Someone should dress me for best results.
Totally. I still would LOVE to be Queer Eye‘d.
When it’s warm enough, which is rare, I wear seersucker here in S.F.
Who is XEB?
The last person I dated, M. Who I have yet to get over, in any plausible sense.
I don’t know what levels of douchebaggery I thereby achieve, however.
xpost to self
My condolences, Laurel.
I think I will do the personal shopper thing at Macy’s once I save up some money.
oconomowoc=wisconsin town
also, cowomonoco spelled backwards.
and it looked askance on single-button suits
Hilarious considering their prevalence on Saville Row.
Just found out that C@N@ST@ is going to be opening up for THE DEARS (whom Eazy likes) at METRO on DECEMBER 8. Apparently the venue is having trouble selling tix, so we’re getting a couple hundred FREE tickets to give away to our fans.
I also need help buying jeans.
jeans are hell to shop for if you have feminine curves. possibly otherwise as well.
I just haven’t bought jeans in literally years. And it shows.
I hate shopping for jeans. I wear ridiculously baggy jeans because that seems to be all that “fits.”
I love my A|X jeans.
At any given time, I have about five pair of jeans that are either too baggy or too tight or otherwise wonky in some way, and one pair of jeans that are *perfect* that are beginning to get very worn.
At any given time, I have about
one pair of jeans
.
I think I am happier with my current jeans lineup than I have ever been. Even the H&M ones are working well.
“ones” = I’m an idiot.
I need new clothes. THANKS FOR COSTING ME MONEY TODAY, PEOPLE.
I’ve been summoned to provide Things To Do in Nashville (where I live). Sadly, a lot depends on whether you have a car or not, as public transport in the city is a major bummer.
Drinking:
Springwater = great dive bar, with a certain danger element thrown in.
Red Door West = pretty good. It’s the kind of bar where someone will correct you if you don’t use both their first names (i.e. “It’s not just Billy. It’s Billy WAYNE.”)
Yazoo Brewery Pub = great! but open at odd times.
The Villager = right in Hillsboro village. Fun and dive-y, but full of Vanderbilt students (yuck).
Coffee:
Fido — Hillsboro Village — used to be an old pet shop (still has the sign)
Bongo Java on Belmont — It’s got a nice porch and the coffee is pretty great. Try a Paleta as well (mexican popsicles — delicious)
East Nashville is a whole ‘nother can of worms, but equally as fun.
Thank you Molly! I think we will have a rental car to share, but I’m not sure. I also know we’re going to someplace called the Flying Saucer, but that’s about it.
No problem! The Flying Saucer is this big old bar in part of the old train station (remnants of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s robber-baronhood). There are plates on the ceiling for champion drinkers at the bar. It’s a pretty neat room, and they have tons of beer. I also realized I forgot to mention other Things To Do that don’t involve vices. The Frist (ack) Art Museum is a gorgeous art deco building next to the Flying Saucer, coincidentally, but it doesn’t even have a permanent collection. I think there’s an Egyptian exhibit right now.
The Country Music Hall of fame is GREAT and totally worth the $18. They have Gram Parson’s suit with the poppy flowers and pills. It’s great. The Ryman gives hourly tours, and that’s just down on Lower Broadway heading downtown (Flying Saucer is just off of Broadway, but closer to Vanderbilt).
i’m so sleepy, can anyone entertain me in hopes of me not actually falling asleep? there is a leadership retreat going on this week and as a result there are only 5 people in the office today. right now i’m the only person on the first floor of the building.
so i guess i *could* fall asleep...
Oh cool, that looks like some good stuff to do on Friday while I’m flying solo-ish. Might try to hit up some record stores if my friend who’s getting hitched has any suggestions, too.
Sounds like time for a Camel, Otto.
Yeah, I might break my own rule and have a smoke after lunch. I usually don’t, at work, but I’m supah cooped up today.
i’m pretty much dying for a smoke since i was so congested this morning i didn’t have my morning cigarette but the receptionist has been at lunch since noon and i have to watch the goddamn phones until she gets back.
i’m fucking starving over here too.
Records! Yes!
The Great Escape is on 21st Avenue (sort of parallel to Upper Broadway). TONS of used records/cds of all types. One of my now-coworkers took me there on my interview lunch and I decided then that I could happily live in Nashville.
Grimey’s is on 8th Avenue. It’s got vinyl and cds, but beware of the instore, that might block the funk/reggae/new releases record section.
Phonoluxe is over on Nolensville Road (next to an awesome Mexican restaurant — La Hacienda), and it’s all used stuff, and a bit pricey. But, if you’re looking for Dolly Parton’s entire oeuvre on vinyl, that is the place to find it.
I’m guessing that’s where Tim went.
I’m sleep too, I went home for lunch and ate a bunch of crap and watched the last 15 min of Capote. I need coffee.
At first I was happy that Bake for Me accidentally gave me a whole sandwich instead of a half one (I got the soup and half-sandwich special) — but now I feel like a glutton, since I obv. still ate the entire thing, plus the soup.
Yup. We went to pretty much all of the aforementioned places. I had to give him another bag for all his vinyl to carry on the plane.
Bless Tim’s little cotton socks.
I had to give him another bag for all his vinyl to carry on the plane.
after my trip to nyc this month i had to check my carry on because i suddenly had a messenger bag filled with a couple hundred dollars worth of records.
Bake for Me, girl / I wanna be your backdoor man / Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh! / OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!
I don’t know why “Bake for Me” cracks me up every time.
Sadly, it was a giant orange library bag that I got at a conference which screamed “I’m a nerd. Beat me up.”
Yeah, but see, only Tim could carry that bag WITH IMPUNITY.
OK, this sounds great for Friday activities. Thanks again!
This is going to be fun, I’ve never been to a “real” bachelor party before. Supposedly it’s going to start with 40s and Wii games (4 player style, we’re big nerds) and end with shooting shit with a 20 gauge. We’re not really strip club types, but we want to find the most comically bad stripper possible just for lolz somewhere in there too. From the bride-to-be’s assesment, that shouldn’t be tough.
“Real” bachelor parties scare me.
Well, I say that more because this will be an actually party vs. the two other ones I have been to which were mostly sitting around hotel rooms drinking and dreading the inevitable. LAME
I remember that our return from Bowlie was during the Brixton nail bombings and here’s our Tim getting off the bus unshaven and perpetually hungover and extremely menacing, carrying a battered black weekender bag....
strippers at a bachelor party are lame. bachelor parties at strip clubs are classic. 40 ounces and firearms, eh dan? i hope jesse finds that suit before your funeral.
Have you cunts read 1984? I like it more than I thought I would.
i haven’t read it since high school or maybe middle school. probably high school.
It’s not a real bachelor party until somebody’s hanging naked out the window on a sheet.
strippers at a bachelor party are lame. bachelor parties at strip clubs are classic.
Oh yeah, if it happens it’ll definitely be the latter.
And I’m staying AWAY from the firearms as much as possible. That was the best man’s idea. I actually hope people get drunk enough that someone comes to their senses about that shit — but that ain’t likely.
Tim carried that bag with authority and made it look tough. While he was in Nashville, he joined me on the radio after 2 hours of sleep and an night’s full of beer, and pulled the whole thing off in an impressive fashion. I, unfortunately, was stupidly hungover and barely functional. I think it’s archived on freaky trigger, but I have too much dignity to share the link.
Hey, no problem! Enjoy Nashville. It’s a fun town and full of strip clubs. You won’t have a hard time finding some awful ones, I’m sure.
I read some post-apocolyptic book that Jenny lent me and hated it. (Parable of the Sower??) 1984 is like a good version of that book.
I like Newspeak and the how the methods of deception by the Party are at once really over the top and plausible. Also I like that Orwell can write about feelings as well as ideas in a way that so so so many sci-fi writers can’t.
I think here is as good a place as any to say that BSG lost me for good when the characters said “Frack.” That was too egregious to ever forgive.
my favorite bachelor parties were the last two i went to, started with 9 holes of golf then we piled into a rented bus/winnebago (the 2nd one was a smaller party) went to a red sox afternoon game. post game got on the highway and headed south to the strip clubs in rhode island. stayed there for an hour or so then pile back onto the busses and hit foxwoods. we’d stay there until the majority of us had lost money and we’d go back to the bus to pass out.
and oh, yes, there was always plenty of alcohol at least at all times.
I’ve never actually been to a strip bar before, so I wouldn’t really know an “awful” one from a “good” one. I’m guessing we might rely more on the more experienced bachelor partiers and also on how horrified the groom is of any particular place. That’ll narrow it down.
Jeff has one suit and it is from MW. It was everything we wanted and more—it was cheap, fast, made him look sharp, and gave him something to wear on interviews. Three years later, it’s starting to pill and look a little cheap but it doesn’t fit him anymore anyway so whatever.
So, my opinion on MW suits: Great for people on a budget or people like Jeff or John who just need a damn suit without a lot of flufferall or mess, or discerning people like Jesse looking for a suit to have on hand but who one day want a nicer, suit-for-life suit.
Also John re: suits upthread: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I think here is as good a place as any to say that BSG lost me for good when the characters said “Frack.” That was too egregious to ever forgive.
It didn’t lose me, but that annoys the shit out of me.
I have been to strip clubs ranging from “last stop for crack whores” to supposedly “classy” places and have come to the conclusion that they are all horrible.
Also John re: suits upthread: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Now why didn’t I think to try that?
One of my biggest peeves about sci-fi is the language! “I GROCK you.” My blood BOILS.
LOL GROK
Man, that takes me back to 10th grade.
HBO shows about strippers >>>>>>>>>>>> live in-person strippers
Just like violent TV >>>>>>>>>>>>>> actual violence
Didn’t that happen in one of the first episodes?
Strip clubs can be fun with the right people/amount of alcohol, I think.
frack vs. frell (from Farscape)
I got used to “frack” AND even found myself using it occasionally. But I am a dork, no question.
I’ve never been to a strip club.
I use FRACK all the FRACKIN time.
Boy oh boy am I ever bored this afternoon. *sigh*
I love “grok”. In fact, I use it frequently. It’s a useful sort of word.
I actually prefer female strip clubs (with friends) to boy strip clubs with or without friends. Male strip clubs are big frustration joints for me.
(xpost) 1. Because it’s “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.”
2. This technique will become much less effective if everyone starts using it! Also, it’s the bizarre/surprise element that makes it work. And the fact that I’m not involved in the argument at all. If the two of us were arguing, and I started to just go “AAAAAAA,” it would not end the argument.
xpost JESSE YOU ARE NOT HELPING ME.
“frag”
I think frak is kind of annoying, but I try to mentally translate it to “fuck”, and every now and then someone will deliver it with the right amount of venom or slurring to make it work.
I thought “frag” originated during WWII or something.
TS: Frack v. cursing in Chinese
Oh I get that one. LOL FRAGGED U NUBS
It’s the sound of the words that bothers me most of all.
I prefer the Chinese. It sounds more angry, and not just made-up. It could be made up for all I know, but at least I’m not sure it is.
xpost EXACTLY
The Chinese gambit was the worst choice ever. Never ONCE did anyone sound convincing doing that.
XP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only person I know who’s used “frack” with this girl I was friends with in high school. It was kind of dumb. Just say “fuck” already.
I hate “grok.”
OH NOES LAURL!!!!!!
I use FRACK all the FRACKIN time.
The only person I know who’s used “frack” with this girl I was friends with in high school. It was kind of dumb.
You fracked up now, boy.
“They insist that women have done enough house work for their family and suffered a pain whenever they do a delivery or menses.”
—paper on including women in Korea’s required military service that currently only includes men.
Why can’t everyone just be polite like Data and Picard?????
Wait, who is cursing in Chinese?
Firefly/Serenity characters
Who is doing a menses?
DAN: PENGWIN BEAK FITE!
I am doing a menses right now.
I hope you are not suffering a pain.
Wait, so there’s speaking in English, and then they suddenly break into Chinese?
I like it when movies are able to not curse and still not have fake cursing, either. Like Mamet’s The Spanish Prisoner. I don’t even know why it’s rated PG. Maybe there’s a “damn” that I’m forgetting.
Yeah, pretty much. They’re usually kind of more drawn-out “oath” kind of swears, though.
After years of wanting a pair, I bought some of these this morning:
I love them.
i haven’t been to a strip club since i was 25 or so i think. they’re all pretty much awful. but when you’re with a large group of friends and you know you’re going to be out drinking for hours and hours going to a strip club is more fun than a regular bar. because there’s always that one friend who tries to pick up the talent and then it’s just hilarious. although when we went to new orleans in ’98 we lost one of our friends the first night to a dancer named mercedes, he came back two days later.
Yeah, I think the deal is that China took over so everyone is bilingual.
I love “grok”. In fact, I use it frequently. It’s a useful sort of word.
Maybe I’d like it better if it weren’t so ugly. But also: how is it any more useful than “get” or “understand”?
Re strip clubs: I just don’t think I’d be able to deal with being around other guys, with all the crass wink-wink-nudge-nudge that implies. Sexual attraction’s more of a personal thing for me.
“[G]et” is sometimes a little Valley Girl for my tastes, and “understand” doesn’t cover the idea that you and the other thing or person are on the same wavelength...I think there’s an element of totality to “grok” that’s missing from the other options, that you are more than just rationally comprehending something, but internalizing it, feeling it, whatever.
can you guys email me any online resources useful for visiting chicago? I was hoping maybe for like some transit googlemaps hacks, etc? thankssss
uh, john, there’s nothing attractive about being at a strip club. for the most part the talent hates their clientel and their only goal is to make them part with as much of their money as possible.
Transit googlemap hack: http://www.tastypopsicle.com/maps/cta.asp
From wiki: “Grok... is a verb that connotes knowledge greater than that which can be sensed by an outside observer. It is an understanding beyond empathy and intimacy. In grokking, one experiences the literal capabilities and frame of reference of the subject.”
Yeah, Kevin — there’s that, too. The whole thing seems kind of gross.
JENNY IS A FASTER COPY PASTER THAN I