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But I always am, sweetie, aren't I? Aren't I TRACER HAND?

Gosh you guys!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

* recovers *

I mean TEN DOLLARS?! The loose bacon alone is worth that!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

But it wouldn't have been for the money, dude. That would just be the icing to top off your, uh, "icing."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

What nitsuh said, big style. He's one of the people here who I'd buy a drink, rather than just, y'know, go for a drink with them. I mean, with a name like that, and the personality to match. Jeez, some puppies get all the luck.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

RCA HAT NERD
DARN THE CAR
NARC HATRED
RANCH TRADE
HARD TRANCE
CRATER HAND

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

He's one of the people here who I'd buy a drink

That's good, cos TRACER HAND ain't never got money. He must owe me like 400 gallons of beer by now.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

NAD CHARTER

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

DART HER CAN

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i course i will, i'm a RANCH DATER

Ally you're like the only person with a real job left in New York and i'm supposed to buy YOU beer?? Anyway it doesn't matter cause i'm rich now. How much is 400 gallons of beer?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

HARD NECTAR

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(It sounds dirty anyway)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

it sounds alcoholic!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

is that like ambrosia?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, you don't got no money!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

HAND RECTAR

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(Ew.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in the 1800s when Canadians didn't know any better they'd leave a jug of skinned oranges out on the back porch for weeks at a time. Then I'm not sure what happened.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I do, I'm loaded!

(checks wallet)

Sorry, no I'm not.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Rectar? I nearly...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

well the most obv result is dave q's lineage

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

hard nectar rectar

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

TAN HER CARD

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer is great! (I won't go into the problems I have with his name again, despite having just a few moments ago received an email from my artist friend Mr Hand...)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the newest masterbation euphamism, Martin?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew that's how this thread would end up.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

A lame, misspelled joke?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

so much like us

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Not with a bang but a wanker.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX: A Lame, Misspelled Joke

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

or "Joak"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

So it's, like, all over now, right?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

it's all over but the wankin'

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

well, for some of you

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

You've finished wanking, jess?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, you shoulda asked me for a drink.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember the first time TRACER HAND appeared on ilx. Actually I don't, quite. But I do remember him saying amazingly erudite things about country / roots music. Wow, I thought. Unfortunately he eventually turned out to be exclusively interested in hip-hop. It is thus a long time since he and I have exchanged views about music.

TRACER HAND has a name so peculiar and interesting that I didn't know what sex he was (maybe 'Tracer' is a bit like 'Tracy'?), and also thought it might be a pen-name. But now I wonder if he is the latest in a long line, descending from Judge LEARNED HAND and his brothers, who made big legal decisions in NYC c. the 1920s. Maybe the Hands *always* have strange and interesting names.

TRACER HAND always writes with poise, wit, a sense of intelligence and control. Yet there is never any trace of arrogance or ego. In this self-effacing quality he feels different from much of ilx.

I can't really work out what TRACER HAND would be like as a real person. Is it true that he is very attractive?

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't encourage him. It's like feeding a dog off a table, they'll never stop if you do it once.

Also: LEARNED HAND! I imagine is pronounced as "learn-ed" like fancy like. That's fantastic.

Tracer Hand is stunningly attractive, some might say Paul Barman like.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I was waiting for that reference. Now we shall see the hate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

'Lernd', son. It's pronounces 'lernd'...

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's Tracer and Prince Paul:

http://www.wordsound.com/images/barmanprincepaul.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinefox I am going to shush you again if you don't stop making me blush like this!! My name comes from a bull rider. This is a picture of him. He is the REAL TRACER HAND. His dad is a musician and has an album called Evil Things. I was emailed once by someone who knew Tracer Hand's father, and asked if I was the REAL TRACER HAND!! I had to tell her no.

http://www.gutsandglory.net/img/99.7-4.5.jpg

Gah, Paul Barman. AGAIN? I've got other buttons to push, you know.

― TRACER HAND (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Even though I used to think Tracer was a wizened old biker dude, Tracer is really even cooler than that. And wizened old biker dudes are cool...

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

If Tracer Hand worked at Radio Shack he would be sublime in his perfectness.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(Children should not push the buttons on TRACER HAND's "publics".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Tracer, if he was a beer he would be budvar or tiger.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

tracer hand and nathalie once totally gave me pocky!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

There is one sad thing about Tracer Hand: He is so popular that one cannot always get a moment alone with him.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

because he's MITCHELL! (oh wait wrong thread sorry)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:35 (twenty-three years ago)

tra-tra-tra-tra-tracer

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Best person ever to run into at 3am on the subway on a Saturday night? Why yes, it would be TRACER HAND! Thank you for playing!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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once I was so high at a show...

The whole thread is just killer.

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

it looks liek you confused tracer head with mr diamond nordics!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope:

that afterwards, back at home, head bobbing, etc. I yell out to roomie "why'd you turn the music off?" and he's like "what music?" He comes back in. He's looking at me like a lab specimen. "The stereo's been off the whole time." I look down at my hands. They look huge. "What did you think you were listening to?" Sheepishly: "really good house music!!"
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), April 10th, 2003.

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant in the thread you linked to:

I love this thread.
-- adaml (formerlynordicskill...), October 22nd, 2003.
Mr Diamond upthread=best post ever?
-- adaml (formerlynordicskill...), October 22nd, 2003.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too. It's there, man!

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

So I'm fickle.Like you didn't know that already.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 27 March 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

tracer hand's own thread

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yolatengo.com/images/dec_03/ec.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

oh snap

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I was just thinking how at some level I still think of the great Tracer Hand as refreshingly new to ilx, because he didn't post until perhaps mid-2001.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 2 April 2011 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

From what I can tell, he's kind of like a happy-Lou-Reed-type figure with a lot of funny stories. He lives in London now.
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003

― the pinefox, Saturday, 2 April 2011 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

can't believe tracer is a lesbian :>

― 龜, Friday, 23 December 2016 16:15 (nine years ago)

heyo

― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:28 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

hard to believe there’s no ASK TRACER HAND thread, but: where does the family stand of these coup du monde events?

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 02:54 (seven years ago)

four years pass...

Last night I dreamed that Tracer Hand made an LP, on which he did impressions of 5 different musical artists, twice each, adding up to 10 tracks.

I was amazed at the quality of the Bob Dylan impression. It was in 1980s Dylan mode, say INFIDELS or EMPIRE BURLESQUE.

Then there were two Ian Dury pastiche tracks. But I don't recall the rest.

― the pinefox, Friday, 24 February 2023 23:33 (three years ago)

Tracer Band

― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 24 February 2023 23:37 (three years ago)

one year passes...

from the epigraphs to 'tomato red' by daniel woodrell, as recently repped by skot

https://i.imgur.com/Babrkd5.jpeg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 01:09 (one year ago)

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 11:47 (one year ago)

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