I just had an idea for a small online business.
How do you go about buying a domain name that's not owned by anyone?
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Anyone else saddened by the ham-fisted humour evident in the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie?
Bill Murray is funny. He doesn't need a schticky screenplay to be funny, in fact, his capacity for comic...
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How do you go about buying a domain name that's not owned by anyone?
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Anyone else saddened by the ham-fisted humour evident in the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie?
Bill Murray is funny. He doesn't need a schticky screenplay to be funny, in fact, his capacity for comic...
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My dinner break was interrupted tonight by a call to the salesfloor to deal with a customer who was running through the store naked muttering curses to himself.
How was your day?
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Anybody else amused by my referring to the naked guy as a "customer"?
How was your day?
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Anybody else amused by my referring to the naked guy as a "customer"?
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kestrel:
Aww, thankya. He's my sweetheart. And, you're right, I don't trust the other two, either... and I live with them. 
mk700c:
and breathe.
I'm back! The good news is that you don't have to go to L.A. to rock the good times. Ann Arbor is like way more close type.
Also, I'm jonsin' for the Tranna already.
I'm back! The good news is that you don't have to go to L.A. to rock the good times. Ann Arbor is like way more close type.
Also, I'm jonsin' for the Tranna already.
Dear guy with the freshly-coiffed short hair and cute little nose who didn't hold the door open even though you heard that I was just a pace behind you and didn't ask me which floor though you were blocking the panel,
I just thought you should know that your girlfriend was checking me out on the elevator ride up.
Hugs and kisses,
The guy you...
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I just thought you should know that your girlfriend was checking me out on the elevator ride up.
Hugs and kisses,
The guy you...
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mk700c:
I make him cry in the privates.
LOS ANGELES!
LOS ANGELES!
obd:
inconsiderate bastard.
no wonder she was checking you out.
no wonder she was checking you out.
My problem:
I often fail to realize how much we get from a character when they're just present. I'm so concerned with cooking up backstory that I leave no room for subtext when I begin to write. I wind up dumping it all in there instead of just what's important to the story. Consequently it shouldn't be any wonder why I find it so hard...
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I often fail to realize how much we get from a character when they're just present. I'm so concerned with cooking up backstory that I leave no room for subtext when I begin to write. I wind up dumping it all in there instead of just what's important to the story. Consequently it shouldn't be any wonder why I find it so hard...
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superflea:
It ain't no thing.
The tragedy is that I think it ate my favourite Catherine Wheel CD.
It's probably really easy to replace the stereo... or, better yet, maybe I'll just put in a new one.
But still... dammit!
The tragedy is that I think it ate my favourite Catherine Wheel CD.
It's probably really easy to replace the stereo... or, better yet, maybe I'll just put in a new one.
But still... dammit!
superflea:
no, that's legit.
it actually took me quite a while to really get into the cough.
and i'm not saying that's the necessary end result of a year of having them in casual rotation. i dig them. your mileage may vary.
and there is a difference in flavour between the coughing stuff and his solo material... i think the solo stuff might be slightly more up your alley. i'll bring it along - if my CD player starts behaving - when i come up for drinks.
it actually took me quite a while to really get into the cough.
and i'm not saying that's the necessary end result of a year of having them in casual rotation. i dig them. your mileage may vary.
and there is a difference in flavour between the coughing stuff and his solo material... i think the solo stuff might be slightly more up your alley. i'll bring it along - if my CD player starts behaving - when i come up for drinks.
For a guy whose girlfriend doesn't have time to spend with him, I sure spent a lot of time with my girlfriend today. 
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The downside to acquiring the guitar of your dreams--an axe that silkily yields to your every whim, and which you can go days without plugging in, so sweet is its unamplified sound--is that you soon realize the...
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The downside to acquiring the guitar of your dreams--an axe that silkily yields to your every whim, and which you can go days without plugging in, so sweet is its unamplified sound--is that you soon realize the...
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obd:
it's important to treat yourself now and again.
paradogmatic:
I've been considering a return to the world of musical instruments of late - it has been YEARS since I've touched a thing so I may as well begin from scratch, in particular since my major experience was with the mighty trombone..
Far -- FAR away in any way shape or form from a string instrument..
Far -- FAR away in any way shape or form from a string instrument..
You know that Tom Waits song, "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work to See My Baby"? I feel like that. Only I'm off work and I'm not going to see my baby.
It's the same feeling you had when you were little and you woke up from a nap feeling deeply sad about nothing that made any sense.
I'm going out for pizza, 'cause...
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It's the same feeling you had when you were little and you woke up from a nap feeling deeply sad about nothing that made any sense.
I'm going out for pizza, 'cause...
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teclo:
A wise man once said, "Pizza can cure all ills."
The same wise man also ran the New York Pizzeria near my mother's house.
A wise man once said, "Pizza can cure all ills."
The same wise man also ran the New York Pizzeria near my mother's house.
hellkitten:
Aww look.. it you and ginny -->
boy and girl!
boy and girl!
What profile pic? I don't understand.
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Why hasn't Wes Anderson used "She's a Rainbow" in any of his movies yet?
I'll tell you why.
He has yet to write a scene of such sublime adolescent ache as would warrant its use.
But he's getting there...
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Why hasn't Wes Anderson used "She's a Rainbow" in any of his movies yet?
I'll tell you why.
He has yet to write a scene of such sublime adolescent ache as would warrant its use.
But he's getting there...
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ginny:
Are you being chased by CSIS via satellite imaging?
kestrel:
Dork.
I just want you all to say hello to the newest member of Yanni.com! She's a big big fan! "I'm sticking with Yanni," she says. Now that's the dedication of a superfan!
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"cry in the privates"
See if you're not saying it six months from now.
(Re: My new profile pic. I do it for all the beautiful people...
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"cry in the privates"
See if you're not saying it six months from now.
(Re: My new profile pic. I do it for all the beautiful people...
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acidgrampa:
*still laughing*
scopitone6248:
You know I defended your attractive appearance to Kestrel. To my heterosexual limits...
Dear everyone whose place of work was closed for Simcoe Day,
Fuck off.
Hugs and kisses,
Dogslife
PS. I was not among you. I was the ill-tempered fellow at the bookstore that was so handily open today.
Fuck off.
Hugs and kisses,
Dogslife
PS. I was not among you. I was the ill-tempered fellow at the bookstore that was so handily open today.
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oryx:
simcoe day? crazy ontarians.....
siv:
What the fuck is Simcoe Day. Statement, not question. Fragment. Word.
It's Sunday. When I was a kid this was the worst day of the week, because every other Sunday my dad would bring my brother and I back to our mom's after spending the weekend with him, and all kinds of bitterness would be stirred up. It wasn't that I didn't like coming back--I think I preferred my quotidian duties and worries to the weird...
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mk700c:
Half way through reading that post I picked up a pencil and stabbed myself in the eye.
thanks a lot, doggy. Thanks a lot.
Seriously though, my parents gave eachother the ol' "don't let the door hit you in the cunt on your way out" when I was two. Luckily I was too young to remember the rough times, and they seemed to keep things pretty well sheilded from the kids.
That's why I was a bit surprised in high school when I started to realize that my dad was a total whore.
Mom just rolled her eyes.
thanks a lot, doggy. Thanks a lot.
Seriously though, my parents gave eachother the ol' "don't let the door hit you in the cunt on your way out" when I was two. Luckily I was too young to remember the rough times, and they seemed to keep things pretty well sheilded from the kids.
That's why I was a bit surprised in high school when I started to realize that my dad was a total whore.
Mom just rolled her eyes.
rottenart:
we shall all prevail.
in this life or another.
keep the faith,
and don't let the bastards get you down.
in this life or another.
keep the faith,
and don't let the bastards get you down.
Now that you're taking the bull by the jangles and starting your own online cult, I'm assuming we'll be seeing you on the jet-set very soon. You and your wheelbarrows full fo money.
As for said cult, should you need the help of a living, breathing capitalist pig-dog, you know where to come. All consulting at SOLM prices of course (read: free, like duh).