Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[ThurgreedMarshall]

So, is there anything you love this much that you would take this kind of paycut for?

Newsday article
For the Love of Legos

Why would a successful corporate lawyer abandon his career to earn $13 an hour playing with plastic blocks? Nathan Sawaya will be only too happy to tell you.



Sawaya desired Legoland.

Don't laugh. The theme park is real, believe it or not, on a 128-acre plot 30 miles north of San Diego. (There are three others, all in Europe, but Sawaya's dreams go only so far.) There, Lego diehards - and there are Lego diehards - can roam a world of intricate statues and colorful figurines, all made from the tiny plastic blocks.

"It's a mecca," says Sawaya, who visited a couple of years ago. "The greatest thing I've ever seen." Yet, in his dreams, Sawaya did not simply tour the park, an experience accessible to anyone with $41.95 and some free time. No, Sawaya's fantasy was to spend his mornings, noons and nights behind the magic wall in a corner of Legoland where six lucky men and women, known in the park as Master Builders, are paid to build and build and build and build and build. In case you misunderstand, here's their job description: Build - with Legos.'

For the, oh, 73,103rd time, he is asked whether he'd really, truly, honestly, sincerely consider leaving his serious adult life in New York. Leaning back in his chair, Sawaya smiles..."Let me put it this way," he says. "If I were offered the Lego gig, I'd be making five times less than my current salary. I'd be leaving a city I love, and my girlfriend and I haven't even worked out the logistics. It's be a whole new world to me, and it'd be scary."

Sawaya pauses. "In other words," he says, "absolutely. In a millisecond."

Follow up question: FB Ladies, would you date a guy who had a roomful of LEGOS and seemed obsessed to this extent?

Newsday article
But in college, especially in the too-cool-for-words city of New York, how would people react to an 18-year-old college student fiddling with a boy's bricks? Sawaya messed with Legos in the privacy of his dorm room, but nobody except his roommates knew. Through four undergrad years and three at NYU law, it was was pretty much his secret.

"Let's just say it doesn't get you a lot of dates," he says. "People [would] think you're a little strange ... a little off."

http://www.newsday.com/features/

Some of his stuff is pretty cool, like the life-sized Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

http://nathanbrickartist.com/

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you ever notice? Ities are the only ethnic group that can freely insulted here. You can't even make fun of hindus, but Italians, katie bar the door.

You are an idiot. I wasn't making fun of Italians. I was making fun of him (and it had nothing to do with his Italianness). Pull your head out of your ass.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I'm sorry, pong sucked. Boring as hell.

Yes, but have you mastered intergalactic travel?

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Some of his stuff is pretty cool, like the life-sized Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

Pretty cool...

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
and pong. Where is the love for pong?

edited to add a sarcasm alert for the impaired.

A few years ago I bought a Magnavox Odyssey on eBay. I was looking for an Atari 2600 but couldn't find one that worked that had the games I wanted.

I still have a fondness for Nintendo, but only because I managed to save Zelda. That feat bought me some street cred with the kids at the camp I worked at.

My favorite arcade game was a driving game. Grand Prix racer I think it was called. Very pong-like in that it was like driving at night. Just a simple black screen with the guardrail and the road lines flying by.

The only current game I'll plunk quarters down for is Downhill Racer.

I wonder, do furries play video games?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Very funny, tiger. See you at the Mensa meeting? I'll be wearing those boots.

Woo Hoo!!! I do love the boots. They make smart sooooo sexxy.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So, is there anything you love this much that you would take this kind of paycut for?

Yes, but there's the on-going problem of the mortgage, the student loans, the need to eat. So, realistically, I guess the answer is no.

Follow up question: FB Ladies, would you date a guy who had a roomful of LEGOS and seemed obsessed to this extent?

TM

No. This truly frightens me.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by evenodds
I really enjoyed it. I was not in on the discussion when it premiered, since I had not yet seen it.

It was really well done . . . the acting was exquisite.

It was very painful to watch at times because it reminded me of the bad old days of the disease. We lost most of our family friends and my beloved nanny early.

Basically, the play was a brilliant piece of art and the movie translated it beautifully.

I enjoyed it a lot. I, too, thought it was incredibly well acted. However, there was so very much of it. I felt overwhelmed, even with it cut into two parts. I'd like to wait a month or so and watch it again, just to see how much I missed the first time out.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Darlin', you're confusing the subject of your flirtation again.

Remember, Wonk is the round-countenanced tax lawyer who resembles a blue button. I'm the one with the fur, tail, martini, and killer sound system.

And leave the boots. You know they get in the way.

Back off, young one. I eat punks like you on toast. And don't fuck with the boots.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You are an idiot. I wasn't making fun of Italians. I was making fun of him (and it had nothing to do with his Italianness). Pull your head out of your ass.

TM

whiff- it was a fucking joke, the hindu should have been a tip. Italian (either as a group/ or of individuals) jokes are fine by me, you are authorized to make such jokes. By the way Not Me will jump on your post- prediction.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Skulls have tongues?

First of all, the saying comes from less' skullfucking of paigow. So, it would still be attached to her head and might be totally intact when he did so.

Second of all, it was in response to leagle's "the nose wouldn't be satisfying" quote. So, it should be clear that no one was talking about a skeleton-type skull.

Third of all, you might want to check, but I'm pretty sure you have a skull right now! Do you have a tongue?

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Lego/Star Wars stuff

I can only imagine that if, through some internet quirk, an acned 13 year old guy from a Dungeons and Dragons internet chat room stumbled across our site in the last couple of days, he would read for about five minutes, think to himself "Holy shit those guys are geeks," throw his twelve sided die in the trash, and go outside and take up lacrosse.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bilmore
Okay, so this guy really disliked it.

Comments on his comments?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...vdxsh.asp?pg=2

I think he's wrong about its ability to stand the test of time, and I think it was as compelling as Fellowship. I'm not a Tolkien purist (I've only read the books twice), and clearly he has issues with some of the choices that Jackson made. The battle of Minas Tirith was phenomenal and emotionally compelling. I have no idea ift any homoerotic subtext between Sam and Frodo is intentional, but the relationship has understandably deepened as they go deeper into Mordor, and I didn't find it any more than a natural progression of the bond they reiterated in their final scenes in both Fellowship and the Two Towers. I didn't have any problems at all with the pacing or the battles.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Cantinflas
translation: During the summer of my 12th year my mamma locked me in room for 3 months. I spent the time playing atari and turning japanese.

Penske, if you're going to steal my shit, at least make it amusing.

TM

[purse junkie]

Busted for auto insurance fraud in CA:

http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20031...tafuocodc.html

Now, that stud is one classy guy.