I'll tell you what.

He's become a scientologist.

this is grim

I've got to run to keep from hiding,
And I'm bound to keep on riding.
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no,
Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider.

And I don't own the clothes I'm wearing,
And the road goes on forever,
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no
Not gonna let em catch the midnight rider.

Does your roommate look like this?

http://www.grusin.net/eb0c8fa0.jpg

Maybe he just went up to ol' Gus Atwater's place to dry out.

He actually looks kinda like the singer of Arcade Fire, haw.

Oh that's way more depressing. :(

You can't give him a call & ask? Or ask mutual friends if they know what's up?

It sounds like a pretty weird scene.

Do you have any canyons nearby?

http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/thelma-and-louise.jpg

(I know I'm not being helpful. I'll go do something else now.)

You can't give him a call & ask?

I don't have my cellphone, which is the only way I have his number. I could probably call around and get it, but it doesn't really seem worth it yet.

Dude, call around and get it, at least then you'll be a bit closer to knowing whether anyone else has seen him, whether something bad has happened to him, whether he's planning on coming back or whether he's just gone mental and skipped on you altogether.

But hey, two days, could he not have just gone off with his band somewhere? Do you really talk that much when he is around?

this is how episodes of without a trace start

Without a Trayce

We don't talk a lot, but he acted normal when he left.

I ate some of his Domino's pizza that he left in the fridge in a kind of rage about this.

What, are you Godzilla or something?

lol

I felt like Godzilla at that moment, yes!

roxy takes tokyo

Is the ant infestation directly connected to your housemate going away? Did he leave the rotting carcass of a chicken there or something?

maybe it is why he left???

Well, I quit my job down at the car wash,
Left my mama a goodbye note,
By sundown Id left kingston,
With my guitar under my coat,
I hitchhiked all the way down to memphis,
Got a room at the ymca,
For the next three weeks I went huntin them nights,
Just lookin for a place to play,
Well, I thought my pickin would set em on fire,
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

i was just trying to explain my day fully, really

so my advice is to call the ymca in memphis.

why would you need his number to call him? you said he stole your cell phone - call your own number

i tried that actually, it went straight to voicemail which probably means its outta battery power. i think if he took the phone it would be inadvertent

Though no longer in wide use, the phrase "to pull a Crater" suggests vanishing to avoid facing responsibility.

For many years following Crater's disappearance, "Judge Crater, call your office" was a standard gag of nightclub comedians and was often heard on public address systems. The phrase was still popular as graffiti into the 1960s.

In order to promote the 1933 film Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros. advertised they would pay $10,000 to Crater if he claimed it in person at the box office [15].

Golden Girls once used this gag by having Rose search through the refrigerator, "You'll never believe what I just found." Dorothy responded, "Judge Crater?"

Stephen King's short story "The Reaper's Image", seen in the collection Skeleton Crew, implies that a mysterious fictitious mirror is responsible for Crater's disappearance.

In episode 4, season 3 of The Dick Van Dyke Show ("Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice"), Rob and Laura seek to "remarry" and end up before a judge who identifies himself as Judge Crater. "No, not that Judge Crater. Judge Krata," he quips.

In episode 9 of the "Topsy Turvy World" sequence of The Bullwinkle Show, Boris Badenov gives Natasha Fatale three guesses as to who lives at the North Pole. She uses all three guesses in one reply. "Santa Claus, Judge Crater, and the Lane Sisters."

In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Terra Nova", Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart are mentioned as two unsolved mysteries. Although Earhart's fate in the Star Trek Universe is known, Crater's is not.

In the Night Gallery episode "Rare Objects", Judge Crater is one of many disappeared people collected by Raymond Massey.

In the episode of The Sopranos entitled "House Arrest", the doorbell rings at Uncle Junior's house. When Bobby asks who it could be, Junior responds, "Judge Crater. How should I know?" A puzzled Bobby asks, "The one who ordered the house arrest?"

In the MASH episode "Bless You, Hawkeye" Col. Potter, during a meeting in his office, says "The keys to the Lab were pulling a Judge Crater on us."

an aspie scram!!!

sounds like an aspie SCAM to me

he didn't take your cats too did he

they're all here

:)

has he been known to do this before? did you know him before you were roommates?

no and not really

if I were you I'd get a new phone and deactivate the old one (can that be done without the old phone in hand?)

I mean if he's going to stick you for rent or whatever, I wouldn't put it past him to use your phone for the free minutes

he can't, it's his house

wait, did he take a bunch of other stuff too or just his musical equipment - I may have misunderstood

Did he leave other stuff of value in the house?

yeah, that's all he took

Not to belittle your problem roxy, but I'm fascinated by the Judge Crater thing!

same here!

oh, im not worried or anything, just kinda o_O

perhaps he had a secret desire to be a wandering minstrel, playing songs of adventure and far away lands for a sandwich

he's in my driveway

Two days is not so long, I've been weird about roommates, you can decide you don't like them and that if you told them things you'd have to tell them everything, so you tell them nothing instead. Maybe he's gone away for the weekend.

no, wait, it's the singer of arcade fire. sorry.

rox i am lol'in @ the idea of you saying "i tell you wut" in the voice of dale from king of the hill

dude i work with lives in Judge Crater's house

Does Captain Roadtrip own or rent?

I'll tell you what reminds me more of that guinness ad with the horses.

He owns the house.

just reread this ominous thread:

i sent my roommate with a 20 dollar bill to buy "as many bags of hint of lime tortilla chips as you can"
!!!

-- roxymuzak, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:39 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

not coming back

-- omar little, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 5:30 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

hahaha prophet

I would more fear him getting in an accident than running away. It's quite odd that he didn't tell you where he was going, given that he probably wanted his house taken care of while gone. Is he full of youth and foolishness? Or just foolishness? On the other hand, insta-road-trip for a musician dude is mighty attractive when it opens up b'fore ya unexpectedly.

i sent my roommate with a 20 dollar bill to buy "as many bags of hint of lime tortilla chips as you can"
!!!

-- roxymuzak, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:39 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

whoa, that's what i've been eating all day to chase my hangover. i prefer the insinuation of lime or the rumor of lime chips but i'll play it as it comes.

maybe he's going to the crossroads to duel with the devil

of course 9/10 speculative scenarios in my head involve satan so ignore

http://www.jdmfilmreviews.com/images/crossroads-guitar-duel.jpg
roxy's roomate, last night at midnight

he's probably trapped in some cougar's den.

hes like 35

Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) is a reporter who's interviewing the surviving members of a band who's music is being revived. Memories of the band's leader Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) are being relived as Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger) is reunited with the old members of the band. As the memories are relived on the screen, it becomes clear that someone is looking for the lost unpublished tapes of the band's final recording and that someone might be Eddie!

hes like 35

he's trapped in the den of a cougar who struck out with all the young stuff so when the lights came up after last call she turned towards the band, shrugged, and said "what the hell..."

rox i am lol'in @ the idea of you saying "i tell you wut" in the voice of dale from king of the hill

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, July 12, 2008 5:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dale doesnt say that u n00b

faced

dale might have something to say about how the guvermint took yer roomie though. Is his name.... MISTER SHACKLEFORD?
SH-SHA!

did this guy return

Maybe he's Ronan's roommate's freeloading guest?

this is one of my favorite thread titles

http://www.helpinghandsgroup.org/images/the_missing_piece_book.jpg

yes

i did essentially nothing and he returned in like a week and a half and acted as if nothing had occurred

we have not spoken since, and i basically vamoosed for my BF's haus

(i found the cell phone, he didn't take it)