Esmee Denters 2: I'll buy you a jet plane, baby

ipe is not tittwis, btw

Hate that subtitle. Only added it for historic authenticity.

Authent City.

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the last time i played mini-golf was the day of my former college roommate's wedding who had conspicuously invited everyone who lived in our literary house except my bf at the time, so he and i and a couple friends went and played mini-golf instead. one of the friends could do the shoe trick that Crispin Glover did in Rubin and Ed.

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i really liked that affort picture.

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I watched Claire's Knee. There's this scene in the beginning where Jerome is talking to Aurora about the Spanish frescoes on the wall of the house he's trying to sell, and she identifies Don Quixote, and she says something about all characters being blind, or at least having blinders on. It reminded me of some simple existential problem I was thinking about yesterday or early early this morning, something about why we do anything. Which itself was related to something I read, in a story I think, or maybe something I saw in a recent movie. But something recent. Or no, it was related to that sorority girl, Becca, who has been emailing me about her philosophy paper pertaining to Plato's cave. So I was thinking about people who live in the moment, and I thought that if people really live in the moment, they don't think about the future or the past, and if they don't really think about the future or the past, they only react to what is in front of them, and what if what's in front of them is just a wall, or just a housing development, or just a (lol A Serious Man) parking lot.

I still want that subtitle excised. I should go to bed. That part in the movie with Don Quixote, however, almost upstaged the rest of the movie. I couldn't figure out what it was I had thought that was similar. I mean, only thinking about the present reminds me of having blinders on. It's funny, though, because I don't believe that about people who live in the present. I think they really live in the present, and that they do not necessarily have blinders on. I think it's just what you mean by "live in the present." Obviously no such person negates the past or future. Or hardly such a person.

How did you vote in the ???? poll? I voted this.

tempted to vote for "or this" because years of multiple choice testing has instilled in me the belief that the first option is usually wrong

48,555 people are fans of Reebok Women.

where are MY pancakes?

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we demand less boring audiences

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I am writing to endorse J***'s grant to study sexual assault at B****. Josh has brought a great deal of
passion and dedication to this project.

Have you watched My Night at Maud's yet? I still haven't finished the movie, but I read the story it was based on last night.

My friend Katie and I are starting a fake Bible study group and I think we're going to use the movie as a supplementary text.

not yet - maybe Sunday - last night me & the soon-to-be-ex sat on the couch and watched The Wire and ate snack food. Fake Bible study group sounds awesome.

Yeah, but we haven't had our first meeting yet. We were inspired after seeing A Serious Man. Katie was raised a Buddhist, so she doesn't know many Bible stories, and so I explained Job to her. She knew, like, the story of Isaac and some other things. And then I talked about everything I thought was weird about the Sodom and Gomorrah story, and a few other things to pique her interest.

I still have all my back issues of Sassy magazine from when i was a teenager. At one point I wanted to write an article about it, and there was recently a book about it, that was pretty good.

I read Seventeen and Nylon.

past tense

Sassy was pretty awesome. One day, my friend Jen will come over and we will drink bourbon and read old Sassy magazines, but this will probably be after the soon-to-be-ex moves out.

A gif is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your
image hosting service.

― bamcquern, Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:23 AM (4 minutes ago)

the smoke persian is somewhat like a palimpsest

That's true, except every time it's wiped clean someone draws the Smoke Persian on it.

i guess what i was thinking is that the only residue of the erased marks (deleted posts) is what appears in the admin log

about living in the present & blinders -

my soon-to-be-ex does this - and i've always been somewhat jealous of his ability to do so. Sometimes i felt that he did have blinders on and just didn't want to think about planning for the future. Sometimes I felt that i had blinders on because i was so focused on possible complications with plan a, the feasibility of plan b, and what my life would be like in 5 years, 10 years, what have you, that the present would seem unreal or like something that already had happened.

last night, my friend was telling me about one of her students who is afraid of trees and hand sanitizer

Hand sanitizer is kind of gross.

yeah - apparently the classroom had a display of pictures of hands for MLK day, and the student yelled "Take down hands! Take down hands!" - as if the hand sanitizer fear has grown to encompass hands in general.

several years ago i was talking w/a friend about embarrassing typos, and we concluded that the most embarrassing typo would be on a wedding invitation, and would misspell the word "wedding." I liked the idea of getting married and doing this - sending out invitations to a marriage celebration that could be described by a word that could be read as a typo of "wedding" - like a "welding" or a "weeding" or a "vedding" - the latter would have a Viking theme and we'd get married on long boats in the middle of a lake or river.

So I understand that you want to get married.

My mom volunteered for my fourth grade class early in the school year, before we moved rooms - I've told this story so many times now - and she was making name desk placards on folded white card stock, writing in fat black marker strokes. She misspelled mine, she wrote "Byrce."

well - uh - i just saw creative potential in the act of having a non-standard wedding. i don't have anything against marriage, but it isn't one of my major life goals or anything.

your mom misspelled your name? aw.

MAJOR LIFE GOALS

(read in Hannah Barbara Birdman voice)

ha - i guess what i mean is that if i had a fulfilling relationship w/a guy that had problems with the institution of marriage and we were in love but he didn't want to marry me, it wouldn't be a big deal.

though i liked the idea of the weeding - basically the ceremony would take place in a vacant lot with a bunch of weeds, and the bride and groom would lead the procession chopping down the weeds with weed whackers.

last night on the phone w/my friend Amy, we discussed the business idea of a Revenge Service - it wouldn't do things that would be physically hurtful or cause significant property damage. The best feature, we decided, would be a service where the seeker of revenge could pay to have someone attend a social event where the subject of revenge would be and make humiliating or embarrassing remarks that everyone could hear. It's human nature not to want to do something like this to a friend or friendly acquaintance, but it is also human nature to laugh when someone violates social taboos, so it would be an opportunity for the seeker and their friends to have that release, without having to do the deed themselves.

"Friends"

oh - that was unclear - i was thinking of mutual friends or acquaintances of the subject of revenge would not want to instigate it, not the seeker of revenge seeking revenge on a friend or friendly acquaintance.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

That is not clearer. That is making me laugh for all its unclearness.

Example 1:

On second thought, I don't understand this thread at all.

― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:00 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

basically the concept is paying someone to make asshole remarks targeted at someone you dislike or who wronged you, so that you and your friends don't have to, but can have the release/sense of justice served of said remarks having been said.

I get that.

that was what i was trying to say.

it's not about cats or checks.

So I wonder if there will be an adjustment among people. Like, we understand the uses of titles in poems and novels, but when the function of the title bends or alters or multiplies on a message board thread, will people recognize the authority of the text or the title? Can they do both? Do you bail because of multiple discourses?

me? no. but then i like titles that are often confusing or unclear and threads that derail and "metal-platen"

No, I know you do, but consider ilx as a culture, or a board as a culture, or Western Internet users.

i think it depends on the promised topic. Like if it's informational - or something that someone is most likely to look for for information and then it becomes a thread with pictures of cats or pizza or animated gifs of penguins, then they'd probably be annoyed. But things like that fads thread - i can't really see that people should be seriously irritated or feel betrayed or wronged that it went the way it did.

A few of the threads we've derailed recently have been pretty unserious, minor threads, but others have expressed sincere consternation and even confusion about that derailing. Not that we weren't sincere in our participation. We were. But the idea that a title can have the same multiplicity or irony that a title of book runs counter to how some would like threads to function, and for others the fact of it (not on paper, but encountered in the wild) is just disorienting, a game-changer or a game-ender.

xpost Obviously. We were writing partly about the same thing at the same time.

"than that of a title of a book" is what I guess I should've written

You are an Internet enabler!

i mean, you can't really blame people that want the "aw" thread to be pristine and solely consist of "aw" and "<3" or picture threads to consist entirely of pictures if that's the constraint they have mentally imposed on such threads - but it definitely makes them something other than a conversation, or following the natural forms of a conversation.

xp - occasionally i'm tempted to post to threads to see if i can get them all on the subject of lj.

Why does a thread have to be about conversation though? If they want aw and <3, and they have that vision, it's its own thing, which isn't a conversation.

Which, I guess was your point.

minus that extraneous comma

i think there's an assumption that threads are conversations - like on other boards - but there are a number of threads on ilx that are not, they are something else.

By the way, I think I have to strike off that example one. I don't think it's a legitimate example anymore.

the kitsch example 1?

No, the derail example 1.

you understand this thread after all?

there was this guy in high school who used to wear hypercolor shirts - i think he might have had a crush on me, which was weird, because i'm someone that people don't get crushes on - but for whatever reason, we were at a Denny's with a group of friends and I threw creamer packets at him and hit him in the face with one, and i think he stopped liking me after that, though he wasn't someone i would have gone out with.

I started this dumb bunny thread!

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put me down. i want to be put down. please put me down now. can i eat now. what is going on?

Okay, you win, I no longer get this thread.

it was a bunny reference! night of the lepus - i like movies with mutant animals that attack/threaten society where the animals are traditionally non-threatening - like rabbits. the rabbits in that movie, they really try to make them look threatening, but the rabbits really just look confused and like they don't want to be held.

the cryptic crossword logic is starting to make sense to me now.

What the hell happened over at iltrmb today? Perfect storm, it seems. At least for them, it was.

i don't know - i don't think it's related to what happened on 77.

What happened on 77?

i will email you.

Oh, man, I'm leaving on this sort of date in less than an hour and I should finish some homework. I like this girl - she's cute, I like the music she makes, but we don't seem to have any chemistry, and so I hope tonight is just a fun night and there's no pressure.

is this a new girl or one you've mentioned before?

From gamesetwatch: UK Gov't, Area/Code Launch Street Safety MMO [massively multiplayer online game]

One I've mentioned before, I'm sure, one that lives downtown with Katie.

what kinda music does she do?

She sings and plays guitar, sometimes with this guy Sam. It's sort of ramshackle diy pop.

Sam will play drums, and then sometimes they switch. I think Sam does that in all of his bands.

i emailed you about that thing.

You mean you put a note in one of those pneumatic tubes like at the bank and it's working its way toward me.

Making a shwooooo sound.

yes - i was fascinated by those pneumatic tubes as a kid.

one of my friends suggested i casually hook up with some guy as a way of getting over my ex. i said that i didn't think i'd do that very well.

Susie says that someone she describes as a good conversationalist was describing that map to her.

Haha. Easier said than done.

I mean, you could always hook up with someone who would make you feel icky later.

we're not supposed to discuss that map, or discuss discussion of that map.

Really? I hadn't heard that.

Are there Capri Motels in Florida?

That sounds retarded. And not very clear, either. I didn't know people were more uptight over there than over here. It sort of doesn't make sense.

I don't know about Capri Motels. There are all kinds of motels, especially by beaches.

what does your waist look like

I've been wanting to do this project for a while about Capri Motels - a photo + fiction project that involves going to and staying in a variety of Capri Motels. It's mainly because the name is really evocative of a certain era, and it's one of those names that isn't straightforwardly descriptive.

There are a lot of Capri Motels in California.

Florida seemed like another place where there would be a lot of Capri Motels.

Just saw the admin log. What's up? You don't think there's water on the moon?

i wanted to know why there was no vitamin water on the moon.

Deleting unused users and clearing old suggest bans

Why? There are minerals already in the water from all of the moondust.

This, like duckbutts or whatever - is the payoff so great? I don't know.

the moon kinda bores me actually.

Eff homework. I'll do it at midnight. Thank goodness the semester is winding down, because I have no stamina for this bs.

I think I'll spend the next twenty minutes eating and dressing.

should i go to Florida and take pictures of Capri motels?

Haha. Only if you've got the money to burn.

i haven't had a vacation in a decade. you do know the subtext of what i'm asking?

Yeah.

Remember that project I was working on? I solved a few minor problems, so I can move forward a bit.

that's good. i have to go to the bank where there are no longer pneumatic tubes, but tvs that show the same 5 minutes of news headlines over and over again.

We went to the Loving Hut, which shows the same world peace news feed over and over, I think. It's a little cult-y, but in a refreshing way.

The pharmacy last night was showing Ralph Reed, Anderson Cooper, and James Carville discussing Sarah Palin.

There appear to be at least 5 Capri Motels in Florida.

http://www.roadsidepeek.com/roadusa/southeast/rpeekfl/motelsfl/flothermotel/caprimotel1a.jpg

The Loving Hut had a talking bee, but mostly it looked like a very busy CNBC.

I think there are two Capri Motels. The others have Capri in their names.

That girl had to work on her paper some more. I was relieved, to be honest. Katie and I talked for about an hour about her boyfriend. He's not communicating so well.

I was wondering what of that story was fictional and what was based on reality.

All fictional except for superficial stuff.

should we have our own test thread on this board?

board descripton changed

wishing we could regularly change the name of this board on a whim like they're currently doing at Idiot Thread Repository

I don't.

oh well.

i do

*sigh*

i wish we could change the name

also

maybe i'll just post here from now on

has it always been the case that you get a "you are trying to insert a duplicate message" message comes up, even when someone has posted since you posted the same thing?

if you try to post the same thing over and over it won't let you

if you try to post the same thing over and over? it won't let you

ha, if you try to post the same thing over and over? it won't let you

yeah - is that new?

I thought you could do that before.

I thought, you could do that before?

nope--it's a new thing

trying to see what the time limit is before I can post

"oh well"

or

"*sigh*"

again in this thread.

oh well

that was missing the period.

I could post

oh well

but not

oh well.

"*sigh*"

maybe you should stop sighing

;)

it's in the interest of science.

*groan*

"groan"

nope - still getting that message.

burp

i actually do drink tea now - i don't drink coffee very much anymore

*hic*

oh well .

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oh well.

Looking forward to cat-sitting my friends' cat next week while they're away for Thanksgiving.

sit on a cat

declaring a moratorium on hoppage on ... joke

*thanks you*

hoppage!

haterfuls of hoppage

yeah - that was while you were banned. you missed it.

I did not realize all of this was happening.

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38 minutes and I still can't post *sigh*

Becka sighed today two seats back because the class was discussing a poem and poems are boring. I can't even place her voice from the breathiness of a sigh - it's just the only way that sigh fits the narrative of class.

i've often felt that i must be boring because I think poems are often boring.

Well, they often are.

my gf *hates* poetry

which is perhaps why i have turned to novel-writing - altho NaNo has been ignored; it will be a longer-term project

so I shouldn't think that i'm boring because of that?

xp LJ - no offense, but that abbreviation/acronym makes me cringe.

no

you shouldn't think yr boring

that guy would always show up at the most miserable moments - like when me & my bf were having a fight, he would walk up and his perky voice say, "Hey what's up!" I actually saw him a couple weeks ago while I was working in SF taking a smoke break and feeling shitty about my break up. And sure enough, perky voice, "Hey what's up? How's it going?"

what guy

sarahel do you like dodheimsgard

xp - the guy that started N@tional N0vel Wr1ting M0nth - he lived in the same apartment building as me - across the hall - for about 9 years.

what a paragon of all that is unholy

if I think about him too much, I'll remember more annoying but trivial anecdotes about him, that are pretty much just trivial shit that isn't worth being annoyed by, much less dwelling on the memories of the annoyance.

i don't know what dodheimsgard is.

probably the best opening 5 seconds of any album ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzuZuKjuV4&feature=related

i hate Na No guy

nano sounded promising and i bought into it - but i want to write as good a novel as i can, so i have rebelled against its principles

obv quality >> quantity to some extent, and i don't feel snobbish saying that

you shouldn't feel snobbish - plus the guy regularly attended Burning Man.

anyway listen to that song and then afterwards listen to DISCO BLACK METAL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmSLtSAg6lw

seriously this tune slays AND bangs...would mosh/rave

the first one reminds me a bit of Depeche Mode and Skinny Puppy - actually more like Skinny Puppy as it goes on.

the second one reminds me of a lot of the industrial stuff I listened to when I was 18 and a sophomore in college, before I took that electronic music class and discovered Xenakis' concrete stuff and before I went and saw Front 242 in concert and the lead singer was wearing spandex bike shorts, and I became a bit disillusioned with industrial.

oh well.

hang on, what?

oh wait you posted that with an image earlier

so ... somewhere between 45 minutes and 2 hours.

About industrial music? I listened to some nine inch nails when I was a teenager, but I skipped everything else until Cab Volt, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Foetus, &c. Then I worked my way forward by a bit, but not by much.

That bird is drinking out of a birdwell, by the way.

dodheimsgard are one of the most hated black metal bands ever because they flagrantly fuck with the formula and basically piss EVERYONE off - they are amazing, and like Ulver see the glorious link between campy electro-industrial rock and BM

however it is a bit cruel to be so reductionist...they are genuinely original AFAIC

some good bands there bryce

I was trying to see how long it would take before the system stopped giving me the duplicate message error. So it was actually an "oh well" to Mr. Que's post about changing the board name.

"remind me of" doesn't not equal "sound just like" in the way I meant it.

I'm listening to New Order right now btw

perhaps the attitude of the music is redolent, i can understand you perceiving that

and new order are apparently good, i shd listen to them more maybe

they sound a bit like Skinny Puppy to me - they don't sound exactly like Skinny Puppy or sound completely derivative of Skinny Puppy.

no i get that...music always sounds like different other music for different people...reference points are useful

I didn't want to seem dismissive of something you obviously like.

no that's cool - i've noticed that when you don't like something so much that i adore, you say it isn't for your tastes, which is very pleasant of you :)

what

i try to be pleasant. though there are some musical things i can't be pleasant about - like Hall & Oates and Phil Collins - so I generally don't say anything about them.

rather than saying it is flat-out bad or terrible music - positive attitude imo xp

yeah exack

I don't understand the Alica Key's ass thread.

Maybe it's because when I open that thread the post that is dead center in my field of vision mentions cupcakes.

IT'S ABOUT ALICIA KEYS ASS WHAT IS THERE TO UNDERSTAND

that's what you said about the Smoke Persian, and I didn't understand.

It's more straightforward than the Smoke Persian.

it is not about folded irony?

it's about advanced chords

shapely advanced chords and an obligatory post about cupcakes

Oh, and we listened to a lot of Art of Noise and the Shangri-Las.

we went out to dinner, went home, watched episodes of Season 4 of the Wire for possibly the fourth time, and I fell asleep on the couch. We were full from dinner so we didn't eat any snack food while engaged in this activity.

My brother and his wife keep it like a cave in this house. The opaque curtains are always drawn, even when it's overcast outside, even though the porch kills a lot of the potential direct sunlight, and now, in the middle of November, in one of Central Florida's colder autumns, they've got the air conditioning on. Not the only reason I'm moving out, but I'm moving out. Fuck those two.

sounds like it would be better for you ... plus you could avoid canned tuna.

http://orlando.craigslist.org/roo/1476204103.html

Something like this has potential, but I hate that area. It's all asphalt and shopping centers.

Single MOMs OK

i talked with one of my non-profit bookkeeping clients yesterday about the breakup and the business stuff that's up in the air, and how I'll need to take on more freelance work to be able to live alone, and she said she'd refer me to other people who might need someone, so the financial challenges are seeming a bit less challenging.

That's good. I keep thinking of financial challenges in special classes.

when I think of special classes I think of my friend Jen's students, and how part of their curriculum is social adjustment, so she'll take them to McDonalds or Walgreens and places like that.

OH. I'm unpacking all of this.

u can live in place where your rent is less than $400/month

o_O

wow 300 dollar rent

my rent is under $500/month - I have friends that have cheaper rent that live in larger places or crappier neighborhoods.

I used to pay $275 for a three bedroom house with a large kitchen and a porch. But this is Orlando, and it's $300 for a room. Florida is not too cheap considering the quality of life is total balls.

If it's not one Lada Gaga song in my head, it's another.

the summer I lived in Indiana was 1995 - the summer a hundred old people died in Chicago, but by the time I went out there, it wasn't that bad - but it was still a major heat wave. His parents "didn't believe" in air conditioning. He lived out in the middle of nowhere. A night on the town was driving into Muncie and going to Steak & Shake.

sounds awesome!

good luck with that

We went to Bloomington for a few days and hung out w/friends of his from HS. We saw a play that one of his friends directed - I think it was "Cowboy Mouth" - and it was a bit dreary, until the Lobster Man showed up near the end in a lobster costume they rented from a costume shop in Texas, which apparently was the only place they could locate that had such a costume.

Bloomington's so indie now. The guy from John Wilkes Booze used to live in Knoxville and he's from there.

They should make a thing that plots all of the Craigslist listings on Google Maps.

It's the future, after all.

wow 300 dollar rent

lol zing sure but this is really o_O to me! still!

i'm not leaving by phil collins is 1 of my favourite songs evr btw

lamp that wasn't a zing, that was honesty

I knew it! Lamp's comment made me doubt myself.

xp ikr - you're not the only friend of mine that likes Phil Collins. Now I feel mildly guilty at breaking my silence on the subject.

just wanted a little balance in the interest of fairness, no guilt needed u

have you seen American Psycho? curious if you have what you thought of it?

i read the book but i didn't see the movie but I do <3 chloe sevigny, fully agree with about 90% of patrick bateman's music reviews btw esp the whitney houston one

I <3 Christian Bale - it's weird thinking that he's the same age as me. I think in some ways the movie is actually better than the book.

the book made me crack up a lot when I read it one summer during secondary school, every time my mam asked what i was laughing at i kinda had to be "i would have to explain a lot of backstory" cos usually they would be lines abt hacking up some workmate

glamorama is my favourtite B.E.E., it's the funniest and most violent

Christian Bale. He's decided he doesn't mind being typecast.

wld not want to see him play someone with a sense of humour ever

EXACTLY

but he kinda has a sense of humor in the way he plays characters without one

I don't know because I've been avoiding his movies for one reason or another. Mostly the seriousness and a splash of uptheassness.

the thing is - in a lot of his roles - he comes across as a real person, as opposed to a caricature - the Machinist is a good example - maybe he does less so now. The Batman movies I can't help seeing as Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman as Batman.

yeah his bruce wayne is Patrick Batman tbh

it's actually pretty fitting though.

however I can't watch a movie with Christian Bale in it without thinking of the line, "I have to return some video tapes." from American Psycho. Like in the one that came out last year that was the fictional remake of Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and Bale is in the POW camp trying to escape, I kept imagining him saying, "I've gotta get out here. Look, you need to let me out of this camp. I have to return some videotapes."

It's similar to how I can't watch a Keanu Reeves movie without imagining Keanu saying, "You killed Ted, you medieval dickweed."

we sorted the movies last night - completely amiably - only a handful of things that I'll miss that are his. More things he'll miss that are mine.

it was weird going through everything and realizing the differences between our tastes, which are pretty similar. All the demonic children movies were mine.

in my last breakup i got all the cds and now i have a stack of lame twee juno-indie

is there any store where you are that buys used cds? Getting rid of them and getting some money in return sounds like the best outcome of that.

The books are the next thing to sort - looking at the shelves, I bought him a shitload of really nice art books over the years.

Bryce - you are right about Jennifer Herrema

Wait wait. I don't remember discussing Jennifer Herrema with you. What did I say about her?

it was on an 1p3 thread - you said you didn't think she was that attractive under the glasses and accessories. she isn't. But then, I think I have some sort of instinctual utilitarian aesthetic where people with a lot of drug or alcohol damage just aren't that physically attractive to me.

Oh. That must've been a long time ago. I talked about this with Katie a couple of months ago, and we could not find an unflattering picture of her, even though I swore at the time that I had seen some.

I've seen her in person.

Oh, God, Alexa Chung. I like how she does not give a fuck about her own show.

I don't even know who that is. I think sometimes that Tuomas is more knowledgeable about American culture than i am.

I'm gonna go to the big used bookstore in Berkeley to look for some more of those things I couldn't find - also to get the donuts with the cream cheese frosting and chocolate chips on top.

if only alexa chung was american culture

is alexa chung better than donuts with cream cheese frosting and chocolate chips on top?

Now that I can transfer photos from my cell phone to the computer, I will take a picture of these donuts.

That kind of donut I would think too sweet?

Cream cheese frosting - seems like someone on ilx would already have played the cream cheese frosting is the insufferable indie version of buttercream frosting card.

Yeah, Alexa Chung's an import. She's great. I took some pics of her and DeRulo to post and be suitably ignored later.

I think I've been to that bookstore. I bought Nightwood there. Probably only thing I got there.

it's two doors down from the donut shop which is almost across the street from Amoeba.

the cake part of the donut is actually a bit dry, and not super sweet, so it works well with the frosting -- if the cake part was sweeter it would probably be too sweet, but it isn't. At least I don't think so.

3/4 of the books sorted - more traumatic than the movies - unexpectedly

i think i will make that cartoon i was thinking about - but later

She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro) unbanned

I was kinda sad when this guy asked to be banned, because I really liked that display name. Whenever I hear that song now, I almost always think of it as "She is beyond food in weevil"

I think Robert Smith should record a cover of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy" from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck its 70 degrees out and my stupid brother just turned on the AC.

I don't know that song. I never saw that movie.

basically the "joke" of having Robert Smith cover it - is that in the movie Bette Davis is doing this song she did as a child star - but she is clearly old - but she is still doing her hair and dressing like she did when she was younger.

I read nested. I'm a Scoop power user.

I felt bad that I didn't go buy my friend Jen another bag of kitty litter before she got back. She was out, and probably when she got back she was tired and hung over and the cat had pooped on the floor, as that cat does. And it would have been really nice of me to get her more kitty litter, but I didn't.

I hope they're arguing about who ate the pumpkin bread again.

I think they change the batteries out of the thermostat every couple of weeks thinking that it's just not fucking cold enough. It's funny because they were outside on a perfectly temperate day this weekend complaining about the cold. God it's freezing and they are so boring and irritating and I have to get out of here.

I emailed you the story of my purportedly exciting youth in Gilroy.

I will rent that movie. Maybe I will do that tonight. Go to the video store.

This board is having an effect on my posting to other lists. One of the lists I'm on sends messages in plaintext. For some reason - maybe an iphone thing - some people's posts come out as garbled jibberish. I like replying to them, or editing the garbled jibberish into geometric shapes.

I cooked some chicken and vegetables with a little soy sauce spashed on them, and toasted one slice of bread, and the sister-in-law is pretending to be saying to her annoying little dog, rather than passive aggressively announcing to me, "It's stinky in here. Stinky, stinky stinky. Phew!"

does the dog have a sweater on?

No, the dog has really, really long white hair that gets all over everything. Maybe each hair is about a foot long? Otherwise the dog is quite small. They don't clip its hair in the summer, either, which lasts 9 months in Florida.

And it yaps at everything. These two, they tend to tell ridiculous white lies when confronted about anything, so last night when my brother was on about his wife eating pumpkin rolls, she was elaborately explaining how it could not have been her, even though it's just him or her. And when I said I had taught their dog not to yap when I come home and leave the house, and it'd be easy for them to do, too, they said they like it when she yaps. And when the wife said that I was disagreeable, meaning that I disagree a lot, and I said she misused the word, she went to the dictionary and confusedly read the definition aloud and decided that that is what she meant after all, haw haw. This woman, she's finishing her journalism major and she doesn't know who Bill Moyers is. Not that I asked her - my totally un-news savvy stepdad mentioned him. And when I was watching Fox News one day, my brother said, "I hate Fox News, it's so stupid," and she said, "Why?" They have no hobbies, no interests, no friends. They are eating themselves from the inside. When I move out, there is no way they'll replace me. They wouldn't have anyone and no one would have them, with their goddamned decorative pillows that have to go two on one side of the couch and two on another.

that sounds grim. well, at least the dog probably doesn't mind the air conditioning.

bamcquern y do u live w/them?

Lamp, why on that other thread did you think I was "probably dating someone"?

haha really? it was joke callback to that dude that listed "probably has a bf" or something similar which made me lol cause i read ilx too much

Because he's my brother and it was convenient. There were things about them I didn't know when I moved in. I guess I became self conscious at some point about being so self conscious about spaces, because it seemed finicky and uptight. But I've been reading this Edward T. Hall book about proxemics and it helps me understand a lot of why I'm uncomfortable living in this housing development in East (pretend) Orlando - without seeming like an uptight prig. To myself, at least. Anyway, I'm moving when the semester's out. I'm starting to toy around looking at craigslist listings.

xp - it's not that you read ilx too much, it's that he's not on 77

i almost otm-ed you, but then i restrained myself - it is no longer otm day.

the things that people post to the regional alumni listserv of the college i went to are like a glimpse into a totally different world than i inhabit.

the freedom socialist party does not offer a way to unsubscribe from their mailing list.

today would have been Layperson's Formalist Approach to a Problematic Subject Day

the admin log has a soundtrack