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[misterqueue]

Well that one goes without saying.

I didn't know you were into needlepoint too!?  We should totally get together and have some sort of party where we make those "Home Sweet Home" decorations based upon various themes.  It's going to be so sweet.

[AugustWest]

I never pictured Onstad as a golfer.  Huh.  Should have guessed from the Nightlife Mingus strips that he had some background.

My problem with golf is not the financial cost, it's the time cost.  Around here there are plenty of municipal courses that you can play cheap (under $10), and you can usually get on with no problem.  It's just the time investment.  Ends up taking 6 hours, which might as well be a whole day.  Also, if you want to be halfway decent you have to play regularly, at least weekly or so.  So I gave it up.  Still like to whack a ball now and again, but I don't call myself a golfer.

[theinevitable]

I am refraining from saying anything about Golf re: cost, growing up on a golf course, owning expensive clubs, or anything else.

although, like mr onstad, my love of classically-styled things leads to problems. for instance: did you know it is almost impossible to find cheap things which are not Plastic and trying to look Hip? I do not want a neon orange plastic trash bin. I want a basic white one, such as you would see anywhere that wasn't a college dorm room. I spent like 5 minutes trying to find yellow 'post-it' brand notes. they only had wierd colors.

[ananke]

Onstad's blog makes me wish he would write a book. Because if it were written half as wonderfully as this, I would read it, with joy.

[Drastic Action]

I actually had the same thought, reading it.  It would be quite fun to read a whole lot of that style.

[KeithHernandez]

I was reading some Carlin book, and read his ideas of ending homelessness (?).  It went something like this:

Take away all of the golf courses and build public housing there, as golf takes up huge amounts of space.  Also, golf is a sport designed so that rich people can make deals to fuck over poor people, so boom, two birds with one stone.

Seems like a pretty good idea.  Should leave putt-putt and cheap driving ranges though.

[Drastic Action]

Of course we now have pat going for the coconut rum.

[wombat]

Nice Pete worries about toads. It explains a lot.

[CortJstr]

Afte reading Molly's entry today it occurred to me how weird it is that liquor stores don't sell lottery tickets. The store is owned and run by the state as is the lottery. Why not pair them up? Maybe they don't want to take business away from 7-11?

[Carlos del Vaca]

"oh how he used to do that."

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[wombat]

Afte reading Molly's entry today it occurred to me how weird it is that liquor stores don't sell lottery tickets.

They don't? This must be a local thing. They do in DC, at least the one near us does.

[CortJstr]

They don't? This must be a local thing. They do in DC, at least the one near us does.

That was a typo. I meant to say "how weird it is that liquor stores in Virginia don't sell lottery tickets." Since in many (most?) states they do.

[Lister]

Nice Pete's blog exemplifies one of the reasons I don't plan on going camping again.  Basically the story goes like this:

Two years ago, I took a leisurely car trip from San Diego to Seattle over two weeks or so, driving on two-lane roads when possible and stopping wherever looked interesting.  In Oregon I passed a beach with a bunch of tents on it and thought that would be a pretty cool thing to do: camp on a beach.  I didn't have a tent, though, so I got another hotel instead.  The next morning on the news it said someone on that very beach had been killed in their tent that night.

So, no more camping.  Sorry, nature!

[Carlos del Vaca]

That was a typo. I meant to say "how weird it is that liquor stores in Virginia don't sell lottery tickets." Since in many (most?) states they do.

Well, the liquor stores in Virginia are all state-run.  And perhaps they don't want to condone gambling. 

Since the lottery is, you know, state-run as well.  Never mind, that makes no goddamn sense.

[theinevitable]

I don't think the ABC stores here sell lottery tickets. I'm not sure, though. We didn't have a lottery until a few months ago.