Something struck me the other day. Since we all know that elcroata is the coolest man in the world, the fact that he posts on Free Kraut makes this blog the coolest blog in the world. I’m pretty sure that means we’re all cool too. With that in mind, what’s the coolest thing you’ve ever done? For me it would have be the time I ate a tub of Cool Whip with LL Cool J Â while listening to Kool and the Gang.
So come on in and celebrate and have a good time…
I was going to have all my posts be in iambic pentameter but it turns out I don’t actually know what that is.
I’m pretty sure that your lounge text above qualifies…
I wouldn’t know, I was a history major. I can however write you a paper about the Panama Canal.
Immigrants. Digging. Malaria. Death. Locks. 1914. Carter. Sigh.
I guess that would be the Kay-Notes version of the story.
I did not realize until now that a Billiken was a pointy eared elf doll briefly popular in St. Louis in the early 1900s.
Also popular in early 1900s St Louis, body odor and early death.
Some things never go out of style.
and Sunny Jim Bottomley, whom as far as I know smelled like a gutter bum and died before he was born…
Olympics and hot dogs
{tears up bracket and starts over}
This year…pfft…I’m flipping coins on each game. I have no idea who is going to win.
For those keeping score at home…I was able to paint the entire deck in my backyard today. If the ladies can’t find you handsome they can at least find you handy.
While painting today I revised my top 10 list of TV characters 6,538 times. I like to think about the important problems facing us as a people while I work.
Blah.
Having a good day?
I was disappointed.
I hear that a lot.
I’ve never had so much power at a clinical site, but damn. The bitch I followed was LAZY. It felt unsafe.
I’m glad you noticed this. You are in a position now to reinforce what NOT to do.
She is in charge of me…
Maybe she was just having a bad day…who knows maybe you’ll see a better side of her tomorrow.
I hope so, because it’s going to be a long 96 hours if not. My gut just doesn’t feel right. My instructor loves this lady though.
Well, if you respect your instructor opinion my advice would be to try to go into your next meeting with her with an open mind.
My suspicion is that you’re going to find that most of the time you’re by far the best nurse in the room.
Damn. That’s a really nice compliment. Thank you so much.
Yup.
Of course she seemed lazy. I mean, it’s not like people’s lives are at stake if you don’t do your job. So why the sense of urgency?
I’m watching a little bit of this “WBC Championship Game” and I get a sense that, especially with the rain, nobody in the ballpark, players, fans or announcers really gives a crap. This would probably be fun in Santurce or Puerto Plata, but in San Francisco, yawn.
Why is the WBC in the United States? Is because MLB spring training is here? It would seem only the other countries actually care about this thing.
It’s run by a US company (MLB) and everybody else is supposed to be thrilled to be invited. I see how playing the final round in Asia would be an issue for players who play professionally in the US, but I don’t buy that a final round in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela or Cuba presents any major travel problem. In those places you wouldn’t be able to try to sell advance tickets for the final games for >$100, but that didn’t work out so well in San Francisco this time either.
For all three WBC tournaments I’ve had only one thought…if any A’s players are playing I hope they don’t get hurt. I couldn’t care less who wins but if others enjoy it, good for them.
I could see an issue trying to get in and out of Cuba.
The problem there is negotiating with the US government more than anything else. But, yeah, MLB has enough problems in Miami and wouldn’t be likely to open that can of worms. There was enough of an issue when the Orioles went there to play some exhibitions some years ago.
it needs to be in one location like the world cup is.
yup…
But.. the World Cup is held in multiple locations in the same country?
Thanks, and go As.
The World Cup of Table Tennis
but not 3000 miles away from all the venues?
I don’t really pay attention that much. but i think it’d be cool in the north east or something.
So let’s say another band had come up with a song similar to the Wang Chung “classic” with the line everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight…which band would have the worst name to use with this lyric?
I think my Wang Chung related question may have killed the lounge.
Everybody did NOT Wang Chung tonight.
Which means our tour of State Fairs this Summer is probably dead in the water.
Pussy Riot
asvd
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
first cd I ever bought with my own money
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Bring Out Your Dead.
There must be some 80s punk band names that would work. “Everybody Discharge tonight” figures to make the list.
Sham 69
Klymaxx
St. Mary’s is playing fantastic D so far tonight.
Knock wood.
I think Miggy may have just ruptured himself making a sensational catch.
I’m still shocked he ever came back from that groin explosion he suffered running down the baseline in Oakland a couple of years ago.
I can’t decide if I want to go to bed or eat tacos.
Eat tacos in bed (in Bed).
and we’re sure this won’t break the laws of space and time?
No, but carry on anyway.
I decided to play it safe and eat a Cherry Popsicle while sitting on my office couch instead.
that’s how I read all of bed’s posts
That’s dirty.
So, my grandmother (who I am currently living with) is in the hospital. She has congestive heart failure and went to the ER last night then was admitted. She’s doing OK now but they are monitoring her for a couple more days so they can make adjustments to her medication and stuff.
My aunt, who also lives here, is currently on vacation in Laughlin, NV.
My cousin also lives here and he is staying elsewhere so he can get rides back and forth to school.
Long story short: I am sitting in the house right now, and it’s completely empty besides me. I am content as fuck. No stress at all. Everything just clicked for me right now.
I need to find a place of my own.
Thanks, and go As.
This may mean you have to lessen your standards a bit. Are you prepared for that?
Already have been. I’m still not ready to go to Tracy, but that sure is looking like it’s going to be my only option unless this little false real estate bubble comes down again.
Thanks, and go As.
No apartments or rental houses, or are those still off the table?
I’ve been looking at rentals as well, but they are still really inflated around here also.
Thanks, and go As.
The “American Dream” is dying, unless the market crashes again and the corporations and holding companies buying all these houses contingency-free above market value in cash take a bath and dump them on the market…
I know. I just want a place to live, I don’t need a white picket fence and shit.
Thanks, and go As.
He said he wouldn’t marry me. His standards are already too high.
slight difference.
I said i wouldn’t marry anybody.
Thanks, and go As.
Shh. Shhh. Just let it happen.
nice. living alone was the best 9 months of my life
and then you were born?
hey-o
Everyone needs a womb of one’s own.
Personally I hate living alone
Me too. I bounce off the walls.
Im slovenly and miss company
Living arrangements are the classic grass is always greener. As someone who has literally never lived alone it sounds so peaceful. But I have a feeling that if I ever get the opportunity I will enjoy it for about a week and then fallinto a mad depression and start talking to the walls more than I usually do.
this
ive done both. I kind of have the perfect situation. Roommates I like that aren’t here very much and Im the longest tenant.
That sounds good. We have always found that roomates eventually wear out their stay no matter how much you like them. The not here much would help but I would probably add roommates that change every 18-24 months and arent here much while with you.
I love not coming home to someone else’s mess. I like everything in its place.
I am social enough that if I need people around, I can have them.
I lived alone when I was 26 in LA. it was fine.
These reasons, along with kids, are why a roommate will not work for me.
Thanks, and go As.
Im the one that makes the mess /does the cleaning.
Yeah, Ive had these for at least a year together and almost 2 with the the one.
There both pretty clean.
that’s great.
I had mostly great roommates, I just like being able to move about my own space.
Its funny, because as SLF and I started dating we both embarked on our only solo living times. I think each of us would say it was our most enjoyable living conditions ever.
I can’t think of anything cool I have ever done, but SLF once was the drummer for sir mix a lot in a celebrity fundraiser game show.
Now see I think probably everything you do is cool, Ed.
I thought of one: El Duce came into one of the record stores I worked at and carrying a can of Maister Brau, took a long slug and offered it to me across the counter.
I declined.
You passed up a chance to drink with Mussolini?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FO8kcvqQRS4/T5Co_lPJ0pI/AAAAAAAAClE/LlNoA-RYlro/s1600/elduce1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentors_(band)
I only use Wikipedia to grade papers.
i used to lean heavilly on my parents 1964 collier’s encyclopedia set. is ther much of a difference. (not in high school though)
I guess this is where I’ll have to admit I’m not as up on the 1964 Collier’s Encyclopedia as I should be.
Your progeny kicked me in the ballz once. Thats pretty cool
indeed
Having Hawking come to my seminar was pretty cool.
that’s rad
It was like totally awesome, dude.
Clearly not going to be my day; I read this as “Hawkeye” coming to your “senior prom”.
Well that obviously happened too, but I thought Hawking was cooler.
One time I was pumping gas and stopped right at $20.00. Easily the coolest thing I’ve ever done.
You’ve led a full life.
I’m writing my memoirs as we speak.
It shouldn’t take long.
Yeah, I’m done.
You’re the best.
You have low standards.
Well, I am a Democrat.
Paul Tsongas took that personally.
Pfft…dead men can’t dance or read A’s related blogs.
I’ve been dead since 1962.
but you’re still able to vote in Chicago.
Chapter 22: Approaching $19.47
Edge of your seat shit right there.
Epilog: 20.001. Fuck.
Sequel: Going for $25 Even
Cliffhanger: DEBIT CARD WON’T WORK!
I foresee a Harry Potter-esque series in this.
where can you go on a gallon of gas?
Hopefully to the next gas station.
Hitching my train to Margie Kahn. That woman is at the right place at the right time, every time. I met her first at our own version of Fan Fest in 2009. I bought some of her season tix down in 117 in 2010 and had one of the best times of my life. So many fun times!
I have a hitch on my Ford Explorer…not sure if that helps.
I’ve seen “Hitch”. Pretty sure that helps.
i believe I will see a witch in a RAV in two weeks
yay!
This may be why I rarely come here now. Too much snark, not enough love.
We do love each other, though. That’s why we can be snarky. Because we know all will be forgiven. Except if it’s sirbed. I hate that bastard with the burning anger of a thousand suns.
To know sirbed is to hate him.
But to hate him is not necessarily to know him.
That’s true you can’t hate sirbed just on general principle.
Lol! Thanks for clearing things up!
I’m always happy to confuse the situation..and to type poorly.
And I adore you, you know. No matter what.
We have been here from the start. :)
That’s very nice of you to say.
But true. How are the girls? It’s been way too long since I heard about them?
Everyone is doing great. Miss Hawaii has started back to college so she has a lot on her plate but she’s tougher than I am so she’s able to keep it all together. Our daughter is a happy little thing and my dad has been a great babysitter in the mornings so all is well.
And I get if you don’t want to say here, but I miss when when we could do that. Never mind, darling.
Yay! So happy for you!
Thanks…I hope life is going well for you too.
No, I meant you can.
That’s hurtful Oz…or more likely I planned on writing you can hate sirbed just on general principle. I’m cool either way.
I’m here to play the villian, so you can all release your anger and frustration on me. You’re welcome.
Don’t worry releasing my anger will only take a couple of years.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
If I had more rage and perhaps a drug problem I might have been a better actor.
You’d be winning.
no snark on my part. excited to see j on opening day
Me too! Very excited to see all of you. I enjoy life more during baseball season, and you folks are a big part of that.
agreed. she was hard to pin down in the offseason
I’m prolly too sensitive, and for that I apologize. I’ve been going through a transition, and I’ve know I’ve been projecting. I love you guys, though, and I look forward to seeing all of you again! The tarps are up! I know we don’t like them, but I got a little bit excited when I saw them.
You guys met Yoenis — that’s definitely cool!
Our baby.
Cespedes for the rest of us, lol! And Margie does not want to share. But we agree, he may be our next HOF player.
Hall of Fame? Well, you’re an optimist, Lynn. I’ll give you that.
Yep!
I hope you’re right. He’s fun to watch.
He’s just the beginning. You know we are not conventional.
That sounds wrong,because I love that woman. It was pure chance that we met, just like it was with all of us a **. Fuck it, I can’t even describe that time, it was so special. I still have that banner.
I don’t know who this person is. More details?
a regular tailgater, non FKer… cool person…
She is known as ‘skigurl’ on **.
very nice person, and apparently magical.
Definitely! The time I spent in her 117 seats was truly thus.
She’s been here too.
Blur sucks compared to Gorillaz yup I said it.
You said it. You’re wrong, but you said it.
Your opinion is not supported by the facts and I move to have it stricken from the record.
Overruled.
They both have a lot of high points, and it’s the same guy, so one might expect him to get better with age.
Don’t bands usually get worse with age?
Rubber bands do. Not sure if that helps.
I wonder how many bands have put out their best work past the age of say 45?
Well, if you ever ask Ozzy what his best song was, he’ll say he hasn’t written it yet. Pretty sure that’s not true.
Wait…you’re saying he can read and write?
Maybe not in a manner that you or I would recognize, but yes. In his own way, yes.
Well, he’s got more money than I do so I’d say it’s worked for him.
I love the guy, but his best musical days are behind him. About 30 years behind him.
Phil Collins is retired and that’s for the best. You have to know when to say when.
You gotta know when to hold ’em,
Know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away,
Know when to run… from your plastic surgeon.
I think I’ve listened to his last two solo albums maybe 5 times total. They were..uh, not good.
Dirty secret-I have done the same with the last 4-5 new Prince albums.
What kills me is you can hear a few seconds of a great album in almost each one of them. But with no one to ever say boo to him it has become a collection of self indulgence.
Will still see him any chance I get because he puts on a great show, but I doubt there will be circumstances that will allow him to get anywhere near peak value again.
I was listening to phill collins today.
there will be peace in our time
against all odds
I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
What? I’m in a land of confusion.
Circus Devils…
then again they were old farts to begin with…
Did their music have anything to do with the 1964 Collier’s Encyclopedia?
I’m pretty sure it was the 1987 Encyclopedia Brittanica…
To this very day I wanna kick the Encyclopedia Britannica guy’s ass.
That guy has it coming.
We had the ’83 World Book. My parents finally gave it away to someone 3 or 4 years ago. All but the second half of B, plus W and the ’84 and ’85 updates. Don’t ask me why.
We had PBS.
I love PBS.
Communist.
Fascist.
Socialist.
Sounds like if you combine us, we’re Obama.
Hmm…if that’s the case I think we’ll soon be kicked out of the states we live in.
There’s already rumors swirling that we were born in Kenya.
Well, I know it’s true for me.
No doubt where your love of Phil Collins was aso birthed.
If you didn’t have these, you suck and that’s sad.
Thanks, and go As.
I had three or four of those. I hope that my mom kept them, but I suspect that they haven’t survived her latest purge. I may have to get them again.
We also had the World Book – not sure if they’re still around or not.
You are wrong. #dfa
The best Gorillaz songs are the pretty little melodies that Albarn tucks away in between the main tracks. Biggest problem with Gorillaz is that the guest vocals almost uniformly suck.
all i have to say in rebuttal is wooooo hoooo
That song is great because it’s bass guitar driven. The 6 string is a tinny little verse filler while the 4 string does all the work.
Actually that song blows regardless of the base.
Do you listen to Pinback at all? They have some great two bass / zero guitars songs.
Also, combining that topic with your mention of the Minutemen from the other day — Dos! I have a serious rock crush on Kira Roessler.
That’s not a good Blur song, but there are lots and lots of good ones.
I know but it was a good reference and dismissal of your point.
They have seven proper full length albums spanning 12 years. Writing that off on the basis of one song doesn’t strike me as a convincing argument.
It’s not even that bad a song. When the album first came out – i.e. before I heard it at every sporting event – I thought it was a fun little burst of energy.
I think this may be yet another ‘had to be there’ thing, I think Gorillaz is fun ‘appetizer’ and upon recent listening (the first album) way better than I remembered, but Blur is undeniably ‘the meal’.
Yeah The first album is incredimazing and by far still my favorite. Better than any that Blur produced and I would put most of it above any song that Blur did.
It’s hard for me to really compare the two as they are separate genres in my mind.
One’s a hugely influential band, and one is the solo project of a member of the aforementioned band dabbling in Hip-Hop and electronic with a dash of latin thrown in for taste.
When the MC rhymes and the DJ spins I want you all to just get down and thats more important than being influential.
Wrong wrong wrongedy wrong wrong.
Blur has some good songs, but you cant deny that Gorillaz wins on highs, range, popularity, and gets extra points for being a cartoon band.
I deny all of that except the cartoon thing which whatever.
Look, Gorillaz is a fine project, and if you prefer it to Blur, that’s cool. They are two very different acts despite the common element of Albarn, and I can see why Gorillaz’ musical stylings are more in your wheelhouse. But by no means does Blur “suck” by comparison – to say so is absurd.
Different they are. That is why comparing them is fun.
How can you say that Gorrillaz has less range?
I would put up at least 3 Gorillaz songs up against Parklife any day of the week.
I don’t even know how to begin assessing “range” to be honest. Gorillaz are certainly more eclectic.
Eclectic is what Im talking about. Showing a broad set of skills from almost spoken word to poppy ballad, to dark, to dancey.
Their first album is really amazing
And they have also been around 12 years at this point. Though with only Four major albums.
Blur is way, bigger than Gorillaz if you factor Europe into the equation.
There would be no Gorillaz w/out Blur.
Psht Europe. Are we going to allow commies to decide things?
Also I don’t think thats true in terms of global popularity.
Haha, I agree to disagree…
How would you quantify popularity?
Blur was one of the seminal Britpop bands, they were enormous when I lived in Germany in the early 90’s and were equally huge in the US too.
Gorillaz seemed like a savvy, self aware, cool marketing project aimed to snatch up instant pop infamy.
It was super novel at the time and I genuinely enjoy it, but it was not anywhere near the level of impact and fame Blur achieved.
I don’t know if I would agree they were huge in the US. They were definitely an niche phenomenon here.
They were bigger than Suede but not Oasis.
Sounds about right.
Impact? Blur is an undisputed heavyweight in the category of Brit pop. This is true.
However, Gorillaz has be a critical band in the increasing popularity of EDM style pop.
Further Impact is not popularity.
I would say impact is linked to popularity, but now we are battling semantics…
Electronic Dance music was already ‘popular’ when Gorrilaz debuted, if anything he made crossover music with American Hip Hop artists but it wasn’t anything pioneering or new.
The only real thing that was groundbreaking was that they were a cartoon band, but the Chipmunks broke that territory several years before.
chipmunks arent a real thing… are they?
No one… told you???
See, now brian might represent the zeitgeist of the site.
Heh!
This site really should be more Pro-Brian.
We’ll rename it to Life of Brian
hmm…has that been done?
Can we name the lounge that? Its funnnier the b(ed)
Possibly more fitting as well.
it kinda is
happy birtday btw
thanks!
My fiancée saw Blur play in London back in 2003 or 2004. Her seats were in the balcony, so she wasn’t able to participate in the scrum that ensued when Albarn threw his shirt into the crowd and it got ripped to pieces by screaming girls. That is certainly one way to quantify popularity.
But would Albarn’s shirt not been ripped to shreads by the same fans at a Gorillaz show? I mean its the same guy.
The most useful question is: would Albarn’s shirt have been ripped to shreds if Blur had never existed, only Gorillaz?
Absolutely not.
why is that significant.
Because my implication is that Gorillaz only reached it’s current level of popularity on the coattails of Albarn’s work with Blur.
Popularity is my least important criterea.
This particular thread of the discussion traces back to your question:
…so that’s how we got onto popularity.
No i know. Im just quallifying it.
also I think saying well JT was only big because of NSYNC doesn’t make NSYNC better.
You know what…I really don’t care where Waldo is.
Do you care what jesus would do?
I care where Waldo would do Jesus.
I don’t think they’ve written that book yet.
It doesn’t matter to me…I’m paid to lead not to read.
I would post the coolest thing I’ve ever done but I’m sword to secrecy due to the fact that we broke laws in six different states.
Baa means no, dude.
No, Nico wasn’t with us.
as if he’d ask for consent anyway…
Oh. Well you’re old. Whatever you did, I’m sure the statute of limitations has run out.
I once picked a California poppy.
Actually this wasn’t all that long ago. The next time I threaten to quit FK I’ll post it.
If you try to quit again, you better go into some kind of witness protection-type program. Because I’m gonna hunt your white ass down and drag you back by your polo shirt.
Well, I guess that means I have to stay…sorry, DFA.
I’ll allow you to take a summer hiatus when you’re in Hawaii (I’m just assuming you’ll be going again).
Yep, from late May to early August FK will be a Bed-Free Zone…you’re welcome, DFA.
We basically need you for the stretch drive anyway. The mooshy middle’s pretty much covered.
Well, anything I can do not to help…I want you folks to know you can count on me to bring absolutely nothing to the table.
Please stay, darling. I know you think you’re an asshole, but aren’t we all??
Actually I think I’m a pretty nice fella.
:)
You just smell like an asshole.
I know I am!
Thanks, and go As.
Its not that I want you to leave. I actually liked you until you started being a dick to me and talking shit at the OC. Now I just find your online masturbation to be annoying and hard to ignore because of its omnipresence. If you consolidated it so that it was easier to ignore from a ui point when I didn’t want to read it, it wouldn’t bother me.
And your online masturbation (turning FK into high school debate team) isn’t annoying?
I believe the term of art is “getting your argue on.”
Sometimes I consider this whole site A.R.T.
A Real Treat?
The idea that FKers need to exercise prior restraint on their comments to meeting the stylistic preferences of any one reader, or even all the readers, is completely antithetical to the FK ethos.
As much as I shouldnt jump in and stir, DFA didn’t say he needed to; he just said it would make the thing he finds most annoying much less so (and again-just less annoying to him, it may be more annoying to others to have a big paragraph of Bedisms instead of having them shot out machine gun style).
That being said-yes First rule of FK. And every time DFA can comment on it and drive others crazy and Bed can ignore, and I can then lurk because I ran out of funny things to say last August. Wheel in the sky keeps turning and whatnot.
Stylistic preferences, yes. Common decency, hmm…
One thing that doesn’t get said often around these parts, although Lynn covered it last night, is that the excessive proclivity to argue tends to drive away the FKers who are not into arguing, and for the most part, almost all of the women on FK fall into that category.
Plus, saying things like “I’m right and you’re wrong” in regards to subjective opinions is fucking ignorant and insulting and is not even funny. All it shows is the profound personal insecurity of the person saying such a thing.
Is it OK if I only say this to DFA?
The blog can’t be all things to all people.
That’s really it. As corny as it sounds, every time we show up we make a decision that we are ok with what it is. And just as much as arguing drives away some, if it is all just love you’s and youre awesome that would drive away others.
I stay out of a fair share of stuff because it might not be my cup of Vodka. But I’m willing to read it and click along because overall I enjoy the experience. And we all have to decide that we are ok with it every time. I like my understanding of almost every person who is one here, and even the one’s I dont care for as much I think it says more about things I need to work on than problems they have. I would hope thee is enough of a mix of all of this stuff to keep everyone around.
This is how I feel. Trying to enforce a change of behavior here, whether targeted at Bed or DFA or anyone else, goes counter to the purpose and general thrust of this space. Letting people be who they feel a need to be online is a more important usage of this space than crafting the ideal blog for any one subset of people.
Everyone on here has opinions on ways the blog could be better suited to their own self or to satellite members or to new outsiders or whatever, and that’s perfectly fine, but that’s not what this is or what this is for.
I guess maybe I need to do what most of the women on FK have done, which is take the majority of my interactions off the blog and onto facebook, text messaging, and private chat groups.
My wife is always texting…she stopped trying with me though as I’d just call her when she texted me…I’m old.
Oh, and I hope you stick around, Kay…this site wouldn’t be the same without you.
I think they have different purposes. FB and/or texting is useful for the “I’m bringing mac and cheese. What are you guys bringing?” kind of interchange which those of us who hang out in person a lot have, but which would be really dull and a bit rude to involve those of you who live hundreds of miles away in. Although for the record, this mac and cheese recipe is excellent.
I think it was pretty obvious I was joking around, DFA but that’s fine, I’ll no longer reference you.
I’m tired of his wounded ego desperately searching for gratification at the expense of others.
This blog is better off without Bloom’s whiny bullshit and passive aggressive behind-the-scenes sexual predation, which DFA thinks it’s weak for me to publicly mention because Bloom isn’t here to defend himself, but if he did come back to defend himself, there’s no way he would win that defense and everybody would know what an utter manipulative piece of shit he is, at least towards women.
This blog would be far better off without DFA’s antagonistic jabs and ego grabs. He ruins the experience for far more people than he improves the experience for. His insecurity and immaturity manifest in ways that hurt others feelings to gratify himself. It is my opinion that he is a selfish jerk and I have no further use for him.
I also think this blog will be better off without my freaky transgendered feminism and kink advocacy as well, because I’m likely “triggering” (making uncomfortable or reminding of past abuses) a percentage of the population here when I mention that stuff, and to their credit, they follow the FK ethos far more stringently than I do and don’t get on me about it, which is very honorable and profoundly kind of them.
I’m logging out right now, and I don’t know if I’m coming back anytime soon.
I’m on facebook… Temple Kirk … feel free to add or block me as necessary.
Bye FKers!
Well, Kay you have to do what’s best for you. I’m sad to see you go. In the four years I’ve known you online you’re easily one of my favorite people.
this.this.and this.
seconded, seconded, and seconded.
Thirded. And fourthed, if that’s mathematically possible.
I’ll join this dogpile.
Oz, move your hand up and to the right about two inches.
Ok, but it better be warm there.
Wait…that’s not a pillow!
It will be if you’re doing it right.
It’s good to have something to hold on to. I don’t wanna fall off.
I really thought I would need to lose weight before we all got in this VW Bug.
I hope you’ll come back. I enjoy your perspective, your wit, and your mojo.
This sucks. Also seems like an over-reaction. I will gently observe that in my past at times I’ve gone cold turkey with weed I have been incredibly prone towards hostile reactions that I later regretted.
I’m inclined to agree. But I think Kay has a lot of valid points about how ridiculous some of the bickering here has become. While I don’t think it’s necessarily a “DFA-versus-everyone-else” situation here, there does seem to be something about the off season that encourages really dumb drama (the same thing happened over at that other place, no?). Overreaction or not, there’s been a lot of build up to this point, for whatever reasons.
Anyway, I’m only here because you’re all an interesting and genuine bunch of folks, and I am marooned in a savage place where A’s fans are few and far between. I doubt that I’m contributing much, if anything, but ultimately, this place is a nice respite from my own day-to-day drudgery. I hope it can stay that way. There have been plenty of times when I’ve rolled through here and found some things that ticked me off, and those have been my cues to either a.) get back to work or b.) step away from the goddamned computer altogether.
TL;DR: The goddamned season hasn’t even started, so let’s all just chill out.
Considering the modest size of the group and the lack of any source of new members once that final exodus from AN occurred, and seeing how websites mature generally, I’ve thought for a while that the duration of FK’s period at critical mass wouldn’t be all that long. People leave for a specific reason, or no specific reason, or move on to some other format like Facebook as Kay mentions above, so there are fewer reasons for the remaining folks to show up as frequently, and sure, eventually the thing has run its course. I wouldn’t say it’s twilight yet but it does feel like afternoon.
I do wonder if perhaps trying to attract some new members wouldn’t be a bad idea. I would hate for FK to die, and I would prefer to retain everyone we have, but I know that’s not possible for various reasons.
There are one or two people here who were never on **. How the heck did they get involved?
Huh? I thought that was the common thread (and why FK can’t grow; anyone who would relate to the FKers from the ** days has already come over). If there’s someone you don’t remember from ** chances are they lurked (something I did over there much more than participating) or maybe you’ve forgotten a name change.
there are, I don’t know who,
aardvark is the one I know of; he arrived via personal intro from sslinger IIRC.
Stacy is the other one.
FSU is correct. I never posted on ** and only ever visited once or twice.
I was a lurker at the other place. If I ever posted, it was probably in a sleep-deprived daze.
@beebo – so, like everyone else?
I’d love for new people to join the site.
This. Though I agree it’s unlikely with the (not changing) google shields policy.
Anyone can invite whoever they want though.
I got a couple of friends to sample AN but they didn’t stick with it. I’ll ask them about giving FK a look.
I just wonder if things reach a breaking point and there’s no going back? This circle we’re all in does seem to be getting smaller and smaller.
The last two Lounges I’ve tried to be more like myself after my latest disaster a couple of weeks ago. I hate the thought that I might be driving people away from the site so I’m trying to dial it back.
I really like FK and I enjoy talking with you folks so I hope we can keep it going.
keep the conversation going FK mobile.
Once we show up at the Coliseum with our ASK ME ABOUT FREE KRAUT shirts, this will not be a problem.
I’l take mine in a medium please.
No kidding. I would totally want one of these.
Hey, that’s not a bad idea.
I wear my FK jersey to FK-gates. So there’s that.
taking notes from A’s marketing.
I would get them made if people want.
I’m not sure this is all stemming from a drug-free mind….
I spent the afternoon marinating on this and I stand by everything I wrote. My cannabis withdrawal symptoms cleared up by the end of the weekend and are not a causative factor. The only thing agitating me right now is people behaving badly.
I don’t want to leave FK; but I don’t want to share it with someone who behaves disrespectfully towards others for his own enjoyment and ego gratification.
Frankly, I expected to log in and see a barrage of defensive verbal diarrhoea from DFA in return. I’m very surprised and glad not to see this. I hope this is a good sign that he’s taking this seriously and maybe going to take some time for introspection in regards to his interactions with others. I still want the dude to grow up to be a shining beacon of light, positivity, and HUMILITY. He’s a bright guy and if he can get over himself a little (well, a lot) and think about how the things he writes and says affect the feelings and self-esteem of others, I will gladly go back to “having a use” for him, and apologize for losing my temper, even though I stand by what I wrote.
IMO, being able to lose your temper like that and then come back and continue conversations is part of the process. A good part, and much more productive than just saying your piece and then leaving.
Thanks, and go As.
Well said.
Yep! I may disagree with someone, and get my butt hurt on, but at the end of the day, You are the people I want to hang out with.
this is only ok till we need the mojo back
What about those of us who refuse to ‘book?
Damn.
Resistance is futile.
But getting easier by the day.
Wait. That wasn’t meant as a swipe at Kay. I’m just over FB at this point. The main reason I stay on is to communicate with far-flung friends and family.
I really have nothing to say about this other than to say leave Bloom out of this. Totally uncalled for.
The timing for me to read this could not have been better. Great morning.
yeah, looks like you chose a bad morning to stop sniffing glue.
Looks like no golf for my entire spring break…40 degrees and rain isn’t the best conditions for golf.
Or I could pretend I’m playing in the British Open.
Damn, your life is so rough.
A gangsters life ain’t easy.
I didn’t golf over spring break either. Mainly because I didn’t want to break my nearly 38 year streak of not golfing.
Hmm…how many other streaks do you have going at the moment?
Eleven years without watching American Idol. Seven months without eating a salad. Nine years without a moving violation. Three weeks without killing a hooker. Four months without eating possum. Six minutes without passing gas. Two weeks without streaking, ironically enough. There goes the passing gas streak, damn. Eight straight matches lit on the first try.
Reading that list it’s pretty obvious you hate America. Those hookers aren’t just going to kill themselves.
After meeting me, they usually do.
Yayyy! The first one!
I’m really proud of that one.
I have never watched American Idol or Survivor.
Thanks, and go As.
Oh yeah, never seen Survivor either. Or Big Brother. Or Dancing With The Has Beens.
Those too.
I don’t watch “reality TV”
Actually I don’t really watch any TV much anymore. It’s awesome. I burn through seasons of some things on Netflix, but even shows like Weeds, Breaking Bad, and Mad Men got old after a couple seasons.
I do enjoy Survivorman though. Les Stroud is a bad, bad man.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t know that show. I’ve watched a couple of reality shows, but generally if you’ve seen one season, you’ve seen them all.
Survivorman?
It’s pretty cool. The dude goes to random places for like a week at a time and does survival stuff, only he doesn’t have a film crew with him and safety crews and shit like that Man Vs Wild guy does. He does all the filming himself so part of the show is he has to carry the video shit around as well as survive like in deserts or swamps or whatever.
Thanks, and go As.
That’s pretty hardcore.
If anyone wants to read something funny I could post my Masters Thesis on the Earned Income Tax Credit.
What if I need something that will help me sleep?
I imagine it would work…I didn’t actually write it so I’m not really sure what it’s about.
Could you just hit me over the head with it? Would it knock me out?
It might take a couple of whacks but I’m willing to give it a try.
You’re always such a good sport.
It’s true…I was voted most likely to be sporting with a Masters Thesis in college.
I was voted most likely to be sporting wood at an old folks’ home.
So a few more years there and you’ll be proving those folks right.
Shit, I go there now and pop a boner.
TWSS
Thanks, and go As.
The tagline’s say this is a blog for fans of both unicorns and Adam West…I don’t think I’m a fan of either…does this mean I have to go back to AN?
Oh, you’re a fan of both. You just don’t know it yet.
Well, I’m not sure either exists so that could hold me back from appreciating them.
Unicorns obviously exist. Adam West, not so sure.
If Adam West does exist it’s as a ham.
Or a map direction.
Well, I painted the deck white. The only problem is if I fall down on it no one will see me.
Stop running around nekkid, then.
That seems like sage advice.
Walking around, fine. Just no running around.
As always you teach me things.
You gotta go slow so we can all appreciate what we’re seeing.
So, should we get back to our weekly discussion about Plato?
You know he’s not a planet any more?
As long as they keep Uranus a planet I’m cool.
Frankly that is some bullshit.
Thanks, and go As.
Why? What defines a planet?
I was told there would be no astronomy.
Something philosophical.
Natural philosophy will do nicely.
hahhahah like I’m going to “science” with you.
Thanks, and go As.
I just need to make it to midnight (or rather 7am in Dublin)
You’re almost there!
Thanks, and go As.
No thanks to you.
That is certainly what she said…
Thanks, and go As.
ok, that helped a bit
glad to be of service… kinda.. I think
Thanks, and go As.
They didn’t spring forward yet in Ireland … I have to wait another hour.
You know if there is one thing that I really just hate, it’s the stupid time change.
Thanks, and go As.
My 30 year old childrens book
HE??? #sexism
Plato was cisgender male.
#ihatesarcasm
I like sarcasm if the person using it knows what they’re doing…if not, yeah it sucks.
Dana?
Well, yeah.
There is no Dana, only Zuul.
And because she sleeps above the covers; 4 FEET above the covers!
Ha!
I like to order the Blue Plato Special.
He’s nothing but platotudes.
I had some play dough as a kid. Don’t know if that helps.
And just so you know my posts make more sense tonight if you read them in the voice of Rod Stewart.
I’m blaming you Beddington. I have had a Rod Stewart song stuck in my head since I heard it in the grocery store Monday night. It was almost gone until I read this. And it isnt even a very good Rod Stewart song (does such a thing exist?)
Well, my work here is done.
Nah. You gotta put a second coat of whitewash on the last lounge.
You have some left over from painting your deck, right?
Nope, I got it all done yesterday. So today is lay around day.
We interrupt this lounge …
South Korea apparently under cyber-attack – banks and media out of action.
Hmm…perhaps it’s time to bury my money in the backyard.
I have neither of those things.
So you’re set then.
Civilization is just a fad. It’ll never last.
I am such a hawk on North Korea… like to the point of being evil.
Welcome to the war of the future.
Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to yOu!
It’s late
Septemberat night and I really should beback at schoolin bed.Good night, darlings! All ways fun!
Bye, Lynn.
Be here more please.
Thanks, and go As.
Yes, at least gamethread with us when the season starts.
We’ll see my darlings. Working too hard these days. I’ll see you in the important times.
Night! ♥
Night my love, ♥
(sleep break)
Night!
Guy sitting next to me at the cafe is reading a magazine called “The Chronicle of the Horse.”
Damn Houyhnhnms.
“I surmise, my sir Miser, that we are but misled missiles,” says Miss Ives’ missives.
I have a feeling I’m going to be saying Drewbacca all day today…Constable Bob rocks!
The headlines on The Huffington Post crack me up…I mean I never click on them because the writing on that site is beyond awful but the headlines always give me a good laugh.
That’s typically what happens when you don’t pay the people who write for you.
Well, they’re getting their money’s worth at least.
I tell you what if a couple more people quit this site this is going to be a pretty lonely place.
This is what happens when we let you start posting in the middle of the day.
Yeah, don’t you have young people to corrupt?
I’m on spring break so this gives me plenty of time to destroy Free Kraut…(evil laugh)
The Tuck Rule is dead and I guess you can no longer lead with the crown of your helmet as a runner or defender. That second rule might be tricky to call.
We need to teach tackling more than hitting at the junior level. If defenders wrapped guys up instead of trying to pop them it would make the game safer.
Reading the comments section on CBSsports.com about this story makes me realize why I hardly ever read comments sections.
I was just listening to Greg Papa rant about this on the radio. He remains endearingly bitter about the whole thing.
Crap. I’m going to be in the bay area for like 10 days in early May and it perfectly coincides with an Athletics road trip.
Did my taxes today. Made a couple grand less than than the previous year and have to pay about $200 more in taxes. Good to have in confirmed that my 2012 did, in fact, suck.
I agree, 2012 sucked. apart from a few brilliant moments, the year was a net loser.
Yep.
Thanks, and go As.
Heck to the yeah. Here’s to 2013 being better.
Word.
Cheers to that!
I broke through in 2012! It wasn’t the best year ever, but I found my strength again, and I found you again and my A’s showed me love again. 2013 will be even better!
Other than the A’s and most of the 49ers season, 2012 was a big black hole of suck. But 2013 is gonna be an epic year in the life of Ozz, so fuck it. Let’s have some fun!
I got 2k back and 12 still sucked.
This is the first year that I haven’t filed taxes before February. 90% of my income this past year came in through freelancing, so I’m going to be in a world of hurt pretty soon.
One of the things that sucks about getting older is that the day after I do a bunch of work I’m sore. I think I need to go out and get a mani-pedi with the girls.
man-y-pedi
I like it…it toughens it up.
Coming up next will be Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5 followed by “I lost on Jeopardy” by Weird Al Yankovich.
Bed is living in an
amishgangster’s paradise.Google appears to have already removed all links to Reader from within Gmail. It’s still there in Calendar, but I’m sure that won’t last long.
I entered an NCAA bracket in the office pool for the first time in years. I went strictly by kenpom rankings, because I am a lazy nerd.
I do put a lot of value in kenpom’s rankings, but I do not believe that Florida or Duke are nearly as good as he says they are.
That’s my uninformed feeling too, but I decided that taking the process completely out of my hands was the best way to succeed. Go Gators!
So am I the only one who tivo’ed “Splash” last night? Wait, that Alabama QB’s girlfriend is a “celebrity” now?
If it’ll bring me fame I’m willing to let Brent Musberger leer over me on national TV.
I knew I shoulda held out for national TV!
Please let this be On Demand!
Were there any belly flops?
Louie Anderson’s dive was surprisingly better than I thought it would be. Not great, but dude is 400 pounds and managed not to kill himself going off a really high platform. Kareem Abdul Jabar’s dive was terrible but he got points for being 7 feet tall which seems lame, but whatever. I thought Miss Alabama USA (which by the way, what *is* that? I’ve heard of “Miss Alabama” and “Miss USA” but WTH is “Miss Alabama USA”?) was mediocre, but she beat Rudi Huxtable in the dive-off. I did give Miss Alabama USA points for basically admitting that she’s a nobody trying to ride this Musberger thing to as much acclaim as she can soak up.
Gosh I didn’t even know Louie Anderson was still alive. I have to admit it makes me a little sad that Kareem is at this point in his life.
This season: Lew Alcindor.
Next season: Lew Wolff?
The cottage I rent is mostly surrounded by a 6-foot privacy fence, and I access the yard and the kitchen door, which I use as my main door, through one of those gates with a latch that you open from the outside by pulling on a cord. When I moved in, the cord was a piece of grimy plastic rope that was ugly and unpleasant to touch. So I cut it off and replaced it with a pretty fuchsia silk cord. But I couldn’t cut the very end of the nasty plastic rope; it was twined and knotted too tightly around a rusty piece of heavy wire that passed through the eye of the latch. So I just tied my pink silk cord to the other end of the rusty wire.
Over the course of the last few years, the pink silk cord frayed through where it was constantly being drawn across the top of the fence. As it frayed, it became harder to get the door to pull open, and I had a couple of times when I couldn’t get the gate open. This was a problem, since I had fastened the screen door of the other entrance – which I never use because it requires me to walk into the middle of my neighbor’s yard — from inside, so I couldn’t get it open. I had to drag my neighbor’s picnic bench over to the gate, climb up on it and lean over to grab at the latch from the other side.
A few weeks ago I decided to take the latch off altogether and let the gate hang ajar until I could get around to fixing it. This was complicated, because the screws holding the latch on were stripped and the holes hadn’t been drilled straight, so it was a pain to get them out, but I did it.
Then a few days ago, I came through the gate and looked at the wall perpendicular to the gate, where there’s another latch that holds the gate open … handy for moving things in and out. Eureka! Why don’t I just take that latch off and put it where the other latch was, and use the latch with the rusty wire and the grubby plastic cord to hold the door open? I won’t even have to drill any holes, they’re already there!
Of course, the most important and pressing part of this project was to procure a replacement for the frayed pink cord. So I went to the fabric store this afternoon and stood in line for half an hour to get the proper length of green silk cord and gold silk cord. Then I came home and took the latch off the wall, brought it inside and braided the green and gold cord onto the latch. Finally I returned to the yard to attach the replacement latch to the gate.
It’s slightly smaller than the first latch. The holes are about an eighth of an inch off — which means not only can I not reuse them, but I probably can’t drill new ones there because they’ll just merge with the old ones. Instead, I’ll power up my drill and move the whole thing an inch or so up, and move the door part of the latch as well.
I could call my landlord and say “Come fix this FKing gate”, but he has three other projects he’s agreed to do here but hasn’t started.
And the capper is that I just realized there is another way to get into the yard, since the wall on the other side was knocked down for the construction project last summer.
Take first latch to hardware store, buy identical one. It sounds like a $5 part. Minor fixes like that one, the stopper at the bottom of the toilet tank not sealing, etc., I usually just fix myself. (That said, at the current place, the landlord lives right next door and he’s a contractor who built the place, so he can fix his own sloppy work.)
Yeah, that’s easier than drilling holes – especially because I’m not quite sure where the drill is.
My landlord’s a contractor too, which explains things like this, in the bathroom he redid just before I moved in:
Oh dear. Well, don’t bother fixing that. It’s a photo of a light switch and an outlet, neither of which is straight relative to the floor or each other, or anything else.
Wow, that’s awful. Plus in a bathroom a new outlet is supposed to have a GFCI.
Good point!
And it’s upside down.
I thought as long as the first one on the circuit was GFCI it was ok.
Thanks, and go As.
That would only work if they are wired in series, right? Aren’t all of the AC lines in a house wired in parallel?
Not necessarily – I made about 20 circuits in mine and some of them have more than one outlet
Of course, if there is a switch in it, that seriously limits your possibility to add elements to the circuit
I don’t have anything that bad. The guy built this place in 2009 and I’m only the second person to live here. He did some things cheaply, some of which broke quickly, I’ve been able to recommend upgrades and he’s been very cooperative. The place is quite a bit nicer now than when I moved in. When his cheap-ass used clothes dryer crapped out, I had a shiny new washer/dryer combo unit within a few days.
I like everything about the building now; it’s just too bad it’s about 20 miles away from where I want to live. For someone who wants this location it’s a great deal: all the appliances, a garage, storage shed, nice sunny deck and patio with mountain views for $750/month.
Just, wow, upside down to boot…
Um, it’s done that way on purpose. It means that’s the outlet that the wall switch operates…
Thanks, and go As.
Sideways would have been a better system.
I didn’t know that was a thing. Interesting.
I can’t wait until tomorrow, when I’m sober enough to read all of this.
I don’t know…drunk Oz has his charms.
I always thought drunk Oz was loud and boring. But (some) others seem to find him entertaining.
Well, to be fair I’m a fan of Oz in all his many forms.
The Oz Fan Club: It’s a lonely job, but somebody has to do it. Well, not really. But there’s no accounting for taste.
Sober and glad to have read it. Your stories are always fun to read, EM.
The official film of tonight’s lounge is Switchback starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover.
It looks like NBC is going to replace Leno again which means two years from now Jimmy Fallon will have his own rarely watched show on TBS.
Heartbreaking: that Brandon had to leave before we could call him Lemur Conquers.
Whoa!
Who’s your third favorite band?
U2
Really? I mean even if you ignore Bono’s hypocritical tax evasion I just don’t see it.
You don’t see how U2 could be someone’s third favorite band? Come on…
I think it’s intentional self-parody. Anyway, I have a bigger issue with the Eagles selection.
I think they are incredibly over rated.
Sure they are nowadays, but U2 had their moments, a lot of them, pre- Achtung Baby.
First 3 albums are really really powerful, and the fourth and fifth ones pretty much owned music for a few years.
Very well explained.
Spot on. U2 was the most powerful band I remember from the epoque, the energy from Red Rocks is hard to duplicate. I remember how my best friend from the time and I cut school on the day Joshua Tree came out because there was a radio station that was going to play it in its entirety and we wanted to record it.
Ive listened to joshua tree which has its moments but I havne’t really listened to Boy October or War. Perhaps I shall
I mean it just seems so much like quintessential old boomer music.
Achtung Baby is my favorite U2 album.
Ok then i will give that a listen too.
To me, it started going downhill with Rattle and Hum. But it could be just as much me changing. If I think of U2, I think of Sunday, Bloody Sunday, New Year’s Day, Where the Streets Have No Name, Pride…
Oh you mean the football song?
/kidding
/sort of
Which one and why?
The NFL uses Sunday Bloody Sunday for their TV commercials.
Take a lot of the power away
This song is so much bigger than who uses it for what commercial. Its rendition in Red Rocks might be the single most powerful one I remember seeing (not live but there was a VHS of it making rounds through the circle of my friends)
U2 must have oked it.
thats the thing that does it for me.
it doesn’t change a thing for me
right because you were there at the time and so it had the zeitgeist that it doesn’t knowing how they sold it out.
It does? That is messed up.
yeah, who OK’d that?
For me U2 has three albums I love…Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby and All That You Can’t Leave Behind…the other stuff is mixed.
How old are you? When did you first listen to them? I guess I might not have warmed to some of their earlier stuff had I listened to it later in my life.
Well, I was 13 when Joshua Tree came out and that was a huge record but I really got into U2 when Achtung Baby came out in 1991 when I was 17. I like several of their songs but on the early albums but many of the songs don’t do much for me outside of the big hits.
Third for me would be Dire Straits.
Great choice. Mark Knopfler is a beast
I just don’t think of bands in a ranking-type of way. I think of groupings. So while I claim ozzy as my favorite, he’d really be in a grouping with Motorhead, Led Zep, early Metallica, and early Sabbath. In no particular order.
That’s my fantasy draft strategy, too. We should do a fantasy band league.
That could be fun.
The Shins being the first and The Eagles second.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry…and making a Walmart run for your wife at 10:55 pm.
Yep, that’s love alright.
Who’s a singer or band that has one song you love but you don’t care for the rest of their work?
I’m tempted to say Steely Dan, but that “one song you love” part is missing. Every damned song is the same.
I agree with you…I watched a documentary about them a couple of months ago and all the songs blended together.
You are wrong.
Gloria Gaynor.
Metallica
Actually, I don’t even love that one. I love the first minute or so and then get bored.
I’m not sure I’ve gotten through a Metallica song from start to finish.
Blur.
Thanks, and go As.
Wooooooo Hoo.
LOL
which song?
Rainbow.
Iron Butterfly.
They have more than one song?
Yeah. I even bought one of their albums, but never listened to anything other than the 1 song. Well, I did the 1st time I bought it. Nothing else was worth a 2nd listen.
I probably had the same album in college and did the same.
gmta
Lenny Kravitz
Van Halen
Those are good choices. I like maybe two Lenny Kravitz songs but the rest of his songs sound like something someone else already did in 1978. I like Van Halen in sort of a greatest hits way but most of their songs don’t do much for me.
I don’t particularly dislike Van Halen. They’re a reasonably fun, mindless band that I’m just not into. But for whatever reason I just love “Dance the Night Away.”
1984 is one of my favorite albums. I don’t dig the rest of their catalog as much.
With Van Halen if one of their songs is on the radio I’ll listen to it but I don’t go out of my way to listen to them. The Kravitz song I like is “Are You Gonna Go My Way” which is a cheesy but fun song with loud drums and guitars.
My Kravitz song is “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over.” Every other song of his that I’ve ever heard drives me up the wall, but for that one I will sit in my parked car until it is over.
That’s the second song of his that I like…it’s got a good groove to it.
The Chills, for sure. I heard Pink Frost on a compilation when I was in high school and I went out of my way to buy their record. I was so disappointed when I heard the whole album.
huh. i had a very similar experience. someone made me a tape with this song. took me forever to figure out who it was (got tape pre-internet, figured it out through google). i got the next chills album i found (submarine bells). hated the whole thing. couldn’t figure out how they could go from one to the other. i like the song you put, but i like this other one better. (maybe now you have two songs to like by them too.)
Leaving out one-hit wonders, the two that spring to mind are:
Whitney Houston (It’s not right but it’s OK)
Mariah Carey (All I want for Christmas is You)
Dexy’s midnight runnners
I like their cover of Jackie Wilson Said…and not just because it ended up on The Young Ones
I wanted to briefly respond to the mess above.
First, I would like folks to acknowledge that I am parodied, mocked, and teased far more than any other person here. Thus, I often play my comments (you are wrong , getting my argue on, being super hipster, etc) to that teasing. I am ok with that because I thought there are people that love me here and it is done in fun and jest from both sides. If Kay’s opinion is the zeitgeist of the site it seems that is no longer the case. I will stop that caricature and playing to that, but I will expect that others cease from their side of the equation as well and I will reserve my rights when I am subject of unsolicited attacks and no longer friendly teasing.
Secondly, when Kay seems to imply that I am driving the women away, I think that that belies the fact that when Bed goes off calling people pussies, I get an email asking to come in and provide rhetorical support from one. I got called out yesterday by EC for walking away from a debate. People seem to want it both ways.
Third, I think people seeing my comments above as an attempt to require someone to do something. They are not. I am first and for most correcting Bed’s false implication that I want him gone and explaining my actual position on him. I would not have brought it up if Bed didn’t make the jab at me. Previously a similar conversation was had where this was discussed, but because I said that I liked someone else’s organization, rather than slamming Bed and Kay, rather than I brought Bed into it. Further, I have absolutely no expectation that Bed’s behavior would conform to my requests, but have merely decided to express what would make me happy. I am not saying Bed is a bad person, a poor contributor here, or many of the things that people have subscribed to my comments, besides someone who doesn’t give me enjoyment.
Lastly, I would just like to respond to this:
There is absolutely no one else on this blog that anyone would make such self assured assessment of and attacks on their character. The fact that it is allowed on me is sad to me. I find it ironic that my busy day at work and unconscious absence here created a huge change in the interpretation of my actions. It was merely projection.
I think this critique belies someone who doesn’t know me or pay much attention to who I am at all. I care about several people here which is why my disagreements with FSU and ED on the pussy thread, jesa telling me that Kylie was talking shit about me to her and she didn’t defend me, or EC on the immigration thread equating me to Hitler was hurtful to me.
I think I have told most of you that a combination of my dad busting my eardrum and missing a much of 6th grade dealing with ear infections and surgery, dealing with a bunch of shit my dad was into, and my own personality kept me isolated from the general public to the point that I talked in third person for several months and had no friends for about three years. As I reintegrated through the debate team into dealing with people I have maintained the self confidence that allowed me to survive that and the strong belief in debate as a method of finding truth.
Anyone that knows me understands that because of those experiences while I often don’t give outward indications of it, I am constantly evaluating my interactions with others to ensure that I am where I want to be. One of the reasons that I am an organizer is specifically to do this and check my privilege through a job that requires empathy and listening. The idea that Kay has said that I don’t either examine my privilege or my interactions with folks, shows that she has not taken any effort to know me, which saddens me.
To end, if people have specific things that they want me to change to enhance their experience on FK I would suggest that you send me an email or facebook message and we can discuss them to see if we can come to an understanding. It is not my desire to take away from anyone’s experience here, but merely to engage the blog in ways that I enjoy.
That you think I was making a jab at you in this thread is why I’m no longer going to reference you.
Quite frankly, I don’t support anything Kay said above. From the sound of it, she’s been going through a lot lately on top of dealing with withdraw. Aside for the completely unwarranted personnel attack of someone who wasn’t apart conversation (and hasn’t been) and since most everyone else did (as well as I assumed you) I let it go. But seeing how much it hit you, it kind of pisses me off because I do think you’ve been a pretty good sport over the frequent potshots at your expense. And while how you said what you did above was poorly worded, I think it was pretty clear what you were getting at which could be agreed with or not and left at that.
Unwarranted, my ass.
When I offered in September to tell the story of .net to anyone who emailed me, I got a barrage of confidential responses about how Bloom had mistreated them/tried to coerce his way into their (or their wife’s or girlfriend’s) pants/beds, and upon having failed or succeeded, became passive aggressive, rude, coercive, and or cruel. It was enlightening and saddening to see that FiveMinuteMajorette and I were not the only people he had behaved that way towards. I was hoping to purge the elephant in the room and instead found that there was a whole herd of elephants in the room.
I’m sorry to have to pull a Nico about this, but I have it on multiple sources that your friend is a misogynist jerk, whom if he were in my kink community, would be banned from said community for his transgressions. I was sincerely worried that he might show up to FanFest and I might not be able to hold myself back from making a scene, or even worse.
If you want to be friends with human garbage like that, that’s your problem, not mine.
How the fk is Bloom a part of this conversation Kay? How? Tell me the fk that. People will say and believe whatever the fk they want to about the man, including you. They and you have every right. But he was never a part of this conversation until you went on your unwarranted and insulting diatribe. Whatever has crawled up your ass that you feel the need to go off like you have I have no idea and quite frankly, I no longer care. But yes. It was entirely unwarranted and still is.
I’m tired of keeping it bottled up. I hate myself for ever defending him. I wanted this out and public before I leave, so that nobody ever says “I miss Bloomie” around these parts without getting the taste of bile in their mouth.
Well, you’ll notice it’s when you compared me to Bloom in my “Bed Goes Crazy” lounge is when I basically knew I’d lost it. I knew that was about as big a blow as you could throw my way. It’s complicated because Bloom is one of the reasons I joined AN but you and MikeV are the reasons I joined FK so…yeah, like I said it’s complicated for me.
Well, as much as people today may think I’ve “lost it,” this is the real me, albeit in angry mode at the moment. There’s a lot of stuff I used to let slide off my back because I was high as a kite all the time, but I’m not going to let it slide anymore.
I guess for me I’ve tried to go the other way since I joined FK…I try let stuff slide now, I don’t always succeed but I’m trying. The other behavior I’m trying to change is not posting 100 random posts in a row anymore…it’s been done and frankly I think people were bored with it.
All I’ve ever wanted to do on this site is make people giggle. Many of you folks know more about baseball than I do and many of you are smarter than I am. I’m just happy you folks let me be silly here.
I appreciate it.
I think you have a higher hit percentage when you have less posts anyway. It seems like the self editing concentrates the good stuff you post.
You’re welcome…I want to make one thing clear, Bradley. When I came to FK I wrote that I wanted to let bygones be bygones with you. Since I’ve been on FK I have not with malice intent made comments about you. There was a time, over two years ago when I was upset with you but that time has long since passed. In the future if you read something by me that you think is a dig please read it again because it’s not…I have no desire to tease you or fight with you…I have no desire to fight with anyone on this blog. I know you and I don’t have a lot of patience for each other but I truly would like that to change.
A couple of things:
I was born with a fighters personality and a very very good memory, which means I am bad at letting things go and good at attacking based on longstanding slights. It is ingrained in me. And Im trying to rectify this.
What you refer to from two years ago is an unpopular opinion that I have about people having kids that has pissed off many a people (including members of my family who I have basically said the same thing to). Im glad that the disaster I saw was merely my poor vision and that you are happy with your family.
I too would like to change it, and my comments were more focused on helping me uphold my end rather than something that is wrong with you. It helps me get away and take a break if youre more concentrated. Like Ive said elsewhere, thats probably my problem.
The second paragraph should include an Im sorry.
I really hope you’ll believe me when I say this. I’ve never disliked you. Actually you and I have a heck of a lot in common. I was a paid political professional in my mid to late 20’s, although I wasn’t as successful as you are, and we have many similar interests. I’d love for both of us to let go of the things we did to piss each other off…I take plenty of blame in the problems we’ve had but I want nothing more than to be friendly with you.
agreed.
I’m glad to hear it…and thank you, I really feel better about being on the site now.
Would now be a bad time to tell you bitches to hug it out?
is there ever a bad time to hug it out?
Only if one of you has diarrhea.
I THINK I HAVE SOMETHING IN MY EYE!
I quite enjoy lot of your random postings, but hey, as someone said, a blog can not be all the things to all the people
Well, I’ll always be random but I did do it too often which is why it’s good I take long FK breaks. If I was in every lounge it would be way too much me.
I enjoyed your machine gun style as well, but I picked which ones I responded to only because apparently I can’t type as fast as you.
Same here. I looked forward to your rapid-fires lounges when I was having a bad day.
I think someone has already suggested it, but you should really start a Twitter account. You’d blow that shit up.
Well, glad I could help a little bit on a bad day. I’ve had others tell me to join Twitter. I’ll think about it and if I decided to do it I’ll post my Twitter name on FK.
I may as well register my opinion that your rapid-fire lounges are one of my favorite things on this site. Part of what makes it so funny for me is the sheer quantity and lack of filter.
Heh…yeah my filter tends to breakdown from time to time. I really appreciate what’s been said. You folks always make me laugh when I come here and that’s always welcomed.
It speaks volumes about you and little about him.
Bark bark little lapdog.
Fuck you, Kay. You think we don’t already know the man is a womanizer? Or do you really think he’s the only one still *here* that is/was? Get over yourself. You’re acting like you’re sharing some secret bit of shocking news when all you’re doing is grandstanding in a very “Me me me I want attention me me me” Tounces-like diatribe. Get over yourself.
If this is the kind of place that condones womanizing behavior, then I don’t want to have anything to do with it after the clock strikes midnight tonight.
Leonard Cohen was right. There is a war between the woman and the man.
Malcolm X was right in that I’d rather switch than fight for the side I was drafted to.
For someone who doesn’t like to view the world as black and white, you’re sure as hell missing a whole hell of a lot of gray if you’re unable to see that people do actually have redeeming qualities. And for the record, he’s aware of who he is and wants to change, but change doesn’t come easy nor overnight. And mistakes get made along the way. But hey, you like to pass judgement, good for you. Be blind, hypocritical, and pass sweeping condemnation on people for having the gull to think differently than you. It’s your right.
You sound like the enabling wife of an alcoholic.
or husband of an alcoholic… too angry to bother with gender neutral pronoun here…
Hardly. He knows I’ve disapproved the things he’s done. Hell, he does that shit less when I’m around and had I been there, I’m fairly confident certain things wouldn’t have happened in part because I wouldn’t have let it.
I would tell you to fuck off as well, but I kinda feel sorry for you, and know that your life likely isn’t going to improve much. I hope you’re lucky enough to reincarnate as someone who can overcome his shortcomings rather than revel in them.
I question your use of the word “briefly” in the first sentence. Besides that this is a very reasonable post. And I for one will cop to being harder on you than on others. Also, though I do like Kay a lot and hope she opts back in, I don’t think her take represents the zeitgeist of the site.
I believe you know DFA well enough to know that that was, in fact, quiet brief. Now that you accept that as fact, be afraid, be very afraid of not so brief.
Fair enough.
I pretty much think that YOU represent the zeitgeist of this site.
Part of what’s so great about this site for me is the freedom to have an opinion, be it A’s related, political, scientific, culture related, or complete non-sequitur, chances are one of the many interesting intelligent folks here will have some nugget that makes some other beautiful wingnut want to nerd out on it.
Unfortunately, it can get heated and through a text format it’s difficult to gain those little cues you could infer from facial expressions and body language.
I don’t wish anyone to leave this back 40 of the intertubes, I do however think sometimes it might be best to take a break from a thread where ‘someone on the internet is wrong’ syndrome sets in and the discourse quickly grows sharp little teeth and feelings are hurt. Take a break, go to a grill, and come back 15 minutes later when the bloods stopped boiling or maybe tomorrow?
None of this is directed towards anyone in particular, I would just hate for this community to be transferred to FB, the waters just fine where we’re at.
I’ve been staying out of this, but I want to say a couple things, so I will.
I think DFA is absolutely right that people criticize him in ways they would not criticize others. On ** that really pissed me off, because DFA would routinely get blamed/punished for reacting angrily to things that would have pissed anyone one because they were across the line. Here, no one gets punished for anything so the onus is on the players to figure things out, or not.
I try not to react to people leaving because I don’t want people to think there is some official voice trying to enforce anything, but there are definitely people I miss (come back g!). Everyone caught up in this particular mess makes the list. All go further than my taste (in different ways), but all also contribute in ways that I like. DFA consistently makes an impact on how I look at baseball, but also gets caught up in arguments that aren’t worth the effort and just piss him/whoever else off. Kay provides an honest window into an area I’m fascinated by (her transformation) and one I’m not (her kinks). Bed creates a lot of content that doesn’t sing for me, and some that I really enjoy.
In any event, that may not change/help anything, but I wanted to say it so I did.
Nicely stated.
Well put.
I think that in the future, I will have to steer towards well ruled and regulated communities, because the anarchy thing tends to end up in mob rule (even a friendly mob rule like here at FK), and being who I am, I will never be a part of the majority or a mob, and eventually I’m gonna call someone on their bullshit, and end up with the short end of the stick. I’m a deviant wherever I go, and it is simple animal biology that a herd purges its’ deviants in times of crisis.
Not that you guys are actively purging me, but if I keep up my militant stance, you’ll want to, and rightfully so.
I’m four years in being on Team Kay and that’s not going to change.
I won’t want to, and won’t. I’m the only one that matters when it comes to purging.
Indeed.
Thanks, and go As.
Just a quick response as I’m being mentioned here.
I appreciate the fact that having one’s personal qualities discussed is no fun. The freedom that this blog gives everyone to express the traits of their own personality can and often does lead to the discussions on people, not their statements alone. I find this to be only very natural.
I have come to conclusion that I am unable to have what I consider to be a fair, level-headed and constructive discussion with some, either due to my flawed understanding of the limits of own intellect, minimum common decency and a relation between an individual and society, their flawed understanding of the same topics or a combination of both.
Under these circumstances I will try to ignore the occasions where my natural instinct is to speak up, as past has shown me that the results are by far not worth the effort.
This should by no means signify that I see no occasions where I wholeheartedly disagree with both the mannerism and the factual interpretation, including but not limited to the cases that describe the events I have participated in.
Or, in short, I am not silent because I don’t have anything to say or because I agree, but because I feel it is for the best.
And I’d like to say that it is my goal to remain entirely irrelevant. I’m like the drunk guy in the corner who randomly yells “NNNNNNNNNNNNNNACHOS!” and no one knows what the FK he’s talking about.
Now I want nachos
seriously.
but no sour cream, FKers. Gross.
Thanks, and go As.
Can we say the same thing about beans? At least the really soggy one? They ruin your chip construction.
thats why refried is important
Beans are necessary, but olives WTF?
Well, I like olives and sour cream on my nachos…it should be noted that I’m a man of poor character.
agreed
Olives are just odd-a holdover from someone who decided that nachos are sort of like Enchiladas I guess.
And I can support DFA’s position as long as the beans are refried well. But unfortunately most places simply don’t.
I’m also biased however as I prefer Asada fries instead and the fry texture makes it even more difficult for it to support too much liquid.
I like beans and sour cream. But I’m with you on olives. Of course, I dislike olives unless they’re made into a tapenade, so feel free to disregard my ill-formed opinion.
I use to hate olives. Now I like them provide that they are flavorful. Black olives do not comply.
I eat black olives probably five times a week…I love them.
this makes no sense to me.
They’re salty and I like salty stuff.
but there are so many other more flavorful olives to choose from
I like green olives too but black are my favorite. I’m a pretty simple eater for the most part. I’ll try almost anything once but I tend to go back to the stuff I know I like.
I wish people would leave them off pizza
you do know that it is the same fruit, right?
so? doesn’t mean that pink lady’s are the best kind of apples.
pink lady’s is (I suppose, because I’ve never heard of it) a sort of an apple. a green olive and a black olive is exactly the same thing, the only difference is when it was harvested
@elcroata Hmm…I just thought the green olives were envious.
Im pretty sure katamala olives are different subspecies than regular black.
May be some confusion. We’re assuming when Bed says “black olives,” it means the conventional grocery store olives that us ‘Mercans grew up with, not just any black olive. DFA is saying he prefers the non-conventional ones. I’m with him.
Pink lady apples are a varietal with pink flesh, which are very tart and not particular tasty. Their main attraction is the color of the flesh.
Of course there are subspecies. The only thing that I was trying to explain, because many people do not know it, is that every subspecies of olive is a green olive and is also a black olive. The color of the olive does not depend on the subspecies, but solely on the time of harvesting.
If I harvest my olives (in an average winter) in October, they will be green olives and be bigger in size. If I harvest them in December, they will be black and small. As there is only one press in the village and you pay for a kilo of olive, lot of people wait until December to harvest theirs, as in the end the amount of the oil is the same.
Also, lot of the taste depends on how and if you ferment them
Pink ladys are great tasting and they resent such slander. Rep Clem has an apple orchard in Hood River where you get the absolutely best perfectly crisp juicy tart pink ladies known to man kind.
What’s the name of the orchard? We get our apples from Kiyokawa, usually U-Pick once a year, then from the farmer’s market the rest of the time. I just don’t care for the Pink Ladies. Except for Rizzo.
I drafted Rizzo, too.
@elcroata Nobody cares about your fantasy apple team.
I cant remember the name of it. He brought them down for the campaign. They were the best.
Ozz(ex)wife loves olives, but especially Kalamata olives.
kalamata I get.
Stop trying to take ingredients off my nachos! I want my sour cream, beans, and olives. Although if you’re one of those who put onions on nachos, then I retract my previous statement.
We certainly can. I can’t stand them.
Thanks, and go As.
Hey. Get off my persona. Either that, or share the damn nachos.
Did you mean to Rickroll me, or is there something wrong with my brain for going there? (Get off my persona made a particular song start rolling (see what I did there?) around in my head.)
Hm. No, that’s all in your brain. All I can think of is “Hey, you, off my cloud” (and the weird Flying Pickets a cappella version of it, at that).
fuck you ozz. where are my nachos?
I’m with Ed…where the fuck are these nachos?
I bought mine now. I thought about sharing. I resisted
I think I might go get some in a little bit. With steak.
not meaning to call you out and an ist that you aren’t.
We agree on most everything. you are ok by me
I support DFA here. He often gets more shit than he deserves, even if he does bring a chunk of it down on himself through some of his posts here.
This is a community where we mostly all know each other; it’s not an anonymous flame haven where we lob personal attacks just to troll. I think being able to argue and call each other out without creating lasting grudges shows the strength of a community. I usually don’t get involved in a lot of the arguments, whether through disinterest or not having common enough ground, but I hate seeing things get personal. DFA is not particularly tactful in his arguments, and thus engenders some of that ire, but if I had my way, we’d all be able to let it go after the argument is done. I don’t think anyone actually dislikes anyone else here, and we’d be better off if we remembered that. And if not, being able to clear the air like these above subthreads every once and a while is quite beneficial.
Long story short, it’s a small world after all can’t we all just get along ooh la dee ooh la dah I don’t want anyone to leave FK ever.
I really only hate Oz.
I thought the Oz exception was implied.
Hmm…good point.
Then my work here is done.
By the way, I’m really an Angels fan.
Charlie? Is that you??!!!
Do you see any donkeys around here?
Yes, you ass.
I see what you did there. Now prepare to die.
I don’t have six fingers on my hand… but I AM left handed.
Funny, me too. We should form a club and beat up right handed people.
I’m in!
Slow down there, Sunny Jim. You gotta pass the background check first. Send me a photo of yourself so I can check the background.
I abhor violence. But I’m willing to hold them down and smear ink on the side of their hand.
You see? I don’t care what NM says about you, you ARE good for something.
Woh, woh, woh. Who said anything about violence. We’ve got the beat, we’ve got the beat. Woooooo! We’ve got the beat, that’s all.
Rev Ozzman99
Too far, dude.
I knew it was a bANnable offense, but it had to be said.
BTW, I totes support that first paragraph. He does get more shit. More shit from me even.
He is a sweetheart though.
This win streak by the Heat is really starting to get impressive. LeBron James is dominating his sport at the moment.
That was cruel what he did to Cleveland tonight. Let the lead get just big enough that the fans must have actually thought they might get him, then snapped them back to reality. Plus he basically took half the game off mentally and still dropped a triple-double on them.
He’s an amazing player. It must kill Cleveland fans to watch him play.
He’s no Jordan.
Thanks, and go As.
I’ll let others decide if this lounge ended up being cool or not.
I think that for the most part we kept the cool side cool and the hot side hot.
The one thing we can all agree on though is I’m never cool.
My mom thinks I’m cool.
Cool for a preppy.
Pretty fly for a white guy.
Actually I’m more of an off-pink.
I was listening to Offspring in the car today on the radio and was thinking about them in the context of the overrated discussions weve been having and would be interested in getting peoples take on them.
My take is that they are an atrocity, an embarrassment, possibly the worst band to hit it big during my adulthood. I hate them.
oh wow. I didn’t expect such strong opinions. Perhaps ill return to the safer waters of the fratricide above.
I was intentionally a bit over the top. You just picked the one band that I reeeeeeally don’t like. Everything about them bothers me.
so its like everything feels so far away?
You have to keep them seperated?
well played.
I liked them. They didn’t take themselves seriously.
Thanks, and go As.
I still have a copy of Ignition that I will listen to. I dont mknd their more successful stuff, but it was more fluff to me.
Got introduced to them working at a mall poster and framing shop. The crew played their first two albums daily and complained about how they sold out…
I liked them when I was in high school. High schoolers are dumb.
They were one of the few connections that I managed to keep to non-Eurotrash music in the two years I lived overseas. It may not have been the best music, but it was some of the best that I had access to. For that, I will be thankful to them.
They were one of the earlier bands whose album I bought with my own money. I enjoyed them.
I am recently reminded by Spotify that Bad Religion – Broken was the angstist song I listened to in high school
A spotify commercial followed Bad Religion with “Love Country? Listen to all the best country on Spotify” with country in the background. I think they need to improve their algorythm.
Never used it. They finally allowed us to start streaming Pandora at work. Love.
Thanks, and go As.
Its pretty rad. I don’t pay for the whole thing but I do the streaming from my desktop.
Somehow, I think AdBlock Plus keeps audio ads from running on Pandora.
it prevents them from hulu, you just get 30 blank seconds instead of video.
I stopped using spotify once they required you to log in and connect it to Facebook.
yeah but rdio does the same thing and they have a native linux interface.
PS are you in the city today?
I just use grooveshark.
I am in the city today. I have dinner plans at 6, but I’m free outside of that (other than, you know, working during work hours).
Oh i wanted to play during work hours. :P
Well, I might have lunch… although I have a meeting at 1, so that limits available time
you can swithc that shit off
it took you a while to though.
I know. my sister yelled at me
I noticed.
Can you? When I first got it you could skip any Facebook relation, but they changed it at some point and I haven’t been able to log in without connecting it to Facebook, so I stopped using it.
you have to connect wtih the book but it won’t post and shit.
Do the punk people approve of Bad Religion? Not my genre but I definitely had a huge phase in HS.
All I know is they were great at the end of the Reason Rally in the rain in DC last year. But I’m not a punk so my opinion doesn’t count.
C, you’re awesome. I’m gonna miss you. If for some reason you accidentally end up in some sort of afterlife, think of me. I exist there as holographic pop-up menus, or a similar interface.
Youre probably the coolest person here so I would give it plenty of credence.
yes. no.
They were part of the 80s HC movement. Put out the most PR record ever (into the unknown) totally misunderstood and hated. Put out a great comeback (suffer) reaccepted. then went kinda Rock stary, kinda went on the outs…but stayed near enough to Epitaph and the like to not be all the way out.
I have them in the guilty pleasure category personally.
what do you mean by the most PR record ever? and why were they misunderstood and hated?
PR to me =”punk rock” Into the unknown was a total departure from the 80-85 bad religion. It was seemingly regular adult oriented rock. Its fantastic in its “fuck you LA Hardcore asshole I am playing foreigner.”
They were also much smarter that most punks, so that made them kinda “the other”, the man, maybe. In the 90s majors were poaching the indie labels looking for to sell records. After Nirvana broke, anyone that left the label were race traders. BR went to atlantic. (although they still released singles on some indies like Sympathy and what not). when you went major at the time you were dead. (see jawbreaker) but unlike some, they had enough capital in the HC bank to get somewhat of a pass. The same can’t be said for green day and jawbreaker and (I am sure there are more examples).
Thats what I liked about process of belief when I was just getting back into music in 02
Puerto Rican, naturally.
I think everything in Ivy Queen’s discography could win that award.
11 more minutes until this carriage turns into a pumpkin again, and I’m NOT checking this thread tomorrow, because I want tomorrow to be a new day, so if there’s anything else to say, say it now.
I’d like to suggest that we just let things go instead. A lot has been said tonight and a lot of people have taken things to heart because a lot of the topics mean a lot to us, and being able to step away and think on things a bit will probably do everybody some good.
Thanks, and go As.
If you’re truly intent on leaving, fwiw, regardless of the above, I’ll still miss your voice around here and wish you the best.
Well, Kay you’re having one hell of a last lounge at least. We’ve never met but I consider you a friend and I always want my friends to be happy so if leaving FK makes you happy I’ll put aside what I want and wish you the best. I do hope you’ll come back some day but if not it’s been a real pleasure talking with you these last four years.
Best wishes, Brian
I’ll email you, buddy. I carry on a lot of correspondences that way.
I look forward to it.
I may have to look into Facebook.
I’m sad you’re leaving. I’m particularly sad you’re leaving this way, bitter and reproachful. It’s not how I’ll remember your contributions here.
You could of course come back. Happier, even. That’d be cool.
Just ignore this thread (gray “Show” button in the top left, then “Ignore this Post” in menu that drops down), and you won’t be tempted. You just won’t see that there are unread comments.
Maybe I should change the name and call this one…The Lounge where we ignore the thread. It’s been a bit of a wild ride that’s for sure. I look forward to the day when I can post a lounge and no one quits in it.
There is always tomorrow. But I had a lounge title that I worked your name into it when you don’t beat me to posting one.
Or at least I did two days ago.
Then you take the next lounge, DFA.
I added the “Kraut on Kraut” category label for easy future reference.
See you later, friends.
I’m not going to delete the account. Maybe I’ll change my mind someday.
Peace and doughnuts,
K
I sincerely hope you do. Not that you’ll read that, but you probably already know.
Hell even I’ve never quit and then came back and quit again on the same day. Kay went out swinging. So I guess we had a switchback on the switchback…or as I like to call it Switchback II: The Lounging
Well, I think this is the time in the lounge when we turn our focus back to the movie career of Sally Field.
I made the mistake of noting being able to sleep and checking this Lounge.
I was going to do laundry five hours ago.
My back is killing me so I’m still up…this lounge has had it’s ups and downs but hopefully people got off their chest what they needed to.
I’d rather be bitter and angry to myself than come in three hours later and shit all over everything again.
Well, okay but I’m pretty sure that’s my move.
Sorry youre hurting. It seems like youve been having a better stretch. Is that my imagination?
Life is good…I just was on my knees painting my deck all day yesterday and I’m paying for it…I’m a soft public school teacher who isn’t used to actual labor.
were you using stain or actual paint?
Actual paint…my wife wanted the deck to be white. I liked the stain we had down but she won.
sometimes its important to not fight those kinds of things if you don’t care about them.
Why I didn’t have a beard for much of 1.5 years.
Yeah, I didn’t put up much of a fight. You’re right about only fighting about things you really care about and to be honest I couldn’t care less what color our deck is. My wife and I have only had one real fight in our marriage but we see the world in a similar way so we just tend to get along.
Yours too? Join our little club. Meaning that Mikev is a part of a threesome, just not the one he hoped for…
Yeah but you guys probably hurt yourself in cool ways. You were probably climbing some mountain while Mike was kicking someone’s ass in soccer…I hurt myself painting a deck.
I’m sure you were using a cool color
Well, I’m not sure…I mean white decks can’t jump.
Im pretty sure with EC is a threesome anyone will join
Threesomes with EC can involve up to 7 people.
Fact.
Thanks, and go As.
I think this is a real upside of not having official consequences. People work shit out.
I almost went to bed; went out; flirted with a girl while she was sitting next to her boyfriend, and she flirted back (I think); got drunk as FK, drunkest I’ve been since before I could legally drink; slept it off on my friend’s futon; and now I’m home and catching up. Shit got crazy in here.
Enjoy the hangover.
but not the sequel.
Nope, no hangover. I always drink a glass of water after every couple of drinks, on the rare occasions that I drink.
Now you’re supposed to mix vodka and pain pills right?
absinthe
Sadly I’m going with Tylenol and water. I’m just happy I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.
I have to. But my boss is gone. Sooooooo SPRING BREAK WOOO
It’s often a good day when the boss is away.
Well, okay…it’s been quite a lounge. I’m going to go soak in my hot tub, howl at the moon and try to get some sleep…you’re a great group of folks and I’m thankful you’ve let me be part of the club. Goodnight.
I’ll say this for you, your lounges generate a shitload of comments. This is what, about a year’s worth of lounges on the new and improved **?
Well, in some on the lounges 600 of the 700 posts are by me so that helps.
Boy, did I choose the wrong night to catch up on Downton Abbey.
lol
…tagline?
Agreed.
Alrighty then…I got almost an entire hour of sleep under my belt…I’m either going to have a fun day or be dead by lunchtime.
and I’m leaning towards death.
I was surprised you didn’t take the cake option.
That sounds better…of course I’m so tired I’ll probably think I’m William F. Buckley again in a few hours….this call back to a previous lounge is brought to you by Ford. Bed drives one…usually to the shop.
he choose…poorly.
Oh crap…does this mean I’m going to turn into a skeleton now?
They were out of cake.
This probably makes me a bad dad but I’ll admit to being a little bit jealous of my daughter’s hair. I’ll have my revenge if she has a son though…that kid is screwed, he’ll be losing hair in High School. Of course by then I’ll be eleventy.
I’ve been doing the bic razor thing for the past week.
Thanks, and go As.
My wife gives me a buzz cut every couple of weeks but I haven’t gone Lex Luthor yet.
I just did it for a FU Cancer picture for a friend’s daughter.
Normally I just do a #1 guard and call it done.
Thanks, and go As.
Well, you did it for a good reason. I think she uses the #1 guard on me too. I’m usually too busy crying while she shaves what’s left of my hair to notice.
Life regret. When Mother Aces started chemo I didn’t shave down with her. At the time we worked together and 2 other people in the dept. did, but I was too wimpy to. And this was with Mrs. Aces reminding me that she thought I would look good with a shaved head.
When I eventually did it part of me saw it as tribute to her and the another part kicked me in the shins for not doing it then.
I’ve been shaving mine to the skin for over 5 years, and I’m never going back.
Once you go shave there’s no other way to behave.
I want to thank you guys for the comments here this morning. Yesterday was ugly and I much prefer this.
Work is a cluster right now. We just merged into a different group and we are the ones being “taken over’. So I know there are changes coming in the next few weeks. Not in fear of being out of work, but new role and working with leaders who dont necessarily see how the job gets done in the same way our team does. Add to that a few new huge fires and it has turned March into the month from hell. Needless to say the laughs here have taken the edge off and I appreciate them…
I have a feeling that we’re in for some calmer waters here on FK. Good luck in the transition at work.
11 days until opening day…actual baseball tends to be a unifying force around here. Especially when the A’s win.
Oh that’s right…this is a blog about baseball.
How ’bout those Mariners, eh?
After 4/1, we’ll have a new common enemy: the scoreboard.
My enemy shall remain the dreaded Oxford Coma.
Is that where you get hit in the head by a dictionary and Jennifer has to take care of you for 8 years before someone finally pulls the plug?
Hell, that’s my retirement plan.
Pretty sure there’s a provision for that under Obamacare.
I always use an oxford comma. I don’t get the debate
I refuse to use it…it’s just one of my quirks. No English teacher agrees with me so when my students use it I’m fine with it.
see this is progress. youre preemptively admitting you are wrong so that I don’t have to tell you.
We’re well on our way.
This is still my favorite way of explaining my position on the matter.
NSFW tag.
Oh yeah, that too.
That’s clever…when I was a kid they didn’t teach it that way…at least in the Sacramento public schools I went to so I’m holding out. It’s a well known quirk among my friends…I have others.
That’s actually a good example. Stylistically, I have no use for it, meaning that I find it lacking elegance. But, that is actually a good point how to avoid misunderstanding.
It’s AP style, so I’m supposed to use it at work, but I say the AP stylebook can kiss my ring, elbow, and ass.
I mean it’s AP style not to use it.
Heh
After several unpleasant conversations with the AP Stylebook honchos, I share your sentiments.
Hey Blue, wtf was that!!!!
ptbnl is probably too busy right now to toot his own horn, but the Planck satellite had their first major data release today and it’s blowing up the astronomies.
horn
Okay, am I going to be smart enough to read this?
no. its ok though. Me, I am stroking my chin as I read so people think I understand
I’ll do this so I can impress my dog who is watching my every move.
That’s quite awesome. Way to go, ptbnl.
So with the Kraut on Kraut label this lounge is now an official crime scene…move along there’s nothing to see here.
Okay, now I really do want nachos but I’m too tired to make them and I’m here with just the dog and the cat and they both suck at making nachos.
I want a set of Asada fries bad, but the place that sells them has a good half a dozen locations, all in opposite parts of town from where I am. Trying to think of an excuse for going out so I would have to drive by and get some.
I think I might go out and get some Pho. If I don’t crash my Mustang from fatigue I’ll eat well.
There are Vietnamese people in Arkansas?!?
There are Vietnamese people everywhere. My former colleague Duc said once when he was driving across the US, he’d stop in small towns and look in the phone book for Nguyens, and there were always Nguyens, and if he called them up they would always invite him over for dinner.
We let everyone come on in here in Arkansas…well, except the Swedish.
even if they bring their fish?
Well, if they bring fish I guess they’re fine…besides it would be nice not being the only natural blonde in Arkansas.
After the first Viking invasion, things were never the same.
Yeah my Swedish brothers peaked early in the whole pillaging thing.
I know, I know. I was just being facetious, as per usual.
Partner in Crime’s parents lived in Tennessee when they came over from Vietnam. Allegedly, her mom had a crazy Southern accent for a while.
Yep, shocking I know.
There was a big influx of Vietnamese into the US as the war over there wound down. A lot of them wound up in places like Houston. Probably Arkansas too. Oppressive heat and humidity, gigantic bugs, torrential rain, I think it felt just like home.
Ah paradise.
No Pho…too tired. Banana and some cottage cheese instead…so you folks are now up to date on my lunch…aren’t you so glad you stopped on by?
If there is a long line, is it called a Pho Queue?
Thanks, and go As.
#Win
#Nguyen
YES
heh
You know this lounge has over 840 posts in it…it might be time for a new one.
I was gonna put one up, but I thought DFA had one in mind.
The other most interesting man in the world doesn’t, as far as I know, post on FK, but he is maybe about to buy a chunk of the Sacramento Kings.
Um, EC posts on FK quite frequently.
That guy does sound interesting, and i hope he succeeds here too.
Awesome story, awesome ideas