imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I like these paintings.

It seems like the ones where the nipples/areolas (ae?) don't show have a change of color or something over the area -- which would trick the eye.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
(Is this the way you talk?)

You should get her a gift. It shouldn't be an unromantic gift. Some examples of unromantic gifts are ipods and playstations. The Mrs. would probably like an ipod or playstation. But, the Mrs. would agree that these are not romantic gifts. Your gift should be romantic.

Good God.

Notwithstanding the fact that your writing style makes my eyes bleed with the deep, dark, rich blood of boredom, I have a solution to your problem.

If you go to the Apple website, you can get an ipod mini in her favorite color and they will engrave it for you to say something like, "For my Mrs. Every song is our song. Love, Leagle," or "For my Mrs. Help me find our song. Love, Leagle."

Two birds, one stone.

In the alternative, you can get it engraved with a message in your own words. Something like, "This is an ipod mini. You would like an ipod. We agreed that ipods aren't romantic. I am hoping that this engraving makes it more romantic. So, here is a romantic ipod."

TM

Thank you bleeding boy. I appreciate your effort at turning a nonromantic ipod into a romantic gift. I even appreciate your critique of my terrible, awful, no good, very bad post.

I apologize if the blood dripped down your cheeks and stained your shirt. That said, engraving the ipod with something that cheesy isn't gonna work for me, but the idea is a good one.

Other ideas I have received off board by the way:

http://www.berries.com
http://www.pajamagram.com/

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by leagleaze


Any ideas on good first anniversary gifts?

I think you're overthinking. An iPod or Playstation is not unromantic the way, say, a Dyson or a super-fancy dryer wouldbe. It's something she would enjoy nearly every day and is pure entertainment -- that makes a great gift.

For the record, while I enjoy the state that most people are trying to describe with the word "romantic," I hate that word itself. It's cheesy.

What are you trying to capture with the word and the gift -- personal, intimate, memorable, permanent?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Huh. You're right about that one. But, see:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fea...inting_02.html and

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fea...inting_04.html

Maybe it depends on the model.

A few weeks ago, I (with the amused assistance of a visiting GA) drunkenly recruited an artist who does this sort of work to airbrush nude and semi-nude models for an event that I'm involved with in March. If anyone wants to buy tickets to the event, feel free to PM me.

I can't wait for model inspection day.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

For str8 or whoever it was that's trying out for Jeopardy, I saw this book last night in a book store and it looked pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...435108-3849454

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Next up, a documentary on gay rodeos.

Should be interesting. Several years ago, I attended the Black & White Ball, the seminal social event for the gay community in my home city. My gf of the time and I had several gay friends, including one who had actually received an invitation, worked in a print shop, and was unscrupulous enough to forge invitations for us. The $20 cover paid for all you could drink plus a performance by the Village People (back before they revived their careers doing NBA halftime shows - basketball is sooo gay, nttawwt). Gays know how to throw a party.

There were somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 people there. After getting over the shock that there were that many gay people in my home city, the thing that really stood out to me were the gay cowboys. These were not guys that had just gotten duded up at Cavenders or Sheplers for a campy night at Saddletramps. They were wearing genuine Western wear (impeccably, I might add). They were honest-to-god cowboys, and from there dress and bearing, they'd be much safer in a CW bar than I would.

NTTAWWT. I had known that there would be gay people in any subculture, and I had encountered genuine bullriding, Copenhagen-dipping lesbians before, but gay cowboys just seemed so mentally incongruent. The dj dutifully strayed from the techno/house to play a couple of country songs, and the cowboys flooded the dance floor to 2-step.

Luckily, I can say with all honesty that I do not know how to 2-step, even with someone else leading. I'm a little leery of the gay cowboys. They know how to rope a steer, and they know what made it that way in the first place.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I was one of those for a while. Talk about a thankless job.

Me too. And I agree.

I wanted to shoot myself at the end of the day, and I smelled like Opium.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Thank you bleeding boy. I appreciate your effort at turning a nonromantic ipod into a romantic gift. I even appreciate your critique of my terrible, awful, no good, very bad post.

I apologize if the blood dripped down your cheeks and stained your shirt. That said, engraving the ipod with something that cheesy isn't gonna work for me, but the idea is a good one.

Other ideas I have received off board by the way:

http://www.berries.com
http://www.pajamagram.com/

I'd rather have the engraved iPod.

[not_penske]

Originally posted by Spanky
I am not Penske.

Wrong, I am not penske. You on the other hand may very well be Penske as the lurker/first time poster/friend of friend schtick is the oldest trick in his tired book.

What was the under/over on the Penske retirement thing?

Originally posted by Spanky Who is this Penske person?

He has alternatively been described as (1) the most prolific socker in the history of Greedydom, affecting a sock style that was positively brilliant (hell, even some of his socks have socks); and (2) a "shitstain" on the honour of the board and the profession.

While I tend to lean towards the latter appellation, eitherwhichway, he was certainly the first serial socker and the only one who perfected the art of obvious socking as a defiance of the convention of the socking game, unlike, for example, the brutishly insipid ironweed with his ironnutsedge alter ego.

Originally posted by Spanky I assume he tries to enter the board as new people. Is that correct?

Worse than that, its doubtful he ever really leaves.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
...and I smelled like Opium.

I thought you liked that kind of stuff?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
There were somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 people there. After getting over the shock that there were that many gay people in my home city, the thing that really stood out to me were the gay cowboys. These were not guys that had just gotten duded up at Cavenders or Sheplers for a campy night at Saddletramps. They were wearing genuine Western wear (impeccably, I might add). They were honest-to-god cowboys, and from there dress and bearing, they'd be much safer in a CW bar than I would.

NTTAWWT. I had known that there would be gay people in any subculture, and I had encountered genuine bullriding, Copenhagen-dipping lesbians before, but gay cowboys just seemed so mentally incongruent. The dj dutifully strayed from the techno/house to play a couple of country songs, and the cowboys flooded the dance floor to 2-step.

I went to a gay rodeo in Frederick, Maryland a few years ago. I'd been to dozens of rodeos before, and what struck me about it was that it wasn't that different at all. The events were identical, and the cowboys were good. Aside from the rainbow flags everywhere the rodeo itself felt like the small-town rodeos I'd been to in Texas.

I will say, though, that the dancing was different. 500 gay men, in full cowboy regalia, doing a perfect complicatedly coreographed line dance to Don't Cry For Me Argentina, the Madonna remix, is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen in my life.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I'd rather have the engraved iPod.

Really? Because these scream tangy and zesty to me:

http://www.pajamagram.com/longwintersnappajamas.html

Though I suppose it would be appropriate to wear them in the vomitorium.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
500 gay men, in full cowboy regalia, doing a perfect complicatedly coreographed line dance to Don't Cry For Me Argentina, the Madonna remix, is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen in my life.

I think I'd use "traumatic," instead of "surreal." I don't care if they're gay or straight, 500 people line dancing to that song would scare the shit out of me.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I think you're overthinking. An iPod or Playstation is not unromantic the way, say, a Dyson or a super-fancy dryer wouldbe. It's something she would enjoy nearly every day and is pure entertainment -- that makes a great gift.

For the record, while I enjoy the state that most people are trying to describe with the word "romantic," I hate that word itself. It's cheesy.

You're right, I am overthinking. It's because I am nervous. People knew that we would start planning our public commitment ceremony after our first anniversary and now keep asking me about it. When will it be, where will it be and most importantly will they be invited?

It's all very nerve wracking and making it hard to think straight about the anniversary itself. (Pardon the pun.)

To answer your question, memorable. That doesn't really scream IPod and I don't think I'm into the berries or pajamas.

(I don't mean to insult anyone's gift suggestions - they are all good ideas just not quite right.)

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Thank you bleeding boy. I appreciate your effort at turning a nonromantic ipod into a romantic gift. I even appreciate your critique of my terrible, awful, no good, very bad post.

I apologize if the blood dripped down your cheeks and stained your shirt. That said, engraving the ipod with something that cheesy isn't gonna work for me, but the idea is a good one.

Other ideas I have received off board by the way:

http://www.berries.com
http://www.pajamagram.com/

Cool. Those things aren't cheesy at all.

TM