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

[spookyfish]

[i]Originally posted by SEC_Chick Mr. Personality redux

Fuck. Fuck. Double Fuck. I completely forgot this was on last night. (I guess that shows me how compelling the show was last week).

Maybe you can answer the questions I posed last week after a second viewing. Do they just eliminate one of the 10 that were left? I assume it was just the lawyer guy with the goofy hair from your post.

What's the line on the motivational speaker guy? Does he still have her totally snowed? How long do you expect that might last b/f she wises up?

As an aside, in the previews for the unmasking, I could have sworn the footage was that of the bald guy taking his mask off. Is he still hanging in? After its second week, any idea of whether this is worth watching, or was I wise to miss it?

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Calverton is Eastern Long Island, near Riverhead (end of LIE).

Like near the Hamptons? That far east? ANywhere near the airports?

(is any festival worth a suimmer trip on the LIE?)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Like near the Hamptons? That far east? ANywhere near the airports?

(is any festival worth a suimmer trip on the LIE?)

It's not as far east as the Hamptons, so you won't have to deal with the single lane nightmare that is Route 27 between the end of the LIE and your Hamptons destination.

On an ordinary weekend, the traffic is most hellish on Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday mid-morning; then Sunday afternoon/eve. If you drive very late Fri or very early Sat you ought to be OK. Given the number of expected attendees at the concerts, however, normal rules probably won't apply. You should make a long weekend of it. Don't you have pals with summer shares?

As for airports, you can fly SW Airlines from BWI-Islip for cheap and rent a car. In normal traffic conditions you can get from Islip to Riverhead in 45 mins. or so; if there's no traffic, 1/2 hour. Also, you can avoid the LIE for long stretches b/w Riverhead & Islip if your flight times put you in the midst of heavy traffic.

Your lodging options in Riverhead itself are probably not up to your standards, but you could try to find a cute place to stay on the North Fork, east of Riverhead, and then drive west to get to the concert grounds. There are also plenty of generic Radisson/Marriott Courtyard places along the LIE. I do NOT recommend staying anywhere in or near the Hamptons because that will make your travel to and from the event difficult.

Here's a rather unexciting article from the LI paper: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...613apr16.story

Anyway, how'd you do on Open tix?

bc it appears that they may hav finally killed off the FL boards? Or my computer is effed.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
For all of the snarky comments about G. Love, I am pleased to report that he had an overflow crowd in his tent, full of enthusiastic fans. Apparently, there is no shortage of whiteboys who feel they're funky when they listen to him.

I attended a big music festival last fall. There was a huge crowd there, too, for G Love. I checked it out for a minute before deciding lunch and the Rebirth Brass Band was a better option. (The Rebirth Brass Band is always a better option.)

As for funky white boys, they may be my favorite concert goers. There is a tremendous overlap between the shows I see and the shows they see. The FWBs are all flailing elbows and stuttering movements. The OM has to shove them at times to keep them from hitting me and they are always so apologetic.

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
apparently, Dumpy is the new black. I have never seen so many dumpy-looking women in Southern California before.

It's not you. It's the new generation of fattie twentysomethings. I feel a certain pride that they don't define themselves by the stringent standard of American beauty that drove many people I know to eating disorders. I also feel that putting down the burritos and moving off the sofa would be a good move.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Fuck. Fuck. Double Fuck. I completely forgot this was on last night. (I guess that shows me how compelling the show was last week).

Maybe you can answer the questions I posed last week after a second viewing. Do they just eliminate one of the 10 that were left? I assume it was just the lawyer guy with the goofy hair from your post.

What's the line on the motivational speaker guy? Does he still have her totally snowed? How long do you expect that might last b/f she wises up?

As an aside, in the previews for the unmasking, I could have sworn the footage was that of the bald guy taking his mask off. Is he still hanging in? After its second week, any idea of whether this is worth watching, or was I wise to miss it?

They are down to 6. Two quit and two others were eliminated. Monica went off on the guy who quit at the ceremony and told him that he was eliminated anyway. That was kind of funny.

I'm not sure that it is worth watching, but I will probably do so if I am at home next Monday. The masks still fucking creep me out. What assholes these guys must feel like when they go out in public in those things.

n(or at least they should)cs

Originally posted by robustpuppy
It's not as far east as the Hamptons, so you won't have to deal with the single lane nightmare that is Route 27 between the end of the LIE and your Hamptons destination.

On an ordinary weekend, the traffic is most hellish on Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday mid-morning; then Sunday afternoon/eve. If you drive very late Fri or very early Sat you ought to be OK. Given the number of expected attendees at the concerts, however, normal rules probably won't apply. You should make a long weekend of it. Don't you have pals with summer shares?

As for airports, you can fly SW Airlines from BWI-Islip for cheap and rent a car. In normal traffic conditions you can get from Islip to Riverhead in 45 mins. or so; if there's no traffic, 1/2 hour. Also, you can avoid the LIE for long stretches b/w Riverhead & Islip if your flight times put you in the midst of heavy traffic.

Your lodging options in Riverhead itself are probably not up to your standards, but you could try to find a cute place to stay on the North Fork, east of Riverhead, and then drive west to get to the concert grounds. There are also plenty of generic Radisson/Marriott Courtyard places along the LIE. I do NOT recommend staying anywhere in or near the Hamptons because that will make your travel to and from the event difficult.

Here's a rather unexciting article from the LI paper: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...613apr16.story

Anyway, how'd you do on Open tix?

Sounds like a total fucking nightmare. I take it that this place is not near JFK or LGA? Is it LIRR accessible?

I already have tix for two dates due to rainouts last year and am still coordinating with friends and fam to see who wants to go to what. What I would really love to do is spend Memorial Day in Gay Paree and go to the French but that would probably be tres expenseeeeeeve. i wonder if anyone else here has done the abroad tennis tour thing?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
They are down to 6. Two quit and two others were eliminated. Monica went off on the guy who quit at the ceremony and told him that he was eliminated anyway. That was kind of funny.

n(or at least they should)cs

Only 6? WTF, is this show only supposed to have a 4-week run?

Was bald guy one of the quitters, then or was that more FOX creative editing? Who else is gone? Is the software development tycoon still in?

[evenodds]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
bc it appears that they may hav finally killed off the FL boards? Or my computer is effed.

I also received a server error for all of infirm, not just the FB. I saw posts dated 4/28. Maybe they are gone, but they should be cached on google, so they are never really gone.

For example: this is a cached page of the old FAQ: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
The masks still fucking creep me out. What assholes these guys must feel like when they go out in public in those things.

I feel bad for those guys. Their pathetic 15 minutes are spent looking like colorful members of the Blue Man Group and capped off with sweaty haired goodbyes with mask indentations on their faces. Not even Mr. Pitt would look good under those circumstances.

[purse junkie]

Anyone else watch this new Edwardian-flashback reality show last night, where folks sign on to be a nouveau-riche manor family and their slew of servants?

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Most amusing was mandatory manor-family led morning prayer for the servants where the manor family prayed to God that the servants would be obedient, dutiful, and serve them humbly. I can't imagine why Edwardian servants didn't simply kill their pompous drain-on-society masters in their sleep.
Also real-life businessman husband expressing surprise that real-life doctor wife actually had the brains to figure out complex dinner party etiquette. That's another jackass I'd've targeted.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by evenodds
As for funky white boys, they may be my favorite concert goers. There is a tremendous overlap between the shows I see and the shows they see.

Why wouldn't this make you a funky white girl?

TM

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Only 6? WTF, is this show only supposed to have a 4-week run?

Was bald guy one of the quitters, then or was that more FOX creative editing? Who else is gone? Is the software development tycoon still in?

The bald guy is still in it. As is the millionaire dude. I think the editors want you to want the rich guy to win (another fairytale ending for Fox?).

The lawyer who hooked up with some luau girl quit at the offer ceremony (or whatever it is called) and the guy in the light green mask, who I remember nothing about, quit at the luau party. The woman dismissed the unemployed asian guy who got a lap dance at the luau and a kind of dorky guy named Joe (light blue mask, I believe), who got drunk and made an idiot of himself professing strong feelings for the chick after one day at the house.

They saved the motiviational guy to be the last one picked, building the suspense as to whether she is falling under his hypnotic spell or not (she said she was creeped out by him watching from the top of the stairs when she was having alone time with some other guy).

The bald guy got alone time in the "dark room" but lacked the game to make a move. She said she could feel that his hair was "thinner".

n(you are now up to speed)cs

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
bc it appears that they may hav finally killed off the FL boards? Or my computer is effed.

I can get to the list of boards, but can't open any boards or messages. HTTP 500 error (whatever that means).

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why wouldn't this make you a funky white girl?

TM

1. There aren't really funky white girls. If there are girls with the FWBs, they are often twirling hippie chicks.

2. I am a woman, which puts me in a whole other category. I went to a Charlie Hunter/Karl Denson's Tiny Universe show a few months ago and there were people talking during Charlie's set -- so I tapped the offenders on the shoulder and told them to be quiet or move to the back of the venue. I'd like to think my icy stare silenced them, but it was probably the enforcer standing behind me.