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emotionally unavailable I totally get. who isn't emotionally unavailable? the smart money is on being emotionally unavailable.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he's not.

Shy? Or cute?

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Shy

(but I'm just messing, I'm shy too)

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I realized the other night that, as a Minnesotan, I'm always going to be emotionally unavailable compared to, you know, hotheads.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I am kind of enjoying this website [url=http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/]http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/[/url]. Sometimes it delves slightly into the "men are from mars, women are from venus, never the twain shall meet" territory, but overall I have been amused.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK. I just KEEP forgetting! http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally out to lunch.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

If you had met me circa 1999 you wouldn't know me at all. Courtney is the only person who knows me now who knew me then (except Brian), but she could tell you--I was saucer-eyed, apologetic, and very, very quiet.

Paxil fixed EVERYTHING so that you all get the pleasure of Jesse 2.0.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

jesse, have you read the things...about novel? it's pretty good. his next one (a certain chemistry [i think]) i liked even better.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I would not call someone who routinely grabs my crotch on the el "shy."

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the dude who wrote that "things my girlfriend and I argue about" site is funny and everything, but he doesn't have a leg to stand on with the supposed distinction between "those trousers make you look fat" and "you're fat and disgusting."

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I stumbled into the middle of a hornet's nest of a love triangle at work. Marie, a from girl who has been sick joked that she was pregnant. She was sitting next to a guy named Tyler who used to date Marie's best friend, and I said, "Oh, maybe it's Tyler's baby." I said it because I thought it was the most absurdly impossible thing I could say. Now Tyler and Marie are not speaking to me, and Marie confessed to her best friend that she and Tyler have sort of been seeing each other. The friendship is on hiatus.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone read "Fatherland" by Robert Harris? I bought it over lunch because the work book club is reading it, but I'm not that excited by it. "Waht if Hitler won WWII?!" is the most cliched alt-history premise ever.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Tyla the playa.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have emotionally gone fishin'.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse lives in a sitcom.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost- I have never read anything else by this man. I L'ed my A O when I read the thing about what he found in the shower. Ctrl+F "shower" on that page if you are interested.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tyla the playa.

That's kind of funny because Tyler likes to act all street despite being a white boy from Iowa (a co-worker calls him "Hitler's wet dream"). We were make fun of him for this, and his nickname is "Popcorn." As in "pop a cap in your ass" and he's from the corn fields.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I would not call someone who routinely grabs my crotch on the el "shy."

I'm compensating, protecting myself emotionally, maybe!

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus, how can I resist that crotch of yours!

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse is emotionally in John's pants.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally asleep at my desk.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally full of gumbo.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I realized the other night that, as a Minnesotan, I'm always going to be emotionally unavailable compared to, you know, hotheads.

Ah, Minnesotans, it's so true. The one girl I dated from Minnesota would reference this same phenomenon. Hey, that's probably why we never went anywhere! I think this applies to Yoopers too.

EZ, out of sheer curiosity, where in MN are you from?

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I am wearing my new RGP contact lenses! It's a little weird because I only ever had soft contacts before, but it's oh so clear and I think I'll be able to get used to it. Now if I could only get rid of the purple rings around my eyes...

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Grew up in Burnsville - family came from Moorhead and Worthington and a few small towns.

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

This American Life is funny!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I bridge the gap between EZ and Dan M. I am a former Minnesotan (Deer River, in Itasca County, headwaters of the Mississippi River, near Grand Rapids, MN, birthplace of Judy Garland) and Michigander (Near Charlevoix, MI, summer residence of the (Jon Benet) Ramsey family), as well as Montanan.

Other famous Montanans:
Dana Carvey, Missoula
Gary Cooper, Helena
Evel Knievel daredevil motorcyclist, Butte
David Lynch, Missoula
Martha Raye, Butte

I lived 90 miles north of Missoula and 65 miles south of Kalispell, the town where Michelle Williams and L. Ron Hubbard grew up.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This American Life at the Chicago Theatre was awesome for a number of reasons. Foremost is the production itself: it was fully a stage show, offshoot of the radio show, and of course advertisement for the TV series, making me want to subscribe to Showtime to watch this show (it's on Showtime, right?).

The other reason I liked it was the fact that Jenny, Jeff, Courtney and had fun seats. While they weren't close enough for me to catch every facial nuance of Ira Glass and Dan Savage, we got our own box seat (impossible--completely impossible to find!) with four chairs for the top price of balcony seats. Plus, we got cocktail service and easy, unobtrusive-to-others access to the restrooms.

Plus we did the civilized thing that makes us behave savagely: Cocktails. Before and after. Good fun.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

fracking hell. That sucker got me drunk.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Was David Rakoff there, too?

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

me and a friend were the first two people in the bar last night and the last two to leave. unsurprisingly i have a headache this morning.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Reuters should maybe fix this typo:

Bush crashes in Atlanta, 6 dead, 29 injured - Reuters AlertNet

http://www.alrdesign.com/blog/uploaded_images/robot1-705603.jpg

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

You people. I'm so emotionally available, sometimes I think my heart lives OUTSIDE my body. Circulation is a bitch.

― Laurel, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

David Rakoff was there and he made me LOL a lot. He talked about TV. I also decided that Ira Glass is a cross between John, Kenan, and Eric.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, I have spent several hours on the Things my gf and I have argued about site in the past. I keep forgetting to look for that book at the library!

Amanda, I received a Daily Candy email about Dan's friend's book last week and thought it looked up my alley!

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, have any of you fancy pantses ever eaten at Everest? I have been instructed to find an "extravagant" restaurant for an after-graduation dinner and that looks preeeeeety extravagant without being all irritating in that "molecular gastronomy but not actually, you know, food" way.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a fucking flat tire on the way to work. This is one of the tires I just paid for LAST MONTH. Fuck.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a giant ~~pit of despair~~ pothole and I hit it at no more than 25 mph, pop.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

NOOO! I'm sorry, Jordan. That's horrible.

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://pictures.spacebar.org/images/ira-glass-feb2006/ira-glass-smile-thumb.jpg

― kenan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess the manly thing would be to change the tire, but if I even have a spare it's buried beneath lots of drum gear and it's snowing out. I think I'm going to call AAA and get towed to a tire place.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Bummer, Jordan!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, shitsville.

― kenan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

my dog used to have a fleece-y bed type of thing that he would never use, i totally want on that would accomodate someone slightly over 6 feet tall to put under my desk for days like this.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I would have felt ripped off if I had paid for AAA and never used it this winter.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

yay! my ping pong shoes are in the mail!!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Special sports shoes for playing ping pong?

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the story i'm making up, yes.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi guys. I am at home on my futon again.

― n/a, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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