NOLA
 

Sweet pea, some students actually care about the quality of the educational experience. Like, what doctors they are working with when doing their rotations.

Rape deterrent
 

Forgotten your last performance review already?

Weird
 

Somewhat, but then you think of the alternative, i.e., being a slack ass in a two-bit, has-been, post-industrial shell of a city in flyover land, and it seems better.

Weird
 

I'm a 4 hour drive from Chicago, Toronto and Mackinac Island. I have that going for me.

And one thing about having a dying practice/career is that it does become easier to get away.

Weird
 

I'm a 4 hour drive from the end of my cock. I have that going for me.

Weird
 

True dat. I can go anywhere within walking distance and stay there as long as the box holds up any time I want.

Query: Is this phoning it in?
 

So I went to see The Aristocrats last night, and apparently the whole back of the theater was filled with physics grad students, since Robin Williams' line about muons got more laughs than anything else.

I don't recall anyone talking about it here -- I'm sure you did, NFH, no need to run down the post -- so I will recommend it highly. Very funny, and unbelievably tasteless, in the service of the humor of course. Inter alia, the best Christopher Walken imitation I've seen.

Weird
 

After even 3 hours you're supposed to see a doctor.

Weird
 

Must be kind of hard, though, not being able to clean the morning-quickie cum stains off until sometime after the afternoon coffee break.

Weird
 

not really.

NOLA
 

Did you go to Yale?

NOLA
 

I'm not saying *I* care about the quality of my educational experience. But rotations might actually teach something useful, unlike any part of law school.

It's cold in CT.

NOLA
 

That is completely nonresponsive. You are not helping at all. By saying that it is cold in CT, do you mean to say that you went to Yale and know that it is cold in CT, or are you saying that because it is cold in CT, you would not go to Yale?

NOLA
 

The latter.

It's like you don't even know me.

NOLA
 

You're just saying the doctors in Houston suck because you know RT isn't here to respond.

NOLA
 

Oh, I know you.

Can I just say how disappointed I am that it's September? That blows.

No, it doesn't. Cooler air is good.

Now, if you want to talk about how it blows that it's two-thousand-and-fucking-FIVE, go right ahead.

Agreed.

Today I have been dating my boyfriend for six months. And I have not managed to mantrap him yet, dammit.

You may not be so disappointed when you realize how important a month September is. Many significant moments have happened in September, according toThis Month in UFO History. For example, MIBs first appeared in September 1953:

"September 1953 - MIBs (Men In Black) First Appear

It was in September 1953, that three agents of a silence group made their first in-person visit. Albert K. Bender, who had organized an international flying-saucer bureau, was their target.

According to ufologist Gray Barker, Bender had received certain data which he felt provided the missing pieces for a theory concerning the origin of flying saucers. Bender wrote down his thesis and sent it off to a friend he felt he could trust. When the three men appeared at Benders door, one of them held that letter in his hand.

The three men told Bender that among the many saucer researchers he had been the one to stumble upon the correct answer to the flying saucer enigma. Then they filled him in on the details. Bender became ill. He was unable to eat for three days.

UFO investigators Dominik Lucchesi and August C. Roberts called on Bender and encouraged him to break his silence concerning the mysterious men in black.

'They were pretty rough with me,' Bender told them, 'Two men did all the talking and the other kept watching me all the time they were here. He didn't take his eyes off me.'

Bender went on to say that when people found out the truth about flying saucers there would be dramatic changes in all things. Science, especially would suffer a major blow. Political structures would topple. Mass confusion would reign. Roberts and Lucchesi kept chipping away at Benders wall of silence, but to most of their queries they received only a noncommittal 'I cannot answer that'. (source:
http://www.paranormalghostsociety.org/Mib.htm )"

I suspect that you, as a Liberal who automatically opposes SDI because you hate America, simply dislike September because it is also the month that Reagan told the UN that SDI would protect us against alien invasion:

"September 17, 1987 - President Reagan's UN Speech Mentions Alien Invasion

While hawking his SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) plan for space platforms capable of knocking out intercontinental ballistic missles, President Ronald Reagan shocked the world by suggesting, in rather blunt terms, that such space-based defenses would also assist in repelling an attack from aliens from another world. 'Our differences, worldwide, would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.' ( Click Here to hear AUDIO of this statement, 48k WAV file -- Opening of the 42nd session of the United Nations). Addressing officials in Russia on February 16, 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev disclosed that Reagan had raised the issue of a possible extraterrestrial invasion of Earth during the Geneva Summit on November 18-20. 'I shall not dispute the hypothesis,' said Gorbachev, 'though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion.' Similar attributed quotes from Reagan at other times confirmed this notion he had of a threat from 'outside this world.' Film director Steven Spielberg even previewed his movie 'E.T.' for the Reagan's at the White House movie-room, where the President commented to Steven privately during the film, 'There are probably only a handful of people in this room that really understand how true this really is.' Reagan also had a UFO experience of his own, which he blathered to one reporter in a moment of typically Reaganesque absentminded candor, but during the story his face was overtaken by a look of horror, realizing he was speaking to a reporter. He never mentioned it again. He probably had a sudden flash of Jimmy Carter in a boat being attacked by a giant, swimming rabbit and Carter exiting the White House! (Carter also admitted having seen a UFO)."

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesE/fo.jpg

NOLA
 

Houston has some supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (sp?) hospitals and doctors. But alas, I was unaware that tm diva's family, and/or the family of her b-i-l-i-l, hail from Houston. But she's great, so it's nice that you all are so close.

Well stop using such effective birth control measures, dammit!

or at least start by ditching those toothless female condoms.

Hurricane Relief
 

LOS ANGELES - Four Louisiana-born stars — Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Neville and Tim McGraw — will headline a televised charity concert to air live on Friday for victims of Hurricane Katrina, NBC said Wednesday. McGraw's wife, country star and Mississippi native Faith Hill, will also perform.

Plans for the one-hour, commercial-free show, called “A Concert for Hurricane Relief,” were announced.

In addition to music, the special will feature appearances by movie star Leonardo DiCaprio and other (hopefully bigger, more interesting) celebrities.

A buddy of mine who lives in Houston says that his wife's parents lived in New Orleans and lost everything. They are living with one of the daughters. One of the wife's sisters and her husband and 3 kids have come to live with them in Houston. They also lost everything. He says it's hard for them to be happy about having gotten out in time only to have nothing to return to. They estimate about a month to get electricity back.

Do you know something about this month that we don't? Has Ty@50 stolen your present day Ty sock?

Hurricane Relief
 

I work with a number of people who are originally from NO and have family there, or formerly there. One of our paralegals has 17 family members staying with her and her (soon to be ex?) boyfriend.

Rock Star INXS
 

This is my second favorite show of the summer. I may be the only person watching it, but I don't think so.

Anyway, JD was my early favorite to win. Even though I would have voted him out in the first week because he was so godawful. He's lucky to have survived the first week because he has gotten better. But his ego may tube him.

My favorites for final 3 are Mig, Marty and JD. I really love Marty. He's so intense. But I just don't think he's right for the band. Although I'd watch him in another band in a heartbeat. He's a little too dark for INXS.

Mig is the perfect fit - he's the closest match to Michael Hutchins. Even though JD is a better singer.

I thought that Michael Hutchins killed himself, but now someone is telling me that it was auto-erotic asphyxiation. Is this true?

Rape deterrent
 

I don't recall ever claiming to be an expert on either. In fact, I was merely hypothesizing about the anal rape.

But I can tell you I am certain that you have your head up your ass. Which I suppose would make it difficult to sodomize you.

Rock Star INXS
 

It is true that he killed himself by means of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Rock Star INXS
 

How did I miss that?

On the 22nd of November, 1997, Michael Hutchins, the lead singer of INXS, was found dead in a hotel bedroom in Sydney. The coroner of New South Wales said it was suicide. The coroner reached his verdict after studying a brief prepared by local police. Channel 4 has seen that brief and it contains evidence that points to a very different verdict.

MARK TAMHANE: As far as Britain's Channel 4 is concerned, Michael Hutchins was not a sad and tragic figure who took his own life in a Sydney hotel room because he was being ripped apart by a devastating custody battle between his lover Paula Yates and her former husband, Bob Geldof.

Instead, the makers of INXS, the death of Michael Hutchins seem convinced the singer accidentally killed himself while trying to perform auto-erotic asphyxia, a dangerous form of masturbation where the perpetrator deliberately restricts his or her oxygen supply supposedly in a bid to heighten the pleasure of the act.

As evidence, the programme interviews Professor Steven Hucker, a world authority on auto-erotic asphyxia who claims that the New South Wales police and state coroner Derek Hand missed vital clues which all point to accidental death rather than suicide.

There's the mysterious presence of a ring-bolt screw among the possessions discovered in Hutchins' room. Presumably an object from which one could hang a rope or belt, or to attempt auto-erotic asphyxia. But Channel 4's trump card is the testimony of Paula Yates, Hutchins' lover at the time of his death and the mother of his daughter, Heavenly Hirany Tiger Lily. (Is this really a name?)

PAULA YATES: I told you, he's a dangerous boy. He's dangerous. Wild. He could have done anything at any time. The one thing he wouldn't have done is just left us.

MARK TAMHANE: The stories about Michael Hutchins' voracious sexual appetite and the way he's said to have continually lived his life on the edge dominate the programme. A friend, Nick Egan, relates a story about how Hutchins allegedly had sex with former girlfriend Kylie Monogue in a Qantas jet.

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is said to have been sitting a few seat rows forward in the same cabin. He's alleged to have turned around and winked at the couple at a particularly crucial moment.

It's all been great copy for Britain's tabloid newspapers especially as Monogue, who now lives in England, has refused to deny the story.

Link to the rest

Rock Star INXS
 

He killed himself via auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Hope that helps!

damn!!! stp.

Rock Star INXS
 

2.

Rock Star INXS
 

What a crazy man! Next they're going to tell us that he slept with women who liked having their breasts fondled.

Rock Star INXS
 

He caused his own death, but that is not the same thing as suicide. Presumably he meant to have an intense orgasm but stay alive, not just go out with a bang sts.

Rock Star INXS
 

That would be crazy! But anything could happen. He did allow Paula Yates to name their child Heavenly Hirany Tiger Lily.

Query: Is this phoning it in?
 

Who did it? - because I've seen Kevin Spacey's version and it is friggin' uncanny.

Rape deterrent
 

Or not, assuming he ever removes it.

SWIM!!!!!
 

Better question:

Are Gordon and brethren going to stop ending their sets with "New Orleans is Sinking"?

It seems a bit tasteless at the moment - but how do they not play that song?

Canadians - please discuss.

Rape deterrent
 

Funny thing is, right around the next year or so, B&B goes to mmmmm5678's city for a concert. They hook up and start this long distance relationship and start posting about it too much.

At least I remember that happening to 2 posters, and I think it was those two. I can't go back and check because Paigow has locked access to archives to just her closest.

Rock Star INXS
 

I don't know how you missed the news, but it was well-reported at the time. I am watching the show, despite my general hatred of the AI-type format. I guess it is fair for this show.

I cannot comment on my final three picks until is see who was eliminated last night, but I'll get back to you then. I take it that none of your final 3 were eliminated, Ms. Spoiler Space Rules Ignorer.

I agree that Marty is not right for INXS and their catalog, and I agree that he'll end up somewhere else in a more Navarro-esque band. If the losers aren't signing their lives away to INXS, it seems to me it would be better to come in second than to win this thing. All the exposure, no need to subdue or kill your own creative spark by linking up with an 80's band on the concert circuit.