Dear Abbott

brooklyn pizza on 4th ave is kinda cool.

but usually i just get burritos when i'm in tucson.

Dear Abbott,

did you hear about your tattoo? :-(

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/24/comics-code-authorit.html

And Pellerito said that, if Archie comic ever skews to an older audience, the publisher will let the readers know.

Needles and pins here.

StanM,

That strikes me as really hilarious. The tattoo artist who gave it to me said he always thought the A in the symbol was for "Archie." It's not so bad as you think...I have a full back piece of the Hays Code, the CCA stamp is comparatively a fresh kill.

Censorshiply,

Abbott

Dear Abbott,

I saw this and thought you would like it, so I was going to email it to you, but then I thought that other people should see it too, so here is a gift from me to you and th world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdGzT-N4qnk

Yours truliest,
one Stevie D

Dear Stevie,

14-year-old me wld have freaked out at that! I wrote a couple comics about Lee Press-on nails at that time. That is a cuets little cartoon.

Comic <3s,

Abbacabb

Stevie D on a 1991 liquid TV kick tonight.

Daerest Abbott,

Did your 4 flag come with a national anthem?

Dear Ned,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e4/Foreigner_-_4.jpg/220px-Foreigner_-_4.jpg

Stevie D on a 1991 liquid TV kick tonight every minute of all the time ever.

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daer abbott,

how did you and the viceroy meet?

Dear, mookieproof,

We met in a totally silly way! I was reading the Boise Weekly and saw that the bands The Sh1tty 0sm0nds and Z0mbie S3x were playing, so I thought I should check it out! Z0mbie S3x was a black metal band without any chops whose set was ~8 mins long. I thought the keyboardist was v dashing. I had also seen him ~a year before in the audience of an Andrew W.K. show. I ran into him the next day on college campus and said hi. That is how we met! I met a guy because he played the synthesizer. It's so trashy, but it is true.

I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer
I met a guy because he played the synthesizer

that is like
a dream
come
true

Dear Abbott,

How were The Shitty 0sm0nds?

Curious About A Pretty Good Band Name,

Couples in rom-coms are always supposed to "meet cute". Meeting trashy seems like just an extension of meeting cute.

Also, what is your opinion of Boise compared to Salt Lake City?

Geographically Restless,

Matt,

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

The guys in the red & black shirt in this are two of my best pals.
Their shows were cute because they had this huge following with jr high and high school age kids.

I never really listen to them of my own volition but they were fun to see play.
BTW I am going to googleproof your post.

I always wanted them to make shirts but they never did! I think I liked their name better than their music.

Dear Matt P –

I loved Boise. It is a lot smaller of a city than SLC, but I think that made it easier to meet people. Pretty, mild winters, less crazy of alcohol laws than Utah. I would defs be happy to live their again someday. You do have to hear about college football constantly, though.

Actually it's less pretty than SLC. The area surrounding Boise is really scrubby high desert biome.

dear abbott
wtf is wrong with me lately? getting old and dying i think
forks

Dear forks,

You come across on ILX as being p dang robust and lifeful. FWIW you are not the only one here incontrovertibly moving towards death. Try not to die anytime soon, though, I think you are a super great person.

Maybe try getting some Sea Monkeys? When I had them, they frightened me terribly, and I dreamed about their creepy translucent forms every night, and frankly they soaked up all my worry huice.

Unhelpfully,

A butt

"huice"? I mean juice. ¡jajaja!

hm. i will consider. i think i may need more sleep or something.

Sleep + breakfast are the keys to a good day. And not being in extreme poverty.

you're likely right on
also thanks. I need to go try to draw now i guess.

truth is i'm just feeling overwhelmed with volunteer projects.
i have pottery class on sunday! Yoga tomorrow morning! Going to see Sara Jarosz and meet with several friends to see them do magic! gotta write five singles reviews! Watched seven television shows tonight! Wanna play valkyria chronicles ii! gotta write a piece about harrison cady! wanna read my complete usagi yojimbo! ninety new songs! a hundred netflix instantwatch! Gotta start the videogame poll! Have to follow up about summerstage! Need to write a brief for link center! should be working out domain registar info for the dude creating my new website at work! have to site map that website! Need to see doc on Tuesday to have the persistent abdominal pain and swelling looked at! Lunch with board member at the MoMA! I mean FUCK it's a good life but i am starting to lose my shit now

i know wah wah baby but i'm just hitting a wall here of being a successful new yorker and if i can't bitch on a message board to a friendly abbott before i go draw alley cat voltron, who can i bitch to

okay, i better brush my teeth and quit this; i'm being silly

http://www.digitalmomblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/i-need-me-time.jpg

try putting a note on your cabesa?

oh fucking A alley cat Voltron!

"a alley cat voltron" sounds like one of those local businesses trying to get first place in the yellow pages listings

Dear Abbott,

Will there be a place ilxors can hang out after the earth goes away and time comes to an end? I mean, I know there will be, but do you know the address?

Thanks,
JF

;_;

(sobs quietly)

(you guys, that wasn't supposed to be a sad question...billions of years away!)

dearest abbott,

that is amazing and awesome although i do wish he had been a member of the Sh1tty 0sm0nds rather than Z0mbie S3x

Dear Abbbottt

Dear Mr. Fever,

It sounds like you are trying to trick me into writing "ILX singularity fanfic." Have you mistaken me for Charles Stross? Or did you know that secretly, Heaven is the Zing app? Heaven is as good and as boring as we all suspected it was. You are a perceptive guy.
Pseudo-singularitarianly,
Ambort

I met a guy because he played the synthesizer

<3

Dear Abbott,

Do you ever see this guy around town?

http://www.mba-lyon.fr/static/mba/contenu/img/exposition/repartir%20a%20zero/Olivier_mosset.jpg

Yrs
plaksiko

Dear plxico, is that the cosmic Urantia guy? If so, I wish! I hope he does Deadsy songs on his flute!

There was an ad for him in the theater before the movie today!

dear
abbott

do ou know anything about patching holes in jeans?

yours,
dyo

Dear dayo,

I had a job interview at a vintage denim place* and they told me pants with holes sell better than pants with patches. So if they bought a pair of old jeans that had a patch of tar or oil on it or something, they would abrade a hole into the stain rather than patching over the stain. However, it sounds like you are more interested in wearing hole-free jeans than selling jeans. The answer is: I know nothing about this firsthand, but I should probably try, since I develop embarrassing worn holes in my jeans fairly quickly bcz I am a bit of a chubbo. Anyway, I found a tutorial for you, looks like it would work as well handsewing as it would with a serger. I do remember my mom patching my dad's jeans like that with the denim patch on the inside. They also make iron-on denim patches if you are intimidated by sewing like I am (it doesn't make any sense, I know).

*incredibly dumb story – I was 20 and barely not-Mormon and still feeling guilty about smoking pot, so I felt the need to divulge this hobby in the job interview...they didn't call me back.

thank you abbott! now I am wishing to have asked for the material the tailor took off when he hemmed my jeans. my hole is located near the crotch - quite embarrassing, and sometimes I wonder if my students snicker at me behind my back because of it.

Yeah that is why I am not into the iron-on denim patches. On a knee or something they are ok but I tried it once for a hole by my crotch and I felt like I was wearing a big comedy censorship bar. "NOTHING TO SEE HERE."

dear abb(b)ott(t)

forgive me and obvs no need to answer if this is too personal, but i thought you and the V lived in NM? but this appears to be untrue. also, that is a lot of commute time. do you still work in NM or something?

(ilx change is weird for me, sorry. i still feel like n/a should be in richmond and jaymc's impending marriage will throw me for a loop.)

<3
-m.

Dear mookie,

lol! Also I didn't know jaymc is getting married ––– that is so exciting! His girlfriend is so cute. Anyway, yes: Viceroy & I moved to Tucson in July (not the best time to move to Arizona!) for graduate school. So we haven't lived there that long, you are not too behind the times! I feel like I move around a lot & always have.

When you said "this question is too personal" I was expecting something really shocking, so "y u no in land of enchantment" is nothing.

<3 A butt