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[Doc]

be bored at work but hang out for the christmas party tonight.

Also, I just stumbled across maycontain.com it wants to be a social networking portal or something but the beautiful part is the language. The odd uses of bolded text for emphasis, it's like Ray writing from a sales 101 textbook or something.

Think of a place where there's a community - a website - dedicated to every individual interest and hobby. A place where you can go to meet people just like you.

I picture a very serious man speaking to me in hushed tones across my coffee table. He will go door to door late into the evening trying to sell people on the genius of maycontain.com.

[CortJstr]

I'm going to recover from getting my wisdom teeth out. I only had two, and the one on the top right had come through the gumline so it was a really simple extraction and doesn't hurt at all. The bottom left took some cutting and hurts somewhat. But I've only taken two vicoden so far. The doctor said tomorrow will be worse and Saturday even worse than that.

[Carlos del Vaca]

EVERY individual interest and hobby!  They are ALL in there!
Raising coati!  Making candles from your own earwax!  Naked broomball!  Dammit, you CAN NOT think of an individual interest or hobby that is not covered by maycontain.com!  My heart's explodin'!

[KeithHernandez]

these knives!

[wombat]

Naked making candles from coati earwax!

[jaydub]

Holey moley.  I just can'd Keith, then saw it was like pouring a Dixie cup into a full bathtub.

[lprkn]

Maybe he bought like 800 copies of tiny Chinese Democracy.

They're already heading down an ominous path with maycontainballs.com

[Arachno-capitalist]

... clean up the Death Star (my room) and drive to Richmond Airport. Disgusting: My girlfriend will get to Richmond from NJ faster that I will from another town in Virginia. She's zipping around the atmosphere while I'm dodging state troopers.
Later: black tie formal with a full big swing band and copious coitus.

[theinevitable]

my roommate/one of my two best friends is totally fuck*ng us over on housing for next year, and doesn't understand why we are incredibly upset with him. He is evading a problem which HE needs to deal with, and dumping it onto us.

I am so mad at him. If you're going to avoid your problems, at least do it in a way where it doesn't screw people over. Shit.

And actually, my other best friend at school has also done something in the last 24 hours which makes me think he is full of bullshit. Goddamnit.

Maybe my sickness was replaced with anger and judgment.

[theinevitable]

Man, crap ongoes. I am basically mad at everyone right now. Whatever.

Tonight I saw Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, with Menahan Street Band opening. I can't tell if it was because of my mood, but I found it really underwhelming.
They covered "A Change is Gonna Come" and completely mauled it. It was barely recognizable.
The venue we saw them at is really into partitioning off 21+ people from under-21 people.
For some reason they decided the dance floor should be only for 21+ people.
The other major aspect of this venue is that they have seats everywhere, so that if you are standing up and dancing, angry middle-aged women will tell you that you're "ruining their view."

Also they have this fountain where you can deposit your excess bile so that it doesn't end up ruining your nice shirt.

Positive:
She brought 10 or so women up on stage, explicitly stating that she wanted representatives of "all the races." "Is there not ONE asian sister in the house?" So my friend stephanie had to go up and dance with her.
The greatest, happiest thing I think I have ever seen in a live performance was this middle-aged woman who went up in a hijab (I thought I learned in arabic class that this was the word, but the scarves it brings up on google image search are not what I mean) and accompanying full-body-covering dress thing... she was reluctant at first, and then just got this huge smile and shook her booty while everyone cheered her. It was beautiful.

[jaydub]

Maybe the head covering you're thinking of is the chador?  Dress part is the abaya.

[theinevitable]

not as intense as a chador.

it was more like a thick scarf.

Although looking at the abaya makes me think, maybe it was an abaya and she was just wearing the colorful scarf over it.
It just made me so happy to see this... and Ms. Jones pulled it off in a way which was completely comfortable and awesome. I was worried it would end in an awkward moment, but it did not.

OH MAN, part I left out:
world's most danceable song about genocide of native americans/enslavement of africans.

She basically sang a song saying, I like dancing and am good at dancing because that is what they do in Africa, and also I am part native american, and those are both groups that dance.
And then she said "they dance like this" and did vaguely uncomfortable "African" and "Native American" dances.

This theory of why she can dance well was later disproven, when she brought this young black guy on stage to dance with her, and he was just the most awkwardly horrible dancer I have ever seen.

If people do not know sharon jones, this song rules my brain lately.
the first time I heard it, actually, I was dancing at a party where my roommate was DJing, and that horn part started and I just froze... and then she started singing and I felt pure joy at how awesome it was.

I am also blown away that she is older than my mom. She has GOT it.

And in summation: the reason I hate the site Stuff White People Like is that it is basically a summation of my life.

[lprkn]

the part about stuffwhitepeoplelike being a summation of my life

I feel you. Basically the only thing that keeps me from being the posterboy for that site is the fact that I have no money.

[Doc]

If people do not know sharon jones, this song rules my brain lately.
the first time I heard it, actually, I was dancing at a party where my roommate was DJing, and that horn part started and I just froze... and then she started singing and I felt pure joy at how awesome it was.

That is totally awesome. This is the type of music I want to find more of I think. It is good to know that music like this still gets made, I don't think I was fully cognizant of that.

[wombat]

...go out and have the dogs' picture taken with Santa.