~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

friends of mine attest to regularly painting their nails as how they stopped nail-biting fwiw.

drinking prosecco, thinking about watching Homeland. because of the max.

*googles prosecco*

how do i spend my life drinking and yet not know a drink

oh hai nail biting

uh, i guess wikipedia has updated their pictures

http://i40.tinypic.com/i36mht.png

irl lols; sorry, fierce looking lady

she seems like she should be married to David Carradine

otm

David Carradine's entry:

"He died on June 3, 2009 under unusual circumstances.[1]"

uh, well yeah i mean

i'm going to try to look up other people who died via auto-erotic asphyxiation and see how their death was explained on The Free Encyclopedia

as much as i fuck up and never live up to expectations, at least i'm reasonably sure i won't die of auto-erotic asphyxiation

i'll drink to that

loooooooool i know this joke is played out, but still

http://i41.tinypic.com/15n5bnc.png

Frantisek Kotzwara, musician:

"He is perhaps more famous for the notorious nature of his death.[2]" the notorious masturbatory nature i think you mean

Stephen David Wyatt Milligan, British MP:

"He was found dead in his flat in Chiswick, London in February 1994, strangled by an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.[1]" - well there we go, that's frank, bravo

Vaughn Bodē, artist:

"Bodē's death was due to autoerotic asphyxiation, or perhaps the use of asphyxia as a meditation aid: his last words (to his son) were, "Mark, I've seen God four times, and I'm going to see him again soon. That's No. 1 to me, and you're No. 2."" - uh ok, that's the end of researching this topic. i am fucked up for lyfe now

as much as i internally criticize my dad for being emotionally detached, uninformed conservative, at least he never told me auto-erotic asphyxiation was No. 1

having a sort of bummed out night and would like to post too much

o hai

three philosophers? three forties morelike

well i'm up to six philosophers now if you know what i mean

there's nothing like easy to solve riddles

just stop before three philosophers cubed, ok

she seems like she should be married to David Carradine

― Z S, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:58 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

she seems like she would BE david carradine

z

as you were growing up until now, what were your favorite things

just stop before three philosophers cubed, ok

haha, 27 philosophers? or i guess 9 three philosophers? shit's expensive, i'll be stopping long before that!

besides willie mcgee i mean

DAMMIT

where da ws at

as you were growing up until now, what were your favorite things

let's see, i think my answers would probably be pretty boring, but hey:

til age 6 or so: ted e. bear - cleverly named teddy bear
6-10: illustrated children's bible - i used to be really religious and read the bible constantly, but the illustrated version was like my candy that i would afford myself on occasion
10-12 i was collecting a lot of baseball cards at this time. and reading all of the stats on the back, memorizing. i had them arranged by team, and whenever a player switched teams, i'd move them to their new team. shit got complicated really quick
13-16 i kind of blacked out on this period of my life. i'm pretty sure i was just playing videogames, not hitting puberty and not talking to my dad. objects...i was practicing percussion and drums constantly. like 2-4 hours per day. i didn't even think of them as my favorite things, it was something i had to do.
17-19: ernest the furnace. yeah, i named my pipe. this really was an awesome pipe, though, legendary in certain (really giggly) circles. after a particularly spirited evening i accidentally dropped it through the train tracks of a bridge about 100 feet above the ground, didn't bother chasing after it. rip ernest
20 - i had a bootleg german dvd of kraftwerk, can, neu, la dusseldorf and popul vuh performances/videos, and it fucking blew my mind. i watched it constantly and probably annoyed the hell out of everyone i knew
21 - ? let's face it, i drink a lot of alcohol

i can't avoid mentioning the NES game Marble Madness. this was a constant in my life up until a few years ago. i am the unofficial world record holder (beaten the world record, just haven't recorded it and submitted to Twin Galaxies). i have played it roughly 18 trillion times.

i bit my nails until i was 16 or 17 and then my grandma gave me a manicure kit and i replaced my nail biting obsession with a nail care obsession. which has waned a bit in the past decade at least. now i mostly don't bite my nails because ew germs.

i haven't been sleeping enough and was so grumpy this morning - and then the power went out 15 minutes after i woke up! it was out for blocks! but it did get me out of the house to have breakfast with a friend :)

also today i bought my new climbing harness and shoes and etc and am good to go! climbing on thurs night, doing push ups in preparation.

oh man, climbing! i started to get into it this past summer. i was living with a few roommates who went the the climbing gym (and occasionally out to boulder) really frequently, and i joined them several times. i had to move out (lol sadface breakup with gf) and haven't been back since. i should get back into it. i have negative 34 armstrength at this point, but i do have decent balance and instincts.

aw man

illustrated children's bible was pretty fucking sweet; still vaguely remember shit about jeraboam and jezebel and such (tree limbs! dogs!)

kinda curious about 13-16 but i'm guessing it was much like mine apart from god-fearing parents

21+ i hear you cluckin' big chicken (did the cards winning please you at all?)

i dunno man. you're *very* recently broken up and your parents are . . . apparently not helpful (do you have siblings?)

at the risk of being weird i kind of feel like you are a male abbott, i.e. potentially incredible.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Abbott_and_Costello.jpg/250px-Abbott_and_Costello.jpg
l-r Lou Costello, Z S

jeez, i'm on philosophers 7-9 now, sigh

the attention afforded to revelations is always a little annoying - it's definitely the most violent and sci-fi/fantasy book of the bible so i can understand - but the images in the illustrated bible were mesmerizing. sinners clutching their heads in agony, multi-headed beasts descending near video rental stores. crazy and addictive.

i have a sister. she was definitely my best friend growing up, and we're still similar in many ways. but she never left missouri and is generally way more traditional than i am these days. i'll love her to pieces until i die but i can no longer share everything with her like i once could.

being compared to abbott is pretty much the nicest thing someone could say.

i was out earlier tonight, chatting with an old friend and whatnot, and she reminded me that in high school i was known for drinking too much, puking in my hand, and politely walking it over to the toilet without spilling a drop.

?

Z S you da best

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvg0c16HqN1qzrlhgo1_500.png

aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahah

god, delete world

in the old days i would just sit around and people would wander over and play awesome stuff and i would find out about all sorts of things.

This is what I've really enjoyed about that Outloud.fm room. I never just sit around and play music with/for people anymore.

I'm sorry now that I haven't been following this thread until now, which is my bedtime. Z S maintaining position as The Best, though though that image is a strong challenger for that title.

let's just stay up all night!

this'll be a great calling in sick email: "hey, i was on the internet all night, you know how it goes, my throat is scratchy, don't want to spread it around"

god bad brains is awesome, just now catching up to this

Music is the biggest thing I miss about having a car. My music consumption went way down when I got rid of my last car 2004). Headphones on the bus or train are no good bc I miss ambient noise, plus I'm not mentally I'll enough to enjoy singing along on public transit as I would in a car.

as much as i criticize cars (and am thinking about applying for an Undriver license), there are some really nice things about it. after I broke up recently, i flew back to St. Louis and rented a car to drive around to see people, and it wasn't until about 10 minutes into the rental car journey that i realized i could scream my head off, for the first time in years. i said many bad words. it was amazing. and then i listened to music at top volume. i still dislike cars, but i do miss that outlet.

Yeh. I understand the many many problems with cars, but I never feel more at home than when I'm driving. This makes me very popular as an Ikea chauffeur. Doing that this Saturday. Also love flying - specifically taking off and landing - and airports.

No challops

yeah this is one of the things i miss about driving. one time 15 years ago (!) i was driving from mpls to pittsburgh and was *psyched* to listen to the new afghan whigs record (black love) and all its antecedents until i fully understood n/a

a great calling in sick email: "hey, i was on the internet all night, you know how it goes, my throat is scratchy, don't want to spread it around"

yeah we'll see how this goes

someday, that'll be a great calling in sick email. the world isn't ready for it right now

eh, they don't really want to pay me anyway so it'll be fine i'm sure

ZS, you should sort it out and record your Marble Madness score for Twin Galaxies. Holding a world record would be sooooooo sweet, even if it's not necessarily something you'd want to put on your CV or whatever. I keep meaning to send in a score for Civ II on the PS, but I'm scared by the whole "need to keep awake for 20 hours while I playthru" thing.

wow can't believe I am now a member of 77!

yep, and the best part of it is that it's google protected. so go ahead and tell us all about your sex life ken!

Was this a glory hole in a designated glory hole area or like in a public bathroom?

Also, I recall you being a woman, is that correct?

uh yes I am

can't women be fascinated with glory holes?

this was in an "adult arcade"

Oh absolutely! I was asking 1. Bc of your screen name and 2. bc I wondered if maybe you snuck into a men's bathroom.

And interest in glory holes among male Homosexuals is far less remarkable.

major irl lols

Homosexual II, what was you and your date's general response to the dick appearing?

Whack-a-mole

hahaha

In a dirty bar there was a dirty man who gave me his dirty card that showed his home address. There, he said, the door was always unlocked, allowing access to his glory hole. I've seen this kind of thing on Manhunt. It seems next-level depraved and creepy. And pretty fascinating, tbh.

the dirty bar was Clark's on Clark, which a few of you will remember

nuhnuhnuh, I tried to post this earlier, but it failed - are you elmo a?

I remember nothing.

I remember that Jenny was pissed that you gave out your address so freely.

been desperately hoping this flu would clear up before tonight but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen...angry + shivering.

If anyone needs me today, I'll be in my room watching Dance Academy and eating tangerines.

My NYE plans include a supper of enchiladas filled mostly with leftover turkey, a fire in the fireplace, looking at all the past year's photos with my wife, then watching an Astaire-Rogers dvd, eating popcorn and drinking rum drinks. This is Big Fun for Those Past Fifty.

i'm barely past 30 and that sounds like a pretty good night to me

tbqh, I've always been a fan of stay-at-home NYE and my personality is quite the inverse of a raver's. See my post to the thread about when you discovered you were well on the way to becoming a crotchety old person.

i might visit some ppl nearby for a couple of hours or i might watch the new godard flick

not rly feeling the end of 2k11 or beginning of 2k12 to be all that rly i mean both years are pretty similar numerically

otm, chinese new year gives you more to work with

Because a year measures one cycle around the sun, you can arbitrarily pick any day in that cycle to mark the end/start of a solar year and it would make about as much sense as any other day. When this was first pointed out to me in high school, New Year's Day lost much of its lustre for me.

Wasn't it originally picked to be the winter solstice, so that the earth was being "reborn" as the new year began? Respect our pagan history, people!

Except NYD is not the solstice, innit?

this is seriously the first Saturday in over a month where I have nowhere to be this afternoon or evening. This rules.

I have my pick of New Years nightspots...think ima karaoke it up at my friend's bar, and say goodbye to one of teh quickest and weirdest years in recent memory (for me)

Except NYD is not the solstice, innit?

Time drift (no leap year for quite a while). Or maybe they just weren't good at it.