It's simple. They asked what you were like, Brad said he was somewhat afraid to meet you, and I told them both that in fact you are rather quiet and extremely polite, and that any shit-giving that happens is extremely subtle and easy to overlook if you're not paying attention, or not inclined to pick up on it.
You can, of course, redact that comment if it ruins your rep.
Why does bitchphd hate imagination?
Aw, man! What I wanted to be true instead is that Ogged actually was there and is now doing what he can to hoard together the last remaining shreds of his dignity. I like how Brad calls your persona "pure unshackled id."
I *told* him he could redact the fucking comment. If you want to pretend, get mad at him, not me.
Anyway, I didn't mention that other thing.
6: Brad's a total plagiarist; I believe the "id" comment was my own.
Who would have thought the id devoted quite so much time to streamlining TPS reports?
Ben may have taken the night off, so I just wanted to point out that it should be "whom The Ogged has never met." The Ogged cuts better if he stays sharp.
Really? I had "whom" and changed it. Are you, like, sure sure?
This is one of the perils of grammar by ear, rather than grammar by rules.
"the Ogged hasn't met [object of clause]"
and thus
"whom the ogged hasn't met"
Or writes it, actually. For all I know, s/he's a big fat liar in person.
17: Standpipe, if I asked the Bridgeplate next to you if you were telling me the truth, what would it say?
Use-mention error, Tweety, and besides that, words don't talk.
Stop oppressing us, Bridgeplate.
You all are idiots. You're typing silly comments when you could be eating halfway-decent mexican food. Or sushi-. Or Ethiopian food. You live in an earthly paradise and you bitch amongst yourselves, Are you trying to invite nemesis?
I really like ogged, and all the rest of you are mean, mean jerks.
Or Ethiopian food
When the eating is done, Unfogged is the injera with which one sops up the spicy ye beg tibs of human interaction on teh Internets -- or something like that. Fortunately, the analogy is so poor that it evades the ban.
Cheap shiraz and Palindromes: weird.
I find myself wondering if D-503 will comment on this thread.
Some of us are watching Švankmajer's Alice.
Ogged's online persona is wry, witty, and self-aware id, not pure unshackled id. That's where the funny comes from.
I watched Little Murders tonight; unlike some people's films of choice it didn't have a drink pairing.
Oh, and we made nachos. NACHOS, people.
I should go to bed. My parents are coming tomorrow, and I've got to clean up and stuff before they get here.
and I've got to clean up and stuff before they get here.
"clean up and stuff" s/b "hide the porn and weed"
I like how Brad calls your persona "pure unshackled id."
There's an "iot" missing there I think. And a "fucking", too, probably.
Brad said he was somewhat afraid to meet you, and I told them both that in fact you are rather quiet and extremely polite.
Like Peter Lorre, for example, or various other sinister Levantine types. Some stereotypes are accurate.
24 -- "analogy" s/b "metaphor".
I have the feeling that actually meeting you people* would ruin the Unfogged experience.
*Grammar police: Yes, I realize it should be "yous guys."
So I remain the only Unfogged blogger ever actually impersonated by a reader? Not that that means anything, I just thought I'd point it out.
A fake Lizardbreath? Did Buck believe your claim that it wasnt your myspace account, but a fakers?
24: I feel that the analogy ban should be enforced more strongly against poor analogies, not less. Of course, I say this having been accused by The Pure Unshackled Id himself of 'making a mockery of the analogy ban', so I wouldn't necessarily take my own advice on this one.
53: Do you feel that the analogy ban should be enforced more or less stringently against metaphors than against analogies?
The analogy ban is like the Seventh Commandment. Everyone things other people should obey it. And most people obey it most of the time -- just not when there's a good opportunity to break it.
"Thinks". I lapsed into Swedish.
Nearly 60 posts in, and nobody has done the obvious joke yet? The Unfogged cultural norm that bans impersonation must be strong indeed.
It's pretty deeply ingrained.
Or, alternatively, the sophisticates here disdained the obvious joke, and left the low-hanging fruit to the less imaginative.
> look sophisticates
I see no sophisticates here.
Has there been an update from that guy from that blog about the events from that post since like a week after the events?
Well, if he's appearing on panels, then we know he hasn't been murdered. I don't know any more than that, but that's good news in itself.
Of course, we don't really know that's *him* appearing on the panels.
It may be that someone is impersonating that guy in order to throw the police off the scent.
The real that guy may be found in one of [his town]'s many abandoned buildings one of these days. Cadavers are no big deal down there, they've learned to take them in stride. The hung-loose, joyful [his town] spirit, so unlike the uptight Puritan spirit of the rest of the US.
Cadavers are no big deal down there, they've learned to take them in stride.
That's right. Hence the adage: "If you come to a corpse in the road, take it."
1: We could've had such fun! Alas, B. sums it up. Apparently you're quite polite and charming, "The Ogged." (I may be misremembering, but I thought that's what Brad said, which is why I repeated the odd locution.) It would've been much cooler had someone revealed him/herself to have been ogged. (What with me so expert at having wool pulled over my eyes.)
62: There could be an update, but it'd be boring, as that guy's been completely cut out from that particular social circle. His friend decided to stay with her husband -- you know, "for the children" -- and now she's his former friend.
64: Eventually, we'll have visual confirmation that it's me. (And Brad, and B.)
His friend decided to stay with her husband -- you know, "for the children" -- and now she's his former friend.
That really sucks. My sympathy to that guy and his former friend both.
His friend decided to stay with her husband
Wow.
Generally, I'm all for marriages staying together despite rough patches, but in this case, ick. Sorry about the social circle.
my faith in the world just slipped a notch.
there are many notches in my thing on which my faith in things hangs.
I'll bet her children aren't grateful when they grow up.
62. That guy did the right thing, at great personal cost, with the foreknowledge that it would cost him dearly. That is called being a hero in my book.
I'd be surprised if you don't hear from her again.
78 gets it right.
Unfortunately, I'm not especially surprised at the outcome (shitty though it is).
No shame in thinking better of your friends than they prove to be, at least the first time.
I'm not especially surprised at the outcome
Really?
I'd hope at least that that guy's friend thanked him somewhere along the way for disabusing her of any wayward notions she had about her husband. In any case, I'd not want to be even a fly on the wall in their household for the next, oh, 10 years or so.
The guy sounds like my brother-in-law. He could clean up his act for awhile and he was a great sweet-talker, but he never really changed for the better.
The odds are that anything the husband has promised the wife will be a dead letter within a year.
there are many notches in my thing on which my faith in things hangs.
ATM.
86 gets it exactly right. Fucking unfathomable. Poor kids.
Thanks all. I'm with those who believe that eventually that guy won't be a pariah, but right now it seems like he's the proxy blame in this one; after all, he is the person who let the cat out of the bag.
As for the kids, as one of the few people there who still talks to that guy said: "It's better to grow up rich and powerful than poor and black-balled." But emotionally?
Great, maybe those kids will run for office someday, and we'll wonder why the hell they're doing X.
At least we'll be able to pinpoint the day their souls died?
Wait, none of this is very consoling.
Eh, my kid goes to school with a bunch of very overprivileged kids. (Actually they're all overprivileged just by virtue of being there.) He's just finishing fourth grade, and with a handful of exceptions the rich kids are already showing signs of being fucked for life. Given the choice between an even halfway healthy family and a rich one, go for healthy every time.
At least we'll be able to pinpoint the day their souls died?
Which day is that?
Sweetheart, that guy did the right thing. People lying in a very deep manner to one another is the soul-killer. It must be outed.
er. Trust. No?
Yeah, the staying for the sake of the kids things has its limits, and one of 'em should be "daddy's a complete and utter asshole."
The guy's friend ought to thank him, now or in the future, but if she's taken her rotten bastard of a husband back, I wonder if that will ever happen. If she does leave her husband, I can't imagine she'll be eager to admit the guy did her a favor.
It sucks, but That Guy told the truth and the truth is always worth telling.
When we have the mythical LA meetup, I promise to buy that guy the libation of his choice. Hell, I might even drive down there and retrieve him for the event.
Mythical, eh? I'm in. Just so long as I don't have to use a car to get ther-oh, LA.
I would come to this LA meetup, were it in Texas. Can someone work on that?
I'd be up for an unmythical LA meetup, as well as anything else that'll score me free booze.
I can think of nothing better than to have the LA meetup in Texas. Houston or San Antonio? I know, El Paso!
I think we're due for a houston one, no?
We could totally have the LA meetup within walking distance of the Red Line. I vote for The Well at Sunset and Vine. It is not too convenient to Houston though.
Let's let the TX folks work out there own issues. Hollywood works for me, but I am less familiar with the territory than I used to be.
True LA meetup requires it be not in LA, right? It has to be in, say, Reseda. Everyone has to drive at least 30 minutes.
Gold or Red lines are good.
Also, no admittance if you are distaff and don't have fake boobs. That's just not how we do things here.
Given our atomized, isolated existences, there's no way we'll ever meetup unless we crash our cars into one another.
True LA meetup requires it be not in LA, right? It has to be in, say, Reseda.
Taking a cue from the Angels? You could bill it as "the Los Angeles meetup of Sherman Oaks".
Any LA meetup should be at Taix on Sunset.
Is it convenient? Who cares.
I vote for West Hollywood ... you know, so we can get dosed and really have some fun.
SEK offered to take me to a gay bar in West Hollywood. I mistrust his intentions.
It's for your own good. I mean, you're nearly 26 and you've yet to score. You'd be the only straight guy there. No competition! You'll win!*
*By default.
Honestly, I'd be interested in an LA meetup. Will anyone besides commenters be in LA in the near future? Or are we arranging an all-starunknown cast of thousandsseveral?
You'd be the only straight guy there
Really? Does your wife know that?
I second Taix. Convenient to the 2 bus, for those who don't believe that you can get around L.A. sans car.
117: I'd be interested too. I don't mind lurkers showing up, however. I never realized how many Unfogged lurkers there were until the first time I got linked. It's odd how much this feels like a talkative community, but is in truth a few blowhards and many, many, many silent hecklers.
118: Really? Does your wife know that?
I didn't say I'd go in with you. You're a big boy now, you can handle the room by yourself.
Taix? Unless it's upgraded itself drastically in the last decade, it's a crappy pseudo-French restaurant with lousy decor in a dull neighbourhood. There are better places equally accessible by bus. Like Musso & Frank's. Or someplace at The Grove/Farmer's Market. Or half of West Hollywood. [If B and I come along, we will defend your innocence from all teh gays.]
If the LA Unfogged meet-up were, say, brunch on July 1st, I would already be in LA for a wedding and could also go. Or for drinks later in the evening on June 29th.
Taix doesn't seem to have improved if these the comments here are any indication.
123: And I even used the Preview. Whatever.
I'll do LA. Or even the Bay Area, if I can get someone to watch my damn kid for me.
120: I don't think it's possible to be a silent heckler.
SEK, I should say, I would be happy to meet any of the Unfoggedtariat, silent ones, inclusive.
re: 126
In their head, they are heckling.
re: 127
Mime-heckling!
[I'd have typed that once I got out of this invisible glass box]
Sounds like the time to suggest a Fargo meetup again, since you're all having so much trouble finding anything decent in LA.
Or even the Bay Area
I don't believe a Bay Area meetup is ever going to happen -- people just keep talking about having one and then never follow through. Teases.
I'm totally ready to do a Bay Area meetup and have a tentative date from Capps (weekend of June 9) for when he's going to be in town, but nothing final yet.
"it's a crappy pseudo-French restaurant with lousy decor in a dull neighbourhood"
With comfortable chairs, strong drinks, and near-total absence of hipsters. Plus, the French Onion Soup is awesome. And you meet really, really old people there.
Let's just forget all these stupid meetups and continue our normal and customary masturbatory practices. No one's fooling anyone with this shit.
I didn't say I was going to go. I don't live in LA! I just wanted to pick the place.
132: You betcha, I'd go to the Fargo meetup.
OK, so far it's you, me, Chopper, Frowner, and Minneapolitan. Everyone can stay at my brother's house.
A Fargo meetup would be worth it just to spite the stupid Bay Area / LA losers. We wouldn't actually have to have one, we could just report back on a fictitious event.
Yeah, kind of like both times you were supposed to come hang out with me and Chopper in Minneapolis, John.
A Fargo meetup should be partly in Brainerd and partly in Minneapolis.
Cool, you know to do this really right somebody is going to have to make hot dish with a potato chip topping and some sort of a jello salad thing. To capture the true midwestern essence of the local that is. That will show those Californians with the sun and beaches and shit.
140, isn't that what people do for all the "meetups?"
Tweety doesn't live in L.A.? SantaCon, Taix ... weird. You must have invented moving.
Santacon happens in places other than LA, you know. Racist.
Well, my sister has a cabin in Brainerd.
Hey, some of my best friends are New Yorkers.
141: Jan 2 is not a good meetup date, recent studies have shown. Not for someone who's spent Jan 1 on the train.
135: Plus, the French Onion Soup is awesome.
You've clearly never eaten in a real French restaurant. I used to get stuck going to meetings at Taix, back in the days when it was convenient for the downtown lawsters. And nobody not coming to a meet-up gets to have venue input.
Let's get Megan drunk on the 29th of June! Her soon-to-be-wedded friend will appreciate it when she turns up with a hangover and a tattoo reading "I (heart) K-Fed". We could dress up and pretend to be a bachelorette party and get SEK even drunker and insist the he should consider a career in strip-o-grams...
"You've clearly never eaten in a real French restaurant."
I didn't say it was "authentic," I said it was "awesome."
DE, I find it fascinating that you like Musso's but not Taix. It's old school, family-owned and -run, and Echo Park hasn't been a dumpy neighborhood for about a decade.
It's got a great, dark, loungey bar. Pace Tweety, the hipsters do know about it, but the one Talk Talk Talk reading I went to there was wicked fun.
But hey, I'm always up for learning about a redeeming place in West Hollywood. Although I'll be out of town on July 1st (at an equal and opposite wedding in the Midwest), so do your worst.
The French onion soup at Stella in Silver Lake is awesome, too.
The bar is where you want to be.
The hipsters do know about it, but the percentages are more reasonable than most places around there.
Everybody in the world getting married that weekend? Lets do it another time.
Also, I'm a hipster, somewhere in the sixtieth percentile of hip (bedhead, adidas, rock band; OTOH, real job, enthusiasm). And Cat and Girl had the last word on "hipster", anyhow.
I don't believe a Bay Area meetup is ever going to happen
It will probably happen before the NC meetup comes to fruition, though.
You know what? Whatever! I declare myself ready to meet up
any weekend this summer (but not 6/22, because I want to see the Dead Science at 21 Grand, and probably not 6/23, because of Tortoise at the Independent, if I can get/afford tix).
This is going on 6/28 and /29, though, and might be of general interest: "Inside a Broken Clock: Peepshow! A Burlesque
Review Inspired by the music of Tom Waits"
