Dear Abbott

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

Oh, as to your second question: it would be 3-4 hours by car to my old home in NM, so: no. Just buses are slow. The wait between buses, hurts, too: 20-30 mins between transfers. I get a lot of knitting done.

abbs

is is true that america (nyc & similar excepted) is a really inconvenient place for non car owners

dear nakh:

I would say yes. Everything is far apart and designed for cars, because our country was founded by a bunch of talking cars that have since lost their power because no one believes in them.

truth bomb

looooooool hahahaha

public transportation is for dirty socialists.

abbott, that's olivier mossett he's a painter that i really like and then i heard he lives in tuscon and i was like huh i wonder how many ppl live in tuscon oh its like half the size of dublin this guy seems like the kind of guy you'd see around in a city of that size i wonder if abbott is one of the ppl who has seen his around. this is the rough chain of events

(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.

― mookieproof, Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Book

LOL i haven't lived in richmond for seven years

my experience w/ tucson is that famous/interesting ppl like that move there to get a dope house in the foothills for half what it would cost in california, and then they just hang there all the time and never leave except to maybe go to a nice restaurant once in a while.

my little brother was grade-school friends w/ this guy's kids but we never saw him:
http://naturalcollection.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/05/breathing_by_dr_andrew_weil.jpg

abbs did you see photos of the deluxe version of your book on your other thread??

LOL i haven't lived in richmond for seven years

i know! wth

Dear Justin3,

I did see those pics andd they are sexy as hell! Did you like the baloney I drew you>

?

Abbott

omg i LOOOOOVE our copy!! i need to take pics and post those to the braggin 2011 thread or something <3 <3 <3

Jus I love the blurb for it on the CP site, how you say "why is X happening in the pic? WHO KNOWS", like, WE know, but no one else will haha :D

dear abbott,

a kindred spirit!

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/music-and-motion-at-times-overwhelming/

dear dayo,
Anosmics everywhere live rich lives.

M3

Abbott

I mean <2
I started writing in Cuneiform or something there

You know what I mean.

4\/\/

oh my gosh I'm dying

Abbott-

I have recently undertaken dancing. I am told I am quite good, often by strangers of the opposite and desired sex. This, naturally, has done wonders for my self-esteem and social life. How do you rate dancing on your level of priorities?

Dear R Baezyio,

I am really glad dancing is a dun, exciting thing that you did! It is always nice to have something you feel really good at, that ppl give you compliments on. I love dancing and I do it a lot by myself in my house, but not out w/others much. When I do dance ppl usually say stuff like, "You just kind of do the same thing over & over don't you?" It is fun, tho!

Dabbott (disco + Abbott)

I'm certain you're underrating yourself, Abbott, but, should you be so inclined, I have seen this song inspire amazing feats of dance from the most innocuous people.

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

I *guess* I can quit listening to the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack for a couple minutes & hear what is up with this jam.

Ok this song is sweet.

What is my dancinest song, someone wondered? no? Well, it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZIfrgDV6w

In case you guys are wondering "does the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack retain all the pirate ship foley"...you aren't?
(I'll tell you anyway, it does keep all the foley)

HIDDEN CONNECTIONS:

Coke Escovedo = brother of Sheila E. (Prince protege)

Prince connects all!!

Dear Abbott,
I did this comic when I was a sophomore in college and I found it (and like a lot of other cartoons from junior high and high school) and I wanted to share with you.
http://forksclovetofu.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3554297568/1/tumblr_lhaxt4uZ741qzyx8y
forks

Dear FROKS<

Haha, that's awesome. "The Bible?" Also that apology is totes undue, I think, as you are a good drawer of portraits!
It is my favorite thing in the world when someone shares their comics with me!
I still need to mail that pen to you. If you can make it work, you are like the Annie Sullivan of inky.

Illustrabbott

ur hot dog is badass btw

dear abbott:

what are your thoughts on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSlbuli7HM

Dear gr8080,

I think a lot more damning would be a video of the daily Mormon grind & how anesthetizing it is. Tho lol "Mormon Jesus" & endless celestial sex. I think everyone who sees this vid sends it to me.

dear abbott

you are a dear darling, there i said it.

e<3

That cartoon is from a movie called The God Makers. It is pretty fucking notorious. For Mormons watching any anti-Mormon media is like tantamount to or worse than watching porn – see how it is handled in the movie "God's Army," like it is a strangler fig crushing this one kid's soul. He gets addicted to it & can't stop reading it. So, I've never seen the God Makers, not the whole thing. It is kind of stupid how you can't get a v accurate story of Mormon history from most non-Mormon sources, or from most Mormon sources.

My parents spent their 30th anniversary fighting about some stupid book my dad had bought about Muslims that said they all want to convert America to Sharia or some dumb bullshit. Just some bigoted shit. He was reading it at breakfast & my sister pointed out – isn't that basically the same thing as anti-Mormon lit? My mom sided with her & my parents spent the whole day fighting. I guess my mom both tore the book up and burned it in front of him. Goood stuff.

estela,

You are the best & you warm my heart with your kind compliment.

I guess my mom both tore the book up and burned it in front of him.

Fahrenheit 45LOL

'strangler fig' !

My parents burned my copy of Ed The Happy Clown when I was in high school, saying it was "Satanic."