Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Oh, c'mon, admit it -- Blacksburg just grew on you. One of these days, that Agricultural Science degree will pay off.

Don't knock fountain DDP at the Taco Bell, baby.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Oh, c'mon, admit it -- Blacksburg just grew on you. One of these days, that Agricultural Science degree will pay off.

Fuck Virginia. They won't let gays marry, yet they offer classes in Animal Husbandry at VaTech. You tell me which is more depraved.

Special proviso to my advice --- I assume the program isn't offering teaching positions in "small towns" in Fairfax County. I was thinking more about Assawoman, Ballsville, Onancock, Dyke, Bumpass, or Pilgrims Knob.

[str8outavannuys]

Thank you Jason Terry and Michael Finley and Jason Terry. We're back on serve, baby. Though Mike James still scares the piss out of me. And they need to keep abusing Yao on the defensive end the way they did in Game 2. But I'm off the ledge . . . at least one foot.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Love those Ditty Bops. Especially the hot one.

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It's even better when the hot one does a little burlesque/Charleston thing. But seriously, the Ditty Bops play Cafe du Nord regularly. That's a $10 cab ride, another $10 for the cover, and less than that for the whisky. ACL tix are something like $80 (which is a steal) plus plane fare. What are the odds of seeing New Order or Bloc Party in Austin?

Oh, by the way, those in SF who are not taking advantage of the SF Jazz Festival are squandering one of the great resources of this City.

I missed the Ozon film at the SF Int'l Film Festival, but saw (the reformed) American Music Club perform their original score to the silent film Street Angel last weekend. Pretty amazing. Everything else in this year's program seemed to focus on gay cowboys eating pudding.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Fuck Virginia. They won't let gays marry, yet they offer classes in Animal Husbandry at VaTech. You tell me which is more depraved.

Special proviso to my advice --- I assume the program isn't offering teaching positions in "small towns" in Fairfax County. I was thinking more about Assawoman, Ballsville, Onancock, Dyke, Bumpass, or Pilgrims Knob.

Word.

Hank, I think you've already received some good advice for your NZ friend. NotBob is right that the college towns of NC (or near to them) are probably best. VA college towns a close second, then Athens, GA.

SC has no college towns.

Keep in mind when receiving advice from Southerners about various Southern towns that provincialism is almost genetic, and even where there's no objective basis for saying so, you'll still have to listen to long diatribes about how (say) Virginians comprise the sole constitutents of couth below the Mason-Dixon, yet just to the south North Carolinians struggle to escape their mongoloid history.

If coastal towns are a remote possibility, try near Charleston or Savannah. The antebellum history and architecture are interesting, the coast is the coast, and the people and culture are exasperating only if you take them too seriously. When viewed through the right perspective, they can be quite amusing, in a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sort of way.

Charlotte is a prosperous city, made more cosmopolitan in recent years by the Yankee influx from the banks. Yet, sadly, what Charlotte wants to be most of all is Atlanta. Despite its abundance of churches, Charlotte has little soul.

Asheville and its environs are cool in a hippie-dippie sense.

Atticus is probably right that while there are distinctions to be made among small towns in each of these states, odds are that a sophisticated foreign worker on an extended teaching tour will be unsatisfied with any of them.

But no matter what you do, don't let your friend go to Atlanta. God, what a pit.


Gattigap

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Guess-the-Google

I think I would have to be pretty bored to try that one. Like, I would have to be bored enough to do a sex change on myself with a Swiss Army knife, then change it back first.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I think I would have to be pretty bored to try that one. Like, I would have to be bored enough to do a sex change on myself with a Swiss Army knife, then change it back first.

You complain that your firm's IT department has only recently mastered stone tools, and yet you are too cool to try new things. Physician, heal thyself.

[Skeks in the city]

I'm not surprised Jeniffer Wilbanks, the runaway bride, bailed on fiance John Mason. I'm surprised she hooked up with him in the first place.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
I'm not surprised Jeniffer Wilbanks, the runaway bride, bailed on fiance John Mason. I'm surprised she hooked up with him in the first place.

Me too, seeing as how he's a Jets fan and all.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Whoa. A Friday afternoon smackdown. Sounds like someone doesn't believe the whole "I'm likeable enough that a real live woman is willing to marry me" story. Which hand have you been calling Sequels again, Coltrane?

The left. I can't fool myself with the right. It's just too familiar.

[Not Bob]

Looks like the mystery has been solved. I received this via email, with no message (other than the fact that my firm's network crashed when I opened the email):



(fine. it's from www.gawker.com, illustrating an article about a recent NYT feature on hipster porn)

[sunnybunny]

If anyone can tell me where I can buy a green gibbon stuffed animal, I'll um give you a present. I have photos available if you want to see what I'm talking about....i'm just too stupid to figure out how to post.

TIA


Bunny

[ABBAKiss]

I loved the hookah. Banana tobacco, and looking forward to white grape, caramel apple, and tropical fruit. HOOKAH!!!!

Now: Smoking jackets. What kind of smoking jackets would be really cool to hookah in?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Looks like the mystery has been solved. I received this via email, with no message (other than the fact that my firm's network crashed when I opened the email):



(fine. it's from www.gawker.com, illustrating an article about a recent NYT feature on hipster porn)

This needs to be somebody's avatar.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Jenna Bush is not hot.

http://images.phun.org/phun/pics/news/jenna_beach.jpg

spree: Jenna changing clothes on the beach. Link takes you to a not-so-safe for work site and you have to find the line on Jenna changing.


TM