Wrong kind of fame
 

Y'know, if Martha pulls through this with her show intact, Waksal can always do the Mike Millken reformed-and-penitential-former-thieving-dirtball thing and appear on Martha's show in an attempt to humanize his downfallen self. What the hell was Millken doing, making pastry or something--I know it involved melted butter...

Has slave gone Hollywood or is this an identity crisis?
 

I'm assuming that this is some jab at me since I am living for the moment in an riverside apartment complex on the [shudder] Jerzey side of the Hudson.

But in the rare instance that it isn't, let me make this clear.

The RANGERS are the home team. RANGERS. AS in, the Cablevision-owned, MSG-playing, highest payroll, Lindros-carrying, Better-be-#35-retiring, Larry Robinson-hiring Broadway Blueshirt Rangers.

The Devils are a despised local rival, akin to the Flyers and I-holes. Nothing more.

Ergo, much as I "root root root for the" team-playing-the-Mets-today, I'll root for almost anyone when playing the Devils.

not7y(who better to go Hollywood than me, anyway :cool: )S

Crest White Strips
 

How well does the stuff stay on your teeth? Do you have to contort your lips in a bizarre fashion to make sure they don't rub the solution off your teeth? :D

Has slave gone Hollywood or is this an identity crisis?
 

I didn't even know you were westside, Homes. (do i sound like fat bob when I talk like this?).

Crest White Strips
 

It's on a piece of plastic, so it adheres to your teeth. I have used it and it works beautiully. It's just irritating to wear for 30 minutes.

Poll...
 

Want to be famous? As in life's goal to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone? Not really.

Would accept if the circumstances were right? Sure. But I'd want to be famous for something that I'm proud of. I certainly don't want to be famous because of a screw up or something stupid.

Crest White Strips
 

The Crest strips are on flexible pieces of plastic. The Colgate stuff dries pretty quick so lip contortions are optional.

Wow Rosie's an artist
 

Well, she says she is...

http://www.mumfordgallery.com/rosiepaintings.html

sunless tanning update
 

This morning I used the Neutrogena self-tanner for face on my legs and they have turned a bearable shade of ivory (as opposed to the slightly blue shade they were yesterday). No streaks or patchiness, which is good because I am wearing a short skirt for the first time this year. I would recommend.

Wow Rosie's an artist
 

Based on her first page, I'd say she's still got major unresolved issues with her geometry or "intro to drafting" class.

Hope she works it out--

PJ

Wow Rosie's an artist
 

"Ms. O'Donnell, drop the glue gun and back away, slowly."

Rosie palms
 

I was just telling someone her paintings look like second-rate Jackson Pollock knock-offs.

Poll...
 

At the risk of sounding morbid, I found amazing peace in proving true an ER doctor's prediction that "you probably won't die."

After my heart attack, I had a lot of time to think (much of it through the clarity of some heavy pain killers) and I realized that life isn't a journey. It just is. Until one day it isn't.

I'm lucky enough to have chosen a profession that I enjoy and a practice area that amuses and challenges me. I do the best I can, and I am happy when I find value or answer a tough question.

Keep writing the book. But don't do it because you have to get it published. Do it because you find something in the process of working on it. Either publication will come as it improves, or you'll find the way to a new story that might get published. Either way, concentrate on the work, not the result. You can influence the former, but not the latter.

sunless tanning update
 

Yez. Everyone with award-winning gams should wear short skirts.

TM

Rosie palms
 

Jackson Pollock? With her interesting use of materials, I would have said fifth rate Marcel Duchamp.

Speaking of Duchamp, did anyone else ever make the Pilgrimage to PS 1 (pre-MOMA) when they did "Storage"? This must have been '97 or '98. It was an amazing show.

The Girl From Ipa...uh, Yellowknife
 

... and when she passes, each one she passes goes "ahhhhhhhh!"

Mrs. Not Bob went Hollywood recently (as did slave? that might explain her muttering about never trusting a guy who wears leather pants with a feather boa again, but I digress), and tried the airbrushed tan thingy. Her verdict was that it wasn't worth the hassle.

Wow Rosie's an artist
 

I can't believe its selling (actually, I can believe it...especially in NYC). My fav is the yellow heart, divided in two entitled "healing." Vomit.

BJ

Wow Rosie's an artist
 

What's the selling price of this crap?

stupid, stupid, stupid
 

So, Wait -- I Didn't Get the Job?

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A note to all job seekers: you know that your employment interview did not go well when your prospective boss calls the police in to arrest you.

Anthony Kaleb Phillips, 20, was hauled away from an interview for a job with a construction company in Stillwater, Oklahoma last week after employees recognized the job applicant as the person seen on a surveillance videotape robbing the same business just one day before, police said on Monday.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../nm/odd_job_dc

More bad fame
 

The Gap is now at Haight & Ashbury. Sad, no?

sunless tanning update
 

Child,

The community has heard enough about the hotness of the greatwhitenorthchick. She has made it with famous hockey players; she is too pretty and too young looking to be a lawyer, etc. etc. Your fawning is completely superfluous and, quite frankly, it does not become you. You swatted E/O down so righteously with her "Oh, the perils of fame, I find it so tiresome" post. So why not this poster? Egos must be checked on a neutral basis. Turn the other cheek. And all that.

Jesus.

Rosie palms
 

No. But if you're ever in the Boston area I highly recommend a visit to MOBA (the Museum of Bad Art). *That's* a museum that knows how to put on a show. (And who knows? Perhaps Rosie will appear on its hallowed walls someday!)

Gaprificiation
 

There is also one on St. Mark's Place, for those keeping track.

not7y(pave paradise...put up a)S

sunless tanning update
 

Praise be Jesus! But wasn't it the virtuous E/O whom did deny Francis 3 times ere the cock crowed?!?

-charlie

More bad fame
 

I assume her new love of The Gap is somehow related to The Gap between her front teeth. But I could be wrong...

Artists
 

It's hard to assess mixed media on the web. The art loses texture and depth. That said, my first impression is that it's not very good.

The owner of the gallery seems only to have three artists in his stable, including himself. Not a great sign unless the artist is R.C. Gorman. Though, like R.C., he's based in a small town. Unlike R.C. there probably aren't hundreds of good artists around him.

His earlier work seems to be much better than his more recent pieces. I liked some of the more subtle pieces. His other artist seems doesn't seem to be very good at all. Boring landscapes.

Rosie's work is all over the place. I get the impression that her kids may have helped out, especially in the straight edge pieces. One or two of them could be good, (again, i can't tell because of it's on the web) but it seems that she's not a particularly imaginative artist.

I'd say that if I were trying to sell this, and it wasn't a celebrity's work, I'd ask for between three hundred and a thousand dollars for it. Since she's a celebrity, I'd up that by at least twenty five percent, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of her work is priced in the three to five thousand dollar range.

There are some good celebrity artists out there. Patti Smith has an exhibit in the Contempary Arts Museum in Houston right now that's very good. (http://www.camh.org/cam_exhandprogra...ed.html#smith, though if you're going to the CAM, you've got to see the Splat! Boom! Pow! exhibit on comics in art. It's really good.) I went to an opening for Viggo Mortensen a little over a year ago, and I thought he was very good. (http://www.robertmann.com/artists/mortensen/01.html) His photography was better, I thought, than his painting, but overall, I was impressed. His work (at the time, about three months after the first LOTR came out, I have no idea what it's going for now) was priced as I would have priced it if he weren't a celebrity.

I have a lot of friends who are artists, and I probably go to six or seven art openings a month. There's a lot of crap out there, but there's also a lot of good stuff. And the crap and the good stuff isn't necessarily the same for everyone.

sunless tanning update
 

Are you saying GWNC fucked him?



edit - just in case anyone didn't get the "joke," TM was accused of not treating e/o and GWNC the same and the explanation given as to why e/o got the TM Treatment (c) included the words "virtuous," "cock," and "denied." Ergo, the inference is that GWNC did not deny when the cock crowed.

Thus ends lesson number 254 in the "if you hav to explain it, it isn't funny" series.

Poll...
 

I once wanted to be famous, but when I achieved it, I have to say it sucked- in quick sucession I won state office then national office (as part of a ticket). as a hint, during the campaign, in a debate I quoted Mr____. My opponent, hateful shit said " I knew ____, and you're no ____. " let me tell you crap like that can ruin a day. I just got heaped upon as being dumb, couldn't spell, whatever. I mean my kids heard it- try telling your kids what you want them to do after they hear Dan Rather basically call you a numbskull- not cool. anyway, years removed it cooled off. I can go to the grocery store without being heckled, for the first few years out, i swear it was always "Hey ____, over here in produce, is this vegetable spelled right?"

sunless tanning update
 

If I admit the truth of your assertion, can we assume that the image of TM sexing her will be fodder for your daily effort at using the board for tcb??

I'm sure francis will be flattered at the fame he has acheived!

sunless tanning update
 

It's true. But only because Thurgreed is really Steve Yzerman, famous hockey player, cleverly posing as a transactional attorney, and I must fulfill my life's mission.

(no offense to Steve/TM)

More bad fame
 

Hmmm. You've made me think of the Wife of Bath and the notion that a gap between the teeth is a sign of lasciviousness. Seems appropriate. I wish I were getting a Ph.D. in something like feminist cultural studies so I could write a dissertation about Madonna, Chaucer, and clothes.

Edited to add: nevermind, I think Camille Paglia has already done it.

sunless tanning update
 

Sure. Whatever wets your whistle.

sunless tanning update
 

I have been IMing with the Pope discussing whether sainthood status should be conferred. Creating a vicarious sex life for Mister R does not a saint make.

sunless tanning update
 

I beg to differ. As does my namesake.

Poll...
 

sunless tanning update
 

Are you coveting that croc's whistle?!? The rimjobbery was bad enough but crocostyle bestiality is just plain sick!

Get thee to a nunnery!

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

An anon poster (anon for obvious reasons) suggested the following poll:

What is the dumbest thing anyone has said to you at work?

Anon's response:

I once had a fellow associate ask me why a company would take out a trillion dollar indenture. I told em that, nine zeros usually equals just a billion dollars. And companies can't really afford to borrow a trillion dollars.

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

This is not the dumbest thing, but it's up there. One day when I was wearing a fitted, but not tight, cotton blouse, a male colleague, who is of a higher rank than I and technically is in a supervisory role, asked me why my blouse did not have a top button. I looked down at my breasts, looked back at him, and said "It's not supposed to have one."

I was talking with someone about who we could hire to do something for us.

The person said he couldn't really think of anyone, but oh, we might use Mary. Mary just had a case on the subject in question and the jury handed down a verdict against her client in ## number of minutes. You should know, in law school, Mary was named Mark.

He then went on to give me the name and number of someone he suggested.

So I wrote back, I don't much care about Mary's past, is ## minute verdict fast for this kind of case, and what kind of lawyer is she, would you suggest we hire her?

He wrote back no, he wouldn't suggest that and yes ## minutes is fast.

I felt like writing back, so what was the point of your bringing up this person's name and discussing her? Did you just want to ridicule someone who had a sex change?

Instead I just wrote back, Ok.

This isn't the most stupid thing anyone has ever said to me, but it just happened and it is pretty dumb. Goes out of the way to be offensive. Guy obviously thought he was being funny, and wow was it not funny.

Afternoon Dumb Poll
 

You mean other than the time when our state lottery was at almost $500million and some schmuck asked me, with a straight face, if I would continue to work here if I won?*

*I like my job and generally like the people that I work with (probably because I don't work with other lawyers all that often) but for even a fraction of that I would do the "fuck you dance" all the way out the door.


edited to note that it was a multi-state lottery.