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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on April 23, 2007, 09:37:01 PM
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I will be riding the escalators at the train station from 11:20 to 12:00 on Tuesday 5/22/07, visiting every damn fan and shaking every damn hand. I will also be handing out snickers mini's.
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Meetup?
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I've been awaiting word on another FOT meet-up! Is this one for real?
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I have not sanctioned this event. Captain Pizza Monster may be riding the escalators all by himself that night. We will see.
And CPM - 'can someone post this on mininova.org?' Really? There's not enough free S&W stuff out there for you? You gots to grab the 3xCD set for free also?
Shameful.
Tom.
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Sounds like Captain Pizza Monster's "meet up" might turn into a "beat down." Just say the word Tom. I've got no patience for these downloading cheapskates.
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Something tells me those Snickers Mini's are probably stolen as well.
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Tom, if you happen to glance at this thread again--will there ever be another "official" FOT aftershow meet-up again? Actually, it doesn't even have to be aftershow necessarily. It could be on a separate day. We can call it FOT Day. There'll be balloons, fireworks, music, food.. laughing.. dancing..? OK, it doesn't HAVE to be that extravagant but I think it would be really great for us to put something together. It could be a lot of fun. What do you say?
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I don't see why we need Tom's permission to meet up.
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You DONT need my permission to meet up! You can meet up every day if you want. You can rent out a headquarters if you choose to. But it might or might not be endorsed by me. That's all Im saying.
Every listener out there is welcome to join CPM on the escalators of Jersey City. I might be there with them. Or perhaps I'll hold my own counter-event at the same time.
The future will be exciting. One never knows!
Tom.
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I know one thing: the security guard at the Jersey City Port Authority sure ain't a fan of groups of men riding the escalators up and down for no reason.
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From now on, every day is FOT meetup day in Lubec. There will be dogs. All are welcome.
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From now on, every day is FOT meetup day in Lubec. There will be dogs.
I don't like it... I love it.
All are welcome.
Extending invitations like that could be a mistake...
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Yes, it is testimony to my faith in the FOT (and the extreme inconvenience of my locale) that I make it.
But truth in advertising compells me to acknowledge that, given my generally moody nature, I'm just as likely to close my curtains and lock my door as to be welcomey.
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eh.
I'm in for a meet up of some sort if there is any interest.
Maybe we could even have a listening party. I'm thinking ESPNzone in Times Square?
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I had the same idea. Roof of the Iron Monkey seems sensible, if we bring portable radios.
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I will be riding the escalators at the train station from 11:20 to 12:00 on Tuesday 5/22/07, visiting every damn fan and shaking every damn hand. I will also be handing out snickers mini's.
Now, see here! I will certainly not be attending if you choose to hand out those chocolates called "Snickers." You will only be graced with my presence if you ride the escalators whilst doling out Twix!
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I like the listening party idea. We should do it. Maybe there's not enough interest though.
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I'm definitely down for a meet up.
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i'd go, but i hope that doesn't function as a deterrent to others.
in any event, tomorrow i will be celebrating the end of the semester at RU by eating at the grease trucks for the first and only time. i've heard you have to be really drunk to do this, so i'm even willing to get intoxicated between classes just so i have have the full scarlet knights experience before bidding adieu to college ave.
so if there are any fot's in the hood that want to swing by for some meet and grease, i'll be there from 3-3:30pm waving the little tent pole flag i captured at last week's Tent State.
and dont worry about me getting in trouble in class for being drunk because believe it or not, i'm normally very rowdy in class anway, so no one will notice.
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the little tent pole flag i captured at last week's Tent State.
You must be one of the people who were part of the conservative thought tent at the situated at the middle of Tent State last week.
I could stop by for a FOT Meetup and my first "Fat Sandwich" at 3pm before my 8-11pm econ exam on Busch tomorrow. I just hope the grease doesn't make me all logy.
Any other Scarlet Knights interested?
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How about one in the fall?
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my 8-11pm econ exam on Busch tomorrow.
Is the exam on the beer? The amusement park? The race? All seem like ripe topics for an economics course.
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my 8-11pm econ exam on Busch tomorrow.
Is the exam on the beer? The amusement park? The race? All seem like ripe topics for an economics course.
Yes, please explain how Junebug is so much better at restrictor plate racin'.
What is the main difference between the Big Bad Wolf, and the Loch Ness Monster?
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Oh, I get it, Busch. It's a play on words bonanza! I meant Busch Campus at Rutgers. Although there could be a question about the marginal utility of beer. Junebug racing is ruined if the Junebug malfunctions. And, there's not much difference between the Loch Ness Monster and the Big Bad Wolf. They are both outdated rides that have to go.
Dan B, I'd be fine with a meetup in the fall.
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How about one in the spring or summer?
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Well May 15th was good for JP.
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after 2:30 pm today i will officially be on permanent vacation, so i will attend every meet up and party and social event that i catch wind of, and i will most certainly be at the grease trucks today @3.
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i think iron monkey is a fine idea.
i haven't been there in many a day.
are they still for the richies?
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How were the trucks emily?
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It was a fun time, thank you for asking!
Matt is a very cool and intelligent lad and he and my friend Mary talked New Jersey geography (they both have geography minors), so that was cool. I also had the privilege of viewing a map Matt has drawn of another fictitious town, and i think he is aptly qualified for the task of the new bridge map.
I ended up not getting drunk, and just ordering a moderately greasy grilled cheese. the other sandwiches just didn't sound appetizing. like steak, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers and meatballs wrapped up in a slice of pizza. it's just too much. who needs that?
We also did some bird watching. there are some freakin' weird ass birds that scour the grease truck lot for uneaten sandwich bits. Fiesty creatures and smart! holy cow their gathering skills were like super advanced. it was fun to watch.
Overall it was a nice afternoon. And i'm glad to have celebrated the end my term at rutgers with a FOT.
Thanks Matt!!!!!
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I also had the privilege of viewing a map Matt has drawn of another fictitious town, and i think he is aptly qualified for the task of the new bridge map.
That's good to hear because over the course of the whole map discussion I started to feel like I got in over my head.
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I enjoyed the bird watching as well. I believe that those crafty birds were crows (their feathers were black/iridescent). Although I still haven't had my first "Fat Sandwich," I do not regret passing up the horrible food. I had another one of their smaller greazy menu items.
Matt has drawn another fictitious town, and i think he is aptly qualified for the task of the new bridge map.
Here is the fictitious town that I drew. The map that I will create for Newbridge will definitely be more legible and neat. More paper will be needed. HANDDRAWN ONLY! Even an inset for Newbridge Commons. This will be fun!
(http://eden.rutgers.edu/fictitious.bmp)
It was fun talking to you and Mary. I wish I had more time. Thanks for the meetup Emily!
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HMM... the scanned file is 10MB
you could view here, but it would take a while to load
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~themaher/fictitious.bmp (http://eden.rutgers.edu/~themaher/)
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I enjoyed the bird watching as well. I believe that those crafty birds were crows (their feathers were black/iridescent).
hmm. i'm not sure they were crows - i think they may have been Starlings. though i'm not a birder so i can't confirm this.
but this is what i found so far (relevant points in bold)
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/Starling.jpg)
Starlings are about 6-7" in size. They have purple-green plumage and a yellow beak. Both sexes are the same colour.
Farmers find starlings especially bothersome, since they eat large quantities of feed and contaminate even more with their droppings. They can do good though, by eating ticks in the fields that sheep occupy. The birds travel in flocks of up to 2,000 in the winter and can eat more than a ton of feed while spoiling two or three times that amount with their droppings.
Even though they are quite large birds they can squeeze through a hole as small as an inch in diameter.
The birds prefer fruits and seeds, either wild or cultivated. They supplement during the spring breeding season with insects. They will eat virtually any livestock feed that is not bound and covered. Regarded as the 'bully' of the bird-feed table during the winter.
Starlings nest almost anywhere they can wedge a nest. Females lay as many as seven eggs which hatch less than two weeks following incubation. Young starlings leave the nest within three weeks of birth and may be one of two broods created each season.
what do you think?
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As long as you guys are talking about birds, I would like to share this: For the second year in a row, a pair of doves have decided to make the posts holding up the lanai in my parents' backyard their nesting site. On Friday, one of the two baby doves ventured down from the top of the post for the very first time. My mom told me this, and I went straight to their house after work. I got to see the mother (I think -- hard to tell, since doves in general are extremely egalitarian in, er, child-rearing, if I may anthropomorphize a bit) feed the dove who decided to remain in the nest, and the father feed the one hanging out on the lanai. The brave little guy eventually went back up to its sibling and stayed there until the NEXT morning.
I've been hanging out here for most of the weekend and watching. Yesterday, BOTH of the birds came down. They've mostly stuck to the patio. They're hanging out on the patio furniture, mostly on one of the lounges (which is covered in the fuzz they're molting and poop -- ew), the paddles of the fan, the ledge of the roof, the low table -- very cute. I snapped some pictures through the bay window sans flash, so I hope they came out okay. We'll see how they turn out when they develop, as I left my shitty digital camera at my place.
This is all very exciting for me. Oooh, today, Mommy (perhaps?) moved over to the other post, which is what they did last time. Doves tend to have two sets of two babies, one right after the other.
I love birds.
UPDATE: Both of the little birds moved up to the OTHER post, which still has nest stuff in it from last year. Also, it's dinner time. Mommy (?) is feeding the babies up on the post, and I'm glad they're staying there for the night. A storm's moving in. Stay safe, guys!
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You realize now that you have to give us (well, perhaps only me) regular updates on their progress, right?
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Sure! I'll post pictures as soon as I get this roll of film developed, too.
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I enjoyed the bird watching as well. I believe that those crafty birds were crows (their feathers were black/iridescent).
hmm. i'm not sure they were crows - i think they may have been Starlings. though i'm not a birder so i can't confirm this.
but this is what i found so far (relevant points in bold)
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/Starling.jpg)
Starlings are about 6-7" in size. They have purple-green plumage and a yellow beak. Both sexes are the same colour.
Farmers find starlings especially bothersome, since they eat large quantities of feed and contaminate even more with their droppings. They can do good though, by eating ticks in the fields that sheep occupy. The birds travel in flocks of up to 2,000 in the winter and can eat more than a ton of feed while spoiling two or three times that amount with their droppings.
Even though they are quite large birds they can squeeze through a hole as small as an inch in diameter.
The birds prefer fruits and seeds, either wild or cultivated. They supplement during the spring breeding season with insects. They will eat virtually any livestock feed that is not bound and covered. Regarded as the 'bully' of the bird-feed table during the winter.
Starlings nest almost anywhere they can wedge a nest. Females lay as many as seven eggs which hatch less than two weeks following incubation. Young starlings leave the nest within three weeks of birth and may be one of two broods created each season.
what do you think?
Yeah, the birds on the ground did look like that Starling. They were bullies as well.
Before, I was referring to the birds that were rummaging through the garbage cans.