Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Well, in the Beginning was the Curd, and the Curd was with God, and the Curd was God.

And the People saw that the Curd was good, and so God became the Whey


/S/ Taxwonk, Esq.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
We've got some questions for you:

Why all the pain and suffering in the world?
If you're omnicient, why did you forget to change the subject line?
Shouldn't the big guy have a really primo avatar?

Your humble though somewhat rebellious servant,

Dr. G

Why ask Her? She hasn't really run things here in years.

[leagleaze]

I am thinking Satan cannot be too far behind. Sooner or later God will throw Him from the kingdom of heaven and we'll be gifted with the result.

Welcome God, don't leave the bush burning on your way out ok? Oh and watch out for those tablet shards.

Thanks.


Oh, apropos of nothing, went to a comedy club this weekend and the headliner was this woman Grandma Lee or something like that. I figured, as I saw this little hunched figure approach the stage, that it was someone in makeup. But no, sure enough, it was this little old lady. Her tag line was "I don't give a shit."

I guess she went for about 45 minutes give or take. At first I found her very funny, but for maybe the last 15 minutes I found myself wishing she would shut up with her not giving a shit.


She ended with this cheesy poem she has been doing since 9/11. Went over quite well in Harrisburg of course but come on, aren't we supposed to be laughing here?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Oh, apropos of nothing, went to a comedy club this weekend and the headliner was this woman Grandma Lee or something like that. I figured, as I saw this little hunched figure approach the stage, that it was someone in makeup. But no, sure enough, it was this little old lady. Her tag line was "I don't give a shit."

I guess she went for about 45 minutes give or take. At first I found her very funny, but for maybe the last 15 minutes I found myself wishing she would shut up with her not giving a shit.

I saw Chris Rock this weekend. Very entertaining. I particularly liked his The Government Hates Rap portion (riffed on how murders of rappers are never solved and then talked about how only good rappers get killed - "Biggie, dead; Tupac, dead; but Master P is still around").

I recommend.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I saw Chris Rock
I recommend.

Chris Rock is great.

Apropos of, um, today, I guess. Did he do his bit on MLK Boulevard? Classic.

Rock tells of a white friend of his who told him that he was on a street called Martin Luther King and asked what he should do, Chris Rock answered, "Run!"

"Martin Luther King, a man of non-violence. Now I don't care where you live in America, but if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, you know there's some violence going on."

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by spookyfish


Maybe someone can refresh my memory, but didn't the NFL eliminate the off week between the Conference Championship games and the Super Bowl when they lenghtened the season, or am I imagining things? Why is the Super Bowl two weeks away this year?

It's varied in recent years. The constraints the league faces are not wanting to start in august (or maybe it's before labor day weekend) and not wanting to end in February, but wanting 17 weeks in the regular season. It faced the additional constraint of christmas in some years, and not wanting to have playoff games on christmas eve. So, they mix it all up, and in some years had only a single week between the playoffs and super bowl. This year, the superbowl in Feb. (for the second time, and the first not because of 9/11), so they could take the exta week off. In past years, the game would have been played on Jan. 25. (And if you look at the date of the super bowl, it was already a week later than in most of the 80s.)

(Also, the year of 9/11, the game was scheduled for only a one-week break, which is why they had to push the date back, and -- presumably -- pay some major cheese to the car dealers, who had their convention scheduled for that week in N.O.)

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I figured, as I saw this little hunched figure approach the stage, that it was someone in makeup. But no, sure enough, it was this little old lady. Her tag line was "I don't give a shit."

* * *

She ended with this cheesy poem she has been doing since 9/11. Went over quite well in Harrisburg of course but come on, aren't we supposed to be laughing here?

Oh man, that story just made me incredibly depressed.

O.K., I'm over it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Funny you should ask. Just this weekend I bought a large lot of them from a Brown "clean out the archives" sale. Of course the one of your mother I'm sending to you, for the sake of decorum*. I am going to post your "auntie" on the webpage "everwonderwhatdebslookedlikebackinthedaynaked.com" Unless her family gives me 10000, of course.

* stain was there when I got it.

I believe this is a good article by Ron Rosenbaum, originally published in the NYT Magazine, about the posture pictures. I say "believe" because it's not credited to him, but I have his book and think this is his article.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I believe this is a good article by Ron Rosenbaum, originally published in the NYT Magazine, about the posture pictures. I say "believe" because it's not credited to him, but I have his book and think this is his article.

I suppose dry, learned analysis is one way to treat a bunch of photos of naked college kids. But I can't help thinking that the study might have been more compelling if the Girls Gone Wild franchise had gotten involved.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I suppose dry, learned analysis . . . .

I wouldn't know, because I only read Rosenbaum's piece.

[Atticus Grinch]

Thanks to a couple of more rousing games of Vodka Couch (curse you, Couch!), I think I've now downloaded from the Apple Music Store every single good song ever created by Western civilization. I'm running dangerously low on unattained materials --- let's put it this way, last night I downloaded RFTW's "Digital Display" when I was bored, listless, and apparently quite vulnerable.

So now I ask you: Name a song I've never heard that every living person should hear at least once before dying.

I realize the way I phrased the poll, I'm not required to answer, but if it were about you, my answer would be "Blue" by The Jayhawks.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thanks to a couple of more rousing games of Vodka Couch (curse you, Couch!), I think I've now downloaded from the Apple Music Store every single good song ever created by Western civilization. I'm running dangerously low on unattained materials --- let's put it this way, last night I downloaded RFTW's "Digital Display" when I was bored, listless, and apparently quite vulnerable.

So now I ask you: Name a song I've never heard that every living person should hear at least once before dying.

I realize the way I phrased the poll, I'm not required to answer, but if it were about you, my answer would be "Blue" by The Jayhawks.

The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thanks to a couple of more rousing games of Vodka Couch (curse you, Couch!), I think I've now downloaded from the Apple Music Store every single good song ever created by Western civilization. I'm running dangerously low on unattained materials --- let's put it this way, last night I downloaded RFTW's "Digital Display" when I was bored, listless, and apparently quite vulnerable.

So now I ask you: Name a song I've never heard that every living person should hear at least once before dying.

I realize the way I phrased the poll, I'm not required to answer, but if it were about you, my answer would be "Blue" by The Jayhawks.

Dar Williams "When I Was A Boy."

[ThrashersFan]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108867,00.html

To the dismay of aging punk fans, a British television company announced Monday that the former Sex Pistols singer and angry punk icon -- now known by his real name, John Lydon -- has agreed to appear in the reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"

"I'm a Celebrity," which begins its third latest run Jan. 26 on the commercial ITV network, strands C-list celebs in the Australian jungle, subjects them to a series of icky trials involving spiders and snakes and allows the public to vote them off the show one by one.

Alongside Lydon, the lineup includes a topless model named Jordan, former Olympic 400-meter runner Diane Modahl, '80s pop pinup Peter Andre, and Lord Brocket, an aristocrat jailed in 1996 for insurance fraud. They're joined by a member of a girl group, a former soccer player, a former soccer player's wife, a former BBC royal correspondent and a former radio DJ.


Why have I not seen this yet on BBCAmerica? I bet it beats our US version by a mile.

Should something this good be hoarded by the Brits?

[evenodds]

This week, I would say:

No One Will, Cody ChesnuTT