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Read non-fiction.

― Jeff, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

How is that helpful?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've actually been on kind of a non-fiction kick for a little while, what with the Iraq Study Group Report and the Motorcycle Diaries.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY KEVIN!

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 February 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Test

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― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Why won't it make the URL a link automatically?

Also, the 2nd line is the result of using Firefox's BBCode extension (hilighting text, right clicking, choosing Clipboard, then Make Selection URL).

The 3rd line is the result typing [ link Test BBCode] URL [ / link ].

Is there more than one standard of BBCode?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though it looks like BBCode, this isn't actually BBCode.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked that same question, Jesse and yeah. It's not standard BBCode. So the extension will still work for bold, italics, and

Blockquotes

but not for images or links.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone else ever had a Chicago Card that just stopped working? Mine has, apparently. The station attendent told me "it's bent, you're not supposed to bend them" which is hilarious, cause as I'm sure you all know, my FAVORITE PASTIME is sitting around, bending my Chicago Card!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine stopped, but not because of any physical damage, but because the CTA has gone worthless.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night my work hosted a pre-Oscars dinner party and auction to benefit autism. They were auctioning off 5 mink stoles (not pelts, but knitted mink fur) and couple won one for $500 for their daughter who was no older than 9. HUH.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Mornin guys.

I'm actually pretty ok with the Oscar results. Marty seemed positively thrilled. And I think America should do what it has to do to keep Scorsese happy. That is my patriotic sentiment of the week.

Thumbs down to: Eddie Murphy getting robbed, Little Miss Sunshine winning Original Screenplay. The movie was pure artificial buzz. There was nothing award-worthy about it at all. THAT OSCAR WAS PURCHASED.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan: Yes! I've had one stop working and Jeff has had two just stop working. And it's not because you bend them; that attendant is a dimwit. None of the cards that have gone tits up on us were ever bent. Do you have your account set for the unlimited monthly rides? My theory is that when you've got an unlimited number of rides, CTA Central Chicago Card Services randomly deactivates the card so you have to pay for individual rides on top of your monthly fee. And then you have to pay the $5 replacement card fee. I say this because I change my Chicago Card to a per-ride charge during the school year because of my U-Pass and it's never just not worked in the same way as the unlimited cards have not worked. Also I think the CTA is run by crooks and extortionists. Aaaaand I'm paranoid. And cynical.

Eddie Murphy should have thought about his Oscar nomination before he made that abominable Norbert movie. Karmically, I think that worked out just right.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

And it was obvious that Scorsese was going to win when the cabal of old white men directors came out to present the award. They might as well have just started chanting "ONE OF US ONE OF US" instead of reading the card.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Good morning!

"O" alarm clock update:
He broke up with his girlfriend over the phone yesterday. Or rather, she broke up with him. He was very loud about it, shouting defensively, so that I could every word just sitting in the living room. Apparently, he did a very bad thing, which ...you just can't let go, Emily! I've done everything I can to make it up to you.. EVERYTHING. And yet you just keep bringing it up and keep bringing it up... And a while later he started half-crying You are not going to make me cry! Not this time! I won't cry. I won't. Because you think men who cry are weak. But I've only cried in front of you twice. And one time I was drunk! And that was a very emotional time in my life and I was barely scraping by. And I have my act together now and NO, you will not make me cry this time... At that point, it was getting too embarrasing so I had to go back to the bedroom where I couldn't hear the conversation as well.

Then this morning, he rang the alarm at 7am.

In conclusion, he had a girlfriend. Now he doesn't. But happy ending, huh? He can still get off. THE END

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. "he rang the alarm"?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

JERKED OFF LOUDLY.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And it was obvious that Scorsese was going to win when the cabal of old white men directors came out to present the award.

As I said on another thread, George Lucas was an odd choice for The Great Triumverate. They kinda made a joke about it -- "He's never won an Oscar" -- but they failed to mention that he's an awful director, and a pretty darn bad writer, too. And he has no chin. Grow a chin, then we'll talk.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. "he rang the alarm"?

I think this only supports the theory that the girlfriend was never present, since she is clearly not integral to this process.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

George Lucas's chin terrifies me even more than his last three Star Wars movies. What is going on there?

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like he had it removed.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

And then replaced with raw bread dough.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

What a boring Oscars. At least the part I watched. We turned it off like 2 hours in, which was still before almost all of the major awards. I like Ellen in general but they needed more EXCITEMENT and SPECTACLE. Whenever I see one of these shows I start daydreaming about being nominated for an Oscar or Grammy, winning, but refusing the award. You would instantly be the coolest person ever. Evidence: Marlon Brando and George C. Scott.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, we talked about refusing awards before, didn't we?

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! The other thing I did not like: Pan's Labyrinth winning over Children of Men in the cinematography category. Pan's Labyrinth was good-looking, no doubt, very slick and polished. But Children of Men was *amazing* looking, this giant feat of cinematography. How could they miss that?

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

A classic exchange.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

1970: Calling the Oscars "a two-hour meat parade," GEORGE C. SCOTT announces that he will refuse the Best Actor award if he wins (for playing WWII general George Patton in Patton). On the big evening, presenter Goldie Hawn rips open the Best Actor envelope and squeals, "Oh my God! The winner is George C. Scott!" True to his word, Scott is home in New York watching a hockey game on TV. He's the first actor ever to refuse an Oscar.

1973: "Hello. My name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache and... I'm representing MARLON BRANDO this evening." So says a young woman in Indian garb who takes the microphone after Marlon Brando wins the Best Actor award for The Godfather. Brando, not to be outdone by George C. Scott, has sent Littlefeather to protest the treatment of Native Americans in the movies. The audience reacts with confusion and scattered boos. Actor Clint Eastwood, announcing the Best Picture award moments later, says "I don't know if I should present this award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in John Ford westerns over the years."

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could make a username on here, or a signature line because I'm feeling like saying to the world, "Arbiter of Toast"

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

Oh, now you're just cutting me down for the sake of doing it. I suppose I have earned this in the past.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

My car got stuck in my driveway this morning, and I don't even HAVE a driveway. I need to buy a damn shovel today.

Some of my bandmembers from Chicago and Mpls got snowed in yesterday so we had a kick-ass Oscar party w/Ian's pizza. Sad that Marky Mark didn't win, glad that Forest did.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Up next: Jenny explains that she actually meant what she said, but in clearer terms; Kenan says something worshipful of her.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Jenny a lot. It's true.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Kenan, I'm not cutting you down for the sake of doing it. I'm responding that way because it irritates the shit out of me when you speak derisively of others for the simple crime of not agreeing with your opinion. OPINION. That means that it's not a truth, no matter how lofty a statement you might make about it.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

My car got stuck in my driveway this morning, and I don't even HAVE a driveway. I need to buy a damn shovel today.

So it snowed so hard that you got a driveway?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse got the order wrong.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

OMFG!!!

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It's freezing cold in my office and work is really slow again. We're supposed to have pizza today for our boss's birthday but a bunch of people are working from home. I just want to read more of my book.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus, what brought this on? I'm talking about academy voters, ffs! Not you or anyone else I know or even know of. Just a faceless mass of voters that it's ok to disagree with as much as you like, in my book.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I may have backed myself into a corner? Where now anything I speak negatively of will be interpreted as my being unfair and hysterical?

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

In defense of Kenan, when you're talking about subjective things like which movie is better, it's a given that any statement made is an opinion. Thus it's not really necessary to couch your statements.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess that's not really what you're talking about though.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, I have a little area behind my garage, but when the plows go through the street they pile up a bunch of snow there. I thought I could get out but nope. A cute girl even stopped and tried to drive while I pushed, which didn't work at all. I had to go borrow a shovel from a dude across the street.

AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE AN OSCAR PARTY CAUSE AN OSCAR PARTY DON'T STOP

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched some of Patton yesterday. The part that sticks out in my memory is when he tells his assistant to post a 24 hour guard on a U.S. cemetary, because otherwise the "damn dirty Arabs" will come and dig up the corpses for their clothes. Then he talks about facing Rommel one-on-one in tanks to decide the outcome of the war.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, it's just the consistent WAY you state opinions: as statements of great (lofty) authority, so strongly stated that they might as well be facts (along the lines of "Feces is NOT for eating"). This is not the same as being confident in your opinion. It comes across like you're the self-appointed arbiter of taste (as I've said before).

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, man. Children of Men had some pretty f'in awesome camerawork.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, this kind of thing is very political, too... the reason that movie didn't get more awards is because the studio fell down on the job of campaigning for it, or even marketing it. They were just kinda stumped as to what to do with it. And technical Oscars usually go to movies that are winning all the other oscars, not to movies that are most deserving.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Decent Oscar moments: Tom Hanks actually being pretty funny on the spot ("YES CHRIS, MORE FUN."), Ennio Morricone being cranky Italian dude

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to see Lives of Others now. Word has it that it's really great.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Children of Men should have won more awards I think, but then again I didn't see much of the competition.

The foreign language movie montage made me want to check out all 50.

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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