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Yes -- "Two times".

I saw one of you say "4x" once. Is that like "me four"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, or "^^^^^^^^cosign" or whatever. Basically: "I agree with the above and want to repeat it to signify my agreeance."

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

John, did you read Prep ? It is really good. It's full of very reassuring, outcast-affirming Truths without trying to be lofty. I really like that Lee seems to be growing and learning without having big giant moments when everything changes. Her losing her virginity was great b/c while it was pushed on her, it was what she wanted the whole time.

That sounds really terrible.... But that's what's great about the book is that it really captures how something can be really positive and kind of wrong at the same time.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDES DID YOU KNOW THAT WILL OLDHAM IS DOING STANDUP AT THE EMPTY BOTTLE??!?!? WTF. SOMEONE GO, AND REPORT BACK, PLZ. ALSO: TAPE IT>

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is he doing that at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Monday?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Standup comedy?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

w-w-what? has that guy lost his noodles?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Sayjal sent me pics of herself as a Macy's elf. I forwarded them to some of you. If you were left out and want to see her, lemme know.

They're funny and cute because she looks like a disgruntled elf.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. 2 guys just came into Old Timers wearing T-shirts and flip-flops.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

send me disgruntled elf pics plz.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What? No "Fuck Christmas" on yr comp, Kev? ;)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

On second glance, they're more worn out elves than disgruntled, but whatever.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"putains de ongles!"? "mushroom whores?"

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Will Oldham's stand-up gig was at Weed's?

And no Jesse, I haven't read Prep, but your enthusiastic recommendation makes me want to borrow it from Kr now.

I liked The Rules of Attraction. The best part was a fleeting reference to The Secret History, which didn't even come out until five years later. (Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt were friends at Bennington.) But I have a high tolerance for narratives about people being young and foolish.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

that's an unhappy elf.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the fact that while this girl, a Midwesterner at an E. Coast prep school, felt like a big fat misfit, the preppies were rounded characters and not victimizers or spoiled rich kids. Of course you identify with the "poor" girl from South Bend, but you recognize that it is not the individual preppies who are making her feel alienated, but rather mostly her own consciousness of the class divide.

Someone read this so I won't just sit here talking to myself about it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

courtney and I were talking about how we feel equal parts love and hate for the author (Curtis Sittenfeld is a female, by the way) for writing exactly how our minds work.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Loan me the book dude.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh, again. Some shit be going down in the bar part of OT's.... There's a lot of "We don't give a FUCK. We don't give a FUCK in America about blah blah blah" and some guy just stormed out cursing and another guy just stormed in and smacked himself on the face and now people are saying "Hey, buddy, you all right?" and the whole "don't give a FUCK" is still going on.

xpost--the CPL will loan it to you, just as they did for me.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I am mad b/c I had planned on finishing it during my break (now) but I left it at home.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost That'll never happen.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't go to the library?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah. I tend to use My0pic as a library of sorts. Plus I'm not registered.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my best friends is a librarianat the logan square branch of cpl dan. of course she's a children's librarian but whatevs. oh, and her band is playing at the bottle for free on jan 8. of course they're playing w/vee dee who were so bad last time i will likely bail early on the evening.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't get U of C library privileges, Dan?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, srsly, dude.

hey: anyone read house of leaves? It's genuinely scary!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Citizen Dan.

I'm so bored and tired. Going back to work feels like going to sit inside doing math homework while all the other kids get to go sledding. :(

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts Oops! Forgot about that. Yeah, I do. I haven't been by there in a while, because generally when I get out of work I want to get away from here as fast as possible. :)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never read House of Leaves. Is it as unaccessible as it sounds?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost (And that's the same reason I don't take advantage of the Ratner Center... I should really get over there instead of wasting $ paying for my gym.)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I hear that. but it does have lots of books.

xpost to Dan

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, the Ratner Center is the best! it's my favorite part of school. yes, I realize that is very sad.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Once I finish Prep I am going to read A Short History of the World because my knowledge of history is absolutely pathetic.

Actually, if anyone can recommend a history primer, that would be great. This seemed like a good choice, but if you've read something else that weighs in at around 400 pages and is very readable and helpful, I'd appreciate it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

It's actually surprisingly accessible. Someone said on that graphic novel thread that it's like a graphic novel w/o pictures. And that's pretty much right. I think it's very accessible.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, the Ratner Center is the best! it's my favorite part of school. yes, I realize that is very sad.

Well, I'd be kind of bummed if you said the GSB or something like that.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha-ha: I went to the CPL and accidentally picked up another book with the title A Short History of the World and fortunately I thumbed through it before leaving with it and saw that the final sentence said something about "...and in the future more and more people will realize that Communism is synonymous with Progress." Oops.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG who put the Muppets/John Denver Christmas album on the blog? I am going to download that bitch tonight and have instant flashbacks to being four years old. AWESOME.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, forgot to say: Xmas mix = good, Otto!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

those fuckers at the GSB get free coffee and other items of luxury. I resent them.

but seriously, I love the way Ratner looks like a big ship that got marooned on campus.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

amanda put that muppets album up. the rolf song has me contemplating opening up my wrists.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha that's totally how I have described it in the past, like it's got a sail on it.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I figured it was Amanda. CANNOT WAIT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago, be good to each other.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I just snoozed through Poltergeist 2 and now I'm going to finish making the changes to my paper while not really watching Amityville Horror 2. They were in the house less than five minutes and blood came out of the kitchen sink faucet.

Man, FEARnet is good for free terrible horror movies.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Whenever Kevin says, "Be good to each other," I get that Journey song stuck in my head. Ohhhhhhh be good to yourselves!!!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Possessed brother and non-possessed sister talking in A-ville Horror 2:

Sis: You know what's weird? I think mommy doesn't want to make love to daddy anymore. I heard her crying. *pause* Why are you looking at me like that?
Bro: Because you're beautiful. Let's get on the bed.

After some more conversation...
Bro: Take off your nightgown.
Sis: What?
Bro: Just for a second.
Sis: Well, okay. Just for a second!

This movie is so bad!!!

Oh god, he just handed her her panties. Now they are making out.

Now she is confessing having gone "on the way" to a priest!!!!!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF?? I have never seen this movie, and now I know why not.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"All the way," not "on the way." Duh.

Well, she explained a little - see they live in a possessed house and the brother is possessed and they did it to make God angry. Also Burt Young is the abuse father of the family who likes to beat his wife and four children with a belt.

Also the acting is terrible.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh no! Mom just got clued in to her oldest two kids' incestuous relationship! It's like Flowers in the Attic except they are all brunette and Satan is their roommate.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

LOLZ

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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