ILX Mood Ring

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In which we detail the shifting moods of ILX in general.

Right now, with the changing of the seasons, the air getting crisper and the leaves falling from the trees, ILX seems to be getting somewhat wistful, reminiscing over lost loves, the single ILXors feeling lonely and demanding help on "how do I meet girls/boys," and the ILXors in relationships asking for proposal etiquette. Despite a brief flare-up on the MoMA thread yesterday, hot tempers seem to have been dampened by cooler weather and a sense of something missing from our lives. Among the American ILXors, there is also an undercurrent of politically-induced tension.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently playing: Tom Waits' "Emotional Weather Forecast"
Current mood: chocolate

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i always get into a great mood during the autumn months. mainly for the scenery, smells and food.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tkmultimedia.com/tkmultimedia/images/animation/MoodRing.gif

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a cold, can't taste or smell anything, and live in London. It's all lost on me.

xpost

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I'm a little homesick for that. I called my mother yesterday and asked her to send me a bag of orange leaves.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

She said "that's ridiculous, I'm not wasting my money on sending leaves in the mail. Besides, there might be a worm or something in them and it could reproduce in California and destroy the ecosystem."

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick's pretty OTM. I like how political tension is doing a really good job preventing ILXors from their usual sniping.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

its one of the main reason while i will never move from New England.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that and Wachusett Octoberfest beer.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

She was worried about sending Jon in the mail?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually it was this.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitch, That mood ring is hypnotic.

I want some Winter Warmer. Is that a mood?

When I was little, my sister and I would gather pretty acorns in a bucket to play with, but inevitably every year we would forget about it and discover it later filled with worms and rotten ick.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread was intended as a reflection of the mood of ILX as a whole, not for personal purposes, but these twists and turns are part of the meandering country road that is ILX, and if this is the route that we have chosen, then I have no choice but to follow it until the next exit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, in which case... I think that postings have been rather been lackadasical lately. It's kinda hard to get worked up (for good or bad) about anything happening. The political threads can be fun, but most everybody's entrenched themselves so deeply for this election that besides the occasional snipery there's little but choir-preaching.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i am really in the mood for choir-preaching! some of us live in political isolation and it is so refreshing to hear similar opinions!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

When I read the title I imagined a ring that would flash "Classic," "Dud," or "TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE!" as appropriate.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.papermag.com/paperdaily/culturalsushi/archive02/sushi_oct02/images/jamie_lynn_sigler/sigler06.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, my original post is really more like a weather report than a mood ring.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.papermag.com/paperdaily/culturalsushi/archive02/sushi_oct02/images/jamie_lynn_sigler/sigler06.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's just because it's Monday, but ILX seems be settling down for a long winter's nap, or maybe even a hibernation. We have made a comfortable pillow out of the brown and orange leaves on the ground and are getting cozy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That makes me sleepy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, seriously

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that postings have been rather been lackadasical lately. It's kinda hard to get worked up (for good or bad) about anything happening.

Great! Everybody shut up for a while! Or are you a nap-hater?

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Man... nothing like an autumn nap, with the window just barely cracked, about 65 degrees in the apartment, big blanket, cats on your feet. Add a little wine, and it may be my favorite thing in all the world.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I love how my ILX name is all gangsta, and my posts are all about being snuggly. I am a man of contradictions!)

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you used to go by something else? I keep getting lost on who's who.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Kenan.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha. Ok, hi, Kenan. Gold Teeth wasn't enough for you? You had to smoke funk?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm too ruff for just one screen name.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm listening a lot to the Rhino boxed set "Can You Dig It? The 70's Soul Experience." It suits the mood perfectly. I'm a Shining Star in the morning, and after dark there Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got.

― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(11:17:29 PM) jeremy 7 2 1 1: d00d
what the shit is going on on ILE?
(11:18:17 PM) wizardishungry: ?
(11:18:36 PM) jeremy 7 2 1 1: What's everybody so worked up about?
(11:18:50 PM) wizardishungry: election
obv
(11:19:04 PM) jeremy 7 2 1 1: xxxxx is a total prick
(11:19:13 PM) wizardishungry: yea seriously

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

wuss.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

KISS MY FUCKING RING AND I AIN'T WEARIN NO JEWELLERY

― Finchley Benchley, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet you all wish you were leaf peepers right now. The colours are amazing - and we've only just begun. I think Americans in general like to be nostalgic for things - The cool autumn breezes reminding one to go inside and have a nurturing cup of hot chocolate. Etc.
I talk politics with my family, and it was recently stated "Oh, well. By Thanksgiving we won't have to discuss this anymore."
That is the measure of our days. The Halloween display in my neighborhood is very prominent. I particularly like the fake tombstones and the ghosts hung from trees with the big American flag hanging from the front door. Ghosts? Tombstones? Patriotism? Pumpkins?

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M NOT AMERICAN SO FRANKLY I DON'T GIVE A SHIT

― Finchley Benchley, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are you from? What's your expected date of regime change?

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Me? I'm from Massachusetts and expect the regime to NOT change on Nov. 2nd. But I'm cynical. The leaves are changing and it is very beautiful here. Stunning, in fact. The mountain that i can see from my apartment is, every day, a brand new vision. yesterday, some of the trees turned yellow. There is still a blanket of green, but every day it changes. The trees here in the valley are rioutous with colour - vivid reds and even purples. And all of the leaves are falling on the ground. I am very happy that i don't have to rake this year.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

what part of mass? im there too.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The police station I pass on my walk every morning has a huge Halloween display up in the bushes. There are lots of skeletons climbing up out of the ground, but also some huge scary monsters peering around bushes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the weirdo who lives underneath me has these giant skull lights on his desk. I think they me be made from real skulls.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

err thats DECK.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Western Mass. The Happy Valley. Easthampton, specifically. But i grew up in Holyoke and Springfield. So i have my down and dirty roots. And you, fellow Masshole?

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The armpit of Massachusetts. Worcester.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(Wrentham kicks Worcester's ass!)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

OOOOh. Worcester. That definitely trumps Springfield and Holyoke. What are you doing there?

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lowell kicks Wrenthams ass.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Great Barrington kick anywhere's ass? I've been there.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I grew up in Grafton, lived in Boston for a few years and then bought a cheap-o condo out here. Not all of Worcester is bad, im in a nice part. I work in Westboro though which is very nice.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ROUTE 9 EAST was a MESS this morning. WTF , house on fire

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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The mood - it is not good around here these days.

weird, i must be missing all of the contentious threads. i was just thinking how in the past year+, and particularly in the past few months, the environment here has been especially friendly

― dell (del), Friday, 4 February 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

you're missing all of the contentious threads

― markers, Friday, 4 February 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

I should work on missing them, they are bullshit threads.

― totally small truffles (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 February 2011 03:00 (fourteen years ago)

indeed

― gallagher 3 (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 February 2011 03:02 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

grouch grouch grouch

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:57 (fourteen years ago)

You personally, or are you speaking for us all?

― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:02 (fourteen years ago)

In which we detail the shifting moods of ILX in general.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://bowlofcheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/oscar-grouch.jpg

― ENBB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://bowlofcheese.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/oscar-grouch.jpg

― ENBB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

Just checking.

― Confused Turtle (Zora), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

fear, loathing

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

what is the color of lols?

― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

unintentional lols

― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

sweaty, morbidly obese

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

those are not colors

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

pineapple yellow

― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

greenish-red

― corey, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

black is the color of my true lolz rofl

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

tattooed all i see, all that i am, all i'll ever beeeeeeeeeeeeeee yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

― markers, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

those are not colors
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Thursday, April 7, 2011 8:29 PM (14 minutes ago)

was worried you were going to say "those are not moods" and i was going to point at internet

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

now i'm curious about how you would point at internet.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

*generally waves arms around, gets sad*

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

daffodil yellow

― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

vicious, behaviorally disordered, sexually inappropriate

(celadon, crimson, & rust, respectively)

― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

celadon!

― corey, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

thats my favorite dinosaur!

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

nah lord of the rings elf innee?

― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

celadon & crimson are like some school colors when your team is The Goblins or The Brownies or some 19th century folklore figure

― Winter Crab (Abbbottt), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:26 (fourteen years ago)

Carbonel & Calidor to thread.

― Confused Turtle (Zora), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

ilx mood ring shows: grouchy, full of malaise, feeling bad about themselves. i blame the changing of the seasons

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

Probably all the Halloween candy.

― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Quiet.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:02 (thirteen years ago)

bituminous

― coal, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:04 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

ilx mood ring shows: grouchy, full of malaise, feeling bad about themselves.

This seems about right.

― Aimless, Monday, 13 May 2013 18:51 (twelve years ago)

Man, what threads are you on?

― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 18:57 (twelve years ago)

I was just gonna say, ILX seems pretty chirpy today!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:00 (twelve years ago)

Ya we're rallying

― i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2013 21:28 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

thinking, searching, busy, stimulating ideas, excited, daring wants, on edge, eeriness, deja vu, disturbed, worried, guilt, impatience, annoyed, exasperated

― how's life, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:53 (twelve years ago)

yes

― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:00 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Today, ILX's mood seems very irritable and angry. Many fuck yous, fuck off and dies, fuck you if u disagrees, and other assorted get-fucked wishes.

― Aimless, Friday, 17 October 2014 01:48 (eleven years ago)

ilx has seemed tense to me for at least a week or two. i don't think today was the apex clusterfuck.

― Mordy, Friday, 17 October 2014 02:11 (eleven years ago)

^this

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 17 October 2014 02:12 (eleven years ago)

question is, when's it gonna happen

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 17 October 2014 02:13 (eleven years ago)

we're sitting atop yellowstone here

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 17 October 2014 02:13 (eleven years ago)

i welcome a bloodletting

― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Friday, 17 October 2014 02:14 (eleven years ago)

How much blood is there left to let?

― markers, Friday, 17 October 2014 02:15 (eleven years ago)

gallons

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 17 October 2014 02:16 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPRtxSszjeY

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 17 October 2014 02:16 (eleven years ago)

I hope so.

― markers, Friday, 17 October 2014 02:18 (eleven years ago)

the treeship of liberty must be watered from time to time

― difficult listening hour, Friday, 17 October 2014 02:25 (eleven years ago)

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