Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
The Exorcist is just terrifying. Has nothing to do with whether you are an atheist/agnostic/jain/buddhist/baptist/jew. It's just scary - if you don't get scared of those things, it just means that you don't get scared by those things, nothing to do with your spirituality. But maybe I am just a scaredy-cat. I also get very very scared at Rosemary's Baby, even though that has no gore whatsoever (I don't know which is scarier, her husband's flabby chest or that black cradle at the end).

gwn(five foot two and six feet four)c

I actually thought Mia Farrow was the scariest thing about Rosemary's Baby--even before she starts to sense she's bearing the Antichrist or whatever, she has a perpetually vacant, shell-shocked expression that creeps me out. Come to think of it, she has it in every role she's ever played.

I do get scared at every other type of horror flick though. Perhaps I just find gooey mucus-dripping sharp-toothed mini-monsters bursting out of someone's guts in outer space more plausible than demonic possession.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What I can't explain is the $40-75 ticket price for Tony Hawks Boom Boom Huckjam tour.

http://www.boomboomhuckjam.com/

Sure you get to see Tony, BB, Andy Mac, Bucky, and the bmx guys, but that's serious cash. You could buy a keg of Coltrane's urine for that much.

I came across some old scrapbooks while searching for something this weekend and in one was my ticket from SkateFest '88 in Toronto -- only $9 (Canadian so like $0.33 American) and I got to see Tony, Cab, Dressen, all the greats. I also got to see Pink Floyd that weekend for something like $20 (Canadian so about $1.00 American). Seeing that almost makes me think that $60 a seat for hockey is expensive -- nahhhhhh.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Dunno. Watching athletics is complete bore to me, even if I rather like the sport, but some people just adore it. I can't explain that, either.

I saw that special last night and thought it was great. (Of course, it also featured not one but two men on my laminated list: Lance Henriksen and Charles Dance - do you know how infrequently I get to see two of them at once???)

It really helps to know a player or two and to really like the sport.

Lance huh? So I take it you were a Millenium fan? I really liked that show and I guess it had an expiration date (2000) that doomed the show.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
There were grenade-blast victims in your H.S. plays? There must be an alternate ending to "Twelve Angry Men" that I didn't know about.

One of the teachers who directed & did debate coaching had a real thing about the Vietnam war.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You could buy a keg of Coltrane's urine for that much.

That's not what the pump is for...

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Can some of you fright-flick fans please explain the allure of scary movies? I watched a friggin' documentary about the making of "Alien" last night, which included a play by play of the special effects of the face-sucker-breathing-in-and-out-while-latched-onto-some-shmo's-face-and-ramming-monster-eggs-down-the-guy's-throat scene, and I was still so freaked out I almost hurled watching it. What the hell is the fun of getting the crap scared out of you? What am I missing here?

Added to note, I don't find any of those Exorcist/Omen/other possessed-by-demons movies scary, as I'm an atheist.

Catharsis.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The only time the roommate and I get a keg is for our St. Patrick's Day party. And we only do it for two reasons: (1) stores sell kegs of green beer; (2) it starts at 8 AM.

Don't even get me started on green beer - my Irish grandparents are rotating in their graves (even the ones still alive) at the concept.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by former gov't
Don't even get me started on green beer - my Irish grandparents are rotating in their graves (even the ones still alive) at the concept.

It has given me the spins as well.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
I'm accustomed to Virginia prices. According to the Virginia, ABC a 750 mL bottle of Absolut retails for $19.95. Stoly is $18.95. Average Smirnoff is $11.90 a bottle. Awful Bowman's (the majority of which is exported to Russia) goes for about $7.00 a bottle.

If a hotel were to pay for Bowmans, they'd probably pay about $5.50 - $6.25 a bottle - if they are buying 750 mL bottles. With crap like that, they'd certainly bulk up any buy 1.75 L plastic jugs.

you know to cross the Potomac for any volumes right? (you are in Noth VA?)

Oh to be back at Gilley's liquor store (now torn down) on Pennslyvania between 21st and 22nd- just down the street from the 21st Amendment.

[MisterEbola]

Originally posted by bridge of love
you know to cross the Potomac for any volumes right? (you are in Noth VA?)

Oh to be back at Gilley's liquor store (now torn down) on Pennslyvania between 21st and 22nd- just down the street from the 21st Amendment.

I doubt that hotels/restaurants in Virginia are able to buy liquor from D.C.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Unless the reception is starting at 9:00 p.m., it would not be difficult for me to consume well over 1/2 bottle of vodka.
ABBA(superthirstychamp)Kiss

Now evreyone knows why she is No. 1 with a bullet on Slave and my bang lists.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by MisterEbola
I doubt that hotels/restaurants in Virginia are able to buy liquor from D.C.

you're right they're not- never mind.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
The dollar dance is a staple at midwestern weddings. I have only been to ONE wedding (out of 10?) in the past five years that did NOT have a dollar dance, and that was my own.

By contrast, I have attended what seems like three hundred, but what is probably closer to twenty weddings in the past five years. Approximately fifteen of these were in the Midwest. Not one had a dollar dance. In fact, I have never been to a wedding with a dollar dance. Having said that, I am not going to take a position on the great class wars that are wracking the FB today. I do not side with the Bilmorian camp because I do not know whether dollar dances are, in fact, as common as he states, and also I am not against the high falutin', mileu-using, cake-eaters who believe the dollar dance is an appallingly tacky poor, white, trailer trash cracker sort of thing. But nor am I in the Debt-Slavian camp, for I am not against those salt-of-the-earth, regular joe, good Midwestern real people folk who not only think dollar dances are perfectly acceptable, but also recognize that they are similar to many time-honored ethinic traditions, and that they may be just the thing to lessen the debt of the upcoming honeymoon. I also refuse to take a position because the FB seems particularly sensitive these days, and I am concerned that if I took a position, Taxwonk would call me a shmuck again. And that really hurt.

I read with great interest the thread on the "Dollar Dance" apparently prevalent at so many weddings.

Since January 2002, I have attended 16 weddings. At only one of these weddings did the bride dance for a guest. This had nothing to do with a "dollar dance", however, and more to do with an unsolicited offer of lots of money from a guest for the bride to wiggle around to music in the backseat of the guest's car in the parking lot and expose her vagina.

On the subject, I no longer purchase wedding gifts to bring to a wedding or even give one within one year of the nuptials. Wedding gifts should not be given until the fifth anniversary, at which point it is fairly safe to say that the happy couple has earned their gift and will likely not get divorced. Giving a gift before this point is just throwing away a good blender, napkin ring set, plate, or whatever, that will very likely end up in the center of a horrible and painful divorce battle as pre-fifth year anniversary divorce rates are awfully high. This causes severe and undeserved distress to the gift.

Sometimes, it helps to give the couple a card at the wedding that states: "Congratulations on your marriage! Remember the silver salad tongs you registered for at Williams Sonoma? [ENCLOSE A PICTURE TO MAKE SURE THEY REMEMBER.] Those babies are yours if you can make this marriage thing last five years. In the meantime, make your salads with a couple of longish spoons. They work almost just as good! Best of luck!"
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Originally posted by Pushy the Puppy
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Who is that chick? I like your moniker and your avatar, but am not sure about the woman in the signature line.