Hastings looks hopefully toward the future with a dawning sense of the inevitability of all things NUMBER 5

Does that make her a dwarf, or a midget? I could never get those two straight.

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I need a new username. Suggestions?

Jane?

Hirsute Ho Habadasher

Come on now, I need CONCEPTS to build upon. I am an architect of nonsensical confusion.

Well, how about "architect of nonsensical confusion," then?

You're welcome.

1. fajitas
2. ninjas
3. dental dams
4. Julian Casablancas

GO

Ok, 'lots of books' people is TWO groups.
The "A is for Anything" people who read anything where they have/get to guess the ending before it happens!
Then people who actually CARE about what they read.
This can be broekn down into teo types of people. People I like, and people I hate.
One is smart and well-informed at the least. These are people I like.(cheapo)
The other is self-important, pretentious, STUPID despite their reading, stupid despite their years yet expect the respect ACTUAL wisdom commands, or under 17 years old. HATE.
Any combination of the above paragraph also applies.(guitar center)

Why did i choose Target? Well, they DID have a fair amount of interesting stuff, but it was buried among SHITE AND SHITE last time I bothered to walk through thir record section on the way to get batteries.

That's what it's like looking for REAL books at Barnes and noble.
I read alot of manga in 2 languages.
I read a couple translated cheesy dumb romance novels...which I own the original language prints of...

Written language is almost like computer code to me. You can be intensely verbose and thus convey the meaning with severe accuracy, or you can say alot less with a cultural and poetic compression scheme and get the same info across, but they need that same frame of reference.
Combined, these methods are most interesting, but how effective...
Language is a virus.
I prefer speech and music at this point in my life is what I'm getting at.

Incidentally, I'm translating a chapter of a manga.
and doing a better job than I expected to.
It's an easy peasy lemon stompy manga.

DONE.

Note that a big part of me reading piles of manga that I may or not enjoy or even like much is a desire to get some kind of a triangulation on actual japanese culture beyond the surface through the various views and moods, situations etc that are expressed by various authors.

I'd be working on the language as well, but It's hard to find free-to-read orignal language stuff. legally or not(downloading).
Well, hard to find stuff that's not porn.
Filthy porn for the most part.

John wasn't allowed in that folder in order to protect his innocence.

Hmmm. Better?

GDDMNIT.

There we go.

How's my innocence doing, by the way? I heard he lives in Biwabik and has a couple adorable kids.

Well, I blame myself of course.

(Who else was at J3ssic4 St4b3n0w's How to Host a Murder party when it turned out that I was not only the killer, but also a prostitute! All your innocence is belongs to me.)

hahaha

I'm glad someone was amused. I hate it when all my secrets are revealed at once like that. It makes me blush.

I remember that night. Did we ever finish the game and find out who the imaginary killer and prostitute was?

John, John. It was me, John.

Surprise!

MURDER WHORE

Actually, I am just relieved to know that you don't remember that my face actually did turn bright red! Ah, to be 18 again, and ashamed of my life as a prostitute/assasin. (It's all so mundane now...)

Mountain Goats FAP tomorrow? This never seems to work out, but I keep trying...

Otherwise NOMEANSNO FAP Monday?

You should plan things further in advance; that will help you.

Planning is for sissies.

Another point where I see we will never agree...

I am definitely meeting my friend Lousene for dinner at 7:30(ish) on Monday night; you guys are welcome to join us (probably Cafe Latte again, because I do not fear the drive). I don't think I will be up for your crazy Nomeansno thing that night, however (I know I horrify you and FB every time I say, "well, it's 11 o'clock, I need to go home!). But you and FB and K4l1 should come eat with us. Lou is fun.

Fun is for sissies.

I'll check out when the show is and let you know re:food and fun.

John, you are no fun.

(Er, I mean, okay then. Also, I will try to get hold of M3liss4 because my last two attempts have failed. She's probably tired of my panicking about school into her cell phone by now. But... I actually have LAB tonight! *fears* Even if you guys don't make it, I should introduce M3l to Lou since they are both lawyers now.)

So many lawyers, so few places to slip and fall by the mop-bucket.

At least our friends aren't all dental hygenists or patricides.

I have to post this here, because I can't possibly post it enough times:

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/graphics/familycthulu4ld.gif

Grrrr I want to Mountain Goats FAP.

Start walking Dan. (Actually, at this point you'd probably want to run REALLY fast or take a plane).

I'm not sure what kind of lawyer Lou is, to be honest, but it seems like every one of them that I know has something to do with patents. That sounds dreadfully dull to me.

Dental hygeine would be worse, though. (Being around the sound of the drill all day... brrrrr. CREEPY!)

And let's be honest, patricide is more of a job than a career.

Well, there's only so far you can go with it, that's true. How many fathers do you realistically get? (I have only one. If I had a step-father or two, would that even count?)

Access to a time machine makes patricide much more interesting.

Well... there were certainly some moments back then.

More recently I find my father unintentionally hilarious. Like the time he told me he'd disinherit me if I didn't have a second child. My response? "Who do you think you are, Dick Cheney?!"

(btw, that is not why I had Jul14).

The calendar is why we ALL have Jul14th.

John, you'll always have a special dark room place in my heart.

Just because I think this is odd:

http://michaelpaulus.com/albums/character-Skeletons/04_pikachu_1.jpg

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=character-Skeletons

OK, this is my favorite:

http://michaelpaulus.com/albums/character-Skeletons/12_Shmoo_site.jpg

You just condoned the actions of a pope, john.

i'm planning on going to see da Mountain Goat.sxe! very excited.

http://michaelpaulus.com/albums/character-Skeletons/Peppermint_Patty_001.thumb.jpg
Apparantly what gym teachers look like inside.

Sara, just saw the Plimpton video. Nice.

FB, glad you liked it. A. sent it to me and I was amused.

I have conned Aust1n and my cousin B3th into agreeing to do NaNoWriMo as well. Aust1n's main goal is to write more words than me. I hate it when he wins. (However, now I'm wishing it was Nov. 1 so I could start, but by Nov. 2 or so I'll be wishing it wasn't November...)

btw, if you want to be more formal about the whole NaNoWriMo thing, here's the official website:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

The FAQ is helpful anyway. Personally I am going by the broad outlines here: start Nov. 1, end with whatever I have on Nov. 30, go for quantity of words over quality, 50,000 word goal, and at the end we get to go out and celebrate that it is over.

hmmm...triple rock website sez mountain goats advanced tickets sold out. could be slim shady to get into the show tonight : (

FUCK I'M SUCH AN IDIOT

You can't buy them at the bar the night of, can you? Or do you have to wait in line?

Did ANY Of you guys actually buy tickets to this ahead of time????