Meh.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm offering to split your martini gift basket. And I don't even like martinis. Or olives. That's. How. I. Roll.*



*did I do it right?

Yep. For emphasis I often use ALL CAPS (like the name ABBA itself -- I am THAT IMPORTANT!!!!!) but since you are not case sensitive....perfect.

And of course I will share the gift basket. I don't like olives either so we can simply shoot these off a deck somewhere.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield Bronson's problem, like all others who write such books, is that he refuses to discuss economics. Most "callings" are of the creative sort, and its the one in a million creative person who becomes the next great novelist, painter, guitarist. In the meantime, we've all got bills to pay.

Thank you for that uplifting thought.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by dtb
Not that I know of, but perhaps I can arrange something.


Hmmm. Do you have any suggestions as to what the winner of such a contest might take home as a prize?

A weekend in Prague with the sexy would-be copy editor of my choice?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
A good year. Seinfeld was still good. My goatee was coming in nicely. Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 with a Golden goal to win Euro 96. Someone tried to bomb me (unsuccessfully) out of the Atlanta Olympics. The Dow was ridiculously high at 6000. I murdered Jon Benet Ramsay and shot Tupac. Norm MacDonald and his Bob Dole impression. I turned 21 that year. PLF turned 40. All in all, good times.

Is this what you put in your HS yearbook?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Is this what you put in your HS yearbook?

Of course not. Although, I did write "Stay cool forever!" in everyone else's.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Oh, no you didn't.

Oh. No. You. Didn't.

Do not TELL me that Paigow is disrespecting the Weedster! This shit is on. IT IS ON! Weed's gonna take your spinster ass, stretch it from Brooklyn to Santa Monica, fold it into small squares, stuff it in Weed's bong with the 4-day-old water and make Slave smoke it.

It's really just so cute when white people do this.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city

If you are wearing a teal and black rag-like cheerleading outfit (which is heinous in and of itself) while lying on the ground in a pose I have photos of myself in circa 1987 (when I was 14, not 24), why would you have such a sour expression on your face? Where is the cheer? Especially if you are hooking up with a Picasso faced lesbian in a bathroom stall, you should be HAPPY. I wanted to see more glee in that photo. If I were Tyra, I would not be holding her photo in my hands. This is not her best shot. Her eyes aren't even fierce.

[andViolins]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
If you are wearing a teal and black rag-like cheerleading outfit (which is heinous in and of itself) while lying on the ground in a pose I have photos of myself in circa 1987 (when I was 14, not 24), why would you have such a sour expression on your face? Where is the cheer? Especially if you are hooking up with a Picasso faced lesbian in a bathroom stall, you should be HAPPY. I wanted to see more glee in that photo. If I were Tyra, I would not be holding her photo in my hands. This is not her best shot. Her eyes aren't even fierce.

I assumed from viewing this pic that, at the time the shot was taken, the photographer was telling her to "smoulder."

Like me.

I mean soup sandwich.

bAlt

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
Thank you for that uplifting thought.

Hey, at least I admit I have a calling. I belong in some sort of commentator's job, writing some pseudo-fictionalized rants on current affairs.

The shit they allow to publish in the papers is fucking embarrassing. Maureen Dowd writes the same crap article week in, week out:

1. Analogize Bush to some clever pop culture figure or character in recent novel/tv show;

2. Throw in a few jokes about how W's been fucking up just like the charcter to whom he's analogised; and

3. Wind up the "arc" of the story by showing how W's present mess is exactly like the recent ending of that tv show/book.

The "arc" is what sophomore writing teachers tell the kids they need to use in every article. Its as hackneyed and predictable as the surprise ending. Granted, most people like it, because it "ties up all the loose ends." Spoonfeeding is what it is. Its a cheap construction popular because readers want easily digestible pap they don't have to think about to understand or be amused by.

I use Dowd as an example - just about every present journalist favors that same tired construction. And I'm sick of reading it.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
I'd like to be young and well-adjusted. I'd settle for funny. I have martini glass back hair if that helps any.

I'd like to be thin and able to eat all the salami I want. Quit fucking deluding yourself.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Is this what you put in your HS yearbook?

"Hello. Goodbye." With photo of me rolling my eyes.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Hey, at least I admit I have a calling. I belong in some sort of commentator's job, writing some pseudo-fictionalized rants on current affairs.

The shit they allow to publish in the papers is fucking embarrassing. Maureen Dowd writes the same crap article week in, week out:

1. Analogize Bush to some clever pop culture figure or character in recent novel/tv show;

2. Throw in a few jokes about how W's been fucking up just like the charcter to whom he's analogised; and

3. Wind up the "arc" of the story by showing how W's present mess is exactly like the recent ending of that tv show/book.

The "arc" is what sophomore writing teachers tell the kids they need to use in every article. Its as hackneyed and predictable as the surprise ending. Granted, most people like it, because it "ties up all the loose ends." Spoonfeeding is what it is. Its a cheap construction popular because readers want easily digestible pap they don't have to think about to understand or be amused by.

I use Dowd as an example - just about every present journalist favors that same tired construction. And I'm sick of reading it.

2.

Maureen Dowd must be blowing the right people. Really well. And often.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I would think so. Spooky's funnier than I am.

And he's got a prettier dick. I'm just saying.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
"One seriously sexy motherfucker"? Nice. Although you forgot "smoldering". I do tend to smolder. And thank you for not being repulsed by my lack of a discernable, lively, and descriptive internet persona.

Now please excuse me while I return to using my baltassoc, andViolins, and Aloha Mr. Learned Hand socks.

I'm afraid you cannot smolder because smoldering is my calling (a la Po Bronson). You'll have to be happy with the seriously sexy motherfucker thing. Or else I can cross you off my list, if you prefer.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Hey, at least I admit I have a calling. I belong in some sort of commentator's job, writing some pseudo-fictionalized rants on current affairs.

The shit they allow to publish in the papers is fucking embarrassing. Maureen Dowd writes the same crap article week in, week out:

1. Analogize Bush to some clever pop culture figure or character in recent novel/tv show;

2. Throw in a few jokes about how W's been fucking up just like the charcter to whom he's analogised; and

3. Wind up the "arc" of the story by showing how W's present mess is exactly like the recent ending of that tv show/book.

The "arc" is what sophomore writing teachers tell the kids they need to use in every article. Its as hackneyed and predictable as the surprise ending. Granted, most people like it, because it "ties up all the loose ends." Spoonfeeding is what it is. Its a cheap construction popular because readers want easily digestible pap they don't have to think about to understand or be amused by.

I use Dowd as an example - just about every present journalist favors that same tired construction. And I'm sick of reading it.

Translation:

• it was aight, it was aight,
  yunumsayin, that shit was aight, it was cool. But my shit is
  more John Blaze than that! I got John Blaze shit. And they not
  recognizing, they not sayin I recognize.