SO U MOVING TO HSTNGS! PACK A AMPULE OF ANTIVENOM AND A FACK FULL OF EMINEM

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hi arbys

This is AWESOME and PERFECT, lollll

Welcome to your new life, arbys. We'll see you through.

notable things about HSTNGS:

1) The high school looks like a rich community college; it's kind of insane.
2) Many of the people who live there are awesome, but many of the people who live there are terrifying townies. Tread carefully.
3) Avoid teenagers like the plague. They are all insane with boredom and are likely to do lethal things for no good fucking reason.
4) Invest in cable; after the first few times you walk through the parks, you will have exhausted much of what the town has to offer.
5) People will invariably mention the Le Duc Mansion as if it was a big deal. It isn't.
6) If Spiral Pizza still exists, order from them at least once and ponder on the fact that this local business put a Little Caesar's out of business.
7) Life revolves around the high school and the newspaper.
8) The easiest way to meet people is to become churchy. There are something like 20 churches in town.

wrt #8 The problem with that is that you might meet the craziest town people that way! You might be safe if you stick with the Episcopalians and Presbyterians. (I might be biased bc some of my oldest friends go to those churches)

to be honest, living in hstngs as an adult is prob not all that bad, its just a shit place to be when you cant drive

TRUTH NUKE

Any small town is a shit place to be when you can't drive.

This may well be true but a lot of really odd, disturbing shit has happened in HSTNGS, much of which you can find by digging through the archives of this board.

Now, I haven't lived there in 20 years so maybe it isn't still like Twin Peaks set in Stephen King's Maine, but seeing as recently as 6 years ago a kid talked his friends into helping him shoot his parents in the face so he could collect their life insurance...

I visit frequently bc my family is still there. It's still boring as hell, and I think that lulls you into not noticing the Twin Peaks set in Maine vibe. But then crazy nonsense like what you mentioned there happens and it's just like... okay, is it just me, or is there a theme here? And the answer I always come back to is yes.

In retrospect, I think I was super lucky in my choice of friends. And all of that hinged on the random decision one day to join Drama Club.

When weird stuff happens in Hastings, I never even feel surprised anymore.

BUT the key is to be aware of the possibility of CRAZY. If you're alert and avoid teenagers, you're probably good.

Also forgot to mention my brother's liquor store, H0us3 of W1n3s. (Dad now running the Red Wing stores.)

finally got someone to call back to set up a viewing! yeesh. seeing the place tmr after we're off work, some loft above a big masonic building downtown; hopefully i only need that sock full of quarters for laundry. we looked around for places in vermillion and such, too, and it looks pretty solid that we'll wind up in hstngs.

to be honest, living in hstngs as an adult is prob not all that bad, its just a shit place to be when you cant drive

this will actually be the first place i live in which i own a car.

I remember vividly how going to Burnsville seemed like a big deal when I was in high school. (This may be because my mother was terrified of driving anywhere other than Burnsville...)

Going to Burnsville was a big deal because they had a Shinders!

We never went there, though! It was strictly B. Dalton. (remember B. Dalton?)

B. Dalton vs Waldenbooks

Why hello 1988...

(I always preferred B. Dalton, btw)

I think everyone who made sense preferred B. Dalton

yeah i have no real reason to dislike waldenbooks but to this day i still do. i mean inactively i guess, but

i think there was still one of those left in the roseville mall last i checked actually. where time stops.

also going to burnsville was a big deal because NORTHERN LIGHTS man shit

weren't Northern Lights and Shinder's in the same strip mall?

that was the best strip mall in America IMO

yes they were, and yes it was

google is claiming that Shinder's still exists, is it lying?

sadly yes

according to some insidey info basically dude inherits business, loves whores and drugs, buries the whole empire in like less than a year

wtf

I guess it's a good thing I moved away, I wouldn't want revenue from my Doctor Who purchases paying for someone else's whores and drugs

I mean, if that was drugs and whores money, I would have spent it on drugs and whores

oh man I'm missing you guys right now... <3 <3 <3

And also that Northern Lights!

pff drove to hstngs just to go "oh the ad didn't say no pets". which is a bummer, i kinda liked the place. and if we wanted to roll with the twin peaks in derry, ME vibe all we really needed were some red drapes:
http://images.craigslist.org/3kc3oa3l35V55U45R2b5rb785d395dfbc12c3.jpg

picked up a local paper looks like they caught up with the garage door bandit over there in cottage grove. copper thieves hitting all the light poles tsk tsk tsk

growing up in w1nd0m it was all about driving to the river hills mall in 'kato cuz there was an arcade, or you'd drive to w0rthington cuz they had a movie theater with more than one screen and they showed their movies when they actually were released rather than only getting kids movies or the biggest possible blockbusters 6 months after the fact. i think hstngs was just big enough that weird stuff happened whereas w1nd0m i think there was one incident where some kids on the football team chased some cheerleaders or something with hockey sticks and that was some sorta big deal. beyond that it was like who got who pregnant and just...so sleepy.

omg how did i miss the inception of this thread

i think the last time i actually "set foot" (like literally, vs driving through) in HSTNGS was last autumn, when some buds of mine and i went for a ride down to red wing and back. i kept pointing out boring stuff like denny's and emily's bakery and being half-misty half-scornful and they were just like "sure man whatever" and then i was like "right why on earth would you give a shit"

we went to the dairy store and got milkshakes. they were like $1.25 and i was ~incensed~

wait so you have hstngs connections too? i think i've missed this.

btw there is something very satisfying/weird about how ilx is crawling w/HSTNGS ppl to an extent that involves someone actually moving there. that is some circle of life shit, right there

xp yeah!

4-12th grade

hstngs was just big enough that weird stuff happened

i want this to be true, but i've met loads of ppl from other equally-sized towns in the midwest and i still sorta think that hstngs occupies some liminal borderland of boring weirdness

xposts yeah it's weird to me too. when kg and i were looking for places to live for back-2-school time and she was like "i think hstngs looks like our best option" well i don't need to tell you what went through my mind

more xposts wow i had you pegged as from duluth or something idk how that lodged itself in my brain.

not doing a great job of selling you on it, sorry

anyway, i blame the bridge. http://teslastaging.com/forums/images/smilies/Gestures/userArmsCrossed.gif otherwise we'd be stillwater. beautiful, sane, touristed stillwater. fuck you stillwater why won't you return my phone calls!!!!!!! you're worse than that stuck-up red wing!!!!!!

i've probably been to duluth maybe three times. but i guess i talk a lot of trash about outdoorsy stuff that it makes sense

tbf, i think that when i and the rest of the ilx hstngs posse lived there (which was a...span) it was more of a "small-town" whereas now i think it's graduated to "exurb" status? i went to the new high school when i was in college and was like 'holy shit.' they learn in pods and there's bridges over the cafeteria/"social area" and the auditorium is amazing and i got spurned at lockers in tilefaced hallways (is this true? about the tile, i mean? i remember tile being everywhere) and farm boys fighting all the time

i also remember chris h3rman (of the clan h3rman) saying no, thanks, to the police officer that offered him a sledgehammer when it came time to bust the window of a car at a cop fundraiser in the parking lot and just punching it out with his fist. i remember thinking "i'm glad he's ok with me," because i was a nerd that had an hour and a half bus ride with bunch of fucking nutcases and he was my neighbor

i rep bus 57

this thread is making me laugh and cry at the same time already. So TOTALLY HSTNGS!!!

actually wait was it 57 or 16

I think jjj and I were on bus 1

also this:

i also remember chris h3rman (of the clan h3rman) saying no, thanks, to the police officer that offered him a sledgehammer when it came time to bust the window of a car at a cop fundraiser in the parking lot and just punching it out with his fist. i remember thinking "i'm glad he's ok with me," because i was a nerd that had an hour and a half bus ride with bunch of fucking nutcases and he was my neighbor

platonic ideal of HSTNGS

oh man, lolol

UPDATES

have you been murdered yet etc

have u gotten a milk shake at the dairy store

where, I was dismayed to discover, the price has risen to $1.25!!!!

see how obamacare is crippling american industry

dairy store = the creamery on 61?

But yes, is arby's still alive or has our well-meaning advice not helped a poor soul in peril?

;_; did someone whip shitties on arby's face and that's why he hasn't responded

Going to HSTNGS tonight (well, at least outside of it, to my sister's house). Do I need to keep my eyes open for dead ILXors in the road?

well it is HSTNGS, there will be a dead SOMETHING in the road

Don't worry, I will take the usual precautions.

sorry guys i was wayyy busy preparing for the move all weekend--we move on sunday! we lined up an apartment downtown by the river, real high ceilings, big kitchen, cleanest one we looked at. really afraid our bed won't fit up the stairs of that old building tho. what else. found out my work has a hstngs location and transferred so my worrying of unemployment perils were satisfyingly short lived. i'm getting really pumped about all this tbh.

i met a guy who had a really gorgeous mandolin built by one of my future instructors. i have all my tools. it's weird, this stuff feels real now. like a tangible ~thing~

Yay, glad you are still alive and found an apartment! Now, have you set in a supply of damn fine hot coffee, doughnuts, cherry pie, and an assortment of weapons?

I made it back, obv, had fun at my sister's. Kids are very entertained by her swimming pool, that is for sure. I was entertained by the pumpkin pie martini my cousin made for me.

awesome, a singing, dancing martini

YES

On my way to HSTNGS, meeting my Evil Twin for dinner and hangout time. Man, if there's one thing I loved about HSTNGS, it was that I had an Evil Twin...

Survived, walked through cemetery and sat down by the river and it was actually really nice. Came home UNHARMED

Infected imo, not to be trusted

As infected as the rest of us natives are, with a deep distrust of HOME

Don't ask me why, but we ate dinner at Pizza Hut. The bathroom walls still make everyone in the bathroom appear jaundiced. It's nice that they keep that old school Hastings touch...

20 year reunion is this saturday

;_;

my TOP SECRET plans fell through, so now I am not only missing the reunion, I'm missing the thing I was originally missing the reunion for

;_;

also I thought my car would be here this weekend but it's going to be at least another two weeks

it is entirely possible i may not go - FB is out of town so it would just be me and mook against the world which isnt so bad but - ick. other people dominating my fun.

Ry4n R is gonna be there, if that matters.

You should go and report back bc otherwise I won't get to hear about it. *sob*

deX - I'm sorry you're missing so many things, that must be a sign that you should move home immediately...

I go there.

Please send me your prayers and bail money

If my $50 doesn't get me an open bar I will end up in jail fyi

godspeed

God has nothing to do with this

PRAYING FOR YOU RIGHT NOW

no bail money forthcoming, sorry, dude

I am getting the most hilarious texts from our man

Scurvy is "our man" now?

Okay, nevermind that, I want to hear about the texts!

ditto!

good lord, I SO want to text Dan right now to see if he's still up and will report back, but of course I'm not sure the cell phone # I have for him is still current.

HOW did I not anticipate this?!

one charming lady from our class was having an earnest conversation about how sometimes you just need to "punch a fucker in the eye"

one dude spent 20 minutes talking to our boy about selling shoes

another dude has gained 400 lbs and won't stop talking about his Branch Dividian church

the DJ played "P Control" by Prince and ppl got UNCOMFORTABLE

one of our classes premier athletes has not retained her grace; she attempted to jump jump as Kris Kross instructed and ended up faceplanting

OMG LOLLLLLLL

also the only person who has said hi to me via John is one of my exes ;_; UNLOVED

belay that, my 7th - 8th grade crush just said hi ^_^

I'm just flashing back somehow to a story that FB told once on a HSTNGS thread about going to St4cy M4tul4's church and her Dad making them push shopping carts around to the song "Push It"

Whew, Dan, come on you know we all love you!

hahaha yes I remember that story

So who was this crush anyway - I promise we won't tell anyone! ;)

R0b1n C4n3ff (I keep forgetting that all happened before we started hanging out)

Oh! Well that makes sense. She was cute (and still is)!

Boy, if I related my list of crushes to you, you'd be either horrified or confused - horrified at some of them (J03 Sm1th, super-religious guy!) or confused (Uh... who?).

Hoping to hear a more detailed account of this event tomorrow, assuming John survives...

We all died

Rip class of old

how is the Hit & Run

I have a DVD 4 u

Talent sgow

its sad they were from HSTNGS

Fuck u iPhone

haha with my terrible dancing

so I thought I could dance (dance) (dance) (dance)

Hahahaha

Oh teh humanity

Jesus christ

was K horrified by our high school peers

Haha k was smart enough not to go

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

plz let her know that henceforth she will be known as "Runs From HSTNGS" and "Scaredy K", depending on which one I remember when I next see her

i told a bunch of people that i had a child named henry and that he was 2 years old and 110 pounds and only ann3 b4t3man was smart enough to realize i was lying

yeah ha i can only imagine how shameful "runs from HSTNGS" would be

"from here on out i will call you "doesnt eat spoiled meat" and "good survival instincts" as a MEASURE OF YOUR SHAME"

hahahahahahaha that is awesome

I also haven't thought about Ann3 in YEARS, wau

what is that like i wonder, running from HSTNGS

hmmmmm

now if you will excuse me, this Crow: City of Angels CD needs ripping

mook and i did do a good job of telling everyone that FB couldnt make it because he was in prison, and when j03l ols0n asked me about why he had heard he was engaged i said "well yeah he is engaged to a dude named MC thats how it works in prison".

that is FANTASTIC

pretty sure that j3nny ruby is about 10 minutes from a doctor mcgillicuty induced medical coma at this moment fyi

where is this going down

so... not much has changed in 20 years there

my five year (lol u old) was at ~the island~ and man that was a trip

its sad, she was a rail thin horrible cunt

whoops i have been drinking

ha

the big question of course is "who hooked up?"

besides you and J3nny Ruby, that is

Oh btw humungo davidian dude was Ch4d tur3k not that other dude but who can tell the differenxe

He wants to retold my house and tell me about jesus

Reroof

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh that makes so much more sense (somehow)

iirc he was always on God Squad

figure if you let him tell you about jesus our lord and savior while he's actually in the process of roofing then it's a p solid deal

jesus might be able to hold and suport him in his arms, but not so sure about my roof tbh

I was waiting for that

one set of footprints leading to a broad indentation cordoned off by police tape

"that, my son, that is where my knees gave out"

why do all of these people expect me to give them "joints"

livebloggin my misery

let me crowdsource my next response to "you look just like you did in high school"

"you sure don't"

"awwwwwww. sorry"?

"my nuts have aged significantly, see?"

"i started with never giving up"

alternately: "you know I was L34h H3b3rt, right?"

this is terrible and also awesome

i still want to know where is

btw when did IFC start showing commercials during movies, and why are some of those commercials for Trojan-branded vibrators

this is kind of ruining Zodiac's vibe, so to speak

this is where zodiac and trojan-branded vibrators go to die

and that place is called the green mill event center

I will be so mad if a group of you don't all caravan over to Hit & Run

altho a large number of HSTNGS alumni trekking to a bar is likely to cause a hit & run, so be careful

real talk

mook will have my back on this, I know

mook is long gone

i am the highlander

who else is left? I see Ch3ryl is back home via Facebook

NAME NAMES

(ps why am I not asleep)

vicarious reunining

i have no idea who these people are

terrrrrible peoples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgXzPfAxjo

hahahahaha

I am now playing this in honor of your sacrifice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvT8fD75Rvs

(yes I am dumping random CDs into my iTunes library)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgegAcKJN8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXg_70rMeM&ob=av3e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVC8Y4aJdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHWkQI6SzW0

see there is a perfect song for everything

lol

I had forgotten how life-changing Serious Beats, Vol. 3 was for me

Oh I should NOT have gone to bed early last night, LOLLLLL!!!

jesus, i've never been back to a class reunion and i don't think i could handle it. the thought of making small talk with ppl i haven't seen in 15 years...i just.

someone actually yelled "fag" out their car window at me tonight, it was the first time in years. tbh i was riding a girls schwinn with blinking lights. and wearing my g00dwi11 uniform. but still!

and oh yeah: a few days after we moved in i was unloading a card table and chairs from my trunk. as i'm going around to open the trunk an old dude (looking v much like a sloppier dr. jakoby fyi) said hi as he was passing, only he didn't pass, and stopped dead and just stared a while. it took me forever to get the table/chairs out cuz i had a painting in one arm (idk why i didn't put it down), and i'm mucking with them for forever and he goes "well, have a good afternoon!", and i'm like "yeah you too!", but he just keeps standing there, staring at me. didn't go away until after i finally unloaded and closed the trunk and locked the car doors. kinda innocuous i guess but somehow really unsettling at the moment.

You are truly experiencing HSTNGS to the fullest

^^^ this

the encounter with the old dr. jakoby had a very http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/136/s_45709fa94f19416e89a3391cde4ce6c4.jpg kind of drawn out awkwardness. y'all weren't kidding.

We would never kid about HSTNGS. It's more like one of those things where you have to laugh about it...

people scoff at me when I tell them I grew up in a real-life Twin Peaks until I start telling stories

We didn't have a Log Lady (that I know of anyway), but that might have been all we were missing.

you've forgotten Lu Stoff3l already?

OMG LOLOL

Serious <3 <3 <3 to you for that, thank you

so, is there a curse here you guys aren't telling me about? we've had a small string of bad luck* punctuated by sort of a call-is-coming-from-inside-your-house moment last night. a few days after moving in KG's car has a $600 break down. no sooner than it's fixed, my car breaks down, so i've been biking to work all this week. (and, if we don't get it fixed/figure out reliable transportation, commuting to school=no go). my car's capacity to accelerate cuts in and out at its whim, which last night meant a pretty harrowing drive to the autofixit place**. then, we're walking home down sibley and KG receives a text, from herself, of an icon of a bicycle. yeah good joke, universe!!! this town is indeed strange and mysterious. also kind of a dick.

*(in addition to the car stuff, there has all the while been the difficulty of tracking down where my paycheck's been bumbled off to while my bank account's been sitting in the negative, but that's another story...)

**(this was dangerous and stupid and i regret it but we didn't have money for a tow)

this town is indeed strange and mysterious. also kind of a dick.

YES

I'd sell you my car but I'm in MA so

It's a 2001 Rav 4, 92K miles, manual transmission, very good condition except for scratched bumpers

i'd buy it but it's a manual transmission (and in MA). plus looking for something small...but anywho

but yeah Sara OTM, also I feel like the HSTNGS cru has done nothing but warn ppl about the vortex of weird that surrounds the town whenever it comes up

tracking down where my paycheck's been bumbled off to while my bank account's been sitting in the negative, but that's another story...)

i love this thread but have nothing to contribute, generally, not being a resident/reformed HSTNGSr, but just wanted to say that i had this recently & it sucks and is as infuriating as bureaucratic errors get, so feeling for you here

yeah what's frustrating is that i didn't quit, just transferred locations, so it should have just been sent to my current location. but instead showed up at the old location, ten was sent to my prior address, an action that was sat on for a time...ultimately i should have just filled out the direct deposit paperwork a long long time ago and avoided all of this so

ugh, arby's, I'm so sorry that is happening to you! :(

and yeah, HSTNGS is just that kind of a place... still thankful for the many friends I made there - and that many of them remember the craziness as well as I do.

btw

http://i.imgur.com/srZNh.jpg

Do you have any recourse for getting back bank fees incurred due to this paycheck screwup?

Also have you checked the paper for used cars? You might get lucky.

it was only a $30 charge for one overdraft and i guess i'm just saying fuckit cuz i got other things to worry about (i'm now back in the positive btw after getting my deposit back in full from the last place).

been rummaging through craigslist for cars but ultimately waiting to see what the auto place says about the state of my current car before i go whole hog in search for a new one. will prob nab a paper from the gas station next to work today though, good idea.

xp to gbx waht is that!!

HSTNGS my friend

yay its my favorite picture in the world

That pic is always hilarious.

I'm just in "buy a car!" mode because put money down on a car that I thought we would have this past weekend but may not even be built until next week, so I am just trying to live vicariously through others until it gets here.

(kind of glad I didn't just sell our old car off tho, we'd have been SOL this month)

lmao. in kato i lived in an apt above a place that sold knockoff designer clothes as a drug front for a while. one morning i looked to see someone had spraypainted <--CRACK in six-ft letters on the adjascent building. lolled all day.

given my non commute my car is going to last FOREVER

i drive literally 30-40 miles a week and the car has idk 70K on it? i started doing the math and now that i carried the two the answer appears to in fact be forever.

xp hahaha thats pretty awesome

why have i not made a tshirt of that photo yet

Yeah you can see from the stats on my old car (which we bought new) that I averaged about 9k miles/year on it, and that includes multiple road trips to NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Akron and Cincy. We could probably drive it for another 10 years easily but lol I'm almost 40.

picture is somehow extra brutal on account of failed attempt to spray in red paint

ATTN JJJUSTEN

I have just found your new favorite band

http://wavepoolabortion.bandcamp.com/album/wavepool-abortion

yr welcome

Got a great tourmate for 'em as well:

http://herpes.bandcamp.com/

wavepool abortion really is the best band name

im scared to listen to them because i fear they will ruin their magical name

It's even better...they're from Moscow.

based on my initial listen through I would describe them as a stupid version of JAMC

"VE ARRR VAVEPOOL ABORTION!"

wait, are they Russian or are they German pirates

nitpicky imo

yeah on first listen they sound kinda cool tbh. too much color, maybe, but i unfairly want all russian punk to sound exactly like grazhdanskaya oborona so..

why have i not made a tshirt of that photo yet

― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

do it.

i still proudly wear my Hunter, Age 3 t-shirt

I don't even know what happened to my Hunter, Age 3 t-shirt

blargh, $400+ to fix my 1988 corsica lol. k gotta go to work where i will make 23 dollars c u

definitely time to get a new car, srsly...

today, everyone with a Spotify account should listen to this:

http://open.spotify.com/album/6yuGZO9460TzKMMZ7qQZez

(be warned tho; despite being listed as the full album, at least one of the songs is a single edit as opposed to the album version)

The fact that the first song is from Pop Will Eat Itself is making me smile nostalgically...

Haha, is this all PWEI? I am so out of it lately...

It's the entire Cure For Sanity album.

i am a this is the hour this is the day this is this man myself

no one said you had to choose

trust me, a cure for sanity is the last thing I probably need, but hey, will listen to the album anyway

http://open.spotify.com/track/64OQ22cj24ge0rmFHCZR8e

perhaps you need a "Kingdom" instead

I was so busy today that I barely got started on the first thing!

Drinking crazy vodka drinks at Moscow on the hill, hoping to fill dan w/jealousy.

Failed

Did I mention that they now have a vodka infused with coriander?

Well I'm filled with jealousy anyway. Maybe Dan is but he's just being exceptionally quiet about it?

hate u

See?

Also they serve the garlic and dill shot w/ a little cornichon on a cocktail spear

Hello martini w/Sobieski and drambuie with a solitary floating coffee bean why yes I will drink you

Last night obv, not now.

I also drank his martini friend made w/ stoli peachnik, Campari, and fresh squeezed lime juice

Okay, how is that "obv," lol - you're not boozing at work then?! ;)

garlic and dill shot sounds amazing, btw

Dan should come home so that we could investigate these wonders. And bring FB back from wandering the planet with M., too.

Tonight I sadly have to settle for mere hand made sangria and a gourmet meal

awwww

I hate you, John. In the fondest way possible.

All my trials, lord
Soooon be over

okay, so you *are* drinking today at work then

I love you like a brother, John, so know that I mean it with every fiber in my being when I invite you to eat every square inch of my ass

and with that, off to see J sing

oh man i forgot to mention that as if the fantastic martinis werent bad enough, i also was forced to eat delicious nepalese food earlier in the evening

and i have 5 pounds of boneless pork in the fridge that will be transformed into carnitas tomorrow as it slowly cooks in its own juices

http://cdn.complex.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/budget_28_days_later.jpg

i hope that burning man catches you, and eats you and your stupid carnitas

gbx otm

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/weddings/10-tips-avoiding-newlywed-weight-gain.htm

The way to not gain weight after you get married is to marry someone like me, who is a terrible cook. OBV

But yeah, I'm with gbx and deX here.

Although A. is making fresh bread, corn on the cob, some kind of pasta thing and some kind of bacon and jalapeno wrap something else. (See, I cleverly married the cook, HA!)

ugh I'm filling out security clearance paperwork and it's asking for nicknames

I suppose I HAVE to put down deX! seeing as half my friends introduce me as that, don't I

Oh I hope you put down the whole thing. "deX" is short for something, you know!

they just wheeled a giant cart of beer past my cubicle

yay

Doesn't count unless they rolled it into your cubicle iirc

essentially they did

hilariously, it was mostly bottles of Guinness draft; there were no cups provided

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*checks FB facebook updates*

lolz

man it's harder to enjoy these saturday car shows when they're right on your home turf and you just wanna find a place to park and go home after work >:[

oh hay, are there any super secret speedy routes from here to red wing? it looks like the best way is to take 316 until it connects w/ 61 rather than taking 61 all the way (few miles shorter + don't have to slow to 35 through miesville). been budgeting and man i'll need to save on gas once school kicks off on monday...

If you like twisty back roads, you could take 316 to Red Wing Blvd, then turn right on Ravenna Trail.

Otherwise yeah, 316 to 61.

Ravenna Trail!!! <3 <3 <3

Ok, always will be fond of that road bc that's where McGu1r3 lived.

hmm. that doesn't look like it cuts off a ton in terms of mileage but it looks like it could be a nice leisurely drive if i ever leave a little early. my car doesn't like to go a lot faster than 55 so maybe who knows! will probably nix it during the winter, speaking of--do 316 or 61 tend to get better/quicker/preferential treatment during bad winter weather? (i'm worrying a lot lately, but my car and all...)

I strongly recommend not going down that road in winter, at least not when jjj is driving

also Sara you know many ppl who lived on RT, like say ME

Well, yes, of course I love Ravenna Trail because you lived on it, too, deX, but you and I aren't twins! That's you and Scurvy, remember? ;)

Also, yes, if John is driving, stay off Ravenna, in fact, just do yourself a favor and offer to drive yourself.

Although if memory serves, John also had a great habit of inadvertently shifting my car into neutral while I was driving all the time.

(I *think* that was inadvertent...)

Okay, super-nostalgia mode again here, Dan, get your butt home so we can hang out again and bring your beautiful wife, too. kthxbye

this jjj person sounds dangerous imo

He's really quite harmless if you keep him away from cars, tbh

^ha this could apply to me as well (though bcz i didn't have a license until i was ehm...27, but anway...)

got really sick night before 1st day of class. woke up at 3:00 that morning. and this morning. still sick. long days :[

school is really fun in spite of it all though.

i'd think feeling like the wreck i do i'd be thinking 'the last thing i wanna do is sit and learn about chisels and boards' but turns out that is the first thing i want to do

Sick? What's wrong?! Hope you are getting better...

ty! it's just a nose/throat/achy thing. (+headaches.) but i'm a really finicky sleeper so the laying awake and not breathing all night is really giving the fatigue bit of my symptoms some added weight. as well as exacerbating the rest of them i'm sure. blah blah blah i'm a stupid weak baby

No, that totally sucks, and yes, if you can't get any rest, that does make it worse. :(

Advil PM a possibility? It might help...

deX, you just MADE A's night by inviting him to Spotify. THANK YOU <3 <3 <3

Hooray! That will make up for the 60 other ppl who now hate me

What did you do to SIXTY people?!

And why didn't you ask me to help? ;)

I invited them to Spotify!

When I logged in, it asked me to spam my contact list with invites, so I did.

Funny. A. was really excited!

Yes, I am posting at 5:34 am before leaving for work. Gah, morning. Not a fan.

yeah srsly, i just got up and whew, mornings huh?

oh by the way sara i think theres something wrong with your timestamp because according to that you got up 4.5 hours earlier than me, which would be ridiculous

i mean im barely holding it together getting up just before 10 am, i cant imagine

okay you

btw gonna see a concert version of Porgy and Bess out at Tanglewood tomorrow with nice wine and a picnic dinner prepared by a friend who happens to be a professional chef

just nice wine?

disappointing.

well we have to drive

also I think it might be a no hard liquor zone, I certainly have never seen anyone with anything other than beer or wine, and mostly wine because lol classical music ppl

would be pretty dope to slam back martinis to "My Man's Gone Now" tho (which btw is EASILY the best soprano aria from the opera, "Summertime" is mad overrated)

i was thinking that you should be having more of a jet-setting fine wine experience, not this adequate wine nonsense

ah see, if we get nice wine we can get like 6 bottles

if we get jet-setting fine wine, we can get 1 bottle

surely you can see where this is going

(btw is a bottle per person overdoing it if two of them have to drive)

only if you are one of the two

if you are not then you can hope cooler heads prevail in which case u get 1.5 bottles of wine

here's my current logic:

I have no idea what food is being prepared so I need to get a mix of reds and whites

there are 4 guaranteed ppl, plus 1 floater and 2 potentials (a friend is going with a couple who is planning their own picnic; friend will definitely join us and couple might)

so I am planning on 3 reds, 3 whites with the expectation that 2 will be unopened

also thinking pinot noir, cab sauv and shiraz vs sauv blanc, viognier, gewuertztraminer

cant help you too much because i have traded in my potential wine skills to hone my fancy beer skills long ago

I think that sounds fine, except that usually gewuertztraminer (or however the hell you spell it) is almost always so sweet that it makes me want to hurl. So pick something else.

John, I know you were making fun of my getting up so freaking early, and if I wasn't so freaking exhausted, I would come over there and kill you. As it is, it's just going to have to wait.

maybe you wouldnt be so tired if you slept in a little more

You know, the worst part is that I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep! UGH

No time for an Advil PM by then, you're just screwed.

hey i was up at 3:30 too! but i did it the right way by staying up until then having loads of fun

John... man, this sucks, I'm too tired to even put up a modicum of a fight with John.

Now THAT is a poor sign.

I really really wish ppl would stop using me as a barometer of Acceptable Sexism on this board

but you are the barometer of Acceptable Sexism on this board; it's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer

Also I have no idea what you're referring to bc I'm too tired to even try to look, so I'm just going to slot you into my Barometer of Acceptable Sexism slot and leave you there.

omg I'm super tired, I hope that didn't sound as bad as I think it might have

saucy

lollll

Porgy and Bess was amazing btw

Yay!

In sad news, my cat Mizu is dying, I think. Well, I know she is. Just... waiting. Fun for a Saturday night at home. :(

:(

been worried a little about my cat, too. her eating habits have been pretty up and down and she's been sleeping more, but i think maybe she's still figuring out the new environment, and i'm over-thinking stuff as usual. anyway, sorry bout your cat. it's so easy sometimes to be callous or brusk, "it's just the damn cat, she'll be fine" or etc, but as soon as somethings wrong, they've run away, you realize just how much you care about the little weirdos.

anyway, my first week of school was really fun and i'm not sick anymore, so wahoo!

haha already kinda regretting the deep thoughts about pet ownership portion of that post but anyway

tbh even if my wife wasn't allergic to everything with fur I wouldn't own a pet because of how terrible it is when they die

but the "better to have loved and lost" cliche is true though. pets are a joy about 95% of the time

RIP Mizu :(

Thanks for your thoughts, guys. She was a good cat and we will miss her. The kids said good-bye to her last night, thankfully.

:-( aw, my condolences

losing a pet is always tough

(somehow I feel like that would have come across as a more sincere statement if I had a different display name)

heart goes out to you sara

yeah, my condolences

I've been a little extra-nicer to our dog and cats the last few days, what with ilxor pets passing.

Thanks you guys. <3 <3 <3

btw I had to call an ambulance for someone yesterday

that was fun, and by "fun" I mean "terrifying, then confusing and slightly boring"

WELCOME TO THE MEDICAL WORLD, DAN!

so... got a car yesterday ^_^

LOVED the FB pic!

Must get up at ridiculous o'clock again to go to work tomorrow. Tired already. It's not even 9 p.m. GAH!!!

guys I just want to ditch work and go sit in my car

... so did you?

lol

no ;_;

*sob*

You have ruined my impression of your day.

btw, A. is all "zomg Dan's Spotify list is AWESOME!" I finally have the evidence I need to support my theory that a lot of your taste in music is the same as his. Cool!

Must get up at ridiculous o'clock again to go to work tomorrow. Tired already. It's not even 9 p.m. GAH!!!

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest

this my life now. "uggggh i think i'm going to bed", "but it's 8:30!"

6am, commute, school, commute, work, no time, sleep?, and so on.

i told myself i'd study straight after work but instead i'm drinking whiskey on ilx

ugh, arby's, SO SORRY

well, the whiskey sounded good, though

I went to bed absurdly early last night and am now up at 4:30 in the morning on a non-work day. THIS IS NOT COOL, PEOPLE!!!

nothing better than being stuck behind an accident on an isolated section of an interstate with no hope of escape for 2.75 hours

oh, except for getting 3 hours of sleep, rushing into work for an 8:30 AM conference call with ppl in Bangalore only to discover that over the weekend ppl decided to move the call to 11:00 PM

UGH UGH UGH

so sorry deX :(

as it turns out, I only like not sleeping when I choose not to do it; when it is thrust upon me, sleep deprivation is the worst fucking thing in the world

^^^^ TRUTH BOMB

Yay done with rehearsal

BOO conference call overseas, time zones I hate u

Yay rehearsal over for you, but it sounds like your night is still going to suck somehow.

I have to get up at Insane O'Clock tomorrow for exciting vaccine work, but of course my heart will be with ITR.

Well, okay, maybe just, like, my pancreas or something... still useful, though!

Hey ITR, if you have time and you are in contact with her via Facebook or have her number, can you drop J a quick message? She found out this morning that one of her grandmothers is dying.

of course. sorry, missed this earlier.

YES, of course!

this is too O_O to leave on ILM:

http://pitchfork.com/killscreen/17-everybodys-doing-it-how-playing-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-as-a-30-year-old-reveals-its-magical-adolescence-of/

I can't even

i can't even bother

xp, that's extraordinary. Difficult to pick an individual Low Spot in the essay.

gbx dude, you should TOTALLY BOTHER

it's a direct throwback to the halcyon days of hilarious Brent DiC reviews

oh my god what crap

that article is awaft with the piquant scent of fruitless and bitter masturbation

well I'm certainly not going to click on it *NOW*!!!

oh you really should

*wavering*

So it's do that or make my boring lunch for tomorrow. Which is scarier...?

Okay now I know which is scarier, and I am considering vows of chastity. THANKS A LOT

What sucks is that I still have to make myself a peanut butter sandwich now. Sigh.

that last paragraph may be the most mind-boggling thing I've ever read

I just thought, "wow, there's a woman somewhere who apparently consented to have sex with this guy... there really is someone out there for everyone."

(alternate possibility: this woman is a blow up doll)

Sad fact: I am now going to bed. 9:37 pm. Thank goodness I have the weekend off.

not only a woman, but a woman who either resembles a glistening package or has a glistening package

I should not have read this thread this morning, that is certain.

deX, you KNOW my mind was trying to block that out!

lol

I really haven't recovered from that article, every 15 minutes or so I think about dude enraptured by how much his girlfriend reminds him of compost and I laugh my ass off

Well, it is awkward, certainly.

weekend visits from family are awesome, esp. when you do awesome Bach pieces with them

deX subtly steers the conversation back to safer waters...

Safer waters provoke absolute silence on this thread!

Which is very HSTNGS, really.

lol

yesterday was spent groaning about a rebelling stomach so I didn't spend all that much time online (btw totally worth it as it was caused by yummy Argentinian food, which is basically STEAK served with STEAK)

FOG OF MEAT

I hope you feel better?!

"Fog of Meat" sounds like the newest band John is on about

oh man

JOHN WHEN WE FINALLY DO OUR GARAGEBAND LONG DISTANCE COLLAB A LA THE POSTAL SERVICE, WE HAVE A NAME

failing that, maybe "Fogpants" done in the same font as "Foghat"?

^^^ I will not hesitate to buy your debut album or celebrate by eating a Whopper or whatever.

Fogpants - Whoppers For Everybody

waaaah afer a long, long week of not sleeping, crazy stomach issues (looks like i'm keeping with the theme), falling behind and convincing myself i was going to get a C or even possibly fail i wound up with a B in my tools class. huge stress off my shoulders. on to fretwork class and buying a grand more worth of tools.

woot

also i barfed in front of a cop a few days ago. i don't know what to say about that.

... woot?

its good to see that you are fitting into our fair city

I was gonna say! Getting unexpectedly high grades and barfing in front of cops... that's pretty much the perfect HSTNGS week, isn't it?

I made a playlist based on the recent Pet Shop Boys poll ILM did:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/7LyurbFLzd9cnbyqaBdYKs

these guys, when they are on, are fucking ON

if you dislike the song "Rent" gtfo

I come here looking for money (got to have it)
And end up leaving with love (oh-oh woah-oh)
Now you've left me with nothing (can't take it)
How'm I gonna get through?
How'm I gonna get through?

Definitely going to point A. toward that list. We both like PSB, but he LOVES them...

argh

I have a ton of work to do before Friday and no desire to do any of it

That is the worst.

I'm sitting here enjoying the quiet, which won't last long. Kids will be home from school soon. Hopefully well behaved (please?!), but probably not.

Yay = "oh there is a platter full of leftover cookies from someone's work meeting!"

Ugh = "on closer inspection, this is a platter of burger patties left over from Friday's catered lunch"

^^^^ mid-week tragedy FOR SURE

I am going to make some cookies today, though. Aging meat-free!

do I have a recipe for you: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/beer-cookies/detail.aspx

SO NOT HAPPENING!

Basic chocolate chip today, sorry, that's just how I roll.

btw, deX, could you point me to the PSB/ILM poll that your recent Spotify list is based on?

Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results

ta-da

THANK YOU!

cookie update: going slow, just have butter and sugar in the food processor. Feeling so cold today, huddled under shawl with coffee already. lame lame lame!

you guys

thanks to aero and crutis, I have discovered the best band on Youtube

I present to you... COMPLETE

can someone explain why this is on the first page of search results for "rick ross potato":

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3g7599ht1qbwlyo.gif

not sure we're the ones that need to do the explaining around here

^^^ THIS

explanation: I was looking for a funny GIS result for "rick ross potato"

HTH!

Home Town Honey?

if you like

I am so confused right now.

http://open.spotify.com/track/7oK9VyNzrYvRFo7nQEYkWN

I feel like that's interesting, but it's not really *helping*

oh I Hoped That would Help

*strangles affectionately*

Guys, A. and I are going to Sawatdee for lunch today.

I just wanted to let you know. :)

hate u, so jealous

oh wait, J and I are going to VEGAS for fun today, nvr mind

Guys k and I and goole are eating Lebanese food tonight at Beirut

is that in VEGAS, because if so you should swing by and say hi

also you should look at last-minute Vegas deals for next weekend and bring everyone with you

just sayin

Food was awesome.

Envying everyone else now, tho. Wish I/we could make it to Vegas, but it just couldn't be managed. :( And the marathon is next weekend, sooooo...

John - is "Beirut" what used to be the "Port of Beirut" back in the day? I vividly remember you liking tabouli... at first. And also your getting some Turkish coffee, which was funny for some reason. (at any rate, eat some shawarma for me, plz)

yeah they changed the name for i dont know why

How did I not know that was still there?!

Envying your dinner!

you guys

thanks to aero and crutis, I have discovered the best band on Youtube

I present to you... COMPLETE

― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i've been pretty into "into the night" lately

hey guys what's with the bar here um...the c0lle5eum. kg and i started eating there cuz they have a huge bbq pit outside and make really good ribs and brisket and stuff but i was told to maybe be concerned with meth content. or at least avoid the place later in the evening.

"why is this brisket so good? why am i so awake? mother fucker this brisket is motherfucking AWEOSME FUCK FGUKCKC!!"

Oh... my.

I got nothin'.

there is a cover band just feet from my bedroom window playing livin la vida loca

halp

That cover band is probably dudes from our class in high school.

I'd make a joke about "which of those band dudes did I date?" but I guess that wouldn't make sense, so now I got nothin'.

#cursingmylackofforesight

the torrid Sara R-C/J03 P3t1t high school romance

Gah, talk about torrid! Yikes!

omg, they played for four hours. so i'm right to assume sara dated all of them? that's what we're saying here?

I'd plead the fifth, but I know these other HSTNGS natives would just rat me out.

So I'll just say this: It's possible.

Did u dudes see fb's book design on
Facebook?

no I did not

The book cover? YES - SO GR8!!!

Now off for sushi, will check w/you fabulous people later. <3 to you all!

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/320665_10150390278200549_544085548_10321901_101989636_n.jpg

so awesome, our talented little drunkard

That is bad ass

Thinking of you all as I lounge I the Bellagio VIP room, Pinot noir in hand

deX, you are making yourself really hard to <3 tonight.

SIGH

But yes, anyway, fb did a gr8 job... how did I not know about this talent for so long?

Also LOVE his gf, btw.

freaking marathon prep always makes me crazy

#justsaying

I am exhausted you guys

also I am fat with Vegas food

So it was all worth it then. Yes?

oh yes

even the $200 I lost playing craps was worth it, because at one point I was up $300

mad at myself for not betting on the football games though, I would have made over $1000

Well, step one: bet against the Vikings...

I mean, even I know that, and I think a lot of football stuff is just made up to confuse me.

hey guess what, I now work for a massive company again

yay acquisitions

I refuse to be impressed until they insist that you move back to MN.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

fucking blue screen, killed an hour's worth of work

^i play this game a lot. only it's my fault when it happens. *file slip* and whoops heyyyyy let's start this whole thing over

fretwork is for crazies fyi

blue screen = some horrible thing programmers encounter?

if you are on a PC and Windows crashes, your entire screen goes blue and lots of text about page faults and memory dumps get pops up, leaving you no choice but to reboot and hope your hard drive hasn't been corrupted

of course this had to happen as I was in the MIDDLE OF TYPING some Java code and had neglected to save any of my work so far

See, that is why I have a Mac. Because I don't have to know anything.

Oh no! Sorry to hear you lost your Java code. That sounds really awful to me.

Especially because if you tried to make me write any kind of computer code, I would panic and die first.

So, you know, non-ironic *hugs* here.

fretwork is totally for crazies, arbys otm

^^^ no idea what that means, so I'll nod and smile

you know, since it was so horribly overplayed I'd forgotten that Nevermind is actually a great album

ha, I have never heard the whole thing in my life!

But I vividly remember my roommate from my senior year being all depressed over Kurt Cobain's suicide, which yes, was sad, but I mean, REALLY? It's not like we knew the guy personally...

http://open.spotify.com/album/6yaiubHHJy8N8QcHy3julo

here is a deluxe version 4 u

(but we all know I'm a cold, unfeeling bitch, so.)

if you really want to make Cobain's suicide sad, watch Courtney Love's most recent Behind The Music; dude was SERIOUSLY tortured

thx deX. I'm actually listening to one of your other playlists right now!

J is home with stomach flu, so the day is going to be... uh... well different than I had planned for sure. (I do not *usually* plan for vomiting.)

Yeah, I'm sure he must have been doing very badly. But I have/have had enough friends with suicidal ideation; I don't need to get upset about people I don't even know.

^^^feeling strangely sane today, obv.

you obv dont have enough malort in your home xxpost

we can fix your malort deficiency with the magic power of the INTERNET

truly this is why the interwebs were created

THANK YOU AL GORE, I WILL <3 YOU FOREVER!!!

ha you say that now but wait until the malort shows up

Will it make Al look less like Current Al Gore and more like 1992 Al Gore? Because if so, then I'm all for it.

I mean they say love is blind, but you know, not totally.

Perhaps a bit myopic...

it will make al gore look like a flesh colored blurry dot to projectile vomit at so

also, it tastes like Tipper Gore

Ah, so basically exactly my type then

I see I have traumatized the thread into silence

I... did not even see that response

When I'm next home I am making malort margaritas

As long as you have a solid plan for the weekend, deX, we're all pleased

Assuming no one else comes down w/ stomach flu, we're going out to dinner tonight, Ristorante Luci. Celebrate anniversary, etc. etc.

tempted to post a series of incredibly inappropriate songs in honor of yr anniversary

ristorante fluci

That place has the most amazing Caesar salad IN THE WORLD.

xpost Hey, how would YOU know if they were inappropriate or not?!

because they are like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjo5qhDpUSY

hahaha YIKES!!!!

Okay, deX, you win. Definitely inappropriate. Are you happy now?!

yes! ^_^

lol okay then all is forgiven

I spend so much time listening to the second half of the third Portishead album that I'd forgotten how great the first half is

*feels sad that she is so far behind*

(I might even OWN that one, too)

http://open.spotify.com/album/4BnNSzOWadogStvyYshJIo

you probably do

happy anniversary btw. xposts.

Thank you! It was very nice, we ate a ton of great food, now I'm ready to pass out. Kids are still awake, though... they don't go to sleep if they have a sitter, apparently. SIGH

Happy anniversary!

Thank you! We went to Ristorante Luci, then Cheapo, which was fun/absurd. Food is fantastic there.

Did you guys do anything special for J031's birthday?

We went to a VERY nice restaurant in town called Troquet with good friends and had a fantastic meal with three bottles of wine. It was really, really nice.

J started her day at work with office mimosas and basically spent the whole day drinking, lol

Awesome x 1 billion!

Man, I love your wife, too, she's hilarious/awesome.

man, even when doing things I like to do I can't help but be a horrible procrastinator; I had a whole month to work on a song for the new ILX compilation and I basically slapped together the last half of it this weekend (which was actually the first half)

Hello hello. Wisconsin makes more sense to me now.

xpost -- but you got done. By the skin of your teeth. And that is what counts.

The sausages are considered mascots and have names. Brett, the bratwurst, is identified by his lederhosen. Stosh, the Polish sausage, sports dark glasses and a rugby shirt. The one with the mustache and the chef’s outfit is Guido, the Italian sausage. Frankie Furter, the hot dog, wears a baseball uniform. Cinco the chorizo dons a sombrero.

POLL

ILE thread plz.

The greatest scandal Wisconsin had pre-Walker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9kJw-kWQ8

Baseball, Wisconsin and stupid mascot tricks

I lived in Wisconsin for almost a year, but most of that has faded.

On the other hand, I married someone from Wisconsin.

Hmmmmm.

*disturbed*

btw I don't know how to square deX's "I'm a procrastinator" with the fact that he was involved in every single activity, ever, when we were in high school.

I was in all of those activities so I would have an excuse not to do any homework! Also, I was bored.

My excuse for overbooking myself was pretty much, "hey, I can not be at home this way"

How could you be BORED in HSTNGS, though!? *shock, horror*

haha that too; having no car out in the country suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

I suppose that would have made things worse by far.

If I got desperate, all I had to do to get home was walk a little way.

yeah, if you got tired of your family you could, say, walk to Westview and window shop

I could... climb a tree. LITERALLY

The weird part is how much I now miss that house on L0U1S!

We should have had some extra rooms for friends who lived in the country who didn't want to go home overnight. Would have been perfect - well, except that there was never any food at my house (remember?).

ahahaha "window shopping" at Westview. My mother was bizarrely obsessed with Perman's. I still have no idea why.

Also I still don't know how to climb a tree. Who learned real life skillz there?!

strangely, in my software job I have never had to climb a tree

well I know that isn't true

I have often had to chase wild geese tho

makes perfect sense; you live in the wilds of Boston and everything

It's a tragic place where he lives. The flying jellyfish attack his face each day.

He should make that into a hit movie, srsly

ugh

I typed "it's realy sad" into Youtube hoping to find something funny and found two separate ppl had uploaded the same video of a cat mourning over a dead cat's body