It's hard work to put Hastings on your family--a mistake that will be corrected one of these days

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FB your dress description sounds alarmingly like my senior prom dress. (Green, metallic... not entirely sure what I was thinking there.)

A vision.

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Well, the dress was lame but it was not lame'. Crazy aunt hunted down some poor old lady's couch, hung it in her garage and skinned it. The cut and style, however bear a striking resemblance.

vs. Bo Derek

FB, I wish I could have seen that bridesmaid's dress. (Bridesmaids dresses are notoriously horrible, though. There's a whole website dedicated to awful ones; I might have it bookmarked downstairs. So it probably didn't take hunting down an old lady's couch; all you have to do is walk into one of those shops and you'll get overwhelmed by scary dresses.)

Or, just claim your parent's address. Who cares if we get exposed. jail time for fraud is better than living there.

I will bake you cakes with nail files in them if you go to jail. Because I care!

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Yeah, that's right Legionaires Disease, I'm calling you out. You're a fucking sissy ailment.

Co-starring Jesus Dan as Juggalo Jim

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Win, though.

I think John's RED DEATH might beat his scurvy.
I mean, one makes your teeth kinda loose, the other puts you halfway in the fridge with a blanket and "Noooo nooo noooo noooo" becomes your response to the only way to keep your brain from igniting.

"USE PAYPAL OR I AUTHORISE MYSELF TO FUCK YOU IN THE ASS WHEN YOU'RE NOT LOOKING!"

Hey everyone!!! Just wanted to let you know I'll be playing a solo show this Friday, August 11th @ the French Press Jazz Café, downtown St. Paul. Doors are at 8:30, I play from 9:00 to 10:00 (5$ cover). I'm opening for my friend John Kerns. It should be a fun night of song and comedy…. as I have not played in over a year!! Come out and support an ole' musician that can't remember her songs but will try damn hard to entertain you all one way or another!!!!

For more info go to….
http://fpjazz.com/

Hope to see you there…N4t4lie!!!

Dan, how did the wedding go? Did you kids own it or what?

Where shall I go, what shall I do? (I haven't channeled Scarlett O'Hara for a v. long time...)

We will be at the Entry Fri. night hoping to see what this M@tt H. dude looks like. Hope to see others, but fear I would not recognize them.

Dan - yeah, tell us about the wedding singing. You don't want us to leave the event to our imaginations. Trust me, you don't.

STALKER.

I've been shut out of ILX mostly! Can never log on...anyway, how's things?

Have you guys discussed the crazy dude who went apeshit in Uptown and stabbed a bunch of people with a SWORD!?

Sword Violence On the Rise In Minneapolis!!

My theory: Renn Fair kid gone bad. I blame the influence of Puke n' Snot.

ILX has been having server problems, btw.

(WCCO) Minneapolis Four people were injured in South Minneapolis in a stabbing that involved a sword, police said.

Police were called to an apartment building at West 31st Street and Lyndale Avenue South around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on a report of a stabbing.

Witnesses said they heard a scuffle in an upstairs apartment and said they saw several injured people running from the apartment.

"The first one that came around the corner had a sword in his hand," said witness Matthew Telfair. "And there was blood on it and stuff. And he was like 'Hey man!' ... and I was really scared at that point. I already saw somebody come down with what might have been a gun."

Police found two injured people inside the apartment. They were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center.

Witnesses also reported seeing paramedics carrying a bag of severed fingers out of the apartment.

Police said they recovered a sword that was used in the stabbings at the scene.

Three more people showed up at HCMC. Two of those people were injured. All three of those people were arrested in connection with a burglary at the apartment building.

Police said none of the injuries are life-threatening.

(Actually, I look at those lyrics and think "Mamma's little baby loves shortnin' shortnin', Mamma's little baby loves shortnin' bread!")

WAHT?!?!

Don't you believe, Fluffy Bear?

Ned, you're right, but from what I hear he looked even worse later, so...

It's a Christmas miracle! (In August).

(Does this mean that your father's weird neocon methods are effective, Dan? Further testing - on a small scale that doesn't involve war - may be required).

Yay for good vacation happiness!

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I Own All Multiple Choice Tests.
Scored a 24 on my ACTs without looking at the math section. I had to piss SOOO BAAAAD.

I also HAVE to analize everyone I meet and plan on actually communicating with as opposed to just conversing with. My autism forces me to learn ways of communicating with each person individually based upon a set of guidlines kind of grouped in weird molecule-shaped sets in my head.(visual thinker)
I've met alot of people in my time and have an extensive library in the 'kinds of people I like to talk to' section.
if I don't like to talk to someone I either dislike it because they're a kind of person I'll never understand, or I'll never understand them becaus they're not the kind of person I like period.

You fit into box 'A' so I was able to glean together enough mannerisms , phraseologies and tone-of-voice patterns into a workable personality profile.
I simply had to reference a few stories for the past posted here, cross-reference ith my past and similar traits of friends and also with how I've seen John's personailty change over the past 4-5 years.
I combined the data from here and my past, used john's net-personality of here, (which based upon the fact he knows people here from high school is likely influenced by that) took hwat I know of him, extrapolated the changes back and pictured who that person would hang with.

The process of figuring the answers for both questions took something like 20 seconds.

I've somewhat over-expounded upon the thought proces involved, it's not so systematic and more piecemeal, but I prefer more data than needed to too little.

Also I like ot make myself look smart.

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I have to say that that made me laugh, for more reasons than I can number. But here's one: I have spent many moments of my life repeating two of John's high school aphorisms to myself at appropriate moments, of course including the x number of years between then and now where we had lost touch. These would be, "Cynicism keeps you breathing" (vitally important to remember at election time, at least for me) and "Stupid people shouldn't breathe" (vitally important at (almost all moments).

Still, can you answer this one?

Robinson family pet/s (mid80s to 90s)

a. no pet
b. three cats named Sophocles, Maribel, and Genoa
c. dog named Gus
d. goldfish named Oliver
e. dog named Spike and parakeet named Penny

Also, would you mind talking about the autism thing with me sometime? (My son has an autism disorder).

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See what happens when you don't come to FAPs, Dan?

So, if I put one of these posters on a zazzle tshirt, who would want one for the fete on Sat?

These are customizable, so you can add text to the back if you so choose.

So my sister called me tonight to tell me that the baby she is expecting is a boy. I just spent the last half hour advocating many of your first and middle names.

insofar as the autism thing, that's more of the sort of thing that needs real-time discussion.
My voice can go at any moment now, so phone is kind of out of the question.
messenger via 'mail that's hot' for me is saint of mingis with no spaces.
Windows live messenger for best compatability.

In the mean time, where does he fit on the spectrum, and what symptoms are most prevalent?
17 years to diagnosis for me, so I've had to, well, extrapolate back for all the things that have affected me in the past and so may do so in the future and find workarounds.

GZeus, no need to chat about the autism thing right at this hot second; we've had the diagnosis (Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified - gotta love the NOS, which seems to mean "CATCHALL!") since he was in kindergarten and he's only 8 now. Hopefully we can talk in person sometime. (Okay, I also admit that I still don't have an IM program, although Austin bugged me about that just today. We have only MACs at our place, though...)

Briefly, 4l3x doesn't take verbal direction well (visual learner), echolalia (repeating or chanting meaningless syllables), serious sensitivity to taste and touch, mild stim behaviors (blinking rapidly, rocking a bit, very occasional flapping of arms), sometimes he decides he MUST crash into the walls or couches (for all I know that is a boy thing, sometimes it is hard to pull out what is just exuberance)... okay I could go on, but this is too long already! Let's talk sometime about it in person if you don't mind.

Often times in explaining instructions to an autistic child they must be told WHY the instruction should be followed and WHY they should find the outcome of following it beneficial to them AND the outcome of NOT following it a negative factor.

Insofar as the sylables, that's a method of developing an understanding of how the mouth and sound interact. At least it is for me.
To this day Weeze(www.myspace.com/sirweezejunk) and I will spend long periods of time exploring ways of making intersting sounds with our mouths.
"Slimblists, force limbs of horse fleds, whips fists press breasts, hard briss frees steves"
And it's more about making the mouth move in interesting ways. The odd imagery just makes it funny.
The reason I can speak languages with reasonably accurate accents is largely due to the fact that i used to make annoying reletetive noises onto tape cassettes and just in general.
It could also be something akin to a mantra. assigning a personal meaning to sounds, often related to a situation familiar to oneself, and forming a sort of solo version of twin-speak.
The mantra has the effect of solidifying that idea or image in the speakers mind(like any mantra).

I'd need to talk with him personally to say anything with any level of accuracy.

Part of what I'm wondering about is how (and when) to explain it to him; he has received special ed stuff since kindergarten, but the PDD-NOS has never been specifically addressed. Ugh, probably should have done it before this...

Interesting about the noises/syllables...

Well, let's talk more in person sometime (I'll be in the Cities quite a bit in the near future).

I have the amazing ability to burn through 89 of my 90 downloads in one night every month.

Though you are stiffer than a girder, they'll let you get away with murder...
Is it me, or is that whole song about our President?

So, due to my impulsiveness, there are now 2 Hastings threads...WHO WILL SURVIVE?

Er, I mean, not to worry, John, I've got your back.

Hastings looks hopefully toward the future with a dawning sense of the inevitability of all things NUMBER 5

so go there, OK? First one to photoshop the hastings cat into an inappropriate photo wins...well, nothing other than our collective accolades, which is prize enough.