJ's ability to drink to excess, drink a huge glass of water and take a Tylenol and then be fine the next morning. I don't know why. Probably because she once flipped our 6'10" friend over her shoulder on one of these occasions. (MJ is 6 feet tall, but still, impressive feat.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just saying that you were just wasting your precious stomach lining on painkillers.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

just...just.

No more grammar for me.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm buying you a bottle of Midol for Christmas. That's all I'm saying.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

that story is unbelievable, JJ.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

MU MU MU MU MU MU MU MU!!!

http://www.beatink.com/TheDeli/frontart/opr76.gif

Good catch, John.

Jesus on a stick

Good times, but I think my crowning achievement was moving from Jesus on a Stick to Jesus in a Can, to Easy Jesus, to Squeezy Jesus. Our crude drawings were a sight to see. It's a shame we don't have pictures, or a chunk of the set, for history's sake.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized that Zardoz and Bongwater are the last two movies I recommended to Netflix friends. K4te queued both of them back to back. I should feel guilty. But I love Zardoz, and 15-20 minutes of Bongwater are not to be denied!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

FB, get out some paper and start re-creating your art. (I want to see Squeezy Jesus, please).

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

SQUEEZY JESUS! That was brilliant! Hahahahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Certainly there is potential there for some cross-marketing to hyper religious families who have children with tactile sensitivity/issues... (Dan, I hope you are drawing, too).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.devondale.com.au/products/images/quotes/img_quote_cheese_squeeze.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aciprensa.com/Banco/images/jesus-pastor.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Squeezy Jesus come out of the tube on a crucifix? Hahahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the original Jesus on a Stick was the most elegant of the bunch, because, well, Jesus already comes on a stick. Just batter submerge in oil (345- 375°F) for 3 minutes.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ew!!!! (To both of the last posts.)

Brilliant, but... ew!!!!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/45/168334177_34f83c07c2.jpg

(Context: Can someone explain Cat Fancy to me? and YOU MUST WATCH THIS (i cant stop...).)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Satin/Satan cat best. If I was a better seamstress, I'd be all over that for Halloween. (Sadly, my sewing machine has never recovered from the prophylactic abuse I heaped on it after the reaver pants thread...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Nice pants.

http://www.actionfigurecollectors.com/images/news/diamond/SerenityPackaging/Reaver2.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized that Zardoz and Bongwater are the last two movies I recommended to Netflix friends

Stoner.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

FB, at least one might be able to move in those pants.

I have serious questions about that guy's skin care routine, though.

Movies. You kids and your time to watch movies. I don't even recognize those titles! (Even if I did, though, I feel sure they wouldn't be appropriate if the kids were up...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

FB, at least one might be able to move in those pants.

Now I imagine him dancing like Spiderman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, do you mean FB or the guy in the photo? (I don't remember thinking Fluffy Bear dances like Spiderman, but I have to admit that I've never seen Spiderman dance.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.repeat.blogger.com.br/spiderman.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

ROFL (IML)

Thanks. Um, can I get a live demonstration, too? The choreography looks easy to learn anyway.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Raver pants not reaver pants. That has been nagging at the back of my mind all afternoon. (Although I still like the idea of Reaver pants...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Pls see "nice pants".

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

SING THE PRAISES OF PANTS.

http://www.chud.com/chudvd/reviews/images/manos1.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Those robots r so fake.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing worse than when I can't view an image for some reason. Grrrrrr.

Baking cookies now. Because that makes sense when it is freaking 80 degrees outside.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody know who Angie is?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

The last two photos are from Breast Fest at Lucky's Garage

CLASSY

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dan's reaction to the photos on that site:

"Cute."
"CUTE!"
"Um, maybe not so cute."
"No, I was right, cute."
"WTF IS THAT GODAWFUL THING"
"Oh Britney, is Kevin really that stressful?"
"BREAST FEST????? LOL LOL LOL LOL"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Turn ons: Self confidence, honesty, sense of humor, great smile, athletic, vivid imagination, Harleys, loud trucks, prime rib, pineapple, hot baths, good music, I'm a sucker for beautiful women, and oh, I like 'em TALL!!!

Turn offs: Bad breath, jealousy, DRUGS, rush hour trafic, mushrooms and garlic.

What happens if you give her a pineapple ring with a clove of garlic in the middle?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hobbies: I love hot weather ... (not sure why I live in MN?) Boating and sitting on the beach, riding Harleys, hanging out with family and friends, dancing, shopping, watching Netflix (winter time), cooking, some people would say, "talking on the phone", making candles, surfing the web, laughing, but most of all ... spending time with my two buddies!!

http://images.radcity.net/5162/1239431.jpg

― O RLY? (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Or what if you arrange for a menage a trois and the other chick is beautiful and tall, but she brings nitrus and shrooms?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is this a situation you encounter regularly FB?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

You know how a playa do, Sara.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I do.....?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just pointing out the internal contradictions in Angies profile. You can't have your straight-edge bi-curiosity and eat it too.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck. I'm never going to be hungry again now. (Possibly this is also the fault of the garlic and pineapple thing Dan mentioned. Although actually, I toss both of those things on noodles whenever I visit Khan's, so I'm not sure what my problem is.)

FB, I get what you are saying, but I'm not sure people make as much sense as you want them to, either. I'm just sayin'.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=167682824&size=l

Who wants who to make sense?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oops

http://static.flickr.com/71/167682824_e45ed76ab7_b.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants who to make sense?

I'm soooooooooo confused......

(But to answer your question, maybe not me. I'd be the first person to have to admit not making sense all the time. It just seemed like you were disturbed by... I don't want to say Angie's inner conflict, because really, that seems really, really wrong somehow.)

That Satin/Satan cat is MINE!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure people make as much sense as you want them to...
Who wants who to make sense?

I'm soooooooooo confused......

All bow before my obsessive, insular sense of humor: WHASSUP?!?! in your life

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bowing, but you can't see it cuz... computer! (You may believe it or not, as you choose.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

does this mark the first time something from the KQRS website has been posted on ILX?

I don't think it's possible to understand what KQ means in MN unless you are from here.

fuck I hate Tom Barnard so much.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still mourning the loss of KJ104, these zillions of years later. Since then radio has been kind of hit or miss for me. KQ makes me think of my little sister. (Every time I put a c.d. on in high school, she would ask me, "when are we going to listen to something normal?")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

although recently, they seemed to have expanded their playlist a bit. i heard white wedding back to back with obla de obla da by the beatles yesterday on the way to work.

Favorite KQ Classics:

"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova
"Jane" by Jefferson Starship (especially cuz they are basically the same song)
"Sailing Away" - Styx
"Give Me Some Water" - Eddie Money (cuz I shot a man on the mexican booordah!)
"Turn It On Again" - Genesis

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

also barnard's become more of an evil toady in the last 5-10 yrs i think...or maybe i'm just noticing more now.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

...and i do admire the way they resolutely refuse to update their logo from that awesomely cheezy late 70s bubble font!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Who can forget Tak, Tom Barnard's wacky asian character. OTM, Matt. How to explain KQ?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh god i forgot about that...also Terry Trane, fucking airhead.

I remember older guys in my school having KQ shirts when I was in elementary (I was from Blue Earth so we couldn't even get KQ down there...I listened to the mini-me KQ from Mankato KXLP, which is actually better! You'd hear shit like UFO and Dio-era sabbath in between the classic rock) and thinking they were soooooo cool

the KQ morning show was so powerful that Stern left Mpls radio w/his tail betwixt his legs...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Obla de obla da... OMG, I am having the craziest flashback ever to a play so long ago that I don't even remember the name of it. It was one of the one-act comedies they put on when I was a freshman. I must have been doing set construction and running crew. All I remember is that I sat in the hall with T0dd O. and 3lsb3th B. listening to that song... and then I had to go throw up. Ms. 0 sent me home (although she didn't show any mercy for the stage manager, L4rry, when he passed out backstage closing night). Wow.

Ten bucks says KQ is what my Dad listens to in the morning when he drives off to Red Wing to sell booze. I can't claim any other insight into that station or anything else. But the t-shirts I do remember.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

This was getting a little long, so I hope you don't mind if I move this thread to:

While My Hastings Gently Weeps vs. Hastings Is A Warm Gun, part 2: The Salad Days of Terror

(inspired, in part, by Sara's Obla de obla da reference)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

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