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[theinevitable]

Bluemoon, we got the same ACT score.

*high five*

I was recently thinking about a situation I was in a few years ago which is the only time it is OK to feel really good about your ACT score:
I heard a guy bragging about how awesome his ACT score was, and being a jerk about it, and it was lower than mine.

Paul: tonight they are showing a movie in St Louis that my girlfriend's mom worked on, so we are seeing that instead.

Jorge-- yep, he never showed up. Didn't even let the venue know he wasn't coming. Those Darlin's were really damn good, though.

Awkward moment on the way out, when the guy asked "do you want a refund? how much?"
"HALF." the girlfriend said, in an authoritative and demanding tone. Did she pay? No, she did not pay. I paid. God damnit.

[smick]

...watch a bicycle race in which a transgendered vegan* almost wins the largest cyclocross series outside of Belgium.

She stumbled running up a rocky hill, 20ft from the finish after being neck in neck for an hour with the other contender for the series. 

Heartbreaking.  I got choked up and almost cried.


* Transgendered Vegan Bicycle Champion.   THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING MORE PORTLAND THAN THIS.  WE HAVE REACHED PEAK PORTLAND.

[bluemoon72]

Bluemoon, we got the same ACT score.

*high five*

Those Darlin's were really damn good, though.

High five back atcha! Incidentally, I deeply disliked Those Darlin's when they opened for Dan Auerbach here in Minneapolis about six months ago.  They were drunk and kinda sucked.  I did like the "I got drunk and I ate chicken" song a lot, though!

[Bobby Isosceles]

...watch a bicycle race in which a transgendered vegan* almost wins the largest cyclocross series outside of Belgium.

She stumbled running up a rocky hill, 20ft from the finish after being neck in neck for an hour with the other contender for the series. 

Heartbreaking.  I got choked up and almost cried.


* Transgendered Vegan Bicycle Champion.   THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING MORE PORTLAND THAN THIS.  WE HAVE REACHED PEAK PORTLAND.

Transgendered Vegan microbrewing unicycle champion

[Mr Trout]

Bearded Transgendered Vegan microbrewing unicycle champion

[greenkoolayd]

dont forget to mention that the person built their own unicycle from recycled parts and used environmentally friendly, yet industrial strength lubricants on the moving parts..... and drank their own sweat during the race to conserve water.

[Lister]

My third handheld cellphone ever, and it's got more RAM, storage, and a faster processor than the computer I had when I bought the first one.

I've gone from a black and white LCD that just makes calls to a color camera phone with a crappy proprietary browser, to a droid that can not only locate the nearest ATM, it can show me what it looks like.

By this measure, my next cellphone will be able to play WoW.

[TedStriker]

...finish this damned Avett Brothers article if it freakin' kills me.  I'm way past deadline (self-imposed) and while the topic is still interesting, it's edging dangerously close to being a burden.

[theinevitable]

yayyy avett brothers.

boooo their new album.

Last night I had a dream that I found a weird web-forum that I posted on in high school, and realized that I had 20,000 posts there. And that Paul posted there too.

then I had a dream that my professor accidentally pulled up TOUAMB in class, and got all embarrassed.

final dream: that a girl in the same class started making a "I just took intro to women and gender studies" type argument, and I screamed at her. This is based on a true event, where I was apparently really mean to someone who did this. ("heteronormative" is not the same as "sexist," we already have the word sexist, those are two completely different things, shut up shut up. And of course they acted like I just had blinders over my eyes and didn't know how the world works, women are so oppressed, etc.)


I also woke up to the sound of my roommate stomping around and grumbling because I ate the last donut. Probably not one of my more thoughtful moves.

[TedStriker]

yayyy avett brothers.

Indeed.

boooo their new album.

What the what?  Urge...to...de-can...rising.

[Carlos del Vaca]

boooo their new album.

What ho?  Explain yourself, mister.  Don't you dare be "Yeah, they were cool before, when nobody but me heard of them, but now that they're getting popular I don't like them anymore," or I will kick you in the shins.

No DC tour dates for the Avett Brothers, but they're playing some big-ass bluegrass festival in Cumberland, MD in May.  Hmmmm.

[dejavroom]

Isn't it nice to realize people can always make shitty situations worse? No, it is not. Keep on practicing the shovel swing, though; one never knows.

[CortJstr]

I may have already mentioned this but at work today we were supposed to have our annual charity potluck but due to H1N1 panic it was changed to a pizza party. So there were still like 50 of us in one room but instead of sharing delicious pot luck food we were served chain pizza but people wearing gloves.

[theinevitable]

I do not like their new album because it is nothing like their previous albums, at all. It is a piano pop album. It is polished. The harmonies are less bluegrass-sounding. There is less banjo.
What I loved about them was the jangley banjo strumming and yelling and harmonies and sloppiness. And the pretty, fragile songs in between, that sound like they're singing in your bedroom. 
I liked that "January" song. That is all.

[jaydub]

("heteronormative" is not the same as "sexist," we already have the word sexist, those are two completely different things, shut up shut up. And of course they acted like I just had blinders over my eyes and didn't know how the world works, women are so oppressed, etc.)

This is not a battle you're going to win.  Fall back and regroup.