OPEN THREAD THURSDAY
One of two additions to my immediate blogosphere. Every Thursday, you'll have this opportunity to talk about whatever you want. Cindy Sheehan? The price of gas? Christian mime? Post links, bring up topics you think we ignored this week, and express your seething rage. Enjoy.
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Let's talk about Arlo and what his vision of the world is...
To answer your question, I like to talk about playing Halo on Xbox Live. But that's why I started a blog to focus on that.
I come to LYRC because I want to hear what Arlo has to say. Unfortunately, people used this forum to abuse Arlo, and now Arlo is handing the staff over to the sheep.
Pick yourself up and brush yourself off, son. You are smarter than most of the people who surround you. Always have been...
Doesn't that suck? Well, only sometimes. And the sometimes are not worth overridding your overall personal agenda. You are the first blogger I ever knew. Keep this shit real.
People get shitty on my blog sometimes. And I delete that crap like a drunken Monarch who doesn't like the messenger's posture.
Now, where were we...
Oh, yes. You were about to tell me about Steve Jobs and how he is Fighting the Power.
Take no guff from these swine.
Satire aside, Eric is my friend.
I'm hungry. Boy, I'm sure looking forward to lunch. Yesterday I had beans for lunch. On Wednesday I had noodle soup. Today, I'm considering going out to a sandwich shop. Yep. I sure am hungry.
Thanks for the backhanded compliments, Dague. I'm not handing over the reins. I'm providing opportunities. And isn't that what blogging is all about? Opening up the dialogue? I have one topic that I get all up in arms about, and it's unreasonable. But I don't want anyone who reads this blog to think for a second that I want to keep YOU from talking about anything you want even if I need to refrain from discussing something for my own personal sanity. Thus, OPEN THREAD THURSDAY. Thanks for getting it started.
I have a frozen Eggplant Parmesan from Trader Joe's waiting for me in the freezer. I hope the person who bought it doesn't notice.
Power Ranger charged with murder.
I saw that, Anonymous (i.e., "Pink Ranger"), and thought it was hilarious. Alas, it was too good to be true.
Power Ranger or not, I bow to the murderous scum just for coming up with a great way to do someone in--tie 'em to an anchor and throw 'em overboard! Haw! This method opens up a whole world of variations! Like tying someone to a leg of lamb, and throwing them into a cage full of tigers. Or tying someone to George Lucas and throwing them into a room full of old-school Star Wars fans. Ok, that last one is a bit of a stretch...
In lunch news--burrito Thursday at the Facilities Management cafe! That darn head chef won't tell me the secret to her spectacular refried beans, but I'll eat 'em anyway, wi' a curse!
I'll be the asshole that uses OTT for shameless self-promotion:
if you're in Chicago at 11:30 pm on 8/20 come to Angel Island Theatre, 731 W. Sheridan (at Broadway, N of Irving Park) to see The Factory perform RAPID FIRE, a short play about 3 drunk party girls that kidnap 2 trixies in Lincoln Park and take them for a bender/hellride at 8:00 a.m. one Monday morning.
Did I mention that the show features sexual molestation with twinkies, to the strains of "Do Me Baby" by Prince?
You're welcome.
The price of gas.
P.S.: Immediately following Lubow's aforementioned show about twinkies and sexual assault, I'll be using my acting to distract the assembled audience from the task of remembering it.
Since its open-forum Thurs. I would like to push an great book which I just finished reading called "Tarantinian ethics." Although a little heavy on Lacan it really hits the spot.
I see no harm in having an open forum on Thursdays. It isn't like you are saying you'll be censoring yourself otherwise - just opening it up to outsiders one day a week. Which may help provide even more grist for the mill for the three of you to grind/mill/refine/whatever mills do.
It was Kelly's reply that drew my attention today. One of the people who frequents my shop is a rabid peak oil conspiracy theorist. Unfortunately he also is some kind of mathematical genius who works for Intel doing things smart people do - so his tracking of this problem makes a lot more sense than I would like. He is predicting that $4.00 a gallon will start to break the back of the American economy for a wealth of number-crunching reasons I can only begin to understand.
To which most everyone replies with some article like the one Kelly posted saying that gas has always been this expensive elsewhere and the world's economies haven't fallen to dust just yet.
To which he freaks out and points out that the economies that have had $4.00 a gallon gasoline forever used the tax money from the sale of gasoline to prop up their infrastructure, blah, blah, blah. We haven't done that to the same extent and therefore $4.00 a gallon gas is not remotely the same thing here as it is there.
I don't really know what any of that means or what Kelly may have been trying to say by his post. Just wanted to help keep LYRC on the cutting edge of doomsday theorydom.
3 things:
First, I've been suffering from tendonitis in my left wrist. Last evening I bought a wrist brace and wore it to bed. I woke up in the morning to find that the clicking in my wrist had not appeared upon waking for the first time in a while. I am very happy about my new wrist brace and hope to alleviate my tendonitis completely in the next couple of weeks. Now I can save my Vicadin for parties and my kids.
Second, I just ordered a Mini Cooper over the weekend. It'll take 6 months to arrive I didn't want to spend the extra money for the car, gas, and insurance to get a Cooper S so I'm sticking with the Cooper. Apparently it also has a little smoother ride. The Cooper I'm getting will be yellow with a white top, as opposed to Kelly's niece who is white with a red top (and cuter than the car {though slower}).
Third, I hate feeling like I'm posting the last comment in a thread and no one is responding to what I wrote. Yeah, yeah. I'm a big fucking baby but it's open thread thursday so I just thought I'd mention it. I really liked my response to Kelly's critique of Peggy Noonan's tripe and no one said a single word :(
Fourth, I hate the idea of an open thread thursday. All anyone writes is a whole bunch of shit. Ha ha, just kidding. Blog on Arlo.
I know it's not Thursday anymore, but I'm just going to shamelessly promote . Having seen it on Tuesday night, I'll dare to deem it one of the funniest films I've ever seen. Now, I've been exposed to a lot of funny stuff in my short lifetime, but never have I seen a film push the envelope so far. (Case-in-point: I was carded because of its explicit verbal content.) Anyway, it's better than a lot of shit that's out right now (re: The Island), well worth your $10, and will really warp your perspective on Bob Saget. I will never watch Full House in the same way again...
Just my two cents.
-Rebecca
In the preview box for my post, "The Aristocrats" was the only thing that was linked. My apologies for what happened...whatever did...
-Rebecca
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