That's fast -- my valiant ratter when I was in the Peace Corps was death on rats, but couldn't do much with geckos, or at least I never saw her catch one.
There's always a window of opportunity with geckos, because they have this endearing tendency to drop from the ceiling periodically This surprises them as much (or more) than the people they sometimes fall on. Then they freeze for a little while, trying to work out what happened. That's when they can become a kitty snack.
Maybe she was so fast that she caught the gecko, ate it, and was back before you knew it. Like the Flash.
I had a good cup of coffee today. Later, I'm going to a baseball game. On the other hand, I didn't go see The Birds in Bryant Park because I was sure it would be rained out. I also didn't leave work on time to see it, but would have if I thought it'd stay dry. Actually, I'm luke-warm in my judgment of that movie anyway.
Yeak also I have to add that my other kitty is missing and is probably... having a great time somewhere.
My neighbour kindly told me that it is too small to be worth eating, so I needn't worry on that account.
They are my favorite house pest -- they're cute, eat bugs, and make that neat little chirping noise.
Back in the Peace Corps we used to have a joke about the symptoms of the DTs in Samoa: "Lizards, lizards all over the walls... why don't I see any lizards on the walls? Bugs, crawling all over me -- where are all the bugs that should be crawling on me?!? AAAAAHHH!!!"
Looks like it will be a good year for our garden -- lots of humidity and sun. Old potatoes which I had thrown in the compost heap sprouted; TMY and I transplanted them and they are thriving! Never grew potatoes before. TMW planted a honeysuckle vine next to the porch and it is threatening to make the porch its own.
They shit everywhere, and their chirp is like a thousand jackhammers from hell in the middle of the night. You need a more worthy favorite house pest. I'm sure someone here will volunteer.
No, my current favorite housepest is an Australian Shepherd cross known here as DogBreath. She looks kinda like Jim Henley's dog, only crazier and with more spots.
The picture may be of a Border Collie, which is a related sheepdog-breed; I'm not sure. And DogBreath is actually 3/4 Aussie, 1/4 BC. But the Australian Shepherd has nothing at all to do with Australia -- they're sheepdogs that were brought to the American Southwest from the Basque region of Spain. IIRC, the name comes from the fact that they tended to be owned and used by Australians working in the US. (Australian Cattledogs, on the other hand, are actually from Australia.)
Also, I've never thought much of The Birds; it was for me the weakest part of a Hitchcock festival I saw almost everything in. I allow that maybe I didn't get it.
slol, is it working for you? I've been getting this all morning:
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Neither of these are news, but the Spider Robinson speech I linked to addresses exactly the feeling you're talking about.
But if we are getting more and better Bad News than any generation in history, is it any wonder that we are stunned goofy? Robert Heinlein had his character Jubal Harshaw wonder aloud about the pernicious psychic effects of "wallowing daily in the troubles of six billion strangers"--and sometime later Theodore Sturgeon addressed Harshaw's question, in a bone-chilling story called, "And Now The News..." The hero, driven mad by news, quotes John Dunne's line about every man's death diminishing him...and decides to go out there and diminish mankind right back. The last line is, "He got eight people before they brought him down." Sturgeon wrote this decades before serial killers became a commonplace.
Actually I've recently mentioned someone else who's written about how to avoid getting too depressed by the news -- Fran Peavey. That really was the message of the Atomic Comics act -- the news is depressing but, looked at the right way, it's also funny, and her activist work over the last 20 years is inspiring.
Ok, this is really sucky. I just logged in on the gmail account for one of my aliases, and it's fine. But still the same message for my jdrymala account. Grrrr.
The Birds is one of Hitchcock's weaker films, but still quite good--we're speaking relatively here. What is amazing, though? Notorious. So money it's ridiculous.
Joe D. and Becks, sitting in a tree
Unable to communicate with anybody else
Outside of the blog comments, they
Found themselves drawn to one another
Joe's weathered, manly hand
Brushed a tear from Becks' soft cheek
And he consoled her -- "Don't worry
About it babe, they'll have to learn
To live without us -- we'll be fine together."
She threw her arms around his sinewed neck
And gasped in his ear, "Don't leave me!"
And he felt her heaving bosom against
His leathery chest. "Don't cry babe,
We'll be all right," as he fumbled for
The light switch...
I've said (I think here and I know on my blog) that Shadow of a Doubt is the Hitchcock film which most consistently fails to get the recognition it deserves. It would also, I think make my top five of his, but I'm not looking at a list of them right now and can't therefore be certain.
The weird thing about The Birds is that it's as good as any Hitchcock movie, but Psycho is so much better than any other one, that one wonders hopw many other film-makers (artists) have produced a large body of work with ONE piece shooting out head and shoulder above the rest.
Also, sometimes when I masturbate I don't come. Question: do bloggers wank off as much as writers? Do we all wank off more because we spend all our time sitting at keyboards?
Is there a gender difference? Do women titivate themselves as much as men in front of keyboards. It would be easier for a woman to jerk off at a keyboard, because her dick wouldn't get in the way.
I like Rope. I've never seen Shadow of a Doubt. I also like the Jimmy Stewart Man Who Knew Too Much, though I realize it's considered one of his minor works.
I'd like to know the train of association that leads from the first paragraph of 63 to the second paragraph of 63.
LB's handle for her dog is DogBreath, which made me smile.
I have new lip gloss.
The U.S. still has a teeny chance in the World Cup.
The power has not gone off in my apartment for a whole 24 hours now.
Maybe I shouldn't read this thread backwards. Notorious I couldn't stand either, Rope and Shadow of a Doubt are really, really good. These are not opinions, by the way, but objective statements of fact whose instrument of expression is my keyboard. I have no choice but to type these words. Or else the universe will collapse upon itself.
63 -- funny. I like almost every Hitchcock movie I have seen that predates Psycho, better than Psycho. I just don't get it, I guess -- perhaps repeated viewings of Psycho will straighten me out. My big faves are Lifeboat and The 39 Steps, and I seem to remember liking either Sabotage or Saboteur a whole lot. Psycho and The Birds are like the only ones that I have not really dug.
I'm partial to The Lady Vanishes. Although I sometimes confuse that with Night Train to Munich, which features a few of the same characters.
And thoughts of Night Train reminds me that I'm constantly wondering, when I see films featuring Sexy Rexy, why he had thinner hair as a young man than he did as an older one.
77 gets it exactly right. There's also a fair amount of "busting yer chops" type customer service that I think throws off people not used to it.
That said, one time I was walking, quite briskly, as is my wont, down the sidewalk in NYC and up ahead was an apparently homeless woman pushing one of those big flatbed four-wheeled dollies instead of the usual shopping cart towards me. It was pretty heavily laden and thus somewhat difficult to maneuver.
She was still a good 20 feet or so away and I for some reason started to head left towards the curb to go around her. Just then she started to head in the same direction. I quickly changed course and there was never any danger of a collision, but as I passed she looked hard at me and calmly but forcefully said, "Stay on your side. Stupid."
Actually that made me smile for a good ten minutes, so I hesitate to label it rude, and anyway she was well within her rights.
Hmm... I think Lifeboat and The 39 Steps might also be the only Hitchcock films I have seen on the big screen. [Late edit: No! Also I saw The Trouble with Harry on the big screen, and it was a lot of fun if not in the same class.] But I think that is not the root of it, because they were already fixed as my favorite Hitchcock films at the time I saw them on the big screen. If any of you hear about Hitchcock showing in a theater around NYC area I'd be deeply grateful to you for letting me know about it.
I never watched To Catch a Thief all the way through. If a Hitchcock movie was grandly staged in an alluring setting full of glamorous stars, I probably didn't like it.
83: You clearly have much more experience with your mom than I do.
Anderson forgot to mention how great the evil Nazi grandmother is.
Quite right. The final (?) scene where Rains has to walk back in to her & the other Nazis is super.
Also, tho not particular to this film, I'm reminded how cool it was to drive cars where you could just scoot over from the driver's side & get out the passenger's side, or vice-versa. To say nothing of the back seats. I think puritanical anti-sex crusaders are responsible for modern automotive interior design. Or maybe the Japanese are doing it some way I haven't discovered yet.
I've no regrets. I've been everywhere and done everything. I've eaten caviar at Cannes, sausage rolls at the dogs. I've played baccarat at Biarritz and darts with the rural dean. What is there left for me but marriage?
Yeah, I love those big bench seats, but that love is in tension with my love for stick shifts. Was the shift on the steering column in those things? They didn't have automatic transmissions back then, did they?
Three-on-the-tree was the standard American style, available on fleet cars into the 1970s, but floor shifters were common too, on earlier cars and trucks. The shifter shaft was very long, came out of a place fairly far forward on the floor at an angle, then bent upward for the last foot or so. You could easily slide past it, but you were sitting much more upright than you do today. Bucket seats arrived in the sixties, following sports car practice.
97: B/c it means quitting this job w/out one in hand, b/c I've got committments for the fall I'm going to break, b/c I can't give notice *quite* yet b/c Mr. B. needs a security clearance before it's *for real* for real, b/c this house needs SO much work before it can be sold, b/c we're moving to a MUCH more expensive housing market, and b/c it's a fuck of a long distance move!! Ahh!!!
And I'm semi-anonymizing b/c I haven't given notice yet.
Oh, also, b/c this job offer has been up and down and in the works for 2 months--we thought it was happening, then it got yanked for budget/funding reasons, now it's back. It's kind of a rollercoaster of stress.
If any of you hear about Hitchcock showing in a theater around NYC area I'd be deeply grateful to you for letting me know about it.
It's not NYC; it's just north of Philadelphia. But the Ambler, PA, movie theater is doing a trifecta of Rear Window, Suspicion, and Strangers on a Train, Thursdays in July and August.
Rear Window on a big screen is especially nice; the tension during Grace Kelly's Nancy Drew sleuthing of the murderer's apartment is great.
Also, no one has mentioned North by Northwest? For all the terrible sexism, it also gives you Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, and some truly sneaky dialogue (Hitchcock playing with the censors again).
"The Birds" as a short story really freaked me out.
Research says moving is the 2nd most stressful thing that can happen to anyone (beaten only by the death of a child).
Just stay drunk for the duration would be wise.
I know it'll be okay. It's just the getting there. I'm finding myself very uncharacteristically feeling passive and disengaged rather than freaked-out and anxious about it. I actually had a big convo with Mr. B. this morning that was *designed* to get me kind of freaked-out and anxious so that we (I) can start doing the things that need to get done!!
111: My plan is to take a year and write. Which means I'll be the PK mom for a while (and anyway, academic jobs won't open up again until fall 2007).
My darling mother in law said to me the other day that if I have to stay here for the fall semester b/c of teaching obligations, PK should stay with me "because it would be so hard on Mr. B. to have to work and take care of someone else at the same time." Sometimes I want to pound my inlaws over the head with a board.
Congrats to Mr. B, B! And congrats to you on having time to write! And condolences for having to move. At least moving forces you to throw out things. But still.
We threw stuff out last time we moved. And yet, we still seem to have brought an awful lot of useless crap with us. Maybe we should just burn the place down as we leave town.
B: Good luck with the move, the security clearance, and the writing.
Hitchcock movies mentioned in this thread, prior to this comment (in order of first mention): The Birds, Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Psycho, Rope, Man Who Knew Too Much (US), Man Who Knew Too Much (UK), The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Saboteur, To Catch a Thief, The Lady Vanishes, The Trouble With Harry, Rear Window, Suspicion, Strangers on a Train, and North by Northwest.
Moving sucks. I had the most horrendous experience teh spring after my Freshman year of college. After that year, I refused to take any spring semester course with a final exam on the last day of exam period.
That Linda Hirshmann piece depressed the hell out of me, because I'm not constitutionally capable of being the sort of high-powered, highly driven person she describes even though I want status, money and power--though mostly I want money and influence. I'm not so keen on raw power. I was too depressed to comment on the other thread, because I felt like I was letting down all of womankind. I'm not even talking about slowing down to take care of kids; I'm just talking about the fact that I'm completely useless if I stay up all night. But then I realized something. Law and banking are different from other areas.
This is the point where I stop being narcissistic and get back to your concerns. It seems to me that in a non-science academic field, it might be possible to take time off and treat it like a sabbatical: get some research done and a book out. That could actually help to boost your career. If it's both academically rigorous and kind of popular, you could work on being an awesoem public intellectual, which, depending on your field, might make you even more desirable.
That Linda Hirshmann piece depressed the hell out of me, because I'm not constitutionally capable of being the sort of high-powered, highly driven person she describes even though I want status, money and power--though mostly I want money and influence. I'm not so keen on raw power. I was too depressed to comment on the other thread, because I felt like I was letting down all of womankind. I'm not even talking about slowing down to take care of kids; I'm just talking about the fact that I'm completely useless if I stay up all night.
Oh, man, me too. I have the work ethic of a housecat; give me a patch of sun and I can sleep for 20 hours a day. You have the life you can hack with the personality you have.
*I unquestionably like Vertigo better, but that wasn't mentioned in this thread.
†This could easily be switched with the entry preceding it.
**I love heist movies, Cary Grant is great and I have nothing against Grace Kelly. But this isn't the kind of thing that Hitchcock does well. Here's how you know: people say Charade is Hitchcock-lite, but it's not really all that much like any Hitchcock movie (that I've seen) besides TCAT, and Charade is much better because that is the kind of thing its director does. For that matter Dirty Rotten Scoundrels might be a better riff on this plot.
[If you think I'm generating this much material and not turning it into a post on my own blog, you're mistaken.]
The 39 Steps On-the-run Robert Donat does a one-size-fits all political speech. Bonus points: taking off silk stockings (hers) while handcuffed to blonde Madeline Carroll.
Man Who Knew Too Much (US) Bernard Herrmann rocks. So what about the overplayed Doris Day song. The whole arc at the end is a terribly powerful conclusion to an otherwise kind of uneven movie.
Man Who Knew Too Much (UK) Saw it years ago; remember being impressed at how much less passive the mother character was. But the technical quality of the film was so much poorer than the later U.S. version.
Strangers on a Train Can't stand it. Only ranking because I vaguely want to give it technical marks.
Notorious You know, nothing to say, actually.
The Trouble With Harry The humor in this one is like trying to share a New Yorker cartoon at a dive bar. But hello, brunette Shirley MacClaine. Why did you ever listen to your hairdresser?
To Catch a Thief Basically an excuse for gorgeous actors to wear expensive clothes while lounging decadently in luxe European settings. Oh, wait, there's a plot?
No, and everytime I load my blog I feel bad about it, but I haven't taken the time to look back at that case and spell out the problem. It's basically that he gives a weird picture of the status quo before the bill he doesn't like passes, as well as an odd one of the likely future effect of its passage.
On eb's 100, I was halfway scrolling back to comment 39 before I thought, "damn you!"
North by Northwest is fun. And Stewart being cranky and Grace kelly being Grace kelly is pretty amazing in Rear window. But of the pearls not mentioned, I like the staute of liberty stair climbing scene in Saboteur.
I have fond memories of watching The Birds, Marnie and The 39 Steps on tv when I was just old enough and attentive enough to enjoy their construction. They seemed head and shoulders above most movies I had seen in "artistry." I don't know what I would think of them now. When the technicolor ones were re-released in the 80s, we made a point of seeing them in theaters. I was disappointed, on the whole. Rear Window was my favorite of those, because of the appreciation of urban life and the real ambivalence and tension between Jimmy's and Grace's characters. The other movies in that group left me cold. I think Notorious and Shadow of a Doubt are the best of his I have seen, although I like the action ones, like 39S, the one with Rex on the cablecars, or NxNW as entertainment
IIRC, Sabotage sets up a bit of a romance between Mrs. Verloc and one of the policeman and this has little resemblance to the actual relations between people in the novel. But I'm skimming the novel online now looking for something else, and realizing that my memory of both film and book is probably somewhat faulty. But I really liked the book.
I will have to read it -- I had not even known prior to just now that Sabotage was based on a Conrad novel (The Secret Agent) -- I am looking at Wikipaedia and some other places that make it sound pretty interesting.
Oh, man, me too. I have the work ethic of a housecat; give me a patch of sun and I can sleep for 20 hours a day. You have the life you can hack with the personality you have.
Except that I'm pretty good when the sun's out. Give me a cold rainy day or winter darkness, and I just want to roll up and go to sleep or curl up with a cup of tea in front of the TV.
159 -- One of the pages I was looking at said he would have called Sabotage that, except he had just released a film with that title. (I'm pretty sure I have not seen it either.)
I have no real strong opinions that I can remember about:
Family Plot (1976)
Topaz (1969)
I Confess (1953)
Spellbound (1945)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Really disliked, despite the presencd of some very well-made scenes in most of these movies:
Torn Curtain (1966)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Notorious (1946)
Sabotage (1936)
My belief that Lifeboat is the most underrated Hitchcock film is getting way strengthened by this thread. Seriously you guys, go see Lifeboat! It blows my mind every time I watch it, which is currently somewhere between 10 and 15 times now.
The biggest plus of my time in Virginia (and the biggest obstacle to my productivity during my stays) is that I have the best, softest, most wonderful, most comfortable bed in the world here. (When my little brother was about 7 and came out to visit, he called it my "marshmallow bed".) Cold and rainy? Dark and stormy? A beautiful sunbeam? Everything seems like a great excuse to crawl back in it with a book or for a nap.
Shadow of a Doubt indeed pwns. I thought Notorious was pretty corny, but am willing to be persuaded otherwise if I could get some action out of the deal.
Oh, never mind. Once again the offer has been withdrawn. I guess we're not moving after all. Although the company is "still hoping to move forward with this thing." Goddamn federal goddamn budget goddamn putamadre bullshit.
I like writing when I am happy. Sunshine makes me happy. But when it is sunny and warm out I don't want to be indoors writing on any damn metaphysics. I want to play in the park. When it rains I'm happy to be inside, but then I don't want to write because the weather is crummy and that's why God invented DVDs.
Most of my life is an exercise in not doing my dissertation, I fear.
I've seen pieces of many of the Hitchcock movies. So, shower scene, check, end of Psycho, check, most of N by NW, end of Vertigo, check, climax of Rear Window check, climax of The Birds check. This is what happens when classic movies are run on network TV when you're small.
Now that eb's broken the 131 "rank the one's that were already in this thread" rule (or maybe I did when I mentioned that Vertigo would be at the top if it were already in the thread), I've also seen Rebecca, Dial M for Murder, and Frenzy. I'm not going to figure out where those fit right now. I've started watching both Notorious and Spellbound more than once, but never finished either. And not because I wasn't enjoying them, other things just came up.
Well, this gives you more time to plan how you would do things if you do them, B. But sorry.
That just reminded me: at that Canada-themed costume party I went to weekend before last, one guy was wearing a Diff'rent Strokes t-shirt that had a picture of whatshisname the little one on it and the "What you talkin' about, Willis?" quote.
But, he had skillfully modified the "u" so that it said "What you talkin' aboot, Willis?"
My mom reports from the scene that the sanitized nature of the article linked in 61 is apparently due to restrictions placed on the reporter after the subtle innuendoes of a previous Vanity Fair article.
My mom is on the scene because she lives in Pittsburgh! Shut up!
At least one of the people linked in 190 would be quite chattable if she were dressed that way at a Halloween party rather than a furry convention. And better photographed.
And, you know, nothing wrong with furryism if that's your thing. Some people are into dressing as furries, apostropher's mom is into afro'd philosophy grad students, who is to say that one preference is better than the other?
Thahks everyone. The reason it's so upsetting is a long story: verbal offer, then "oops, we anticipated our budget" followed by three subsequent lowerings of the salary and signing bonus, followed by sudden federal hold on all security clearances, followed by emergency congressional appropriation of funds, followed by being back "on," followed by verbal offer, followed by written offer, followed by some negotiation over discrepencies re. details, followed by withdrawal of offer over budget problems.
In other words, four months of this up and down shit. I'm about ready to tear my hair out.
Thank god, though, I never went in and gave notice.
Hey, chin up! [Redacted; town where you are] has so many wonderful things! [Redacted; place you were going] is full of horrible [redacted; revealing descriptive term] people! [Redacted; employer you would have been slave to] is obviously a pack of incompetent jerks!
Plus, there's liquor, and the intriguing underside of tables!
Sorry to hear that, B. Sounds like the same budget dumbfuckery that just got my wife's newly-hired and much-appreciated co-worker laid off. The good news, supposedly, was that they expect the money to come through any day. The bad news was that with two small kids and a wife still out on maternity leave, he couldn't afford to take any chances and went back to his old job. Thank you, Republican Congress! Glad to know you have your priorities straight, you gay-marriage-and-flag-burning-obsessed fuckwits! It's not like national security stuff is supposed to be something you care about or anything.
Yes. The silver lining is they didn't pull this shit on us *after* we'd moved 2,500 miles and put a down payment on a half million dollar house. So, hey, bright side.
That's hit one of my high school friends, too. Works for a DOE subcontractor, the goverment cuts the budget, he's on notice that he could be laid off, but they dont' know yet, probably not until the week before his wedding.
171: That is why God made Northern California. Seriously though, I remember seeing kids from the Bay Area in college complain about crisp September/ October days in New England. They were sunny and glorious, and the guy was complaining, because he couldn't wear shorts! I later asked my roommate from Atherton how anyone ever managed to get any work done. She said that people just take it for granted. Northern California: teh place where te weather makes it possible for you to work and play!
Do you have any prejudices you're willing to acknowledge? > 'Furries' (e.g., people who get a sexual kick out of dressing up in big animal costumes or playing virtual characters who are human-animal hybrids) squick me out.
This is partially cheering: my laptop died yesterday when the power supply connection broke. But the hard drive is fine and it's connected to the computer I'm using right now. I have to get a new laptop, though.
In the hour it took you to make that joke I nearly bought Lifeboat and/or The Wire, reminded myself that I was supposed to be looking at computers, and left the store without buying anything.
207/8: I find that fairly cheering relative to my laptop breaking, although the chronological and spatial distance between me and the people who ought to be fixing it for free in a finite amount of time is disheartening. (I mean, it would be better than losing everything.)
215: Actually it is pretty cheering compared to every laptop breaking with dissertation materials on it that aren't entirely backed up story I've ever heard. But I posted 208 because I felt I was robbing myself of the chance to complain. Me--victim, too!
But my laptop better not fucking die. I have this thing budgetted for four years.
This is the problem. My laptop had only six more months until retirement; and six months ago it would have still been covered by the three year warranty.
211 was me sucking at a cock joke. You know. EB went around for an hour, almost did this, almost did that, forgot about the other thing, then remembered, and in the end, just couldn't get anything done.
Speaking of laptops, I recommend no one get a Dell laptop. In my experience those things are about three times slower than you would expect given the CPU, memory, disk speed, etc. Something wrong in there. Get an HP or Toshiba.
Dell desktops, on the other hand, tend to be fine. Get the business desktops, though. The home ones are less stable.
I always find the fourth quarter more boring. It stops being about watching beautiful plays and starts being about making points. Too many timeouts, and too many commercials.
My commute this morning was quicker than usual.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:47 AM
My kitten caught and ate a gecko! Just munched it right up.
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:49 AM
That's fast -- my valiant ratter when I was in the Peace Corps was death on rats, but couldn't do much with geckos, or at least I never saw her catch one.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:50 AM
I get so depressed lately when I think that I actually miss the "good old days" when Sandra Day was still on the Court.
Sorry, not helping.
Um, the US wrested the Stanley Cup away from the Canadians? Via a southern state??
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:54 AM
There's always a window of opportunity with geckos, because they have this endearing tendency to drop from the ceiling periodically This surprises them as much (or more) than the people they sometimes fall on. Then they freeze for a little while, trying to work out what happened. That's when they can become a kitty snack.
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:54 AM
Maybe she was so fast that she caught the gecko, ate it, and was back before you knew it. Like the Flash.
I had a good cup of coffee today. Later, I'm going to a baseball game. On the other hand, I didn't go see The Birds in Bryant Park because I was sure it would be rained out. I also didn't leave work on time to see it, but would have if I thought it'd stay dry. Actually, I'm luke-warm in my judgment of that movie anyway.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:56 AM
Yeak also I have to add that my other kitty is missing and is probably... having a great time somewhere.
My neighbour kindly told me that it is too small to be worth eating, so I needn't worry on that account.
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:56 AM
Yeak s/b fellatio
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:57 AM
They are my favorite house pest -- they're cute, eat bugs, and make that neat little chirping noise.
Back in the Peace Corps we used to have a joke about the symptoms of the DTs in Samoa: "Lizards, lizards all over the walls... why don't I see any lizards on the walls? Bugs, crawling all over me -- where are all the bugs that should be crawling on me?!? AAAAAHHH!!!"
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:58 AM
Most of my brethren are fairly considerate, and we will leave your caves if asked politely.
That counts as good news, right?
Posted by Giant Mutant Cockroach | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:02 AM
Um, the US wrested the Stanley Cup away from the Canadians? Via a southern state??
I believe the Hurricanes, prior to becoming the Hurricanes and moving to North Carolina, were a canadian franchise.
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:02 AM
Looks like it will be a good year for our garden -- lots of humidity and sun. Old potatoes which I had thrown in the compost heap sprouted; TMY and I transplanted them and they are thriving! Never grew potatoes before. TMW planted a honeysuckle vine next to the porch and it is threatening to make the porch its own.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:03 AM
The Birds is pretty scary.
I love seeing films in Bryant Park.
Why is gmail such a hateful void of misery?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:03 AM
They shit everywhere, and their chirp is like a thousand jackhammers from hell in the middle of the night. You need a more worthy favorite house pest. I'm sure someone here will volunteer.
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:03 AM
When I'm done with my test on Wednesday, I'm going to recorrall everyone back to the Montaigne essay, don't worry.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:07 AM
I forgot I had the day off tomorrow. I also forgot (by chance) my wife also has the day off. And ... it's forecast to be sunny.
So we're going to drive to the seaside and walk along cliffs, take photos, eat prawns and stuff.
Also, tonight will be drinking beer and watching football [not especially special at the moment though, that one].
Posted by Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:07 AM
No, my current favorite housepest is an Australian Shepherd cross known here as DogBreath. She looks kinda like Jim Henley's dog, only crazier and with more spots.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:07 AM
My commute this morning was quicker than usual.
My new commute is hellishly long, but I use it to finish whole books in 2 days.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:08 AM
Sex still works.
Posted by Anderson | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:09 AM
I believe the Hurricanes, prior to becoming the Hurricanes and moving to North Carolina, were a canadian franchise.
That's just silly. Who ever heard of a hurricane in Canada?
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:09 AM
Jim Henley's dog bears a strange resemblance to a blog.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:11 AM
Oh, you're talking about the little guy on the right-hand side! Got it.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:12 AM
our IT guy just helped us install TVUPlayer on our computers, so we can watch the World Cup at our desks... that's good news!
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:14 AM
17: Well, that seems more worthy. That breed doesn't look particularly Australian - why is it so?
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:16 AM
You need a more worthy favorite house pest. I'm sure someone here will volunteer.
This is a set-up, right? I've seen this before. They ask for volunteers, you step forward, and then WHAM! down comes the shoe.
Posted by Giant Mutant Cockroach | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:18 AM
I believe the Hurricanes, prior to becoming the Hurricanes and moving to North Carolina, were a canadian franchise.
No, they were the Hartford (CT) Whalers. Before that, they were based in Boston.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:20 AM
11.
The Hurricanes were the Whalers (Boston & Hartford). Nice nautical theme.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:22 AM
I bow to aop. He pwns.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:22 AM
The picture may be of a Border Collie, which is a related sheepdog-breed; I'm not sure. And DogBreath is actually 3/4 Aussie, 1/4 BC. But the Australian Shepherd has nothing at all to do with Australia -- they're sheepdogs that were brought to the American Southwest from the Basque region of Spain. IIRC, the name comes from the fact that they tended to be owned and used by Australians working in the US. (Australian Cattledogs, on the other hand, are actually from Australia.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:23 AM
& I cant spell.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:23 AM
25: With worries like that, how giant are you?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:23 AM
No, they were the Hartford (CT) Whalers.
I used to beat the shit out them in NHL '94, then, my only point of reference.
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:25 AM
Why is gmail such a hateful void of misery?
Whatcha got against it, Joey D?
Also, I've never thought much of The Birds; it was for me the weakest part of a Hitchcock festival I saw almost everything in. I allow that maybe I didn't get it.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:26 AM
With worries like that, how giant are you?
I wear a size 12, so GMC could be pretty big.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:27 AM
Quit bragging, slol.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:33 AM
I wonder if the size of GMC is correlated with the length of slol's middle finger.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:34 AM
Haven't measured myself lately, but I would say even my four-inch cousins might still be well advised to steer clear of slol's size 12s.
Posted by Giant Mutant Cockroach | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:35 AM
Haven't measured myself lately
That's what they all say.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:36 AM
Hey, the kitten just caught another gecko. He's a killing machine! This one is a bit larger and gruesome.
Posted by Nakku | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:40 AM
slol, is it working for you? I've been getting this all morning:
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:40 AM
JD- Gmail is working just fine for me.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:41 AM
Argh!
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:42 AM
It works fine for me too.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:45 AM
Works for me -- I reckon GMail just has it in for JD
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:48 AM
Neither of these are news, but the Spider Robinson speech I linked to addresses exactly the feeling you're talking about.
Actually I've recently mentioned someone else who's written about how to avoid getting too depressed by the news -- Fran Peavey. That really was the message of the Atomic Comics act -- the news is depressing but, looked at the right way, it's also funny, and her activist work over the last 20 years is inspiring.
Posted by NickS | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:49 AM
gmail's broken for me, Joe. You're not alone.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:49 AM
Ok, this is really sucky. I just logged in on the gmail account for one of my aliases, and it's fine. But still the same message for my jdrymala account. Grrrr.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:50 AM
Yay Becks! All the cool kids are getting server error messages.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:51 AM
gmail account for one of my aliases
blondboitoi4u@gmail.com?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:53 AM
Health Care is important. I used Healthia.com to get my health insurance at a great rate. I love my health savings account.
Posted by Mark | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:54 AM
gmail's working for me.
The Birds is one of Hitchcock's weaker films, but still quite good--we're speaking relatively here. What is amazing, though? Notorious. So money it's ridiculous.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:55 AM
or was it andrewlloydwebberfanclubpresidentforlife@gmail.com?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:56 AM
Sound the comment spam alert.
Posted by Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:57 AM
Joe D. and Becks, sitting in a tree
Unable to communicate with anybody else
Outside of the blog comments, they
Found themselves drawn to one another
Joe's weathered, manly hand
Brushed a tear from Becks' soft cheek
And he consoled her -- "Don't worry
About it babe, they'll have to learn
To live without us -- we'll be fine together."
She threw her arms around his sinewed neck
And gasped in his ear, "Don't leave me!"
And he felt her heaving bosom against
His leathery chest. "Don't cry babe,
We'll be all right," as he fumbled for
The light switch...
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:57 AM
That's some tree, with a light switch and all.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:58 AM
For a blond boi toi, that's some pretty serious weather/leather/sinew.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:59 AM
I've said (I think here and I know on my blog) that Shadow of a Doubt is the Hitchcock film which most consistently fails to get the recognition it deserves. It would also, I think make my top five of his, but I'm not looking at a list of them right now and can't therefore be certain.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:03 AM
Haven't measured myself lately
I have my Indian manservant measure me.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:05 AM
blondboitoi4u@gmail.com
What, you think this one wasn't already taken?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:05 AM
So, uh, that hasn't been you I've been chatting with?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:07 AM
Cala probably missed this weekend's festivities in Pittsburgh. But that's sad news, I guess.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:17 AM
Shadow of a Doubt is the Hitchcock film which most consistently fails to get the recognition it deserves.
No way. That distinction goes indubitably to Lifeboat.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:18 AM
The weird thing about The Birds is that it's as good as any Hitchcock movie, but Psycho is so much better than any other one, that one wonders hopw many other film-makers (artists) have produced a large body of work with ONE piece shooting out head and shoulder above the rest.
Also, sometimes when I masturbate I don't come. Question: do bloggers wank off as much as writers? Do we all wank off more because we spend all our time sitting at keyboards?
Is there a gender difference? Do women titivate themselves as much as men in front of keyboards. It would be easier for a woman to jerk off at a keyboard, because her dick wouldn't get in the way.
Posted by adam ash | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:20 AM
62: Also a good one. I was impressed that he managed to squeeze in a cameo in that movie.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:24 AM
I like Rope. I've never seen Shadow of a Doubt. I also like the Jimmy Stewart Man Who Knew Too Much, though I realize it's considered one of his minor works.
I'd like to know the train of association that leads from the first paragraph of 63 to the second paragraph of 63.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:28 AM
65- Thinking about Tony Perkins, of course.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:30 AM
And gmail is still a big plateful of testicles.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:31 AM
True, ac.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:31 AM
67: Well then, Mormon country is going to have some problems with gmail.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:32 AM
Rats. some problems
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:33 AM
Tony.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:33 AM
71 -- Forbidden!
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:34 AM
Let's see. Good news:
LB's handle for her dog is DogBreath, which made me smile.
I have new lip gloss.
The U.S. still has a teeny chance in the World Cup.
The power has not gone off in my apartment for a whole 24 hours now.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:35 AM
72- Damn. It's supposed to be Tony in a pink bathing suit.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:36 AM
NYC is the most polite city in the world.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:37 AM
I also like the Jimmy Stewart Man Who Knew Too Much, though I realize it's considered one of his minor works.
It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I've said this before, but Hitchcock's British The Man Who Knew Too Much is much, much better.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:39 AM
I buy it. This:
Native New Yorker Dan Norman, 36, from East Rockaway, said: "The thing to remember is that New Yorkers are not rude, they are brusque.
sums it up. People from the rest of the country think we're rude because they find our body-language unpleasant, not because we're doing rude stuff.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:40 AM
eb, your mom is much, much better.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:42 AM
Maybe I shouldn't read this thread backwards. Notorious I couldn't stand either, Rope and Shadow of a Doubt are really, really good. These are not opinions, by the way, but objective statements of fact whose instrument of expression is my keyboard. I have no choice but to type these words. Or else the universe will collapse upon itself.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:42 AM
Joe D, your mom this morning was quicker than usual.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:45 AM
63 -- funny. I like almost every Hitchcock movie I have seen that predates Psycho, better than Psycho. I just don't get it, I guess -- perhaps repeated viewings of Psycho will straighten me out. My big faves are Lifeboat and The 39 Steps, and I seem to remember liking either Sabotage or Saboteur a whole lot. Psycho and The Birds are like the only ones that I have not really dug.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:45 AM
Notorious I couldn't stand either
WHAT??? Ingrid is *great* in Notorious, as is Claude Rains. It's fun watching Cary Grant try to be an asshole. The finale is superb.
But then, The Birds never worked for me.
Posted by Anderson | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:48 AM
Joe D, your mom this morning was quicker than usual.
She was faking it so you'd leave already.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:49 AM
81: How could you not like To Catch a Thief?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:49 AM
84: Never mind; I can't read.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:50 AM
And gmail finally returns for me, and I have a total of 1 new email in my inbox, and it's spam.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:53 AM
I'm partial to The Lady Vanishes. Although I sometimes confuse that with Night Train to Munich, which features a few of the same characters.
And thoughts of Night Train reminds me that I'm constantly wondering, when I see films featuring Sexy Rexy, why he had thinner hair as a young man than he did as an older one.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:53 AM
77 gets it exactly right. There's also a fair amount of "busting yer chops" type customer service that I think throws off people not used to it.
That said, one time I was walking, quite briskly, as is my wont, down the sidewalk in NYC and up ahead was an apparently homeless woman pushing one of those big flatbed four-wheeled dollies instead of the usual shopping cart towards me. It was pretty heavily laden and thus somewhat difficult to maneuver.
She was still a good 20 feet or so away and I for some reason started to head left towards the curb to go around her. Just then she started to head in the same direction. I quickly changed course and there was never any danger of a collision, but as I passed she looked hard at me and calmly but forcefully said, "Stay on your side. Stupid."
Actually that made me smile for a good ten minutes, so I hesitate to label it rude, and anyway she was well within her rights.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:53 AM
Also: Notorious is great. Anderson forgot to mention how great the evil Nazi grandmother is.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:55 AM
Hmm... I think Lifeboat and The 39 Steps might also be the only Hitchcock films I have seen on the big screen. [Late edit: No! Also I saw The Trouble with Harry on the big screen, and it was a lot of fun if not in the same class.] But I think that is not the root of it, because they were already fixed as my favorite Hitchcock films at the time I saw them on the big screen. If any of you hear about Hitchcock showing in a theater around NYC area I'd be deeply grateful to you for letting me know about it.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:56 AM
I never watched To Catch a Thief all the way through. If a Hitchcock movie was grandly staged in an alluring setting full of glamorous stars, I probably didn't like it.
83: You clearly have much more experience with your mom than I do.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:58 AM
Anderson forgot to mention how great the evil Nazi grandmother is.
Quite right. The final (?) scene where Rains has to walk back in to her & the other Nazis is super.
Also, tho not particular to this film, I'm reminded how cool it was to drive cars where you could just scoot over from the driver's side & get out the passenger's side, or vice-versa. To say nothing of the back seats. I think puritanical anti-sex crusaders are responsible for modern automotive interior design. Or maybe the Japanese are doing it some way I haven't discovered yet.
Posted by Anderson | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:59 AM
I've no regrets. I've been everywhere and done everything. I've eaten caviar at Cannes, sausage rolls at the dogs. I've played baccarat at Biarritz and darts with the rural dean. What is there left for me but marriage?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:02 AM
Yeah, I love those big bench seats, but that love is in tension with my love for stick shifts. Was the shift on the steering column in those things? They didn't have automatic transmissions back then, did they?
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:02 AM
Or maybe the Japanese are doing it some way I haven't discovered yet.
This is almost certainly true, regardless of the possible connection to car seat design.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:03 AM
Gmail is working just fine for me.
I think we're moving to Cali. It stresses me the fuck out, but I think it's going to happen and really, it's a good thing.
Right?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:19 AM
Why does it stress you out (aside from the fact that the act of moving itself is a giant pain in the ass)?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:20 AM
94: 3-on-the-column, yep. Also, automatic transmission has been pretty common since the 50's, but at the time of Notorious, not so much.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:20 AM
Three-on-the-tree was the standard American style, available on fleet cars into the 1970s, but floor shifters were common too, on earlier cars and trucks. The shifter shaft was very long, came out of a place fairly far forward on the floor at an angle, then bent upward for the last foot or so. You could easily slide past it, but you were sitting much more upright than you do today. Bucket seats arrived in the sixties, following sports car practice.
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:27 AM
39 Steps!
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:29 AM
97: B/c it means quitting this job w/out one in hand, b/c I've got committments for the fall I'm going to break, b/c I can't give notice *quite* yet b/c Mr. B. needs a security clearance before it's *for real* for real, b/c this house needs SO much work before it can be sold, b/c we're moving to a MUCH more expensive housing market, and b/c it's a fuck of a long distance move!! Ahh!!!
And I'm semi-anonymizing b/c I haven't given notice yet.
Posted by b | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:34 AM
Oh, also, b/c this job offer has been up and down and in the works for 2 months--we thought it was happening, then it got yanked for budget/funding reasons, now it's back. It's kind of a rollercoaster of stress.
Posted by b | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:36 AM
If any of you hear about Hitchcock showing in a theater around NYC area I'd be deeply grateful to you for letting me know about it.
It's not NYC; it's just north of Philadelphia. But the Ambler, PA, movie theater is doing a trifecta of Rear Window, Suspicion, and Strangers on a Train, Thursdays in July and August.
Rear Window on a big screen is especially nice; the tension during Grace Kelly's Nancy Drew sleuthing of the murderer's apartment is great.
Also, no one has mentioned North by Northwest? For all the terrible sexism, it also gives you Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, and some truly sneaky dialogue (Hitchcock playing with the censors again).
"The Birds" as a short story really freaked me out.
Posted by Witt | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:41 AM
Good luck with all that, b, hope everything works out for the best.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:41 AM
That certainly sounds stressful, yes. But since you really hate where you currently live, I'm sure the move will turn out to be the right decision.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:42 AM
Research says moving is the 2nd most stressful thing that can happen to anyone (beaten only by the death of a child).
Just stay drunk for the duration would be wise.
Posted by Adam Ash | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:42 AM
106: Wow, I must really be stressed out then. I've moved no less than (counting...) 9 times in the last six years.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:46 AM
Hey, silvana, you know what might release that stress? Giving some BJs.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:49 AM
Good luck, b! Moving sucks.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:49 AM
I know it'll be okay. It's just the getting there. I'm finding myself very uncharacteristically feeling passive and disengaged rather than freaked-out and anxious about it. I actually had a big convo with Mr. B. this morning that was *designed* to get me kind of freaked-out and anxious so that we (I) can start doing the things that need to get done!!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:50 AM
Good luck, b, I can imagine moving without a job offer would be a bit of a nail-biter. What'll happen with PK, if Mr. B's going back to work?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:51 AM
Oh, and thank you all for the good wishes!
I've never sold a house before. Eeeee.....
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:51 AM
103 -- Thanks! That's excellent to hear, and The Modesto Kid Brother is in Philly this summer, maybe we will be able to swing a rendez-vous.
North by Northwest -- great movie.
It will be really great to see Rear Window on a big screen -- I could really see I was missing out on something when I wastched the video.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:52 AM
111: My plan is to take a year and write. Which means I'll be the PK mom for a while (and anyway, academic jobs won't open up again until fall 2007).
My darling mother in law said to me the other day that if I have to stay here for the fall semester b/c of teaching obligations, PK should stay with me "because it would be so hard on Mr. B. to have to work and take care of someone else at the same time." Sometimes I want to pound my inlaws over the head with a board.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:54 AM
JD, that's sweet of you to volunteer, but I wouldn't want you let you degrade yourself by being an oppressor like that.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:54 AM
Who said I was volunteering?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 11:55 AM
Aha! It is not as I at first thought a trippel feature -- oh well. Here is the schedule. Movies are also showing at Bryn Mawr and County cinemas.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:03 PM
My plan is to take a year and write.
Hooray for you! I'm jealous.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:05 PM
Quit being such a tease, Joe.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:05 PM
118: Thanks! I really hope it works out.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:08 PM
B:
Take a year and write? What are you complaining about? I'd move to Baghdad for that. OK, maybe not Baghdad. Phoenix.
Posted by Adam Ash | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:09 PM
Not complaining, worrying. I'm neurotic. What if this is just some lame excuse to rationalize quitting my job and disappointing Linda Hirshman?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:15 PM
Any excuse to quit any job is a good excuse.
Posted by adam ash | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:18 PM
Congrats to Mr. B, B! And congrats to you on having time to write! And condolences for having to move. At least moving forces you to throw out things. But still.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:20 PM
Thanks, Cala!!
We threw stuff out last time we moved. And yet, we still seem to have brought an awful lot of useless crap with us. Maybe we should just burn the place down as we leave town.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:22 PM
At long last you'll finally have time to start regularly commenting on Unfogged!
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:23 PM
126: Mean!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:25 PM
No: tough love!
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:27 PM
125: That's one way to pop the real estate bubble.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:27 PM
Stop oppressing me with your rationalizations for cruelty.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:28 PM
B: Good luck with the move, the security clearance, and the writing.
Hitchcock movies mentioned in this thread, prior to this comment (in order of first mention): The Birds, Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Psycho, Rope, Man Who Knew Too Much (US), Man Who Knew Too Much (UK), The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Saboteur, To Catch a Thief, The Lady Vanishes, The Trouble With Harry, Rear Window, Suspicion, Strangers on a Train, and North by Northwest.
If you've seen, rank'em.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:48 PM
130: Okay, if you stop oppressing me with your crazy man-hating feminist ways.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:48 PM
Semi anonymous prof w/ Phd--
Moving sucks. I had the most horrendous experience teh spring after my Freshman year of college. After that year, I refused to take any spring semester course with a final exam on the last day of exam period.
That Linda Hirshmann piece depressed the hell out of me, because I'm not constitutionally capable of being the sort of high-powered, highly driven person she describes even though I want status, money and power--though mostly I want money and influence. I'm not so keen on raw power. I was too depressed to comment on the other thread, because I felt like I was letting down all of womankind. I'm not even talking about slowing down to take care of kids; I'm just talking about the fact that I'm completely useless if I stay up all night. But then I realized something. Law and banking are different from other areas.
This is the point where I stop being narcissistic and get back to your concerns. It seems to me that in a non-science academic field, it might be possible to take time off and treat it like a sabbatical: get some research done and a book out. That could actually help to boost your career. If it's both academically rigorous and kind of popular, you could work on being an awesoem public intellectual, which, depending on your field, might make you even more desirable.
Posted by Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 12:58 PM
Saboteur (Whichever of these I am remembering -- the other one I did not see)
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:00 PM
That is what I am hoping, yes. Thanks for the pep talk :)
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:01 PM
That Linda Hirshmann piece depressed the hell out of me, because I'm not constitutionally capable of being the sort of high-powered, highly driven person she describes even though I want status, money and power--though mostly I want money and influence. I'm not so keen on raw power. I was too depressed to comment on the other thread, because I felt like I was letting down all of womankind. I'm not even talking about slowing down to take care of kids; I'm just talking about the fact that I'm completely useless if I stay up all night.
Oh, man, me too. I have the work ethic of a housecat; give me a patch of sun and I can sleep for 20 hours a day. You have the life you can hack with the personality you have.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:01 PM
(And just to be clear -- the bottom of that list is above 95% of other, non-Hitchcock movies I have seen.)
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:02 PM
(IMDB to the rescue!) Sabotage is the one I like.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:08 PM
Of the ones I've seen:
Notorious
Psycho
The Birds
The Trouble With Harry
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Rope
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:08 PM
What about yourself, w/d?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:12 PM
*I unquestionably like Vertigo better, but that wasn't mentioned in this thread.
†This could easily be switched with the entry preceding it.
**I love heist movies, Cary Grant is great and I have nothing against Grace Kelly. But this isn't the kind of thing that Hitchcock does well. Here's how you know: people say Charade is Hitchcock-lite, but it's not really all that much like any Hitchcock movie (that I've seen) besides TCAT, and Charade is much better because that is the kind of thing its director does. For that matter Dirty Rotten Scoundrels might be a better riff on this plot.
[If you think I'm generating this much material and not turning it into a post on my own blog, you're mistaken.]
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:13 PM
Took me a while to decide and then get it formatted all right. And then I worried I was being too canonical.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:14 PM
If you've seen, rank'em.
Rear Window Worth it for Thelma Ritter alone.
North by Northwest See 103.
The 39 Steps On-the-run Robert Donat does a one-size-fits all political speech. Bonus points: taking off silk stockings (hers) while handcuffed to blonde Madeline Carroll.
Man Who Knew Too Much (US) Bernard Herrmann rocks. So what about the overplayed Doris Day song. The whole arc at the end is a terribly powerful conclusion to an otherwise kind of uneven movie.
Man Who Knew Too Much (UK) Saw it years ago; remember being impressed at how much less passive the mother character was. But the technical quality of the film was so much poorer than the later U.S. version.
Strangers on a Train Can't stand it. Only ranking because I vaguely want to give it technical marks.
Notorious You know, nothing to say, actually.
The Trouble With Harry The humor in this one is like trying to share a New Yorker cartoon at a dive bar. But hello, brunette Shirley MacClaine. Why did you ever listen to your hairdresser?
To Catch a Thief Basically an excuse for gorgeous actors to wear expensive clothes while lounging decadently in luxe European settings. Oh, wait, there's a plot?
Haven't seen/can't remember the others.
Posted by Witt | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:17 PM
Hey speaking of your blog, did you ever get back to John Fund?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:17 PM
144 -> 141
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:17 PM
No, and everytime I load my blog I feel bad about it, but I haven't taken the time to look back at that case and spell out the problem. It's basically that he gives a weird picture of the status quo before the bill he doesn't like passes, as well as an odd one of the likely future effect of its passage.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:20 PM
(IMDB to the rescue!) Sabotage is the one I like.
While rolling over in his grave, Joseph Conrad accidentally triggered a bomb someone else had placed in his coffin, blowing himself to smithereens.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:25 PM
On eb's 100, I was halfway scrolling back to comment 39 before I thought, "damn you!"
North by Northwest is fun. And Stewart being cranky and Grace kelly being Grace kelly is pretty amazing in Rear window. But of the pearls not mentioned, I like the staute of liberty stair climbing scene in Saboteur.
Posted by benton | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:25 PM
I have fond memories of watching The Birds, Marnie and The 39 Steps on tv when I was just old enough and attentive enough to enjoy their construction. They seemed head and shoulders above most movies I had seen in "artistry." I don't know what I would think of them now. When the technicolor ones were re-released in the 80s, we made a point of seeing them in theaters. I was disappointed, on the whole. Rear Window was my favorite of those, because of the appreciation of urban life and the real ambivalence and tension between Jimmy's and Grace's characters. The other movies in that group left me cold. I think Notorious and Shadow of a Doubt are the best of his I have seen, although I like the action ones, like 39S, the one with Rex on the cablecars, or NxNW as entertainment
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:27 PM
eb -- Why, did Hitchcock murder the novel? (Or was it a short story?)
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:28 PM
Also, gmail? Still down. I am the least beloved by Google.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:32 PM
151 -- aw it's all right, Becks, don't cry. Here, rest your head on my manly, powerful shoulder.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:34 PM
Back off, TMK. Becks is busy massaging my sinewy neck.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:36 PM
I am also getting no gmail love. What if people are trying to write me?!
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:38 PM
IIRC, Sabotage sets up a bit of a romance between Mrs. Verloc and one of the policeman and this has little resemblance to the actual relations between people in the novel. But I'm skimming the novel online now looking for something else, and realizing that my memory of both film and book is probably somewhat faulty. But I really liked the book.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:40 PM
I will have to read it -- I had not even known prior to just now that Sabotage was based on a Conrad novel (The Secret Agent) -- I am looking at Wikipaedia and some other places that make it sound pretty interesting.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:46 PM
Here is the beginning of it -- the dedication and first paragraph are very nice.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:49 PM
Oh, man, me too. I have the work ethic of a housecat; give me a patch of sun and I can sleep for 20 hours a day. You have the life you can hack with the personality you have.
Except that I'm pretty good when the sun's out. Give me a cold rainy day or winter darkness, and I just want to roll up and go to sleep or curl up with a cup of tea in front of the TV.
Posted by Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 1:52 PM
It's even more confusing that Hitchcock made a movie called The Secret Agent, not based on the novel. I haven't seen that one.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:02 PM
159 -- One of the pages I was looking at said he would have called Sabotage that, except he had just released a film with that title. (I'm pretty sure I have not seen it either.)
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:05 PM
(Looks worth seeing, though!)
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:06 PM
158: I'm at my most productive on dark and stormy nights. Nice weather makes me want to play outside.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:06 PM
Here's what I've seen; I can't rate them individually from memory so by category:
At the top:
Psycho (1960)
Rope (1948)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Mostly liked:
Frenzy (1972)
Marnie (1964)
The Birds (1963)
Rear Window (1954)
Saboteur (1942)
I have no real strong opinions that I can remember about:
Family Plot (1976)
Topaz (1969)
I Confess (1953)
Spellbound (1945)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Really disliked, despite the presencd of some very well-made scenes in most of these movies:
Torn Curtain (1966)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Notorious (1946)
Sabotage (1936)
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:11 PM
My belief that Lifeboat is the most underrated Hitchcock film is getting way strengthened by this thread. Seriously you guys, go see Lifeboat! It blows my mind every time I watch it, which is currently somewhere between 10 and 15 times now.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:17 PM
The biggest plus of my time in Virginia (and the biggest obstacle to my productivity during my stays) is that I have the best, softest, most wonderful, most comfortable bed in the world here. (When my little brother was about 7 and came out to visit, he called it my "marshmallow bed".) Cold and rainy? Dark and stormy? A beautiful sunbeam? Everything seems like a great excuse to crawl back in it with a book or for a nap.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:18 PM
Shadow of a Doubt indeed pwns. I thought Notorious was pretty corny, but am willing to be persuaded otherwise if I could get some action out of the deal.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:22 PM
Oh, never mind. Once again the offer has been withdrawn. I guess we're not moving after all. Although the company is "still hoping to move forward with this thing." Goddamn federal goddamn budget goddamn putamadre bullshit.
I'm going to go buy some cigarettes.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:24 PM
Fuck, b. Sorry.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:25 PM
Drat. And drat again. Rassenfrassen jerking-people-around employers; they all suck.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:28 PM
166 and 168 get their respective "it"s exactly right.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:28 PM
I like writing when I am happy. Sunshine makes me happy. But when it is sunny and warm out I don't want to be indoors writing on any damn metaphysics. I want to play in the park. When it rains I'm happy to be inside, but then I don't want to write because the weather is crummy and that's why God invented DVDs.
Most of my life is an exercise in not doing my dissertation, I fear.
I've seen pieces of many of the Hitchcock movies. So, shower scene, check, end of Psycho, check, most of N by NW, end of Vertigo, check, climax of Rear Window check, climax of The Birds check. This is what happens when classic movies are run on network TV when you're small.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:28 PM
Now that eb's broken the 131 "rank the one's that were already in this thread" rule (or maybe I did when I mentioned that Vertigo would be at the top if it were already in the thread), I've also seen Rebecca, Dial M for Murder, and Frenzy. I'm not going to figure out where those fit right now. I've started watching both Notorious and Spellbound more than once, but never finished either. And not because I wasn't enjoying them, other things just came up.
Well, this gives you more time to plan how you would do things if you do them, B. But sorry.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:30 PM
Sheesh, that's a drag, B. But enjoy the cigarettes.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:30 PM
Aw, man, B. That sucks.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:31 PM
170 -- Whatchoo talkin' 'bout?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:31 PM
175 -- Never mind, now I see what you're getting at. I thought you were making some kind of weird grammar joke.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:34 PM
Sorry to hear that, b.
I feel that a correct answer to 175 would be given in terms of lambda-abstraction, but I'm not good enough at lambda-abstraction to do it.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:34 PM
That just reminded me: at that Canada-themed costume party I went to weekend before last, one guy was wearing a Diff'rent Strokes t-shirt that had a picture of whatshisname the little one on it and the "What you talkin' about, Willis?" quote.
But, he had skillfully modified the "u" so that it said "What you talkin' aboot, Willis?"
Also, sorry to hear it, B.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:40 PM
Lamda, the forbidden abstraction.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:41 PM
Lambda
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:41 PM
That kitten really seems to want me to spell lambda correctly.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:42 PM
re: 167
That truly sucks.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:44 PM
I'm sorry B.
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:45 PM
Don't worry too much about it, eb. Soon wolfson will be on hiatus, and if there is no wolfson, then everything is permitted.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:47 PM
Oh man, sorry Dr. B.
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:48 PM
Putain d'employeurs. Qu'ils aillent se fassent foutre. That's truly shitty behavior from them, B.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:50 PM
Fucking Feds. Sorry, B.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:53 PM
My mom reports from the scene that the sanitized nature of the article linked in 61 is apparently due to restrictions placed on the reporter after the subtle innuendoes of a previous Vanity Fair article.
My mom is on the scene because she lives in Pittsburgh! Shut up!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 2:58 PM
Oh good god. Push the furries in the Mon.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 3:00 PM
Which one is your mom, Matt?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 3:12 PM
Is the idea here that furries would be stranger if they weren't doing it for sex? If so, I question that.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 3:24 PM
I don't think so, w/d.
At least one of the people linked in 190 would be quite chattable if she were dressed that way at a Halloween party rather than a furry convention. And better photographed.
And, you know, nothing wrong with furryism if that's your thing. Some people are into dressing as furries, apostropher's mom is into afro'd philosophy grad students, who is to say that one preference is better than the other?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 3:45 PM
That suck, B. Wishing you hope for another opportunity soon more or less sucks, but I'll wish it anyway.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 3:52 PM
Thahks everyone. The reason it's so upsetting is a long story: verbal offer, then "oops, we anticipated our budget" followed by three subsequent lowerings of the salary and signing bonus, followed by sudden federal hold on all security clearances, followed by emergency congressional appropriation of funds, followed by being back "on," followed by verbal offer, followed by written offer, followed by some negotiation over discrepencies re. details, followed by withdrawal of offer over budget problems.
In other words, four months of this up and down shit. I'm about ready to tear my hair out.
Thank god, though, I never went in and gave notice.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:02 PM
Sorry to fuck up the "cheerful comments" thread.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:04 PM
Don't worry about it. Nothing in the thread was all that cheerful, anyway.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:06 PM
Hey, chin up! [Redacted; town where you are] has so many wonderful things! [Redacted; place you were going] is full of horrible [redacted; revealing descriptive term] people! [Redacted; employer you would have been slave to] is obviously a pack of incompetent jerks!
Plus, there's liquor, and the intriguing underside of tables!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:07 PM
All true. But first, the ranting and frothing at the mouth.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:11 PM
Sorry to hear that, B. Sounds like the same budget dumbfuckery that just got my wife's newly-hired and much-appreciated co-worker laid off. The good news, supposedly, was that they expect the money to come through any day. The bad news was that with two small kids and a wife still out on maternity leave, he couldn't afford to take any chances and went back to his old job. Thank you, Republican Congress! Glad to know you have your priorities straight, you gay-marriage-and-flag-burning-obsessed fuckwits! It's not like national security stuff is supposed to be something you care about or anything.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:18 PM
Yes. The silver lining is they didn't pull this shit on us *after* we'd moved 2,500 miles and put a down payment on a half million dollar house. So, hey, bright side.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:24 PM
That's hit one of my high school friends, too. Works for a DOE subcontractor, the goverment cuts the budget, he's on notice that he could be laid off, but they dont' know yet, probably not until the week before his wedding.
Fuckwits.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:25 PM
Well, I hope it works out eventually anyway. Coasts are a good thing.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 4:54 PM
Thank you. I agree. Coasts and mountains both.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:01 PM
171: That is why God made Northern California. Seriously though, I remember seeing kids from the Bay Area in college complain about crisp September/ October days in New England. They were sunny and glorious, and the guy was complaining, because he couldn't wear shorts! I later asked my roommate from Atherton how anyone ever managed to get any work done. She said that people just take it for granted. Northern California: teh place where te weather makes it possible for you to work and play!
Posted by Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:03 PM
apostropher's mom is into afro'd philosophy grad students
My mom has cancer, asshole.
No, wait. That was somebody else.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:20 PM
Guess Who?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:28 PM
This is partially cheering: my laptop died yesterday when the power supply connection broke. But the hard drive is fine and it's connected to the computer I'm using right now. I have to get a new laptop, though.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:30 PM
Actually it's not cheering. It sucks.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 5:33 PM
Well it couldn't possibly enjoy it.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 6:34 PM
In the hour it took you to make that joke I nearly bought Lifeboat and/or The Wire, reminded myself that I was supposed to be looking at computers, and left the store without buying anything.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 7:58 PM
Couldn't get it going in in hour, huh? Wow. Too bad.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:01 PM
You're telling me.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:05 PM
I meant eb, but I'm quite happy to impugn your masculinity as well.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:07 PM
I actually didn't understand 211 at all, so I just naturally assumed it was impugning my masculinity.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:12 PM
207/8: I find that fairly cheering relative to my laptop breaking, although the chronological and spatial distance between me and the people who ought to be fixing it for free in a finite amount of time is disheartening. (I mean, it would be better than losing everything.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:12 PM
I don't understand 211.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:12 PM
215: Actually it is pretty cheering compared to every laptop breaking with dissertation materials on it that aren't entirely backed up story I've ever heard. But I posted 208 because I felt I was robbing myself of the chance to complain. Me--victim, too!
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:15 PM
Losing my entire dissertation would probably be an improvement upon't.
But my laptop better not fucking die. I have this thing budgetted for four years.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:19 PM
216: I think it's impugning your manhood. But I'm not sure.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:20 PM
206:
*snf*
Posted by Fanny Najef-Yoga | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:22 PM
Wait, what does #211 mean?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:26 PM
It means B is accustomed to sex being finished really, really quickly.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:39 PM
The boyfriend is really apo? Who knew?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:46 PM
But my laptop better not fucking die. I have this thing budgetted for four years.
This is the problem. My laptop had only six more months until retirement; and six months ago it would have still been covered by the three year warranty.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:52 PM
222: Apo, I'm pretty sure you meant to say, "What's with 211?"
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:53 PM
If the patriarchy remains baffled, B wins!
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 8:55 PM
I win!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:16 PM
211 was me sucking at a cock joke. You know. EB went around for an hour, almost did this, almost did that, forgot about the other thing, then remembered, and in the end, just couldn't get anything done.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:18 PM
Tim is teh patriarchiest!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:18 PM
211 was me sucking at a cock
The patriarchy wins!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:20 PM
me sucking at a cock joke
That hangs so low it's practically insulting. Of course on preview apostropher already has it.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:21 PM
That hangs so low it's practically insulting
You don't have to take other people's gifts as a personal affront, Weiner. It's kind of petty.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:22 PM
My fruit gets picked by whoever's first in line.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:25 PM
232 is right; b, I will accept your gifts gladly. I'd say 'low-hanging' gifts, but that would probably be considered an insult too.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:40 PM
233: Or whomever.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:44 PM
isn't B's grammar actually right there? I think 235 is an incorrection.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:48 PM
Yeah, probably.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:49 PM
Once the Heat win this game, and the series, I will commit seppuku.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:50 PM
No, Apo's right. "My fruit" is the subject.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:51 PM
I think?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 9:52 PM
No, B's right, I think. "Whoever" is the subject of "whoever is first in line".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:04 PM
We're gonna be so lost without Wolfson.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:04 PM
Yay! I feel vindicated.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:04 PM
Speaking of laptops, I recommend no one get a Dell laptop. In my experience those things are about three times slower than you would expect given the CPU, memory, disk speed, etc. Something wrong in there. Get an HP or Toshiba.
Dell desktops, on the other hand, tend to be fine. Get the business desktops, though. The home ones are less stable.
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:06 PM
It won't be so bad. We'll all just go a-whoring at Ozzfest.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:07 PM
Speaking of the NBA Finals, fuck!
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:07 PM
Build your own desktop or find someone who can, it'll be cheaper and better.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:15 PM
I'm very disappointed in how that turned out.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:15 PM
248 to 246.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:15 PM
I nominate these cats to be the official happy fun page cats of unfogged.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:26 PM
I only saw the 4th quarter; it wasn't any fun.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:34 PM
I always find the fourth quarter more boring. It stops being about watching beautiful plays and starts being about making points. Too many timeouts, and too many commercials.
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 06-20-06 10:37 PM
Shorter 252: basketball should be more like soccer.
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