Random Thoughts

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:35 am

Who's stoppin' ya?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:36 am

The City of Boston is celebrating its 375th birthday. *insert party horn noise*

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:24 am

I'm headed to the Fall Festival at our kid's school. Woo-hoo - five hours of volunteering, handing the kids money and listening to a choir and recorder concert. Anybody else in?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:05 am

selfmademug wrote:The City of Boston is celebrating its 375th birthday. *insert party horn noise*

That should be paahhhty hahhn, shouldn't it?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:11 am

spooky girlfriend wrote:I'm headed to the Fall Festival at our kid's school. Woo-hoo - five hours of volunteering, handing the kids money and listening to a choir and recorder concert. Anybody else in?

I'd gladly attend a Fall Festival, especially if the band themselves were playing.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:13 am

Otis Westinghouse wrote:
spooky girlfriend wrote:I'm headed to the Fall Festival at our kid's school. Woo-hoo - five hours of volunteering, handing the kids money and listening to a choir and recorder concert. Anybody else in?
I'd gladly attend a Fall Festival, especially if the band themselves were playing.

Now that would be something - Mark E. Smith performing at a high-school party.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:55 am

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Who's stoppin' ya?

my digestive system

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:02 pm

Who Shot Sam? wrote: That should be paahhhty hahhn, shouldn't it?

More like paahhhty haaw-un, but yes.

Sam Adams has a commemorative '375 Ale' which I sampled lst night. Dunno what they're calling it, style-wise, but it's like a particularly malty bitter... somewhere between pale ale and porter. Great stuff but I doubt it will make it out of Boston; we shall see. The bar/restaurant I frequent with my son (for Friday-night or Saturday-lunch burgers and fries) is about a quarter mile from the original little SA brewery, which now serves as their magic lab for concocting new brews. It's very nice cause we get to taste all kinds of small batch stuff they make.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:22 pm

if people in mexico eat mexican food everyday, why can't i?

OS, remind me to take y'all to Monterrey's next time you be down.

on a completely different note, my 11-almost 12-year-old son (a/k/a Mr. Easter Suit) wants to quit soccer/school/all normal activities to become a Professional Fisherman. Like Kevin Van Dam. The boy gets points for bullheadedness.

Y'all will think I am full of shit, and you'd be perfectly correct in thinking so, but if you saw this boy with a soccer ball....No Freddy Adu, fer sure, but like a puppy with a bouncy ball. He won't listen to his mother.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:29 pm

selfmademug wrote:Sam Adams has a commemorative '375 Ale' which I sampled lst night. Dunno what they're calling it, style-wise, but it's like a particularly malty bitter... somewhere between pale ale and porter. Great stuff but I doubt it will make it out of Boston; we shall see. The bar/restaurant I frequent with my son (for Friday-night or Saturday-lunch burgers and fries) is about a quarter mile from the original little SA brewery, which now serves as their magic lab for concocting new brews. It's very nice cause we get to taste all kinds of small batch stuff they make.

Mmmm, sounds good. I like me some Sam.

I once opened a 12-pack of Sam Adams and found one broken, empty bottle inside the box. I called the company to let them know, and they sent me a voucher for a buttload of free beer, a t-shirt and a handwritten apology from the president of the company. I've been searching like mad for more broken bottles, but have had no luck to date.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:32 am

Can't you just break one yourself and sneak it back in there

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:35 am

verbal gymnastics wrote:Can't you just break one yourself and sneak it back in there

Now there's an idea.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:51 pm

My wife claims she is incapable of blowing her nose when it's blocked. She spends all the time when she has a cold pulling it back up rather than pushing it out. I maintain it's because she failed to get this sussed as a kid and now as a mental block with it, but my 9-year-old seems to be going the same way, unlike my other two. Could it be that it's a genetic defect, or is it just coincidence? I would have died long ago if I was incapable of this.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:20 pm

I have a genetic defect (not too uncommon) that enables me to blow air through my left tear duct. The whistling eye is a handy party trick, but impractical this time of year; I wear glasses, and when I blow my nose the Left Spectacle gets messy.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:29 pm

A lad at school could do that. Weird. Is there an evoultionary reason for a whistling eyeball?

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:33 pm

We can whistle for help after having been gagged and bound. That's evolution right there.

Either that or we can't have babies.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:19 pm

noses blocked - yes. Jos can't blow to save her life. Sniffs constantly, like the housemaid understudy in an Agatha Christie. She does NOT have eyes like boiled gooseberries, however. She's got her grandpa's brown version of the hazel.

and on another note, one of my co-workers is recovering tonight from emergency surgery on his eye. His lens actually came off (he had them replaced 10 yrs ago) and his retina was bulging thru. thinking of you, Ronnie.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:51 am

[THUDDDDDDD] (that's me falling off my chair)

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:11 am

Makes me think of that scene in Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou":

Ever since I saw that film, the idea of anything touching my eye has filled me with revulsion. It's what keeps me in glasses.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:25 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote: Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou":

Now I'm gonna have the Pixies' DEBASER in my head all day... not a bad thing really!

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:41 am

Whose idea was it to have Anne-Sofie Von Otter cover Tom Waits' "Take It With Me" - EC's? Totally misguided cover - the idea of ASvO living in Coney Island makes me laugh. At least they had the good sense to cut out the verse about falling asleep on Beulah's porch and being broken down by the side of the road.

Waits' version shits on it from a great height IMO.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:55 pm

Someone showed a 16mm print of "Un Chien Andalou" at, I kid you not, a meeting of "The Junior Count Dracula Society" when I was 13. No one warned me about that shot...why I didn't faint, I'll never know. In fact, just looking at that picture gives me the willies.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:55 pm

This was a double post. Now it's just taking up space.....

verena · Post by **verena** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:58 pm

Great sentences, WSS ...

You made me think I always loved to say Coney Island, while I absolutely never saw the place. Thank you stars, now I can see why.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:06 pm

Why is Coney Island so special to so many songwriters? Lou, Van, Bowie, etc. Not to Dylan though. Three seconds on the mighty lyric search facility reveals no matches.

More worrying potential genetic defects concerning the upper respiratory tract in my boys: my father-in-law makes these little grunting exertion noises whenever he has to use a muscle, and ym 12 year old lad seems to have inherited it! I've explored whether he's aware of it, and he clearly isn't. It keeps on happening, and it's going to drive me mad.