This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I went to an Indian wedding a week and a half ago. I still have henna on my hands from the Mehndi party, and the top of my hands look like a patterned suntan, while the palm pattern is very orange.

I recently learned the dangers of henna. My bungalow in Boracay, Philippines had a prominently displayed sign stating how lovely henna tattoos can be unless one got the shit on their linens. It then proceeded to state how much one would be charged per sheet, pillowcase, etc. Be warned.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

I recently learned the dangers of henna. My bungalow in Boracay, Philippines had a prominently displayed sign stating how lovely henna tattoos can be unless one got the shit on their linens. It then proceeded to state how much one would be charged per sheet, pillowcase, etc. Be warned.

you worry about ruining the sheets? on vacation? in the 3rd world? damn less. I think some fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, that a lot of the guys here have been carrying, just got smashed up.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

It appears Sonia Sotomayor and I have the same red Tahari suit. I wonder if she too got it on sale at Loehmanns.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

you worry about ruining the sheets? on vacation? in the 3rd world? damn less. I think some fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, that a lot of the guys here have been carrying, just got smashed up.

It's all about priorities. If he had to pay for hennaed sheets, he'd have less money with which to ply women of easy virtue with alcohol.

[Shape Shifter]

Hemingway was a commie spy. Not a very good one, but still.

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy
Notes from Stalin-era intelligence archives show 'agent Argo' as a willing recruit in 1941


Up till now, this has been a notably cheerful year for admirers of Ernest Hemingway – a surprisingly diverse set of people who range from Michael Palin to Elmore Leonard. Almost every month has brought good news: a planned Hemingway biopic; a new, improved version of his memoir, A Moveable Feast; the opening of a digital archive of papers found in his Cuban home; progress on a movie of Islands in the Stream.


Last week, however, saw the publication of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press), which reveals the Nobel prize-winning novelist was for a while on the KGB's list of its agents in America. Co-written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, the book is based on notes that Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, made when he was given access in the 90s to Stalin-era intelligence archives in Moscow.


Its section on the author's secret life as a "dilettante spy" draws on his KGB file in saying he was recruited in 1941 before making a trip to China, given the cover name "Argo", and "repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us" when he met Soviet agents in Havana and London in the 40s. However, he failed to "give us any political information" and was never "verified in practical work", so contacts with Argo had ceased by the end of the decade. Was he only ever a pseudo-spook, possibly seeing his clandestine dealings as potential literary material, or a genuine but hopelessly ineffective one?


The latter reading would chime with his attempts to assist the US during the second world war in his fishing boat El Pilar, patrolling waters north of Cuba in search of U-Boats, making coded notes but only one sighting.


Revelations made in recent years have not been kind to some of the writers and artists who made their reputations in the Spanish civil war. George Orwell's list of public figures who were crypto-communists, prepared for a Foreign Office propaganda arm in 1949, sullied his saintly image when it was published six years ago. Research in Soviet archives led Antony Beevor to call Andre Malraux a "mythomaniac". Robert Capa has been accused of faking the best-known photo of that conflict. The virulent hatred of Arabs of Martha Gellhorn - Hemingway's third wife, who covered the civil war with him - has been exposed. And now it's the turn of Hemingway himself, the biggest name of all, to lose some of his lustre.

guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...-kgb-spy/print

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

you worry about ruining the sheets? on vacation? in the 3rd world? damn less. I think some fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, that a lot of the guys here have been carrying, just got smashed up.

To the extent I have fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, I can assure you they do not involve ejaculating henna.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

To the extent I have fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, I can assure you they do not involve ejaculating henna.

I don't think that's how it gets on the sheets.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

It appears Sonia Sotomayor and I have the same red Tahari suit. I wonder if she too got it on sale at Loehmanns.

Post-Palin I would hope so.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Post-Palin I would hope so.

Why? You think there is a chance the RNC bought it for her?

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Adder

Why? You think there is a chance the RNC bought it for her?

If they're smart, yeah. ;o)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

To the extent I have fantasies about world travel as a loaded single guy, I can assure you they do not involve ejaculating henna.

you should be more hopeful. I've heard that foreign climates often cure impotence.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Some time back, Manfred complained about the overplaying of the Cohen song Hallelujah. It turns out that Manfred was just part of a growing tide of people, including Cohen himself, who are complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah.

See http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenois...leonard_co.php

So here's a tip for all you lemmings. Complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah is completely passe. I would say that it had jumped the shark if that expression had not jumped the shark around the time that it first appeared on these boards. The new thing? Complaining about the overabundance of complaints about the overplaying of Hallelujah. I realize this may be a bit too meta for some of you to wrap your minds around (Hi Hank!), but it is time to move this board toward the future instead of anchoring it in the past.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Some time back, Manfred complained about the overplaying of the Cohen song Hallelujah. It turns out that Manfred was just part of a growing tide of people, including Cohen himself, who are complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah.

See http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenois...leonard_co.php

So here's a tip for all you lemmings. Complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah is completely passe. I would say that it had jumped the shark if that expression had not jumped the shark around the time that it first appeared on these boards. The new thing? Complaining about the overabundance of complaints about the overplaying of Hallelujah. I realize this may be a bit too meta for some of you to wrap your minds around (Hi Hank!), but it is time to move this board toward the future instead of anchoring it in the past.

You suckers need to listen to more Jazz. Just call the thing a "standard" and play it in the second set, when everyone's a bit gone. Once that simple rule is followed, ya'all will enjoy hearing it again.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Some time back, Manfred complained about the overplaying of the Cohen song Hallelujah. It turns out that Manfred was just part of a growing tide of people, including Cohen himself, who are complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah.

See http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenois...leonard_co.php

So here's a tip for all you lemmings. Complaining about the overplaying of Hallelujah is completely passe. I would say that it had jumped the shark if that expression had not jumped the shark around the time that it first appeared on these boards. The new thing? Complaining about the overabundance of complaints about the overplaying of Hallelujah. I realize this may be a bit too meta for some of you to wrap your minds around (Hi Hank!), but it is time to move this board toward the future instead of anchoring it in the past.

I wish you'd get on twitter so I got notice when you posted.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I'm going to post, just so no one has to look at Hank's lame joke when they refresh anymore.

TM