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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matt on December 27, 2007, 01:01:52 PM
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I'm a spoiled piece of shit:
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Headache, heartache and misery in spades.
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Totally cool and retro VHS rewinder shaped like a car.
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Original Tin Machine cd in a cool mahogany box.
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Jorge Luis Borges - Conversations (part of the awesome literary conversations series).
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Three boxer shorts.
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turntable
teriyaki beef jerky
gummi worms
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External back-up 250 GB hard drive
Faces box set (from Laurie, who needs to be hearing from her Secret Santa SOON)
Alarm clock/iPod dock
That's three, but I also received CDs by George Jones, Tom Waits, Iron and Wine, David Holmes, Super Furry Animals, Low, Radiohead, Lambchop, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen
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Dave if its Chrome Dreams II its just ok. You'll get the feeling its more an odds and sods collection then a cohesive album. I'll stick with the fan made tour comp from this last tour.
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Ooo congrats! You're gonna have fun with that one!
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Ooo congrats! You're gonna have fun with that one!
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I really am, it's mindblowing!
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microkorgs are the best.
I got:
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Stephen Shore
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Richard Misrach: Chronologies
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Insect Warfare, World Extermination LP.
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Invitation to the Dance by Hilary Spurling. A guide book to Anthony Powells 12 volume A Dance to the Music of Time which I started almost 2 years ago, faltered at volume four but wish to finish this year.
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A neti pot, about to try it out now.
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Most of my Christmas took place this last weekend so there were a couple more things I'm excited about.
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Ha!
Oh, Friends of Tom - always good for a hearty chuckle when I'm feelin' down.
(and I mean that.)
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I know, No Underbites' new water bottle cracked me up too. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to try and wrestle this Glock away from my new chimp.
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I know, No Underbites' new water bottle cracked me up too. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to try and wrestle this Glock away from my new chimp.
Looks like we know what Jason's next play will be about.
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I know, No Underbites' new water bottle cracked me up too. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to try and wrestle this Glock away from my new chimp.
Looks like we know what Jason's next play will be about.
SIGG Water Bottle: The Musical.
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This waterbottle is actually really good.
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As long as it puts butts in seats once I slap a couple of googly eyes on it, that's all I care about.
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I did really well!
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Just gotta get over the fear of being the guy who brings his turntable to flea markets.
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Really great since I manage to get lost coming home from the grocery store.
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I got coal.
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Stephen Shore
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OMG -- Sambo's. I remember this restaurant chain from my childhood! I thought it was a strange concept at the time (before I was 10 years old and wise to the ways of the world), and now I realize that it was downright racist.
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A little late, but...
ANDY got me this super Supercaller visor (I can't seem to keep my eyes open in pictures. I have flash problems)
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Stephen Shore
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OMG -- Sambo's. I remember this restaurant chain from my childhood! I thought it was a strange concept at the time (before I was 10 years old and wise to the ways of the world), and now I realize that it was downright racist.
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My grandma read me that book when I was young. When I was 9 or 10 I asked her to read it to me and she told me she threw it in the garbage because it was racist and I was sad.
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It's a fine story. Here it is, with the names changed to protect tender sensibilities. Is it racist?
The Story of Little Harold
Once upon a time there was a little boy, and his name was Little Harold.
And his mother was called Susan.
And his father was called Rob.
And Susan made him a beautiful little Red Coat, and a pair of beautiful little Blue Trousers.
And Rob went to the bazaar, and bought him a beautiful Green Umbrella, and a lovely little Pair of Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and Crimson Linings.
And then wasn't Little Harold grand?
So he put on all his Fine Clothes, and went out for a walk in the Jungle. And by and by he met a Tiger. And the Tiger said to him, "Little Harold, I'm going to eat you up!" And Little Harold said, "Oh! Please Mr. Tiger, don't eat me
up, and I'll give you my beautiful little Red Coat." So the Tiger said, "Very well, I won't eat you this time, but you must give me your beautiful little Red Coat." So the Tiger got poor Little Harold's beautiful little Red Coat, and went away saying, "Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle."
And Little Harold went on, and by and by he met another Tiger, and it said to him, "Little Harold, I'm going to eat you up!" And Little Harold said, "Oh! Please Mr. Tiger, don't eat me up, and I'll give you my beautiful little Blue Trousers." So the Tiger said, "Very well, I won't eat you this time, but you must give me your beautiful little Blue Trousers." So the Tiger got poor Little Harold's beautiful little Blue Trousers, and went away saying, "Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle."
And Little Harold went on, and by and by he met another Tiger, and it said to him, "Little Harold, I'm going to eat you up!" And Little Harold said, "Oh! Please Mr. Tiger, don't eat me up, and I'll give you my beautiful little Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and Crimson Linings."
But the Tiger said, "What use would your shoes be to me? I've got four feet, and you've got only two; you haven't got enough shoes for me."
But Little Harold said, "You could wear them on your ears."
"So I could," said the Tiger: "that's a very good idea. Give them to me, and I won't eat you this time."
So the Tiger got poor Little Harold's beautiful little Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and Crimson Linings, and went away saying, "Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle."
And by and by Little Harold met another Tiger, and it said to him, "Little Harold, I'm going to eat you up!" And Little Harold said, "Oh! Please Mr. Tiger, don't eat
me up, and I'll give you my beautiful Green Umbrella." But the Tiger said, "How can I carry an umbrella, when I need all my paws for walking with?"
"You could tie a knot on your tail and carry it that way," said Little Harold. "So I could," said the Tiger." Give it to me, and I won't eat you this time." So he got poor Little Harold's beautiful Green Umbrella, and went away saying, "Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle."
And poor Little Harold went away crying, because the cruel Tigers had taken all his fine clothes.
Presently he heard a horrible noise that sounded like "Gr-r-r-r-rrrrrr," and it got louder and louder. "Oh! dear!" said Little Harold, "there are all the Tigers coming back to eat me up! What shall I do?" So he ran quickly to a palm-tree, and peeped round it to see what the matter was.
And there he saw all the Tigers fighting, and disputing which of them was the grandest. And at last they all got so angry that they jumped up and took off all the fine clothes, and began to tear each other with their claws, and bite each other with their great big white teeth.
And they came, rolling and tumbling right to the foot of the very tree where Little Harold was hiding, but he jumped quickly in behind the umbrella. And the Tigers all caught hold of each other's tails, as they wrangled and scrambled,
and so they found themselves in a ring round the tree.
Then, when the Tigers were very wee and very far away, Little Harold jumped up, and called out, "Oh! Tigers! why have you taken off all your nice clothes? Don't you want them any more?" But the Tigers only answered, "Gr-r-rrrr!"
Then Little Harold said, "If you want them, say so, or I'll take them away." But the Tigers would not let go of each other's tails, and so they could only say "Gr-r-r-rrrrrr!"
So Little Harold put on all his fine clothes again and walked off.
And the Tigers were very, very angry, but still they would not let go of each other's tails. And they were so angry, that they ran round the tree, trying to eat each other up, and they ran faster and faster, till they were whirling round so fast that you couldn't see their legs at all.
And they still ran faster and faster and faster, till they all just melted away, and there was nothing left but a great big pool of melted butter (or "ghi," as it is called in India) round the foot of the tree.
Now Rob was just coming home from his work, with a great big brass pot in his arms, and when he saw what was left of all the Tigers he said, "Oh! what lovely melted butter! I'll take that home to Susan for her to cook with."
So he put it all into the great big brass pot, and took it home to Susan to cook with.
When Susan saw the melted butter, wasn't she pleased! "Now," said she, "we'll all have pancakes for supper!"
So she got flour and eggs and milk and sugar and butter, and she made a huge big plate of most lovely pancakes. And she fried them in the melted butter which the Tigers had made, and they were just as yellow and brown as little Tigers.
And then they all sat down to supper. And Susan ate Twenty-seven pancakes, and Rob ate Fifty-five but Little Harold ate a Hundred and Sixty-nine, because he was so hungry.
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When I was little, I always wondered how Rob was able to collect the melted butter without getting a lot of dirt into it.
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great visor Erika!
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Is that a Dreamcast I see in the background. Wish I kept mine. Plus going all old school with 'Clue' nice
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Thanks Sarah, that helps tremendously... it's quite a nice story now.
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Is that a Dreamcast I see in the background. Wish I kept mine. Plus going all old school with 'Clue' nice
:) That's Greg from Baltimore's apartment. He's a video game "collector" of sorts. I think he got Dreamcast and 4 other older systems recently at a yard sale for about 60 bucks.
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It really is a perfectly nice story. As a kid, I especially loved that the tiger is happy about wearing Harold's shoes on his ears. The weirdness of the tigers turning into melted butter was neato, too. Plus the pancakes sounded delicious.
It's sad that the little change I made was enough to make the story inoffensive. Because of the original names, however, as well as the appalling illustrations in so many editions--including those produced by the author herself--this rather charming story has been irredeemably damned as racist.
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I think the most important thing about that book to me is that my grandparents didn't realize what they were reading/showing to me and when they found out they were ashamed and threw it away. My grandparents never talked ill of other races or religions but yet they didn't see the harm in the book until someone told them. To some extent, it's made me more forgiving of ignorance than most are.
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I mostly don't play video games anymore, but I have:
Atari 2600 (from my yout, as the NYers say)
Intellivision (I always wanted one; my first ebay purchase)
TI99 4A (what a piece of garbage - some great games though)
Nintendo NES (from my later yout)
SEGA Genesis (bought it late in the game when it was like 80 bucks)
SEGA Dreamcast (bet the wrong way in the console wars - but NFL 2000 is really cool)
Sony Playstation (went back and bet the right way)
Part of me wants to get a Colecovision, Bally Astrocade and a Magnavox Odyssey so that I can have all the game systems I played when I was a kid. Plus a Punch-Out machine.
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Plus a Punch-Out machine.
I'll be right over. Head or gut?
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TI99's were awesome! My dad used to program games for it. I don't think any of it ever got published though. But, underneath the stairs at my parents house there are two TI99's and 6-7 grocery bags of cartridges and cassette tapes-all TI games.
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TI99 4A (what a piece of garbage - some great games though)
I've got two of them in my apt, yeah the games were kick ass for the time. Munch man (pac man rip off) was a blast.