The person below me

[OregonRed]

I am visiting The CO in Simi Valley, CA so I intend to blow off responsibility after tomorrow!

TPBM thinks that is an excellent idea.

[catinthefunnyhat]

I do! I generally think blowing off responsibility on the weekend is a good idea, regardless of circumstances, but it's especially true in your case. I hope you have a fantastic time there!

TPBM re-watched Grease recently and found it to be darker than s/he remembered.

[theCryptofishist]

Re-watched? I've seen bits and pieces of it, but never the whole thing.
TPBM finds hollywood movies pretty much covering that one little patch of hte human experience over and over.

[catinthefunnyhat]

I'm not sure Hollywood movies cover much of the human experience at all. Except for the part where giant robots from outer space who look suspiciously like familiar human-made machines come to earth and have a huge war over... something, and then shit gets blowed up real good.

I'm actually trying to remember the last Hollywood movie I saw. Well, there was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but it was only tangentially a Hollywood film, as far as I could tell. I have no idea whether it conveyed anything about the human experience of being a spy, but I really, really enjoyed it.

TPBM thinks movies are at their best when they're pure escapism.




(The dark bit I'm thinking of in Grease is where the one "bad" girl who has access to birth-control pills shares them out with all the "good" girls, because they all have hot dates that night, and apparently (a) good girls had no access to birth control back then, and (b) nobody taught kids shit about birth control. The scene is presented as light and fun; as a kid, I thought it was. As an adult, it scares the daylights out of me, especially in light of the perennial calls for more "abstinence-only" education. Apparently, the guy who wrote the script intended for the whole movie to be dark, and he eventually divorced himself from the film after Hollywood producers got involved and edited it to made it nostalgic and "accessible").

[Simon of the Playa]

well since my favorite movie is the original Muppet Movie i guess you're kinda right.


tpbm thinks fozzie is much more than your average bear...

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[catinthefunnyhat]

Well, he is a-wearing a neck-a-tie.

TPBM thinks neckties are phallic symbols.

[theCryptofishist]

I suppose. I do remember reading a columnists analysis of how narrow or broad neckties were and the comparison to when relations with the Soviets were frozen or broad.

TPBM is estatic that I am thinking about hte Soviets so much, because it means I'll bring my A-game to Apok this year.

[OregonRed]

Edited because Fishy is faster than I
Doesn't Apok always bring their "A" game?

TPBM found their bliss today.

[theCryptofishist]

If this is my bliss, I want a refund.
TPBM wonders what Red originally said.

[catinthefunnyhat]

I kinda do. Maybe she'll share...

tpbm wants a stiff drink and a tough opponent.

[SquirrelHead]

I could use a stiff drink for sure. I already have the tough opponent.

tpbm is ready to throw their laptop through a window.

[catinthefunnyhat]

God, I have been for ages. It has this lovely new feature where "undo" occasionally doesn't just undo the last change I made, but actually reverts to my last save. It only ever seems to do this when the last save was a really long time ago. If I don't notice right away and type even a single character, I lose the option to "redo," and a whole pile of work goes out the window. It's at that moment, in particular, that I want the laptop to take the same trajectory. It also makes really awful grinding and scraping noises from time to time, loudly enough to annoy other people working nearby (I know; I have had strangers complain to me about it). The only reason I don't replace it is because I'm still working on the same stupid document. A new one won't run such an ancient word processor, and migrating it to a newer word processor will undo a lot of extremely time-consuming formatting.

TPBM is going to put the "fun" in "fundraiser" this weekend.

[Lassen Forge]

Almost as much as putting the "fun" in "funeral"...

Actually I have to cook Khabsa for about 40 this weekend... I'm glad my hunny has done this before, because I am staring at 15 lbs of fist sized lamb chunks going "WTF did I get myself into?" Fundraisers are LOT easier!!!

TPBM is now thinking of roasting or barbecueing an entire animal with luscious abandon

[theCryptofishist]

First must make kulaks dig pit...

The Person Below Me loves 18th century men's wear.

[catinthefunnyhat]

I love the breeches, waistcoats, and morning coats. I like top hats and brocade. But I could do without the powdered wigs and neck flair.

TPBM has a soda-siphon at home.

[Ugly Dougly]

I use it for my NIAGRA FALLS routine.

TPBM has a dingly-dangly wingly-wangly and isn't afraid to share it.

[Simon of the Playa]

i'm afraid you are incorrect....

the wing wangly is exclusive.

tpbm prefers a broom to a swiffer.

[Eric]

Not for dusting. The broom leaves streaks.



tpbm wonders about things

[catinthefunnyhat]

Yeah, I do. I wonder if I'm going to get to BM this year, what's at the centre of the planet made of water, and what the city's going to look like when all these highrises are completed. I wonder why I procrastinate and what my life will be like when I'm old, and what was down all those other paths...

TPBM thinks about moving to another city.

[Simon of the Playa]

san francisco has my heart....

tpbm has been to alice's restaurant near La Honda

[Elorrum]

No. drove through and sent my thanks on the four corners of the compass to Neil.

La Honda reminds me of a terrible shaggy dog pun joke... a play on Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

tpbm's first motor cycle ride was on a Honda.

[catinthefunnyhat]

I don't remember what it was on... only ever been on a few, always as a passenger. And, as much as I want to love being on a motorcycle, I'm a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad passenger (combine an anxious car rider with an anxious and unbalanced bicycle rider, and you have me on a motorbike). It looks like this:

TPBM wonders how someone with such a nervous disposition can be happy living in a big city, but I am.

[theCryptofishist]

I don't wonder about stuff like that. Living in the country can be dreadful on the nerves.
TPBM is a suburban sort.

[OregonRed]

Yup. Not too country, not too city... This area is juuuuust right.

TPBM enjoys fairy tales.

[theCryptofishist]

Not really. Not even the really weird ones.
TPBM enjoys nursery rhymes.

[Trishntek]

Mary's little lamb didn't survive after I was done with it

TPBM marvels at how small things can be such a big deal

[theCryptofishist]

Haiku. It's pretty big on this board, but poetry is not my form. I can write things with 5/7/5 number of syllables, but it doesn't really follow the sorta "zen-ness" that "real" haiku seems to have.
TPBM likes the Poetic and Prose Eddas.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Ooohh... I feel like that post is calling for Eric (?)...
I'm not actually familiar with the Eddas at all (had to Google the term).

TPBM shares a birthday with someone awesome (real or fictional).

[theCryptofishist]

I'm not a big Lady Di fan, and the whole scientology thing puts me off Karen Black. But maybe Debbie Harry...
TPBM does Heart of Glass kareoke.

[OregonRed]

No... I'm more of a "What's Up?" kind of girl.

TPBM is morally flexible.