The Bar

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:19 am

helitack wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:Plus there's that really embarrassing moment when you find you've been using the jackhammer and not the vibrator. . .
Bad visual

Actually, the problem with mimepliances is there's no visual--hence the mistake.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:20 am

helitack wrote:Hey,we get it all here, extreme heat, very cold, wind, floods, snow, rain, earthquakes. All we need is a volcano to round things out.

There's a reason they call it Death Valley.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:23 am

gigglesnort wrote:
geekster wrote:
gigglesnort wrote:[with sparkly white snowflakes on her hair and eyelashes, plops on a barstool, manic twinkle in her eye]

hiya everybody! I LOVE SNOW! IT SNOWED!!!
I wish it would snow here sometime. Never does here in the Bay Area, though. My kids would be beside themselves. We have decided to go up someplace and visit snow between Christmas and New Years.
Oh my gawd! I can't even tell you what it's like when it snows here! ha ha ha!!!!! It doesn't even matter how old I get or where I am, I always get the same no-school-tomorrow extra-special-once-in-a-lifetime hyper-excited IT-SNOWED! feeling!!!!! hee!

I let my girls out to play at nighttime in the city when we finally made it home-no problem! A vast white safety blanket covers everywhere, forcing everyone to STOP! BE STILL! STOP DRIVING! Everything and everybody just turned on its head.

Fog can do some of the same thing--utterly transform the landscape, silence the noise remake the world magically.

BTW it does occasionally drop a few inches on the local hills, so geekster should be ready to interrupt his day and drive the kids to the local snow in whatever year it does this. My parents didn't have a car when I was growing up, so I missed the few times it did snow on the Berkeley Hills.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:46 am

Geekster.... try Long Barn, above Sonora. I used to live there and it was a blast. We'd sit in the local bar until closing time and then ride the "Toboggan of Death" down an icy slope in the dark, falling down drunk, trying to avoid the tree stumps that we couldn't see, on a vehicle that couldn't be steered.

Try that with your kids... they'll love ya' for it...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:48 am

samtzu wrote:Geekster.... try Long Barn, above Sonora. I used to live there and it was a blast. We'd sit in the local bar until closing time and then ride the "Toboggan of Death" down an icy slope in the dark, falling down drunk, trying to avoid the tree stumps that we couldn't see, on a vehicle that couldn't be steered.

Try that with your kids... they'll love ya' for it...

I suggest that you skip the "falling down drunk" part. CPS might get a llittle huffy.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:51 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
samtzu wrote:Geekster.... try Long Barn, above Sonora. I used to live there and it was a blast. We'd sit in the local bar until closing time and then ride the "Toboggan of Death" down an icy slope in the dark, falling down drunk, trying to avoid the tree stumps that we couldn't see, on a vehicle that couldn't be steered.

Try that with your kids... they'll love ya' for it...
I suggest that you skip the "falling down drunk" part. CPS might get a llittle huffy.

Oh, yeah...

Forgot about that part....

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:25 am

oh.
my.
goddess.

coffee. i need coffee. lots of coffee.

i'm still drunk from last night.

i don't know what we did after rehearsal, but it musta been great.

i remember tequila body shots. and thats about it, really.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:29 am

Here's your coffee, strained through fishnets.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:33 am

really. im completely incapacitated.

i haven't even opened my store.

coffeecoffeecoffeecoffe.....

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:42 am

ooo! i just got a christmas gift from my mommy!

have any of you read a children's book called "old turtle"?

it's the most beautiful book I've read in a long time...

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:43 am

mmm... sorry:

"The Old Turtle and the Broken Truth"

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:07 am

mine-hater

living proof that not all mimes are bad.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:07 am

never heard of it m'dear, but doncha love children's stories as presents from your mommy? My mom gave me one once that still gets me all teary. I'll have to search yer turtle story out.

I have made the decision to keep my fuzzy warm cup of cocoa and peppermint schnapps warm and fuzzy and close at hand all day. Yay!

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:08 am

The Old Turtle and the Broken Truth

dear, dear friends just gave me that book for christmas. It is beautiful. I am gonna try my hand at rendering a video piece based upon it.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:13 am

wow stu... you HAVE to let me see it... really, this isn't just the alcohol talking...

I've known about The Old Turtle for a year now... my ex-roomie and I read it in a book store last xmas... I hinted at my mommy to get it for me, but she only bought a copy for HER...

now I have my own. Giggle, you would LOVE this book. Really. It makes me cry. It's by Douglas Wood, with beautiful watercolors by Jon Muth.

My mommy gets me a children's picture book every year, for xmas. She celebrates, I don't, but she still gets me presents, and who am I to say 'no'? So I have wonderful children's books all over the place... 24 of them... at least....

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:18 am

I donated my copy of Old Turtle to a needy family this year. So hard for me to let go of books, but it seemed right to pass it on.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:20 am

GuinivereElise wrote:wow stu... you HAVE to let me see it... really, this isn't just the alcohol talking...

I've known about The Old Turtle for a year now... my ex-roomie and I read it in a book store last xmas... I hinted at my mommy to get it for me, but she only bought a copy for HER...

now I have my own. Giggle, you would LOVE this book. Really. It makes me cry. It's by Douglas Wood, with beautiful watercolors by Jon Muth.

My mommy gets me a children's picture book every year, for xmas. She celebrates, I don't, but she still gets me presents, and who am I to say 'no'? So I have wonderful children's books all over the place... 24 of them... at least....

jeebus, I just remembered telling someone last night that I was 25... so drunk I dont' remember how old I am... sheesh! Wait... I can't even calculate right now... I was born on Oct 12, 1979... how old does that make me????????????????????????????????????????

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:20 am

stuart wrote:
mine-hater

living proof that not all mimes are bad.

No shit.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:23 am

*banging head against the desk*

oh

my

goddess...

I'm going home. I'll see you all when I can think straight...

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:23 am

GuinivereElise wrote:....... I was born on Oct 12, 1979... how old does that make me????????????????????????????????????????

That makes you a baby! I was 24 the year my first was born. My whole everything did a complete about-face that fateful year.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:31 am

*banging head against the desk*

does that really help your hangover?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:33 am

see it

might be done in time for Xara

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:33 am

stuart wrote:
*banging head against the desk*
does that really help your hangover?

Doesn't one have to sober up before a hangover can be realized?

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:03 am

hey, all. anyone mind if i just bang my head on this bar for a while?

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:04 am

oh, it's true. no hangover... I'm still fucking drunk for peet's sake (mmm, coffee)

and, Stuart, even if I DID have a hangover, I wouldn't tell you, because you'd call me a rookie....

You'll all be pleased to know that I'm home, ready to head to bed shortly... I talked to the gents I was spending time with last night, and they assured me that I did NOT make an ass of myself. I'll have to try harder, I guess. The last thing I remember is doing body shots of tequila, (apparently with an audience)...

a fine night, ta be sure!

okay... bed. sleepy. I'll talk to you folks later...

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:10 am

Good morning. I spent 2 hours eating cheese and chocolate fondues and then 2 hours in a hot tub last night. Ahhh, feeling quite relaxed.

I think I've discovered that the best cure for a hangover is simply to empty your stomach before going to bed. I feel completely fine this morning.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:12 am

there seems to be a lot of head banging. We need the appropriate soundtrack. Some hair band with an umlaut in their name ought to do.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:14 am

best cure for a hangover

If I didn't know any better I would think y'all were intentionally trying to piss me off.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:28 am

Hangovers are good, they teach moderation a of lifestyle that could save your life.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:34 am

the only thing that should be moderated is moderation