Yeah, she made you sound awful. And goggle tan? That's pretty sad, dude.
Skeezy and reserved, with a goggle tan, Ogged would make pleasant company for any suitably repressed young outdoorswoman in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I didn't know it was possible to be both skeezy and reserved.
4:
It totally is. Ogged probably quietly whispered obscenities in her ear.
She didn't say "reserved", she said "more reserved than I would have expected".
Which is true: Ogged is not very boisterous IRL, because of his small pecs.
4: http://www.elysee.fr/elysee/root/bank/le_president/jcpregd.jpg
Whoa, I knew the song, "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" was by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. But I always assumed it was some other Kenny Rogers, not THE Kenny Rogers.
Not so. It is the same Kenny. As this video makes clear, with the Gambler looking very, very, very young.
G-Biker: that is an incredible video! Its like the "archival" footage of Spinal Tap doing "(Listen to the) Flower People"
Unrelated. If you are going to correct someone's translation of Greek, don't preface your remarks by saying "I don't know what the Greek is, but..."
"with the Gambler looking very, very, very young."
And very, very, very tripping. As is half the band, it would appear.
Maybe they just stared at the bed too long.
God, I'm so glad I've never had the opportunity to go to a meetup. I'd feel obliged, but I write better than I talk, and I don't write well. I'm a misanthropist, but my misanthropy is fooled by texts: I like you people in general, and I wouldn't want spoil that by meeting you.
I think skeezy is just being used as a synonym for Iranian here. To be fair, it is a *very* large medallion.
15: Funny you should say that. I've always wondered if meeting you would soothe my blind, unreasoning, pulsating hatred of everything you stand for.
Is anyone ever available for a Tokyo meet-up?
Emerson might be, provided you hold it in Fargo.
I keep wanting to attend a meet-up, but my dislike of travel always overcomes that desire.
15: Interesting. I know a guy who won't go to any meet-ups 'cause (he says) he would immediately lose respect for anyone who met him in meatspace and liked him.
17: Funny how I've carefully avoided standing for anything here. The irony mist that pervades unfogged makes standing for things rather difficult. Yet Katherine manages anyway (Yet another reason why she is my hero).
I did say "unreasoning," didn't I?
Anyway, I'm just yanking your chain. Let's kill some cats.
(23 goes out to Chandler, more in solidarity than it might at first seem.)
23: Yeah, I picked that up. I just wanted to get a shout out to Katherine, whose husband should be shaking in his basement-purchased eccos right now. Buy her some flowers right quick, bitch, because hell hath no sexy like a man aroused by patriotism.
So this is the thread for lurkers n' losers who won't go to meetups?
More for people who live in places where there are unlikely to be meetups, I think.
No, this is the thread for dissing Katherine's husband, who, if he was a real man, would show up and defend himself, instead of marrying Katherine and ruining it for everybody. Like the little bitch that he is.
The goggle tan is pretty remarkable, actually. Ogged: sunblock.
If he were a real man, foolish mortal.
w-lfs-n is correct. Katherine's SO's manhood is most definitely subjunctive.
Totally OT, but I think about Pynchon when I smoke. (normal tabaccy) Mason/Dixon's theme was the subjunctive: Gravity's Rainbow's was the preterite. Do the other books address the literal meanings of tenses or parts of speech? What kind of theme could be attached to Against the Day? What tense might it represent, if any? Mock me if necessary, but I want answers.
I love that idea. I have a similar theory about Peter Greenaway's films each representing different historical periods.
33: Either you have not read the text in question or you have an admirably sick sense of humor. I suspect both.
DaveL and I had a lovely meet-up in Honolulu. He's a swell guy who bought me lunch.
I think if we can pull of a Honolulu meet-up G-biker can find someone from unfogged on his funny island.
Berlin meetup?
Though if it only takes two for a meetup, I guess the Berlin meet-up happened last summer. w-lfs-n took me to a barbecue where there were a bunch of Italians who spoke neither English nor German.
I've met CharleyCarp and one other Unfogged-ist [someone who doesn't seem to comment here any more]. In Oxford.
I always assumed it was some other Kenny Rogers, not THE Kenny Rogers.
Funny. I always assumed the same thing. That video is amazing. It's hard to tell the Gambler from Glen Campbell in that video, but all those bearded and turtlenecked people look the same to me anyway.
And also from the from the Department-of-my-own-ignorance--this just in. Until watching last night's American Masters, I thought Les Paul was merely a great guitarist. I had no idea that he pretty much invented multi-tracking.
re: 39
Yeah, he was responsible for a few recording innovations. And had a nice guitar named after him. I have some mid-1940s recordings by him (pre multi-track) that are pretty impressive just as examples of high-octane swing style guitar heroics. Quite rock and roll sounding for the time.
And had a nice guitar named after him.
That I knew. Though, there too, I suppose I imagined that the Gibson Les Paul guitar was merely named after him, instead of being a kind of guitar that he invented. Not actually being a guitarist, I just widely underestimated the breadth of Paul's talents.
If I'd ever paid any attention to The First Edition beyond "Condition," I'd have known it was the same Kenny Rogers. "Ruby, don't take your love to town" was a First Edition hit. (Dig those glasses!)
Les Paul is 92 years old and still plays every Monday night in NYC. I've been here almost a year and still haven't seen him play. I feel like a fool.
re: 41
Actually, he didn't, strictly speaking, invent the Les Paul guitar. He'd been experimenting with his own custom made solid body when Gibson offered to make him one. So they responded to a few of his suggestions and then designed one for him. There's some dispute about how much input Les Paul himself had into the design of the guitar. The consensus view seems to be 'not much'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Les_Paul#Origins
[I own an early 1970s Japanese copy of the Les Paul, so have the usual guitar players nerdy fascination with this stuff]
Lots about Les Paul at the link.
This was probably on American Masters, but the thing that I was shocked to learn about Les Paul is that at 92, he still plays regular gigs.
W/D, if you've seen him play, you've pwned us all.
all those bearded and turtlenecked people look the same to me anyway.
Racist.
all those bearded and turtlenecked people look the same to me anyway
[not turtleneckist]
Thanks for the link, ttaM. The impression I took away from AM was that the Gibson Les Paul was more strictly a reproduction of "The Log."
It was likewise awesome meeting catherine and we did, in fact, recognize her from pictures on the Intarweb. Though she was sober when we saw her, so it took us a minute.
She did get one thing wrong, though -- we all need to NOT buy Yglesias' book. He's been entirely too successful at entirely too young an age, and he needs a taste of bitter, bitter failure so he won't be completely unbearable when he hits 30.
15: Best start working on your excuses now, for Heebie will be in town on the 22nd and AFAIK still actually wants to meet up.
Which raises the question -- how will we recognize her? I think she'll have to have to walk into the bar backwards or something.
Though if it only takes two for a meetup, I guess the Berlin meet-up happened last summer. w-lfs-n took me to a barbecue where there were a bunch of Italians who spoke neither English nor German.
To be fair to me, I didn't realize that was going to be the case either. Although, also, we were supposed to speak in german, and I was supposed to buy you a beer, and I pretty much abandoned the former pursuit after ten minutes and "forgot" about the latter condition. Oh well.
w-lfs-n has trouble closing his <fu> tags.
Best start working on your excuses now, for Heebie will be in town on the 22nd and AFAIK still actually wants to meet up.
Which raises the question -- how will we recognize her? I think she'll have to have to walk into the bar backwards or something.
I will be in town! I do want to meet up! I keep hoping you all aren't burnt out on meet-ups!
I'll have to find an excuse to buy you a beer some other time, then.
With interest, that'll be two beers!
(But speaking of beers not quite a year later, I got back to my Berlin apartment and found the four beers I had left here last August untouched by my subletter.)
