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

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by idle acts
It's basically just croquet. The twist is that you must keep your beer on your person at all times when playing, including when whacking the ball with your mallet. Leads to both drunkeness and creative beer holding technique.

Sounds a little like bowling.

And is it too much to ask just to go home at a reasonable hour on a Friday just once? Just once!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Maybe Atticus can help me here, but does that mean that all of the sacraments peformed in that church are invalidated?

Surprisingly, I have no earthly idea. Sounds like a recockulous superstition to me. Feel free to PM me if you want your ear talked off about the Donatist heresy, though.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by cheval de frise
Oh, and my favorite oppressed animal food is anything caught fleeing after I've set fire to a patch of rain forest.

Okay, now you're just being mean.

It's kinda cool, too.

(I was gonna just say "the anger . . . .", but decided not to.)

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Leinie's aren't bad. First had them in Minnesota, found them at a beer store in Jersey, and was shocked to find a Leinie's brew pub outside of the Diamondbacks stadium.

Leinie's are easy to find in most Chicago-area liquor, grocery and drug stores and they advertise pretty regularly on local radio. Drank it in college as well, as they used to sponsor tailgate tents for football at Playa U (obscure reference to last week's MNF telecast player introductions, bonus points to anyone who knows the school's real name).

They do some nice seasonal brews. Much better than Old Style, which for some reason people here (Cubs fans, mainly) consider a semi-local delicacy... Of the local beers, I prefer the offerings from Goose Island Brewery.

Oh, the swill I drank in HS and college. Coming from a semi-rural area, when I was at home we'd spend time cruising around drinking pretty much anything we could get, including RWB, Stag, generic, Hamms, PBR, Busch, you name it... BTW, I've had Wisconsin Club, and it is NAS-TY!! Used to be like $4 a CASE... aftertaste of raw sewage.

[Jack Manfred]

Pauline Kael would be so proud...

Spree: David Edelstein's partially salacious yet glowing review of the new Bill Murray vehicle Lost in Translation.

She does have quite an eye. The director's Tokyo (and that of her cinematographer, Lance Accord) is all pockets of glowing neon light in the darkness. The movie has few tight close-ups: It's all about the characters' uncertain relationship to the space. Only the movie's first shot is a head-scratcher: a rear view of Johansson on a hotel bed, with her butt crack visible through sheer pink panties as she stares through the window at the high-rises of Tokyo. The meaning of this image is less transparent than Johansson's attire, but my guess is that Coppola wants us to see the whole film as the vaguely erotic dream of an alienated young woman. She wants to make this woman's detachment from this culture, and from her own body, hypnotically sexy, and to put the longing for human connection into your bloodstream from the first frame. But I was mostly thinking about her butt crack.

[leagleaze]

I'm guessng old Prince Akala didn't look closely enough at LawTalkers records.

Just saying...we have neither good records, nor credentials, nor, you know, money.

It is nice to be called President/CEO. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

(I think these are my favorite scam emails.)

And oh, I'll be exporting you all forthwith!



CHIEF AUDITOR-NNPC ATTENTION:THE PRESIDENT/CEO,
My name is PRINCE. JENKINS AKALA . I have taken enough time to study
your personal and business profile through business enquiry.
And I am very much impressed by your good records and credentials.
...

This sum of US $35M which my other
two colleagues and I have discovered are from over-invoicing
and inflated prices. ...We wish to use your facilities for this purpose. Your role is to provide your bank account (preferably your company's account) where we can transfer the funds at once. and I have agreed that you will receive 30% of the total sum ... which may include investment in your country according
to your guide, and exportation of your products to Nigeria according to market viability.

...

Yours Sincerely,

PRINCE. JENKINS AKALA.

[idle acts]

Has this ever happened to you? You are in bed. You cannot sleep. Neither can the person who is supposed to be sleeping next to you. It's not that one of you cannot sleep and the tossing and turning is keeping the other awake. No. It is - spontaneous mutual insomnia.

We tried watching a really bad movie about women in prison. We had sex. We watched some of Bull Durham. We had sex again. We played name that tune. Finally, at 3:30, we got up, got dressed, and went out for waffles.

Then at 5:00 am, sleep. :sleep: If only the alarm had not then gone off at 7:00. . .

[ias_39]

Originally posted by ias_39

In "Laurel Canyon," [Kate Beckinsdale] she seemed like just another fungible blond.

Originally posted by dtb

Blond?!? I've never seen her blonde. (Obviously, didn't see Laurel Canyon...)

I really didn't like Gwynneth Paltrow (except for the Box Hill Scene -- that was perfect...). She wasn't bad, certainly, but Gwynneth Paltrow playing a snob? Now that's a stretch...

Yes, Beckinsdale was brunette; her hair was noticeably darker (maybe black) in the "Underworld" preview, and I remembered wrong.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Pauline Kael would be so proud...

Spree: David Edelstein's partially salacious yet glowing review of the new Bill Murray vehicle Lost in Translation.

She does have quite an eye. The director's Tokyo (and that of her cinematographer, Lance Accord) is all pockets of glowing neon light in the darkness. The movie has few tight close-ups: It's all about the characters' uncertain relationship to the space. Only the movie's first shot is a head-scratcher: a rear view of Johansson on a hotel bed, with her butt crack visible through sheer pink panties as she stares through the window at the high-rises of Tokyo. The meaning of this image is less transparent than Johansson's attire, but my guess is that Coppola wants us to see the whole film as the vaguely erotic dream of an alienated young woman. She wants to make this woman's detachment from this culture, and from her own body, hypnotically sexy, and to put the longing for human connection into your bloodstream from the first frame. But I was mostly thinking about her butt crack.

Scarlett has made ME shiver ever since I saw Ghost World. Mmmmmm, Scarlett Johansson. Mmmmmmmm.

str8.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by idle acts
Has this ever happened to you? You are in bed. You cannot sleep. Neither can the person who is supposed to be sleeping next to you. It's not that one of you cannot sleep and the tossing and turning is keeping the other awake. No. It is - spontaneous mutual insomnia.

We tried watching a really bad movie about women in prison. We had sex. We watched some of Bull Durham. We had sex again. We played name that tune. Finally, at 3:30, we got up, got dressed, and went out for waffles.

Then at 5:00 am, sleep. :sleep: If only the alarm had not then gone off at 7:00. . .

I think you'll find that this happens more frequently around the full moon. This happens to me all the time, my husband calls me a vampire. It happens usually to "lunar" people I am told - lunar being those of us affected by the moon phases. Some people are immune. Perhaps you 2 are both lunar (or lunatics) and that would explain it. Husband never forgets to remind me that there's a full moon.

This affected my mother also - I blame her. Husband is totally immune of course.

[cheval de frise]

Originally posted by bilmore
Okay, now you're just being mean.

It's kinda cool, too.

(I was gonna just say "the anger . . . .", but decided not to.)

I am being mean, but I'm no longer angry. I'm just having fun.

(True to my moniker, I'm a mostly reactive personality. If someone repeatedly pokes sticks between the bars of my cage, I tend to bite back hard in return.)

By the way, it's a good thing that no one who takes the rain forest reaalllly seriously is reading my posts. I wouldn't want a person like that to burst a blood vessel just because of a comment on a silly internet chat board.

Ooops, gotta go. The crispy parrot-on-a-stick is almost done.

CDF

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by idle acts
We tried watching a really bad movie about women in prison.

There are good movies about women in prison?

I frequently have insomnia, so if the person with whom I am sleeping has it it wouldn't be all that unusual for us both to have it.

I've learned, when I am having it on my own to get out of bed so I don't disturb the other person, but sometimes, it seems to disturb them when I do that.

What do people do when they have insomnia and the other person is able to sleep?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by leagleaze
There are good movies about women in prison?

I frequently have insomnia, so if the person with whom I am sleeping has it it wouldn't be all that unusual for us both to have it.

I've learned, when I am having it on my own to get out of bed so I don't disturb the other person, but sometimes, it seems to disturb them when I do that.

What do people do when they have insomnia and the other person is able to sleep?

I usually read when I have insomnia. I usually read to go to sleep during the week too, so reading is my sleep-inducing thing. That's why I'm always looking for good books.

TV can work too, but that usually takes longer than reading. Of course occasionally the books keep me up if I'm really into them, but that is fairly rare.

Oh, and, if nothing else works, sex (if companion in bed) or erotica plus vibrator (if alone) can get me ready for sleep...

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
And I answered "no" to the sex like burning question. I interpreted it as a two-parter: 1) Ever have sex? 2) Do you like burning? Since I couldn't answer yes to both, I answered no.

I've always interpreted the question to refer toeither an STD or a urinary tract infection, hence, I've always answered no.

I didn't take the test this year, but I've done nothing to change my score from years past, so I didn't feel the need.

Tax(I was a baaaaaaad boy)wonk

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
No offense taken, dude. Although, as I recall, you snorted blow from the valley between my breasts, rather than from my breasts themselves.

Bn'B

Every time I see your signature, I think of bed n' breakfast. Which, now that I think of, it rather appropos for this crowd.