Have fun tonight; my money (all 50 cents of it) is on Hastings Thread Trivia dominance. Do not fail me.

Also, A. just magically produced a used iBook for me to use. Always marry someone with computer skillz and mysterious computer hardware sources. There’s my advice for you all.

And happy birthday to your sis, Suzy!

Birthmas Christface all around!

Come to think of it, my sister’s baby could arrive soon. Last I heard they had no name (it is a boy). I thought I was having some success with suggesting “Daniel.” But I have to say that older-brother-to-be Sam has had the most interesting suggestion: Chang.

SEVEN!!

Ha ha, I actually met a guy named “Sevin” once. I haven’t suggested that one to her yet. (Although I did suggest “Garth Brooks Molitor,” which did not impress.)

My brother and his wife wanted to call their son “Seven” but ended up making up “Seb1an” (my brother’s name is 1an). My grandmother however perferred Seven and call him this until she died.

Dammit I thought today was Thurs. and therefor my last day at work for the year. but it isn’t. it’s Wed. I’m so bummed.

Huh, I was thinking today was Thursday for some reason, too. You’ll make it, though, Sam!

wrt names for my sister’s baby, “Four” would make more sense.

I’m waiting to hear if FB, subgenius and John conquered trivia last night.

Me too. B3t$y’s birthday dinner finished at 9 so I could, theoretically, have gone on to triv. However DRUNK so no go.

suzy, it sounds like you had fun even without the trivia!

Wrapping was fine, except I suck at wrapping.

I was just thinking that if ILX/HSTNGS thread are going to meet up at Bunny’s before you go, we should pick a date; I need to find a sitter if I’m going to get teh husband out of the house.

I don’t think FB reads the board anymore so you guys should probably coordinate over email.

Yeah, definitely! Any time between 27th and NYE good for me, then 2nd or 3rd. I go back on the 4th. Although Dan raises a point. DJP, could you hook us up if not too much trouble? SRC, this address works.

I pointed out to sis’ fiancé that all the men in Bunny’s over 50 looked like Bud Grant. ‘Cosby’-style sweaters were also a feature. Our party spent at least $100 on pull tabs last night, which was SICK.

Hmmmm, Dan you might be right. Suzy, I will email...

PS Dan, come home cuz we miss you.

Trivia went...non-winningly.

BOO HISS

You should have called me!

Against the rules, I’m afraid. Also, they asked at least one question that was incorrect (yes, the question), which threw us out a little bit.

Q: Who was the native american actor who played the famous “One single tear” character in the 70’s anti-littering campaign?

A: Iron Eyes Cody. Problem with the question is that he was ITALIAN YOU FUCKING MORANS. HSTNGS doesn’t truck with misinformation.

Also, I don’t give a fuck what rachel leigh cook looks like, so I couldn’t ID her in the picture round.

And we were drunk.

Damn, there goes my last 50 cents. But clearly you guys were not to blame. (Okay, maybe that depends on how drunk you really were...)

Also, who the hell is Rachel Leigh Cook?

And while I’m asking questions, who the hell is the “Nicole” on the front of People magazine and the tabloids? A. and I were at Target this morning, feeling really out of it. (We did know who “Angelina,” “Jen,” “Brad,” and “Beyonce” were, though.)

We may have also been penalized by SubG appending comments to several of our following answers, ie “Sean Connery, who is also not native american”

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I knew I liked that subgenius guy.

I’ll guess it’s Nicole Richie. She probably ate a baby or something.

That name means nothing to me. I guess that’s what Wikipedia is for.

Lionel Richie’s daughter, the not-Paris-Hilton half of that simple life show. Looks a lot like Lionel Richie would if he was anorexic, had longer hair, and was a coke-whore.

rachel leigh cook went to my high school. we swept that round. the rest of them, not so much.

she’s adopted. and mexican-american actually (I’ve never thought she looked like him.)

She also got a DUI in the past week after driving the WRONG WAY ON THE FREEWAY. She claims to have been on vicodin and weed.

I don’t understand people like her and Paris (and Mel for that sake) getting DUIs. You’re rich! If you’re going to party hire a driver for fuck’s sake!

John, thanks. It could be her. I can’t remember what the headline even was, since we were so “who on earth are they talking about?! It’s clear that we should know!”

a_p—sorry to hear you didn’t smash the trivia people either. Interesting that Rachel Leigh Cook went to your high school. WHOEVER SHE IS!

Sam—well, it certainly could have been Nicole Richie then; she looked like she could be Hispanic (ha, based on tabloid photos).

it was her, I watch enough trashy entertainment headline shows to be sure.

Thanks guys. I know where to go to get my pop culture education. I’ll pass this info on to A. as well, of course. ;)

(haha I was going to amend John’s description with “and was adopted” but Sam beat me to it)

I must admit that I was temporarily thrown off by her Wikipedia photos, in which she is blond; her hair looks dark on the tabloids.

(See, if you dye your hair, I’ll never recognize you!)

I’ve done fuck-all work-wise today. why am I still here?

This thread is getting v. long.

Have you seen the length of some of the Real-ILX Hastings threads? Much more out of control...

Why are you still there? Hope you can go home soon and knit/do whatever you want. I’m going to go lie down because the kids are safely home from school and it is very cold and rainy outside. Very cold plus rain means get the hell into bed in my book.

Dan/Sara, did either of you see me when I dyed my hair white blonde? Only amusing for a short time.

nah, it’s been awhile since I’ve been on long threads much.

It is also cold/rainy here. The temp’s been dropping steadily all day. brr, winter!

I’m waiting for G. to decide to come to get me as the shuttles aren’t running and I don’t feel like taking two city buses home in the rain. We’re going out for margaritas later. yumm.

dammit, can’t believe it’s not thursday. I better have more focus tomorrow b/c I do have quite a bit of work to do.

Kids wanting snacks mean naps are painfully short. But I will try again.

John—you dyed your hair white blonde?! NO, I did not see that. (Please tell me you have a photo, preferably with dark roots showing, sort of as if you were some really screwed up version of Madonna.)

Margaritas YUM. WANT. Instead all I have is a bunch of cookies and fudge that I made... too much. Neighbors are getting treats tonight.

Stay warm Sam! (Er, and everyone else, of course.)

I think I’ve seen a picture of Blonde John. IIRC, you looked kind of dead.

enjoy your nap!

Blonde John, looking dead. LOL.

I’m reconsidering the nap, now that Blonde Zombie high school friends have been conjured in my imagination. I live in front of a cemetery, remember.

I took the nap yesterday and no blonde zombies bothered me. I’m going back to lie down again this morning because it is freaking cold, miserable and dark out.

Drive carefully if you’re around the T.C. area this morning guys. Yikes.

Blonde Zombie high school friends

???

Is it snowing there? It was cold here when I woke up and I wore a sweatshirt to work. But I was sweating by the time I made it to my office.

last day of “work” for the year, woo-hoo!

Sorry, the notion of John with white blonde hair, looking “dead” was apparently too much for my imagination. (Plus I can’t imagine that he dyed his eyebrows to match. Yikes.)

No snow—just really REALLY cold rain. The temperature is hovering right around the freezing point, I think, so the roads could get slippery. Nasty.

But yay for the last work day of the year for you!!!! A. has to go in next week Wed.-Friday, but it will be scary quiet with all the students and most of the faculty and staff gone. I almost envy that.

what does your husband do? I feel I should know this yet I don’t.

He works in the administrative computer center of a private college. I think the main thing he does is troubleshoot people’s computer problems; he’s insanely good at fixing them. At any rate, he seems to enjoy it, it pays okay, the benefits are fantastic, and we have a ready source of potential babysitters in his student workers. All v. good!

What do you do, Sam? (that you won’t have to do again after today until 2007!!!!)

The last time there was a TC ice storm I was in hospital in London and my mom slipped and broke her ankle on the way to the car two hours before she was supposed to go to the airport. My sister: “I’ve got some good news, and some bad news...”

I also work in computers at a (large, public) university. Web development for a million and one divisions/departments on campus. I love working here.

there should be an ilx union of university workers.

suzy... lolz.

The ice storm I remember best was the nice of the final test of my first semester at St. Kate’s (library school)—in 1995 this was. Scariest drive home to Northfield ever.

Working in academia = pretty awesome, unless the college you’re working at has financial troubles (I did that once; it sucked). ILX union... I’d like to see the meetings for that organization.

Freezing rain: the best of all Christmas traveling weather!

It’s turned into big, fat Rankin/Bass Xmas Special style SNOWBLOBS. Pwetty!

It has stopped raining in Northfield for the moment. Just after they sent the kids home from school 2 hours early, too!

I want SNOWBLOBS, too!!!!

I have to go replace a headlight in this stuff.

I’d forgotten how pretty snow is though.

Why are you taunting me with your pretty snows?

(But good luck with the headlight—it’s cold out there.)

This pretty snow sucks balls.

I hate driving.

SNOW UPDATE: still flakes, but if it could speak it would be shrieking like Margaret Rutherford in The Wizard of Oz.

I only want the snow because I don’t need to be anywhere, that is true.

Shrieking snow, now there’s a thought...

Also, no precipitation in Northfield continues. But it’s still cold and my pillow is still calling my name.

We should be hibernating, not wrapping presents. (I loathe wrapping; I do not have the knack.)

I’m better at wrapping than most of the sales assistants they have doing it at those desks in stores. We had to see my dad today and I wrapped two gift parcels in about five minutes. Cannot bear it when there is a raw paper edge visible on the gift or the ends are folded OVER the edge of a package. I also love that ribbon where you use the blunt edge of the scissors to make curlicues.

Maybe you should offer lessons. For me, you’d have to start with, “Supplies You Need.”

I’m sitting down here in my office, A. isn’t home so I could be wrapping stuff for him, but no, I’m procrastinating. Because I’m terrible at it!

suzy, I need your help!

I had to ride with my mother all day doing insane shopping.

I’d have preferred getting in 3 car accidents.

I dislike riding in other people’s cars, as I have no idea when exactly the car will finish turning, stop, etc.

As such, i’m constantly on edge.

No liqour store I went to had Connnemara Whiskey.

Sad.

I refuse to drive to Big Top today.

OH YEAH!

I came here to tell everyone not to fear MySpace’s music stores.

It’s just Snocap interlinked with MySpace.

So...just use Snocap and put a damned link in your profile.

MIDDLEMAN RETARDO.

SRC, I’d have to do a Home Hints style demo and that’s just ahhh-wrong!

I am not afraid of myspace music whatever. But I have yet to figure out the last.fm thing... that is an after the holidays thing, I think.

suzy, you could be the non-robotic Martha Stewart. In a good way.

I did get inspired and wrap several things, and I helped J. wrap a present. If there’s anything that makes me appreciate doing something I’m bad at by myself, it’s when I have to try to herd a 4 year old through the process... Still, I fear you wouldn’t approve of the job I’ve done, suzy.

Heh.

here’s a start: http://www.last.fm/user/TheGZeus/

Now...click things until something’s cool.

Waking Up Corky has downloads, but I don’t think you’d like it, unless you were looking for a laugh.

Oh, and John: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus_%28band%29

not sure if you were aware of the ‘Current 93’ to Ulver’s ‘Nurse With Wound.’

ICS Vortex.... Icy S. Vortex...

Fiery G. Maelstrom...

I wrapped FB’s present in two empty black label boxes.

I hope it’s not just a beer box full of air again. I’m not sure how many more times he’s going to fall for that, John.

I will check out the last.fm thing, thanks GZeus.

I’ll hand John’s present to him...when I feel like it.

XMess isn’t that important to me as a date, as I don’t feel a need to celebrate the christian holiday or Yule.

So...I give John Gifts when I have time or they’re done.

One you will like, the other you will love.

Yay Friday! Plus A. let me sleep in until 11 am. I love that guy.

LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS ARE FUCKING CRAZY PEOPLE.

Sir, I realize you don’t care that your 5 year old is banging two of our guitars together while you shop for yourself, but I’m considering tying him up in a bag and throwing him in the river.

If no one has thrown any of what you carry in your store at you, it’s not really the Christmas season. (And I mean the adults.)

Actually, that is part of the beauty of selling liquor. Very few kids, almost no returns, and everyone is happy when they leave.

All that being said, I wouldn’t take J. into your store on a bet. Some parents are nuts.

hahaha

Martinis with your manager = HAPPY HOLIDAYS, INDEED

Jealous!

This afternoon I am doing roll out cookies with FOUR kids (and, thankfully, two other adults). Maybe I should stick the bottle of vodka I bought into the freezer for emergency rations...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FUCKERS

doooooooooooooooooooooood

MERRY CHIRSTMAS, FLY OUT TO BOSTON TO SEE MY SHOW TONIGHT

IM THERE

I WILL BE THE ONE WEARING THE CLOAKING DEVICE AND I WILL BE EXTREMELY QUIET

MERRY CHRIMBO EJB!

I think I made up a new word to describe the shit the Donald threw yesterday: man-trum.

HEARD ABOUT THE MAN-TRUM

LIKE THE WORD GOOD COINAGE

I have to say that I thought it was hysterical when I thought The Donald called Rosie a “big face”. Once I learned he said “pig face” I was much less amused.

“Mantrum,” lol.

Merry Xmas to all of you!

Hmmmm, maybe I’ll come to Boston tonight, too. I haven’t teleported in years... but then who would make the cookies?!

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My mom haaAAAtes Rosie O’Donnell but could not be persuaded that The Donald was not adhering to classic Pathetic Male gambit of calling female adversary first bitch then ugly then virgin then whore then failure when she was obviously 100 per cent successful in mantrum provocation.

okay seriously, what the hell is that (not yr post, suzy)

I want to see suzy referee a Donald/Rosie fist fight.

Dan, that is FB, obv. He’s changed a bit since Sept.

Good question, Dan. I am mystified.

...and also a few days before I flew home I had to catch a cab and competition for these was fierce at Baker Street. I got to cab before these two blonde ninnies who clearly felt entitled to my ride and called me an ugly bitch for getting there .5 seconds before them. My reply? “you forgot ‘faster and smarter than you’ and I’M IN UR FACE, TAKING UR CAB!” Then kissed my swear finger at them as I rode off, apologising to driver for said antics.

I’M IN UR FACE, TAKING UR CAB!

megalolz

Awesome!

Impotent rage of blonde ninnies silently mouthing profanities through glass as driver scoots away = well worth the aggro. It was one of those OK BAIIIIIII! moments.

In 2007, I will aspire to be more like suzy.

I wish I had not spent money on something game related but instead spent twice as much for something in Japan to perform the same function.

However, it’s not perfect, so I’ll sell something else and keep the thing.

Whatever.

Who wants what omiage(souveniers)?

It’ll be mid April at the soonest when I return.

PS the crazier the better.

It’ll be easier to find online for y’all and the insane things are usually damned cheap.

Testing.

Well, it doesn’t stick.

I’ll look into that.

The case is solvEd.

oh hey i’m in HSTNGS, flying to UK on Monday

suzy disko: i’m gonna be in London around Jan 9th. What does a person do in London besides art museums, bars, and public transport?

Plz to recommend musical experiences for my sis and I. And curry.

I’ve decided to eat some kind of curry each and every day that I’m in the UK. My GI tract is less excited than my mouth, but whatever, he’s a bit of a low man on the totem pole, you know?

gbx, HSTNGS drinkin’ meetup? I hear that the bierstube is beautiful this time of year...