Stuck on Repeats

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Just angry hearing shit like that. Praying, yes, but gets me mad more than anything else. Been through it a lot -- professionally on a daily basis and personally in several situations too tragic to imagine.
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Yes, well, be that as it may, a person cannot receive PMs if a person has exceeded the storage for saved PMs. A small point in this awful universe of ours, but valid nonetheless.

[Hank Chinaski]

since we're all telling our sorrrows, there is a big fly that got in my house, like so big the wife and I swear we see facial expressions on it as it dodges our swats. I used to brag about being able to kill flies, and she thought I was proficient at it, but as the hours drag on and it taunts me still, dodging my rolled New Yorker, her respect for me must be dwindling.

Atticus- it is still early enough to work this into tonight's prayers, yes?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

since we're all telling our sorrrows, there is a big fly that got in my house, like so big the wife and I swear we see facial expressions on it as it dodges our swats. I used to brag about being able to kill flies, and she thought I was proficient at it, but as the hours drag on and it taunts me still, dodging my rolled New Yorker, her respect for me must be dwindling.

Atticus- it is still early enough to work this into tonight's prayers, yes?

Wow, man, that really brings it all home to me!!! Thanks!!!

I'm just bullshitting about this, of course. In both ways: Hank could never say anything appropriate and Hank could never make me feel bad.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

It is unconscionable judicial activism for the Supreme Court to prevent the FCC from sanctioning television networks from airing the likes of Nicole Richie.

Fucking copout. Pacifica needs to be retired.

LessinHamburg

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Yes, well, be that as it may, a person cannot receive PMs if a person has exceeded the storage for saved PMs. A small point in this awful universe of ours, but valid nonetheless.

You, unlike Hank, are Very Funny. But I'm never sure whether it's intentional on your part.

Maybe work on some punchlines or something.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

since we're all telling our sorrrows, there is a big fly that got in my house, like so big the wife and I swear we see facial expressions on it as it dodges our swats. I used to brag about being able to kill flies, and she thought I was proficient at it, but as the hours drag on and it taunts me still, dodging my rolled New Yorker, her respect for me must be dwindling.

Atticus- it is still early enough to work this into tonight's prayers, yes?

My grandfather used to tell a story about how he was at Picasso's house once and there was a huge fly, so big and fat you'd think it was slow, but, no, it was like lightening. Picasso had wheeled Guernica out to show all the guests and was taunting one of them over some drunked comment he had overheard and misheard. He then starts yelling at the fly. He's screaming. He seems half mad with anger at the poor fly.

Grandpa mixed some of his scotch in with some white paint that was there and dabbed it near the fly. The fly was attracted to the sweetness and got stuck in the paint. The fly is still there if you look hard enough. Picasso loved it.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

I'm just bullshitting about this, of course. In both ways: Hank could never say anything appropriate and Hank could never make me feel bad.

2. Shapey and I go back too far to offend. Here we are with our dads at the state fair circa 7th grade.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

Look, man, my brother is dying from nasopharyngeal cancer.

That's the way it goes, I guess. I appreciate the PMs of support I've received from Greedy, TM, Hank and others. It really doesn't make a lot of sense and there's not a lot you can say. I can't say it either but I appreciate the effort.

He's currently being ravaged by infections. Imagine sinus pressure constantly in your head, that's what he's dealing with. It got so bad that it burst his eardrums.

I don't really know what to do other than to try to make him comfortable, which is impossible. It sucks seeing someone suffer like that. And he's lost so much weight he looks like a Holocaust victim or an anorexic.

It looks like the infections are about ready to kill him. My Mom is freaked out because she's one of those people who feel like if you work hard enough and figure things out, you can overcome life's struggles. She refuses to acknowledge that there are things in life bigger than her, or if she does, they're of the tidal wave variety.

This isn't fun. My brother and I have managed to have some cool moments together, like watching the Battle for Guadacanal on the Military Channel toether.

But it hurts.

So sorry to read this. Glad you can be with him, just doing that even when there is nothing you can do is doing something.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

Yeah, well the "Jap bastard" thing kind of fell flat. I thought it was kind of funny from a "they really used to talk like that" persepctive, but thankfully I don't do this for a living.

No, I'm not joking. I thank everyone for their kind thoughts, but that's not really why I'm posting this. It's just venting.

I did all my crying a couple of months ago when I found out that the cancer had spread. I got good and drunk, and when my Mom came home she smashed through my remaining beers with an axe. It was unsettling, but I think it was healthy for her to have a physical outlet for the emotional pain she must feel, and I was happy to provide it for her.

It's just bizarre. My daughter was down recently and my brother apologized to her for not being a better host. She had tears immediately.

And yet I am still willing to bet good money that Adder is a virgin.

Vent away -- that's what we're here for.

Your mom has style, that's for sure.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Vent away -- that's what we're here for.

Your mom has style, that's for sure.

I was wondering if "smashed through them with an axe," was literal, or was a Texas idiom for "drank quickly."

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

2. Shapey and I go back too far to offend. Here we are with our dads at the state fair circa 7th grade.

Disagree. I always pictured us with one wearing an "I'm with Stupid" t-shirt and the other wearing the "Stupid" t-shirt. We would alternate wearing it based on who had the most hits in the last game.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Vent away -- that's what we're here for.

Your mom has style, that's for sure.

She once almost cut off her hand with a chainsaw and spent some time in the hospital on a morphine drip after being bitten by a copperhead.

She can be both a burden and a blessing, depending upon whose ox she's swinging that axe.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Sometimes the body is so ridiculous, you gotta be a little forgiving of the face. Although, I don't think she's butter.

You prefer her to Monday's submission?

TM

I will admit that I did not look at Monday's though I went back and did so when you raised the question.

I prefer les brunettes.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

She once almost cut off her hand with a chainsaw and spent some time in the hospital on a morphine drip after being bitten by a copperhead.

She can be both a burden and a blessing, depending upon whose ox she's swinging that axe.

Man, with that sob story yesterday you had every FBetty here ready to drag your sorry ass down on the nearest kitchen floor and make all your cares go away. Now the only one who will go near your place is BnB, mostly because she's alway game for a little hand-to-hand chainsaw combat.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Man, with that sob story yesterday you had every FBetty here ready to drag your sorry ass down on the nearest kitchen floor and make all your cares go away. Now the only one who will go near your place is BnB, mostly because she's alway game for a little hand-to-hand chainsaw combat.

I've got enough troubles.