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

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Great. Now I'm going to have to go back and reread these too?

It won't be too much trouble. They are much shorter.

Are there any other books from our childhood they are going to be tackling soon?

[evenodds]

NASCAR Fan Faces Prison Time for E-mails

By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - A NASCAR fan faces up to a year in prison for flooding Fox Entertainment with more than a half-million e-mails because he was angry the network aired a Boston Red Sox game instead of an auto race.

Full story: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...scar_angry_fan

[lawyer_princess]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I've actually been to Sedona and thought it was beautiful.

I would have thought you'd be bored. And annoyed by all the New Age crap.

Just this past weekend we went to Brian Head, Utah for a couple of days. Also very beautiful, but I hadn't been skiing in a while and I forgot that I don't enjoy it. Everyone else did, though, even my five year old. Actually, both my kids are amazing skiers. I hung out by the pool and read a lot, so it was pretty relaxing. My only complaint was that the altitude got to me after a while.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Do you remember the LSAT? Try this one:

Question:
White Stripes: Elephant

Answer:
The Clash: Sandinista

There were analogies on the LSAT when you took it? Was there also a Test of Standard Written English?

r(standardized test timmy)p

p.s. I recognize that it might have been intentional and want to spare you the need to say so.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by evenodds
It won't be too much trouble. They are much shorter.

Are there any other books from our childhood they are going to be tackling soon?

They're not from our childhood but on the theme of kid-oriented fantasy, I read somewhere a while back that the Golden Compass movies are in the works too. It will be interesting to see how they tackle the daemons.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
See, now this whole overtime thing gets me anxious, particularly w/r/t the Leafs. My concern is that the Leafs are going to play every series into 7 games, every game into overtime, players will be overextended and get injured, and the team will be exhausted and spent before (or even if) they make it to the finals and go out on a sucky, loserish note. And, wait, I think we've seen this movie before ... yes, yes we have!

Well, there are people that think the Leafs should never get a cup, because it would ruin their mystique.

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_0...ity/leafs.html

I would beg to differ.
There was a guy at the game last night holding up a sign saying that the Leafs were "God's Team". Which struck me as very funny. Would Jonas Hogland be part of God's team in his fantasy pool? I don't think so.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Do you remember the LSAT? Try this one:

Question:
White Stripes: Elephant

Answer:
The Clash: Sandinista

I assume you finished in the 30 percentile.

S(Are you a graduate of Hollywood Upstairs Law College, too?)D

[AngryMulletMan]

Gattigap, that's just one of the many attractions of Des Moines. I don't know if they're still doing it, but they used to have a street race in the summer called the Des Moines Grand Prix.

Participants were invited to race through the downtown streets.

Most of the winners were driving a Camaro. I think a Mustang driver won once.

The promoters were hoping for a high Trans Am concentration.

The only event I liked more was the annual Shriner's convention. Gosh, was that twisted -- hordes of drunken clowns terrorizing the city in those tiny, tiny cars.

AM(drink up, Shriner!)M

[Atticus Grinch]

Has anyone recommended "Lucky" on FX yet? I saw the pilot last night, and laughed harder than I've laughed since the sexual harassment episode of "The Office." The scene where John Corbett is trying to give CPR to The Trache through a straw was hilarious.

I do find it a touch implausible that a jobless person with a gambling addiction would choose to live in Las Vegas. It's like a recovering alcoholic choosing to be Slave's roommate.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

POLL:

NAME AND DESCRIBE YOUR TOP 5 VACATIONS AND VACATION SPOTS (not requiring overseas flight)

Thurgreed(much obliged)Marshall

Driving all over Arizona. Try and book a night at one of the campgrounds IN the Grand Canyon.

A house on the water in Nantucket and NOT located in town.

Stay in a Treehouse in Oregon.

I've always wanted to take a classic road trip. What's left of Route 66; Sections of Route 1 on the east coast.

A ride on the Trans-Canada railway.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Nice one. But that's the thing about Herb Caen*. First, he was from Sacramento, not San Francisco. Second, while he clearly thought that San Francisco was the best city in the world, he was an ambassador for the city, not an apologist for the tireless provincialism of The City.

You know, The Chronicle is an awful newspaper with great columnists.

*For those who don't know, Herb Caen was a legendary columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote a daily column that was sort of gossip column/mash note to SF. When you have some time, go here: Chronicle Website's Page on Herb Caen

Having come from elsewhere, I really can't jump on the tireless provincialism bandwagon.

Actually, let me put that differently. I'm all for the SF provincialism when it involves boosterism, or ignoring the rest of the country entirely, or pretending that the Bay Area is really it's own separate place. Washington and New York are, after all 3000 miles away. The provincialism gets tiresome when it involves anything more, like bitching about Southern California.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
They're not from our childhood but on the theme of kid-oriented fantasy, I read somewhere a while back that the Golden Compass movies are in the works too. It will be interesting to see how they tackle the daemons.

I am not familiar with the Golden Compass books.

I would love to see a film version of my favorite children's lit books: Madeleine L'Engle's Time series or her South Carolina beach books or her Swiss boarding school books.

I have never re-read them, but I recall many happy hours in the garden reading all of her books.

Even(mom made me go outside, but she didn't say what i had to do)Odds

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan

On another note, I was listening to NPR a while back (maybe several years) on a Saturday afternoon and they were doing a feature on the worst music ever recorded. The commentator played the Ray Conniff Singers doing "Hey Jude". I laughed all the way across the Golden Gate Bridge so hard I had to pull over and wipe the tears away. Man was that twisted. Rumor has it that they also covered the Theme from Shaft and Watching Scotty Grow (by Bobby Goldsboro!).

My personal all time bad song is Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers.

It's called the Annoying Music Show and it's on the public radio station out of Chicago. They have compiliation CD's for sale at Amazon. My local NPR stations don't carry it, but every now and then Scott Simon has the guy on, it's hysterical.

[purse junkie]

Overweight man sues McDonald's for failure to hire:

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/o...071501_02.html

on grounds that McDonald's allegedly perceived him to have a disability (morbid obesity). Not clear if McDonald's thought he was actually disabled, or thought that he was just very fat.

[lawyer_princess]

Originally posted by evenodds
I would love to see a film version of my favorite children's lit books: Madeleine L'Engle's Time series or her South Carolina beach books or her Swiss boarding school books.

ABC made a miniseries of A Wrinkle in Time last year, but for some mysterious reason keeps putting off airing it. I hope it's not because it's really really bad, because I loved those books, too.