WDYLL 2023

more or less like this prob

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happy January

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Meant to post this in the 2022 thread b/c it's from October but I am drunk now and demand you all have three ilx0rs for the price of one. L-R: me, NickB, Colonel Poo.

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omigod

fantastic

👋👋

aww, miss you emil.y!

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Hi!

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I guess its been a long while since I posted here. I hope a FB link will work.

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aw, hiya trayce!

hi Tracye!

Hey y'all!

Trayce! Good to see you.

Meant to say, difficult listening hour, very nice t-shirt you got there.

hello all! looking charming, i should say.

alfred i have that same henry james bio box set! never finished it lol.

anyway okay there, cool guy-
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currently 1859 local sidereal time. the sun is shining. nice day.

hoping the same for all of you.

Neanderthal no like photos

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hi neanderthal! hi austin!

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let's go bulls!

who plays for the bulls, anyway

That is hair made for ruffling <3

<3 it needs a proper trim tbh, I’ve been cutting it myself for the past couple years and I have no idea what’s going on in the back. Probably something worse than a party!

Karl, can I ruffle your hair

As long as you pick the twigs and sawdust out of there while you do it. If I ever get a job interview I need to be clean and profesh

Single man thinkin about things

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I'm noticing a martini trend in all these pix Al!

Tracye, posts very much in character

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Me, my friend, and her boyfriend with the band Weedeater, outside of Wills Pub in Orlando last night (I'm dude with Napalm Death hat).

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Friendly guy offering a puff, quality hang.

haha that's Dixie Dave.

security didn't even realize he was in the band and stopped him at the door. he's also the dude that delayed the start of the show to...uhm...take a dump.

that photo rules! ♡

Yeah, on reflection I think this is also a candidate for the "pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live" thread.

Twas a great night

Seriously great photo, Neanderthal.

showing neanderthal's photo to anyone who suggests american culture is moribund

Meant to say, difficult listening hour, very nice t-shirt you got there.

― emil.y, Monday, January 23, 2023 3:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

sorry thanks emil.y! it is not my only uzumaki shirt lol

srs institutional bathroom selfie is srs

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In parking lot tailgating for CONCACAF Champions League

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Neanderthal we have the same tattoo!

O word which?

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i played a song in public for the first time since 2006! my floor tom playing is so lightning fast that conventional cameras can only capture it as a blur

is this the blurriest wdyll? i can go blurrier

coolin' it at the newspaper office

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looking great you guys

why ARE there random overlapped newspaper pages pinned on a wall though?

Issues that students were proud of.

Covering an escape hole in the wall, more like.

yeah, I'd check. Haphazard overlapping placement yet otherwise empty wall? There's at least some contraband back there.

Alfred Soto - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side with a negroni

I actually ordered a negroni the other day because of you. I had never had one before and figured "hey if the guy from ILX likes them..."

ty for tipoff trayce

Me, on my 69th birthday, hiking in the Columbia River gorge last November:

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aww

also, of course: nice

did u wait a year to try and avoid "nice" or is that this year

pretty sure he means november 2023 but i could be wrong

feel like the new yorker does this all the time, saying 'last summer' and meaning four months ago. probably fits in with their talk of the town 'on a recent weekday afternoon, i (calvin trillin) stumbled into a secret caravanserai in sunnyside, queens . . .'

anyway it's a great photo!

obligatory nice, looking great aimless! looks like you caught the leaves while they were still changing?

Haven't posted in this thread in a while, I think. After a trim the other day:

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xp - yes, november 2023

ned, you fox!

One tries.

The glasses match the drapes.

looking good you guys

well why not -- my first attempt at a beard, perhaps A Serious Beard.

https://i.imgur.com/Wzukmb7.jpg

hang on have you not always had essentially that beard

haha, it seems like it! it suits you, alfred. :)

i tried to make a genuine attempt at a beard a few years ago and after a couple weeks realized i had forgotten about a few scars in my beard zone that can no longer grow hair. tried to pull off the patchy beard for a bit but started to get too many tips from strangers

I'm going full beardo now, see this hairless one.

my resting face:

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no fair, you're hogging all the handsome

"you LEAVE the sardines!"

just discovered I got papped this November

what does it mean to be papped

but wishing you good health and, if necessary, recovery!

Paparazzi'ed?

"being papped" is when somebody hand delivers you a letter that just says "?fbclid=712871444hhey27217623"

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somebody's gotta do it

it is very unnecessary to include facebook tracker info on links, and learning how to not do it is akin to learning what bcc: and cc: and to: mean

Karl...

Why did you reveal your secret identity here

*looks toward the moon*

it's best to have 7-10 secret identities

but actually the real answer - not sure if you were asking about this indirectly or if it's just what i'm thinking about, but that's the advantage of an obscure question - is that i have always thought of myself as several different identities, or ways to go about things. work, family, church, art. they all held or hold different weights in my life, over time, and i thought of them as different things. but in revealing a secret identity i do seek to just be a little bit more real, although in an obscure way

I am quite convinced that my brain, like other human brains, contains multiple layers of subconscious behavior, which influence my thoughts and actions in ways that are nearly invisible to my consciousness. It often requires some post-event reflection and a bit of 'reverse-engineering' to figure out what the hell happened when these influences intermittently take control of my decision making.

> it is very unnecessary to include facebook tracker info on link

I'm told the new version of firefox has an option to copy links without the extra bits

"being papped" = getting your cervix scraped to check for disease iirc

Or being thrown up on by a baby.

For non-glamorous career reasons I shouldn't post my photo online, but it may surprise you to know that I am a middle-aged man with a beard.

me and my babies. so nice to spend time with them while they are home for the break. we went next door to turners falls yesterday to the thrift store (ugh my kids really like to look at clothes for a long time), the new record store (ugh, i can really look at a lot of records), and the new book store which is awesome and hip and they have another store in brooklyn. fun! i bought some Cioran to get into the holiday spirit.

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that is a great picture!

definitely!

great pic scott! is that the new Unnameable?

(as in, the bookstore)

no, that's my spot in the picture. unnameable is very cool though. had to stop myself from buying books about russian prison tattoos. so many great art/design/music/poetry books.

plus, dude was cranking penderecki. #brooklynstyle

i think that’s my pal Adam! sounds like him.

Unnameable is great— haven’t been to the location near you

Caught in the act of ogling a cute new guest a couple nights ago.

https://i.imgur.com/8KUkagD.jpg

"i think that’s my pal Adam! sounds like him."

that's him. he lives here now. he's very nice.

scott, I love that photo! How old is your oldest?

Rufus turned 21 this month. Long-hair Cyrus is 18. Rufus is still at McGill in Montreal. Cyrus is at MassArt in Boston. It has been so much fun having them here. They are awesome.

omg my boss' daughter went to McGill and just graduated -- i wonder if they know each other?!?!

did rufus, in his first year, live in molson or mcconnell or . . . the other one?

in his first year he was home on a computer due to the pandemic. he tried to go there and live in temporary housing in a hotel that they had set up for students but there was no point because he could never leave his room or see anybody so he came back home. it was sad. when he went back he lived in an apartment with other people. so he never lived in a dorm. he has a sweet scholarship and McGill pays for his housing. i think he's moving into his 4th different apartment with other people in january.

awesome