Things you will endlessly lecture on if given the chance (aka woe to anyone who asks me about muppets when I'm drunk)

Unlimited Texas Hold Them Poker Card Game.

-the use of war dogs by Allied forces in WWII
-WWII in general
-why the sociopolitical & -economical aspects of Max Brooks' World War Z were more interesting than just the zombies, including his satire of modern american cultures and openly advocating for a return to New Deal sensibilities.
-Grim Fandango, and how it is a cultural product even as it synthesizes several different cultural products
-the experience of watching college athletics v. professional, which quickly morphs into a discussion of Univ. of Michigan football vs Michigan hockey, and eventually it just dissolves into me telling stories of the shit we would pull at hockey games.

-also, politickin' and the controlling ideologies of batshit rightwing fuckheads.

- Bourbon
- The familial conditions that lead to how people i know became the people they are today
- Why the lack of bourbon in my glass is a travesty of life altering proportions
- How amazing my wife is
- Tony Rice and his guitar playing
- Blues music
- Whatever nonfiction I'm reading at the time - This is SO OTM I cannot even express it. I was SUCH an asshole about fast food for like months after Fast Food Nation
- Why SUVs really, really suck

Idaho, Idaho culture, Idaho counties and Idaho politics

OMG joygoat what did you say?

Also, maria, you have no idea how many times I've busted into JC Superstar in public.

People who shit loudly

- what the UK needs to do to win Eurovision
- what changes could be made to the voting to make it truely representitive of individual people's votes
- why Terry Wogan's block voting conspiracy theory is rubbish

The Burgess Shale

- Bourbon
- Why the lack of bourbon in my glass is a travesty of life altering proportions

HAHAHAhahahaha OTM

Dressing as Leatherface got me no play on Halloween...

Idaho, Idaho culture, Idaho counties and Idaho politics

OMG joygoat what did you say?

Basically I was talking with some friends about how when I mention Idaho to people who've never been there they think how insane it must be, full of skinheads, nothing to eat but potatoes, and...well, that's about it. Racists and potatoes. Maybe Mormons too. And now Larry Craig, I guess.

I live right next door to Idaho and cross the border at least once a week if not more, and obviously this isn't the case. It's part of the case, of course, and it's fun to contrast the state politics with those of my much more liberal state.

It's just fun learning that lots of stereotypes aren't all that accurate. Plus Idaho is super pretty, based on the PBS show I saw last night.

70% of Idaho is extra pretty, though good chunks of southern Idaho are just cheat grass dotted with the occasional Russian olive. panhandle = k-gorgeous.

How I make photos.

You make AWESOME photos.

- why much of reality TV is actually brilliant (specifically wife swap)
- anti-TV snobbery in general
- the "Port Royal Experiment" and Reconstruction in South Carolina
- media consolidation
- antipiracy laws in general
- words that exist in Dutch but not English
- whatever I happen to be learning about at the time (now RF engineering)
- too much about my weird family and family dynamics
- gay marriage and having lesbian parents
- stereotypes about Montana and anywhere that's not NY or CA

i do go on and on

I should phone beth parker and request that she get on this thread.

the crapness of the local music scene

the poor quality of mid 80s vinyl

butter is better than margarine

bleh, reality television

the poor quality of mid 80s vinyl

YES, especially RCA vinyl - I have some Bowie reissues from 1984 that are so thin they're practically flexidiscs. It's almost as if (conspiracy theory approaching) they were making crap quality vinyl to soften people up for re-buying everything on CD.

bleh, reality television

Don't get me started!

some things I don't really get into detail about on ILX but that I will seriously talk your head off about IRL esp inebriated:

- systems engineering practices and management of complex organizations especially of the technical variety
- information presentation and UI design
- overuse of jargon in my field vs more mature professions such as public health
- risk communication, risk management, and the role of insurers
- mental models
- all of the above tied together in a vague cloudy shape of an unwritable thesis on why "operator error" is a lame copout when investigating or discussing accidents/system failures
- two-factor authentication: why it is stupid and useless
- the similarities between information security and maritime safety

- why I want to quit being an "analyst" and become a manager

- why a parliamentary system is vastly better than the 2-party system we have here
- why the electoral college is shit
- why the drinking age and driving age should be reversed here
- why drugs should be legalized

I actually agree on the last 3--not enough experience on the first to have an opinion.

I got my drivers license at 17 after a joke of a test , and how I didn't get myself or others killed my first year driving I don't know.

- the hotness of Mary-Louise Parker, Radha Mitchel and Dana Delany

Rose McGowan's ass

I got a little drunk last night and talked about Wallace, Idaho. HAI ABBOTT>

HAI 5IVE!

I lived in the Gem State when I was a kid but then we sold out and moved to glamorous Oregon, which is another place I like to talk about when i'm drunkened.

OMG where did you live? Probably Wallace, eh?

o ya

-why the Wire is the greatest thing ever
-why there are many great American television shows (generally only if someone slags off television or claims to 'not watch it', etc...)
-Richard II
-Henry II of England
-Girls Aloud are proof that chart pop is not dead (this might only happen at a Smiths-themed indie dance night)
-Previous to this season, why Bolton Wanderers are a fine football team, and how their 'tactics' aren't as horrible as many believed, and why it is great that a team on a limited budget has to do what it needs to, etc... (can't make many excuses this season, mind)

I mostly like the premium cable shows (Like Sleeper Cell and Dexter, the two Showtime shows I'm a big fan of)...

Granted there is a lot of idiotic television in the mainstream but the medium is enjoyable for programming because unlike a movie, they don't have to rush the story and can do more with character development as a result.

depoliticization of the common man
technology is morally neutral (in fact may even be considered immoral)
various theological issues
the wonders of saints
1857 war of independence aka sepoy mutiny

The Portland Trail Blazers
Ethiopia (warning: more enthusiasm than actual knowledge)
Japanese poetry
My kids
Bertolt Brecht & the early Brecht-inspired plays of John Arden
Colin Blunstone's vocal performance on "She's Not There"
"The Electric Company" & "Welcome Back, Kotter" (Muppets were already taken)

oh my god no wonder i have no friends

You can talk abt muppets, too, and have some drunken geexoring with Thermo Thinwall.

SQUARE ONE! is another I will love generously and verbosely, PBS kids' show abt math...I was thinking of starting a thredd on it

-the art of ray caesar
-why 'dirty realist' writers like carver, wolff, bukowski et al are not boring
-the horrors of working in customer service

ps. did you totally love fraggle rock?

(ps. was to abbott)

Dued, eternal love for the Fraggle Rock. And Jim Henson's Storytellers!

- ecology and why environmental/public health is, like, important, man (ARMCHAIR)
- how epidemiology is actually super-cutting-edge and basically just the statistical analysis of phenomenae(ARMCHAIR + W33D)
- alpine style v. siege style and why the difference is RELEVANT and IMPORTANT
- why The Great and Secret Show (VII 5.11 A4 WI) is just as worthwhile and important as some stupid painting a jerk made or a stupid Bob Dylan album, even though it's just some guys being hungry in a portaledge on baffin island
- continental v. martime snowpack
- weather is actually the most amazing and awe-inspiring thing going, and we ignore it at OUR PERIL

fraggle rock was the best

Oh man wld totally chat for hours abt epidemiology

I kind of had a crush on all the male fraggles

at age 5

I also think I might adopt this because HILARIOUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

- Any tangent that involves being devil's advocate in the current conversation
- Why the crap liquor you think is awesome really isn't
- Hunter S. Thompson, how he is misinterpreted by idiots
- The use of liquor and drug to detach, or alternatively interpret, social politics
- Combination of last two topics
- What a scam fossil fuels, biofuels, and processed food are, yet how I work for a company involved with the latter two
- Differences in computer technologies and how people can't design a usable interface

(wiki article leaves out the part where the rig crew got stuck drilling at 1250 feet - after pulling out the drill, it started hopping up and down at heights of five to ten feet - said drill weighed 40 tons btw - and only AN HOUR LATER did they abandon the rig after noticing it was listing a bit to one side. from shore, said crew then watched entire oil rig disappear into a lake which had up until that morning been about 6-7 feet deep)

mh and I would either get along real well over some dranks or we'd kill each other

Maybe both! My normal conversations are usually seen as 'arguments' by some because I think that if things are worth talking about, they're worth picking apart! Oddly enough, I do this less the more I drink and just start thinking everything is pretty great.

I was really drunk on Saturday and I think the cab driver got a full hour on English history, Celts -> Normans w/ the occasional Brexit digression.

Virginia Woolf
Mid-career Elvis Costello
Lawns, why they are stupid
Local history
Cahokia
Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports
Stonewall Jackson's flank march at the battle of Chancellorsville
X-linked intellectual disability
Post-impressionist painting
Erotic thrillers
Eggs Benedict

Any topic about which I know slightly more than the listener(s) (thus exploiting my relative breadth of knowledge/interests without exposing its correlative lack of depth, what up my fellow mega-dilettantes)

Patronizing sports bars while not even remotely liking sports

opposite

dance dance revolution
babies, sorry

Haneke