ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

Me obv

Treezy, whiskey, y/n and which

don't have a favorite right now, but when i was a lurker i was a big admirer of nitsuh. he sat next to me once at a coffee shop but i was too nervous to tell him that i knew who he was and that i was a fan of his writing.

i'm not a big whiskey drinker so i don't really have educated opinions on which whiskey is best. every so often i'll have a glass of scotch for nostalgia value because my grandfather was a johnny walker drinker.

Educated opinions v often lack charm. Nostalue is the word you seek btw.

nitsuh still posts here as "frogbs" btw

origins of the faux-naif froggy voice

my professional ambitions are sort of confused. i write book reviews for tottenville review (unpaid) and i want to expand that and try to write different types of freelance criticism for other outlets, but don't know how to go about that really. currently i am looking for an entry level job in publishing, and hope to do that and maybe move to new york, but it's been tough. ultimately i would like to be a literature professor but i think a phd program would be too much for me to take on right now for numerous reasons... idk. right now i am a substitute teacher and reading tutor.

― Treeship, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you came to just the right place to have these dreams promptly crushed

lol

Lol @ faux naif froggy voice. I dont really want to talk about the feasibility of my dreams tbh, but Jordan asked.

treeship, who would win in a fight -- bugs bunny or the riddler?

bugs has the more advanced jiu jitsu

thanks ian, i was waiting for someone to ask that question. the answer is bugs bunny. bugs understands that you must spare no effort in outwitting your enemies. the riddler is always giving his opponents clues... he is too cocky, and for no real reason because there has never been a time when batman failed to foil his efforts. basically, i don't think the riddler is a serious competitor, whereas bugs will always find a way to victory.

are you on 77 yet?

if so, come to the "what's happening to our borad" thread plz

Treeship, would you rather have been a Ronette ("yes, I was a backup singer on "Be My Baby", and yes, that was my real hair. settling down to write my memoir these days"), or have climbed the Seven Summits ("I still keep in touch with all my old Sherpa guides! settling down to write my memoir these days")?

(also I implore you to listen to the Ronettes' "Here I Sit" one time in your life)

would you rather die being shot by Mark David Chapman or trapped in the Apollo 1 command module

thanks unregistered and VegemiteGrrl. to unregistered's question, i think i would rather have climbed the seven summits, if only because i don't want to have had to deal too closely with phil spector. i know this might seem hypocritical in regard to the fact that i would rather be a beatle than an astronaut, but really, the beatles didn't have to deal with spector as intimately as the ronettes did, and i feel that the beatles always had the "upper hand" with him, whereas the ronettes probably felt they had to "put up" with all kinds of bullshit for the sake of their careers.

in response to VegemiteGrrl's question, obviously i would rather be gunned down in front of the dakota. dying in a fire is worse than dying of a gunshot wound, especially if you are trapped in an enclosed space. also, apollo 1 never left the earth's orbit so dying in the command module would not have even been a poetic death. if dying in space was an option, i would probably prefer that to dying on the upper west side.

tree --

did u grow up in new england?

no. i moved a couple of times as a kid but i primarily grew up in long island and new jersey.

more new jersey than anything though.

okay. still a pretty heavy dunkin donuts munchkin presence.

"munchkins"

what part of jersey?

xpost yeah, there are a bunch of them. not as many as in boston though, which is a city i've spent some time in. for some reason when i picture back bay station i remember there being two dunkin donuts in that train station, but that seems impossible.

i live in central jersey in a really small town outside of princeton and this is where i have lived for most of my life.

i didn't know jersey had a central part. i grew up in north jersey and i'm back here for a job. doesn't matter, DIRT JERZ REPRESENT ON ILX. ME AND TREESHIP WILL FUCK U UP

sweet. good to hear there are more new jerseyans on here. it's a pretty good state, all things considered. i am a twelve minute drive from my favorite record store, the princeton record exchange. have you ever been there?

xpost yeah, there are a bunch of them. not as many as in boston though, which is a city i've spent some time in. for some reason when i picture back bay station i remember there being two dunkin donuts in that train station, but that seems impossible.

― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:17 PM

the next time you're down here you're gonna hang out with us

sure, that would be awesome. i think there's a boston thread on here and next time i'm up there i will post on there.

what area of boston do you live in markers?

sure, that would be awesome. i think there's a boston thread on here and next time i'm up there i will post on there.

― Treeship, Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:26 PM

do it

suburbs

Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

xxxxxp no, but i've heard good things about it. last time i was in the princeton area was 2005 when i interviewed at dow jones and pretended to be a hayek-loving freako... didn't work out. i'm in the montclair area.

i just assumed you were from vermont or ontario.

interesting. i have never been to either of those places.

alright.

i guess it was a special blend of twee-terse overearnestness and undergraduate sociology seminar talking points leftleaning
that i associate with those places for whatever reason

man even trying to explain that sounds fuckin ridiculous but yall know what i mean

or you TREE SHIP know what i mean

ok. i think my "overearnestness" has been exaggerated but whatever, it's not the worst thing.

do you like joe budden?

i don't really know enough about joe budden to have an opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvguNA33ek

i want your thoughts on that

hey treeship what's it like to make love to a killer whale

i need some tips/advice, have a potential "thing" this weekend going on

that's not a thing i have experienced waterface. sorry i can't be of help to you. i would like, however, to discourage you from having sex with animals in general because it is illegal, exploitative/abusive, and in the case of large animals like killer whales, dangerous to you as well. cheers.

really? that's weird, i heard you make love to killer whales on the reg

anyway thanks for the advice, that's very helpful

xpost to dylann, i listened to that joe budden track/series of tracks you posted and like it. my favorite thing about it is the echo effect, where certain words he says are repeated in the background of the recording. i like how these echoes seem like a second voice in the track, like they are commenting on the main course of the lyrics. it's also moody and introspective and about relationships so it's my kind of rap song in that sense. thanks dylann.

hey treeship this isn't a 'question' but i like how "all i want" is your favorite LCD soundsystem song, because that is also my favorite song of theirs

Yes.

I saw the Whitney Biennial and found much of it overwhelming, but some of it excellent. And I found the discussion around it alienating as every commentator, critical and laudatory, seemed to take it for granted that most important thing about a work of art is its politics.

I’m glad they forced Kanders off the board but it seems like kind of a hollow victory. He is still manufacturing chemical weapons, he just isn’t allowed to be on the board of the Whitney. Is the point of critical art just to purify the museum?

how is the cooking, treechef?

Sorry—first comment, meant to write underwhelming not overwhelming.

Oh cooking is going well! At home I’m doing veganism. Pasta salads, open faced sandwiches, some spring rolls, it’s the best.

My personal life is actually good *knock on wood*

excellent! Glad you are keeping with it.

so vegan spring rolls. Have to imagine you have a great tofu marinade or an amazing dipping sauce?

Tamari and peanut butter. And i put little slices of tofu in the rolls.

oh nice. v simple. will try with the folks that don't do fish sauce.

Treeship, after a lengthy absence you suddenly re-registered just before the impeachment/whistleblower news broke. Actualities you are actively engaging in discussion in on this borad. Are you the whistleblower?

Yeah but don’t tell anyone. Trump might send his killers after me

Your secret's safe with me, buddy

is it happy bday tríseóig

Happy birthday treeship!

thank you!

Happy birthday man!

may your happiness burgeon like a yeasty mass in a warmish place

happy birthday dear treeship, kindly keep on truckin for all our sakes