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  1. DFA Jan 28,2013 10:45 pm

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 28,2013 10:57 pm || Up

      Until the last panel I thought this was about the SBN business model.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Kay Jan 28,2013 11:04 pm || Up

        Muahahahah!!!

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
  2. YonYonson Jan 28,2013 11:09 pm

    Life has been weird since I left my last job. I absolutely love my job now, but I miss sportswriting. I’ve been practically begging to freelance and not even getting so much as a “no thank you,” in return from people/publications who were my peers a year ago. I mean, I’d actually appreciate some kind of rejection, instead of just… nothing. I kept telling myself that I didn’t quit journalism because I wasn’t good enough, but that I wanted something better for myself. Now the doubt is starting to creep in.

    (Yes, I know, I could just start a blog about sports and write whatever/whenever I want. Not the same thing.)

    Anyway… how’s your night going, FKers?

    "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
    • DFA Jan 28,2013 11:18 pm || Up

      I have a shit ton of work. I hate being sick… you always come back swamped

      In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • beebo Jan 29,2013 9:23 am || Up

      FWIW, getting the cold shoulder is becoming standard practice these days. I wouldn’t sweat it too much.

      • Dial C for Concupiscence Jan 29,2013 9:50 am || Up

        Yeah. Just wait until you get a rejection letter 7 months down the line after you’ve forgotten about even applying there.

        • beebo Jan 29,2013 10:00 am || Up

          Oh, believe me, it’s happened to me more times this year than I even want to admit to. I once even got a rejection letter *in the mail* for a job that I applied to several months before. I almost wanted to frame it for posterity.

          • Dial C for Concupiscence Jan 29,2013 10:23 am || Up

            Well at least someone is showing some class with their laughably late rejections.

            • beebo Jan 29,2013 10:25 am || Up

              Personally, I think they (and many other places) could have shown more class by returning my emails and phone calls, but c’est la vie.

              • dmoas Jan 29,2013 10:33 am || Up

                It certainly would be nice, but in fairness, a lot of these people are very busy and they could very well be overwhelmed with other attempts to apply for positions. And if their job itself isn’t necessarily hiring as a primary purpose, they’ve probably got much higher priorities. If you’re waiting around for individual companies to get back to you as a part of your job search, you’re probably doing it wrong anyway. That’s in no way suggesting it wouldn’t be polite for them to get back to people, just noting there are very good reasons not to.

                • beebo Jan 29,2013 10:59 am || Up

                  No, I get it — people are busy, especially in the “super special” urban wasteland I’m living in at the moment. I don’t take it personally anymore, but it’s still kind of annoying to wait for weeks or even months on end, especially after one or two rounds of interviews. A rejection within a couple of days is a relief, but those are kind of rare.

                  Anyway, the last time I had to go through these motions was back in 2005 and 2006. A few things have changed, I guess.

                • dmoas Jan 29,2013 11:05 am || Up

                  Oh, if you interview, there’s really no excuse for not letting you know. I thought we were just talking about sending in a resume.

              • oblique Jan 29,2013 11:32 am || Up

                This used to piss me off as well. And now, there are at least three people I’ve never gotten back to, and if I did it now it’d be pretty laughable.

                It seems like every time I’m critical of anyone, it’s not too soon after that I find myself in their shoes.

  3. wacchampions Jan 28,2013 11:13 pm

    Every Wednesday is BOGO Free Sundaes at Baskin Robbins, who wants to meet up at one on Wednesday?

    • DFA Jan 28,2013 11:18 pm || Up

      baskin robbins still exists? you mean there are non hipster icecream venues?

      In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
      • Kay Jan 29,2013 7:03 am || Up

        Not many of them.

        Even in Sacramento, it’s mostly indies.

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • JamesV Jan 29,2013 8:17 am || Up

          Leatherby’s, among others.

          • Kay Jan 29,2013 9:27 am || Up

            I like Vic’s on 2nd Avenue & Franklin, and then walk up two blocks to Coffee Garden, where there’s a lush and beautiful back patio and an almost-invisible side room that seems to almost always have some interesting discussion group going on.

            \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • dmoas Jan 29,2013 9:06 am || Up

          There’s at least one in Novato.

  4. DFA Jan 28,2013 11:36 pm

    I keep reheating my soup and forgetting it.

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • DFA Jan 28,2013 11:36 pm || Up

      It is homemade carrot ginger.

      In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  5. DFA Jan 29,2013 12:01 am

    dear people where are you

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  6. MikeV Jan 29,2013 7:55 am
    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • JamesV Jan 29,2013 8:50 am || Up

      FWIW:

    • JamesV Jan 29,2013 8:56 am || Up
      • Kay Jan 29,2013 9:33 am || Up

        If the A’s knew about Gio’s PED usage and Washington didn’t, prior to the trade, it looks like even more of a score for the A’s front office.

        I would think the A’s front office has some (crude) formulas to roughly predict suspension probability/time lost of players based on accumulated rumor, conjecture, and firsthand knowledge. Then again, it is early in the morning and I’m full of coffee and optimism, so maybe not.

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • JamesV Jan 29,2013 9:35 am || Up

          I’m not convinced he did use anything illegal.

          As for PEDs: difficult topic. I’m tired of it all but it’s an unfair disadvantage to the athletes who play clean.

          • beebo Jan 29,2013 9:38 am || Up

            I’m with you on this, but I often wonder what the ratio of clean to doping players is in reality.

            • Kay Jan 30,2013 7:11 am || Up

              1-3?

              \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
          • Englishmajor Jan 29,2013 3:12 pm || Up

            I hope I’m not just being defensive because it’s Gio, but the evidence linking these athletes to this fake doctor is only his handwritten notes which his partners took when he stiffed them for their share of the business, right? The staff say they never actually saw any athletes, and the only person who admits to visiting this clinic is Gio’s dad.

        • ozzman99 Jan 29,2013 1:48 pm || Up

          Of course, if they knew it means they traded away one PED user and then signed another who isn’t even as good.

        • DFA Jan 29,2013 2:46 pm || Up

          and yet they signed bartolo

          In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
      • Kay Jan 29,2013 9:35 am || Up

        “He’s as clean as apple pie.”

        That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in at least 48 hours, and it raises a major red flag (Ignorant Arrogant Bullshit)

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • JamesV Jan 29,2013 9:43 am || Up

          It’s a dumb comment, sure, but I’m going to wait to see what the truth is first.

          • Kay Jan 29,2013 11:02 am || Up

            Makes sense. We have opposite inclinations when confronted with these situations. Remember, tho, that I’m pro-PED use and think it should be encouraged within tight medically-controlled parameters, with meticulous data collection, so that the athletes of today are the test subjects and past samples of tomorrow.

            \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
        • dmoas Jan 29,2013 9:50 am || Up

          I’ve never really regarded apple pie as clean.

          • Dial C for Concupiscence Jan 29,2013 9:57 am || Up

            I would say that apple pie is more traditionally American than clean…Embarrassment is also American…PEDs are embarrassing. Therefore, apple pie = PEDs. I see no other possible answer!

            • dmoas Jan 29,2013 10:00 am || Up

              [Does the math]
              [Carries the one]
              [Checks work]
              Yup. That’s what I got too.

        • 5Aces Jan 29,2013 9:52 am || Up

          (puts down pie)

          (zips up pants)

          What?

          Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
          • dmoas Jan 29,2013 10:01 am || Up

            I don’t know what the point of you zipping your pants up is when they’re not even on. And there’s no way I’m eating that pie with your junk resting in it.

            • 5Aces Jan 29,2013 10:07 am || Up

              Eat it? I thought they were getting throw into people’s faces..

              (of course I doubt you would want to take it and throw it with my junk resting on it, but that’s besides the point)

              Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
              • dmoas Jan 29,2013 10:09 am || Up

                You know what happens when someone shoves a pie your face? You eat it. Not a lot of it, but still, some of it.

        • DFA Jan 29,2013 2:47 pm || Up

          Especially considering all the pesticides and artificial shorteners in apple pie.

          In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
      • nevermoor Jan 29,2013 12:43 pm || Up

        I read in one of the reactions that the drugs he is listed as receiving aren’t even banned.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • JamesV Jan 29,2013 1:35 pm || Up

          Heard speculation that the NY Times just linked him to the story to draw more attention to it. Obviously that’s a suspicion, but it might make you wonder.

  7. DFA Jan 29,2013 10:25 pm

    So I have:

    drinks on Thursday with a girl at the Page before Popscene
    Moma on Saturday with a Sculpter girl from 11 to 2
    Noir City festival with a French girl Saturday Night
    Bourbon on Tuesday with an OBGYN student

    Shiiiiiiiiiit

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • MikeV Jan 29,2013 10:39 pm || Up

      I told a girl how I felt about her and it was not reciprocated.

      And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

      Thanks, and go As.

      • nevermoor Jan 29,2013 10:43 pm || Up

        Sucks. But at least you know.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • DFA Jan 29,2013 10:47 pm || Up

        that sucks.

        That being said its the best outcome, because now you know and can move on.

        Girls are a numbers game in that you gotta expect to find lots that don’t work before finding one that does, so just find more people that you get excited about and then ask them out. Don’t get discouraged.

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
        • MikeV Jan 29,2013 11:03 pm || Up

          Not really my style but thanks.

          And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

          Thanks, and go As.

          • nevermoor Jan 30,2013 9:04 am || Up

            Mine either, but I’ll admit our way takes a lot longer to find a match.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • dmoas Jan 30,2013 9:49 am || Up

              Isn’t it (in some ways) a sense of priority too? If you’re in a hurry to be in a relationship, the quantity over quality makes a lot of sense because you’ll find that person a lot faster. If you’re not in a hurry, quality over quantity makes a lot of sense, because you can use that extra time in between possibilities to do other things you may be more interested in or just dealing with life/yourself in general. (This isn’t to say the women DFA or anyone else like him are meeting aren’t quality, I only use that term as a overly simplistic function of the argument).

              • nevermoor Jan 30,2013 10:07 am || Up

                Maybe, but only if you think that’s really what’s going on. I think it’s probably the case that there is no way to make much of a judgment without getting in the game, so (to use a poker analogy) you aren’t increasing the odds of getting a good hand. You’re just playing fewer of ’em, reducing the odds you’ll ever get Aces.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • dmoas Jan 30,2013 11:11 am || Up

                  Very fair. And more or less my poker strategy too.

                • DFA Jan 30,2013 3:43 pm || Up

                  But apparently if I switch to their friends after getting their numbers using the Monty Hall paradox I increase my odds.

                  In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
                • PDXAthleticsfan Jan 30,2013 3:45 pm || Up

                  Well played, sir.

                  A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
                • dmoas Jan 30,2013 3:52 pm || Up

                  So much Win.

      • elcroata Jan 29,2013 11:23 pm || Up

        Yeah, I hate it when people are nice to you after you tell them to go fuck themselves

        Because survival is insufficient
        • DFA Jan 29,2013 11:32 pm || Up

          this is so much win.

          In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
        • MikeV Jan 30,2013 8:14 am || Up

          et tu brute

          And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

          Thanks, and go As.

          • elcroata Jan 30,2013 11:29 am || Up

            Keep your head high, mate – I’m sure there are hella good things in store for you

            Because survival is insufficient
      • DFA Jan 29,2013 11:10 pm || Up

        I actually forgot one. Im doing Nightlife on Thursday next with a girl.

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • beebo Jan 30,2013 1:45 pm || Up

      Bourbon on Tuesday with an OBGYN student

      Just a few days shy of Cervical Health Awareness Month!

  8. DFA Jan 30,2013 12:02 am

    Seriously youre all in bed before midnight again?

    What are you all like 49 or something?

    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • elcroata Jan 30,2013 12:13 am || Up

      Niners, baby!

      Because survival is insufficient
    • YonYonson Jan 30,2013 6:01 am || Up

      I had to wake up at 5 … so … yeah, I may be 49.

      "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
    • doctorK Jan 30,2013 10:47 am || Up

      In fact, for this year only, I’m a 49er.

    • Englishmajor Jan 30,2013 5:03 pm || Up

      Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

  9. PDXAthleticsfan Jan 30,2013 10:28 am

    Webinars put on by the US EPA are the epitome of bureaucratic waste. Ugh.

    A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
    • DFA Jan 30,2013 3:44 pm || Up

      fixed that for you

      In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
      • PDXAthleticsfan Jan 30,2013 3:53 pm || Up

        True dat. However, whereas all webinars are useless, EPA’s are painful. They read off their slides, or, if their slide happens to be a graph, they read off of a script. According to a former EPA employee/current colleague of mine, the vast majority of the “questions” are internally developed beforehand so that they have scripted answers. They use technical jargon rather than plain English.

        Basically, they break every rule from my 1 credit grad school course in communication. The dean of my grad school was a former EPA director and many fellow graduates have gone on to work there. It’s astounding.

        A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
  10. ptbnl Jan 30,2013 1:48 pm

    Holy FKing FK … 15-page grant proposal written in a day.

    Time for bed.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • PDXAthleticsfan Jan 30,2013 1:52 pm || Up

      I feel for you. Rest well. I don’t miss the days when I had to do 9 or 10 proposals in three weeks.

      A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 30,2013 3:57 pm || Up

      Can I have $5 a supercomputer?

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  11. ozzman99 Jan 30,2013 6:42 pm

    Patrick Stewart would’ve been a way better James Bond than Roger Moore was.

  12. ozzman99 Jan 30,2013 7:28 pm

    I think the fingers on my right hand are slightly longer than the fingers on my left hand.

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 30,2013 7:35 pm || Up

      Is the right palm also hairier?

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • ozzman99 Jan 30,2013 7:41 pm || Up

        There comes a point where hairy is just hairy. Further distinction becomes impossible.

        • dmoas Jan 30,2013 7:44 pm || Up

          So you’re an ambidextrous masturbator?

          • ozzman99 Jan 30,2013 7:50 pm || Up

            Of course! It’s just a lot more convenient.

          • JamesV Jan 31,2013 8:26 am || Up

            You mean you don’t need to use both hands when you do it?

            I’m so sorry.

            • MikeV Jan 31,2013 8:31 am || Up

              No I let her use both hands though.

              And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

              Thanks, and go As.

              • JamesV Jan 31,2013 8:51 am || Up

                Just as long as her hands aren’t like this.

                • ptbnl Jan 31,2013 10:25 am || Up

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
              • Soaker Jan 31,2013 10:16 am || Up

                Ozz was mentioning Alison Brie in the other thread…

                What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
            • dmoas Jan 31,2013 8:52 am || Up

              Wait, you mean you NEED both hands to do it?

            • ozzman99 Jan 31,2013 9:07 am || Up

              I don’t even need all my fingers.

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