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[theinevitable]

My coworker wanted me to take a pair of dress ##### that he had outgrown. Kind of weird, but I agreed to try them on. Several inches too long, and incredibly baggy. He is probably 3-4 inches shorter than me. I cannot imagine how he ever wore these #####.

a functionality Facebook needs: block certain people from inviting you to things. This very friendly slightly-off-kilter St Louisan I know invites everyone he knows to every event he goes to. Which leads to situations where I don't know whether I am actually invited to parties. He is very nice and I like him, but people actively try to hide their parties from him so he won't invite 300 random people to their apartment. If you make it so guests cannot invite additional people, he just calls everyone and tells them to come. He usually shows up with a few guys no one has ever seen before.

Yikes.

Highlight: once he brought several huge Juggalo guys into my house. They smoked pot in my bathroom. WE WEREN'T EVEN HAVING A PARTY. I'd like to think I have gotten a little more assertive by now and would not have rolled over on that one.

[Nabubrush]

That's extremely fucked.

This is one time when I am very happy we didn't have FB when I was a snapper of whips.

[theinevitable]

Most of the time he is charming. He is clearly some kind of Savant. He knows everyone's birthday by memory, and typically can say "I met you at a party at 6162 Waterman, in 2008. it was the Wig/Whig party. You lived with Dylan back then, right? yeah."

I have never heard of a savant before whose focus was on Parties. But this guy exists.

[Doc]

Is this dude Ray? Except Ray would never hang with stoned juggalloes, they are just too ridiculous.

[miles]

Lately when I feel surrounded by idiots, I try to remind myself that surely I am the idiot surrounding someone else.

This reminds me of David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, particularly this part:

Or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to get this kid to the hospital, and he's in a bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am: it is actually I who am in HIS way.

It was good for me to read through this again. I applied for an internal position recently and the process is getting dragged out, and though at first I appeared to be a shoo-in there is now a chance I won't get the position due to, not politics exactly, but kinda. Maybe logistics is the better word. But not necessarily because I'm less qualified. And though I was told I would be notified this past Monday, turns out I probably won't know until next week sometime. Anyway, I've been grumpy and feeling entitled and when I get like that this speech always seems to put things in perspective.

I'm still pissed off though.

[jay-ell]

This is one time when I am very happy we didn't have FB when I was a snapper of whips.

You're not a snapper of whips*, Nabu?

I don't want to live on this planet any more.

_{*I see what you did there, I just thought it was funnier to take you literally.}

[wombat]

That David Foster Wallace quote makes a good point. Although in my case usually it's people who are in my way because they are walking too damn slow and I find it hard to come up with a rationale for that. They can't all be lame and crippled.

[greenkoolayd]

That David Foster Wallace quote makes a good point. Although in my case usually it's people who are in my way because they are walking too damn slow and I find it hard to come up with a rationale for that. They can't all be lame and crippled.

maybe youre too damn impatient?

[wombat]

maybe youre too damn impatient?

I have only so many more hours on this plant until I am dead! Don't these people have anything to do?

[pmcd9]

We're on a slippery slope here folks.  Keep it up and it ultimately leads to nonsense like this...

15 year old girl holds hands with her 1 year old son. People call her a "slut", no one knows she was raped at age 14. People call another guy "fat", no one knows he has a serious disease causing him to be overweight. People call an old man "ugly", no one knows he experienced a serious injury to his face while fighting for our country in the war.

[Nabubrush]

Fuck that shit - slut is a compliment.

Seriously, though - why do we have to resort to name-calling?

[Nabubrush]

You're not a snapper of whips*, Nabu?

I don't want to live on this planet any more.

_{*I see what you did there, I just thought it was funnier to take you literally.}

Whips are too damaging. I'm down with a riding crop or a jump bat, though.

[Nabubrush]

When you have hosss, a riding crop as a gift can be confusing sometimes. But the slow reveal makes it worth it.

Bing!

[Nabubrush]

Today I am going to be reminded of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic and how high you could get off it. Nice toy for the kiddies!

[theinevitable]

holy crap, just met John Hodgman. It is really weird how nervous and shaky I got. I asked for my Discount (it is a Best Show on WFMU thing) and he was gracious about it. He said "You don't seem like a liar. Here you are" and handed me a Sacagawea dollar. The show was very funny. He made a joke that I have made (I don't walk around quizzing you about the 11 Doctors on Doctor Who, so why do you think I give a fuck about your Saint Louis Cardinals??). He signed my book. Awesome.