CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

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I had good friends in high school and I enjoyed band, and my one "AP" class. It wasn't an official AP thing, but it was a senior class where we just sat in a circle and did this whole philosophy survey and discussed shit. It was better than 80% of my college classes. Other than that though, high school suuuuucked.

I am not one of those people who is forever wishing they could go back to school. I'm happy working and I don't think I ever want to be a student again.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG You look like Ralph Macchio!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah, I almost said the same, then wondered if that was like "one cute Mexican kid looks much like another" RUH ROH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse you look so ready to be bar mitzvahed.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ralph Macchio is Mexican?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost No kidding. The comments under that include Sarah saying "Charles in Charge?" and Jenny saying "Chachi!"

So now I look like a Jew?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Would you not go NAMBLA on that?

Yes, but that's not news.

Another reason I disliked driver's ed was because I was the youngest kid in my grade and so I had to take it as a junior instead of a sophomore. I felt like an idiot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Macchio is a Handsomely featured, Italian-American actor with boyish looks that initially...

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Trivia about RM:
Daughter, Julia, born in 1992, son, Daniel, in 1996.
Is a big fan of songwriter/singer Bruce Springsteen.
Born in the same Long Island town as superstar Mariah Carey.

Once saved a baby porpoise that was beached on the shores of Malibu. When reporters tried to cover the story, he asked to remain anonymous.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The dude who writes the Television Without Pity recap for Lost didn't get why Sawyer called the kid in the cage "Chachi," and I think it was less "I don't think he looks like Ralph Macchio" and more "I have no idea what that name could possibly signify." HI YOU WRITE FOR A POP CULTURE WEBSITE!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Noo, actually RM is Italian-American (XP)...but I vaguely remember watching Karate Kid and thinking that the character was Mexican or Chicano -- to Kid Me, that would have explained the class/inequity thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

How come no one uses the word Chicano anymore?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

put that gun to my temple
put that gun to my heart
make me walk off the plank chicha
all always in to the dark

A I D S H I V
i cannot wait to die
canâ€™t you tell
canâ€™t you tell
canâ€™t you tell

never finish my degree chachi
never play with the Pogues
throw my head out the window and
cement my feet into the dark

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Aaaaay IIIII Deeeee Eeeessss..........

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know, I didn't find out "Chicano" meant until a year or so ago, when I read this book we publish and a Mexican-American colleague told me it was a classic of Chicano literature.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It just means Mexican-American, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i use chachi all the time, just as the striped-shirt set uses "chief".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"chachee" is my housemate's video-game/AIM handle.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Another reason I disliked driver's ed was because I was the youngest kid in my grade and so I had to take it as a junior instead of a sophomore. I felt like an idiot.

Same here, dawg. See also: turning 21.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

For some reason I think it specifically means the first generation born in America to Mexican parents, but don't quote me on that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Also, when Sawyer said it in the season premiere of Lost and I cracked the fuck up.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been reading up on the word Chicano and the meaning/use is fluid. It seems that now it has a left wing politcal connotation. But before it was just Mex-American.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Interestingly the word Chicano is the root of the name "Chicago." People in the Mid-West can't pronounce the letter N so they said Chicago.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I think for a long time I didn't realize it was so specific to Mexican-Americans. I knew it was different from "Latino" but was never exactly sure how.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost WTF

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Every journey starts with a single step, even if we're talking about a journey from the door to a king-sized mattress with rubber sheets. It's easy to stumble on what to say when you're composing that rousing first email to the OutPersonals member who inspired warm fuzzies in your short-and-curlies, but keep a few tips in mind.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

More importantly, say what inspired you to write in the first place. Even if that's only the image of their majestic and awe-inspiring Groin Serpent[...]

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Keep your first email a little on the short side.... Save the bit about being able to tie your tallywacker into a Winsor Knot for later.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse...

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Rubber sheets....

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

... and now Jerome!

― morris day (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I'll go to work now and move some furniture and maybe buy some office furniture.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think rubber sheets are probably a dud unless you put something else over them. I really don't want to have to be squeegied out of bed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess you're not into watersports?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Not as such, no. But even floating in a WHOLE SWIMMING POOL of water, one occasionally sticks to the inner tube and then OW.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

rubber sheets + baby oil = non-stick fun for all. and probably torn ligaments.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember full-motion waterbeds? Where the whole mattress was just this big rubber bubble?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is just one of the many, many substances of this world that I don't EVER need to get in my hair.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Anyway, my mom had one of those, and me and my HS girlfriend would strip all the sheets off of it and do dirty things to each other. It was a lesson in rhythm as much as anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, I know... tmi.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I had had sex in HS. Or rather I wish I had had a BF in HS. The couple of random experiences I had were much-appreciated, but too few and far-between. And not very comfortable (standing).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is bad for condoms.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Vaseline is death to condoms.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't have a BF in HS either, Jesse. OR in college. Late start, what with the whole CHRISTIAN INSANITY thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the "being a really unpleasant adolescent".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Baby oil is just one of the many, many substances of this world that I don't EVER need to get in my hair.

i know someone who's getting a shower cap for christmas...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I sort of had a girlfriend. Kind of like being hungry and being served a photograph of food.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost And a golden shower.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i had way more girls who were friends than girlfriends. it was kind of like being hungry and given a 7 course meal sealed in a lucite box.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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