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     bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 2118 Registered: 6-2001  |
I'm always out of the loop. What's up with that?  | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2354 Registered: 5-2001  |
why am I up now? | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1008 Registered: 7-2002  |
dang, you got up before I did, and I have to go to work.... or have you not gone to bed as of yet, my young buzzsaw? | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2356 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2361 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2363 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2365 Registered: 5-2001 |
 op and the critter | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2368 Registered: 5-2001 |
As everyone eventually does, I went to Cleveland. I left as the sun rose upon the Newark Liberty International Airport. This was for a friend's batchelor party. I am the best man and had to go. Sure - leaving my very very pregnant wife to go and wallow in keg beer and whatnot made me feel uneasy. But, like I said - I had to go. Things took a very surreal turn when the groom to be, found out his father died that morning. It had been a long time coming. He was prepared - but it still set him back. Then. I suppose to obscure the news - people went nuts. Too much beer. Fireworks. Tomfoolery. There was also a big pig that was roasted on a spit and eaten by everyone but me. I love pork. and all meat. Just not in context and with a floppy ear. The next morning I woke up in Independence Ohio. I reccomend staying there. Nice, cheap hotels. Also a Denny's. Moons over my hammy. I poured myself back into Hopkins international airport and came back to real life. And not a moment too soon. The wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future. I need to find out more about Howard Hughes. He sounds so crazy. Why are most really smart people crazy? Think about it. Most of the great artists and thinkers.....nuts. I am sitting tight. Waiting for our new child. Mama mia! The wave of the future. The wave of the future. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2369 Registered: 5-2001 |
 The king of carrot flowers. | ||
| musicme Citizen Username: Musicme Post Number: 1369 Registered: 5-2001  |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2377 Registered: 5-2001 |
"Bob, there are almost ten new hotels announced. The one that troubles me the most is the new Holiday Inn right smack in front of the Sands. To make it much worse, they are planning to make it a Showboat sitting in a huge lake of water. A Showboat with a pond of stagnant infested water. If they are considering using water from Lake Mead, the effluent in the water would smell to high heaven. Jesus! When I think of that lake of sewage disposed on the front lawn of the Sands. Ugh! It may even smell up our Sands Golf Course. Whatever the sources of the water, there would is the additional problem of mosquitoes. They would not be able to have water running in and out, so it would become stagnant and an ideal place to breed mosquitos. If this crumby hotel cannot be stopped, I would just as soon sell at a loss the Sands . . ." Memos from Howard Hughes to Robert Maheu, 1967, quoted by Michael Drosnin in Citizen Hughes, pp.107-108  | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2392 Registered: 5-2001 |
Have you ever heard the song 'Duncan' by Paul Simon? I have always liked Paul Simon - but I never did get his first solo album until recently. I must say that this song is epic. This morning walking to the train it occured to me that this morning's weather felt like the little string interlude in 'Duncan'. If you were out this morning and know this song - you might know what I'm talking about (if you agree that melody can feel like weather and visa versa). Also, this song contains two of my favorite lyrics: "and just like a dog, I was befriended" "Even now that sweet memory lingers: I was playing my guitar lyin' underneath the stars just thankin' the Lord for my fingers" I just had a soft taco that was really disappointing. For $8 I was expecting more. It was about a $2 taste experience. The sales staff here gets a catered lunch at the end of each month. I am going to steal some food from there. They have been getting two boots lately. It's Friday! Yaw! | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 2155 Registered: 6-2001 |
I love peace like a river on that album. The string work is so beautiful and tinkly and just like a peace river. Okay, I'm getting the AOL outta here. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2394 Registered: 5-2001 |
Well, that's the end of the film. Now, here's the meaning of life. Thank you, Brigitte. M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special......... Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations, and, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their f-ing arses and back in the sodding cinema. Family entertainment bollocks. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats-- Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2399 Registered: 5-2001 |
If you take the train from Hoboken, this could be something to check out. I will be there. Then Leo's. Then Louise and Jerry's. Then that record store. (wink wink) Jul 30, 2005 2:33 pm US/Eastern (1010 WINS) (HOBOKEN) Faithful continued to pray today in front of a statue of Jesus in Hoboken, New Jersey where witnesses claim the statue suddenly opened its right eye. Two days ago, 53-year-old Julio Dones, said he was cleaning the plastic statue in front of the housing project on Jackson Street when to his astonishment, one eye opened. It was blue as the sky. Today, the right eye on the sculpture remains open. The aged statue of Jesus has been known in the neighborhood over the years as the sleeping statue because both eyes of the full-bodied statue were closed. Now it is being referred to as the winking Jesus. Scores of people have visited the site over the last two days. Some believe it is a miracle. Others doubt the awakening is an act of God. They believe someone doctored the sculpture. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2408 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2409 Registered: 5-2001 |
 A man looks in the abyss, there is nothing staring back at him. At that moment he discovers his character. That keeps the man out of the abyss. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2414 Registered: 5-2001 |
The abyss. The unknown. The unknown isn't a bad thing - it's just a thing that is not known. Of course the abyss is also a pretty cool movie. I fell asleep watching it in the theater - but when I was able to rent it and watch it in bite sized pieces it was great. It seems that the three hour movie is the new two hour movie. Too much info. Save the filler for the DVD! Ninety minutes is the over under for me. So yeah. The unknown. The mysterous next step. Of course there is a school of thought that says that every step is planned. I am more of a 'prime mover' kind of guy anyway. Who knows. I wasn't going to type this. But I did anyway. Or was I always going to type this. There really aren't any steps that I don't know I am going to take. God knows that every step I take during the week are the same steps I took the week before. Alarm. Train. Path. Walk. Oatmeal. Rinse. Repeat. We don't have a name for the new baby coming along the pike any day now. My wife wants to wait and see what he looks like. I am cool with that. Though he might look more like Baldar the conehead than say a John for the first few days. My son wants to name him Ninja. Now that something I could have rolled with from the beginning. There is serious talk about moving to Texas. I could sell my castle here and buy a home outright down there. Property taxes only a fraction of what I pay here. Thing is I would be in Texas. With no seasons. No good pizza or Italian food. No ocean. No family. I WOULD get to be Mr. Mom and have bbq brisket at a moments notice. Two pretty big things. Not sure what to do. Mr. Mom good. Texas, for the most part - not that good. I was talking to an older couple down the block from me and they said, "oh yeah - when we moved in we were only going to stay here for a couple of years. We've been here for thirty." | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1031 Registered: 7-2002 |
I'm from Texas, and you can see where I live. There are at least two seasons in Texas, hot and not so hot. Depending on where you live, it can be quite nice, Austin is good, Dallas sucks. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2418 Registered: 5-2001 |
Yeah - it would be Dallas. Hmmm. | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 2003 Registered: 9-2002 |
My family came to visit from Texas (Ft Worth suburbs) this weekend. My 8-year-old nephew called his mcmansion, built in 2002, old. Said my 1935 house was "spooky" and wanted to know what it was worth (about twice what yours is, and it is about half the size). Didn't understand why we would have a basement, thought it might be kind of like having a bomb shelter. Couldn't understand why the closest Chili's was 20 min away (and why we weren't eating there). And the WalMart is where? My 15 year old nephew voted to go to the mall instead of the Statue of Liberty (he lost). Thought that his uncle takes the train to NYC because we don't have enough money to pay for gas to drive there. Didn't like driving around because "you can't see anything because of the trees and hills". My sister (born and raised in NJ) was confused when I said their wasn't a drive through Starbucks nearby. And why I would walk from the Millburn Starbucks to the Bagel Chateau and then back to my car instead of driving one block. I bought bagels (at Bagel Chateau obviously) and no one would eat them because they didn't taste like Thomas' bagels (yes they make "bagels"). They were upset that it was so "cold" here and all they had were shorts. Couldn't handle the suggestion that I turn the A/C off when it was 75 degrees outside because they didn't think about opening a window. They NEVER open their windows. | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 2727 Registered: 2-2003  |
Wendyn sounds like a challenge!! My sister came with her family to visit last year. She is from Colorado. We were walking down Midland, a few blocks from my house when she said she had to go to the bathroom. She squated right there in someone's front yard.  These darn relatives! | ||
| Hank Zona Supporter Username: Hankzona Post Number: 3642 Registered: 3-2002 |
red, so that was you and your sister! | ||
| Wendyn Supporter Username: Wendyn Post Number: 2004 Registered: 9-2002 |
Ok Red now that is just plain gross. What was she thinking? | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 2729 Registered: 2-2003 |
She wasn't thinking. That's the problem. We went out the next night to Tinga's. As we were getting into the car, she squats next to the car and pees, kid you not, in the middle of Millburn! When I asked her why she just didn't go to the bathroom in Tinga's she looks at me like I am nuts! | ||
| mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 5210 Registered: 5-2001  |
Red, Does she wipe? | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2423 Registered: 5-2001 |
Maybe I should be thinking about moving to Colorado. That kind of laid back attitude about pee is amazing. With the heat as it has been there is NO way I am moving to Texas. I am really starting to rethink that one. Well, I wasn't really thinking too much about it - it was more the Mrs. RedY67 - Your sister is my hero. She peed...in the middle of Millburn Ave?!? I would have paid money to see the faces on the ever double parking short hillzers. I had a dream last night that I was a preacher...one of them really animated shouty preachers - trying to cast satan out of the world. It was really weird. I was watching cnn when the plane in Torono crashed yesterday. And. OF COURSE. They were saying things like, "we have no information - but at this point any survivors would be lucky". That kind of stuff. Everyone lived. There's a chilli's around here? Who knew? | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2427 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2430 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2431 Registered: 5-2001 |
My wife is huge. We talked to my son about his baby brother coming to town. He said, "so - how is he going to come out. Is he going to come out of your mouth?" Ummmm, yeah......... | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1036 Registered: 7-2002 |
Show him the Alien Movies.... | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 2753 Registered: 2-2003 |
You have got to love a child's interpretation of how babies come into this world  | ||
| sac Supporter Username: Sac Post Number: 2433 Registered: 5-2001 |
I promise you, not everyone from Texas is like that ... at least I like to think that I'm not (and that I'm not all that unique in that either.) There are even a few liberals around, although they have to keep pretty quiet most of the time at social events Heat is definitely an issue, but I have to say that it really bothers me more here (without much A/C and having the hot weather come and go) than it did there, believe it or not. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2436 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| Crazyguggenheim Citizen Username: Crazyguggenheim Post Number: 841 Registered: 2-2002  |
Call me crazy, but i love a perspective challenge! | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2439 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2440 Registered: 5-2001 |
A message from my 3 year old: pddddddwerrt6565yhhv | ||
| SO Refugee Citizen Username: So_refugee Post Number: 708 Registered: 2-2005  |
You've got to love a state where Kinky Friedman is running for governor. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2441 Registered: 5-2001 |
 NON ULTRA ! | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2442 Registered: 5-2001 |
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