Aww... But where will we go? What will we do?
Good luck. My hiatus has been great -- wish you the best on yours!
People!
Hasn't anyone noticed that read is more than 1 person?
"Hiatus" seems like such a bloggy word. Not "I'm going to take a break from blogging," but -- "I'm going on hiatus." Why?
"I just figured I'd do something someone else for a while."
I hope this doesn't have anything to do with Favre.
Or perhaps lifeguard girl has come close to discovering the blog.
Or she told him to stop blogging.
Clearly he's about to get laid. He's been saving up, so he'll last for weeks.
Yay, hiatus!
Can I come?
I wish I had a blog to be on hiatus from.
A lot of bloggers go on hiati (to rhyme with "be a pie") every month or so. Who, oh who will be the guestblogger?!?
Notice how when sybil comes back, Ogged disappears? Interesting.
As for Adam's question, it's because a blog constitutes a written body of work, and a pause in the production of the work is a hiatus in the sense of a break in its continuity. The work is temporarily suspended when the person takes a break, and so by transference of epithet we say that the person himself—whom most readers, after all, know only via the work anyway—is "on hiatus".
So it's going well with bpl then.
Have fun! Don't get another cancer this time!
Who, oh who will be the guestblogger?!?
Tia, LB, Apo, Becks, and me.
The writers' strike leads to hiatus. I was wondering when the show would run out of stockpiled material.
WTF happened to the Poor Man? Did all the wealth go up the other guy's nose?
Note, too, that while ogged has denied that he's leaving because he hates us, he hasn't denied that he hates us.
I upset him today by loving Brett and his Wrangler jeans. And now I feel bad.
18: don't be flip, John. His addiction is a terrible disease.
Sybil, Favre is a holy man. Can't you love him in a purer, more noble way?
my love for Brett is as pure as pure can be. See my gushing in the thread about the Patriots. And ogged's vitriolic response.
17 gets it right. And in 16 we see the new roster of scabs and management toadies to be shunned. You were so smug.
19: So noted.
Don't get another cancer this time!
BPL is an HPV carrier? Man. Shouldn't we kind of, like, respect the woman's privacy?
Sybil:
Where did the third best Packer quarterback go to college?
25: and #7, captain i refuse to release the ball, is on my shit list right now.
will, i thought you were talking about MY #7. I am an AFC girl who just happens to have grown up rooting for the Packers. On Packers history, I am shit.
Shouldn't we kind of, like, respect the woman's privacy?
Yaa haa ha ha ha ha ha! Good one, B.! [*slaps knee, wipes tears from eyes*]
Since there can be no Patriots thread on Unfogged, Sybil, I can only assume that you are lying to me. What sinister game are you playing?
Fuck, I'm wrong, there really is a Patriot's thread. Having read ogged's crazed rantings, I'm glad he's gone. I hate the Patriots because they are good. I am against excellence. The Buddha teaches us that the human spirit will only be free once we embrace all-around mediocrity.
The my sure and certain hope thread. I am too much of a luddite to know how to link it.
Seriously - are we all readed out? The read entity is more than one. React. Testify. Do down the revelator.
Magic eight-ball says "Picture unclear".
Interestingly, this coincides with my own half-assed hiatus (half-assed in that it consists of still reading all the posts but only a quarter or so of the comment threads). Does this mean I'm going to get laid soon?
Teofilo, you can get laid! You're a champion!
Yeah, teo!
Hiatus smiataus - it's a thinly veiled plea for lurian sympathy. Is there a connection with read's multiplicity?
Don't let the prosthetic leg kick you in the ass on the way out.
Maybe now is the time to move teo's dating life to the front page, so he doesn't have to constantly fork whatever thread strikes his fancy.
47 - Given that work is pretty busy for me lately, now is the perfect time for Ask The Mineshafts and emailing your friendly blogger topic ideas. Much tidier than hijacking threads.
I have every right to ignore or reject them, though.
One of the women of unfogged needs to volunteer to give Teo a mercy fuck.
Christ on a raft. What do we have to do to get your attention?
48: boy my moustache is feeling like it could use a trim, Becks. Can I ask for advice again?
How do you figure read's more than one person?
Oh, I'm paying attention to you, OutOfTheBlue. Right now I have the fixed stare of the predator. Watching. Waiting. Planning.
Ah - it would be w-lfs-n.
Personas
49: Yeah. Nothing builds a person up more than to know you've been fucked out of pity...
s'cuse me WSG - I retreat into the bush (iykwim)
Wait, wait. Is Teo's goal here to build his ego? I thought it was just to get laid.
How do you figure read's more than one persona, then? What do you even mean by that?
56: Di, the way I see it, trapped inside Teo there is a sex-machine waiting to get out. The problem is the psychological hangup he has about being a virgin: Is she the right one? Is she too weird? Is she too normal? We've heard it all. The point is to break him out of his rut (no pun intended), and for that, a mercy fuck will suffice.
Within certain limits, sex is inherently confidence-boosting.
Sorry, as a long time lurker - all I wanted to say was that it seemed obvious to me that the people contributing as read shared more than one voice. No big deal but nobody seemed to be talking about it.
If you look closely at 62, you will find that its expression is still confused. No matter.
Ogged, how can you leave on the eve of the Michigan primaries, when we're all fired up with Mittmentum?!
Well, anyway. Enjoy your hiatus, if that's what you insist on calling it.
I'm thinking that someone who would worry about whether a girl is too weird, too normal, the right one, etc. might also balk at "is doing me out of pity." But I won't presume to speak for Teo.
Within certain limits, sex is inherently confidence-boosting.
I don't think so. Heart-rate-boosting, maybe.
With the right rockets, sex is inherently altitude-boosting.
might also balk at "is doing me out of pity."
But as long as it's fodder for blog comments, it's cool, right teo?
Within certain limits, confidence is inherently sex-boosting.
What about a prostitute? She'd probably be appreciative of the fact that you don't have STDs.
Fuck me in space
Rape me in face
Boy do I need
To get out of this place
70: Well, sure. Entertainment fuck is a whole nother story.
Did anyone notice that Standpipe, Sybil, and pdf23ds all came back on the same day, the day ogged disappeared?
Ogged, I so hope this means things are going well with BPL. Best of luck, we'll miss you, for hours or even weeks.
If teo really wanted his blog to be more popular he'd take someone up on these offers one of these days. New frontiers in liveblogging, etc.
More than one person posting under a single name?
65: I thought the issue wasn't "is she ___ enough," but more "will she say yes?" But I admit I haven't been following the Trials of Teofilo very closely.
Will she say yes?
Should she say yes?
Did she say yes?
How does she say yes?
Why did she say yes?
Who said yes?
All questions that arise frequently.
83: who put Yes on? Do you like Yes? Didn't Yes break up?
This issue is played out, if issues can be.
But (always but) would you reject an expressive phrase just because its expression was confused? If the meaning was inexplicit there would be a problem. But what if the content was understood by all? What if the constructed expression was pure communication, hailed by the multitude (sermon on the mount anyone?) Would you reject it if it could not withstand your grammatical engines?
More than one person posting under a single name?
Yeah, Standpipe, the time for rape jokes was five hours ago.
pdf23ds is back?
But (always but) would you reject an expressive phrase just because its expression was confused? If the meaning was inexplicit there would be a problem. But what if the content was understood by all? What if the constructed expression was pure communication, hailed by the multitude (sermon on the mount anyone?) Would you reject it if it could not withstand your grammatical engines?
Would you, could you, with a trebuchet?
"Meet me," he'd said, and forgotten
"Love me" but of love we are frightened
We'd rather leave and fly to the moon
Than say the right words too soon.
Hung like a Shetland pony
Gettin' paid like Sony
No time for a tete-a-tety
Can I borrow your machete
ogged leaves and suddenly Standpipe's all over the place ... hmmmmm ....
Just so.
90 > Um, what? I sense the Seuss but what? (Don't get me wrong - I like trebuchet's (was the comma correct Ben?)
See - now I have ironized myself. But still - judge my meaning and render. Dammit Ben, I'm only a doctor.
Crap, pwned by 75. I mean, yes, I did notice, just didn't bother to refresh the damn thread.
76: Me too, but more important, the Pistorius post is pretty good evidence that either the blog will survive a happy Ogged or the threat of Oggedian happiness has been dealt with.
If the Pistorius post is evidence of the blog's survival post–happy ogged, one is forced to ask what sort of life this is.
99: a differently abled one, Ben.
Also wouldn't it be "post-unhappy ogged"?
99: One was forced to ask that a while ago, reach unpleasant conclusions, and manfully soldier on. But there are several fine examples of ogged being ogged on that thread, including the post that started it.
91 is unsuited to the general tenor of the comments at this weblog, inasmuch as it does not contribute to an even further lowering of the tone.
So we're on our own, aren't we? Come on, people, let's not kid ourselves. Ogged's not coming back. No, not ever.
Ogged always comes back. And he brings cargo.
Why can't I leave this be?
Ben - Who the hell would want a "the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambiqu" to http://tety-borges.deviantart.com/
At this point all I can add is - crepuscular has more than one meaning. Goodnight
101: I Know! Let's put on a show!
now is the perfect time for Ask The Mineshafts and emailing your friendly blogger topic ideas.
Dear Mineshaft:
How do you advise recommending something (music, movie, food) to others with sufficient enthusiasm to inspire genuine interest, but without building it up to the point where disappointment is likely?
I don't think I ever got around to "writing" a sonnet that ended
'I date' from date away she threw,
And ruined my night, saying 'not you.'
(And now I have to go to sleep, so I guess it'll stay unfinished.)
Let's put on a show!
I envision the show being more like this, but less heteronormative.
but less heteronormative.
I am getting sick of being oppressed by antiheteronormativitvity.
107: "You should really give X a try, you'll like it. I mean, maybe you'll like it. Huh. Maybe your tastes are too unsophisticated for it. In fact-- no, you should probably avoid it. Forget I even brought it up. What were you saying?"
"I was gonna recommend X to you, but then I remembered that time I recommended Y to you. Boy, that was a clusterfuck, wasn't it? Yeah, let's not go through that again."
109 is fab.
I got kind of a cold chill when Ogged said he was going on hiatus. Like, will he blog with us every second weekend? Will it be just like before, only he's on some other blog downtown?
What about my birthday and the school play?
I want a refund from that therapist.
Will it be just like before, only he's on some other blog downtown?
People get mad when you do this. Blog cheating ("bleating") is no laughing matter.
Is Teo's goal here to build his ego?
Yes.
trapped inside Teo there is a sex-machine waiting to get out. The problem is the psychological hangup he has about being a virgin: Is she the right one? Is she too weird? Is she too normal?
True.
I'm thinking that someone who would worry about whether a girl is too weird, too normal, the right one, etc. might also balk at "is doing me out of pity."
Also true.
If teo really wanted his blog to be more popular he'd take someone up on these offers one of these days.
If you look carefully, you'll see that there have not actually been any offers. Just proposals that someone else make such an offer. (I am excluding ben's and apo's offers relating to UnfoggeDCon, the time for fulfillment of which has come and gone.)
I thought the issue wasn't "is she ___ enough," but more "will she say yes?"
Again, true.
Any more questions?
Are you sure you're getting drunk enough on these "dates"?
Now we're getting somewhere!
You need to go on a date where you both get much more drunk than the situation really calls for. Is it a sure thing? Who knows. But this is science.
Or shit you just need to get drunk and wait for some girl to take advantage of you. Don't even worry about them being drunk.
Quite true, but first I need to find situations in which I can do that.
You need to get out more, is I think what we're saying.
You go to parties, ever, out there?
You go to parties, ever, out there?
No.
(I am excluding ben's and apo's offers relating to UnfoggeDCon, the time for fulfillment of which has come and gone.)
Yeah, you know, in the event I just wasn't sure it was right.
I hope we can still be friends anyway.
I think you should.
Dating qua dating is kind of a pain in the ass way to meet people, especially if you're a little nervous already; there is a certain stilted formality to the proceedings. Personally, it's never worked that well for me. Informal situations -- where you have time to get to know somebody, and are maybe not so focussed on the whole date-ness of it -- are much better. People have told you that you need a hobby, right? Is there a Drinking Liberally in your neighborhood?
I would go to parties if I were invited to them (and, indeed, have gone to a couple that I was invited to a while back), but I don't get invited to them very often. The real problem is that I haven't put in enough effort to develop a strong social circle here.
And while I agree that dating qua dating doesn't seem like the most effective way to meet people, I really am extremely shy and inhibited, so a somewhat formal situation in which the possibility of romance has already been explicitly acknowledged has its advantages.
You should host it. Pick a bar; can't be much more complicated than that. Then you'll be the big man in liberalism! The ladies love that.
128: yes and no; the problem as I see it is that it takes you a long time to open up -- and once you open up you're perfectly charming -- so while getting things on the table is useful, the formal structure of a date doesn't really give you time to be yourself.
while getting things on the table is useful, the formal structure of a date doesn't really give you time to be yourself.
Yes, but informal social situations tend to not allow me to open up at all. Unless there's a lot of alcohol involved, and even then the odds aren't great.
Teo, you're in NM, right? Can you hand around the Graduate Institute at St. John's? There's boatloads of thinky and weird right there.
Wow, the san francisco drinking liberally is like three blocks from my house.
131: so you need informal, small-scale social events, repeated long enough to get comfortable putting things on the table. Hm. Have you considered working on a campaign?
Teo, you're in NM, right? Can you hand around the Graduate Institute at St. John's? There's boatloads of thinky and weird right there.
I could if I went up to visit my sister in Santa Fe some time (which I've been meaning to do), but I'm in Albuquerque so it's a bit far to hang out there a lot.
Have you considered working on a campaign?
A little, but don't campaigns usually want people who, like, care about stuff?
Possibly, but getting laid is reputed to count as "stuff" for that purpose.
Getting laid is the very best reason to get involved. Or at least it's likely the most common.
Campaigns want people who can do stuff. Caring is demonstrated by being competent in the face of underpayment or none at all. You don't have to pull a sword from a stone or get your true heart judged in any way.
Campaigns want people who can do stuff.
So much for that idea, then.
Stuff being defined as "anything north of stuffing envelopes".
"envelopes" s/b "other staffers"
Teo you goofball, you're a good writer. You think somebody who can communicate clearly isn't (a) desperately needed by campaigns and (b) desperately lusted after by idealistic young female volunteers? Think again.
These campaigns don't have people who can write? No wonder the Democrats keep losing.
Teo, and I mean this, it may be in May, but go visit your sister during Reality Weekend -- assuming that the folks in Fe call it the same things that the Annapolitans did. Sure thing.
To me, it leans slightly in favor of Obama: there will be more women at the Hillary campaign, but they will be relatively older. On the other hand, the Barack volunteers will all have a crush on Obama, but I think they'll want to get it on with you.
To settle things, a quick scan of the campaign websites reveals that Hillary does not, in fact, have a campaign in New Mexico. Easy!
So: Obama planning meeting tomorrow night on Second Street; Canvas near UNM on Saturday.
"But Wrongshore," you say, "I'm shy. How can I canvas!"
Well, I guess you'll have to get partnered up with someone, won't you?
Wrongshore understands, teo. Listen to Wrongshore.
The presidential campaigns will not need people who can write. For that you've got to go more local.
Or else, if it is just a problem of shyness, there's always IRC, or whatever you kids use these days.
Worked for me.
I feel like Teo should promise to follow the social/dating/sex advice of exactly one commenter, and then hold an auction to see who that will be. We could raise a lot of money for a good cause, like the leather pants he is instructed to buy.
149: well anyhow he has needed skills. Right?
Teo listen to me. I am your svengali.
Or else, if it is just a problem of shyness, there's always IRC, or whatever you kids use these days.
"Blogging," I believe.
The nascent Albuquerque Obama meetup list consists of three women. Of the three, my money's on Tricia: she is already using the meetup for purely selfish, instrumental purposes.
152 is right! Sifu is Svengalicious.
Yay, hiatus!
I just heard a story about an unlikely character who signed on for buddhist boot camp - 2 weeks of meditation, vow of silence. His brother in law won the family pool for how long he'd last when the very first day he declared 'fuck this shit' and left.
I, however, am a proud veteran of buddhist boot camp. I did break down and start reading Gravity's Rainbow toward the end, though.
How moving
I'm curious though how long you can last as ootb.
My bet is a month is too long time for a lurker to persevere.
most probably the nxt three hrs
but it depends on situations, i mean for hiatuses
i for example once was so mad with my best friend and her then boyfriend that did not talk to them half a yr despite being classmates
though the hiatus probably has nothing to do with luring back some unstable lurkers
It just occurred to me that O has learned that read is not a medical researcher from Mongolia, but plays the bass and is a lifeguard. I know; I'm kind of slow.
Not that it matters but 158 wasn't me. Sober now. Yeech.
73 is offensive to many people.
I clearly don't belong here anymore, because the last time I checked, "blah blah RAPES you in the FACE" was a well-tolerated running gag (which I mostly associate with Cala, but what do I know).
See you all three years ago.
161: I blame all this on the coming of the Mongols. 1/14 changed everything.
Well I'll be tessellated, I thought all this time that the numbers on the comments were below. Now I see that they are above. I've been someone else all along! I wonder who?
I haven't forgotten the cherished ideals upon which this community was built, Standpipe. You can facerape me whenever you like.
I got kind of a cold chill when Ogged said he was going on hiatus. Like, will he blog with us every second weekend? Will it be just like before, only he's on some other blog downtown?
What about my birthday and the school play?
I want a refund from that therapist.
Penny made me laugh.
so you need informal, small-scale social events, repeated long enough to get comfortable putting things on the table. Hm. Have you considered working on a campaign?
Some advice on choosing the right campaign to maximize your chances of scoring booty.
Damn you and your interpositions, will.
I understand, but don't like it!
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
I was just playing got yer nose.
Face, please tell the court, what were you wearing at the moment of the encounter with the accused? Nothing at all, you say? Interesting. Wouldn't you agree that your utter nakedness could be interpreted as signalling interest in sex?
172:
I imagine that it is difficult getting a firm handle on your client.
115-16: At least we can be reasonably certain he won't be moonlighting at the Washington Monthly this time.
161: See Standpipe's blog for an explanation of why my comment was, in fact, funny.
But it wasn't even sex. It was got yer nose.
I feel my representation is inadequate. Yeah, that's it, my representation's inadequate.
B, I just sent you an MP3 at the yahoo mail, for reasons that are even more apparent now that I've checked into the thread.
When you stop to examine the issue, the nose penetrated me.
Hmm, maybe I should represent myself.
177: Ooh, free music!
I've heard that one--and yes, it's teh awesome--but didn't have a copy of it. Merci buckets!
I kind of want to have a sex change just so I can take care of this teofilo problem once and for all.
Well, okay, actually this is why I want the sex change, and the teo thing is just a sideshow.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, consider the nose. A delicious, tantalizing plum to feign picking, both for the dizzying moment of wish fulfillment in which the nose can exist, in fantasy, as both part of my body and cherished other, finally completing my noseless form? Or a viscious, assaultive protuberance, jutting and pecking this way and that, unheeding of the air molecules it might displace, finally thrusting into a gentle cock puppet who wanted nothing but to give it a gentle caress? Either way you construe it, I can hardly be thought to have committed a crime. Avert the miscarriage of justice this megalomaniacal prosecution is determined to perpetrate for its own foul aims. Throw this runaway trolley from the tracks, or at least throw a fat man in front of it, and in so doing, spare at least five baby Cock Puppets. Not guilty! ladies in gentleman--er, ladies and gentleman, that is. As pure as the day I was born.
Cock Puppet, the prosecution is offering to reduce the charges to First Degree Tickling with Intent to Nosepick. They'll recommend to the judge that you serve no time. I urge you to plead out.
Perhaps the genital puppetry movement needs a martyr.
185: You have no idea what happens to guys like you behind bars, do you? I'm telling you, take the probation!
Am I a boy?
Time for a Cock Puppet self-inventory!
My favorite things are fire trucks, the ballet, Bryan Adams, quiche, and snapping people on the butt with towels.
I have an orifice and a protuberance. I like to play games like got yer nose.
So confusing.
Maybe they will put me in women's prison. I shall get a tattoo with ink from ball point pen from Rhonda, a grifter from Albuquerque who lost an eye in a dispute over the authenticity of a supposed Pollack she sold for three million to a fence/meth kingpin that she had really made with tartar sauce and salsa packets hoarded over the course of months at her day job at Sizzler. That sounds fun. I'll bet Rhonda has a very beautiful nose. And I shall learn to crochet and knit myself an entire puppet family, one for every part of the body.
Women's prison it is!
Ah, yes, the insanity defense! Why didn't I think of that?
We Bryan Adams fans have been marginalized and oppressed for decades, but this is the first I've been called insane. Didn't I fire you?
Oh, Bryan. I've endured worse than this, and I won't be driven away. Everything I doooo, I do it for yoooou.
what about Kid Bitzer, BTW? Disappeared.