Real World - True Hollywood Story
 

The episode of Making Da Band II where Nes(?) and Frederick have three or four fights is one of the best reality TV episodes of the modern era. Diddy has two brilliant lines. The first is after he's calmed things down and found out what the fight was about and what the situation is, he turns to Farnsworth and asks "who won?" Genius. The second is when he says to the cameraman, "keep the cameras rolling at all times. They have all this technology to bring people back to life, you don't need to jump in there. Keep the cameras rolling." Babs was her most ghetto yet, with her "LET EM FIGHT! LET EM FIGHT!"

Brilliant.

Frederick's a bitch. They all are.

str8

Pirates
 

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore

Pirates was my favorite hollywood action movie this year, edging out X-Men, and handily beating Matrix on account of the slow parts and lagging plot.

Of non-big hollywood movies, dirty pretty things was tops this summer. The entire ensemble cast, from hookers to graveyard shift morgue employees, rocked.

Being a good host and guest
 

At least in New England, it's a class/catholic thing. Cops and fireman are prole professions.

Wedding Question
 

The party started out very tame and continued that way until Saturday night, when I parted ways with most of the group and hit the Rum Jungle VIP section with my most Seb. Dangerfield-esque friend. And so to answer your question, excellent and excellent.

str8

Being a good host and guest
 

look sister, I grew up lower middle class- back than i didn't know what patronizing meant, but now, daily when responding to you on Politics I live out the very word-
TF's friends might think her uppidity (And TF probably not don't listen to her) but patronizing? no

Being a good host and guest
 

Str8, you either need to have your ass kicked but good, or you are very good at pretending to be a prick.

Being a good host and guest
 

Alternatively, he's picked up on Paigow's old favorite expressions.

Quality programming
 

Anyone ever turn on the television to a fine gem of a scintillating reality tv program and think to themselves, "My god, who watches this crap?"

I do. Then I remember, "Oh, its the FB."

Host?!? Guest?!?
 

What happened to the sex talk that used to happen here?

Outstanding Investor Digest
 

Anyone know why the site's been down?

PSA/Party Gifts/Ants
 

And as a Public Service Announcement on behalf of Leagl, those of you counting the days until the 5th should be getting out your checkbooks or hitting the PayPal link to support the Board that is making your Rack Ogling possible.

I usually bring a bottle of wine to a party. If the host is a very good friend or is having the party as an accommodation to the group (i.e. convenient place to gather), I ask what I can bring.

Ants must have either an amazing sense of smell or Ant ESP. I broke a bottle of Terro (an ant bait/killer) on my study floor (thankfully it is hardwood) about 1-1/2 hours ago. Since then tons of ants have been crawling in my second floor window to head for it.

Host?!? Guest?!?
 

Oh, I dunno.

You left, West purchase, board schism, Greediva retired...you know, a bunch of the usual crap.

not7yS

Host?!? Guest?!?
 

We need your "where is the craziest place you've ever had sex" polls!

Host?!? Guest?!?
 

Ahh, the good old days. Though the West purchase was ok -- it probably wasn't until they implemented a lock down on the dirty words.

You'd think that with a lesbian running the place, there would be all kinds of dirty talk. Wait, that's just in my fantasy world.

Chef's TCB Poll
 

Back by popular demand...ok, demand of one, but that's good enough for me.

The place one is not bad, but one of my favorites is what do you like to use for "assistance" when TCB'g?

I am a visual person, so I'm all about internet video porn. Thank someone for the Windows Media Player and titfucking on digital videotape. :wink:

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

Just Chillin' at the Ole Folks Home
 

We got regifted. A not-too-close friend from high school who invited me to her wedding a few months before sent us a Tiffany's cake cutter and server thingie. It was wrapped very nicely, except when we opened it, there was a card inside that said, "Mr. and Mrs. NotMarshall, We hope your life together is [blah, blah, yada.]"

I called her to ask her why she sent me one of her gifts and she said, "Oh, sorry. But what's the big deal? It's a nice gift, right?"

We haven't spoken since. Bitch.

TM

p'shaw
 

Just what Penske needs: 484 bottles of Charles Shaw.

TM

Being a good host and guest
 

quote:
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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
At least in New England, it's a class/catholic thing. Cops and fireman are prole professions.
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Str8, you either need to have your ass kicked but good, or you are very good at pretending to be a prick.



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And you obviously can't handle the truth but thanks for playing I guess when you hail from the House of Buttufuaco you may not realize it has nothing to do with new england. They are blue collar jobs that dont require a degree. Res Ipsa Diquitor. Get over it. He didnt say there was anything unheroic or bad about being a cop or fireman.

On a totally unrelated note, did anyone see the commercial about the Flower losing its Power? Ironic.

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Paigow, why do you need to jump to str8's defense? Because he used a term that you use yourself? Did you think that I was attacking you? My comment to str8 didn't spring solely from that asinine post. Nevertheless, I do wonder why my simple comment to him leads you to make assumptions about my background.

Interesting.

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Granted, after spending another fabulous long weekend way past the Land of Buttafuaco on the LIE where auto mechancis are kings and money men work in boiler rooms, with all the psuedos, hasbeens and wannabes, I will admit I have not caught up but randomly read that one post and no others in the thread. But I saw you get on him for calling cops and firemen prole jobs, which they are (as are most nondegreed jobs besides being JHo), and I thought your post evidenced a certain hostility towards New Englanders and people who know proles in general, and that had to put yuou in the 718, 201, 516 or some other similarly Buttafuocoesque area code. Sorry if I was way off and you really are some Denis Learyesque 212 via 617.

Edited to clarify that I did not take your post as a personal attack or respond to come to the defense of ole Hot Topix, but rather to correct a phallacy without basis on your part. That's what I do. Dont hate me becauase my social observation skills are Tom Wolfe meets John Irving. They are just spot fucking on and I thought you needed the help.

Being a good host and guest
 

Actually, they increasingly do. I've got both in the family.

Being a good host and guest
 

Oh, well, of course, that makes perfect sense.

Chocolate or Cinamon Babka?
 

Penske's dad gets all bent out of shape when you don't put out his marble rye.

TM

Just Chillin' at the Ole Folks Home
 

See, that was just stupid - she should have said "what? How hilarious, they must have confused the giver and the recipient's names when they wrote out the card! Hahahaha."

That's what I would have done. Then again, I would also have sneakily opened and checked it to ensure there was no enclosed card before regifting.

Being a good host and guest
 

So you are saying that you need a degree from a four year instittution to be a fireman or a cop? And that these jobs cannot be prole jobs bc they have always required this? What next? A phd to take orders to do political assasinations?