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Monday Night Dictation Club

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

and by "something really f'ing different" i mean something like this:

http://www.victimoftime.com/images/thumb_NoBunnyVOT.jpg

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

When shit like that happens (the bus thing, because I'm still talking about myself obviously), I get so annoyed so quickly that I can't think of anything proactive to do. I just sit there fuming that I was in a fine, somewhat sleepy mood and then this lady got all her ick negative vibes on me. * shutter *

I shouldn't let her affect me any longer, starting.. nOW!

Laurel, sorry about your date. :-/

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

If I reacted at all, I would have said, "What [the fuck] is your problem?" "The fuck" being optional depending on the situation. The alternative would be sitting and fuming. The fact that she was 2 jerk moves ahead of me would have probably spurred me to action. Recently I sat next to a bulky woman reading her Bible on the bus. She held the Bible with her left hand and her elbow was way into my space. I "accidentally" bumped her Bible hand a couple of times while messing with my iPod, but she didn't react, that bitch. I hope the sounds of my rock-n-roll put the devil in her brain.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

i'm with jesse. i have on occassion asked if someone's bag paid for a seat on the bus if they give me attitude. but that's usually only if i've had a couple of pops.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I work with a woman who gives up seats to the elderly and children, but NEVER to pregnant women.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hungry and crabby.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dating is really weird. I'm having dinner with this girl tonight, we've hung out a few times before, and at first I thought she wasn't really interested in me/a relationship so I wrote it off. But now she's calling me, and I'm not sure if I'M interested in anything serious. It's all so confusing.

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

i'll give them up to just about anyone, unless i'm asleep. i don't care, it's just a fucking seat on a bus, it makes no difference to me.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having dinner with this girl tonight, we've hung out a few times before, and at first I thought she wasn't really interested in me/a relationship so I wrote it off. But now she's calling me, and I'm not sure if I'M interested in anything serious. It's all so confusing.

HI DERE. i won't go into the details but in the words of the happy mondays, it's twisin' my melon man.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think newspapers should be banned from the bus/train.

― Jeff, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

AND AFTER THAT BAN THE PEOPLE.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I read about some study from the '70s, I think, in which researchers asked people on the NYC subway to give up their seats. The people asking were unexceptional people (not handicapped, pregnant, etc.). Most people gave up their seats. This changed, however, when the person gave a reason for wanting the seat.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost AGREED.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I used to be pretty sure that I really wanted an LTR, but now I don't know. It feels like the longer I'm single, the more I am entrenched in it. What was really bothering me for a while was that for years and years I had not even the slightest suggestion of interest from anyone except really desperate people. Now that that's changed a little, I see that maybe that was the problem all along. It's not that I actively love being single, it's just that I'm kind of getting settled in my ways and I don't want the alternative misery of a relationship.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Public transit without other people=a taxi or a car, and some days public transit makes those options pretty tempting....

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Driving is meditative for me. I get good ideas while driving; the problem is that it's hard to do anything with them while negotiating traffic.

In a poetry workshop in college the professor and some of the students talked about how their steering wheels were covered in ink lines from writing while driving.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I used to be pretty sure that I really wanted an LTR, but now I don't know. It feels like the longer I'm single, the more I am entrenched in it.

i had been in one for so long (me and jen were together almost 6 years, girl i dated immediately before her i was with for 2) that it was weird being out of a relationship. then i dated a series of girls and while it was nice i really did miss having someone who understood me, or, failing that, someone to whom i didn't have to explain everything. i'd like to find someone again but realistically i think i'm probably gonna be single for a looooong time.

if i were more awake i'd make an analogy between me and white hen coffee.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, I think this is the part of dating that I'm really not used to. The point is to find out if you're interested in someone, right, and when you're not, you get to go through a lot of mini-breakups, huh? Lame.

xpost

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have decided that the requirements for a driving license should be MUCH more stringent. Basically you should only be allowed to drive if you're a really safe, conscientious driver.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I rarely crave coffee like I do now, and I can't have any. My mom has instant, and I'm not doing that.

Driving 6 miles on terrible roads for a cup of coffee?? It just might happen. And I'll write poetry while I do it.

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Kevin, I could have fucking written that post. Just change "Jen" to "Maddie" and it's completely accurate, down to the 6 years/2 years thing.

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

well then my condolences to you brother.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan - your mix is awesome. Is "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" a cover of "Chick Habit" by April March, or vice-versa? They sound exactly the same except for the singing.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.landoflost.com/images/others/Desmond.jpg

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

gmail, why won't you let me compose a new message? why do you keep saying "oops, this service is temporarily unavailable please try again"? because i DO keep trying and it's been a half hour now. c'mon, get your shit together, please.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have generally given up dating bcz I'm at sea when I know it's not gonna work after 30 seconds.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i signed out and when i went to sign back in it won't let me. gmail is f'ing with me today.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have generally given up dating bcz I'm at sea when I know it's not gonna work after 30 seconds.

unsurprisingly this has happened to me many times. i look at it as a challenge, sure it's not going to work out but my goal is to at least salvage that night. sometimes it doesn't work but sometimes it does. i kept in touch with one girl for a while and even though it we both knew there was nothing there our interests were similar enough (i.e. beer, baseball, the rock 'n' roll, beer) that if we got bored we could always call each other. but i'm guessing now that she's moved in with her boyfriend that's over, i haven't heard from her in a while despite making some tentative plans for drinks and to discuss getting cubs tix.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I feel guilty when I'm not into someone. Like, she's nice and hot and apparently interested in me...so I can't talk to her about the books/music/movies/etc. I'm into, how picky am I?

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

fuck it jordan, you like what you like who do you have to appologize to?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

also, as state here and elsewhere NEVER LISTEN TO ME ABOUT ANYTHING EVER, ESPECIALLY NOT WOMEN.

track record speaks for itself.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" a cover of "Chick Habit" by April March, or vice-versa?

no idea, but all of the France Gall best-of I have is pretty excellent.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I stumbled on this article today wherein a guy uses teh math to determine that out of the world's population of women, only 18,726 are date-able (for him). He goes on to say that in order to meet one, he would have to go on one date a week for 3493 weeks.

http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend

Thank god for alcohol and desperation!

― mattttt, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I finally submitted a caption to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, instead of coming up with something awesome but then forgetting to actually submit until after the deadline. I don't think this one is brilliant or anything, but it works. I'm also not telling until the finalists are announced.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

1. There's a great video of "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" on YouTube.

2. I absolutely cannot come up with a cartoon caption for that contest. Something about the way my brain works does not lead to a single caption for two guys on a golf course with a row of tanks between them and the green.

3. If there's "one who got away" it was a headhunter who didn't read books or seek out independent art at the time that I was doing creative stuff all the time and actually subscribing to and thoroughly reading The NY Review of Books and the New Republic. And I thought, This could last, but what if I meet someone great who shares all this other stuff I'm into? At the same time she was a warm and fundamentally happy person, with something harder to replace than good taste. (Who worked in the Twin Towers until getting laid off a few weeks before 9/11, so it was a tremendous relief to call her a few weeks later to find her making a nice pasta lunch for herself and her husband.)

So, I don't know. I don't think I could be a I-like-hockey-She-likes-antiques-mars/venus kind of guy and don't yet know which compabilities (in taste, in staying-in-vs-going-out) are of primary vs. secondary importance.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

So I'm reading about marijuana. Its history, biochemistry, botany, effects on consciousness -- all of which are resolutely cool -- and I'm thinking, "I need to get some more of this shit." So I think I will. I'll call in a favor for next week, and by Friday night I'll be lit like a goddamn Christmas tree.

Yay me! I'm going to be a felon!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

2. I absolutely cannot come up with a cartoon caption for that contest. Something about the way my brain works does not lead to a single caption for two guys on a golf course with a row of tanks between them and the green.

This one's in the new issue. It's two male angels talking while another male, dad-like angel is leaving the pearly gates carrying a grill and a bag of golf clubs.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e4lFJrpYYMc

ok, that is pretty cool. Thanks, eric.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

it's passe kenan.

xxpost.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think strong pot is ever passe. What are you, a drug dealer?

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

you like what you like who do you have to appologize to?

Yr right of course, but I think I have low dating esteem. Not low self esteem, but sometimes I still feel like I'm fifteen and any interest from a girl is a rare thing that I should pursue.

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

everybody gets that jordan, and it's not low esteem of any sort, it's the unquenchable desire to see naked boobs.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

OMG SOMEONE BROUGHT IN CINNAMON BUNS FROM ANN SATHER

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone OTM about dating. I could have stayed out & listened to music last night but after the dating vs friends question was settled he didn't want to stick around. Which I can understand cos I've been on that side before too, but it was A FIRST DATE, OKAY??

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I realized part-way through that I wished he was just a friend who I could high-five and ruffle his hair and show warmth to, but he was sure to misinterpret any friendly gesture I made and I was really dreading the inevitable fumbley kiss and I knew I had to say something. :( If I hadn't thought he was really cool I'd have just blown him off by email, but I wanted to a door open for friendship, cos I like what he's into. No joy.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

last time I was on an internet dating stint I had that exact first date, Laurel.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, I've totally wrestled with the "but we don't have the same taste" or "she's not as into art as I am" quandary, but two of my best relationships over the years have been with people I'd thought that about, and we ended up clicking, anyway, because we made each other laugh and understood each other and all of that. I mean, Kr will basically tell you that after our first date, she was like, "This will never work, he's way too into music."

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's just over a month until my birthday.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hint hint.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

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