We all die alone and afraid

[Doctor Rock]

jeez, dan.  you guys are HUGE!!  

(just kidding)

great looking couple. you're not near as bald as matt would have one believe, and that chimichanga looks AWESOME!!!  now i'm wanting some tex-mex.

What do you mean bald?  I'm the person on the left!  


And I call that a burrito.  Did it myself too, they're a family favourite.  

boy oh boy.  am i confused.

Nah, I kid.  I'm the bald guy in the lumberjack shirt.  

[bebopbalogna]

the wine's color suggests a pinot noir.  however the chape of the bottle is more indicative of a cabernet or shiraz.  i am going out on a limb here and guessing a temperanillo or rioja???

Fuck me if I know!  I don't remember, and I don't know shit about wine.  I usually buy something Portuguese, and I'm usually not disappointed.

other than ports (which i love, for the most part)  i know very little about portuguese wine. i did however guess temperanillo and rioja because they are spanish varietals and i figured portugal, climatically speaking, would grow similar varietals, and you may be prone to choosing a portuguese wine.  so my guess was somewhat 'educated'.  however i could not have been more presumptuous as it seems portuguese wine is an untapped well waiting to be discovered and bears little resemblance to its spanish counterparts.  maybe i'll be tasting some in the near future, especially with your stamp of approval.

[Sabamah]

Hey, Bamah, I have a new phony song title for you.

"Hot Mexican Carne (Ass Oughta)"

LOL!!!!!!

 

YOU ARE SO GOOD AT THOSE!!!!!!

  !!!

[matthew]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/a5TJApnJ8X8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/a5TJApnJ8X8</a>

I am waiting for it to load, but is this the one where the chick freaks out and ends up talking to a hotdog?

[bebopbalogna]

the wine's color suggests a pinot noir.  however the chape of the bottle is more indicative of a cabernet or shiraz.  i am going out on a limb here and guessing a temperanillo or rioja???

Fuck me if I know!  I don't remember, and I don't know shit about wine.  I usually buy something Portuguese, and I'm usually not disappointed.

also, it should be noted that i was trying to sound overtly pretentious here.  even though i do really like drinking wine.

[bebopbalogna]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/a5TJApnJ8X8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/a5TJApnJ8X8</a>

I am waiting for it to load, but is this the one where the chick freaks out and ends up talking to a hotdog?

 you said "load".


and yes.

[matthew]

jeez, dan.  you guys are HUGE!!  

(just kidding)

great looking couple. you're not near as bald as matt would have one believe, and that chimichanga looks AWESOME!!!  now i'm wanting some tex-mex.

Did I say he was bald? (I was going to make a comment that he is balder is person) He usually mentions his hair.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4YkvdOX5ecU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4YkvdOX5ecU</a>

[matthew]

My great aunt (father's side), Patricia (aka Auntie Pat) visited the other night and it occurred to me, rather suddenly, that despite her 87 years, her world was very, very small. Her family was from Birmingham, England and she was the youngest and was born in Verdun in 1920...and while her other sister got married (my dad's mum), her and her older sister, Lottie (always known to me as Sis - in fact, I only learned her name today) lived together until Sis died (I was quite young - one of three funerals I remember attending in my life) and neither of them married. I remember asking my mother once if she ever had a man in her life (I was starting to wonder, in all honesty, if she was an octogenarian virgin) and apparently she had been involved at one point with a married man (that was kind of a shock), but there was never any real relationship after that. She still lives in the same Verdun aparment she shared with Sis (she was living there when I was born almost 29 years ago). It's on the second storey of a standard Verdun flat - complete with a terrifyingly rickety, shakey, deathtrapstaircase...that I am afraid to walk up, and my spine has not folded in on itself as her's has (her nose just about touches her knees). Anyway, I was thinking about everything I can ever remember about her...talking about, doing... and I came up almost empty. I never heard her comment on anything...nothing political, nothing about the world or society or arts or music or anything outside of daily platitudes like the weather and how the day was. I knew she believed in the Monarchy (because she has a portrait of the Queen and all sorts of old English stuff around her place)...but I can't think of anything she ever expressed an opinion on. Opinion does not make the person (and certainly not political opinion even if that bullshit seems terribly important - it isn't), but I realized how secretive she is. I know she is a great fan of Soap Operas...but who wouldn't be at that age?

I was told a story about her visit to Nashville not that long ago. My aunts took her down for vacation (one aunt...the rather prejudiced one...is a big fan of country music, so I suppose this destination was her idea). After dropping off their stuff at the hotel, they went to a diner to eat. As the waitress left with their order Pat spoke to my aunts saying, "I wish she'd stop with that silly accent." They asked her what she meant. She clarified, "Well, it just seems silly to keep that up for show." When they explained that the twang was real and not just a put on for country music fans or something, she wouldn't accept it and said, "No. Can't be. No one really speaks like that."

I wonder if her opinion changed at all during the rest of her visit.



But really, all I know of her is that she no longer makes her own meals and hobbles (you have to see her walk, it's really sad...at the same time it is impressive) down the stairs and down the street to the shithole diner on the corner...and then hobbles back. I assume she watches her stories and all that... but I really do not know what she has done other than this for the entire time I've been alive.

Christ, I assume she lived something of a life before holing up with her Sis...I mean, she was 19 when WWII began...she's like two years older  than Sophie Scholl...and Scholl has been dead for 64 years?

 

[Just Some Girl]

Why do I ruin everything I touch?

Hey, well, you didn't ruin Aaron! He's gorrrrrrrrrrrgeous!!!

[Moetown]

Getting old isn't so bad. Being old seems truly sucky.

[Just Some Girl]

That's an awesers photo of D___ and R_____, too! (I knew what you looked like, vaguely, from one photo back when I first joined here. But cool to see what you like to eat.   )

[Just Some Girl]

Getting old isn't so bad. Being old seems truly sucky.

Depends on how "old" you mean.  

We are middle-aged, Moetown. That just occurred to me the other day. Yikes. I think I'm due for a mid-life crisis!

[Just Some Girl]

Or, another mid-life crisis, as the case may be.

[Just Some Girl]

I just booked Monday, June 4 off work so's I can go to Buffalo to see Califone on June 3 (and thusly be hungover on the 4th). Who's in?

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

[Moetown]

I'm having a lifetime crisis.