The Long Winters

can u ride a vespa in florida? seems like it would either be too hot or too rainy or too balmy or too whatever.

sincerely,
sissy girl who needs AC

Grant has no time for tropical storms now, as he is worried about Vampire Can Mating Oven's stuff getting stolen.

Seen any vintage guitars lying about?

ps: giant squids are turning up everywhere, grant. i rely on you for this sort of news...

*hugs to aj*

you're not offending anyone. if you don't have strong opinions, ya might as well be dead.

and shit, i'd probably still be smoking if i hadn't gotten sick. I certainly don't think I'm better than anyone else because i don't smoke anymore.

Hmmm. Liesbeth, you have a knack for timing!

As if on cue:
<i>Liverpool has become the first city in the UK to ban smoking in public places following a decision by councillors. </i>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 758328.stm

I might be a special case, coz i went from being a smoker to getting very sick because of smoking and then doing a 180 and totally hating it. but i was still smoking when the ban started up here in California, and while people bitched about it...i think a lot of smokers just went with it. By the tim...

There's always this incident from March 7, 2001: "This Busy Monster were all good musicians, but their lead singer didn't seem to be enjoying himself that much, and it really affected their stage presence. Theirs is a freeform mix of genres that requires an attentive crowd, and this audience wasn't ...

hmm, yeah, perhaps he should've worked the band in somehow as well! dunno. i posted this coz i thought it was an interesting way of dealing with something so traumatising. You know, he obviously loves his soon-to-be-ex-wife enough to refer to her by her pet name...and yet, horribly...apparently it h...

I know we're all spread out across the country/world/universe and all, but here in SF we have this guy Dan Leone who writes a fantastic food column about greasy spoons called "Cheap Eats". And...I know it gets kinda annoying (a la Rachel Ray) when people's personalities infringe on the subject matte...

the short answer? Men don't go through menopause. hmmm. are we sure about this? my dad had a midlife crisis like NOTHING my mom ever did. Even with her joining match.com and everything! tee! We are learning that the accrual of peak bone mass for women in their late 20s/30s is crucial. oh dear. how ...

Well, *that* sort of thing falls under regular moderator duties on one of the other boards I frequent, where "on-topic-ness" and searchability are really considered sort of sacred. Topic names that say something about contents, you know. The topics there actually have abstracts. Well, sure if you'r...

as a naive californian who only fears death from the faults *below* her...as opposed to those pointy-type cone-shaped faults that shake everything AND spew stuff...are we panicking yet? i'm kinda panicky just looking at the photos...

Oh god. Betty, that is absolutely heinous. I am so sorry. Do either your bank or your credit card companies have reimbursement policies for theft? (As in, making sure the charges are taken off your card asap, getting you a new card asap, etc.) It's worth a few phone calls...though you may have alrea...

LoveSickJerk wrote: Or you could have a typewriter in there and end up like Faulkner.

see, i was thinking dylan thomas..but i think this faulkner thing suits me.

Eeeeexceeeellent.

GRANT!

Nice pun.

The TLW board has gone, erm, deus ex machina!

snob? hardly. It's single malt Scotch only fer me. And Jameson's when no one's looking. My friend brought me back from the homeland the official, authorized Robert Burns single malt, from the Isle of Arran, which is nice, but it's only a five year. So I tucked it behind the 18 year Glenlivet, and t...

So you know, I'm looking for a job and all, so I can't be my usual single malt snob-self.* I can't even be my usual Maker's Mark snob self. And so: I had managed to find shelter for myself with an old friend from high school. His name is Jack Daniels. At least. He WAS my friend. Until now : Septembe...

Dear Floridians:

Okay, we're worried about you again.

Please to check in for a headcount. (Assuming you're not in your cars heading out of your respective areas.)

grant? a-kitty? hovering? c-los?

Yay! Isn't it amazing how all it takes is one great book to make a reader out of someone? Just one. I haven't even come close to buying the monstrous new one. I'm afraid of the cover art. heh, yeaaah, he's a reader, we've just never really wanted to read the same books! LOL. so i'm excited. is the ...

BETTY! BETTY! BETTY!

i got my old man to pick up the secret history...and he likes it!

he said he LOVES it.

(faints dead away)

Dude, i don't even care if he loves ME, as long as he loves the book.

uh, read the new one yet? Yeah, me neither. (sigh)

Black. To match my coffee and my soul and my shoes.