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― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dairy Queens were never really that bad, it's just a funny thing to say.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

During timesw hen my parents were low on money, we used to have to settle for Dilly Bars from Dairy Queen, rather than their more interesting offerings.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Felicity and I had an Indian dinner fit for kings, or er, queens. We tried to go to Flying A but the bastards were closed. We saw airline bags through the window but couldn't inspect closely enough to assess the right level of skankiness for a certain person. Felicity was drawn to the brown, but neither of us have a particlular affection for Fred Perry Airlines. Oh yeah and the snow, it's stopped now, what's up with that?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

it does seem to have stopped, but it's too dark to tell. laguardia is closed until noon tomorrow, and i was supposed to be flying out. instead, i'll have an extended stay in nyc. and i will be spending my life on hold trying to change my flight. naturally, they don't let you do such things online. that would be far too convenient.

i'm very happy to stay here. i've been eating some wonderful food, enjoying good company. my sister made sambar last night, my bro in law made beef stew...pressure cookers rule.

i'll be holed up watching their matrix dvd over and over in different languages and eating fabulous food...cool enough.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 05:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love this snow a lot but wonder what it means for the FAP/b-day party...I'm still planning on having it but if it starts snowing again that may prove a problem. we shall see.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Matos: a little snow never stopped hotlesilxoraction from occuring!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

my sentiments exactly

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't you think it's a little presumptuous of Matos to think he can just decide whether we're having it or not? Matos isn't the boss of whether we're happy Matos was born! I don't need to ask Jesus whether I'm going to celebrate Christmas!

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yay! I had a blizzard this evening! Just before French class! With Butterfinger mixed in! It was grebt!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I only mentioned this because I've gotten two emails already asking if I'm cancelling/postponing the b-day party.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

You know I'm kidding, right? Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. It's your birthday!

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

of course I know you're kidding

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 06:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not. FUCK YOU MATOS. Obv. I'm kidding, I mean who are these wussbags who sit in their houses and do nothing over some snow?

Best thing I seen all day: the buses keep stopping at the one nearest my house, which is completely plowed in with snow. I mean literally, the entire little box for people to stand in is packed up with snow to the rafters. WHO ARE THESE BUSES TRYING TO PICK UP? Snow men? What the hell?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

did anybody ever eat "snow cream"? i wanted to make some but forgot how

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't recommend you do this with already day old snow, Tracer.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dan Perry to thread. Again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's STILL SNOWING though. can't i just skim off the top without disturbing the gray ice underneath?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

No. It's tainted.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

This tainted snow you give me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

ARGH.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Took you long enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't touch me, please.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

let me guess, you can't stand it, right?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love you, Tracer, though you hurt me so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

now i'm gonna pack my things and SNOW! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah aaaaaaahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

did anybody ever eat "snow cream"? i wanted to make some but forgot how
Please see the Arbitrary Thread. At the time, the post was arbitrary (as I hadn't seen this one yet... or perhaps snow ice cream was just in the collective ILX conscience).

My toes are freezing because snow fell down in my boots when I was scraping off the car this morning.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread's great strength is the way its American contributors are being so unselfconsciously yet unmistakably American.

To the outsider it conjures a glamorous and poignant world. I have always said that anti-Americanism is a chimera.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ahh, the PINEFOX.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha!, I got soaked to the bone in San Francisco on Saturday night!

HOWEVER, I really Loved SF this time. I think it has really come back down to earth and is much more pleasant/friendlier.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know I get a tear in my eye when I read this thread.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

From my 50th-floor window i can report that the sun is actually out and shining on most of Queens. Oddly, however, the Citibank building remains shrouded in shadows.

Signs have been posted outside my building: "beware of falling ice". I looked about, noticed nothing untoward, and set off from under the overhang and was almost offed by an enormous chunk of - falling ice.

I agree with the Pinefox - anti-Americanism is a magical wingéd magical horse-beast.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

and magical, too

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

and thanks for the tip Sarah. Though I fear Ally is right. "Snow what touches brine / will never touch mine", or something.

The Pinefox thinks we are all a bunch of rustic naifs.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer, do you work in the Citibank building in Long Island City?

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I haven't made snow ice cream in a very long time. But it was perfect when I lived out in the suburbs and was too young to worry about things like dirt.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ughhhh...I just dug out my car. Grudgingly I admit Ned may have a point regarding his choice of climate and transportation.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

DON'T TELL THEM WHERE YOU ARE TRACER. THEY ARE THE TALIBAN.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, you can tell I'm Taliban by the beard and the eyepatch. I can't wait to drink forbidden-by-Allah cocktails with the heathen Matos tonight.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

PF you can't ruin our fun: We have snow and you don't, nyah nyah!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think the PF's thoughts of us are kind of poignant in their own way, actually.

I'm trying to think of ways that Matos is a heathen, and I'm realizing that we agree on almost everything music-related. Must find cracks in this facade of accord.

Funny you should say that about the Taliban - i work at the corner of Cortlandt and Broadway, so I'm directly across from the Trade Center site. Impossible not to think bad things in this neighborhood when enormous things fall 55 stories.

The sun's shining on Manhattan and Brooklyn now!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

And now all 5 boroughs! I even went over and looked out the other side of the building.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, I thought by the comment about Queens that you might work in that big Citibank building in L.I.C. A friend of mine works right around where you work. Hey, you did have to deal with 9/11, but on the bright side you work right by Century 21!

I took my mom up to the 48th floor of the building I work in for the fantabulous view of Central Park today.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread warms the cockles of my heart.

Mmmm... hot cockles...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, i didn't work here then, hstencil.

Warm it up, Jody Beth!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm drinking hot chocolate. The ice is melting outside. It's supposed to be in the 50s soon.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

1. How am I trying to ruin your fun? If anything I am trying to increase it.

2. Ah, JBR.

3. Tracer H continues to intrigue me in lots of ways. He deserves his own thread.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was going to make homemade Orange Juliuses on Sunday night but opted for pina coladas instead. Who knew that orange juice, ice, vanilla and RAW EGG would be so delightful?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stop being gross.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who's being gross? Those are the ingredients to an orange julius!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

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