Is Everybody Who Edits the Village Voice Really This Stupid?

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I always pictured working in a library as working in some sort of perfect, endless silence. alas. xpost

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

working in a library sounds fun.

i love libraries! especially academic libraries.

but i don't think i'd want any job where i had most of the day to putter around on the interweb. i've had jobs like that, and they slowly suck out your soul. although i'm sure most librarians are quite busy. (note: i'm not being sarcastic. i've known some busy librarians in my time.)

xpost

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ian: library =/ space vacuum

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one time this fella I know was playing To Live and Die In L.A. at a party on a big-screen and this girl got weirded out by seeing William Peterson's cack on film

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

why was william peterson placing his penis on film? is that some kind of l.a. parlor game i haven't learned about?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"such and such a band is rubbish and listened to by losers"

I try limiting it to the first part of that sentence, but I suspect I convey too much of the second at points.

I always pictured working in a library as working in some sort of perfect, endless silence

Oh, it can be. But not in the office area, which helps prevent insanity.

but i don't think i'd want any job where i had most of the day to putter around on the interweb. i've had jobs like that, and they slowly suck out your soul

If I didn't have the Net, the soul would have been long sucked out and destroyed years back. (As it currently stands, it's resting.)

i've known some busy librarians in my time.

We all do! Namely the good Leon the Fratboy for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

no he was about to slip it to darlanne fluegel of "hunter" fame

"fame"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i now feel it's ok to point out that matos is the first person that sprung to my mind as frequently "defending" chuck eddy by simply insulting me...and without providing any kind of substantive defense of chuck's writing.

or maybe I'm just pointing out when you're being shrill?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"fame"

What she got was no tomorrow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

now now, you're BOTH being shrill.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you look on the protagonist of "Goodbye, Columbus" as a role model?

endless silence
Silence perhaps yes, but with the olfactory sense always charmingly on alert.

putter around on the interweb
I am shocked, simply shocked, to find that interweb puttering is going on.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you look on the protagonist of "Goodbye, Columbus" as a role model?

Haven't read it. Portnoy's is the only Roth I've read and I can't say I'm much moved to read any more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I WAS SHRILL FIRST

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for straightening everything out Ian. (xpost)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does my lameass g00g13pr00f!ng always bother you, manthony m1cc1o?

sorry I keep forgetting its you who does it and its not due to fear. The idea of someone fearing Joe Levy's wrath is HI-larious and I gotta point it out.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

man usc is just kicking the sooners ass

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ain't no split this year, is there? FUCK the polls

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

no split this year - auburn's had two undefeated seasons in the past twelve years and gotten zero titles out of it. that is so beautiful.

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes yer supposed to think about sports to make SEX last longer, not threads.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my driver's license today! I felt like a 16 year old school girl. the state cop even made me blush during my road test.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

he said i must be a lot of fun at parties.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha everybody booed ashlee simpson - no rimjobs for chuck in the orange bowl!

xpost - holy shit this kelly clarkson sounds like sleater-kinney! omg wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

so, does everyone really hate Cass McCombs?

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you take the test with a lampshade on your head scott? What was he talking about?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why i can't watch college football. i'm worried about my eagles. they have, like, a month off before they play another game. that can't be good. i might have to root for the steelers.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

aww then it electroed out a bit and she got a lil less alt and lil more soul and it turned into standard linda perry avril alt. eh well. still - HUGE 'anarchy' A on the stage! thank god alex in nyc ain't watching this!

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i said something really dumb cuz i was nervous. cops make me nervous.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

haha everybody booed ashlee simpson

Deservedly so, for crying out loud! Jess's review of her album was a masterpiece of bile.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

we went behind the dmv to this little road that i swear i thought was some sort of dmv speedway and not a real road and i never used my blinker when he made me pull out on to the road and stuff. i think he thought i was retarded.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

scott you'd be wise to root for the steelers cuz the eagles ain't going nowhere! winner of packers-falcons goes to the super bowl: BELIEVE THAT!

this is one of the more awkward halftime shows i've seen, i wish they'd just let the marching bands (esp since fucking USC is playing in this game) just do some formations and maybe have will ferrel run out and blow a tuba or something. this kinda blows.

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently in massachusetts you have to have a "sponsor" in the back seat of the car with you, so the whole time Maria kept telling the guy that I was actually a very good driver and that she trusted her baby in the car when i was driving. i think it worked. he asked me what the hand signal was for STOP and i had no idea. he passed me anyway. he let me do stuff twice.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i just feel like the way that the eagles ended their season was a real bummer and very deflating. i know all about not getting guys hurt, but it was so depressing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the tip scott (re hand stop signal). I'm going to be getting my license either this month or in February, God willing. And I'm old enough to be your uncle at least.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny you should mention brass bands, Mr. Blount, I'm listening to this thing called Speed Brass of the Gypsies by Fanfare Savale, some Romanian Gypsy brass ensemble, and they're kicking major butt. Ska/Balkan music pace with mariachi flourishes going to goddamn town, putting it in simplistic terms.

I salute you people getting licenses. But I will refrain myself for the time being.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha more LOUD boos for ashlee. man o man. i'm somewhat curious about that kelly clarkson, the first part at least.

what the hell is the hand signal for STOP??? surely driving without brake lights is illegal no matter what right?

yeah i can understand not playing starters when you don't have anything to 'play for' but it seems like it might've been good to establish how to win without t.o., then again i'm not gonna pretend i know better than andy reid.

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to Ned:
Brass, Artificial Grass or Falling On Your Ass, No One Strides For Free.

xpost to RS:
But do you need a sponsor in the state of Pennsylvania?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

? I don't think I need a sponsor. I'm going to the test with my driving instructor, maybe he's my sponsor.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I went with my driving instructor, but it turned out another guy was going for his test too. It turned out the other guy was legally blind, I kid you not. He had cokebottle glasses and also a big giant handicap rearview mirror rubberbanded to the regular rearview mirror. It unnerved my NYC-I'm-not-like-the-other-people-in-Queens-getting-his-license-at-29-years-old ass, I can tell you.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

All right. Successful compilation and execution. I can go home now. Adios, Amigos.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually had a license for a bit when i moved to connecticut for a bit in the early 90's. i hated it. i only got it cuz my girlfriend at the time bugged me to get one. i was really happy to move back to philly and not ever drive for another 12 years. but here, you really need one. especially with kids and all that. i was getting really tired off biking and walking to town.

the hand signal for stop is your arm straight down outside the car window. he let me guess until i got it right.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i don;t know what the deal is in Mass with the whole sponsor thing. maria had to give her license and registration to the dmv people. it's weird. and the first i had ever heard of it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

drivers tests scare the hell out of me. I've never taken one, and I turn 30 in a month. maybe I should do it already (haha choruses of "um DUH" to follow)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that gypsy brass stuff by Fanfare Savalle is awesome! its faster than most deathmetal!

― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it does feel weird to be 36 and sitting next to teenz all giddy and stuff. but what the hey. there was actually one non-teen from africa gettting her first american license.

the cop asked me if i was nervous. i said, hell yeah! and i know how to drive! even though i hadn't done it in so long. it's that spotlight/public-speaking/performance nerves thing. it makes me feel like i'm going nuts.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It can be fun to try reading Blount's posts in the voice of Ernest Hemingway; and also try reading Chuck's posts in the voice of Jack Kerouac, with a saxophone improvisation in the background.

― moley, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have my license and I'm 27 and, this is crucial, RESIDENT ILX CAR DORK. I can name every single model* De Tomaso produced from 1967 to 1980, but I have never parallel parked in my life.

*Vallelunga, Mangusta, Pantera, Longchamp and Deauville.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Those of you who didn't have a drivers' liscence before the end of high school must not have grown up in the suburbs ...

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nate there's only like 22 people in america that really know how to parallel park, i wouldn't worry about that.

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody else who got their drivers license immediately after their 16th birthday feel like doing the cabbage patch right now?

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell no.

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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