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― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

oops = heather

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

my nextel does so talk. you push the button on the side when you answer your brother who's called to tell you that he needs a ride to the lager house cause the Constantines are playing and his car got broken into again cuz the dumbfuck left his cellphone & his wallet exposed on the front seat and he's using his girlfriend's cellphone and the batteries are dying becuase she never remembers to charge it.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

What's your damage, jim?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It turns out if you don't spell out "Drive" in your address, and just type "Dr," Sprint rejects your credit card, maybe because it thought I was claiming to live inside a doctor. (I've used the credit card a lot lately, of necessity, and this is the first time I've had that hitch.)

ANYWAY. I have now ordered a Sprint PCS Vision phone (see, I couldn't do this locally, and the nearest actual Sprint store is 45 frickin minutes away; okay, possibly only 40 of them frick, but they's all minutes). Get in. And photographs! I'll take some of the cats once they're back from the vet.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the guys who would at cell phone stores are the same across the continent. always seem to be big guido/chaldean guys who go to the club on saturday wearing their overexpensive shirts and visible chains around their necks.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there's a name for them: salesmen.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

sprint sucks.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

You can sprint suck me anytime baby. No, wait, take your time.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Um.. yeah..NO.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 11 September 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

That's an odd emoticon you stuck on after 'yeah'.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

abject horror

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I was as smooth as you, oops. Something nightmarish about your posts.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, that's kinda the point. I've been here how long and people are still taking me seriously?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a camera phone. . .

I have a phone I got free through the district. It has no polyphonic rings (which is good b/c i hate hippie cult bands) and is duct taped 'round b/c the battery keeps sliding off. It's $38 a mth through Cingular.

I need a new phone.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

There's joking and then there's shit like that. Lines can be crossed even here.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh jeez. Tarkus.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

People take oops seriously?

I am just all lalaheyWOO-HOO kinda thrilled. For what might seem to most to be a minor reason, but. Yay.

I am one of the very few who have never owned a cell phone. I am an anomaly.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan, I think luna can take care of herself. Please mind your own business.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I thought it was nice.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Please don't speak for me.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna can take care of herself. It's the fact that she has to that's the issue. You post to a public board and it sort of becomes everyone's business, doesn't it? Whatever. Have fun.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what ol' Eli thinks?

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I apologize. I wasn't even speaking to luna directly, and I figured everyone would know that I was merely playing the role of the creepy internet perv, but I now realize that there's no way for others who don't really know me to differetiate. Either way it's not very funny.
Sorry.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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And now back to your thoughts...

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

*sniff* i hate colds, especially when your ears crackle. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink, I feel yr pain. I'm just getting over my cold now.

I don't have a cell phone either, but I'm probably going to get one before I go on my apartment-hunting trip to Chicago so I can call Sarah and tell her about the apts I see. I want to get one of the picture-taking ones too so I can send her pics of the apartments. Do you have to connect the phone to a computer and download the pics before you can send them, or can you send them directly from the cell phone through the interspace? I guess probably the former. The latter just exists in my fevered imagination.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

*sniff* thanks nick! *achooo*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Finally the weekend. If ILE sucks this weekend, I'm gonna pee in somebody's pool. Just some random guy! I'm just gonna walk down the street till I find a pool and then I'm gonna let it rip! You want that on your conscience?

Continuing the weirdness of the week, my copy of my book came and it's blank (which is a goof, I didn't write a blank book -- coulda written a great one, though, fuckin A -- and I know other people have gotten it and didn't have blank copies. Unless this is like the Emperor's New Clothes. Which might be cool. But I want my book.) And my watch came and I can't figure out how to set the time or how to adjust the strap so it can't be worn as a collar.

But I have Jonathan Carroll books and Head.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

have you read any of the recent carroll books tep? thoughts?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, head would be nice right now...

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure which ones are recent and which aren't -- I just discovered him last year (well, just read him last year, after sporadic recommendations; I always confused him with John Crowley). White Apples is the most recent, isn't it? That's one of the ones (the other's Sleeping in Flame) that came today. I know Land of Laughs is the first and Bones of the Moon is in the middle somewhere, so let me think ... Wooden Sea and Marriage of Sticks might be recent?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"restful, fluorescent lighting lends enchantment to the blended pastels of walls and ceiling. chairs are upholstered in rose-red leather, carpeting is pale green. green venetian blinds and red, green, and cream drapes blend with the over-all beauty of the car."

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"snow-capped mountains overlook the orange groves... white beaches stretching along the pacific as far as the eye can see"

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you have to connect the phone to a computer and download the pics before you can send them, or can you send them directly from the cell phone through the interspace? I guess probably the former.

Never lose that first instinct;> The camera phones are just point and shoot. Viva sponteneity!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Need food, want (a life)and cheesecake....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Got the time set on this watch but can't for the life of me figure out how to adjust the band, and the instructions make no mention. Anyone know how to do this sort of thing? It's a metal bracelet type band, the kind where ... um, to take it off, there's a metal clasp that you flip up, and there's accordioning metal things underneath it that fold out and then you slip the watch off. There must be a way to adjust it, I can push this halfway up to my elbow and I don't have small arms.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Exercise that wrist so it bulks up! Excessive masturbation will do it! I'm told!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 September 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

But I'll get something caught in the excess watch metal!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, I think Sleeping in Flames is his best.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

take off your watch, THEN wank it endlessly.

all things in their proper order

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too much of a reactionary for my own good, aren't I? I feel as though I can't help but be this way, especially since I've been this way for almost half my life, but damn, sometimes I really push things, don't I? Oh man, I need to avoid That Thread for awhile, until I can gather up enough courage to check out the responses. If they're especially cruel, I suppose I had it coming to me, hm? I just -- my opinions really haven't changed, it's just that I need to work on being less offensive with them.

My goodness, lots and lots of worrying and stress and exhaustion and whatnot over the past few days or so. Thankfully the week's almost over. OMG, THE WEEK'S ALMOST OVER? Ooh, thank goodness for tonight's programming choices. I'm definitely going to be able to veg out in front of the TV tonight. Speaking of vegetarian -- wow, so a Tex-Mex chain can serve you up veggie fajitas. That is one of the coolest things I've ever found out about my local surrounds ever. Definitely will need to try that out.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

are you veggie dee?

veggie fajitas have always been a let down to me. Just peppers, onions and sometimes weird shit like squash. Squash doesn't belong in a tortilla.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But I'll get something caught in the excess watch metal!

Dear Tep, it CAN slide off....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hm, will tomorrow be the day when I can send Ned thanks for the Disco Inferno EPs?"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Tep, it CAN slide off....

I read that very wrong and was very frightened.

Tep, I think Sleeping in Flames is his best.

Woo, excellent. Of the other stuff, I think I might have liked Wooden Sea best. The others had a lot going for them, although I kept thinking I'd read Bones of the Moon before thanks to Sandman's A Game of You arc, and Land of Laughs is ... I don't know. Familiar territory somehow, probably moreso than when it was released.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Never read Land of Laughs; didn't they re-release that recently? Actually, I haven't read any of his stuff in a while, as his style started to drive me a little crazy... but I should re-visit.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

He's kind of like Murakami, in that I like him best when I don't read lots of him in a row -- although there's a large leap in style (not forward so much as different) between Land of Laughs and later things. Land of Laughs -- which I think was rereleased, along with Bones of the Moon, cause the trade dress is very similar -- is ... hm. Without spoiling anything, it's a good book about people who read books and how they react to books and the idea of book fannishness. I think Peter Straub had probably read it when he wrote Hellfire Club -- no similarities in plot, but even so.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you read Outside the Dog Museum? I liked that one too. There's a lot of stuff in his books I like, I like his ideas quite often and I like where he takes them, but something about his prose style and characterization drive me a little batty.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that's one of the ones that was out of print (although I should've checked amazon.uk -- he does better in Europe, I think) :/ I looked for a lot of Carroll books last week, to at least consider before narrowing down ... and most of them aren't in print anymore.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 September 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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