Sic transit gloria mundi (farewell to the Concorde).
 

The second Sabrina wasn't Juliet. Julia Ormond, who really hasnt' done anything since Smilla's Sense of Snow, got that part.

R(doing a Taxwonk, having a very, very, bad, no good, day.)T

1987 Buick!?!?
 

No word on whether the car had a "Classy Ldy" license plate, eh?

K is Koming
 

This is what I thought I was posting about in my little ode to Kafka and Penske. I guess there are Forum Ks and thread Ks here.

I was once in Vegas during a Phish concert, and it seemed as if the entire town had turned into a bunch of unwashed pseudo hippies. My sister went to the University of Vermont and she described the kids who "acted" homeless by bumming around on Church Street with mongrel dogs on rope leashes and then went home that night in their 4Runners. Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley seems to have the same sort of kids. The entire strip in Vegas seemed full of these people. It was impossible to get away from them. I got stuck on an elevator with a few of them and ended up reeking of patchouli for hours.

Are you ready to rock?
 

Generally agree on the concert tees. However, if I had been smart enough to buy one of the old subpop Nirvana tees, I would wear it. Everywhere.
Fudge Packin
Crack Smokin
Satan Worshipin
Motherfuckers

Judges might look at me funny in court, but fuck 'em.

Are you ready to rock?
 

Is there a special reason you re-posted this? Did the original get lost?:confused:

tm

My SO loathes Telegraph Avenue, not because it's squalid or grungy, but because she thinks all of its denizens are suburban kids from Orinda there to act out.

I lost faith in the Telegraph scene when Pink Man went to L.A. to get "discovered." Fuckin' sellout.

Am I compliant?
 

Leagl, you and MR have been doing a marvelous job and all, and I'm just hoping that the board is 2K compliant. I guess we'll see in a moment . . . .

Telegraph Avenue
 

How can your SO not like Telegraph Avenue, with the smell of fresh human feces, the urgent requests from street folk for "money for drugs?" and the ever so fashionable deadwear for sale up and down the sidewalk?

Sheesh, she must've gone to Stanford. :smack:

My sister (remember her, she's the bohemian chick whose clothes went up in a ball of fire on Highway One last September?) went to Stanford, rebelled, and has been dating a guy who worked at Ameoba on Telegraph. She's been distraught all week because he recently dumped her, but I secretly think that she's really upset about the cut off of really really cheap used CDs.

According to the Onion, he's already dating a new chick.

Girl From Coffee Shop Seen At Bar With Guy From Record Store
OLYMPIA, WA—Marissa Quirk, 21, that girl from the coffee shop, was spotted Monday at McCoy's Tavern with Greg Clarke, 23, the good-looking hipster guy from the record store. "I go into Crazee Espresso and Rainy Day Records a lot, so when I saw them at McCoy's together, I was like, 'It figures they know each other,'" said Dan Duckett, 22, who has long harbored a crush on Quirk. "It reminded me of that time I saw the guy from the vintage-clothing store with the cute girl who always announces the bands in the student union."

Telegraph Avenue
 

It's not even any of that that bugs her -- it's the suburbanites from Orinda. So clearly she had quite enough of the suburbanities at Stanford . . . .:wink:

Suburbanites
 

I take it she really, really hates Fourth Street then. RestoHard must give her the heebie jeebies.

Me, I can't tolerate Jamba Juice well, but the Menlo Park farmer's market makes me crazy...everyone in their rumpled college sweatshirts calling home on the cell phone to build consensus about organic vegetable offerings. Menlo Park yuppies on Sunday, Telegraph poseurs on Saturday. WTF?

AM (I got here too late for flowers but they've got kale, dear. What, everybody wants French sorrel? No, there aren't any sunflowers!)M

Logo; Sorority Life
 

Originally posted by auchincloss_goldstein_IV
Nice to see you on the flip side snidely condescending,

Edited by Leagleaze to remove potentially identifying information. Sometimes it is not clear what might be outable, so I will ask people to please be cautious. If you have any questions please feel free to PM me. Thank you.

Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

Looks like IT has blocked this board's IP, and I can't get to it from work. Fuck. Any ideas?

I can get on fine from home, using the same PC. Looks like it's definitely an IT at work issue...

Celebrate my Birthday
 

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That depends. If you're upper crust, you have the luxury of collecting friends like DS and LessinSF. If you're a climber, maybe not.

Can anyone spell yiddish?
 

Originally posted by robustpuppy

Of course wonk would, you got shikse-peal.

Unfucking believable
 

They do, however, have more to do with baseball than baseball has to do with politics.

Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

One that may work is that there is a "view printable version" option on this board. If you have a fairly good friend that could e-mail that page to you every couple of hours, you'd be at least caught up as to the goings on here. If it's a fairly overly nice friend, you could create a "Alex de Large captured" sock, or something and have them post your witty replies under that sock.

Vanity Plate in my garage
 

Texas must not be tough on vanity plates. One of my friends used to have (a long time ago) vanity plates that read "X QUEEN". She was not a pagent girl... She has owned a camaro before though.

n(hates vanity plates)cs

Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

If they have blocked the name but not the ip numbers you can connect using those. Try lawtalkers.net that connects through the numbers.

Also try http://www.anonymizer.com/ if you have a popup blocker on make sure it doesn't interfere.

Am I compliant?
 

Nicely done.

Vanity Plate in my garage
 

On the other end of the spectrum, I've seen a plate that reads "Redeemd."

I think that's a bit presumptuous.

Just screw IT
 

Try going through an anonimizer, e.g., http://www.anonymizer.com

The left side of the screen at that site allows you to plug in the URL and allows you to surf snoop-free (and, possibly allow you to get around you IT nazis).

We discussed this site a few years ago in the context of trying to hide the gifs/jpgs from your cache, and I explained then that the anonymizer likely would not work as that poster needed it, as everything ultimately is captured both at your computer and at your firm's server.

As an aside, if you are using the same computer (laptop) at home and at work, some systems (like the newer Novell) will image/synch your laptop to the firm's system and, therefore, you run the risk of having all your internet files copied onto the system for later persecution by the firm (Jesus, I'm starting to sound like Laird Bell. . .)

Just screw IT
 

If you use anonymizer you won't be able to log in to the site. Not a big issue, unless you want to post.

You can try doing a search for "public proxies" on the internet, and then set your browser up to use one of the working proxies. it will filter all traffic and your IT people probably wont be able to block sites that way. Just depends on how crafty your IT peeps are. They may not even let you access IE's proxy settings.

The other thing is, of course, to access the site with the IP address. Here it is: http://205.214.94.186

Just screw IT
 

That might not work. I enter www.lawtalkers.net (without the penis gavel) and the URL automatically shows the numerical IP address.

Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

Alternatively, if your firm blocks third-party proxies and "anonymizing sites" (which it should do if it is serious about making sure that its censorware is not circumvented), or if these proxy sites don't properly handle cookies, you might also consider bypassing the firm's network altogether by bringing in your own laptop and either (1) logging onto your current ISP through your cellphone (assuming that you have a dialup account and your cellphone plan has a sufficient amount of extra minutes for you to use it for daytime surfing)*, or (2) subscribing to your wireless provider's data network.

*This is not idle theorizing as I have applied option (1) in order to surf the web while on a picnic in Central Park.

Just screw IT
 

It's a redirect. So you actually go to lawtalkers.net which in turns sends you to the numerical address.

It might not work anyway, if they were clever enough to block the IP address instead of just the name.

Am I compliant?
 

DON'T

SAY

COMPLIANT.

f(fucking sadists)b

Compliance
 

How YOU doin?

Telluride, Colorado was full of "Trust=afarians" back in the early '90s.

Am I compliant?
 

I'm about to have a breakdown due to that word.

A Really Gross Etiquette Issue (welcome back DS!)
 

From "Dear Prudence" column:

Prudie,
Recently, my mother passed away. I live more than 1,000 miles away and couldn't make it home for the funeral. The problem is that when I went online to read the obituary, it said that my mom had five daughters, not four. What happened was that the woman taking care of her as she got sicker was having an affair with my dad, and she was called a "daughter" in the obituary. My mother expressed to me many times that she didn't like this woman, but my dad wanted to keep her, for obvious reasons. Well, I called my dad and told him that I thought it was cheap and that he was a pig for doing such a thing with the obituary. He told me all my brothers and sisters, and even my mom's family, thought it was a good idea. My brothers and sisters knew he was having an affair with her, and now they think it is OK to write that this girl was a sibling? My brothers and sisters think that I was wrong and I shouldn't have said anything to our father. I don't think I am wrong in the least bit, and if he asks for an apology, I won't give it to him. He is almost twice her age.

—Burned Up

Dear Burn,
If you know for a fact that your sibs OK'd this nonsense, then they AND your dad are all whack jobs. You're either a child or you're not, and the caregiver/girlfriend certainly is not. The age difference, of course, is charming. And boy, it's really true: There's no fool like an old fool. Prepare yourself, dear, for the possibility that this woman will wind up in the paper again—on the wedding page.

—Prudie, empathetically


Aside from the sheer squickiness of calling one's mistress one's daughter, I am now looking forward to a proud new era of obits such as "Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband, Robert, and her younger, hotter side action, Bill." That's the kind of thing that will really comfort the cuckolded spouse and who-the-hell-wants-to-know-about-your-parents'-sex-lives kids in their time of grief.

A Really Gross Etiquette Issue (welcome back DS!)
 

Yet another reason not to have kids, eh?

Anyway, where are the cops to arrest the guy for "incest"?

DA: So, Mr. Smith, Miss Hoochie is your daughter?

Smith: Um, well, no.

DA: But you described her in your wife's obituary as your daughter?

Smith: Yes.

DA: So you've been having carnal relations with your "daughter"?

Dear Prudence
 

Well that woke me up on a sleepy, boring Friday.
If my father did that he'd be quickly making his own appearance on the obit page.

Widespread/Phish/Allmans/Dead/Poseurs
 

No bootlegs. I'll check out the new Allmans. They still put on one of the best shows I've seen. 19 minutes of Jessica - phenomenal.
I don't know what it is about Phish fans. My good friend (different friend) dresses uber-conservatively (maybe b/c he IS very conservative), but he loves Phish. He won't go back to a show though. He was wearing a golf shirt and shorts and two people told him he didn't belong there b/c of the way he was dressed. No real hippie would try to make their "club" so exclusive. It's almost like they've become just the narrowminded people they never wanted to be.

I've always said: Rebelling for the sake of rebellion is no better than conforming. Either way your basing your decisions on other's ideals...Although I'm a hypocrite b/c I love to say "fuck you" to society just for the hell of it...

"Shit. The Doobie Brother's broke up?"

Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

Sounds like a good topic: What is the greatest age difference between husband/wife in your family?

My answer: The husband (my relative) was 38; his wife was 18. She kicked him to the curb within 5 years.

Thriller
 

Now we get to hear PJ blather on some more about her obsession

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

Spree: [Another Michael Jackson special for Fox - this time, it's his home movies]

TM

Thriller
 

I don't know that the world is quite ready for a Michael Jackson home movie.

("This is my giraffe. I love my giraffe. I love ALL giraffes. This is my lion. I love my lion. I love ALL lions. This is my roller coaster. I love . . .")

Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

My grandparents were at least twenty years apart, though we are still not entirely sure.

For forty years of marriage, my grandfather believed he was the same age as his wife. Then, one day, he opened an envelope and discovered she was twelve years older than he thought.

Two years later, it turns out she was eight years older than that.

To say she aged incredibly well is an understatment. She outlived him and, at the time of her death in her late 80s, she looked about 65.

E/O