Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
So, Mr Bunny informed me to add to the calendar a black tie fundraiser for a well-known D.C. non-profit that feeds homeless. Then he reminded me of a funny anecdote (that seemed appropriate given Mayor Barry's return yet again to public life) from the event a few years ago. One of Mr. Bunny's friends who is a white-shoe D.C. socialite type got up from the table to get a drink and ran into a friend of hers and didn't return from some time. During that time, the other guests at the table got up (the event was winding down for the night) and when she returned to the table she found no one there, and she grabbed her hand bag and headed out. The dining area was largely vacant at that time. On her way home, she reached into her bag to get something out and found a used crack pipe (with resin in it). Mayor Barry had been sitting at a nearby table and to this day, certain attendees still suspect a certain someone stashed the crack pipe in the bag. I wish she'd kept it and had in fingerprinted. Has anyone else ever gone to a black tie dinner and had a used crack pipe stashed in their handbag, and in the dining room, no less!

That's just rude. He could have at least bumped her up for her trouble.

[Replaced_Texan]

Over the weekend, it was reported that three female patients were sexually assaulted last week at one of the big hospitals in the Med Center by a guy who walked into their rooms looking like a medical professional. I know someone who was in the hosptial two days after the last assault having a baby. Another friend is supposed to give birth there sometime in the next three weeks. This whole thing scares the crap out of me.

Patients are already in a pretty vulnerable position, and they have to surrender so much of themselves to their health care practitioners. This guy came in, knew their names, asked a few questions and then told them that he needed to do a pelvic exam. He must have told them that he was a physician, because who else would be doing pelvic exams? He could be anyone, but he looked like he belonged. There's a lot of security in the Med Center, but I know how easy it is to look like you belong, especially since everyone from the janitor to the radiology tech guys to the chief of a clincial department wears scrubs. I have ID badges from four separate institutions in the med center from the various points in my life when I've worked there, and when I was a nurses' aide, I wore the same scrubs as the nurses. The IDs are probably deactivated now, but they still look legitimate. I wouldn't be surprised if he were an ex-employee or even a medical (or nursing or pharmacy or other type of allied health) student or resident. Hell, he could have even been a physician.

So I have a poll question: If someone walked into your hospital room in scrubs with a white coat and a stethescope and said "Hi, I'm Dr. so and so, and I was asked to come in and take a look at you" would you believe them?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

So I have a poll question: If someone walked into your hospital room in scrubs with a white coat and a stethescope and said "Hi, I'm Dr. so and so, and I was asked to come in and take a look at you" would you believe them?

If the first thing he (or she) wants to do is a pelvic exam, I'd start asking questions immediately.

("Okay, go ahead, so long as the exam has a happy ending")

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
So I have a poll question: If someone walked into your hospital room in scrubs with a white coat and a stethescope and said "Hi, I'm Dr. so and so, and I was asked to come in and take a look at you" would you believe them?

Wouldn't it depend on why you're there? You're in for something upper body related and a guy wants to do a pelvic, I'd call for a nurse. And most things that would require you to be in the hospital for anything vaginal-related, birth, hysterectomy, etc. that would have to be one special kind of pervert to want to get up there then- you know? What were the victims in for?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wouldn't it depend on why you're there? You're in for something upper body related and a guy wants to do a pelvic, I'd call for a nurse. And most things that would require you to be in the hospital for anything vaginal-related, birth, hysterectomy, etc. that would have to be one special kind of pervert to want to get up there then- you know? What were the victims in for?

I imagine they were in for ob-gyn related stuff, but the article in the paper said they were in different parts of the hosptial. The article also said that it took the patients awhile to figure out what had happened, so I guess he was sort of clinical about it.

[Shape Shifter]

I smoked ribs. I was able to burn most of the pecan branches in the seperate firebox. The smoke flavor or the pecan wood is similar to hickory, but a little more mellow and complex. The ribs were excellent, and they were well complemented by a cold bottle of Lone Star.

[Replaced_Texan]

Thurgreed, I put out an APB for more furniture for you to check out in NYC. My source is a little furniture crazy, so he gave me every place and designer he likes. The parens are his and he's very envious that you get to go furniture shopping in New York:

stores in nyc:

dune
http://www.dune-ny.com/
(store and furniture manufacturer. american designs to rival italians)

property
http://www.propertyfurniture.com/

Armani Casa
97 Greene St.

bddw
www.bddw.com
(showroom in soho; built in williamsburg; really nice stuff)

room
http://www.roomonline.com
(supposedly this place is huge.)

Rebel Designs
178 Lincoln Pl. (Park Slope/Prospect Hts) near Seventh Ave.
718-636-0414
"This furniture and housewares store imports unusually modern and minimal pieces from India and Asia."

sublime
http://www.sublimeamericandesign.com/

apartment
http://www.theapt.com/

terence conran shop
407 E. 59th St. (Midtown East/Murray Hill) at First Ave.
212-755-9079
this place is HUGE (under queensboro st. bridge)

Troy
138 Greene St. (SoHo/NoHo/Little Italy) near Houston St.
212-941-4777

domus design collection
http://www.ddcnyc.com/

manufacturers
most of these are represented by a dealer or have a showroom in the city.
look on the website for who sells them/where their showroom is

b & b italia
http://www.bebitalia.it

minotti
http://www.minotti.it/

living divani
http://www.livingdivani.it

molteni&c
http://www.molteni.it/

morosso
www.moroso.it/

dune
http://www.dune-ny.com/
(american designs to rival italians)

edra
http://www.edra.com/

cappellini
http://www.cappellini.it/

cassina
http://www.cassina.it/

de la espada
http://www.delaespada.com/

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Thurgreed, I put out an APB for more furniture for you to check out in NYC. My source is a little furniture crazy, so he gave me every place and designer he likes.

Who wants to bet me dinner at the Palm that this source is gay?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Who wants to bet me dinner at the Palm that this source is gay?

I won't go that far. I will bet it wasn't Oscar.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

• The cult of Lebowski has arrived in the Bay Area. That's Lebowski --
  
  as in Jeff Lebowski, the protagonist in the 1998 Coen brothers film, "The Big Lebowski." But please, call him "The Dude."
  
  The movie about a middle-aged stoner/slacker anti-hero played by Jeff Bridges has grown in popularity since its paltry box office debut. And, in only a few years, it has joined that special class of cinema that inspires some fans to go a little nutty.
  
  "Lebowski Fest" -- a celebration of all things Lebowski -- has been held around the country, and a showing of the film Saturday night in a parking lot near Oakland's Jack London Square attracted more than 200 people. Many of those same fans attended a party later at the Oakland arts cooperative Oaklandish, which sponsored the showing, competing in a costume contest and a trivia challenge.

SF Chronicle

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Who wants to bet me dinner at the Palm that this source is gay?

Yeah, but you should see his apartment.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I smoked ribs. I was able to burn most of the pecan branches in the seperate firebox. The smoke flavor or the pecan wood is similar to hickory, but a little more mellow and complex. The ribs were excellent, and they were well complemented by a cold bottle of Lone Star.

Because the branches were kinda small, they got consumed pretty quickly. This was something of a pain in the ass, because I had to check the fire and regulate the temperature regularly, and I couldn't watch as much football as I would have liked. On the other hand, it got me out of doing boring stuff with the gf like shopping for furniture and talking. And the ribs were good.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Because the branches were kinda small, they got consumed pretty quickly. This was something of a pain in the ass, because I had to check the fire and regulate the temperature regularly, and I couldn't watch as much football as I would have liked. On the other hand, it got me out of doing boring stuff with the gf like shopping for furniture and talking. And the ribs were good.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
"Lebowski Fest"

You went to the Lebowski fest. SS cooked ribs. I went to the Folsom Street Fair:

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by LessinSF
You went to the Lebowski fest. SS cooked ribs. I went to the Folsom Street Fair:

Me: the Hofbrauhaus tent in Munich for Oktoberfest:



Prost!