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At 9/24/07 09:14 PM, SevenSeize wrote: 2 rainbows over wal mart. Impending doom. Global warming. Al Gore.

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The represent the releases of Halo 3 and Knocked Up

At 9/24/07 09:10 PM, Proteas wrote: I haven't been reading very many books lately, surprisingly enough... I just have issues finding material that will hold my attention for long periods of time. Which I find odd, considering I've spent up to 8 hours of a day off one a few occaisons just sitting in front of this computer screen reading the stuff people post.

Reading internet stuff is different...
It's like, writing on NG versus writing for a research paper.
Or editing your post versus editing a newspaper column.

I am, what you call, a closeted grammar nazi. I know the rules. I know how it works. I know how to edit. (I was the only guy in my editing class to get the A. And I also got an A in my Grammar and History of the English Language class.) But... you'll see me writing like this. Full of mistakes. Full of laziness. Full of stupidity too, I guess.

Because let's face it. Books does take energy to read. I've read at least 20 books this year that weren't homework assignments. And guess what I do when I get tired of reading?

I go to NG and read posts!
LOL.

· Gay mafiosos. Their retro tommyguns are scented with potpourri. Their fight sequences are tightly choreographed. And when the action gets heavy they burst into flames.

Fabulous...

At 9/24/07 09:20 PM, fli wrote: It's like, writing on NG versus writing for a research paper.

As weird as it sounds, I actually wish I would have found this board before I started in college. Since I've been on here, I've actually had practical applications of all the crap they tried to teach me in English 101 as far as topic research and writing of concise, structured arguments (although it doesn't always show on here).

I am, what you call, a closeted grammar nazi.

You don't say....

:-D

I go to NG and read posts!
LOL.

*shakes head*

Don't you ever get burnt out on that, though? At my last job, I was surrounded by so much music gear and oddball musicians that the last thing I wanted to do when I got home was pickup and play (or work on) my guitar/s. It's been a little over a month since I quit that job and I'm still burnt out on it to a small extent... tomorrow I'm stopping by the community college I used to attend to visit one of the music teachers there, maybe hanging out with him for a while will recharge my batteries a bit.

Fabulous...

I just bough the Early Collection of Rober Frost poems and Alan Ginsbergs Howl and other poems.

What can I say?

I love naturalism and beatnicks.

At 9/24/07 09:51 PM, Proteas wrote: As weird as it sounds, I actually wish I would have found this board before I started in college. Since I've been on here, I've actually had practical applications of all the crap they tried to teach me in English 101 as far as topic research and writing of concise, structured arguments (although it doesn't always show on here).

I never practice what I learned in NG. I write the way how I talk (which is "bad English" according to many of my teachers.)

But... I'm better at correcting other people's papers than my own (or my posts for that matter.)
Mmmm... guess I might as well come out of the closet.

I work as an English tutor for my teacher. He called me a few weeks back because he's was impressed that I know how to make grammar easy to understand even for ESL students.

That's right.
I'm a grammarsexual.

Don't you ever get burnt out on that, though? At my last job, I was surrounded by so much music gear and oddball musicians that the last thing I wanted to do when I got home was pickup and play (or work on) my guitar/s. It's been a little over a month since I quit that job and I'm still burnt out on it to a small extent... tomorrow I'm stopping by the community college I used to attend to visit one of the music teachers there, maybe hanging out with him for a while will recharge my batteries a bit.

I guess we all are different. When I get tired of books... I put it down and read something else. It's not the act of reading that's tiring... it's the subject.

God, I'm reading Heart of Darkness... and I had to put that down to read some Fight Club.
I'm weird like that...

Wow my brother is actually waiting outside for Halo 3.

At 9/24/07 10:02 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: I just bough the Early Collection of Rober Frost poems and Alan Ginsbergs Howl and other poems.

I can one-up that. I had a class with Frost's grandson.....who ironically is also named Robert Frost.....

That's right.
I'm a grammarsexual.

Thas hawt.

At 9/24/07 11:16 PM, fli wrote: God, I'm reading Heart of Darkness... and I had to put that down to read some Fight Club.
I'm weird like that...

Never liked Heart of Darkness. Too much colonial allegory, not enough actual stuff happening in the book.

In other news, apparently a project I'm about to start on a chemical process will be useful as a selling point to a potential employer if the job in in a sector involving that process. I guess the phrase "I did a research project on that in my second year of university" just doesn't seem as impressive when you're actually doing it.

I just got done reading Beach Music by Pat Conroy a little while back, if anyone's into those sort of novels.

Kept me interested throughout the book, I'd recommend it....

My favorite book is Watership Down though. I've read it so many times I might just buy a new copy.

You're all a bunch of nerds. You read books!

"Los Detectives Salvajes", Roberto Bolaño. Neato.

Also, Semiotics is a bitch.

Reading sucks when you HAVE to do it.

people read?

amazed

I read wayy too much of my own personal favorite genres.

All I read now is Discworld novels

I did get the last Sandman edition thingy (#10, The Wake), but that was done in two days...And I even got the Art of Discworld (which was amzing.)

right now I'm dab in the middle of Capre Jugulum

and my fiancee just got a big ass shipment of like 6+ books of some series, and I may pick that up soon too

School, bah blah blah . . . .

Homecoming [neutral comment neutral comment]

[something funny about penis.]

[girls, booze and handguns]

Yes.

I hate Michigan. I can't be a teacher's assistant for my English teacher anymore cause of those fuckers!

Grrrrrrr . . . .

;

Well, this morning I had to head to Gallatin, TN to get my car tested and my tags renewed. I stopped by the aformentioned music teacher's office and hung out with him for an hour and a half. He recently bought a used Fender Cyber-Twin amplifier and let me play around on it for a while, we discussed how much trying to get into the music business around Nashville SUCKS because every singer/songwriter and their brother is there trying to get a job in the music industry as well.... and he sympathized with me on the "burnt out" thing I mentioned earlier, which was cool.

I helped my dad load my old Ford up onto a flatbed trailer today, and it got it ready to sell to a junk yard. I hate the thought that my first car is going to wind up rusting out in a junk yard somewhere and stripped for parts, but that's life I suppose.

And a status update on father, for the concerned; last week he and my mother got into it a bit about him not wanting surgery. And my mother basically told him, "Fine, then we need to meet with a lawyer to draw up a will for you and make funeral arrangements, because you're going to be dead in a year and a half." She then reminded him of his cousin who passed away last year from cancer, and how miserable that man's death was....

He's decided to go through with the surgery. They've scheduled it for December. :-)

At 9/25/07 06:03 PM, SevenSeize wrote: You have my thoughts and prayers. :-)

Thank you much. :-)

I know this might be inappropriate in light of recent conversation, but... if any of you ever come into a substantial amount of money any time soon, be it from winning the lottery or robbing a liquor store, what have you... please remember me, and how badly I would like to have Jerry Cantrell's Les Paul guitar from the Alive in Chains "Would?" video.

At 9/25/07 06:32 PM, Proteas wrote: I know this might be inappropriate in light of recent conversation, but... if any of you ever come into a substantial amount of money any time soon, be it from winning the lottery or robbing a liquor store, what have you... please remember me, and how badly I would like to have Jerry Cantrell's Les Paul guitar from the Alive in Chains "Would?" video.

I sometimes like to think about how I'd spend that money

It seems sort of stupid but in those daydreams I even think about "i'll put so many million into a high interest IRA, and so many million into a high interest savings account and I'll invest it in a steller 401k"

"and THEN I'll buy fancy useless shit"

At 9/25/07 06:32 PM, Proteas wrote:

I know this might be inappropriate in light of recent conversation, but... if any of you ever come into a substantial amount of money any time soon, be it from winning the lottery or robbing a liquor store, what have you... please remember me, and how badly I would like to have Jerry Cantrell's Les Paul guitar from the Alive in Chains "Would?" video.

If the lottery hits me I'll present you that guitar at the NG kegger at my new mansion. It might not be a suprise though because I'll need your connections to know how the fuck to buy such a thing. And i will insist people sleep over just incase the mansion has ghosts.

At 9/25/07 06:49 PM, Malachy wrote: "and THEN I'll buy fancy useless shit"

I don't think you're alone in that respect. If I won the lottery, I'd want to ensure that I never had to work again if I didn't want to. Cool shit is nice, but not having to put up with customers for the rest of my life? SWEET.

At 9/25/07 07:05 PM, stafffighter wrote: It might not be a suprise though because I'll need your connections to know how the fuck to buy such a thing.

The easiest thing to do would be to go to the Gibson Custom Shop and have them do it, I don't know if Cantrell would let go of the original (or who would have it now if he did already).

And i will insist people sleep over just incase the mansion has ghosts.

I could live with that. ;-)

At 9/25/07 07:25 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 9/25/07 06:49 PM, Malachy wrote: "and THEN I'll buy fancy useless shit"

I don't think you're alone in that respect. If I won the lottery, I'd want to ensure that I never had to work again if I didn't want to. Cool shit is nice, but not having to put up with customers for the rest of my life? SWEET.

Well they say one of the main pitfalls people who come into money have is that even if they don't start buying yauhts they do start living like they have more money. Like they don't go to the place that has the best price for gas and they stop comparison shopping. That kind of nickel and diming adds up.
I have to say stuff I would blow money on would be a really good computer and maybe some big gym machines. If I'm gonna be living in statly wayne manor I want to be built like batman. But I'm not fearless like him so again, sleep overs to protect me from the ghosts. Again, money saving. By having you guys around instead of the kind of friends money brings I won't be buying matching sets of golf carts and such shit.

At 9/25/07 06:49 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 9/25/07 06:32 PM, Proteas wrote: I know this might be inappropriate in light of recent conversation, but... if any of you ever come into a substantial amount of money any time soon, be it from winning the lottery or robbing a liquor store, what have you... please remember me,

Ok, I'll write that down.
give... money... to... capitalist... pig... the mod one, who's a guy.

At 9/25/07 06:03 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 9/25/07 05:18 PM, Proteas wrote: He's decided to go through with the surgery. They've scheduled it for December. :-)

Good stuff.

You have my thoughts and prayers. :-)

Same here, Proteas :)
And I'm a Catholic so I get a +3 bonus in prayers, but a -5 in thoughts.

It seems sort of stupid but in those daydreams I even think about "i'll put so many million into a high interest IRA, and so many million into a high interest savings account and I'll invest it in a steller 401k"

Real State is the best.

At 9/25/07 04:43 PM, reviewer-general wrote: I hate Michigan.

But you've got snow =D

At 9/25/07 03:25 AM, Empanado wrote:

"Los Detectives Salvajes", Roberto Bolaño. Neato.

You've mentioned that author before, I remember. I'm actually thinking of buying one of his books.

I just want to say this about the season premiere of House.

It could be Lupis

I'd like an episode of house where they go through all of their crazy tests and expecting the patient to die in like 3 hours and then along comes some night nurse and she's all like "um..he has a cold..."

and then the rest of the episode can be how the family will deal with the bill all those tests ran up...

Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*

4 more years, and I will be 30.

At 9/25/07 10:59 PM, fli wrote: Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*

4 more years, and I will be 30.

Happy birthday Fli

Don't get depressed about it, You're still young now, get depressive and awkward to be around when you turn 30, not when you get close to 30

At 9/25/07 10:59 PM, fli wrote: Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*

4 more years, and I will be 30.

im 18. suck on my youth!!

At 9/25/07 10:59 PM, fli wrote: Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*

4 more years, and I will be 30.

Happy birthday!

Be thankful you're not a breakdancer....I'm only 21 and they're already starting to refer to me as "Grandpa" and "pops"......

Damn kids these days.........**falls asleep, snores loudly***

.....*farts*......

At 9/25/07 11:32 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Happy Birthday fli!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the most awesome looking cupcake ever...um, I baked it for you.

<_<
>_>

that looks like sex/pro wrestling/sneezing/and all awesome winter sports all in one giant orgasm of flavor on a plate

At 9/25/07 10:59 PM, fli wrote: Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*

4 more years, and I will be 30.

Want to hang out and watch the first american pie with bruce springsteens glory days playing in the background?

In all serousness, enjoy your birthday

And two months from today and I'll be 18.

Finally, I can legally purchase cigars and see a strip show.

In other news, I'm currently shopping around for a new church, and one of the many Lutheran churche's are looking the most attractive.

Any thoughts.