Full Version: The surrealism of everyday life
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| QUOTE (Leslie @ Jun 6 2005, 07:39 PM) |
| JohnnyD, I'm glad you survived your attack by a pitbull. I am a huge dog lover, but wish the SF mayor well in his project of limiting the ownership of pit bulls in the future. Especially in light of the fact the attack on our member's nephew was by friendly family pit bull(s). |
Two un-neutered Pit Bulls. A male and a female.
i am so sorry for you, Pingarina.
| QUOTE (Pingarina @ Jun 4 2005, 08:11 PM) |
| The strangeness lies in seeing my family's name dragged across headlines, television news, and attacked on on-line discussion boards. |
Attacked on online discussion boards? Pingarina, after everything else that's so horrible I can't even begin to wrap my head around it. I'm so sorry your family is having to go through the media frenzy as well as your grief.
Pingarina - Sorry for your horrific loss.
Pit Bull Ownership is strictly controlled in the UK with a veiw to breed being eventually gone. Dogs must be neutered, bitches speyed, dogs must be muzzled in public, and so forth. They need to get this introduced in the US.
I watch "Animal Cops" over here, and it seems that most of the problem dogs on that show are Pitbullesque
Pit Bull Ownership is strictly controlled in the UK with a veiw to breed being eventually gone. Dogs must be neutered, bitches speyed, dogs must be muzzled in public, and so forth. They need to get this introduced in the US.
I watch "Animal Cops" over here, and it seems that most of the problem dogs on that show are Pitbullesque
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| Especially in light of the fact the attack on our member's nephew was by friendly family pit bull(s). |
The one that attacked me was one of a pair owned by my girlfriend's roommate. We got excited and ran upstairs, both dogs close behind, clearly whipped up. I'd been friends with everybody for about three months. We fell on the bed laughing and one dog leapt on top of me growling and got my head in his mouth, teeth penetrated on scalp and soft flesh under my jaw.
Now, here I am diving for sea-urchins at this point, cheating death a couple times a day, but this is the most terrifying freaking thing. After I got him off and cleaned up the bloody mess, my girlfriend gave it a huge scolding and this pup did figure out he did something wrong. One time she had to call the cops because she couldn't get one off the other in a fight.
My girlfriend is now my wife and I almost considered it when she said "how about a pit bull?" Then I got bitten by another pit bull while riding my bike in the neighborhood. That's a messy scar too. That's it. No pit bulls allowed. ever. They are funny and loyal but they have a gene that defies domesticity. Pingarina, my deepest sympathies, and here's to hoping the media wave passes quickly. Don't worry, it will soon.
saw a guy walking down the street with a macaw, on a leash, sitting on his shoulder. he didnt have a peg leg and eye patch though.
Pret a Manger's organic grapefruit juice has been my morning tipple of choice recently. Today I made the mistake of reading the bottle: "Free or herbicides, pesticides and other toxic crap". Sic. Apart from the misleading character of the statement, what about the tone? I must look more closely at their sandwiches to see if they are labelled: "Free of additives and other evil shit".
SEXY JEANS AD REJECTED BY MAGAZINES AND TIMES SQUARE
Building Landlord Says Crotch-Grabbing 'Too Suggestive'
Headline in Ad Age this morning.
Building Landlord Says Crotch-Grabbing 'Too Suggestive'
Headline in Ad Age this morning.
| QUOTE (Melonious Thunk @ Jun 9 2005, 05:24 AM) |
| SEXY JEANS AD REJECTED BY MAGAZINES AND TIMES SQUARE Building Landlord Says Crotch-Grabbing 'Too Suggestive' |
But, but... Suggestivity is truth.
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| ASSAULT ON CU STUDENT I am writing to inform you of a recent racially motivated attack on one of our students and to ask for help in identifying the perpetrator. A 22-year-old African American senior at CU-Boulder was assaulted off campus about 2 a.m. last Friday morning. The victim told police officers he was walking with a friend near the 1600 block of Broadway in Boulder when a maroon van with gold stripes approached and a passenger began yelling racial epithets. A passenger got out of the van and apologized for his friend. However, the passenger who yelled the epithets exited the van and struck the victim in the face twice, breaking his jaw. The victim was taken to Boulder Community Hospital for treatment and surgery. He was released from the hospital on Saturday. The University has offered assistance to him and his family following the attack. |
That strikes me as all too commonplace rather than surreal.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Jun 10 2005, 09:30 AM) |
| That strikes me as all too commonplace rather than surreal. |
The surreal part is that the one guy got out to apologize and the original miscreant took that opportunity to beat on the pedestrian.
Both acts are surreal to some degree. Together they are surreal-squared.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Jun 10 2005, 07:30 AM) |
| That strikes me as all too commonplace rather than surreal. |
not in boulder.
plus the apology part as jpw points out.
| QUOTE (The Divine Mrs F. @ Jun 7 2005, 09:46 AM) |
| Pingarina - Sorry for your horrific loss. Pit Bull Ownership is strictly controlled in the UK with a veiw to breed being eventually gone. Dogs must be neutered, bitches speyed, dogs must be muzzled in public, and so forth. They need to get this introduced in the US. I watch "Animal Cops" over here, and it seems that most of the problem dogs on that show are Pitbullesque |
I'd like to thank you all for your notes of condolence. It was a long two days of heavy Catholic ceremony (my brother's wife is Irish Catholic - her two uncles are priests...), my 80-year-old Jewish father and I holding each other up.
I tend to agree with what is happening in the UK, Mrs. F. Let's stop kidding ourselves. Why keep in a household with children any animal that has hidden in its makeup the potential to lash out and injure or kill?
Now that's it. End of chapter. Let's talk about happy surrealism!
-Lisa
| QUOTE (Pingarina @ Jun 10 2005, 01:07 PM) | ||
I'd like to thank you all for your notes of condolence. It was a long two days of heavy Catholic ceremony (my brother's wife is Irish Catholic - her two uncles are priests...), my 80-year-old Jewish father and I holding each other up. I tend to agree with what is happening in the UK, Mrs. F. Let's stop kidding ourselves. Why keep in a household with children any animal that has hidden in its makeup the potential to lash out and injure or kill? Now that's it. End of chapter. Let's talk about happy surrealism! -Lisa |
Overheard at a party last night:
“That chick's a whack job. I swear she's, like, from another planet.”
“She's from Alaska.”
“How do you know that?”
“Alaska plates on her car.”
“I guess Mars plates would have been a dead giveaway.”
“That chick's a whack job. I swear she's, like, from another planet.”
“She's from Alaska.”
“How do you know that?”
“Alaska plates on her car.”
“I guess Mars plates would have been a dead giveaway.”
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Jun 12 2005, 07:11 PM) |
| Overheard at a party last night: “That chick's a whack job. I swear she's, like, from another planet.” “She's from Alaska.” “How do you know that?” “Alaska plates on her car.” “I guess Mars plates would have been a dead giveaway.” |
She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T
Yes she is, dude. I know who they were talking about.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Jun 13 2005, 07:49 AM) |
| Yes she is, dude. I know who they were talking about. |
She thinks she missed the train to Mars
She's out back counting stars
| QUOTE (ngatti @ Jun 13 2005, 04:58 AM) | ||
She thinks she missed the train to Mars She's out back counting stars |
Is this another Katie Holmes thread?
I think in, a very real sense, all threads are Katie Holmes threads.
I got gazpacho for lunch. It sucked. Before throwing it out I picked up the plastic lid to put it back on the take-out container and dripped soup from the lid all over my black and white skirt and my leg. After mopping it up, I realize it has made absolutely no stain on my skirt and that the paper towel I used is only very faintly red. Guess the soup sucked because it was almost 100%water with a bit of tabasco thrown in. 
| QUOTE (Ms J @ Dec 2 2004, 09:55 AM) |
| A moment of slightly disturbing surrealism this morning: Walking to the train station this morning, I saw the unmistakable form of a fox sprawled on the lawn in front of a block of flats. Its back was to me, and its luxuriant tail trailed languidly onto the pavement. It seemed fairly obvious it was dead. As I drew closer, I realised that it wasn't one, but TWO dead foxes lying on the lawn. They were facing each other, as close as lovers, and unmarked except for a bit of blood around the mouth. People were walking by, looking at them, and exchanging puzzled glances. I'm worried. They don't look as though they were hit by a vehicle and dragged off the road. Could they have been poisoned? That wouldn't be great news for the pets in the neighbourhood. |
I don't know when I'm going to have the time to go through the rest of these remarkable back pages, so I have to ask whether an explanation of what happened to the unfortunate foxes was found.
picture
I think the right caption for this photograph is "mmm, dinner" but I don't know which party is the main course!
I think the right caption for this photograph is "mmm, dinner" but I don't know which party is the main course!
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Jun 15 2005, 08:18 AM) |
| picture I think the right caption for this photograph is "mmm, dinner" but I don't know which party is the main course! |
The caption would suggest they are to be served together.
Fire going in the woodstove and fireplaces today, both for warmth (not-quite-60-degrees out) and to try and dry out the dankness left behind by the heat/humidity and torrential rain. Probably hot soup for lunch.
1.54 pm local time, a decent size tremblor in downtown l.a. everyone in my computer lab looks up and goes back to typing. hope it wasn't felt too much harder somewhere else.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Jun 16 2005, 12:55 PM) |
| 1.54 pm local time, a decent size tremblor in downtown l.a. everyone in my computer lab looks up and goes back to typing. hope it wasn't felt too much harder somewhere else. |
5.3 quake: 71 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Jun 16 2005, 01:59 PM) | ||
5.3 quake: 71 miles from downtown Los Angeles. |
Wherever it was, I didn't feel a thing. Of course, I've been accused of that before.
Ouch.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Jun 16 2005, 02:53 PM) |
| Ouch. |
It's OK. I'm thick skinned.
The nice thing about earthquakes is that it shakes the Martini for you. Less work to do. We had one to the north and one to the south guess the Bay area is next.
| QUOTE (winesonoma @ Jun 16 2005, 03:38 PM) |
| The nice thing about earthquakes is that it shakes the Martini for you. |
As long as you don't want stirred.
A tourist, seen in midtown, wearing a baseball cap with a large emblem of the World Trade Center and the legend, "Ground Zero 9/11/01".
220 floors of murder, reduced to a souvenir.
220 floors of murder, reduced to a souvenir.
| QUOTE (Robert Schonfeld @ Jun 16 2005, 04:01 PM) |
| A tourist, seen in midtown, wearing a baseball cap with a large emblem of the World Trade Center and the legend, "Ground Zero 9/11/01". 220 floors of murder, reduced to a souvenir. |
And all I got was this lousy tee shirt. [See thread on death of middlebrow culture.]
| QUOTE (hollywood @ Jun 16 2005, 03:41 PM) | ||
As long as you don't want stirred. |
That would be tornados.
| QUOTE (Robert Schonfeld @ Jun 16 2005, 11:01 PM) |
| A tourist, seen in midtown, wearing a baseball cap with a large emblem of the World Trade Center and the legend, "Ground Zero 9/11/01". 220 floors of murder, reduced to a souvenir. |
That is truly bizarre.
I almost want one of those hats, because I was right there, walking through the WTC to work, when it all happened. I think some of us have a right to wear such a thing. But I don't really want to advertise it.
In that case, of course, I shouldn't even mention it here. Please forget that I've said anything.
Still, there is a certain chutzpah to that hat that I find curiously appealing.
At the 68th Street 6 station, seeing an MTA poster on which trains to take to the Billy Graham crusade right next to a poster on which trains to take to the Gay Pride Parade.
| QUOTE (StephanieL @ Jun 18 2005, 03:45 PM) |
| At the 68th Street 6 station, seeing an MTA poster on which trains to take to the Billy Graham crusade right next to a poster on which trains to take to the Gay Pride Parade. |
can ye nae switch them?
The exorcism was a success, but the possessed died. Where's Anton Lavey when we need him?
The fates are conspiring to cause members of a Certain Other Food Board That Shall Remain Nameless to make posts that tempt me to respond in such a way as to get my booty 86ed from said board. This after a period of neglecting said board for a few days (hey, sometimes I actually have a life) caused a member of that same board to PM me saying she missed my posts. The fates have a fucked-up sense of humor. But then I've known that for a long time.
Every time I click on Suzanne F's footer about Weebl and Bob, I have a giant disconnect. It just doesn't fit my image of an editor/proofreader/fastidious soul...but I'm cool with it.
The clicks are always worth it.
The clicks are always worth it.
I've been suspended from Mongomania.
I suspect a Welsh conspiracy.
I suspect a Welsh conspiracy.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Jun 19 2005, 12:19 PM) |
| I've been suspended from Mongomania. I suspect a Welsh conspiracy. |
I put in a good word for you, even though you aren't Welsh.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Jun 19 2005, 01:19 PM) |
| I've been suspended from Mongomania. I suspect a Welsh conspiracy. |
After that post I'm not suprised.
Utterly and completely surreal: the new pink banner with stereo, um, fixtures at Mongomania.
http://s10.invisionfree.com/mongomania/index.php
http://s10.invisionfree.com/mongomania/index.php
I don't know if it was surreal or just very New York: I was sitting on MacDougal (at a sidewalk table) and all of a sudden there was yelling and honking. Someone had pulled out of a space, and when the man waiting for the space pulled up to back into it, the cab behind him (with customers) pulled up directly behind him so he couldn't back in. The cab then refused to back up, despite having a good 10 feet because the driver behind the cab was no fool and was not going to pull up and get in the middle of this. Pedestrians started yelling at the cab driver and some guy banged on his window and kept yelling "back the fuck up! You've got pleny of room asshole" After about 5 minutes of this (with the poor passengers cringing in the back seat) the cab finally backed up and everyone on the street clapped.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Jun 20 2005, 06:51 AM) |
| I don't know if it was surreal or just very New York: I was sitting on MacDougal (at a sidewalk table) and all of a sudden there was yelling and honking. Someone had pulled out of a space, and when the man waiting for the space pulled up to back into it, the cab behind him (with customers) pulled up directly behind him so he couldn't back in. The cab then refused to back up, despite having a good 10 feet because the driver behind the cab was no fool and was not going to pull up and get in the middle of this. Pedestrians started yelling at the cab driver and some guy banged on his window and kept yelling "back the fuck up! You've got pleny of room asshole" After about 5 minutes of this (with the poor passengers cringing in the back seat) the cab finally backed up and everyone on the street clapped. |
Wasn't this a Seinfeld episode?
| QUOTE (hollywood @ Jun 20 2005, 02:00 PM) |
| Wasn't this a Seinfeld episode? |
it sound like something they might have done
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