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September 29, 2001
Suddenly it all makes sense ...
President Bush said Friday the United States is ''in hot pursuit'' of terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
Our country is being led by Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane! I guess that makes Cheney Boss Hogg, huh?
[ Where's my copy of Photoshop?]
(Quote from the AP via Yahoo I actually heard him make that statement yesterday and was surprised when he didn't say "kyu-kyu-kyu ... Go git 'em, Flash!" )
Posted by mccreath at 10:52 AM
September 28, 2001
A Fine Way To Start The Day
Extremely strong coffee, a co-worker blasting Minor Threat, payday. Almost makes it worthwhile to be here today!! And man, nothing like Minor Threat to polish up those phone skills when walking "difficult" users through simple proceedures, with coffee to add to the paitence aspect...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 09:21 AM
September 27, 2001
Pardon me while I go all geeky on your ass.
Apparently in the year 2150, boob jobs and collogen injections are highly logical.
Posted by mccreath at 10:13 PM
For My Money,
Abe still tickles my funnnneeee bone. BTW, I'm a simpleton!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:03 PM
South Asian hip hop post-modernism?
I love this picture. The disasters of today are the hairstyles of tomorrow. If I were a teenager, I probably would have done something lame like make a t-shirt. This is way cooler.
Posted by mccreath at 11:24 AM
Proof that I'm a simpleton...AND that I promote a racist stereotype..
but this made me laugh!
Something about the sunglass rack, and the .17 on the cash register, just funny details cracked me up
Forgive me {head hanged in shame}
Posted by Lang Squal at 11:12 AM
September 26, 2001
verification of evil
also, props to theonion for not whingeing about how hard it is to be funny in the wake of the attack.
Posted by tom at 10:38 AM
Show And Tell
You know, aside from Henry, Mike, and Phil's websites, I have yet to see any recent pics of spouses, kids, pets, etc. In the interest of correcting that (and perhaps starting a new round of entries), I give you our dog Hank, proudly displaying his latest squeak toy. hank
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:40 AM
September 25, 2001
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
I'm not gonna spoil the surprise. You just have to look for yourself. (It's not offensive and it's not related to recent events. It's just really, really hilarious.)
Posted by mccreath at 11:32 PM
3 months til xmas
OK today is the 25th, we're exactly three months til christmas day, so i think it's time we start planning how we'll shop for each other..
Should we draw names, and call it a $20 limit?
Here's an idea: Perhaps we should all buy things for me this year, then next year we all buy for Dave McFrozens, etc etc. Is that ok with everybody? Is that what yall wanna do? Let me know..
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:43 PM
Dialogue and Discourse
I hear they're working on a version of this which includes Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. The end level features a phoenix-like post-apocalyptic Sontag. Enjoy!
Posted by Mike at 01:09 PM
"The End of Irony" my ass...
Rabi en Rose is an energetic 14 year old girl from Earth with the dreams of becoming an idol. Unfortunately, she lives in poverty and is working at the local Gamers store to earn money. Curious as to why she wears giant dice? When her parents left her, her dad handed her a set of dice...
Posted by Mike at 12:46 PM
Happy monkey lady
Ever have that dream where you show up at school wearing a leotard and a shirt with a feather-boa collar and a picture of digitized monkey and everyone's all laughing at you and you're all, "This is soooo not funny!"
Posted by mccreath at 11:56 AM
In keeping with Now Let Us Praise KING Day...Record of the Week!
I dig the new record!
I heard The Shame of Life in SUBWAY last sunday, i asked the snoop-dogg-alike behind the counter (the one with the huge bandage on his face) what radio station was on. He shrugged, "mMm", guess it wasn't his choice! Anyway it freaked me a little to walk in and hear the Buttholes! funny!
anyway, the record rocks, "dracula from houston" is so poppy! and the flicker cover ROCKS!
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:10 AM
Maaaaaaaahhhm! This game makes my head hurt!
Tiny Windows Games. My favorites are tinytetris and tinybreakout.
Posted by mccreath at 12:04 AM
September 24, 2001
Zzzzzzz.....
OK, maybe this will wake us all up. OK, maybe not, but it makes purty colors and whatnot...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:51 PM
Let us now praise King
Hi King! You rock!
Posted by Lang Squal at 01:23 PM
Reba Will Win?
Apparently Reba McEntire found an old Plasmatics touring case or something. I'm just waiting for the shaving cream and electrical tape.
Posted by mccreath at 12:05 PM
September 21, 2001
a better war idea
this showed up in my mailbox today. it was written by a friend of a friend. i wanted to share the joy.
___
One of the best suggestions for retaliation I've heard yet:
"ok, screw the butter bomb thing -- let's send chomsky, moore, and
sontag to afghanistan. moore can do the embittered, self-righteous
documentarian thing ("why won't the taliban talk to meeee? whyyyy?")
to create a diversion while the other two don rebel garb and head for
the hills to infiltrate al qaeda (thereby giving sontag an additional
secret thrill as she subverts the woman-hating islamic hegemony).
when they finally come face-to-face with bin laden, they'll corner
him and unleash their most powerful weapons: chomsky will give a
detailed accounting of how US foreign policy has steadily eroded
since the taft administration, and sontag will describe how the
hijacked planes and collapsed towers are really a metaphor for the
subjugation of women in a classist, capitalist society. bin laden,
faced with the prospect of being stuck in the most boring
conversation ever, will have no choice but to turn himself in.
Posted by Mike at 09:56 PM
Beertriotic Beermericans
Sing loud, sing proud!!!!
"Flowers, Phil" wrote:
My country 'tis of Beer
Sweet Land of Li-beer-ty
Of Beer I Drii-iink
"Hoyt" wrote:
Land where I filled my glass,
Got drunk, fell on my ass
Hang-o-o-over soon will pass
Let's drink some beer......
Sniff......sob......BELCH!........
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:18 PM
Dave, I will never forgive
Dave, I will never forgive you for starting my day off with this image!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 07:56 AM
So you want to learn Japanese ...
This is a repost from MetaFilter, but there's so much traffic over there right now that I was afraid of losing track of it. It was hysterical at 10:45 tonight. I hope it remains so.
Posted by mccreath at 01:50 AM
Why are we in color?
Why are we in color?
Posted by Mike at 12:39 AM
September 20, 2001
Update
Mr. Winkle's 2001 Photo Diary contains pictures of Mr. Winkle going ... uh ... tinkle.
Posted by mccreath at 10:34 PM
Job searching...
You know, looking at this job description and payscale, it realy isn't all that different from a WFM shift manager.
Posted by David L at 04:34 PM
Funny word:
drooling
It's funny to look at, funny to say, and funny to hear. It's a funny word!
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:01 PM
Hoyt, When Did We Buy This?!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:19 PM
Bastards!!!
It's gettin' ta be where a man cain't even relax on his porch no more!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:49 AM
September 19, 2001
Two geniuses at work...
"Flowers, Phil" wrote:
yes, all true. and of course the story when Jesus went to the state fair, which was filled with hungry, not-drunk people, and their was only one beer and one corn dog left, but lo the Lord did provide each and every one in the multitude with at least one corn dog, and at least one beer, yet lo some went back for more, and also i think some got some cotton candy too.
Lo!
"Hoyt" wrote:
Or the time Jesus spoke to the multitudes through the voice of Big Tex, and
those who worshipped the false gods of McDonalds and Burger King were cast down
and turned into pillars of mustard in which the saved dipped their corn dogs and
proclaimed the glory of the Lord (and the corn dog, and the beer). Man, that was
the same year they had the newly redesigned Camaro in the Automobile Building, I
remember Jesus doing donuts in it, wearing those special stigmata racing gloves,
etc....
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:04 PM
Rebel Radio
I just had this link sent to me; at first I was elated to start the day with AC/DC's "Balls To The Wall", then it went off on some very odd pro-white power sounding garbage... Anyone familiar with it? (Now I'm torn again as they play Grand Funk railroad...Oh, my aching head! So many thoughts, so little barin matter!)
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 07:58 AM
September 18, 2001
Sorry, but I have to get this one out
I'm sorry to keep inundating the blog with stuff about the attack, but I have to put it somewhere. I'll make this and future posts on the subject "extended" so they won't take up so much room on the front page.
Some fuckwit in our department just hung a world map in hallway used by the public (our building is where people come to pick up copies of their student records) and taped little paper targets over Libya, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. (They also put one over Ireland for some reason ... I guess because the IRA is going to be targeted by W's "war on terrorism".)
I wrestled with a few different ideas for handling it.
1) Take the whole map down and leave a note telling the owner that he or she could find it in my office.
2) Leave the map, but take down the little targets and post a signed note saying I thought it was inappropriate for a public space.
3) Leave the little targets up and post a signed note saying I thought it was inappropriate for a public space.
I ended up just emailing the four managers in the department (there are four sections here: networks/operations, microsystems, systems, and programming) and stating my opinion of the thing. One of them has indicated that she will deal with it.
I know in the long run this was the best way to handle it, because public intervention on my part would probably have caused hard feelings in the department and more than anything I think we need to avoid divisive activity right now, but I still feel like a weasel. I feel like I ran to the teacher instead of confronting the problem head-on.
I'm really not interested in telling people how they should feel about this, and goodness knows not everyone would agree with how I feel about it, but how do you communicate the greater concepts of non-aggression to angry, potentially violent people? I feel inadequately prepared to deal with the impending war.
Posted by mccreath at 03:57 PM
Letterman last night
I don't know how many of you regularly watch Letterman. I usually don't, but occasionally do. I'm really glad I did last night. I tuned in just in time for the beginning of his monologue, and it was incredibly moving.
It doesn't read like much, but he was on the verge of tears the entire time, and for some reason it was just one of the best things I've seen on TV since the attack. We tried to watch the rest, but Dan Rather was practically beside himself with emotion -- painfully so. He was rambling a little and starting to talk about decisive strikes and shit like that, so we decided to forgo the rest of the show in favor of something not-tragedy-related. It was amazing how hard it was to find anything.
Posted by mccreath at 03:34 PM
tuesday morning observation
French Roast coffee grounds look a lot like Oreo crumbs. But they are not interchangeable. And don't even get me started on roach droppings.
Posted by mccreath at 11:54 AM
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Posted by Lang Squal at 10:31 AM
This Is
just about my speed this morning...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:19 AM
September 17, 2001
A small action ...
If you don't think we should be gearing up for war right now, you can send Dubya an email via the Friends Committee on National Legislation (this is a Quaker watchdog group). It's a pretty well-written letter and I didn't have any trouble signing my name to it, although it may wall be too late. Basically it says, "There is no reason to declare war. Use our resources to find the people responsible and bring them to trial."
At any rate, here's the link.
(From the BPF. They have some other ideas for small actions, too.)
Posted by mccreath at 03:58 PM
Rest ye weary heads my young friends...
Here can be found the beloved Hanky Code: http://www.halcyon.com/elf/hankies.html
Posted by Lang Squal at 02:34 PM
September 16, 2001
"God gave U.S. what we deserve..."
Most people blame American policies in the middle east (or even just old fashioned terrorists) as the cause of the attacks on the World Trade Center, but Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson pin the blame more squarely on homosexuals, abortionists and the ACLU:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28620-2001Sep14.html
Posted by King at 06:37 PM
September 15, 2001
Let me try this again
![Eagel_20Tear[1] (14k image)](/gerpunx/archives/Eagel_20Tear[1].jpg)
The pop up window feature didn't seem to work. Sorry about that. Oh well, this is the picture. It really is hideous.
Posted by David L at 10:52 PM
Uhhhh.
My Mother in law, sent this to us:
{{popup Eagel_20Tear[1].jpg Eagel_20Tear[1] 448x440}}Eagel_20Tear[1]
I'm not sure what to think of it. I would love to know who made it.
Posted by David L at 10:49 PM
September 14, 2001
Greatest Book You'll Ever Hurt Yourself Carrying
Mike Kelley edited this beast. There's a forward by Roland Barthes. The book is about 18" x 24" and weighs 80lbs. Inside you'll find beautiful pictures of large sweaty Polish men next to babelicious housewives from the 60's wrestling nude in wonderfully non-descript motel rooms.
A snippet of the Barthes forward:
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of Suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.* Of course, there exists a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight; this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest, like the audience at a suburban cinema. Then these same people wax indignant because wrestling is a stage-managed sport (which ought, by the way, to mitigate its ignominy). The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees.
Ahhh. Chief Jay Strongbow. You go, boy!
Posted by Mike at 07:13 PM
Perfection
Man, if you haven't listened to DEVO's EZ Listening CD in a while, dig it out and throw it on. It's making my day today!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:25 PM
For The Sake Of My Own Sanity
At this point I am refraining from any further posts or comments regarding the Tuesday events. The issue is omnipresent enough, the opinions of people around me (whether I agree with them or not) are the first things I hear in the morning, and the last things I hear at night. Spouting my feelings regarding the events isn't helping me, nor is it helping anyone else.
Basically, I'm feeling a compiling anger brewing, and I'd like to squelch that before it overwhelms my life. I will help how and where I can, and pray for some sort of rational peaceful end to this whole affair. I will not allow this to dominate my life. If this offends anyone, I aplogize, that is not my intention. I simply need to deal with this in my own way, and that's just what I'm going to do.
Now then, let's get back to the stupid jokes, porn posts, and music reviews!!!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:03 PM
not everyone sees it our way
Posted by tom at 07:47 AM
wisdom hasn't a chance, has it?
after reading this, i highly recommend you go back and read the 'peace' entry again.
Posted by tom at 04:57 AM
pray for peace
wisdom in the teeth of the maelstrom.
Posted by tom at 04:50 AM
Hell is freezing over
"This was just one of them stupid moments that you do in your stupid life, you know?"
Posted by David L at 12:51 AM
September 13, 2001
From the "nigga, pleez" file ...
Satan shows his face in the smoke of the WTC fires. And just for good measure, here's another one that delineates it from a different view. I particularly like the Bo-Peep style staff that the Dark One is carrying. Oh, and the spiky tail.
Posted by mccreath at 04:05 PM
Let's change the subject! Record (classic) of the Week
Sorry, gotta think about something else, swinging wildly between total terror and massive sugar rush from chocolate poptarts and orange soda.
This MBV is so great; I've listened to it so many times it's practically burned into my ear-cells. I can't believe it was their "last" one. I'm listeing to it now on tiny, shitty computer speakres. Somehow today it sounds even better this way, so angelic, yet so wrong..
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:37 PM
Here, Phil
It's big (600x600 pixels).
Posted by mccreath at 10:56 AM
Let's Have a War
We just got sold a war, and all it cost was 10,000+ people in collateral damage. As I was watching the "news" last night, fighting my suspicions that this whole thing was orchestrated by the Bush administration, it became more and more "clear" that the administration got exactly what they wanted from this tragedy.
1] an enemy is established
2] a (perceived) need for military might is established
3] a (perceived) need for massive military funding follows
4] a divided house/senate is united
5] a united house/senate becomes the spokesmen for the need for massive military spending/build-up
6] the "liberal" media follows suit, giving this rhetoric ample air time
7] the american people fall in line, believing that they want/need military retribution
8] a sluggish economy gets a much needed boost
9] an untested (unpopular?) president/admin is cast in a new role as hero, aggressor, savior of nation
10] the eventual war pumps the economy further
11] a second term for the Bush admin is cemented
Am I paranoid, confused, uneducated? Yes, yes, yes. But I'm also right; all but 8, 10, & 11 happened within 24 hours of the event. The rest will soon follow. Our government believes that everyone in America is in-step with its slavering for war. I am among the few who believe they're wrong.
If some nominal "criminal" needs to be brought in, so that "justice" can be done, fine. I believe in justice, just like I believe in peace. Unfortunately, I also believe this country will never see either.
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:01 AM
Heaven help us
"My sense is, the president would be delighted to do something really tough and soon," said Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to former President George Bush.
God, I hope not. The last thing we need to do is kill some more people.
Posted by David L at 01:21 AM
More images
nothing to say.
Posted by David L at 01:09 AM
September 12, 2001
fucked up email
i just got a hate email. about the latest post on henrysdiary.
Dude,
I dig both of your sites. However, I am a bit irritated that you seem to
think that more than 1000 people died because we don't get along with other
people on this planet. To say that these people died because we "don't get
along" with other people on this planet minimizes their death and makes it
seems as if it was their fault somehow. However, I know you and the
liberal slant you like to place on things. Do yourself a favor and quit
with the liberal spew for once and quit using your son to make your mealy
mouthed quasi-political statements. This is one time it isn't approprate.
By the way, it is my hope and prayer that Henry is able to live on a planet
where he won't have to worry about a 767 flying through his building because
of a fanatic's blind faith and obvious lack of respect for human life.
'nuff said,
Lucian_Blaque
Posted by Mike at 06:49 PM
WTC Survivor Database
http://www.ny.com/wtclist.html
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:10 AM
watching the images
yesterday, i kept asking myself 'where is bruce willis? where is 007? when does tom clancy unleash his supersecret team of antiterrorists? who wrote this fucking script?'
Posted by tom at 09:03 AM
more from m. moore
Link: Could THIS be how we got here?
Posted by tom at 06:52 AM
well.
it was cold of them to go ahead with the layoffs yesterday, wasn't it? it only sinks in, really sinks in today. i mean, i knew yesterday that it was extraordinary that they were going ahead. but. jesus. christ. i'm just really beginning to appreciate the full force today.
yesterday, i wasn't really too concerned about my layoff or my former employer's behavior or anything outside of the horror on the eastern seaboard.
today, a small glimmer of 'what the fuck were you thinking' regarding the decision to go ahead has begun to crop up.
oh well.
Posted by tom at 06:32 AM
from Michael Moore:
"What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin Laden guy except this one fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden!
Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!
Don’t take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against us."
Posted by tom at 06:05 AM
Finally
I haven't really had an emotional reaction to any of this until tonight at about 9:30 PM my time. It was the news that 300 firefighters were missing in the rubble of the first tower to collapse, and then the footage of a bunch of construction workers walking into the smoldering remains of both towers to try to help in the search for survivors.
It took me a while to figure out why the obvious deaths of at least hundreds, prossibly thousands, of people when the planes flew into the buildings didn't really raise the tears. Of course I recognized it as horrible and tragic, but it didn't make me want to cry. Because those people never knew what was coming. Even the people on the planes may not have realized exactly what was going on. They just died. It wasn't real yet. It was just too wild.
But hearing that people had voluntarily walked into those buildings, knowing they could die, and then did die, made it really, really, really fucking real.
Now I'm crying.
Now I can't shake the image of a guy on his cellphone telling his wife that his plane is being hijacked and that he loves her as he watches somebody slash a flight attendant's throat.
Now I can't shake the image of somebody on one of those planes rocketing in looking out the window as they rocketed too low over New York City and realizing what was about to happen.
Fuck.
Posted by mccreath at 12:55 AM
September 11, 2001
I said lunch not LAUNCH
which of you Dave's pushed the wrong button this morning?
Posted by Mike at 10:48 PM
kinda eerie
This is the page of a web cam that was on the World Trade Center, pointed at the Brooklyn Bridge.
Posted by mccreath at 08:14 PM
well that's that
idc laid me off just now.
bleh.
Posted by tom at 02:58 PM
Scary day...
We woke up to the news today when our clock radio went off to NPR at 6:30am. It has been surreal ever since. I'm not too happy about living in a major urban center right now. I'm glad I'm with my wife. I hope all of you come out of this without any losses. My sister and her husband are recently retired army, and hope they don't recieve any calls to duty.
Good luck everybody
DaveL
Posted by David L at 02:01 PM
crap
my parents are in istanbul today.
shit.
Posted by tom at 12:35 PM
Oh, great.
" ... bin Laden warned ... three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on U.S."
[ via Yahoo! News ]
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, shown Dec. 23, 1998, warned three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on U.S. interests for its support of Israel, an Arab journalist with access to him said September 11, 2001. The editor of London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper said Islamic fundamentalists led by bin Laden were 'almost certainly' behind the attack of the World Trade Center in New York. (Rahimullah Yousafzai/Reuters)
Posted by mccreath at 12:22 PM
holy fuck
Posted by tom at 10:48 AM
September 10, 2001
Goodbye, summer. Hello, winter.
We had snow in the Chugach mountains this weekend. That means that summer is officially over (the first snow of the year is called "termination dust"), and we'll now have about 4 weeks of fall. Some people are predicting a pretty snowy winter this year, with the first real snow (several inches that stick and don't melt away) around mid- to late October.
The lows are already in mid-30s and right now (7:00 AM), the sun is just coming up and it's 41 degrees.
Have I ever mentioned that getting to Hawaii from Anchorage costs about the same getting to LA or San Francisco? It's only $100 more than getting to Seattle ....
Posted by mccreath at 10:04 AM
September 07, 2001
Weekend Guide
Allright, all, I'm outta here to attempt to get some sleep and forget I was on call helping the criminally retarded upstarts at THD every night/morning all week. I leave you with this classic, enjoy, and have a good weekend!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 12:19 PM
So Many Daves, So Little (insert your own noun here...)
Remember Daves Across Texas, when we were all honorary Daves? That was nice. Now I guess we can be Daves Across America.
Also, remember my favorite game: AC/DC songs about Dave?
For Those About to Rock, We Salute Dave
Dirty Daves, Done Dirt Cheap
If You Want Dave, You got 'im! (my favorite)
Shot Down In Daves
Dave Voltage
so many Dave-rock classics..
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:15 PM
September 06, 2001
We All Need
one of these.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 09:50 AM
September 05, 2001
SOOOOOOO wrong.
It's been a damn long time since something made me turn away. This did.
Posted by Mike at 11:16 PM
Hey, Since we're all posting pictures!
Here's a new preview from the site i'm working on!
You're welcome Dave!
Posted by Mike at 02:42 PM
I'm Enjoying
this far more than I should be...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:09 AM
Adolescent memory of the week
In the spirit of Phil's record of the week, I will provide y'all with a weekly peek into my psyche. Lets begin with the Doctor...
It started in 4th grade at Wake Forest Elementary School in North Carolina. It was my first year at the magnet school, and I quickly made friends with David Kalat, who told me, every night at 6:00pm on channel 13 there was this cool show from England about a time travelling... uh...guy. It started pretty casually, but by the end of 5th grade, I was creating an audio tape library of every episode (my parents refused to shell out the dough for a betamax), buying Dr.Who Monthly (and forcing my dad to take them to his work where he would make photocopies of about 30 earmarked photos a week -- he must of been real popular at the office), and even making pledges to PBS because I was certain that if I didn't give them my money, it would be the end of the good Doctor.
This infatuation with the time traveller (and Romana - what a hotty!) reached a peak in 7th grade, when David K and I found out about an upcoming Dr.Who convention. We only had three months to get ready, and get ready we did! David K quickly bugged his mom into knitting us 12foot long multi-hued scarves, and we bought the rest of our costumes at the St. Vincet DePaul. We studied up on our Dr.Who trivia, and even made a stop action super8 movie about the Daleks. The actual day of the convention was nerd heaven! I managed to stuff in about 8hrs of video watching, and greatly expanded my collection of Dr.Who paraphenalia. The highlight of the day was meeting Jon Pertwee, the third Doctor. I'm sure he was as excited as I was. By far the most gratifying aspect of the convention was the fact that I was walking around with a big scarf, floppy hat, and hideous brown overcoat, and no one was trying to beat my ass for it. As a matter of fact, I was amongst family. Everywhere I looked, there were nerds engaged in the orgy of Dr.Who-ness. Fat (plenty of fat),skinny, old and young-we all had one thing in common.
A few months after that, my parents decided that North Carolina was too rural for our family, and they moved us back to Texas. No one at DeWitt Perry Middle School watched Dr.Who. After a few ass kickings, I soon forgot who the Doctor was.
Posted by David L at 01:36 AM
September 04, 2001
Record of the Week
To the new David: Every Tuesday I do a Record of the Week, and man is it popular! Everybody here responds enthusiastically, hanging on my every word! Check the archives to see how outrageous and fanatical the comments always are to my weekly feature!
About this week's record. [First of all, ignore the Volume 1 in the picture. Despite how the cds were packaged...] Sure it's a classic that nobody listens to, prefering the other Velvet Underground records with John Cale on them. Well, I do too. But this is a real good record! Get you copy out of the attic and play it! [and some of it was recorded in Dallas! hearing lou reed talk about the dallas cowboys is pretty freaky!]
Incidentally, if y'all're into this record, you may want to look here> http://members.aol.com/olandem6/vubs.html
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:27 AM
We're idiots
There's absolutely no good reason why we didn't think of squeeze-them-and-they-poop keychains first.
Or maybe we did. Then decided it was stupid. Since when is there a shortage of people to buy stupid things? (I got the pig, by the way.)
Posted by Mike at 10:19 AM
September 03, 2001
You can call me
Posted by David L at 10:50 AM
Let's All
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 09:23 AM
September 02, 2001
I hope this works...
I understand that this is a "men only" forum, so I figure I should introduce myself by posting something real manly like this.
Posted by David L at 11:50 PM
Hello I'm Here
hey I finally made it! Thank you Mike for the correct URL. I'll post more in a little bit.
Posted by David L at 03:29 PM