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I was trying to think of a way of answering rumpie's "one shot" thread and I just put myself on a downer :(

Fuck thinking.

He's not that fey when he's hammered - he nearly knocked me to the ground while staggering out of the Spar on Baggot Street a few years ago.

I tell you what, his interview programme on Saturday morning on the radio is the most BORING show imaginable. Hasn't everyone in Ireland been interviewed or profiled in one way or other by now?

Eucch, I think I need to leave the country.

It is very boring tis true.

Hello Old Rottenhat. New here?

I believe I have a surveyor. Is €460 too much for a survey?

Have you asked a few? It seems a little high, but it's a few years since I bought a property, so I don't know.

You have met Old Rottenhat.

I have? When?

It does seem high :( Think I'll spend lunch calling around now.

That said, he's already appointed and contacting the agent. ARGH THE STRESS!

In the Long Hall a few months ago, and then again in Smyths after the Glenn Branca thing down in the docks. I will confess that Old Rottenhat is not the name on my birth cert.

Hello Old Rottenhat. New here?

Is this the point where the two Lohans bump into each other at summer camp?

Oh hi! How was the Potter launch? Did you end up killing the security escort? (xpost)

Rock, I don't get it.

You guys tell me if this is weird: Pat Fordice, the former First Lady of Mississippi, died a few weeks ago -- and her estate is being liquidated at a public auction this Sunday.

xpost -- I don't get it either, I haven't had any coffee yet and I'm on autopilot.

Doesn't sound weird to me. Maybe they are broke?

Marquis de Sade! So good they named him twice!

Do people actually read AND enjoy his writings? I read a few pages and it seemed extremely MEH.

The football has Onimoed me though I'm happy for all you how had a good night with it. I envy the pub drinking, but not a weeknight! Your constitution's are stronger than mine.

Still waiting for what FOB is.

Must stay off ILx today am in serious red zone.

Full Of Bullshit? Friends of Bill?

Red zone?

Nath, I doubt very much that de Sade is read and enjoyed by anyone very much. I'd say he's up there with some of the world's other great purchased-but-never-read authors.

That said, he's already appointed and contacting the agent. ARGH THE STRESS!

In that case don't worry about it. Dude, really, save the stress for when the paperwork starts. This is the easy part.

Rock, I suspected Full Of Bullshit as well. I never heard it before, but.

Ms Misery is Ms Nearly Angry I presume. (xpost)

Cheers AM

Sam, can I hug you and tickle you into chill out mode?

Haha, not angry. Just in trouble with my deadlines. And banging my head over things I can't figure out. But yes when in this stressed mode anger comes easily. My boss slurping his coffee just now nearly drove me up the wall.

I'm really tempted to cancel bowling today for time reasons but it would probably be good for my productivity in the end.

hugs are always welcome. :)

FOB = Fresh Off The Boat. Asian-American slang for those of their cohort whose demeanour is still considerably more Asian than American.

Hmm, that doesn't sound very Luna-ish. Though I could be wrong.

Maybe it's FOB as in new to LA?

I say "Friend of Bill". Those damn rich democrats don't give a shit for anyone else on the road.

Hah. I just held forth about the Marquis on the ho thread. Some great effective porn set-pieces in there, if you look for them. I would never attempt to read the stuff cover-to-cover. Literary porn solves the problem of "victimhood" of industry performers. Just one nasty old coot's imagination.

I'd say he's up there with some of the world's other great purchased-but-never-read authors.

Haha OTM.

(Stop giving me that look Mr Tolstoy, I'll open you one day! Mr Joyce, I'll try you again when you learn punctuation.)

I've stopped reading the ho thread as I'm back at work. :(

I have it bookmarked near the beginning but I've never felt like going back. This is the prostitution thread, yeah?

Sometimes ILE IS work.

Beth OTM re Sade. Good set pieces but it does get a bit tedious.

The bio, otoh, by Maurice Lever is fascinating and, as the title indicates gives lie to the idea that he was only named twice: Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade.

onimo, read 'The Dubliners' at least and don't diss 'War and Peace'. It may look like a slog but it's quite fun actually.

My friend read de Sade, but then she's also read all Russian classics (mostly because she's Russian... and an intellectual snob). :-)

For FOB I was going to suggest "Freight On Board", a commercial shipping term, but I backtracked to where it was used and "Fresh Off the Boat" seems clearly indicated. She forgot DWA, though.

I love the Russian classics: Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, vodka...

I also think it has something to do with LA's topography. There are lots of wide avenues, multiple lanes, that weird left turn situation where you find yourslef in the middle of a large intersection with two or three cars not actually making the turn until after the light has turned red. There are a couple of screwed up intersections in SF, including one not far from my house where every uninitiated driver trying to get on the freeway ends up having to cut you off, and there's so many don't block the box intersections that they get DPT people and cops to direct traffic on game days, but it's nothing like LA.

so sleepy now. also very close to fixing CSS madness.

Want a latte but must slow down on the $3 coffee. Think I'll go for a $1.25 Diet Dr. Pepper instead. Hardly ever drink those anymore. So syrupy.

Luna has abandoned us and left us wondering. So mysterious that girl.

dr pepper is ass. i had it once, when i was 12 and in houston. ewie. not my thing at all.

My dad LOVES Dr. Pepper. I'm more of a root beer fan. Never tasted any ass that reminded me of Dr. Pepper, though.

dr pepper is aWEsOMEs

fixed, you had dropped some letters

Me neither, Monsieur White, hence the never ending search. ;-)

I used to love Dr. Pepper, and then suddenly one day it just seemed gank.

wah, ILX wouldn't let me log in earlier in the week! grr.

1 day in Lubbock feels like 3 days onimoed anywhere else. I spent part of the night loitering around the Buddy Holly statue because it was there.

Good luck to everyone else on deadlines! I just had to push one back to an even less convenient time.

Surmounter, I split for NYC tomorrow. I will see you on Sunday, or at the very least leave a suspicious package at the box office.

I drink Diet DP. Regular sodas are just too much. Even diets are becoming too much.

Nath, the problem is that you were in Houston.

P, you are crazy travel girl. I am jealous.

I r not abandoned you - just busy at work this morning. FOB = fresh off the boat, but I meant it more as 'general immigrant' than as anything insulting, or directed toward one ethnic group or another. Man that still sounds bad, doesn't it? I don't mean it to. I suppose I'm still frustrated by the fact that all the accidents I have been involved in LA have been with people who didn't have driver's licenses or insurance because, as one of them said to me, "why bother? I just moved here from Iran, the cops are too busy catching criminals, and I know how to drive..." My dears, she was very sadly mistaken.

With the exception of NYC, Ms. Miz, I travel to places that many people grow up wanting to escape. In the beginning of October I'm in a town of 2,200 in the Panhandle for a week, and this counts as a major metropolis for me. They will still probably do the little two-fingers-off-the-steering-wheel wave when I drive past them.

luna, you should start doing that! Waving and tipping your hat to fellow drivers. Maybe it would baffle them until you're out of range?

I should! I'll have to start wearing hats (assuming I can find one that doesn't make me look like Debbie Gibson).

and don't diss 'War and Peace'

It's Anna Karenina that's sitting there unopened but I take your point.

We had a crazy afternoon with a load of kids going mental around my house but they really enjoyed themselves. Mark was genuinely delighted with every gift and had a great day.

Megan's tomorrow then David's next Wednesday then the madness subsides until Christmas!

Actually, I'm kind of with you on AK, onimo. You know how it ends, why spend that amount of time getting there?

19th Cent. Russian literature was almost all I read one year - I think when I was 20.

Go on. Give them the wii. (xpost)

I am listening to James Holden "The Idiots are winning". Pure genius.

We all do crazy shit in our early twenties! That's why they're there.