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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)

"he's always bustin heads/and jumpin in and out of beds"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:39 (twenty-three years ago)

A quick Bombay update. I was not very successful. It is much harder to find women as I thought. No ads in papers, many taxi drivers don't speak english and so on. However, I found the Falkland street district and paid 200 rupees for 30 minutes. $4. Gotta run, more next time.

― Timmori Ballou, Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:42 (twenty-three years ago)

From Popbitch:

>> Spacey's hand tracer <<
Kevin has the weirdest stalker

Kevin Spacey has a very creepy stalker in London.

The fan is obsessed with his Spacey's hands.
Every time she manages to get into an event he's
at, she brings paper and marker pens so she
can trace them.

Spacey usually complies, and once even offered
to take his shoes off and let her draw round
his feet.

Strangely, the nutjob turned this down.

(Do you SEE?!)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

somehow as you peel the layers off the enigma just gets more wrapped:

Where the Shadows Are Deepest: In Search of James Hand

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a local "urban" tv channel (think south africa's answer to BET) called "channel o" and whenever they advertise their website, they show a user logging in with the handle "tracer". maybe that's weird or something. tracer hand is neat.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

every time that ad airs i have to run over to my computer and log onto their fugging website, sometimes at 7am in the morning!

you're neat, too, mitch..... HAND!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that TRACER HAND should write an article for Freaky Trigger.

An article that is not about hip-hop.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Cos you have dibs on that Pinefox?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Piefops represent

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

It's Tracer Hand's own thread!

― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, yes it is.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

he has been felled by plucky british germs.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean TRACER HAND.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Traitor Hand.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Jerkface.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Who?

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Kahuka Hand.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Who?

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

What?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-two 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 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

He has no funny stories. He's totally boring and uninteresting. His hands bleed a lot.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My mistake.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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