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1) blueberries (chilled to barely above freezing)
2) the fact that the starbucks menu now includes the phrase "iced coffee" and i don't have to say "iced americano" like a douche anymore
3) picking the most pain-in-the-ass-to-get-to place and going there just because i haven't been there yet
4) animusic (wtf)
5) disco (omg bionic boogie's "risky changes")
6) cochinita pibil
7) catnaps
8) LOVING the cal-mexican accent but missing the brooklyn/queens nuyorican accent just a little bit
9) the universal "pawnbroker" symbol, the three balls
10) TK

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

(whoops, meant for this to be on ILE)

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

this is ILE.

they show animusic on pbs sometimes. gayest shit ever

― XD (eman), Monday, 10 July 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

1. "Laugh/Love/Fuck" by Teh Coup while drunk in a backyard on a hot day
2. the airplanability of 3 year olds (as opposed to colossal 7 year olds)
3. the trailer for The Fountain, holy crap
4. red Swingline stapler
5. credit card debt, finally completely paid out
6. thanks to Cpt. Jack Sparrow my son now totally acts piratey all the time, which is hilarious
7. good used CD bin finds (Amadou & Miriam, BJaxx Rooty, Kronos Quartet RD Burman tribute, etc)
8. pineapple so goddamn fresh right now
9. inflatable pools just large enough that even one of my ginormousness can get yr float on
10. trout fishing in shallow rivers

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

That's like the first time I ever typed "teh" unintentionally.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

1 Ophelia, my sweetie, she's almost 6 months!
2 my husband
3 sleep
4 knitting
5 Inoue/The Hunting Gun
6 Juicer machine
7 Jarhead
8 wind
9 schweppes tonic
10 Magnum (vanilla icecream with choco and almonds)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

hmmm. . .wow this is a stretch for me.

1. new doggie
2. agave plants
3. fresh guacamole
4. the lake

i'm lucky i made it to four.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Let's see now:

1. Vacation as a whole, oh hell yes. Individually within it:
2. NoMeansNo at the Commodore Ballroom
3. Sonic Youth at the Moore Theatre
4. Spectacular scenery en route and throughout the trip
5. Chilling on the San Juan Islands, one of the most beautiful spots on earth
6. Seeing many good friends and family, including a slew of ILXors o' course.
7. Meeting a number for the first time properly, including Jaq and LeCoq.
8. The power lesbian couple donut and I met on Orcas Island who proceeded to pay for all the drinks.
9. A good post-vacation few days of rest, recuperation and low-key get-togethers, plus that there World Cup final.
10. Last but not least, GUARD LLAMAS!

http://static.flickr.com/72/186220574_8df5a9f155.jpg

More photos going up bit by bit on my flickr site.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

1. leaving rochester forever in 19 days
2. new(ish) faster, lighter bicycle
3. jean genet
4. roland barthes
5. running
6. unemployment
7. ????
8. new apartment
9. new city
10. new school

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

1) Digging up and hacking into pieces the rose bush that scratches me everytime I cut the lawn
2) Drawing stupid cartoons on the new kitchen whiteboard.
3) Getting the summer holiday pics developed
4) Homemade Banana Milkshake
5) Engagement Party
6) Job interviews for my dream job
7) Getting hoplessly lost and just driving round laughing about it.
8) Filling the house with cheap houseplants and trying to figure what they are and how not to kill them
9) last.fm
10)New Digital Camera that I can actually carry round with me

― Merrini (Mezza), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

So I'm not the only one who gets scratched every time I mow the grass! I'm not digging up my lovely roses, though.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

*Gennaro Gattuso
*"The Children of Sanchez" overture by Mr. Chuck Mangione
*lunch = one huge avocado
*"Project Runway" season 3
*our Big Fat Secret Project taking shape
*Tim Meadows' performance in Mean Girls, respect
*the plot twist halfway through R.C.Wilson's Darwinia, whoa
*back in contact with many old friends after my birthday surprise party
*the old SCTV episode where they just overdub an entire episode of "The Cisco Kid"
*veggie bratwurst tastes much better after five cans of Leinenkugel's

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

*our Big Fat Secret Project taking shape

Hehehe. I have heard a bit about this and it's great. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

bay
beach
pool
preston sturges
the magic hour
car rides
stubborn french bulldogs
food w/ ian j
e.smith back for the summer
vodka on the rocks with 4 lime wedges

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

1. Zinedine Zidane!
2. Free beer
3. Otto Binder
4. Al Plastino
5. Christopher Goodnight
6. Roger Dean Young
7. my new shirt that looks okay, even though I'm beginning to accept that I should really be wearing SIZE SMALL instead of SIZE MEDIUM
8. my new jeans, which fit PERFECTLY
9. this list
10. ME

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

xpost: oh yeah, that one too! I was talking about another one that no one here knows anything about mwah hah hah, but yeah

lauren's sounds the best so far actually

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

4. roland barthes

FUCK YEAH. What are you reading?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

i just finished very slowly reading mythologies (so good!) and i'm going to read writing degree zero in a bit

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

*lunch = one huge avocado

YUM.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

The mister
Days spent sitting around in pyjamas doing nothing
Doctor Who
Captain Jack Sparrow
Brian Blessed's World Cup punditry on UK GTV2
Roger Federer's backhand
Brothers' Strawberry and Pear Cider
"At the Club" by Kenickie
Raspberry smoothies on sticks (best ice-lolly ever)
Playing pool

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

xxpost:

lovers discourse!
camera lucida!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

also, yes - huge avocados. i had half of one for lunch yesterday with some almonds and it was perfect.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

i want to read all of them now! i have s/z too xpost

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I made a huge guacamole out of a bunch of huge avocadoes over the 4th. we ate it while watching fireworks. tres yum.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

no

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

are you 'no'-ing to avocadoes or july fucking top ten in general? one I can understand the other I simply can't.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- Yes. (Much fresh avocados have been consumed around here lately too, such being the way of Californians.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

advocados plus soy sauce: DIVINE.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

miss misery needs to post a photo of her new doggie.

and ive been eating an avocado every day for the past 2 weeks.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I tried to grill an avocado half yesterday. Didn't work.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

1. avocados
2. lemon
3. lime
4. salt
5. tequila
6. beans
7. barbecue
8. tomatoes
9. cheese
10. fry bread

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Next time I will try grilling one that's not so ripe, I bet it will work.

Random things we tried grilling yesterday that DID work: pumpkin chunks, slices of leftover meatloaf.

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

1. Indulging my total-geek-self with a tour of the LIGO.
2. Catching Mr. Jaq snoozing during the lecture part of the LIGO tour :)
3. Proper meeting of Ned. ("Proper" = features sushi + alcohol)
4. Sonic Youth at the Moore Theater in Seattle w/ Ned, Donut, and Christofu.
5. Etymotic earplugs.
6. Fresh raspberries and apricots.
7. Toe in the water for a return to freelance/contracting.
8. Homemade hickory-smoked pork ribs.
9. Basil plants thriving.
10. Drinks featuring mint.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

MOJITOS!!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

eh, eff off, july.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

mm, yum mojitos.

i need pics of my new doggie but alas i have no home computer at the moment. :( many various bummerz for July.

But new dogs are k-awesome. We now have two nearly identical doggies except the (new) boy is bigger by about 20 pounds. we are thinking of changing his name to biggie smalls.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

1. it's too hot
2. new earring
3. Ultimate Spider-Man
4. it's too hot
5. the zounds
6. eating at the penguin like every day
7. oh wait it's nice this weekend.
8. too hot again.
9. fishing for compliments.
10. naps

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

1. Finally succumbing to Lost on DVD
2. Fancy beers and steamed mussels at Hopleaf
3. My awesome girlfriend
4. The Whitest Boy Alive, "Burning"
5. Breakfast with an old friend yesterday
6. Dancing to reggaeton
7. Laughing at myself -- in a message-board post from the other night I drunkenly mentioned the Justin Timberlake song "Rock Me a Body" (Falco collab!!)
8. The New Yorker and a cigarette on my back porch at 1 AM.
9. Feeling like a rock star when I'm woken up on a weekend morning for an interview about my band
10. New hires at work seem friendly and cool

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

11. Maybe planning a trip in a few months to Belize??

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

1. The Winnipeg Folk Festival (turning into something amazing). Vic Chesnutt, Chad VanGaalen, Jerry Douglas, Alan Sparhawk playing in a workshop and looking pretty happy doing so, Hawksley Workman, Neko Case, Bruce Cockburn and Richard Thompson playing together and separately, Ruthie Foster, and The Sadies being big highlights. Bedouin Soundclash suck.
2. Lucky Lager
3. Reaching goal 3 on my weight loss plan (60 lbs less than I was on New Year's).
4. BBQed steak
5. Sadness of cancelling our Austin trip tempered a bit by the joy of going to my buddy's cottage for a night (more fun than I can explain).
6. Getting excited about going to Toronto in September.
7. Very excited to be going to see Camera Obscura in Minneapolis in a couple of weeks.
8. Girls telling me I look good (not normally something I like to hear but sometimes...).
9. Happy enough at work.
10. Not being upset with it being stupid hot for days on end.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

the Justin Timberlake song "Rock Me a Body" (Falco collab!!)

perhaps you meant "Rock Me Abidal"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

or Rock Me Abadi?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

5. Sadness of cancelling our Austin trip tempered a bit by the joy of going to my buddy's cottage for a night (more fun than I can explain)

ehh, it would've been crazy stupid insane hot here anyway so probably better off. :)

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I was looking forward to feeling that heat! My friend not so much.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

haha! my friend from NYC visited TX for the first time recently and when she returned she wrote "I can still feel the afterburn of TX on my skin."

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

It was 90 and pretty humid here on Friday and I spent the entire day outside. I think I would've been fine there, but it doesn't matter now.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

1. new mj sandal wedges bought at consignment shop
2. not having appendicitis
3. spending 7 hours in hospital by myself. self-sufficient.
4. sleepovers/reconciliations with friends
5. pineapple frozfruit, you were delicious
6. "Lost" showing up on my last.fm charts-- i could just die!
7. the abortion that was Pirates of the Caribbean 2
8. fuck, my stomach ache
9. pineapple frozfruit, part deux
10. being happy again

― archipelago (archipelago), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

3. Proper meeting of Ned. ("Proper" = features sushi + alcohol)

Oh hells yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

11. gazpacho with cornbread croutons

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

confession: i don't like avocados :-(

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

...so JBR, *why* did you move to California again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

to become a migrant farm worker in your bountiful orange groves

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Here's your penny.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

also: to build fighter planes

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

also: conductor on the pacific electric red cars

or cigar-chomping land speculator

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Do you have a bola tie?

― choinklate (nickalicious), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

several

― grandfathered in (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

1. rehoboth beach next weekend
2. books books books galore
3. fourth of july weekend, during which i spent four nights in four separate states
3a. getting to see many friends i haven't seen in ages during that timespan
4. rita's mango ice
5. quizz-off night at pete's candy store
6. having "lunch buddies"
7. seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with my work project
8. coming around finally on philadelphia (i'd never been there long enough to see much of it beyond south street and the usual tourist-y spots, but i thought it was terrific)
8a. pietro's pizzeria on south street (fresh basil and mozzarella topped with goat cheese and spinach oh HELL YES)
9. karaoke
10. best summer of my life, basically

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't like them either, Jody - we can be pariahs together.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

1. New title, more duties & MO' MONEY at magazine
2. Frank's APA
3. Anticipating/planning Frank's 2007 meetup (probably Amsterdam)
4. Comic books got good again while I wasn't looking!
5. As always, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
6. Corn on the cob (the G90 variety that my dad planted this year is the best I've had in at least five years)
7. Backyard birdwatching
8. 110 on the 23rd
9. Excitement/planning re: moving my office
10. WEATHER TOO HOT

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

1. tomatoes that taste good
2. kid is literally "a happy camper"
3. listening to jazz
4. completed "re-entry" writing assigment
5. driving to Vermont from NYC on back roads
6. general lack of in-car bickering w/wife
7. swimming pool on hot days
7. Bombay gin w/tonic or drop vermouth
8. mango/jalapeno/lime salsa w/anything
9. canoe trip w/family on lazy river
10. general feeling of optimism at long last

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

And then I posted and it all went to HELL.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

1. cloudy weather (whoever said Vancouver is a rain city should be sued for misleading advertisement)
2. 5:00pm
3. tapes with disco mixes from 1984 (recorded in a gay club)
4. dopamine
5. Phonique Feat. Erlend Øye For The Time Being (Hernan Cattaneo & John Tonks Exclusive Sequential Remix)
6. sweet god / salmon
7. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. buddhism
9. internet
10. my apartment - clean again.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

1. zubrowka + apple juice
2. drunk while wearing water wings
3. pulled pork sandwich
4. "the taste of tea" by katsuhito ishii
5. entourage
6. tropical truth - caetano veloso
7. baden powell
8. ribs
9. lake
10. comix

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

less heat/humidity than last summer
vandalism
fireworks
getting rid of a large volume of stuff that I hadn't used/worn/looked at in months if not years
raise at work
planning trip to Alaska
paying attention to the World Cup for the first time
overcoming self-doubt
new shorts that actually look good
finally got my tax return!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

And then I posted and it all went to HELL.

ned you've got to start taking me as seriously as I take myself!

11. even though ILX is a shadow of its former self etc etc YOU LOT have been lightening my load lately :-)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

ned you've got to start taking me as seriously as I take myself!

I take yourself very seriously, sir. I don't take MYSELF seriously at all. ;-)

even though ILX is a shadow of its former self

WAH. (I would say this, though.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

1. "She may be the reason I survive" (Toronto remix).
2. Twice Removed by Sloan.
3. Italy proving you can take penalties if you work at it.
4. The way the drums suddenly bolster up at the end of "Georgia" by Boz Scaggs.
5. Fresh chicken and cranberry sandwiches, eaten on the top deck of an empty 74 bus going through Earl's Court on a quiet Saturday afternoon while listening to Bobby Charles' Small Town Talk on the Discman.
6. Jonathan Coe's BS Johnson biography.
7. The turnaround in Grandaddy's "So You'll Aim Towards The Sky" in that it now speaks to me of running towards life as opposed to running away from it.
8. Islington mini-FAP.
9. Listening to Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain in a way I'd never heard it sound before (she understands).
10. Return of Club Poptimism.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)


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