i had that game.




remember connect four?

Thanks for the boobs guide.

any time.

I sucked at Connect 4 but I could take anybody in Guess Who? or Battleship

I can own everyone I know at monopoly.

No one in my family/that I knew would play Monopoly.

me too

once i had a game going for at least four days straight

So my wife and I are in downtown Atlanta with a friend who has chosen to wear this tee-shirt. I can't tell you how freaking freaked out and embarassed I was to find him wearing this shirt. He's an idiot.

That's frightening

Tell me about it. So we get on the elevator to our hotel floor. We're surrounded by not one white face. I didn't know what to do. Every eye was focused on this idiot's shirt. My wife and I had been exchanging a few words of conversation with an older black woman before getting on the elevator about how friendly everybody in the city was, and then she looked at HIM and went, "Oh, but I don't know, I'm not sure he's very friendly." God damn. I wanted to crawl into a hole.

oh god :( That sucks.

The whole gun-toting Charlie Heston thing is annoying as fuck sometimes. If I wasn't from/in the South I wouldn't believe that a shirt like that even existed.

This guy does this kind of shit on purpose. He's a total redneck and flaunts it, even at the risk of putting himself and people around him in danger. I think he does it even more around us because he knows we're "liberals."

And he's a licensed gun carrier. Christ. I am not doing anything like this with this guy again. It's tough because he's the husband of my wife's best friend. The good thing is we live far enough away from them that these days we usually don't do that much with them on a regular basis.

The guy is totally paranoid. He's truly afraid of the world, thinks that blacks and Mexicans are out to get "us" and that they're all welfare-sucking parasites on the system. I just don't think like him. I never feel unsafe anywhere unless I've accidently driven into the "bad" part of town. But this guy feels paranoid everywhere. Downtown, suburbia, the country, it doesn't matter.

is he one of those kind of dudes who will start shit for no reason at all?

Yes. The guy doesn't work, hasn't for a couple of years, because he's on disability, and his wife, who makes good money, completely supports him. So for the past couple years he's developed this "I'm totally free to do anything" attitude--because he is accountable to nobody. And his wife completely tolerates his idiotic behavior--she just thinks he's "funny."

You know, some people would handle that freedom in a completely different way, make some sane use of it. He's completely abused it by making an ass of himself, using it as permission to be rude and offensive.

fuck. that.

Yeah.

Like, think of the most juvenile guy you knew in junior high. Put him in an adult body, give him lots of money and toys, a gun, and a paranoid, racist, homophobic outlook.

I hate to rag on the guy because I used to really like him. He used to be much nicer. He was always "conservative" in his outlook but it was tolerable, not outrageous.

My wife and I were never happier to get home.

ew.

that's what you get from living in north arkanlina.

Yeh.

Now see the way he gets away with all this is that it's passed off as humor. It's also accepted because he's in a wheel chair--paralyzed from the waist down. It's like his wife and certain people make allowances because of his disability. Like it's okay to be a selfish racist jerk because you're disabled.

That has nothing to do with it. This guy is from Iowa originally. He's only lived in Florida for the past couple of years.

Go to Wyoming. Everyone has money and guns and celebrates the idiotic racist conservative attitude. Beautiful place but god, sure sucked living there for half my life.

I saw Grizzly Bear and Radiohead in Indianapolis tonight, and it was wonderful.

My friend and I played a local music festival yesterday, it went very smoothly! Not many people liked us (actually people's initial reaction was "what the fuck?") but I'm pleased about our performance so I'm not too bothered.

I'll have pictures sooooooon, which I'll post in the pictures thread.

Derek - well done for your performance, senor. Look forward to seeing the pics.

well my friend Tom took quite a few pics but he's not been online in a few days EHMMMMM

apparently the best 3 acts of the day get to play another gig in our town hall. should be fun i suppose, we are planning on doing something a bit more ambient and uhmm... i guess more sudden so we can take advantage of the acoustics the town hall has. actually, my old punk band played a show in there once and i completely messed up (my guitar had went out of tune and i forgot to bring a tuner with me on stage so there was a bit of panic!)

me and a few friends from other bands are planning on hosting a show in our school PE hall on halloween, except it's going to be zombie themed. i'm planning on having the Zombi 2 theme tune play when everyone enters the hall. it'll be amazing!

India? Are you going on holiday or actually moving there?

two weeks with my school doing community service, then one week with my friends hangin out in bombay

ahhh right, have fun then!

oh i'm certain i will! can't really express how excited i am

yeah, india must be a very different setting than what you're used to, so it definitely seems exciting!

my daddy's in town for business and i get to go have dinner with him :D

I bought my first hip-hop album in over 5 years today. I feel weird.

I am so confused right now.

Man, I hate the first day back after vacation.

I hate never ending awkward hugs.

Just push away and go, "Um, like, awkward..."

Do people actually do that? I imagine it happens more often to girls...

Also, I avoid hugs like the plague.