Posts based on the decay of Cs-137 (random)

[jebreject]

ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY? OMG

[elpollodiablo]

Yep! Too bad we've no Irish ancestry. It's pretty much just manifested as a drinking problem. Which I inherited.

[heather marie]

It was amazing to see all the drunk people celebrating St. Patrick's day yesterday. It was 4pm and we saw at least 2 people puking on the street and 3 drunk dudes stumbling around.

[coldforge]

Well, it actually WAS St. Patrick's day yesterday. It was observed yesterday because tomorrow is during Holy Week.

[diesel_powered]

I'm showing movies at work today. I got bored with reading for my thesis, so it's LPTJ time.

[heather marie]

Well, it actually WAS St. Patrick's day yesterday. It was observed yesterday because tomorrow is during Holy Week.

I didn't actually know that. I had 5+ people say to me at random times, "Happy St. Patrick's day" and I was like "Huh? Is it the 17th yet?"

[jebreject]

Well, it actually WAS St. Patrick's day yesterday. It was observed yesterday because tomorrow is during Holy Week.

See, I can never remember if St. Patrick's Day is the day before or after my dad's birthday. This does not help.

[Wally]

I've had my phone off for the entire paddy's day weekend, because somewhere in Warwickshire the majority of my blood kin are getting very very drunk, actually by now blood will have been shed.

[heather marie]

Well, it actually WAS St. Patrick's day yesterday. It was observed yesterday because tomorrow is during Holy Week.

See, I can never remember if St. Patrick's Day is the day before or after my dad's birthday. This does not help.

Today is your dad's birthday. Just remember he shares a birthday with my your boyfriend

[jebreject]

I know which day my dad's birthday is. I just don't remember if St. Patrick's Day comes before or after

[jebreject]

good call on the "your boyfriend" thing though

[heather marie]

I know which day my dad's birthday is. I just don't remember if St. Patrick's Day comes before or after

I just wanted to prove to you that I REMEMBER THINGS, JEB.

[jebreject]

 

[El_Josharino]

Story time! So I was in Austin this past week for SXSW. I stayed with some friends there, and they had a house show on Friday night with Moth Fight, Woods, Deer Tick, and a couple others. They provided a keg and there was some food involved, and eventually we floated the keg so Seth and I made a heroic last minute booze run. The whole thing was a blast. So anyway, a bunch of us are sitting around on the porch afterwards hanging out, having drinks, etc. To save myself some explaining, the porch looks like this:

So I finish a beer, and I'm going to get another one. I hop off the edge of the porch, but due to my balance being impaired I sort of tumbled across the yard. I got up and took a bow and brushed myself off. No biggie. John thought that I had swung from that tree, and thought that sounded fun, so he swung off the porch from the tree. Then Chris swung from the tree also, but when he did it the tree snapped right at that bend. We were like "Oh crap broken tree they're gonna be PISSED." But then we came up with the idea that we should break the rest of the tree, because they'll certainly notice half a tree standing there, but if the tree was gone altogether would they notice? They have another one after all (not pictured). So Dennis leans up against that pillar for leverege and starts pushing against the remainder of the tree with his foot. Next thing we know, Dennis is tumbling down the steps to the porch with the pillar. Now we're like "Oh crap broken porch!" But luckily the pillar wasn't an essential support thing and was largely decorative. So we picked up the pillar and I pushed up on the roof and we got it wedged back into place. Just as we got it set into place, this girl Meg who lived there came out and said, "Did you guys break the tree?" "Yeah, sorry!" "That's okay, I think it was about dead anyway." And oh how we laughed.

[Maaik]

Did you then have to cremate your friend and put his remains in a coffee can?  You kids and your shenanigans!

[girl]

Cookies at Au bon Pain today. If you can't make out the image, they're Christmas Trees and gingerbread men. Happy St. Patrick's Day! (?)

[hannah]

My older brother, the only one I've got, started a magazine. It launched today. It has pieces by the woman who called Hillary Clinton "a monster," Wayne Koestenbaum, Diane Williams, and the ex-wife of Carl Wilson of Zoilus and the Globe and Mail; it has fiction, film, interviews, and original reportage. Go! I don't know why I'm not listed as an editor-at-large yet, but next time I see my brother I'll beat him up and blame him for starting it. Now go.

No, really, go.

[elpollodiablo]

Why the hell did he name it after one of those scary private security companies?

[hannah]

To get sued. Because it is a pretty term -- you know, reclaiming nasty things and stuff. Mostly to get sued. To be anti-war. You know.

[elpollodiablo]

Not really

[hannah]

To get sued, then. Let's leave it at that.

[elpollodiablo]

Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell

[Maaik]

tMO and I had a friend over for dinner last night and we were talking about tattoos and she reminded us that she'd recently gotten one--a cupcake on her hip.  She admitted that she didn't really know what she was thinking and that she's "going to be an 80 year old lady with a cupcake tattooed on my hip!"  Much laughing ensued.

Also: we'd bought a giant plush yellow chick Peep that we found at Kroger for her and gave it to her before dinner.  We did this because 1) why not? and 2) we were drunk at her place once last year and she goaded us into playing Fluffy Bunny with her--only the only marshmallows she had were Peeps.  It got all sticky and gross pretty quickly.  When we ran out of Peeps, she made us play with Oreos.  It was ridiculous.

[hannah]

Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell

No, no, I'm not. It is to be provocative -- but also to "take back" a term like "Triple Canopy," which is quite striking and beautiful on its own terms.

[elpollodiablo]

Oh...kay. If you say so. I don't see how you can "take back" a term that was basically created by those from whom you want to take it. It never struck me as particularly beautiful, but ominous and euphemistic.