mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

I'm so excited, it's just ridiculous. We probably won't even stay out late. But we *could*! I will definitely telepathically toast.

Hi Dan I.! Thank you for solving that mystery. :)

I can drink after work, but need to go home first and pick up dry cleaning and pack.

oh hello Dan I. !!!

now the mystery is solved :0

I don't know why it makes me so happy but finding out that Willie Nelson has his own brand of Bio diesel call BioWillie really does

http://www.biowillieusa.com/

That is amazing. "BioWillie" is an awesome name, too.

have just applied to another bookstore in berkeley. wish me luck guys :/

Hope you get it.

i found out some bad news last weekend: apparently a whole bunch of bookstores hae closed in the bay area recently, putting a lot of experienced booksellers out of work. this is my competition.

ARGH that is bad luck. But still, you're awesome, so they should hire you.

Don't tell anyone I told you this, but bookselling is not rocket science, and if you've worked in other retail and you're familiar with books, you should be able to do the job just fine.

see, that's exactly what i think! i mean, i know it's important to be a bibliophile and shit, and i kind of am about some specialty stuff, but i can learn, you know?

and i've noticed a lot of bookstore workers are rude here, too. hopefully i at least manage to get an interview this time. the add for the job was sort of quirky and eccentric, so i think that's a good sign.

Here is hoping. :-)

Meantime, how to make wine snobs look like fools:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-winehoax22-2008aug22,0,5377368.story

I'm completely in love with this little section:

When he crafted the bogus wine list for Osteria L'Intrepido (Italian for "The Fearless Restaurant") Goldstein also included a 1985 Barbaresco Asij Ceretto, which Wine Spectator described as "earthy, swampy, gamy, harsh and tannic."

I'm going to be pissed tonight if there isn't any harsh, gamy wine on the menu.

Good writeup for a friend of mine.

Okay, those are gorgeous, but sadly I have no need for those things right now (therefore I can't get them). Loooooove the fabrics, though! Your friend is clearly awesome.

Oh man, "awesome" kind of doesn't even begin to describe the force of nature that is 0nd1n3.

I don't suppose you're bringing her along next week. (*sigh, tap foot impatiently, sigh again...*)

Also, I keep meaning to email you about State Fair details. Like - afternoon? Evening? Dead of night? Just some general stuff like that. I am well aware that everyone wants to see the butter heads most of all...

I'm thinking afternoon; I will send out something to folks this weekend.

Sounds awesome. (I like to sleep in and save my cheese curd-eating and butter-head viewing for afternoons, generally speaking. Although of course I'm flexible!)

You heard it here, folks.

*applause*

plzplzplz explain butter-head

The flexibility does not extend to my hamstrings for some reason.

Just so we're clear.

But that means it starts somewhere else, so.

plzplzplz explain butter-head

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Kay_of_the_Milky_Way

Welcome to MN where people are batshit crazy!

aiyiyiyi! so butter shawn johnson isn't an anomaly? wow!

See also: http://www.startribune.com/local/27250974.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhU

(:(: Each princess gets to keep her sculpture. :):)

omg lolololololololololol HOW HAD I NOT HEARD ABOUT BUTTER SHAWN JOHNSON?????

lxy, I had a friend who married a butter princess. She had her butter head frozen and brought out at her wedding. Sadly, the marriage ended in divorce. I'm not sure what happened to the butter head after the wedding...

I like how it's is carefully called a "butter head" and not a "butter face".

omg lolololololololololol HOW HAD I NOT HEARD ABOUT BUTTER SHAWN JOHNSON?????

Hahah, had you missed that? Prominently featured in NBC stories on her!

I like how she and Lolo Jones are Des Moines's face to the world.

i wish they had used the butter head for rolls at the wedding buffet

^^^ this is often what happens!

I'm so bitter that I was not invited to that wedding now.

^^^ this is often what happens!

no shit???? oh my god.

wait.

did your wife have her head eaten in butter effigy at your wedding?

if so, i can only hope the butter head was glaring like your wife was glaring in that thanksgiving pic you posted.

did your wife have her head eaten in butter effigy at your wedding?

This is the type of line I would expect to see nowhere else but here. It pleases me so. And is a perfect note to end the working week on!

Awwwww <3 to you all.

oh my god butter head for wedding buffet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some stupid ice sculpture

i am DONE with job and have already achieved 1 glass of wine and champagne is chilling in fridge and my little sister is on a bus up from d.c.!

so i told $girl i liked her -- although, kinda lamely, it was in an after-date email. she responded in a text that it wasn't lame, at all that it wasn't embarrassing, and with a smiley face that we would talk later :) but it is now 24 hours and i have not heard. we have to work together on monday, so ...

awww. i'm sure it'll be ok. she wouldn't send all that if it was horribly awful.

maybe she's waiting for you to make the next move?

It's All Going To Be Fine. There was a smiley face; that isn't a bad sign!

I'm a tiny bit disappointed that Barack didn't choose Dan to be his running mate. There goes my hope of becoming Secretary of State for another four years! ;_;

time for the HI DERE FAX ME campaign to get into full swing

I'm so there.

HI DERE FAX ME 08

i think i have my write-in!