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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2007, 12:18:35 am »
Well, like I said, the store isn't open yet. I don't think. You might want to call ahead and ask.

But, interesting fact, the writing centers with running stores (San Francisco and Brooklyn) get about twenty percent of their income from the retail portion.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2007, 12:21:14 am »
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Blind Melon and to a lesser extent, De La Soul.

I wonder if this phrase has ever been used before in the history of the English language.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2007, 12:33:41 am »
There's a store called Seawolf Trading Company here in Fremont that sells hell-of piratey stuff.  From Playmobil action sets to pewter tankards and swords (behind the counter).  Dunno if its a covert creative writing tutoring service.  Is this the chain store in disguise you alluded to earlier?
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« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2007, 01:15:13 am »
Maybe?

I think we're probably referring to the crappy "pirate store" on giraffeerman's wharf that sells like a shirt with a skull and cross bones and San Francisco chotchka souvenirs.

Really, though, I think it's because we needed a way to distinguish ourselves in San Francisco, and we saw like five of "The Best Independent Bookstores in San Francisco" and were like really screw that. None of them can claim to be the only independent book store in San Francisco.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2007, 05:07:18 am »
Quote from: Alternate on February 05, 2007, 12:07:39 am
The other bad things about Schoolhouse rock are: 
1)  Somtimes people perform it as a play, and other people have friends involved in its production and so are obligated to see it.  In my days as a theater person I was dragged to such performances on multiple occasions.
2)  It has a song about how great manifest destiny is. 

Oh man, I'd completely forgotten about that song!  Years later, one of my high school history textbooks explained Lebensraum as meaning "elbow room."  Nobody else understood why I burst out laughing in the middle of class.

Back in elementary school we were apparently too dumb to watch any of the times table songs beyond five.  We got to see six and seven once on "Fun Friday" in lieu of a real movie like Old Yeller or Milo and Otis.  That's Georgia public education for you, though.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #35 on: February 05, 2007, 05:15:27 am »
yeah, um, I was in Schoolhouse Rock.
I was proud of it for like a week, and then I realized that I had just been in the most ridiculous thing of all time.

I was in 6th grade, people. After that show I lost the ability to sing for like... I guess at this point it's been 7 years.

(wow, that feels like a creepily long time.)
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #36 on: February 05, 2007, 07:30:42 am »
At least you weren't in Up With People
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« Reply #37 on: February 05, 2007, 07:46:52 am »
until at Least 10th grade, I had one benefit from that show-- I got an very tight red shirt with a big silver star on it. This was basically wonderful, and I wore it a few times-- including the time my first band played in a barn on new year's eve. I would have worn it all the time, except... if I washed it the star would have come off.
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« Reply #38 on: February 05, 2007, 08:42:28 am »
I'm glad you said that about the star shirt, because... I didn't just get drafted to watch schoolhouse rock.  I got drafted to be the assistant director for a production of schoolhouse rock at an elementary school... seven years ago.  I'm pretty sure there were no awesome shirts with stars involved, though.  So you were almost definitely not in it.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #39 on: February 05, 2007, 08:45:04 am »
oh, this was in Middle School. In North Carolina. So.

I wouldn't hold it against you, anyway.
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« Reply #40 on: February 05, 2007, 08:55:19 am »
Well, that's a relief.  Although the downside is that now I know there were at least two productions of schoolhouse rock that year, and that knowledge makes the world a slightly darker place. 
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« Reply #41 on: February 05, 2007, 09:06:22 am »
at least 3-- we went to see one later that year.
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« Reply #42 on: February 05, 2007, 09:09:51 am »
Dear lord.  That's like... one production of schoolhouse rock per hundred million people. 
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #43 on: February 05, 2007, 04:05:56 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on February 05, 2007, 07:46:52 am
until at Least 10th grade, I had one benefit from that show-- I got an very tight red shirt with a big silver star on it.

Could this be...  the origin of Homestar Runner?  Schoolhouse Rock?  Do you think the brothers Chaps were involved in such a thing?
This could be the most important revelation of the last several hours.
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Re: I'm just that guy, you know?
« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2007, 04:17:52 pm »
Boo to anyone hatin' on "Three is a Magic Number."  That's a great freakin' song.

Everyone calls out "Conjunction Junction" and "Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here," but for my money, the one about pronouns is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOaty7FpwMI
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