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Is this like a 9622 buffet?

*heads for the wine cellar*

Aww, sweet.

Hooray for the raping, pillaging and near exctintion of our native peoples!

(Also, thanks for having me. I was just telling the dong the other day what an esteemed bunch you all are. I feel all blessed and shit.)

My ancestors were American Indian (well, some of them, I'm the result of the mongrelization of the races) and yet I enjoy Thanksgiving. It must be self-hatred.

or merely gluttony.
:)

Happy Thanksgiving, Monkey Bros & Sis' es

Me too, Crash.

For me, it's just nice to get the family together and indulge in ridiculous stuffing of the gut.

And it's probably not too late to take a nice big turkey over to your local mission or shelter!

Posted by: kafkafreeleonardpeltier on November 27, 2002 12:36 PM

Diet Coke, out my nose. Oh, the pain.

(Happy Thanksgiving, everyone)

Husband (and therefore kids) have Cherokee ancestry.

Won't slow down their appetites any.

While we are at it, wish my son a happy 18th birthday. It's on thanksgiving.

Diet Coke, out my nose. Oh, the pain.

They make diet cocaine now? What a time to be alive...

"I feel so exposed..."

Happy Thanksgiving

Eat Tofurkey. The bird you save may be Big Bird.

Screw that. I'm having Big Bird dor dinner tomorrow. I hear he tastes like Turducken.

oh yeah, and happy thanksgiving all

I want something's flesh!

On three different tv shows last night the characters were stuck with the tofu turkey crap. If you are gonna eat tofu eat it in Thai food. I could be thankful for that.

Happy T'day to all the turkeys (oops I meant monkeys)!

Oh, oh dear.
Alas, poor Big Bird, I knew him, Horatio.

On Thanksgiving Day, I will listen to my 9622 swap cds while I slice, dice, and make millions of julienned cranberry relishes in seconds. I will be thankful for all of you.

Does cranberry jelly = cranberry sauce (the stuff in the can that goes sclooooop when it comes out)? This is a big point of contention with my folks this year.

(Should be schloooop. There's a big difference.)

all I know is that Marty insists on having the slice that has the date imprinted on it from the can.

I'll be eating with some indians, some nice folks who I work with invited me over. Dallas Cowboys on TV, theirs my ham and turkey on the plate a feast for sure. Happy ThanksGiving All, and I'm thankful for all your laughs you have shared with me.

i've been a big tofurkey fan going on ... 8 years now, and i'll have one this year.

they're really rather tasty (i actually think the gluten based ones are the best -- in fact, i don't think people make true 'tofu-turkeys'; i've never seen any. tofu just doesn't shape as well as wheat gluten).

the only thing is, they're really easy to overcook. so if you're having tofurkey this year, it's better to get it a bit on the uh, bloody side, rather than well done.

yeah. i so live in california.

like.

Perhaps someone could direct me to a link that truly explains Thanksgiving - not how it started, but what real people actually do on that day. Do you have to do it with your family or can you do it with friends? Above all, is it fun? Say, for teenagers.

To this European it's amazing that a holiday seems 100% consensual and has such a happy feel to it, with nothing like the obligatory, putting-up-with-relatives atmosphere you get with Christmas.

Anyway, a happy thanksgiving to you all, whatever it is!

*jealously guards Secret Of Thanksgiving™ from Eurotrash interlopers*

Seriously, Miguel, it's all about getting liquored up and cooking tons of food (and then eating tons of food).

I'm not religious in any way, but for me Thanksgiving is just a nice time to be with the family and think about what they mean to you. I live far away from mine and don't get to see them very often. I have my two sisters and their significant others over and the wife and I make a big giant meal. We all talk and play games and fight and remember old times. Holidays are hard for me these days since losing both my parents. Make sure those of you with M&P around make the most of it.[/serious guy]

Thanksgiving is the traditional day when spouses, in-laws, cousins, step-children, etc. all come under one roof, fight like cats, eat too much food, watch football, and get drunk. And then fight some more. I don't think this was what was intended, but it's the stereotype, and enough of my friends can attest to this playing out each year that it must have the ring of truth.

For us, it will be mostly friends, a little family, and a lot of food. And we'll probably go out to a bar after all is said and done if the turkey doesn't stun us too badly.

No, Miguel, it's very much like the Xmas putting-up-with-relatives thing. A miniature putting-up thing, in preparation for the Big Day next month. It's off to the obnoxious cousin's house we (I) go for a day of boring conversation and football on TV in the background. "Yeah, um, right... the Browns are doin' pretty good this year, what with... whatsisname and... Right. Think the snow will keep up?" Maybe I'll get lucky and I'll get my uncle to telling war stories from WWII and Korea. "So how cold was it again at the Chosin Reservoir, Uncle George?" There's a book in there if he'd only just spill...

Thanksgiving also used to be the official kickoff of Xmas season, with stores putting out Xmas displays and pushing gifts, and town-squares lighting their Xmas lights, and people decorating and buying trees. Now, of course, American stores and television start hawking Xmas gifts and Santa paraphernalia the day after Halloween, if not sooner.

But we're all just happy to be off work tomorrow. We're thankful...

Have fun, all!

Kafkaseriousguy's description is less crude than mine. Heh. You should listen to him.

Make sure those of you with M&P around make the most of it.

Good point, K. Take care and have a good one.

Miguel, it's all about tryptophan.

Seriously, though, as several have indicated, it's just a nice excuse to get together with friends and family and have a big, sit-down, home-cooked meal (which is otherwise becoming a rare occurrance in the U.S.). It's very uncommercialized, too (note that I'm not talking about the day after -- which is when the commericialization kicks into high gear).

And I happen to like the meaning of the holiday, too. While the point brittney alluded to is certainly worthy of note, I think it's equally worthy to carry on the tradition of those who settled in America who gave thanks for the opportunity to choose their own destiny, and for the abundant resources the land had to offer. And that many of us today, by extension, are thankful for the place we live, the things we have, and the company we keep.

I'm about 1/3 native american, about 1/2 european, and the rest we're unsure of, so I feel like one big Thanksgiving party all rolled into one.

I'm off to the Grandparents house to endure the 100-plus degree heat (inside the house that is), and struggle to stay awake post-turkey-feast, and feign interest in the football games that will be watched, and watch as my daughter eats at "the kids table" with the other kids for the first time.

Wish me luck, and hope my Uncles haven't found the whiskey I stashed there last time I visited. Happy Turkey Day to all and to all a good nap! (Four you Euros out there, you can just do the nap part and you'll do fine).

gluttony. sheer gluttony. and football.

Miguel, I thought it was interesting that after my husband's third Thanksgiving here (he is British) I overheard him explaining to his sister in Wales that "Actually, Thanksgiving is a more important holiday for the Yanks than Christmas."

After thinking it over, he's got a point. It's a much more relaxed day, and since it's always on a Thursday, most people get a four-day holiday. Since we don't have Boxing Day here, Christmas is rushed and frantic.

We tend to collect a lot of waifs and strays, both of the two and four-legged variety, and on Thanksgiving we open up the house to all of them and have a hybrid British Sunday dinner / American Thanksgiving, turkey with Yorkshire pudding and that sort of thing. It's fun. And we don't watch football, but sometimes our guests do. I like the big balloons in the Macy's parade.

As usual, I am late to the party (sux rolling out of bed at noon, huh?). I am indulging in not one, but two turkey dinners tomorrow, as I do every year. Add a few more and it could be last night's Gilmore Girls. Food, drink, family, friends. It is easily my favorite holiday.

You all have a good one. Happy Thanksgiving (and Happy Birthday B****fire's son).

I will be at work on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanks for nothing, motherfuckers.

Also, I am appalled by the waste of a good MeFi member number here.

*thanksgives for having such kind fellow 9622'ers*

I think I finally get it: it's like a lazier, Xmas, without the commercial or religious pressure.

*hesitates not a jot*

OK, we're importing it.

* emails matt to try and buy himself some of that baby pussy *

You were off getting married or some such foolishness when we covered the shame of MeFi member #9622, Chef.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and thanks to all of you as well. Even the Europeans, and ColdChef too.

* emails matt to try and buy himself some of that baby pussy *

9622.net: Now we're on some kind of list.

You were off getting married or some such foolishness when we covered the shame of MeFi member #9622, Chef.
I tried to read everything I missed. I swear I did. You fucks are just way too prolific.

"please hope me!"

I hate it when my dinner cries for help.

I hate it when my help cries for dinner.

...godless eurotrash...

What about us shiftless, irresponsible, drunken canasianucks? Huh? Can't even buy fucking turkeys in this benighted country...

*sniff*

not to mention your (Canuckian) thanksgiving was last month.

*sobs openly*

Elvis! Say it ain't so!

Cait Costello no more!

[/way off topic]

*wails, a la Lucy*

Also, and equally offtopic, I just noticed my 2 year anniversary as a MeFite passed 12 days ago, and I didn't even notice. Goofy.

What is the deal with people "simply drifting apart"?
Unless there's furniture and epithets being tossed around the room, I'm for sticking together.

Maybe she just got tired of Burt Bacharach hanging around and making Declan record all those snoozers.

Or maybe she got tired of his bizarre weights shifts.

*passes the wonderchicken a box of tissues*
Now quit yer whinin', and be thankful you're not a wonderturkey, or a wonderturducken, even.

...and the comedy facial hair stylings.

Well, I did catch Stavros trying to stuff himself into a duck once. Not, technically, all of himself, but you get the gist of it.

now there's a thanksgiving image for you. eeek.

This turducken thing is a-sweepin the nation, innit?

Me, I want a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey inside a sheep inside a cow inside something even larger (but preferably not endangered). A cloning-revived mammoth? Yeah, that's it!

Mmmm...mammoth.

it's supposed to be of cajun origin. I was gonna ask ColdChef about it, but he's so testy that I've had second thoughts.

...meat fantasy...

(Jeez I hope foldy doesn't see that post...he's gonna kill me! Or ~scowl~ or something, at least...)

Also, and equally offtopic, I just noticed my 2 year anniversary as a MeFite passed 12 days ago, and I didn't even notice. Goofy.

As did mine. We joined on the same day, y'know. You're #2238, I'm #2249.

Curiously, we both waited six weeks before posting our first comments. Mine was 1/2/01, yours 1/5/01. Was that the law back then? A six-week waiting period?

[nelson]Ha-haa![/nelson]

"I'm 11 users dolder than you-hooo!"

That six week thing is odd, though, innit? Coincidence....or ...something more? (cue dramatic music)

Er, 'older' even. Although I might well be dolder than you too. Who can say?

Sorry to continue with my "testyness," but the "Turducken" is one of worst food abominations ever to come out of Louisiana (right under "blackened"-anything).

Okay, here we go:

1. Boneless meat- A lot of the flavor you want from your meat comes from the bones. Take all the bones out, and you're getting less flavorful meat.

2. Chicken has to be cooked to a high temperature to keep it from leaving you inconveniently dead. Duck overcooked is ghastly and greasy. See the problem so far?

3. Some people stuff the chicken with crawfish tails before the shove it into the chicken. These people deserve to be shot.

I hearby apologize to the stomachs of the rest of the country for being from the state that put Turduckens on your plate. I am so, so sorry.

Fried turkeys fucking rule, though.

Feh. Well, given the time difference, I actually joined a day before you! It says you joined the 16th, but it was probably the 17th in Korea. So HA!

Also off topic (I blame the Kaf) and the coffee : new episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021 and The Brak Show. Whoohooo! I'm a-gigglin'!

Fried turkey?

Oh, I do so WANT to try this fried turkey experience. It's supposed to be absoliciously delightful. And you have made them before, oh Testy Chef?
*hint*

I saw that Prudhomme guy pimping Turducken the other day on CNN.

He said it was like a first kiss.

Man, did that give me the willies. I'm picturing Prudhomme french kissing a dead bird, grease running down his flabby jowls.

They're actually really good, the fried turkeys. Very moist.

Fried Turkey. Oh, baby!

The best thing that Cajuns have added to the national palate in a long, long time.

You fry 'em whole in Peanut Oil. Fucking amazing. They are moist and tender with a crispy skin. I am seriously salivating here.

Here's the rub, though: ya gotta eat 'em hot. Because when it cools down and that peanut oil congeals, it becomes something else entirely.

(if it sounds like I'm a cheerleader, it's because I am. I am from the home of fried turkeys. The home of the Cajun Injector.)

It says you joined the 16th, but it was probably the 17th in Korea. So HA!

Curses!

Fried turkey sounds like an abomination, but almost anything that isn't roast turkey on T-Day sounds like an abomination to me. I'm a purist that way, I guess.

FWIW, we usually serve two turkeys: one roasted, one fried.

But the fried one's the first to go.

Jim's Cajun Deep Fried Turkey Page

Oh, I am filled with fried turkey lust.

My narrow-mindedness is in no way a reflection upon other people's desire to eat fried turkey. But like Abe Simpson, I'm afraid of things I don't know.

Not really, but yeah, in this case--maybe.

My narrow-mindedness is in no way a reflection upon other people's desire to eat fried turkey. But like Abe Simpson, I'm afraid of things I don't know.

Not really, but yeah, in this case--maybe.

How about next year I'll cook Thanksgiving dinner for all of us?

I'll fry up one of those fat bastards.

I am so there.

Umm, jambalaya.

*droooool*

My neighbor deep fries entire chickens for days that he has people over for NASCAR races. And he deep fries his turkey for thanksgiving. (Unfortunately I won't be on this side of town to get some while it's still hot this year)

From that Costello split article:

His well-crafted tracks have made him one of Britain's most important songwriters, with a catalogue of hits such as Oliver's Army and I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down.

He did write many great and wonderful songs, but "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" is a Sam & Dave cover.

I own an original 7" vinyl copy of Cait O'Riordan's "Tommy's Blue Valentine", her tribute to Tom Waits with the band Pride of the Cross (b-side "Black Coffee"). Should I be proud of this, or are they floating around all over?

Happy Thanksgiving to all from a piece of eurotrash that washed ashore.

From that Costello split article:

His well-crafted tracks have made him one of Britain's most important songwriters, with a catalogue of hits such as Oliver's Army and I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down.

He did write many great and wonderful songs, but "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" is a Sam & Dave cover.

I own an original 7" vinyl copy of Cait O'Riordan's "Tommy's Blue Valentine", her tribute to Tom Waits with the band Pride of the Cross (b-side "Black Coffee"). Should I be proud of this, or are they floating around all over?

Happy Thanksgiving to all from a piece of eurotrash that washed ashore.

And kept coming back for more.

This turkey ... it's deep fried?

Wow. And I thought I'd done my homework on Louisiana cooking.

Either you're not using the bmf turkeys in the supermarket, or that's one bmf pot.

If you're cooking next year, I'll be on a plane. I would so do the Cajun version of Spanksgiving. Mmmmm....

Happy Thanksgiving, simians. I give thanks for all of the monkey-lovers out there who have warmed the little cockles of my heart this year.

(what are the cockles of ones heart, anyway?)

ColdChef, that is the best idea since the fried turkey itself. You couldn't pay me to stay away.

I'll even bring the cranberry relish.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday ever. Not religious, no presents, and all my favorite foods. I can't get enough of it. But I guess I'd trade it for a European 4 week vacation.

Since my family is scattered all over, we don't really see each other on holidays. Thanksgiving is a great "Getting together with friends" holiday. Christmas, not so much.

Brine. Brine the bird. Thanks monkeys, you make my days easy. Health and happiness to all.

Happy, happy, happy thanksgiving!

Our local news had a leetle expose about turkey-fryin' gone awry--big ol' flames shooting out of the pot, boiling oil spilled everywhere. good times. Reminded me of the exploding pop tarts. I am dying to try fried turkey.

... it's all about karma, people. I'm just sayin'.

fuck it. I read half this thread, but it's late, and I drove 250 miles today, and I'm drubk and whatever. Hope you all have a great one tomorrow. Me, I'm thankfull that I'm with some family and can talk shit about Ashcroft and can post my shit to some 50-somthing drubk monkeys. Fuck you all, but only b/c I love you all. G'night!

I'm gonna go make sweet potato something-or-other with marshmallow topping in a minute. Mom cooked the turkey last night. Instead of pumpkin pie, chocolate meringue-with a chaser of birthday cake. (for my son-see above).
Life is good.

Oh, don't forget the (jellied) cranberry sauce, and the canned asparagus (I'm the only one that likes it besides mom but it's tradition!)

b****fire, my family used to always serve bday cake for me at thanksgiving too! (i'm on the 1st)

enjoy everyone!

Just so you monkeys know, my birthday is on December 2nd. If I remember correctly there is a small cluster of monkey birthdays around that time...
I'm turning 44. Ugh.
At least Miguel is older than I am.

and mine is December 3rd and I shall be 32 years old. Let's hear it for December!!

yay us!! (i'll be 38)

Apropos of TURKEYS, and not BIRTHDAYS (kidding, kidding), how was everyone's feastival? Did you pork out like you're supposed to? Did anyone hit the sauce too much and then hit Uncle Frank with a bottle? Was the game-watching good? Any mean, small family tales to dish up about the festivities?

Ours was chill and lovely, too much food, just enough wine, and no one almost went to the emergency room from alcohol poisoning like last year, so it must be a success. I had a lovely day, I hope you all did too.

My turkey turned out perfectly. And now that MissusFes and BabyFes are safe in bed, I'm rewarding myself with two fingers of Rumplemintz from the freezer.

Well, since you asked: I am (still) at work, while my fiance spent the day nailing down last-minute details for her father's funeral tomorrow. All that stuff about enjoying your family while you can is oh so true.

Sorry to be the pooper of parties. I'm hope y'all had a good time. Save some Rumplemintz for me, Fes.

Uh, hey... file that under "sharing too much". If someone would be kind enough to delete my previous post, I'd be very grateful.

Wake-up call: the Elf site for intelligent monkeys!

Well, my thanksgiving was fine. Until my cousin's 5-year old punched me in the teabag not once, but twice.

Then my 4 year old nephew decked him in the mouth.
I love that little roundheaded monkey.

38, 32? Wow, you folks are my age.

At Thanksgiving with the folks I received this gem of wisdom about vegetarianism:

"We were meant to eat cows. What, when they die and fall over in a field, are we just supposed to leave them there?"

This from a woman of average intelligence who had only just begun to drink. I don't argue anymore. I just don't discuss it.

{bmarkey}
sorry about the sad turn your holidays have taken.

I was a vegetarian for three or four years, shane, so I know where you're coming from. I can't imagine why people are so threatened that they have to resort to such ridiculous "arguments".

My thanksgiving was fine. My family was less loud and obnoxious than usual, which was nice. I watched State and Main. Sarah Jessica Parker was miscast. Rebecca Pidgeon makes my heart go pitter-pat.

Is Rebecca Pidgeon the one that was in The Spanish Prisoner too, Lupo? As the secretary?

She makes me want to pull my eyes out and wander the earth sightless until I die of hunger, alone and blind in a Walmart somewhere.

But hey, I had a good thanksgiving. My sister and her fiancée and other sister, brother-in-law and nephew all came down from the Bay Area for a couple of days. We played some cards, went to the park, played way too much Super Monkey Ball 2.

And got well and truly ripped on some Vintage Port (amongst other things). It's surprising how fast two cases of beer can disappear. And a few bottles of wine. And sherry.

My family are a bunch of drubks!

But it was good.

A lot of people hate Rebecca Pidgeon. David Mamet obviously does not, since he married her. I actually quite like her, but she doesn't make my heart go pitter pat. She has a different sort of acting style.

The Winslow Boy is a really great Mamet film. And most suprising is it's G rating.

Its. Its, dammit!

I've only seen her in the one film. She played the very typical small-town girl who is the voice of sanity among the crazy Hollywood-types, but when the credits rolled, my heart was pitter-patting. What can I say? Take it up with my heart.

Of course, I also watched Waiting for Guffman this weekend, and found that same heart was going pitter-pat for Eugene Levy.

Maybe I should just see a doctor.

Mmmmm....Eugene Levy.

What? Oh, was that out loud? I'm sorry, I must have been temporarily out of my mind.

Mmmmmm....Christopher Guest.

The Winslow Boy is genius, yes.

Waiting for Guffman? Parker Posey does it for me. She's done some great films. But should I see Josie and the Pussycats? Evidently this is what you get when you cross Parker with SNL's Chris Fallon.

I thought this thread was dead by now...

If you want to see a Parker Posey film, try one of these before Josie:

The Daytrippers
The House of Yes
Clockwatchers
Party Girl
Henry Fool

I thought this thread was dead by now...

But these threads never die. When you least expect it some yahoo will do a search for, like, "thomcat exploding monkey feces," and stumble across a thread that hasn't had a post in six months. That's when you get things like this.

I love her too, but the woman needs to eat something. In Guffman I think she literally weighs about 88 pounds.

It's 88 pounds of talent, though. She's terrific.

Parker Posey to me will always be that annoying bitch drunkenly screaming, "Lick Me!! All Of You!!" in Dazed & Confused.

Which is odd, because in her clubhopping sophisticate persona, I find it almost impossible to imagine her doing anything as mundane as attending a suburban high school. I just picture her being born a 20 year old in a designer gown someplace with a velvet rope.

she hangs out at the pioneer bar, i read it in style magazine. WE hang out at the pioneer bar. we rule. that place was so last spring.

in case it's not clear. 'we' is those of us 9622ers who were at the mefi gathering at pioneer bar last spring.

I think I've seen all of those, Witchstone. Generally I just see her name or pull up her filmography and rent whatever. But you have to admit, it's puzzling: Parker Posey / Josie and the Pussycats ??? It makes no sense. What the hell?

Before marrying Mr Mamet, Rebecca Pidgeon was in the British folk band Ruby Blue. Fiddle-di-di.

Parker Posey is also good in The Anniversary Party, a film in which lots of movie stars improvise being movie stars on ecstasy, take their clothes off and jump in someone's swimming pool. I liked it.

Anniversary Party: Best work that Phoebe Cates has ever done. I mean, not that topping Gremlins or Drop Dead Fred was a huge feat, but still. I thought it was interesting how close to home it was for her. Kevin Kline is her real husband, he's been working, she hasn't, etc. They also used their own children in it.

Although I thought some of the movie was cliche, parts of it were quite fantastic. And I have a great deal of admiration for people who want to make a film and then make it, without getting huge studios involved.

josie and the pussycats was funny and cute. it was campy, like all of her other movies. she was a villan

Anniversary Party: Best work that Phoebe Cates has ever done.

Well, personally I'd have to go with Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Or at least one particular scene.

not that topping Gremlins or Drop Dead Fred was a huge feat

Yes, but topping that fantasy scene in Fast Times At Ridgemont High would be...

I recongnize love
Happy Anniversary...
To Sally and Joe
We're glad you came home
Don't split up again..
'cos we like the food

Best little kid song in a movie featuring drugs ever. EVER!!!!!

I have a great deal of admiration for people who want to make a film and then make it, without getting huge studios involved.

Anniversary Party was very much in the style of the films of Henry Jaglom, which can be annoying as hell but are also quite brave. Always and Last Summer in the Hamptons are probably the best of the bunch.

I loved Anniversary Party. And not just for the scene with Parker and Jane Adams in the swimming pool (Hmm--wonder if that's on Oops yet...).

I've always liked Rebecca Pidgeon, too. The Heist was really good, although it was SOOOO Mamet. The ending was incredibly satisfying. Best use of Gene Hackman in a long time. Hackman: Oddly, I really didn't enjoy Royal Tenenbaums and I hated Rushmore. I thought Tenenbaums would have been a good book but, oddly again, it never was a book, right? It was written as a script by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson.

I loved Anniversary Party. And not just for the scene with Parker and Jane Adams in the swimming pool (Hmm--wonder if that's on Oops yet...).

I've always liked Rebecca Pidgeon, too. The Heist was really good, although it was SOOOO Mamet. The ending was incredibly satisfying. Best use of Gene Hackman in a long time. Hackman: Oddly, I really didn't enjoy Royal Tenenbaums and I hated Rushmore. I thought Tenenbaums would have been a good book but, oddly again, it never was a book, right? It was written as a script by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson.

Princess Caraboo wasn't bad with Phoebe Cates. A very charming film.

Let me tell you a third time how much I loved Anniversary Party...

I'm with Shane. Anniversary Party...great. Tenenbaums....ugh. I did like Rushmore though.

Ah Shane, I guess we're never going to the movies together. You hated Royal Tenenbaums and loved Brotherhood of the Wolf.

I'm sure there are some good qualities hidden inside you somewhere. Wayyyyy down deep inside.

I heard from a lot of people that they didn't care for the Tenenbaums. I thought it was hilarious, and would have been so if only because of the ATC-clown oil paintings.

never saw it. Can't say that I plan on seeing it either. It's got too much to live up to if I ever do see it for me to actually enjoy it. ya knida like Showgirls.

holy snetence merge! should be ya know, kinda like Showgirls. or Shogun. both actually.

I saw Showgirls the night it came out. In a theater. No shit.

yikes.

Yeah, I saw Striptease the night it came out in theater. For free (knew a friend that was working at said theater). Can't ever get the image of Burt Reynolds all Vaselined up wearing nothing but boxers and cowboy boots out of my head. Burn me now. Put me out of my misery...

My local VideoUpdate used to file Showgirls in the comedy section (before they went under). I always gave them credit for that.

You know, I think the thing about Tenenbaums for me was that it seemed disjointed and quickly cobbled together. The creative process seemed too transparent, like, "Wouldn't it be a funny premise if there were this disfunctional family of geniuses..." -and- "Yeah, and then the following funny incidents could occur within that family..." It had its moments, but I think it was really built on moments. If it were a book and there were more backstory and characterization, it might have worked for me.

It's got too much to live up to if I ever do see it for me to actually enjoy it.

If everyone had this attitude, no one would ever have sex.

My fantasy: to spend a day with witchstone, sitting at a bar with a view of a busy street, listening to her crack jokes about everybody who walks past. I would have to wear Depends. Honestly.

damn good point witchy. I'll have to look to rent it... but I don't plan, and haven't heard anything about, having sex with Gene Hackamn... so it's not quite the same.

What a coincidence! My fantasy involves tizzie and witchstone, too! Although not exactly in a bar. But Depends do figure prominently.

When TJ takes cold medication he starts writing like Thomcatspike.

What a coincidence! My fantasy involves tizzie and witchstone, too! Although not exactly in a bar. But Depends do figure prominently.

There is, of course, only one response to this. Which brings us full circle (or at least semi-circle) to this:

It's got too much to live up to if I ever do see it for me to actually enjoy it.

damn... I thought that was kinda coherent too

There is, of course, only one response to this. Which brings us full circle (or at least semi-circle) to this:

It's got too much to live up to if I ever do see it for me to actually enjoy it.

Yes, but if everyone had that attitude, we'd never ... oh, nevermind.

*golf clap*

Can't ever get the image of Burt Reynolds all Vaselined up wearing nothing but boxers and cowboy boots

Amazingly enough, that scene was edited out of Deliverance.

And John Boorman (director of Deliverance) had always wondered why that scene was missing, as he felt it was an intergral part of the film. Tom Priestley, the editor (no relation to Jason), claimed to have no knowledge of what had happened.

When Priestley died in 1993, the missing footage was found in his basement, along with the missing nude Robert Redford footage from The Great Gatsby and the little known nude John Hurt scene from 1984.

Gah! Integral. I guess I was all in that southern thing, you know, intergral. Or as they would say in Utah, innergral.

I'm not at all surprised. Redford always was shy about his gatsby.

From what I understand, "Great" is an overstatement.

And there were no second acts either.

When TJ takes cold medication he starts writing like Thomcatspike.

I actually thought, me, is being disfunctinal. But I guess blaming the cold medicine will work for me too;P

The disfuctional referance was to Tenenbaums the movie. By the way, for kafkovox...

"josie and the pussycats" also had alan cumming in it. bonus points!

(though, i will admit when i saw it, it was in a near empty theater. the only other patrons were single dudes like me. it was on the opening night. creeeeepy.)

And "Waiting for Guffman" may very well be the funniest movie ever made.

Okay, the funniest Fred Willard movie.

If you don't count "Spinal Tap."

Nevermind.

Also, from now on, whenever I read Witchstone's posts, I'll read them in a "Parker Posey" voice.

Just like how I read Thomcat's in a "Bobcat Goldthwait" voice and Miguel's in a "Brak's Father" voice.

Also, in my head Johnmc sound like Judd Nelson circa Breakfast Club.

I have others, but I'm keeping them to myself. I've said too much already.

I'm on cold medicine.

*sniffle*

I'm also a big fan of Miss Posey. One of hers that I particularly like is Kicking and Screaming, a dialogue heavy film about the woes of post-collegiate life that continues to make me laugh very hard.

("I've taken to writing GET UP and GO TO BED in my day planner like they are separate events.")

I don't like all of her work but I have to admit that I liked Party Girl. I know I know! Totally stupid. Hope me!

We saw Ghost World last night. What joy! Apart from the last ten minutes, perhaps.

We watched Best in Show again last night. Proof that WC Fields was so right. The actors were great, but the dogs were brilliant.

Just like how I read Thomcat's in a "Bobcat Goldthwait" voice

I'll have to beef up my crackily voice, talking with a nasal twang I have down pack:P

My inner monologue sometimes sounds like mr. Rourke from Fantasy Island.

That reminds me of that Stephen Wright thing:

"Hey, you're the guy that reads the menus in my head!"

Ghostworld! Cool!

"Bobcat Goldthwait" voice and Miguel's in a "Brak's Father" voice.

Google tells me this is what Bobcat looks like crossed with Courtney Cox.

Also, in my head Johnmc sound like Judd Nelson circa Breakfast Club.

Sometimes inside my head I sound like Darth Vader, and other times I sound like a ridiculous fake-German-accented Evil Overlord-type. Now that you have brought up the subject, I realize I rarely sound like ME. What does this MEAN?

You know what's a cool movie, and even cooler book? Never Cry Wolf. Farley Mowat, the protagonist, wrote the book (quite well and very humorously), and narrates the audio-book as well. Absolutely great.

I would appreciate it if you would read my emails aloud in the voice of Sniffles the Mouse or Jurgen Prochnow in Das Boot.

HE EATS THE LIVE MICE!!!! EWWWWW!!!!

What voice do I read that in, Lupo? Because I'm thinking Ethel Merman would be good.

Ethel Merman would be good.

Yah, unt dat Ettel Mer-mahnn has a gutte voice, except ven she sings disco.

Ethel Merman would be good.

Yah, unt dat Ettel Mer-mahnn has a gutte voice, except ven she sings disco.

Her voice ist double-gutte!

Is someone attempting to hit Ethel with a rock in that picture? A rock wearing a sombrero?

Careful on the images, there, Shane.

Yeah, Kafka, that's the second img src I hit direct today, the only ones I've done here so far. But the first was Amazon or someone huge like that, so they don't count...

But we don't want to 9622 poor franklarosa.com's server. He's probably some old guy with an Ethel Merman fetish, after all.

It's just we've had some problems with that before. Of course, it was Miguel, the great Satan, that was the big problem.

I've, noticed, I am, using a, lot, of commas, today. It makes me sound like the Shat.

bad shane. get in the box.

Hey, where'd my comment go. I could have sworn I said:

"Ethel Merman is good. Or, y'know, Emo Phillips. Either one."

or something like that.

Man. I miss Emo Philips. That "animal square dance" bit he used to do was dangerously funny.

Oh. My. God.
I just SAW Emo Phillips last Friday night. I am not making this up. And he was old and sorta creepy.

In fact, not sorta - he WAS creepy.

He doesn't have that mop-top thing going on any more. He has a grey crew cut and he had on MC Hammer pants.

I know you don't believe me, but it's true.
post, dammit.

Yes, I've seen him in his grey hair persona, when he was pimping Meet The Parents (which I have to say I didn't find very funny at all, so maybe that makes up for the Royal Tenenbaums thing).

You're absolutely right, Kaf, and I feel guilty, despite my unavoidable sarcastic tone. I'm picturing Mr Larosa bummed out when his server crashes and he can't post those nude Ethel Merman pictures to share with the other Merm-o-philes. I'm really busy at work, I'm an idiot to be posting because it will probably make me stay late, I gave in to the temptation to take a shortcut, and you caught me, and I'm glad. But screw Amazon. Unless they might give you trouble? They have big lawyers, I hear.

A Google image search for "big lawyer" is not giving me the picture I want, that being a photo of a lawyer who is seemingly 50' tall (like the famous woman) due to the angle of the shot, which was taken from the toe of his wingtip shoe. However, Google gave me a picture of a lawyer voodoo doll, a big yellow dog, and a quaint couple from a site about "English Majors--Where Are They Now?" that probably belongs in "Why English Majors Are Losers" section.

*Sigh*. Vatt can be done?

Meet the Parents was embarrasingly predictable. I've started to suspect that I actually dislike Ben Stiller, and only ever thought I liked him because of Janeane Garofalo.

Was Zoolander any good?

I was writing this whole commentary on Meet the Parents, then I realized what I was doing.

Yes, even bandwidth theft from Amazon is wrong, shane. now get in the damn box.

don't make me get the stick.

I thought Zoolander had its moments. But there were definitely times when the joke was beyond stale.

"In the box" doesn't sound good...

(That's not me in the pic.)

I prefer Meet the Feebles.

**snicker**

computer clubhouse dot org. What kind of idiot tools would try to build an entire community based exclusively on a site.

Oh...damn.

In a bizarre but fitting twist of events, my friend was in a movie called Meet the Deedles.

Oh. Oh dear.

Wow, with Dennis Hopper. One of my best friends slept with Dennis Hopper, and she told me he's a spanker.

Is her name Isabella?

Spanker? Does that mean he likes to spank, or is it what the kids say now, meaning something I can't even guess at?

One word: Feck.

The Mighty Tay-Hota takes 200! Fear the Mighty Tay-Hota!

grrr! arrrg!

*bows to the mighty TJ*
*notices that his socks don't match*

Hey, get out from under those cushions and clean up your room! And stop talking in those funny voices! Mighty Tay-Hota my ass.

By the way, Mrs. Sanderson next door said she caught you masturbating in her bushes last night. Don't let it happen again. Or at least don't let her catch you, fer Chrissake!

Dammit!

The Mighty Tay-Hota may not be wearing matching socks, but The Mighty Tay-Hota cares not for such trifles.

The Mighty Tay-Hota's mother must calm down. Mrs. Sanderson was confused. The Mighty Tay-Hota caught her mastubationg in The Mighty Tay-Hota's bushes last night. Also, The Mighty Tay-Hota cares not for pronouns.

sad thing is, I'm not even on medication anymore.

The Mighty Tay-Hota am busted. The Mighty Tay-Hota is sorry the The Mighty Tay-Hota broke Mrs. Sanderson's window.

The Mighty Tay-Hota sometimes feels alone and scared, and needs a hug.

I can recommend an excellent psychiatrist. He has samples, too.

Fear the Mighty Tay-Hota

*bows to the mighty TJ*
*notices that his socks don't match*

Yeah, but do the carpets match the curtains?

The Mighty Tay-Hota look kind of like animated cereal spokesperson.

ew.

yeah, well... it's a job.

and all that Mr. T cereal left over from the 80's sure as hell ain't selling itself.

I put B. A. Baracus down in a charades game and nobody knew who he was.

that's just sad, witchy. You need new friends.

and mighty tj...have you sent out your swap cd's yet :)

umm.. yeah. they went out the day after today.

honestly. it's been a rough month, with Jim having surgery again and rennovating the house and the new furniture and all that. I'll get them out this weekend. honestly. I mean it.

shit.

My god, he didn't take your other kidney too, did he?

Seriously, here's hoping he's OK.

It's cool, teej. I just didn't want you to get too cocky or anything.

he's good. it wasn't anything real serious. just been nuts around here is all.

just been nuts around here is all.

Beer nuts!

I picture Miguel swimming through his vast underground storehouse of Beer Nuts much like Scrooge MacDuck swimming through his loot.

One Word: Feck.

One word: Samson.

Seriously, great flick. Those kids reminded me of some of my more frightening high school associates.

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