Labor Day, Minnesota

Step 0.5: we drink

Figures.

Step 1.5: We continue to drink.

Plus we have House on the Rock, State Fair, Valley Fair, & You Otter Stop Inn. Somebody put together a PowerPoint presentation, or at least a spreadsheet for Christ's sake.

Step 2: You review Leonard Part 6

Next Friday: Psyched by the 4D Witch.

Plus a massive "John Justen and Fluffy Bear will Drink it, with Special Guests".

Labor Day Weekend Edition.

Is this an open invitation or a description of Armageddon?

Or both?

Yes. Plus, you might die.

Well, if it helps me procrastinate, dying could be a welcome option.

http://www.billiejean.be/Mijn_Collectie/I

i want to go to the state fair some day, but i think it's gonna be a couple of years before that day

we weren't inviting you anyway!

guis, i'll be in northfield, minnesota on the 26th of july. what does, that day?

i mean august 26

WAHT

Well, we obviously need to expand our planning.

Northfield. I think I've heard of that place.

Why are you going to be in Northfield?

NOT YOU SARA.

I hate it when John pre-empts my lamest jokes.

NOTE TO REMY BEAN: I LIVE IN NORTHFIELD

is it true, what they say about the hot dog on a stick?

good god

please do not even mention labor day yet

plz k thx

Deep fried Oreos and fat hogs. Thirty species of chicken, buckets of chocolate-chip cookies, and ice-cold whole milk. Butter sculptures of dairy princesses, puke-stained carnival rides, and sweat-stained, wide-assed slow-moving motherfuckers in puffy-paint American flag t-shirts. Goddamned walleye on a stick with cheese curds and horse shit everywhere. The aroma, it is rich. The crowd, it is ripe. I will bring 1 (one) flask and many sanitary wipes. You people bring the noise.

paper rectangular signs that say 'SEND HELP' in many different neon colors
clever posters from the american lung association
newscasters wearing less makeup
radio stations with free reign to aurally assault you with gas-station-quality music

ok srsly guys this could be EPIC

You had me at "deep fried Oreos."

Who will survive...and what will be left of them?

You guys are forgetting the awesome/disgusting palace of WTF that is the Miracle Of Birth Pavilion.

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH.

"Oh, look, babee aminals! Oh look, afterbirth!"

MAGICAL.

How is it possible that I've never seen this?

I'd never seen the Butter Princess heads until 1998! (This is what happens when you spend the entirety of your time at the Fair on the midway.)

Ha ha, M4rk K13ff3r's ex-sister in law had one of those Butter Princess heads. Apparently they kept it in the freezer and brought it out for the wedding!

That is so wrong.

I was so disappointed when they got divorced, because now I can't ask, "so, how's the Butter Head?" anymore.

(my minister friend from northfield is getting married. i have the evening of the 26th free, and want to meet some non-teetotaling folks)

I see! Maybe it is time for the RUEB FAP. (Or other FAP at some other Northfield bar.)

GO UP TO HASTINGS

BIERSTUBE FAP

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO

Seed art, grilled corn, and 4H livestock. Budwiser Clydesdales, political candidates in flannels with their sleeves rolled up, and rodeo. Rickety gondola lift to nowhere, elephant ears, and Randy Shaver in pleated khaki shorts. Real bear. Not 3.2 beer. For the first time in many years, real beer.

oh man! i totally forgot about the 'political candidates in flannels with their sleeves rolled up' part... unfortunately, practically nothing is free anymore at any political party's stand/building

i hope rudy boswich's (sp?) milk stand is still there

and the HUGE YELLOW SLIDE, with microphones... "i regret nothiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnggg!!!"

Is the 26th a Sunday? Also, do you need to stay in Northfield, or can you escape to the cities (given transportation is made available to you)?

xpost to Remy

butter...princess...heads?

Okay, thank you, someone had the same reaction I did.

private msg to dan:

stephan1e d1llon lives in mpls now btw so if i come to this she will come too!

Snorg-worthy Dairy Princess with butter sculpture:
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/08/25_newsroom_buttersculpture/images/jessica_large.jpg

My computer appears not to be loading that in an instance of keeping my sanity.

This Dairy Princess is strikingly familiar:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/trueneutral/Human%20Inbox/butterv8ba.jpg
http://img.anakinweb.com/blogs/users/3136_butter_yoda-761969.jpg

http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2007/05/lionel%20richie%20sculpture.jpg

THIS, BUT MADE ENTIRELY OUT OF BUTTER. AND NOT OF LIONEL RITCHIE.

Well, probably not at least.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/justsayjes/oregon%20steve/P1010728.jpg

Butter Sculpture - not creepy in the slightest.

WHAT IS HE DOING TO THAT GUITAR??????

(I mean, I know what he's doing to that guitar; I'm just sitting here going "poor guitar ;_;".)

Also: stephan1e d1llon lives in mpls now btw so if i come to this she will come too!

:-0 wau woot

xpost - Aug. 26 is a Sunday; I can likely escape for the night, so if someone needs a ride, I could also offer that.

I want to change my username to buttersculptor ;_;

BUTTERSCULPTURE IS THE NEW BEARTRAP.

Probably only for me.

I will only be impressed when you take this up as a serious pastime.

i'm still amazed by buttersculptures

MINNESOTA SEEMS MAGICAL AND YOU GUYS HAD ME AT "U OTTER STOP INN" BUT SRSLY BUTTER SCULPTURES A+++++++

i never know what's happening to me more than 25 min in the future, but i am so so down.

OK I think I have to get the family travel agent on this. What are the dates people are planning?

Re the State Fair my dad used to take us and ask us to choose between FOOD and RIDES.

your dad is a cruel taskmaster.

My dad used to make us go look at huge tractors. I was always like "fuck a tractor, I want to get on a poorly-maintained carney ride".

wait when is labor day

Sep 3

If it weren't for the fact I'll be in Portland Labor Day weekend (w. associated budget for that) I'd be all for coming out the weekend before as well.

i think i went to the midway like once. most of the times it was animal barns and machinery hill 94/7

I have never gone to the State Fair and not gone to the midway. Really, the midway is the only reason I've ever gone to the Fair with the sole exception of the time I went to see Weird Al and The Monkees, but even then I killed time before the concert at the midway.

RIDES, BITCHES!!!

Rides, yes, but also FOOD. Ally 8080 about suzy's Dad.

Here's my sched: I'm flying in to M/SP on the 23rd, crashing w. my friend in N-field, driving down to Iowa city for his wedding, driving back up on the 26th and getting dropped off @ Twin Cities. I'm looking for something to do that evening -- I'm taking a red-eye out the next morning.

out of Minneapolis/St. Paul for my friend's wedding, driving down him with Iowa on the

(ignore the last fragment)

It's good to know that the key planners for this are inveterate drunkards FB and I.

Remy, if you get yourself to the cities, we will get you to a bar or a house full of booze.

Revive! Apparently I have to shoot polaroids or straight-ups of fairgoers while I am there, for a magazine. Mwahahahaha 4H fashion show, show me Vogue realness!

My dad simply did not want to take responsibility for the projectile vomit of his hellspawn hence the FOOD/RIDES divide. This is my dad vis a vis responsibility in a nutshell. The rest of the state fair for us was all about going to look at Saddlebred and Tennesee Walking Horse events ("Suze! Look at that PIECE OF HORSEFLESH over there, damn fine horseflesh there...yada yada, ad infinitum...")

* jucy lucys
* mickey's

wait i'm just hungry

suzy are you shooting for LOL FAT PPL MONTHLY

In my stead, I will need someone to spend at least 90 minutes studying the 4H folding displays.

4H highlights from my last visit:

"The Crystal Meth Epidemic In Minnesota"
"How To Skin A Weasel"

I want to see the photos suzy takes. Wow.

No, Alex. THERE REALLY IS A 4H FASHION SHOW. They have to make their own dresses or document their 'journey' toward the dress they choose, which is scored on an 'appropriateness' scale. Imagine the kind of church lady who tells you that things must be Appropriate in such a setting. Now imagine her saying this word with an Outstate Minnesota accent.

We were thinking more along the lines of 'meth addicts pretend to eat deep fried food on a stick' for the mag shoot, which is apparently the new vibe this year ;-).

Hey, even Northfield has gone all "heroin is everywhere." It's the new black!

OK so my dates are looking like 21st August to 5 or 6 September.

Awesome!

that northfield heroin story is straight fucked!! first it was OMG JUNKY TEENAGERS RUN FOR IT and then they said well maybe not and now it's like no rly junky teenagers run for it plz

And people wonder why I hestitate to get a babysitter.

Sorry to digress briefly into general MN topics, and note that I live in NYC so this news is reaching me rather late, but... RIP Shinder's. Fuckin' damn.

WAHT

suzy - more info available toward the end of the current HSTNGS thread. I think there's a Strib story link, too.

Hey, the apocolypse draws nigh. Anyone need rides from airport/lodging/etc.?

Also, any MNILXORS that haven't weighed in and are interested should pipe up.

Unless I hate you.

still down!

HELLS YES.

You should email me, so I can get you the Saturday details. ILX link email should work.

I'm just trying to get my will drawn up before Saturday. It's hard to get all these things organized.

this is me, weighing in

hi dere, i am in hastings

ps i am scared

hi

saturday's preview: http://shim1.shutterfly.com/procgserv/47b7d607b3127cce98548c5d1ed600000037108KbMWzRs58

river wolf has reached critical mass

RW, you came home just in time for one of HSTNGS patented child on child stabbings!

xpost: ghost rider, you has gmail re:free bacon night. RW should also partake, if he's free.

david lynch's labor day minnesota

re river wolf's picture

wait free bacon night holy shit

OH YES. LIVE THE DREAM.

Triple Rock Social Club, Weds. from 9 to 11. PBR on special as well.

how

where is triple rock

just follow your nose

West bank of U of M. Used to be "Blondies", just off 94 on Cedar.

i'll see what i can do

Hey guys, guess whose company now has him out of the country for an extra five days?

argh

NO BACON FOR YOU THEN MONKEYBOY t (o_O) t

I really do not understand Dan's job at all.

I don't understand my job anymore, either. Apparently it is "go be a total software gimp for us".

Also John we have been cool for years and years so I'm just going to gently point out that most black men respond to the name "MONKEYBOY" with murder.

Don't kill John; I think he's just not thinking.

go be a total software gimp for us

I'm sure you don't mean this, but now I'm picturing you wandering around on crutches.

(There's MY non-PC moment of the day...)

heh. whoops. sry dan, love sees no color etc etc.

Sara, I have a website at which you can explore the many meanings of gimp, if you'd like. YOU MAY BE SUPRISED.

John. Dear dear John. I'm sorry, but I'm not looking at your website. I have to Just Say No.

http://cache.kotaku.com/gaming/images/gimp.jpg

HELLO DERE HAFF U SEEN MY CRUTCHES?

This seems like the right moment for me to remind you people

MIRACLE OF LIFE PAVILION

thanx

xpost Okay, see, that's why I was saying no. Jeez.

Why does the gimp have zippers on both ass cheeks but not one in the middle?

We cannot abide this gimp inauthenticity

http://www.dlisted.com/node/14365

HAHAHAHAHAHA

GIANT SLIDE SPARES NO ONE

srsly, how fucked up/sissified do you have to be to puke on the giant fucking slide?

I'm not sure the State Fair is open for enough days to provide enough time for adequate experimentation on this question.

i love the giant slide!

the giant slide is like the most awesome phrase i've ever heard yet i don't want to ride it now for fear that fugly bitch's puke is still on it, somewhere.

ally are you going to the state fair??

You could bring your own sanitizer and apply it liberally to the bottom of the slide before you ride...

instead of the blanket, ride down on a handi-wipe

rw: y

While trying to find pictures of the giant slide, I found this, which is apparently in the crafts building at the fair:

http://www.tampabays10.com/images/monkey-dress.jpg

^^^^ i have seen this thing before, it is amazing

When we go the state fair, I will try to get FB to wear that dress.

omg WOW

J. just got one of those sock monkeys for her birthday!

Sock monkeys = wicked awesome.

lol slide is hueg

Sock monkeys are pretty cool.

Dammit, I want to see FB in that dress!

ally :D

People pleez, in my stead, spend a little time at the State Fair perusing the many informative posterboard projects in the 4H building!

And gaze for at least 5 minutes into the populous waters of the cement DNR Fish Pond!

And don't forget to take a spin on the Magnum PI ride on the Midway!

I need these things by proxy!

Minnesota State Fair GIS is full of gems, like this:

http://www.fourh.umn.edu/fairresults/images/twolambs.jpg

That's a specialty act if I've ever seen one.

Some of the sheep, right after they get sheared like that, get to wear these super-sporty spandex outfits while hanging out in their stalls, to keep warm.

http://www.deebrothers.com/Images/Evan_MNSF2004.jpg

BETTER

i'm not going anywhere near anything that is resembling that picture

FOR JON:

http://www.marksimonson.com/images/magnum.jpg

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/8669/sheepsu4.jpg

i will go v v v close to anything resembling that magnum picture

I have missed so many things at the Fair.

http://www.metrocouncil.org/directions/transit/images_transit/mascots.jpg

guys the art on the rides is the most amazing stuff ever

Yeah Magnum is top of the line but there's lotsa good stuff.

Did anyone else who grew up in MN ever due the teenage "summer job" thing of working for the carnies in the Midway concession booths?

My carny was a white-fro'ed, v hairy, teeth missing Texan guy named Stacie. He got a crush on my best friend's older sister (she was also working for the carnies in another booth) and bought her a sterling silver unicorn pendant but was too shy to give it to her.

http://img.citypages.com/imagebank/articles/26_1291/26_1291a13636_m18.jpg

Maybe my favorite picture ever?

Possible new desktop img for work computer. I'm feeling the pull!

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah

Apparently the State Fair has attractions I could never have imagined!

xpost to Jon L. - I don't know whether to be disturbed by that story or touched. I never even went to the State Fair until after I was married. My father is a State Fair-hater, so it wasn't ever something we got to do. Working there never crossed my mind.

http://img.citypages.com/imagebank/articles/26_1291/26_1291a13636_m33.jpg

JESUS FUCKING FINALLY.

I think you at least want a comma in there somewhere John.

But be careful where you put it.

Most unthinkable ride for me (as of last fair visit 2 yrs ago) is that fucking thing that takes only 2 people at a time and basically just flings them hundreds of feet straight up in the air on a cord. WTF men died face down in the mud so we could do this to ourselves for FUN?!?!

http://www.bustales.com/route/16/do-you-know-her/

GOING: up north

Me too! Labor day weekend is the time to get as north as possible.

as for that sock monkey dress, it's made by a local designer who sells stuff at local awesome store Crafty Planet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftyplanet/) where that dress is normally on display. Their flickr site shows another dress she made...

here's the designer's site: http://www.hazelandmelvin.com/products/sock-monkey-wearables

Ah, hate to be missing this BUT still I chilled with Dan last weekend - I feel like MN came to me!

Wish you could make it - and Dan, too. *SIGH*

What are you rock stars all up to now?

In my case, attempting to find a sitter for Saturday night!

In my case, centering my chi in preperation for FREE BACON NIGHT.

That should take John pretty much all day.

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/siren.gifLAST CHANCE TO COMMIT TO FREE BACON NIGHThttp://www.bradblog.com/Images/siren.gif

wait what

it's only 2pm

I think that's John's way of reminding people.

Or maybe his chi is still not aligned right.

i am so jealous of free bacon night

me too. :/

even though I had ramen for lunch and now I feel like I am going to have a heart attack.

Just applying pressure and reminders. Also, I wanted to use drudgesiren.jpg.

xpost: I would steal free bacon for you teh schef but it would be v v rank by the time you get to town.

I was telling some dude at the bar about free bacon night and he seemed baffled by why this would be a draw for patronage.

I will never speak to this person again.

will it be crispy bacon, y/n

were you talking to hitler?!?!?!

wait also the Detroit Cobras are playing there tonight?!??!?!?!?1/1//1/1/1/ad/f

it will be greasy yet crispy bacon.

I did not know about this Detroit Cobras thing, I assume that will not stand in the way of free bacon on the bar side.

ah, i've never been, didn't know there were two sides.

...we'll see about this.

Hey RW, I will email you my cel # in case this works out.

river wolf, you should go!

I'm sure you will have fun, and also BACON.

email ahoy!

I have never knowingly heard the Detroit Cobras. In this way, am I wasting my life y/n?

i like them, they are fun

Did anyone see this creepy thing at the State Fair this year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQokb5lTKA

12 baskets of bacon later, we missed you guys ;_;

SATURDAY, NO PRISONERS.

sorry dude :-/

i have been helping my dad stain wood in the garage. at midnight.

great to be back!

TWELVE?! Okay, I'm impressed and intimidated.

Ok, wood staining project with dad = most acceptable excuse ever.

Ha, well, I HAVE KIDS. That's my excuse.

I did pass on the word about bacon night to random likely-looking college students (and administrators, ha) that I ran into this afternoon when visiting Carleton. I'm not sure, but I suspect they thought I was a crackpot.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1097/1205331476_11a08dfea5.jpg?v=0

tonight, in honor of free bacon, I had for dinner the Childe Harolde GUARDS BURGER.

The GUARDS BURGER is a gratuitous concoction consisting of a half pound beef burger wrapped around some bacon and some cheddar cheese. You can chomp all the free bacon you want; it remains unaccompannied by cattle junk, pig tummies, and ripe cow tit products. I win. See you in 2008, bitches.

jeezum crow, that was a lot of staining

I've just become a little bit ill envisioning that.

jeezum crow, that was a lot of staining

um i just read this thread from the bottom, and i thought this meant you HAD gone to free bacon night, and i thought, oh god...

http://www.tampabays10.com/images/monkey-dress.jpg

^^^I have met this woman at a crafts fair. She makes sock-monkey hoodies for like $40.

i go to the fair today, w/fam

....we'll see about this

so what are folks doing tonight then

sittin on an airplane, wishin my ipod had mambo no 5 on it u_u

I am debating on going to Minnesota tomorrow! I cancelled on my friend who wanted to go hiking near Duluth due to my extreme allergy season reaction, but I might end up in the Twin Cities. What's going on?

DAER GHJOST RIDAH,

WE WILL SPEND SOME EVENING TIME EMPTYING THE KEG THAT IS AT THE PARTY HOUSE IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE FRESH NEW FULL KEG THAT WILL ARRIVE AT THE PARTY HOUSE TOMORROW. YOU CALL ME, I TELL YOU MORE OK? OK.

mh, I will email you with Saturday funtime info.

ho-lee shit! Thanks. Now to see if I actually make it.

See you guys tomorrow night. Assuming I survive going out to see the re-make of Halloween. (FB did not exactly pep talk me into this decision; I am an idiot all by myself).

Also, have fun tonight!

I'm totally going to the party house tonight. Who's with me?

:-(

Dan, if you want to make it home by tomorrow, you'd best start swimming.

guys maybe i should make george a pie or something? grease the wheels, you know

Hahaha. If you are so inclined, that would be great.

Have the following for me:

Deep fried cheese curds
Pronto Pup
Italian sausage
Onion blossom or rings
Footlongs x 10000
More deep fried cheese curds
Tacos

Margarita chasers x 20

OKthxbye...

HI DERE WORK IS AWFUL AND I AM TIREDED.

how late was yr friend's flight?

2:45? Plus, of course, the reunion-related drinkathon. I went to bed at 4:30 or 5 I think maybe.

Still a little drunk. good thing I sell guitars instead of an actual important job.

hey y'all. i'm not going to make this, cuz my wife's dad is getting ready to go back to TX for the winter and we haven't seen him much this summer....so sail on and have a blast.... peace out...

Dear shit-faced guests,

Thank you for a magical evening. Plus, you may be dead.

Sincerely,
Your shit-faced host

c.c. I am drunk

Dear FB,

The calls are coming FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE CAR!

Also, thank you for way too much fun and not visibly cringing at the conversation in the kitchen. At least that I noticed.

I had way too much fun. So thank you and also subgenius for hosting.

Sincerely,
-S

PS Why does drinking/talking with you guys make me wake up after two hours of sleep desperate for food? Thank god for chocolate covered almonds.

Note to Dan P - We missed you and J031.

Also - it was great to finally meet Ally, ghost rider, and river wolf!

:-( ;_; )-:

wait is that steam coming out of yr ears or something?

ps i am awake and hangover free 1(^_^1)

GUYS I AM SO SORRY I HAD TO MISS THIS

tied up w/ family shit until late late

fuck.

glad it ruled!

tell me there are pics

i am pretty sure there is a pic of me w/a flash in my mouth

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/53/53_images/53chapFester_lightbulb_ani.gif

i am pretty sure there is a pic of me w/a flash in my mouth

ah, so Ally got her camera working then? ;)

Also, Dan, you and your wife were represented in photographs, randomly appearing on subgenius' tv. Including one of Grade School Dan that was completely adorable.

:-0

you guys are all A+++, would hang with again

sorry i missed breakfast, tho, i was already back in the country by then :-/

Ally? WAAAAAH nobody shouted me out.

this is ally, not alex first of all. second of all fuck yeah dudes that rocked. CRAZY MOUSE NEVER FORGET.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1353/1320746691_679d8fff27_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1320747357_40ac68c8bf_b.jpg

ahahahaha

Looks like some Sleestaks or some other Sid and Marty Krofft puppets awaited you at the end of that ride.

i wish i coulda came to this but we were out of town.

plus, it's been sort of a bad/strange week anyway and i wasn't feeling to social actually.

but anyway looks like all u fine folks had fun. sail on.

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, surely

xpost

M@tt, I wish I would have met you, but hope you had a great weekend!

Was Magnum ride there this year?

MAGNUM PI, WHY U BRAEK HAERT HIP?

hahahaha xpost

magnum ride was so there! as was TECHNO POWER.

Aw, I'm so sad I missed the Fair. ;_;

J031 and I are now supermad.

Well, it's not too late to get to Northfield for Defeat of Jesse James Days...

hahahahahahahahaha the crazy mouse picture never stops being funny. it is actually the only picture in the entire world not improved by blingee and trust me i just tried.

i would like to ride the magnum again

also i hate dc is the thing going on here

hey guys

totally sunburned ;_;

When will there be characters (Ned, jay blancmange, Floyd Landis, etc) photoshopped onto that thrilling ride photo?

Apply aloe and then fix yourself another Party Boat.

xpost, dammit

i'm not sunburned ^_^

In an attempt to detoxify after the fair food, I went to a bar the next day and got chicken nachos and hot wings.

I make poor life decisions.

You need some pork rinds.

God I'm hungry now. THX GUYS

we went to the u otter ^_^

You need some pork rinds.

-- humansuit, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago)

This is actually always true. (What the hell was the other name for them on some thread - Pork Kracklins? Or am I just making that shit up?)

xpost: we did not ;_; but we can any time we want to ^_^

Oh man I LOVE that. I've never eaten pork rinds, but I'm going to now just because of the name.

we also went to nyes!

i liked the otter bar skanks :D

in the mural, i mean. i would've LOVED real otter bar skanks but they weren't present.

Nyes is awesome. Did you sing with the piano lady? I did once and she yelled at me for not being loud enough, which shamed me and made me sad.

Also, the King Prime Rib will kill you. With happiness. and meat.

I will make it my personal mission to get FB drunk and send him home with an otter skank. Report will follow.

it was the middle of the day piano lady was not there ;_;

Please include a photo essay.

I'm now baking myself a Superpretzel because I'm starving and it's basically all we have on hand. I blame all of you and your FOOD TALK.

Let's get some Pork Kracklins in there too plese!

I have heard good things about Nyes from Eazy and sweet tater.

ALLY WHERE ARE PHOTOS

btw nipsey russells really are the realness

oh man the nipsey russell sent me right over the edge

You missed the original Beergarita at the fair.

yeah, the nipsys were sort of when everything took a turn

also fueled my rampage on the pool table.

RAMPAGE

i MOSTLY blame the nipsy for my belligerence later in the evening.

It's a violent and unflinching drink.

it's a delicious drink that makes shit get real

i don't actually remember leaving the party, guys

I am unsure how much money I threw at our cabbie at the end of the night. It was probably all of the money.

god i hope i took a cab home

i had a pleasant bike ride home! i'm still not sure how i ended up not-that-drunk

....maybe it's because you guys are a bunch of AMATEURS

:D

I didn't want to tell you this, RW, but we were serving you virgin nipsey russells.

u_u

in fairness, gr, me, my ex-roommate and her hubby all drank at her house and also had pitchers at pizza luce prior to coming over. this, in retrospect, was a mistake.

this is really making me ;_;

Ally, being more drunk is never a mistake.

fair enough, ally, fair enough

oh god! at the u otter they were promoting the purchase of a malternative life-style that i was unaware existed: smirnoff GREEN TEA ice????? someone has to drink that at some point and report back to this thread. i'm considering doing so myself, the concept of green tea malt liquor blows my mind so much.

hahahaha yes we almost called john and fb as soon as we saw that advertised

WAHT

they also had smirnoff pomegranate ice!

OH NOES PEOPLE!!!

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn.—A thief distracted employees at State Fair turkey sandwich stand and made off with $20,000, police and employees said.
While employees at Turkey To Go got a good look at the suspect when he came by around 6 p.m. Thursday, there were no still no arrests as of Monday.

"One guy came up and bought a sandwich and what happened was he requested skin. We don't get that very often," owner Greg Keil said.

Within minutes, Keil noticed the safe was both open and empty, and two bank bags containing their entire day's take were missing. The safe apparently wasn't locked and anyone could see it from the counter.

"Alongside the safe was this sandwich that this guy requested," Keil said.

Keil presumes the thief made a quick getaway.

"We're only a block and a half away from the gate so I'm sure once he was done here he skeedaddled," Keil said.

Police said State Fair vendors are hit by thieves about five or six times a year, but usually the amount stolen isn't as large.

"This is unusual. Most people and most vendors take that money off two or three times a day and don't leave that kind of money on site," State Fair Police Chief Art Blakey said.

Turkey To Go is run in conjunction with the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association. Employees deep fry 10 turkeys at a time, nonstop, from sunup to sundown during the 12-day run of the fair.

Most of the stand's 22 employees are families and friends from Perham, where Keil said people rarely even lock their homes. "We were very down in the dumps Thursday night when this happened, and Friday morning, but the customers' positiveness helps bring that back around," Keil said.

After the theft, Turkey To Go moved the safe out of sight and employees began making bank runs bank three times a day with escorts.

Reflecting on the theft Monday, Keil said: "I'm sure we'll never see it again. He's got to live with it. I can sleep at night, I don't know if he can."

"...what happened was he requested skin. We don't get that very often."

"This is unusual. Most people and most vendors take that money off two or three times a day and don't leave that kind of money on site," State Fair Police Chief Art Blakey said.
http://www.bluenote.nl/media/db_images/original/395.jpg

Reflecting on the theft Monday, Keil said: "I'm sure we'll never see it again. He's got to live with it. I can sleep at night, I don't know if he can."

lolololololololololololololol

THERE IS ROOM TO PHOTOSHOP SNORG GIRL INTO CAR ON MIGHTY MOUSE RIDE JUST SAYING

OR LIMP FAT KID FROM VIRTUALREALITYRIDE.JPG

Is there room on Santorum.jpg for John?

lolz

No, wait, FB find that picture where John is wearing the inexplicable hat (and Dan is in the corner and I'm standing there idiotically) - and use that image of John. PLZ!

Seriously, did that ride have a "punch the crotch of the person in the leftmost seat" button or something?

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/9/9/5/alkiecat/f_cryingmousem_52fe745.jpg

9/3 NEVER FORGET

hahahahaha

Now what were all you drunks up to?

Beergaritas call for desperate measures, Ned.

Well done.

Also, John threatened to beat us all with his liver.

STRONGEST MUSCLE IN MY BODY.

I'm not going to argue with that.

huge inappropriate lolz

http://img39.picoodle.com/img/img39/9/9/5/f_snorgcoastem_ba1ebfd.jpg

hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaaaa yes.

mr washington dc goes to MN pt 2

hey guys im coming to minneap for a conference and who wants to hang 9/17 or 9/18 evening??

YES PLZ.

IRM facebook group just got a little mightier

rad action - ill stay in touch via this thread

we can make fancy drinks

lol why is snorgirl roshamboing on ride

OK IM ACTUALLY LOLING AT THAT

I endorse the contraction of "Snorg Girl" into "Snorgirl" btw

oh my fucking god

DAN APPROVE MY IRM PHOTOTAG.

haha i am trying to phototag too, maybe i delete mine

That is a priceless collection of images.

lolz

wait i think mine was approved already maybe?

omg you guys totally inappropriate yet somehow...?

http://toxic-neurosis.net/list/images/header.jpg

...repellant?

I have added more tags.

xpost: nothing is inappropriate ever.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA JOHN I ALREADY ADDED THAT TAG TO A DIFFERENT SPOT

oh my god john the ned tag

i wish i could just tag the flag only but it wants to tag john too if i do that. i thought the flag would make a good jon williams.

I've added another one. This is addictive.

I was just about to try to tag the flag with fluffy bear.

OK I AM LAUGHING REALLY REALLY HARD

JUST SOME TIRED LOOKIN CHICK, LAUGHING REALLY LOUD AT HER OWN DESK BY HERSELF LIKE A CRAZY PERSON

This is GLORIOUS.

what are you on about?

what pictures?

Facebook Ian R-M grp

we're basically still just laughing at the crazy mouse

The expressions on the faces alone... just too good.

If this merriment keeps up I may have to fire myself.

xpost yes this is true.

I want to add a picture to the group, but I fear it will be lost in the majesty of crazymouse.jpg.

Hasn't stopped me!

The more the merrier.

DONE.

Good work you guys.

(John, you can re-hire yourself now.)

guys

we were just saying it is doubly disappointing that y'all didn't do that vr gone wild, because if you guys made those expressions for the crazy mouse, i can't even imagine what vr would've looked like ;_;

omg John

xpost Yeah, but now there is a mission for 2008, so all is not lost.

It would have probably looked like me strangling the pitchman dude while wearing funny goggles.

xpost

Ally: lolololololol @ Facebook temptations

Is anything half this good gonna happen at the St Paul Winter Carnival?

FB will get frostbite while drunk. Does that qualify?

MUST NOT TAG THAT PHOTO
MUST NOT TAG THAT PHOTO

I keep looking at that pic and thinking "l-r: Dom, Perpetua"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

oh my fucking god, dan, you are killing me over here.

See why it is important to resist temptation?

Is this some sort of "No Soap, Radio" gaslighting going on here?

I might not resist that temptation xpost

LR Matthew Perpetua, Ham Sandwich.

y/n?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

DONE

John, you are a cruel, cruel man.

I admire that.

http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/9/9/5/f_Untitled2m_4598ed8.gif

lolololololololololololol

They're so... synchronized!

MAGICAL, ENTRANCING

also faintly nauseating, and therefore awesome

WAU WAU WAU WAU

holy shit

BAH FACEBOOK DOES NOT SUPPORT ANIGIFS

BAN FACEBOOK

no, you can't take my Scrabble away from me

Guys I don't think I can handle free bacon night tonight ;_;

omg what's wrong with you, John?

I was counting on third hand bacon information for my nutrition class.

Wait, second hand bacon information. Unless you tell someone and they tell me. (Strangest game of Telephone EVER.)

NUTRITION FACTS FOR BACON:

INGREDIENTS: ALL THE PARTS OF THE PIG, SALT, HAPPINESS

Thx John, you've been very helpful.

I just want to reiterate that our ilxor guests were all super-awesome.

Now onward to free bacon.

FB = more of a man than I will ever be.

at least baconwise.

Also, yes all ilxor guests A+++++++ would destroy brain cells with again.

Plus, Dan and J031 were missed terribly. ;_;

Who?

t(._.)t

I felt bad after posting that.

I am missing them right now!

For one thing, I'm pretty sure that they could help me procrastinate for another several hours. And it would be FUN.

OH MY GOD THAT GIF

oh hai guize i'll have my pix up later today, bastard verizon didn't set up their bastard internets yet for my apartment. ;_; priority will be uploading the open shirt restroom picture.

Did you move?

yes

do you have fios is it so fast?

i have no (0) internets and it is so slow

total downer

HEY THERE
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1413/1337030202_a2d8306eab.jpg

(the whole set is here: http://flickr.com/photos/allyzay/sets/72157601895176835/)

Awesome photos! I'm so sad that we had to leave to early. ;_;

Obviously, you are going to have to come back to MN soon.

I would like to come on this next MN trip.

Anyone for NYC, the weekend after thanksgiving?

GREAT PIXXX

u really did it up

;_; ;_; ;_;

Woah wait FB is that old man your (28?-year-old) brother???????

Jon P. doesn't look that old.

I mean, I plucked out all my gray hairs and covered up my many wrinkles, but that's just vanity.

He looks older than FB, is the thing. And he is a good bit younger, like younger than your younger siblings.

He is older than me.

He just wants to be able to buy booze without being carded.

Unlike FB. FB has a baby face, though.

(Don't tell FB I said that.)

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that people <10 years younger than me are well-established adults but I srsly don't think I've seen Jon since he was... 19? Maybe 21?

I would not be surprised if he looked younger in person as opposed to in a picture where he is making the wise old anime man face, I was just surprised (and feeling old) (ps THANKS A LOT RIVER WOLF FOR HELPING ME FEEL OLD).

FB and I have just drank ourselves to a point where we are preserved, like scarab beetles in amber, immune to time.

Until all our organs fail. Which could be next week.

xpost

I think the worst is when I see people I used to babysit who are getting married - or worse - who have kids! OMG YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 5 YEARS OLD, STAY THAT WAY, WILL YOU?!

I feel old all the time. Welcome to the club!

we are preserved, like scarab beetles in amber

M313r?

SORRY SORRY

xpost That is why I like to hang out with FB and John. They make me feel young. Also, my fondness for scarab beetles.

glad i could help, dan!

You guys remember how Kr1st1n and 4nn4 H0ffm4n's folks had a suprise son when they were 17 and 15?

That kid should be starting college this year.

Also, L34h H3b34rt and C4rly D0ugh3rty both have children who should be seniors in high school this year.

STOP THAT NOW

I was just thinking about L1s4 S4und3r's younger siblings, though. The youngest was born when I was in college. I suppose he's almost through high school now. *BOGGLE*

Also, I did not know that about Kr1st1n. It's weird how you can go to school with someone for years, be in the same classes, be in the same dance program, work on multiple plays together... and yet somehow not be friends.

Yeah, totally weird... until you remember we are talking about Kr1st1n.

(I got along with her pretty well, mostly because our dads both worked for 3M and we lived near each other and we were both friends with Kyl3, but I completely understand how others would not.)

I don't think we didn't get along; I just don't remember ever having a conversation with her about anything at all. Someone told me a semi-obscene joke about her once, but I have no idea if there was anything behind the joke because I did not know her well enough to have a clue!

Her Dad worked for 3M? Huh.

I think she got frisky with one boyfriend once and then received a reputation as a massive blowjob fiend; as far as I know, the rumor way outstripped the reality.

(HI DERE)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?

(Sara R-C)
I don't remember growing older
When did they?

(HD)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he get to be so tall?

(SRC)
Wasn't it yesterday
When they were small?

(River Wolf)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

(Fluffy Bear)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

(HD)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?

(HD)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day

(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

Wow, I was so out of it in high school.

Also, I hated that dumb hoor with the burning passion of a thousand suns.

lololol

(I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be laughing at that, but for some reason...)

GEE WHO DID I HAVE IN MIND WHEN I WROTE MY DISCLAIMER RE KH POST? I CAN'T HARDLY IMAGINE...

Okay, I slept through high school. I SLEPT THROUGH IT.

Thank you for making this clear to me, Dan.

(And when I say I slept through it, I mean the sleeping part literally.)

We should probably take our wacky HS riffing to It's safe to come out here again HSTNGS THRD x=ax+b mod p

HSTNGS THRD SHL RSE AGN.

see, the thing is, i was actually in fiddler back in middle school

LOL JEW

True Confessions of a Hastings High School Drama Club Member

(It sounds like it could be a dull read, but really, there could be anything in there from homework to sex to outright murder!)

See, the thing is, I WAS ALSO ACTUALLY IN FIDDLER BACK IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Hi Dere and River Wolf are actually the same person, obv.

Right now, I have more hair than River Wolf. ^_^

Wait, no ;_;

Okay, guys who shave their heads on purpose do not get to engage in this competition.

hi all. im in minneapolis
WTF @ THE COLD.
ive got plans this weekend, but not monday or tuesday night - lets drink somewhere one of those nights?

69, I just ilx-mailed my contact info. Let's get everybody together for booze.

YES.

also, yes, this weirdo cold snap is teh suck.

contact info also ilxmaled.

lol u shivrin

you guys I think A. likes it. But that is the freaking insane marathon training talking. (20 miles this a.m.)

I'd like the warm weather back, plz., just cool weather on Oct. 7.

oh man now the weather is purr-fect

yes!!

guys i had a pretty magical twin cities night last night! i was sort of cranky about summer being over but now, not so much! luv this town etc!!

and i'm down 4 whateva on monday. or tuesday.

Until the cold COMES BACK HAW HAW. (I am hateful.)

Well, the cold is completely acceptable when it is a bit later in the year. It can even be FUN, Ned.

Sending Ned ice weasels in the mail.

Poor ice weasels. They'll melt!

It can even be FUN, Ned.

Stockholm syndrome. You're deluding yourself.

Nah, I've just hit my head one too many times because I tend to fall when I go ice skating. (BUT ICE SKATING IS AWESOME ANYWAY)

Also, skiing is surprisingly fun. I haven't done it in 20 years, but I haven't totally forgotten...

gff (well, and whoever else), I think we're doing the "Biggest Bastard In Minnesota" awards show at Grumpy's downtown on Tuesday. Winner (no, none of us are in the running for some streange reason) wins a 70's era wood panel sided station wagon filled with Grain Belt Premium.

Yet more proof that we live in the greatest state in the world.

Also, boozing @ liquor lyles w/69 = good times.

you guys, that phone call yesterday was v uplifting!

Liquor Lyles is three (3) miles from my mom's house and my sister's place of work at the other end of the Likker Corridor.

69, at Lyle's you inquired as to whether Dan was goth in high school.

http://a787.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_559e3edd2a3a623dd4059f7593cab712.jpg

Answer: Not quite.

http://a332.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/l_efb44ed7a1f40024857d9bcb70716c73.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/168964876_4894e51756.jpg

Never has the phrase 'white man's overbite' been more apposite.

BBC website reporting that the MSP airport toilet AKA Larry's Glory Hole is now a tourist attraction.

lol suzy. I love you, BBC.

Also I love Dan's hat in that first photo.

70's era wood panel sided station wagon filled with Grain Belt Premium

Also, wow do I want to see this.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/168964876_4894e51756.jpg<--- WHAT is going on here

is that a promo still from "head of the class"?

I detect a Heathers reference.

hahaha, I love that picture.

HANGIN TOUGH

also: grumpy's it is!

Re: Grumpy's.

Action starts at 10:00 PM. We will start boozing there at 8:00.

http://www.biggestbastard.com

This should be fantastic.

Also, those pictures. You're all fucked if I ever get around to getting a scanner.

I think FB has the most to lose in that situation.

John does not want to escalate this.

I have very little to worry about, so escalate away.

I really should scan the picture of Dan and I wearing matching Front Line Assembly shirts. In our Knowledge Bowl team yearbook photo.

Good times.

I feel a spiritual kinship.

Just remember, if you don't know the answer, your best guess is always "Beowulf."

YEAH SCAN THAT SHIT

Doesn't it feature R0b1n making the world's worst face?

Is it too soon to start planning Halloween? How about New Years?

We have not cemented any plans for these holidays yet.

xpost yes. to all of you.

Also re: "Heathers" ref: Sort of? I did watch that movie a lot but really I grabbed that mallet because it matched what I was wearing. And thus ends today's peek inside the batshit insanity that was Dan Perry Before Age 20.

xpost

Early planning? WHERE IS TEH REAL JOHN?

I want to see the Knowledge Bowl picture, plz.

(hint on plans: we will be drunk. possibly in trouble with the law. certainly exhibiting questionable morals.)

(I am sad that I will never again have as strong a sense of personal style as I did through high school and college, even if that style was "black man who dresses like a goth Ducky".)

It's not too late to change your personal style, Dan. GO FOR IT

"black man who dresses like a goth Ducky"

^^^^^one of the most evocative phrases I have ever read.

This is also true of tonight, and all future days to come, so I'm not really spoiling any suprises here.

I shudder to think of how to sententially sum up my HS stylee.

*biting tongue HARD*

"black man who dresses like a goth Ducky"

This is beautifully said, and not just for the obvious reference, but for this one as well:

Everyone thinks they’re such sweet little things.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Soft downy feathers and nice little wings.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
But there’s a poison I’d like to administer;
You think they’re cuddly, but I think they’re sinister!
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.

What are they doing at night in the park?
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Think of them waddling about in the dark!
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Sneering and whispering and stealing your cars,
Reading pornography, smoking cigars!
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.

Nasty and small: undeserving of life.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
They’ll sneer at your hairstyle and sleep with your wife.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Dressed in plaid jackets and horrible shoes,
Getting divorces and turning to booze!
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.

Forcing old ladies to throw them some bread.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Who could deny, they’d be better off dead?
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Look closely and you will recoil in surprise
At web-footed fascists with mad little eyes!
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.
Ducks. Ducks. Quack-quack. Quack-quack.

xpost perhaps "Dirtbag turned fey stompy industrial-punk dirtbag"?

I was thinking "Oaktree musk"...?

So are you including the silk blouses in there or not?

xpost

I did have a lot of styles. All of which were more awful than the last, really.

I did say "fey" Sara.

Sara, remember when you and John showed up at school wearing the same blue silk top?

I blame my mother for that.

And possibly John's mother.

Clearly, they wanted us to form some sort of ice dancing duo.

WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A GRAVE ERROR, MIND YOU

Blades of Glory w/Sara and Dan. It would rule.

The late 80's/early 90's were troubling times in teen "fashion."

If by "GRAVE ERROR" you mean "FUCKING AWESOME THING, WHY DIDN'T THAT HAPPEN", I agree.

(xpost: ARGH I THOUGHT THE DAYS OF DAN/JOHN CONFUSION WERE OVER)

No I mean SOMEONE WOULD HAVE BEEN GRAVELY INJURED FAST, SO THAT'S WHY THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, DAN

Also, I'm still confused. Which one of you is Dan again?

Wait, which one am I again?

xpost hahaha

Jeff was the Latino guy, right?

You're all Doctor Who.

Yes, the one with the Mohawk.

xpost

Your clarification does not invalidate my statement, Sara.

xoxoxo, John

(Jeff was actually 4ndy 3ll1s0n.)

Dan was the one with long, luxurious flowing hair.

Dan, I don't remember you being so bloodthirsty in high school.

haha YOU READ MY POETRY, REMEMBER?

Some day I will revenge myself upon 4ndy.

Jeff was the one who dated the girl who called him "Sparky", if memory serves.

Dan was the one with long, luxurious flowing hair.

Why thank you.

hahaha, YES, it's allllll coming back now.

The poetry, I mean, not Ned's hair.

I once wrote this insane nasty poem ("poem") and let Dan read it and he told me he wanted to put it on a t-shirt and tell random people that he met that it was about THEM.

So yeah, maybe we all had our bloodthirsty moments.

Good times.

Do you guys remember when Jeff got robbed in that talent show after dancing to Renegade Sound Wave?

xpost not me i have always been a kind and gentle soul.

Lies.

Well, yes.

Ok, I'm kind of laughing a little hard imagining HS Jeff dancing to RSW and people are looking at me funny.

Because no one every looked at you funny in high school, John.

OH NO I FIT IN JUST GREAT YESIREE.

No, see, the problem was that you didn't hide that you could read.

This was troublesome to many of us.

John being literate, I mean.

I don't think my parents believed any of my stories about the stupidity of Hastings kids until they started killing each other.

IN BEFORE INEVITABLE "THINGS NOT HIDDEN BIKE SHORTS HAR DE HAR" JOEK.

Wow, it seems odd that your brothers didn't mention it...?
xpost

John, let's just never speak of your bike shorts again, OKAY

also re:killing yes, this is true. we went through a brief synopsis w/69 yesterday, and he was appropriately mortified.

Of course, we were guffawing about it so that may have may have added to the discomfort.

I did win "worst home town" three years in a row at Carleton courtesy of all that.

You are only laughing because you LIVED

....bike shorts?

The cause of it all, Ally.

Carleton has weird awards.

At one point, I edged out a guy from inner detroit.

ally, my hope is that the photographic record will not appear for that one.

AAAAARGH NO

(You should have seen my mom's reaction when I told her about the rash of INTENTIONAL pregnancies!)

yeah, that was pretty funny.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1202/1398023374_81d9b7d70d_b.jpg

Wait where's R0b1n???? Am I thinking of the NHS picture?

(lol nerdz)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1114/1398023746_5cf4d3c048.jpg

That picture is awesome for so many reasons, one of them being that it kind of looks like Hemingway was on your Knowledge Bowl team.

xpost

Dan in another hat!

omg

B1ll Schultz!

(xpost) clockwise from bottom left:

gay kid from "My So-Called Life", "Head of the Class" reject, the kid with no face, "Sgt Pepper" tribute band member

lolol

my worldview was kind of shaken when the HSTNGS electrocution story appeared in the weekly world news with NO embellishment.

xpost: fun fact - at least one of the people in the first photo, in true hstngs tradition, is now dead.

I was going to mention that. :-/

Also that's the same hat!

WAIT I JUST REREAD THAT FIRST SENTENCE, WAHT

NO LIE. I might have a copy somewhere.

SCAN SCAN SCAN SCAN SCAN

John, FIND THAT.

Dan, why didn't I ask to borrow your hat in high school?

I think I know who you mean in the picture - suicide, right?

Yeah. God that sucked.

or perhaps i will simply visit the vaunted weekly world news archives.

xpost: yep, although the backstory (which you might remember) is what takes it to true HSTNGS level heights of fuckedupitude.

I am actually the dude with no head in the upper right-hand corner of that KB photo.

is that a porkpie hat?

I didn't know him, but yes, v. sad.

xxxpost

:-/

THAT IS NOT A PORKPIE HAT

Even I had limits! God.

"Goodbye Nonporkpie Hat"

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1397256035_1e7b26a5f3_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1131/1398146436_cba32050a2_o.jpg

OK, I'm done.

http://www.saturn.sk/new/archiv/filmy/rushmore/1.jpg

did dan also write a hit play

I didn't even know there was a Mixed Up t-shirt! I had the Boy's Don't Cry one.

I wrote a shit play, does that count?

I am enjoying those pictures.

Dan - you wrote a play?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1365/1397303511_11950970e5.jpg

FB, you are the cruelest of us. I salute you.

Now put the things I lent you down and back slowly away from the scanner.

John, blame our scrivener, Sara.

I'M NOT THE ONE WITH THE SCANNER, DUDE

omg go to the reading + walking thread NOW

OMG Sara, I'm letting myself get baited into defending bikes on most recent Orcinus post! Trying to hold baaaaack..........

BREATHE Laurel, BREATHE :)

Haha I'm calm, I just feel like I'm clogging up the thread. But people's antipathy toward bikes is so wrong in those comments! I can't believe someone actually said that bikes are WRONG for an urban environment.

Okay, that is just crazy.

Send them to Tokyo; it's amazing the bike traffic they have there - and Tokyo is enormous and urban.

AND IT WORKS (bikes, cars, fantastic train system...)

Haha I'm calm, I just feel like I'm clogging up the thread. But people's antipathy toward bikes is so wrong in those comments! I can't believe someone actually said that bikes are WRONG for an urban environment.

-- Laurel, Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:38 AM (5 hours ago)

WAHT

I promise to hold back from my usual screed about the benefits of public/shared/self-powered transportation. This doesn't meant that I don't want to tie the head of the MN taxpayers league to the front of a train.

uh, in theory at least.

John's opinions are always so restrained and understated.

i really need to come to this thread more often!

hey y'all! this is amazing.

Hi M@tt!

who's ready for some bastards?

Sooooooo tempted right now. You have no idea.

(Kids driving me KRAZY. BUT it's kind of a long drive and I'm super lazy).

COME TO GRUMPYS TONIGHT DUDES

Have fun you guys; I can't inflict my crabby self on anyone.

EVERYONE ELSE BETTER GO AND HAVE FUN, THOUGH

AND FULL REPORTS TOMORROW PLZ

MATT I HAS SIGNED UP FOR YORE MAGARZINES

folx i was a little late to work today. later than usual, even.

GOOD TIMES WERE HAD. NO ONE DIED. BASTARDS WERE ELSEWHERE ;_; FB WAS A PERFECT COMBO OF HILARITY AND INCOHERENCE ON THE DRIVE HOME.

so basically, like most weekday nights.

I'm sorry to have missed it. I had to stay home and SCREW UP MY KNITTING. Next time I'm just going to go out instead.

Wait, where were the bastards?

The other Grumpy's in Nordeast. Well, also at our table, but not the famous prize-winning bastards.

Tonight, I will miss my second "Free Bacon Night" in a row ;_;

Well, I hope you have a good excuse.

I'm lazy?

Or that bacon disagrees with you.

No, bacon disagrees with FB. This much we know.

Bacon and I have a grand concordance.

Who in the world is too lazy to eat bacon?

John, you must be aging.

the bacon is the first to go

<i>MATT I HAS SIGNED UP FOR YORE MAGARZINES

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, September 19, 200</i>

good! look forward to your suspicions that i'm kind of a hack being confirmed haha

Is g4m3 1nf0rm3r, no? I should probably subscribe as well, regardless of your hackitude or lack thereof.

I mean, I've already got toycollection.jpg going for me, I might as well leap into the awaiting arms of dorkdom (no offense, obv.)

hahaha no offense i live up in the ivory towers of dorkdom

yep that's the one. you can get it for real cheap at g@mest0p and get some kinda discount deal or something...

dude, do you have any shows coming up?

i live up in the ivory towers of dorkdom

I want this to be a real place.

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