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

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me.
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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
New board motto?

What is with your fascination with colored people?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
for real or in your head? I have had some funny experiences with shrooms. I don't know if this is common, but we used to eat shrooms at the tail end of the buzz from X so it was easier. One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me. And once I think there was some hallucinogenic stuff mixed in with my X because this girl's face suddenly became plaid. It stayed that way for a long time. I even remember the tartan. It was like pastel blue and dark blue. weird.

these days generally I just talk to the purple man sitting under my desk because I am chicken about getting caught and getting deported.

In college, I went with my then boyfriend to see Pink Floyd. We ate mushrooms. Not more than 15 minutes into the concert, I turned to him and said "I have to go...there are pigs in the air". Now, there were actually gigantic inflatable pigs in the air. He told me so. I told him that I was aware that they were really there, but the fact that they were there meant that I had to go.

After a long pause, while he looked at me intently, I believed he understood. Then he sighed and said "Do I have to go too?"

I told him no, trotted down to my favorite bar, and enjoyed the evening shrooming, in public, without him.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Not thinskinned. Just a reality check that there are two kinds of posters- those that post something that contributes to the community, and those who sit in the audience and heckle .

I used to think the world was divided into two kinds of people. People who took acid and those who didnt. Now I realize it is divided between the entertainers and the hecklers from the audiecne (actually there is a third group, the plain old audience, but they dont actulaly post so are not on my radar).

1. Heckling's easy. You say something snide quickly and people think its witty. Its cheap, its easy and it makes the heckler feel like he's one of the cool kids. Hell, I do it all the time when I'm talking to a boring people. Its an easy way to keep shifting topics so you never have to have that awkward moment of realizzation that you and "Carl, from accounting" and "Bill, from risk management" and their fat little wives have utterly nothing in common. Heckling is also learned. The best hecklers steal liberally from television. Watch this board - what often passes for witty comeback is someone mimicing sitcom snipes in both delivery and subject matter. To their credit, hecklers recognize just how much of comedy is contingent on timing. But its still cheap humor.

2. People are still divided by those who goton the bus and those who didn't. There's a certain recognition of things that those who've ridden the bus always have, whether they want it or not. Those who haven't ridden the bus will never have it. Its a real life event, and it does alter you, for the better. I can still recall the day I opened the curtain and realized "Hey, fuck, there's a lot going on the ordinary conscious mind misses..." Its all good. Everyone needs to got there from time to time. I'd make tripping a 4X a year mandatory act if I were emporer. People have a hard time hurting one another when they can't even properly operate their bodies, let alone weapons.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
He did just fine.

Oh, that was a good one. Did he get his horns wet?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
One time I was certain there was a purple man sitting in a urinal who was talking to me.
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What is with your fascination with colored people?

Anti-dentite

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
for real or in your head?

For real. And I ain't even lying. Actually, I didn't get close enough to it to fully confirm its pig status. But it was long, low, and grunted while rooting around the ground at the bottom of the hill I was standing on. It was a good night. Earlier, a non-trippin' friend completely mind-fucked me with a camara flash unit. Later, I saw a trannie who had to go at least 6'6" walking down a random suburban street.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
In college, I went with my then boyfriend to see Pink Floyd. We ate mushrooms. Not more than 15 minutes into the concert, I turned to him and said "I have to go...there are pigs in the air". Now, there were actually gigantic inflatable pigs in the air. He told me so. I told him that I was aware that they were really there, but the fact that they were there meant that I had to go.

After a long pause, while he looked at me intently, I believed he understood. Then he sighed and said "Do I have to go too?"

I told him no, trotted down to my favorite bar, and enjoyed the evening shrooming, in public, without him.

Thus violating the one rule of drug use that I always took very seriously -- never split away from the party group. Especially important for X and hallucinogens.

Glad it worked out for you though. Pigs actually flying would be quite freaky.

I have a date with my new 28 year old boyfriend (e/o and I were discussing whether this makes me a Jag-ooo-are or a Lynx since I am not old enough to be a Cougar) on Trhusday and will miss yet another episdoe of survivor. can soeone tape it for me and mail it to me (ncs????).

Originally posted by evenodds
Have any African-Americans ever done even passably well on a reality tv show?

a black woman won a sruvivor. it was the survivor nobody remebers though. Must have been the OUtback where nobody hd to swim.

"all realtiy all the time, except when hurling one liners"

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Now that I think about it, the requirement was for the student to tread water for a certain amount of time, fully clothed, while holding a brick over his/her head.

That is part of the red cross' test to become a certified lifeguard and it's ten minutes of brickholding. All of the black persons in the lifeguard class I took eons ago failed, but I don't care to generalize that sample to the rest of the population.

RE papers - I double dipped on several political philosphy papers - the Plato's Republic paper got used three times if I'm not mistaken.

RE dreams - I used to have the recurring never-been-to-class-and-thought-I-dropped-it-but-the-drop-didn't-go-through-in-the-computer dream quite often - it was always a lawschool class. In undergrad I usually had a similar dream that involved birth control pills not having been taken when in fact, they were. This week I dreamed that I lived in the dorm of some college in the mountains and my baby was a little pug dog. ???

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Ollie (in high school, I was chased by a wild pig while shroomin') Ramone
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A real pig? I had to chase down a friend's roomate who was being chased by imaginary giant bugs and running around campus (Cullen Fountain) nekkid on a bad trip. Turns out nekkid tripping lunatics can run really fast. (OK - now I see it was a real pig).

To Ann - I hear "colored" used by my older clients who mean no harm. I don't think they know what term to use either.

Anyone else think an intervention is in order to wean PP off reality shows?

I think I'm caught up now.

-T(phew!)L

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I have a date with my new 28 year old boyfriend (e/o and I were discussing whether this makes me a Jag-ooo-are or a Lynx since I am not old enough to be a Cougar) on Trhusday and will miss yet another episdoe of survivor. can soeone tape it for me and mail it to me (ncs????).

no vcr. repeat with me... tivo.

I haven't watched it at all this season, tho I think it made it onto the tivo last week. Survivor is more of a wait until there are less than 8 people to remember sort or show for me anyway. And then I usually just catch a minute here or there then watch the final episode. I'm a skimmer.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Oh, that was a good one. Did he get his horns wet?

Only enough to rinse off Christ's blood, presumably.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Thus violating the one rule of drug use that I always took very seriously -- never split away from the party group. Especially important for X and hallucinogens.

Glad it worked out for you though. Pigs actually flying would be quite freaky.

Second.

Also, there should be a coach involved. I mean, what would have happened if a flying pig attacked and you wanted to jump over the building to escape?

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Well, I don't know what else to call them. African-American doesn't seem quite right because most are not African or American. Some are African, others are various islanders (Haiti, T&T, Aruba) with green cards. Privately the SO and I use tan, since he is tanner than I am, but I don't want to offend anyone in FB land.

So what is the PC phrase du jour?

Cant wait to see Thurgrteed on this one. I call them cafe au lait myslf. or yummy caramel goodness.

[baltassoc]

In my last semester in college I had final papers due on the same day in four different classes. I picked the wrong one to be be late on. The professor had given a 5 pm deadline; by 7:30 pm he was on an airplane to his native South Africa, never to return to the US. He could have let us know that he really, really meant it.

After much nashing of teeth, the head of the department graded the paper and gave me an A, at least a grade higher than the prof would have given me. I got word the day before graduation.

I had another professor for several classes for whom a paper on homosexuality = A. Boosted my GPA by at least a couple of tenths.

As to black people swimming, it's got to be experiential. Growing up, I swam competitively. There were not a whole lot of black kids on the teams, but the fastest swimmer I've ever known personally was black. He had about 1% body fat, too. He could have tread water for days. I think I had a little man crush on him: great athelete, very very smart, funny, all around nice guy.