Host?!? Guest?!?
 

Denver.

Host?!? Guest?!?
 

I can't resist. That was a question on the Newlywed's game. The answer was bleeped (after all I think that was the 70's or 80's) but the Husband said "on the dining room table."
Wife responded, "in the ass." My favorite blooper moment.

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Thanks to the FB, I am rather partial to www.literotica.com. (Do not click here from work.)

More often than not, I am uh reminiscing over old times.

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Ahh, the erotica. A nice change of pace.

Ketch-up? I give up.
 

I caught that this weekend. Don't even know what channel it was on (I was recovering on the couch between soccer games) but it was hysterical.

Random thoughts on ketching-up:

No, no, Pedro can't go!!!!!!

Yes, I'm a Dead-Head, but Phish sucks (or maybe I should not have stopped doing drugs). They bore me (although I really like Trey's Mandolin String Quartet).

Saw CSN the other night, they may be old, but they can still play! They also brought back wonderful memories of Myer's Rum and OJ (in the gallon jug), sharing a joint and watching the sun set over Jersey.

Anyone bought the Anna Kournikova sports bra at amazom.com yet? Let's link to that on Thurgreed's Special Day and make a few pennies. Unfortunately, I don't need one.

FYI - for those on the East Coast, the Provincetown Carnival is incredibly entertaining. I haven't seen QE yet, but most straight guys can defintitely use the help. I got cavities from the eye candy at Spiritus Pizza every night. Oy vey!

Erotica? Anias Nin mde me so horney in 8th grade I'm afraid to read anymore.

Anne
I'll just have to accept the fact that there are 25 pages of posts I'll never get to.

Must See Television
 

Concur.

Slurs, Sluts, etc...
 

On the subject of slurs...

I remember actually being pleased when I saw Bad Boys (the Sean Penn movie, not the Will Smith movie) in high school and learned that the Irish had their very own slur: Mick. Aside from Horowitz, I've never actually heard anyone use it, though.

On the subject of female concert-goers

You may recall my post (or str8's posts) earlier in the summer about the Coachella Music Festival. Both of us remarked that the music was great and that there were a lot of unattractive women and a paucity of hot women (most of them were hanging with str8 in the VIP section).

So, I'm up in the Bay Area this weekend (I might be relocating to Northern California), and I go to the Sprite Liquid Mix concert. (I like how both the promoters and the groups acted like they were in multi-culti San Francisco instead of white-bread, suburban Concord. "Hello San Francisco! How you feelin' San Francisco!" Um, San Francisco's an hour away. Hell, Berkeley is 30 minutes away.)

But I digress...

Anyways, while I'm watching The Roots, I notice that it's a rather attractive crowd. Hot girls all over the place. Hot white girls, hot black girls, hot latinas, hot asian girls (nttawtt).

There are two possible explanations:

(A) Girls into hip hop are generally more attractive than girls into indie/college/alternative music.

(B) Girls from Northern California are hotter than girls from Southern California.

Now because I grew up in the Bay Area, I can say that (B) just can't be true. (B) never used to be true. Having women from the Bay Area suddenly be hotter than women from SoCal would be like switching off gravity. It's changing a longstanding, well-settled, natural law. So is (A) true? Or is there another explanation?

On the subject of (and in defense of) Warren Zevon's GF...

I assumed that the GF was a model, thus she had to live in NYC for her career. The GF told Warren that she was going to be there for him. I believed her. I'd also probably be more circumspect with protestations of love and support after finding that the mics are set to levels that record whispers although the producers deny it.

The GF is in a tight spot. She probably still has to work, it's not like she can count on a Anna Nicole Smith-sized bequest from his will. We don't know how long they've been dating. If you've gone out with a guy for a year, do you take the next year off to be with him when he's diagnosed with a terminal illness? Is your answer the same if you're in a career with a limited shelf-life, i.e. model, pro athlete, actress? How do you deal with the other members of the family: ex-wife, children from the ex-wife, who might not want you around him all of the time in L.A.? She makes Warren happy. he deserves some happiness in the time he has left, and I say we, as an FB community, cut her some slack. Either that or we let her share some of PLF's cookies.

Leagl not understanding 2200+
 

Leagl's, mock-serious, non-understanding people billing 2200+ (which isn't even high for the NYC sweatshops). A woman or two on the FB have joked about a day of gender equality when it's as common to find hotshot female professionals marrying blue collar males as it is to find hotshot male professionals doing that. Well, there's multiple facets to that gem. One of them is likely male levels of workaholism among women. A femme chess commented thusly, J. Shahade:

August 2003 Smithsonian Article

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Yet another reason why E/O has been nominated for the prestigious "Coolest Lawyer in Texas" award.

Should she win, she will be able to rub her CLiT for luck.

Slurs, Sluts, etc...
 

Clearly, the answer is A.

You are an excellent host. Everyone else is wrong. People will still bring stuff because they're nice and they're convinced it's expected, but you're right not to depend on it and to provide enough food/drink yourself. Just say thanks--no emotional conflict necessary over this one.

But if I were a guest I would still bring a bottle of wine or something. If nothing else, it could help you ease the stress of this whole dilemma!

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Agree with the nomination, but maybe you could allow some regional honorable mentions? Dallas, Houton, etc.

BTW, FWIW, the topics on the FB really sucked yesterday until Chef and E/O tried to mix things up last night. YMMV. NTTAWWT.

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Excellent point -- being in Austin already gives me an unfair Cool advantage. ;)

[Edited to add: using an emoticon gives that advantage right back.]

And yet, no substantive responses this morning . . .

toker
 

And chips and twinkies and ice cream and corn nuts and pretzels and popcorn and...

Thurgreed(dude, i'm hungry -- like starving, man)Marshall

Cookies.
 

She can have some, if she does not get all piggy about it.

I have just been IMing with e/o about cookies. I mention that I am having an offline conversation with an admin for bridge of love's benefit, because I want to underscore how much of an insider I am. I am so far on the inside, I do not even remember what it is like to be on the outside.

Here are cookies that I have been enjoying recently (this part is for the benefit of that lecherous old player-hater Taxwonk, so he can offer me cookies with specifity in the future):

Chocolate chip cookies (from a variety of sources, esp. the Anodyne Coffee Shop)
Petit Ecoliers (regular and hazelnut) [lame joke about eating little school boys omitted]
Walkers Shortbread
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut from Kowalski's Supermarket

If any of you come to visit me up in Minneapolis, we can get together with Bilmore and Fugee and have some cookies. I will try not to eat an embarassingly large amount, even though I will be extraordinarily high from smoking marijuana cigarettes.

I remain,

Your friend,

P. Flower