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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: CortJstr on September 27, 2004, 02:27:55 am
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A windproof toque?
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The Ray entry felt a little too much like "trying too hard" to me. Perhaps I am jaded.
Teodor's reference to "Rubber Rodeo" sort of floored me, though, if only because before this I'd assumed that "Rubber Rodeo" were some sort of joke band created by my SO to confuse me. I'm sort of scared now. Ruptured paradigms will do that.
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I'm sort of scared now. Ruptured paradigms will do that.
Allow me to suggest this soothing topical cream (http://www.farpointbbs.com/homepages/watsons/images/Katy3/KJW3_7.jpg).
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Allow me to suggest this soothing topical cream (http://www.farpointbbs.com/homepages/watsons/images/Katy3/KJW3_7.jpg).
Is it creepy that I just looked around in the "left-alone-since-2001-family-homepage" for like 10 minutes? Just a few moments ago, I was like, hmmm. This hasn't been updated for 2 years! I hope the kids are doing okay!
I think basically I need a life.
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Those kids are all dead now. You are looking at the internet repository of their happiest living memories.
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Apparently Molly is just as insane as Beef is, only in different ways. Crying in the freezer is not cool.
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This makes me more and more convinced that my SO and I are rapidly converging on actually being Beef and Molly, but less feline. I did not cry in a walk-in freezer today, but I did cry in the middle of Japanese class, which is sort of the same thing.
Also, the idea of hiding a bangle in a donut is absolutely fabulous, especially Beef's total lack of subtlety about it.
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Subtley = emergency dentistry
I applaud his warning. I've heard of people accidentally consuming engagement rings due to subtlety.
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i suppose i would break down and cry in the freezer every now and again if i used to live in heaven.
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i suppose i would break down and cry in the freezer every now and again if i used to live in heaven.
Wow, thinking about it that way makes it pretty dag-gone romantic. Molly gives up heaven to be with Beef. That's hella Beren and Luthien.
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i suppose i would break down and cry in the freezer every now and again if i used to live in heaven.
Wow, thinking about it that way makes it pretty dag-gone romantic. Molly gives up heaven to be with Beef. That's hella Beren and Luthien.
Not quite. She "died" in a fire returning her to earth which was presumably an accident. And the only to get back to heaven is to "die for real" so she can't return to heaven by choice.
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i suppose i would break down and cry in the freezer every now and again if i used to live in heaven.
Wow, thinking about it that way makes it pretty dag-gone romantic. Molly gives up heaven to be with Beef. That's hella Beren and Luthien.
Man, when you think about it that way... I agree with Cort that it was probably an accident and not a conscious act on Molly's part, but still. Hella nerdcore romantic, yo.
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um, regardless, SHE WAS ONCE IN HEAVEN LIVING AN IDYLLIC EXISTANCE IN HEAVEN.
and NOW she works at Applebees.
to reiterate: i would cry in the freezer too.
especially if the cook was mean.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've never lived in heaven and I'd cry if I had to work at Applebee's too. I come close to crying when I have to eat there, so...
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've never lived in heaven and I'd cry if I had to work at Applebee's too. I come close to crying when I have to eat there, so...
Looks like somebody needs a trip to Ruby Tuesday for some perspective.
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Dude, I will eat at Ruby Tuesday's ANY TIME rather than eat at fuck*ng Applebees. I know they're supposed to be competitors, but RT's is SO much better.
The salad bar - baby back ribs as opposed to those mutant "riblets" things, a full bar, etc. RT's kicks Applebee's ass six times from Tuesday.
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at first i thought, "oh no, what is cornelius doing? somebody stop him from spending all that loot..." but now that he's done it and is actually over there i hope he actually meets what'shername...Ekaterina...and they at least do it a couple of times.
why is he in love with her again? didn't he just think she was hot and then decided he was in love? maybe that's why nobody is a close enough friend to tell him to stop stalking.
on a more personal note, if i ever actually meet sara silverman i will be unable to talk except to say "bufaahlaham."
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on a more personal note, the only "dine in" "chains" that we have in town, are Applebees, Perkins (within the cursed confines of the 'doomed restaurant space in the hotel' where every restaurant that opens in that space fails), and ryans. ryans, honestly, doesn't count to me, because "dine in" is not the same as "root through the trough".
As such, i've spent WAY MORE than my share of time at Applebees, because quite frankly, it's the only game in town. That being said, i have several friends who work there, i talk to the manager about her hosss, etc, etc, etc.
I will, however, easily concede the fact that Applebees, as a chain of restaurants, sucks as compared to the OTHER chains of its "genre". It has the most boring and bland menu of them all, etc, etc, etc. However, this particular Applebees is held in a happy place in my heart.
Well, apparently it closed yesterday morning. Monday morning. Folks arrived at work, and were told "don't clock in" (word on the street is...).
The parent CORPORATION, which is NOT "applebees" (which is the parent CORP for 90% of the applebees rest.'s) but some stupid assed management company in this "area", went CAPUT. and so they have to close down the location that was making them money that they used to fund the locations that were costing them money.
Sadly enough, the Corporation of Applebees can not "buy out" this particular location (which is an actual money maker and profitable) because it would not be cost effective because the management company that "owned" it had fubarred their books so bad.
So now the best run, best managed restaurant in town is closed.
It get's better. It's the "mall" restaurant, in a mall that has had the Hallmark shop, the Toy Store, the Eye Glasses place, and 3 specialty clothes shoppes close down in the past year or so.
There's a JC Penny's on one end, and some random MidSouth specific chain on the other end, with a pop-corn place in the center/food court.
both ends of the mall are about 5 "stores" long (5 on each side, etc.).
so, a good 30 percent of the mall is Vacant, and Has Been Vacant For Quite Some Time.
i have no idea why i'm telling you all this. think of it as a poorly worded vignette into the suckiness of a local economy.
maybe i'll reply to next week's blog where Phillippe starts drawing pictures of unicorns with chalk on the front walk, with a poem about the closing of the fabrics plant.
ps, sarah silverman == THUMBS UP!
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Arkabee, that is profound in a way I can't totally express right now. Damn, man. You good.
I was just about to get riled up about the declining quality of the blogs (and Mr. Bear's blog rapidly becoming the saddest thing), but then I read LN's latest entry, which is pure gold. Pure, pure gold. I can just picture LN sitting on the curb, making a vinegar volcano and brooding.
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There's a JC Penny's on one end, and some random MidSouth specific chain on the other end, with a pop-corn place in the center/food court.
both ends of the mall are about 5 "stores" long (5 on each side, etc.).
so, a good 30 percent of the mall is Vacant, and Has Been Vacant For Quite Some Time.
i have no idea why i'm telling you all this. think of it as a poorly worded vignette into the suckiness of a local economy.
This sounds very much like the town I grew up in.
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About halfway through arkabee's post I thought I'd accidentally clicked over to the Bleat.
Maybe these places are just by area. I know where I lived before from worst to best the sad crappy chains went Ruby Tuesday -> Applebees -> Friday's but maybe that doesn't hold true everywhere. Plus some places have Bennigan's.
Also, I just saw Sara Silverman in a "10 Unattractive Women You Know You Want to Sleep With" list but I just don't see it.
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Maybe these places are just by area. I know where I lived before from worst to best the sad crappy chains went Ruby Tuesday -> Applebees -> Friday's but maybe that doesn't hold true everywhere. Plus some places have Bennigan's.
See, when I was in high school, we had the exact opposite hierarchy going on: Ruby Tuesday was classy for the restaurant type (genre?), Applebees was okay if you were near one, and Friday's implied a certain level of sad desperation. But hey, YMMV.
EDIT: Upon rereading, I feel the need to make an exception clause here. While the food is good at Ruby Tuesday, my associations with it remain that, when I eat there, strange cosmic surreality will befall me at that table. This may because two of the three distinct Ruby Tuesday memories I have are eating dinner with my parents before my first unchaperoned nerd meetup ("your father and I would really appreciate it if you didn't get into drugs or alcohol or unsafe sex or anything") and a post-tournament forensics dinner (in which my teammate desperately tried to con the server into serving him booze and then later left with our opponents to go cow-tipping out West).
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For some reason, the ambiance of a dying shopping mall really rings my bells.
I can't really weigh in on the Applebee's vs Ruby Tuesday's debate, as the last time I was in an Applebee's was, like, ten years ago (in High School you have to go on Dates and such) and I've never been to a Ruby Tuesday's. As a kid, I really thought T.G.I. Friday's was the damn cat's pajamas, because they had (what I perceived to be) gigantic hamburgers and this delicious peanutty ice cream drink thing. I sort of have a violent aesthetic allergy to "fun, casual dining", mostly because I'm one of those people who looks at the menu and thinks "for what I'm paying, I could make three of something far better". See also the dead-on-target "Grizzlebee's" on Sealab 2021.
I love the turn of phrase of "get into drugs or alcohol or unsafe sex", as though one "gets into" drugs or unsafe sex (I immediately thought of staple guns and cranes) in the same way one gets into, say, stamp collecting or model railroading.
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Ark, that is a sad story. Similar things have happened to me so many times. You get attached to a place, you know the people, it seems like more than just a business, it's part of your life. And one day it just vanishes at the hand of the cruel and random whims of capitalism. I know, compared to like, death and destruction, a restaurant going out of business is not a major tragedy, but it still sucks.
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I sort of have a violent aesthetic allergy to "fun, casual dining", mostly because I'm one of those people who looks at the menu and thinks "for what I'm paying, I could make three of something far better". See also the dead-on-target "Grizzlebee's" on Sealab 2021.
I personally am thinking of the restaurant scene in American Splendor, which involves very similar observations (and the realization that neither of the people involved are actually enjoying any of it).
I love the turn of phrase of "get into drugs or alcohol or unsafe sex", as though one "gets into" drugs or unsafe sex (I immediately thought of staple guns and cranes) in the same way one gets into, say, stamp collecting or model railroading.
The only element of the surreality of the conversation you've missed at this point is my mother, who is an elementary-school special ed teacher and is known to get out of speeding tickets just by looking vaguely upset and matronly, saying this to me with all due earnestness.
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wombat- exactly! this morning i saw that Mount St. Helen's is still brewing a motherload of hot lava, and the thoughts of the caribbean/gulf inhabitants as opposed to 30 odd people who have to find a new job is a rather ludicrous comparison.
yet, even though "business is business", people are always affected. this morning on the UPN financial show/thing, one of the gentlemen said somehting to the effect of "they should have outsourced to india the job of Oil Price Setter" or somesuch.
there is a Tennessee Williams-esque Melancholia that tries to touch me whenever i enter our Mall. it is quite disconcerting. there's such a level of absurdity to it, one wonders "where are the tumbleweeds"?
Also, mix Grizzlebees with the "home of flash" from Office Space. Inherently those places grate on me, but oftentimes it is a matter of lack of choice. sometimes you just need an ambiance of greater romanticism than Waffle House, if there is any chance you are going to get Special Time later.
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Ruby Tuesday gets a pass for offering a burger so big you can't eat it without a knife. My S.O. used to live in a somewhat remote K.C. suburb where the best restaurant around was Chili's. She got sick of Chili's which I find kind of unfortunate since I kind of like their ribs.
You'd be surprised at how many barbecue places in Kansas City serve sub-par ribs.
Damn, I need to go buy some ribs. I'll be back after lunch.
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For me it's Chili's (I sort of like Chili's) --> Bennigan's (though I haven't been in one since the 70's) --> Friday's --> Applebee's --> O'Charley's. I hate O'Charleys.
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I'm more depressed by the fact that around here the malls are all full but identical.
10 years ago we used to go to Tyson's Corner Center over Fair Oaks Mall or vice versa because each had a personality and stores the other didn't. Now every mall has the same H&M, Gap Empire, Hecht's, and FYE line-up as all the rest.
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Also, mix Grizzlebees with the "home of flash" from Office Space. Inherently those places grate on me, but oftentimes it is a matter of lack of choice. sometimes you just need an ambiance of greater romanticism than Waffle House, if there is any chance you are going to get Special Time later.
Tschotchke's! Minimum of 15 pieces of flair!
Also, I would want to be deloused before an intimate moment following a waffle house encounter. Everyone I have been in looks like I'm in a Jarmusch movie.
Edit: Ray is in for some pain. And what happened to ManTonio?
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Ladies and gentlemen, The prick is back in town (http://journeyintoreason.blogspot.com/).
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Note to self: do not ask Jiffy Lube guy to add Chex Mix to oil. Also do not eat Chex Mix because it tastes bad
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....Did Phillippe brush his teeth with lube? How is that Captain Kirk-esque?
Also, Ray's dilemma is very, very familiar to me. It's the backslide, man! How can you fight it!
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....Did Phillippe brush his teeth with lube? How is that Captain Kirk-esque?
Astroglide, my friend. Astroglide.
Also, Ray's dilemma is very, very familiar to me. It's the backslide, man! How can you fight it!
It's like Odysseus, man! You just can't!
(I have a miniature version of the same problem, albeit without the Odysseus sex; a friend of mine from last year, with whom I used to hang out and discuss movies before she dropped me like a hot rock because of overly-complicated and depressing circumstances, is in my gym class. I have no idea what to say to her, so I just don't say anything, which I think is for the best. Meh.)
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As much as I enjoy Onstad's creative output, I really don't think I'd enjoy being around him personally. If his blog really represents him and isn't another characterisation then he's kind of a spoiled jerk.
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Hell, if I was renting a car and it smelled like cigarettes, I'd take it back -- I'm a smoker, but mrs|Choop ain't -- and if they then proceeded to give me a car with what could turn out to be serious engine problems, I'd take that one back too. When you procure something from a vendor, you have a responsibility to that vendor to let them know whether that something sucks. Well, maybe you don't, but it's the good-guy thing to do.
I just wouldn't want to hang out with O because I know I can't bring the funny like he can, and I'd be out-classed in front of everybody else there.
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If today's strip is any indication, you won't have to worry about being out-funnied by Mr. Onstad.
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I don't know, the whole asking for the shittiest car on the lot then being indignant when you get exactly what you've asked for thing:
Onstad: I want you to kick me in the nuts.
Clerk: Huh?
O: I mean it. Really. Kick me in the nuts.
Clerk: No way.
O: Seriously. I want a size 12 to the nads.
C: But I can't...
O: Sure you can. Just haul off and scramble my eggs. Hard.
C: Are you sure that...
O: Totally. I do this all the time. It'll be funny.
C: Well, if you're positive -- No, I can't do it...
O: C'mon, crack my marbles. I'll be your best friend!
C: Well, if you insist.
WHAM!
O: Hey! Why'd you kick me in the nuts?
That and the whole "They got the wrong kind of caviar on my flight to Kauai" vibe just rubs me the wrong way.
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Well, he was being sarcastic:
I made a mental note to stop telling the clerks to give me their worst cars, as Hawaiians cannot apparently appreciate sarcasm or, in fact, normal ideas (more on this later).
But his above statement sounded sincere, like he really wanted a shitty car (it's the "I mean it!" that removes the sarcasm bit).
Maybe the book deal has made him too bourgeois, too big for his britches. He just needs a britches-expander or something.
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I'll vouch for any mainlander who has a problem with local customs and ways of doing business. But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that, like so many other vacation spots, they really DON'T CARE. You're gonna be there no matter what and there is no chance that you can effectively threaten a car rental place on Kauai with a boycott. And, you're gonna be gone in a week, maybe 2.
The Hawaiian he references? Lives on what may be the most beautiful island in the Northern Hemisphere, also would be competitive for the world title. Ya think the Hawaiian is looking forward to a fine vacation in Onstad's neighborhood? Unlikely.
This is the place where you can be an ugly American and still be in America.
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I think it was Eustace Dobbs.
Eustace K. Dobbs.
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how long does something remain updated?
once it's updated, it stays updated forever, right?
so, if you make a thing, and you update it, you would say that it is updated.
but then, when you update that thing again, it's still just updated.
which means that calling it updated doesn't really help me any, does it?
i'm worried about Lyle. drugged people do crazy stupid things.
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It's a 24-hour globe. I usually leave things like "updated" live for a day or two so that all the readers can notice. Not everyone reads Achewood 24 times a day. Some people are moms or doctors.
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i'm worried about Lyle. drugged people do crazy stupid things.
I get the feeling that Lyle is perfectly capable of handling himself in most situations.
As for updated stuf, I know several around here are fond of those new-fangled RSS readers, but I like blo.gs (http://blo.gs) myself. You give it a list of blogs you read, and it will (for the most part) tell you when they were last updated.
Edit: Of course, the service would have to be having problems when I point it out...
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Ray's latest blog entry is absolutely lovely. It's very poetic while also being so very Ray... I'm hopeful for him and Tina, I really am.
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I need to find out where he's getting this stuff before he shows up with his head stuck in a Christy Canyon Vibrating Life Size Butt.
Never, ever before would the phrase "because of a problem" have been deployed so meaningfully. Unless, of course, Philippe stumbles across that mothballed Raquel Darrian Electric Shoeshine Confidence Kit.
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I need to find out where he's getting this stuff before he shows up with his head stuck in a Christy Canyon Vibrating Life Size Butt.
Never, ever before would the phrase "because of a problem" have been deployed so meaningfully. Unless, of course, Philippe stumbles across that mothballed Raquel Darrian Electric Shoeshine Confidence Kit.
Because of a big problem. I think I would pay to see this strip, honestly.
(Also, can anyone vouch for the existence of a "Vibrating Life Size Butt" product, either based off of Christy Canyon or someone else? I'm faintly entranced just by the name. Not only is it vibrating -- it's life-size!)
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Also, can anyone vouch for the existence of a "Vibrating Life Size Butt" product, either based off of Christy Canyon or someone else?
V, you know I love you, wallscrolls and affiliated paraphenalia aside - but please, please try to watch more pornography. You are allowed to use the "fast forward" feature. It is so educational.
Oh, and while I don't know / can't remember if one can purchase a disembodied twitching plastic ass, this (http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/masturbation/inventions/sex-dolls/) might prove to be hilariously eye-opening.
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I'm sorry, Zart -- my schedule's been hell lately, so I haven't had a chance to keep current with my porno- and sexual-paraphernalia-related studies. It's a sad sacrifice, but you know how time management goes.
I'll have to submit my winter independent-thesis proposal involving vibrating synthetic butts (could they be the butts... of the FUTURE?!) to the Physics Department and see if I can get funding for high-energy buttology.
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I'm sorry, Zart -- my schedule's been hell lately, so I haven't had a chance to keep current with my porno- and sexual-paraphernalia-related studies. It's a sad sacrifice, but you know how time management goes.
I'll have to submit my winter independent-thesis proposal involving vibrating synthetic butts (could they be the butts... of the FUTURE?!) to the Physics Department and see if I can get funding for high-energy buttology.
It's official, I'm going to love all of you to death.
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Also, can anyone vouch for the existence of a "Vibrating Life Size Butt" product, either based off of Christy Canyon or someone else?
V, you know I love you, wallscrolls and affiliated paraphenalia aside - but please, please try to watch more pornography. You are allowed to use the "fast forward" feature. It is so educational.
Hey, if she stuck to gonzo movies like Lyle makes then she wouldn't even need fast forward.
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Ray's blog of 10-1-04
that was eerily beautiful.
at this point, i have to state that the execution in the long term of the blogs, maintaining separate voices and events between characters, etc, is incredibly impressive.
combine that with the "book" nice pete is writing, and there's some truly incredible stuff happening.
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Oy, leave it to Ray to know about a meat artist. And I thought this was the guy who told Pat not to wear a cape.
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The left-turn during Cornelius's reverse 3 Bears adventure was great. But now I'm curious as to why type of violence we're talking about here. Regular S&M or stuff that would make Lyle wince.