A frolic in Cambodia

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Oh deer god. Look what I halve started.

This reminds me that no one ever answered my question on whether "mispeling vyrus" (as used in Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots") is the correct British spelling.

[Jack Manfred]

Official Female Singer of the FB (tm) Neko Case released a live album The Tigers Have Spoken on Tuesday.

You can download mp3s (legally, if that's important to you), here.

This album is more uptempo, so if you're more of a fan of Neko's work with Official Band of the FB (tm), The New Pornographers, you'll probably like this.

Elliott Smith's posthumous release from a basement on the hill is also worth a listen.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Are you sure that's not denial? Or a white lie? Because I have never known anyone who had a baby and didn't go up at least 1 shoe size.

I will throw a "2" out to AG's statement. After two pregnancies my wife's feet are the same size as pre-pregnancy. I can't imagine her turning down an opportunity to buy new shoes if her old shoes had gotten uncomfortable.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Quick question. still keeping the pubes shaved?

That was just a phase. It ended when I stopped painting my toenails.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I have a lot of friends that are with child right now. I am horriied to have discovered that their shoe size has changed as their due dates appears. Apparently, they're not guaranteed to fit in their old shoes once the kids arrive. That is troublesome to me and makes me reconsider my previous statements about maybe wanting to have kids some day.

ETA: and the people who have been pregnant confirm this. damnit. my feet are big enough as it is.

While I was pregnant, my firm insitituted a No-open-backed-shoe policy. I declared myself exempt from the tyranny.

And you know what? I'll accept the slightly larger feet in exchange for the comfort that my breasts still look fabulous.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
How much are they supposed to grow in nine months?

Holy shit I'm so nervous about Bush reinstating the draft!

Good to have you back old man.

[dtb]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
I will throw a "2" out to AG's statement. After two pregnancies my wife's feet are the same size as pre-pregnancy. I can't imagine her turning down an opportunity to buy new shoes if her old shoes had gotten uncomfortable.

Were the children xy? It's a old wives' tale, but the lore goes that you swell up with girl babies, and not with boys. All my offspring are xy, and my shoe size is the same. Actually, maybe I've gone up 1/2 a size since adolescence, but pregnancy had nothing to do with it.

[Alex_de_Large]

Comments in "spoiler white":

Much better episode than last week, which I thought was full of cliches. I really liked Sawyer's back story. Gives nice perspective, though I hope he doesn't become a "good guy" as the result of all of this. He's a pretty good asshole character. In any event, he's be physically week for a while. it was interesting, too, how Kate seemed to enjoy kissing him.

The torture scenes were pretty intense, and I loved Sawyer's line about having just been tortured by a "spinal surgeon and a gin-u-wine Eye-raqi." I also liked the fat guy's line about being a big guy and not wanting to give him a piggy back any time soon. Funny stuff.

All in all, I like where things are going, though I'm a bit surprised that we haven't seen the dinosaurs/big-ass creatures lately.

Next week's episode, with the mysterious person apparently kidnapping Sayid, looks promising.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
my firm insitituted a No-open-backed-shoe policy.

Has there ever been a thread about dumb firm policies?

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal had a story about office furniture that improves as you get promoted. It remined me of my big firm, which gave leather chairs to partners, and cloth upholstered chairs to associates.

It was okay while I was still at the main office, but then my group was shifted to a satellite. We got the older furniture. My first upholstered chair had the arms worn through at several spots.

I was working tons of hours, and the thought of having a beat chair because I was an associate in some suburban office bugged me, so I started bugging the office manager. I was coming back from lunch one day when I catch her sneaking my old beat chair out and rolling in another. The "new" chair was vinyl (!) and had several cuts in the vinyl. Worse- it was on those futuristic long-backed things, and was a kind of orange.

I took it as a fuck you, and decided the only possible response was to embrace it and treasure it. I promised myself I would keep using it once I made partner. Of course, around the office there were 4 or 5 unused "visiting partner" offices with unused leather chairs.

At the time I was considering leaving, the firm has a sale of old stored furniture. That is, furniture it had been paying to store. They had retreated from several Florida offices and had all this excess furniture that had been stored for years. I went to the sale and the dim fucks had been paying to store about 50 leather chairs for all that time. It helped me finalize my decision to leave.

Thinking back, I still don't get the effort to make younger lawyers feel second class. A firm should make its young feel confident and capable. It just seems to me all the reinforcements that an associate isn't "up to snuff" simply hurts that lawyer ability to feel he can bring in new clients, or walk into a courtroom and do a good job, or whatever.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
leather festish

O.K., fine. YOU take spooky's jacket.

aV

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Comments in "spoiler white":

Much better episode than last week, which I thought was full of cliches. I really liked Sawyer's back story. Gives nice perspective, though I hope he doesn't become a "good guy" as the result of all of this. He's a pretty good asshole character. In any event, he's be physically week for a while. it was interesting, too, how Kate seemed to enjoy kissing him.

The torture scenes were pretty intense, and I loved Sawyer's line about having just been tortured by a "spinal surgeon and a gin-u-wine Eye-raqi." I also liked the fat guy's line about being a big guy and not wanting to give him a piggy back any time soon. Funny stuff.

All in all, I like where things are going, though I'm a bit surprised that we haven't seen the dinosaurs/big-ass creatures lately.

Next week's episode, with the mysterious person apparently kidnapping Sayid, looks promising.

The actor who plays Sawyer can't help but overact. It's annoying. I keep getting the feeling that he is enormously pleased with himself for some reason (the actor, not the character, that is). He grates on my nerves.

What's with the pale-ass prego chick who just loves to spend all her time on the beach? It's clear she's never seen the sun. How does she manage to stay so pale when it's clear they are filming outside all the time? Lay off the spf for like 10 minutes. Damn.

I like Sayid. I'm glad they didn't make him into the stereotype of what we think an Iraqi would be. It was silly that he had tortured people before when he was essentially a communications officer in the Republican Guard, though. I wonder how many people who despise Iraqis in general were cheering for Sayid when he was fighting with Sawyer.

Isn't it weird that they have no gay character?

TM

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
ETA: and the people who have been pregnant confirm this. damnit. my feet are big enough as it is.

Peggy Hill?

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Kenneth Turan does movie reviews for Morning Edition on NPR and he did a promo for the book. It sounded like a good read, and when I break down on my book buying moratorium, I'll pick it up.

I would almost swear that the first time I read this, it said that Turan did a porno for the book. But that wouldn't make any sense, now, would it, and even thinking it runs contrary to that mental discipline stuff I heard somebody wailing about earlier...

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Fugee
This reminds me that no one ever answered my question on whether "mispeling vyrus" (as used in Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots") is the correct British spelling.

That is not the correct modern British spelling. They say "mispelling" and "virus" just like we do. I am not familiar enough with Olde English to tell you whether that would have been correct 700 years ago.

And a word of advice: don't trust anyone whose first or last name begins with two consonants. I once knew a Ffyona and she was a total bitch. And a Llewellyn, who, although hot, was dishonest. I don't know this Fforde character, but be careful.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by dtb
Were the children xy? It's a old wives' tale, but the lore goes that you swell up with girl babies, and not with boys. All my offspring are xy, and my shoe size is the same. Actually, maybe I've gone up 1/2 a size since adolescence, but pregnancy had nothing to do with it.

No, both of the kids are XX, but, according to those in the know, my wife looked like she was carrying a boy both times.