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So, I get this spam thats says "Buy Soma at Unbelievable Prices!" "What ho!" I say to myself, having not quite gotten over talk like a pirate day, "Just what I need to medicate my distopic existence."

Turns out its a fucking muscle relaxer. I was so disappointed.

Brave new world my ass.
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superscott:
yeah i'm trying to think of something to say about how you werent there very long last night but i cant be clever at the moment. so i shall say 'heyyyyy' (like the fonz).
tretiak:
Brave New Marketing, maybe.

Hiya.
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I'm terribly homesick today, for some reason. I want it to be sweater weather, clear, maybe a little windy. I want some leaves on the street, not too many just the leading edgers. I want it not to seem weird that its getting dark earlier, I want it to fit.

Oh, well.
trilobyte:
Go to Michael's. Feel crafty. They may even have fake leaves that are fictionally turning colors.

skull trilo skull
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Its always awkward, and usually painful to discover at random that someone you knew has died. At the same time you feel the loss, the fact that while you knew them you obviously didnt know them well enough to know they died is unavoidable and you end up awash in a cocktail of conflicting emotions.

Its happened to me a few times, usually an acquaintance...
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kengineer:
Haven't read it. I'm still putting off reading White Noise. It's supposed to be funny, but it still feels so much like homework.

I've been on the delivery end of that conversation a few times. So far, when someone I know dies, I usually find out sooner rather than later. There is no non-awkward way to navigate that conversation. You just try to get through it without crashing and burning too badly and deal with the emotions later as they come. What am I supposed to say? "Sorry to hear about your friend?" As you say, she wasn't a friend, just an acquaintance. There is no place for me to go with that; you're on your own.

I don't get the Adam Rich reference. Can you explain?
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So, maybe its just the East Coast boy in me and all, but theres something kind of surreal about a place with flocks of wild parakeets.

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tretiak:
San Dia-Go-Go?
High duck and pelican availability. Them birds fun to watch. Estuaries and tidal pools are fun places to be in general. I think I'll go to the beach right now, in fact.
saraicat:
Actually, I've heard that Central Park has a flock of wild parrots.
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So, apparently, Fetus Prime doesn't like loud movies. Who new?
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tretiak:
You can come to my house and watch loud movies. I finally have the 5.1 set up.

As to who new, I thought the baby new. New to you.
rawr_ima_monster:
Did underworld make he fetus go crazy? Maybe it's a blossoming little goth waiting to get out and worship ann rice?
-Ok, ok, drive-on. meh meh meh.
Dave
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Got another Bob Sagett tonight. Time to get a haircut.
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timmy:
mmmm, Olsen Twins
superscott:
you collect bob saget's too ?!!
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So Sunday I kick off a Warren Zevon marathon and he shuffles off his mortal coil.

Yesterday I answer an insignificant piece of Tommy Chong trivia, and he's off to federal prison for selling glassware.

If you should happen to ask me "Who's your favorite _________?" in the next few days, please forgive me if I don't answer you.
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trilobyte:
I know (see my post in the Mac group this morning?).. I was kinda wrong too - I said they were likely holding because they couldn't stand to have another non-shipping priduct family. We're getting our inventory this week, I'm impressed.

And be the whiny bitch you want about the graphics engine. A Radeon Mobility 9600 will blow the doors off anything nVidia can cook up. The nVidia chip was in the old one and in the PBook 12" because it's slightly smaller and requires a bit less juice. Nevermind the 64MB DDR. I think the 15 SuperDrive model may be the ideal notebook config, though I have no regrets with my machine. Hardware comes out. It blows away the old shit. I wouldn't have it any other way.

skull trilo skull
trilobyte:
Fucking yeah - congrats on the new hotness

skull trilo skull
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So, apparently, while I was having a lazy Sunday afternoon sucking down lemon lime shandys, listening to Warren Zevon and reading in the sunshine, Mr. Z was commiting his final irony.

Guess I had a better day than he did.
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wyatt:
They say he took a nap, and didn't give it back when he was done.

His songs got me through some serious shit over the years. I'm glad I have a working turntable again, I need to listen to some of the old stuff again.

The layers of irony surrounding his death are thick. As Spider Robinson wrote, God is an Iron "Well, if somebody who commits gluttony is a glutton, then..."
tretiak:
What Up, Yo?

Up in the middle of the night and too much sappy nationalistic montage on the radio.

Bleh.
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Clever and overwritten is the new ironic.

Remember, you read it here first.
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rubbersoul:
Dumb is the new smart.
juxlii:
I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. I find it to be not only enlightening, but oozing with honesty and love. I feel that I am a better person for having read it, for the words will carry me in times of doubt.

Now I just need to work on the clever part.
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So, last night I got cruised both by and as a rent boy.

I guess I'm at that awkward age.
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juxlii:
So stop hanging out at the Spotlight and stick with the Burgandy Room.

Jeez.
juxlii:
I do appreciate your offer and, rather than using it myself, will pass it on to "Fingers," one of the fine folks I met during a smoke break wednesday before last. I do believe he is in the background of my profile pic.

Fingers will be contacting you directly.
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Obscure Life Rule #457

When you are carrying around a life-sized stuffed orangutan, everybody wants to be your friend.
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r_dominique:
::laffs:: is that so!
tretiak:
Just got a bounced email myself. Maybe I'll try Nancy and David. Maybe I'll et it ride. I'll let you know.
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So, I'm strolling down the promenade in Santa Monica. Its wall to wall tourists as one might expect, but I need to kill some time and satisfy a powerful craving for mahi mahi burritos, so its all good. As I thread my way through a pack of them gawking at some buskers, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but Gallagher. The "comedy is destroying...
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max16characters:
Well, if smashing mellons with sledge hammers were primary qualifications for gubenatorial leadership, Gallagher would kick ass.
fallen1carus:
every time i see this pic i smile. it's beautiful. when i was at gir's house with mistressmissy and zarina, we all gathered around and looked at sg.

it's so sad, and so happy.