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I hope you all treated Cowboy Sally well while I was away, being as it was her birthday and all.

I now know as much about Indiana as anyone ought to.

This is cool. Turkey farms are not cool. A sign outside a bar that said "Cold Beer and Mean Women" was good.

I learned two things about goats. First, they look like Jar Jar Binks. Second, they love avocados and will even eat the peel. I did not let them eat the pits.

Sheep love basil but hate baklava.

Did you go ghost hunting Tiz? Looked at French Lick Springs Spa & Resort website's special events.
The town motto must be: A town that "licks" you.

They use the Rolling Stones logo in signs all over town, Thom. I'm surprised Mick & the lads 'aven't 'ad a word with 'em.

Just don't blunder into the bar that serves "Mean Beer and Cold Women." That could be disappointing.

I thought that was the place we always went.

*sh-boom*

Callipygian.

And this (and this) is how I spent my summer vacation.

In what may be one of the oddest quirks of fate in my life, if I had taken a summer vacation this year, I would have been on Bermuda last week. During the hurricane. Probably either getting the sh*t blown out of me, our desperately trying to get off the island after only two days of vacation - we were supposed to arrive on Monday, September 1 and fly home today.

As (somewhat) documented elsewhere, though, I had to cancel our vacation altogether this year, because the leg I broke in February is still acting up. It got infected once in April, which was what made us postpone our original vacation from June to September, and again last month, which resulted in my third surgery this year and my second stint on an antibiotic pump. Four more weeks to go.

However, I didn't get stuck in a hurricane. Instead, my wife and I finally went out last weekend and rectified something else that had been bothering us for a long time. Filling a void in our life, as it were. It's been almost a year now, but we kept saying we wanted to wait until after we got back from vacation, and - well ...

So, we didn't get a vacation this year. But we do now have two new cats.

We both agreed that no single cat could ever replace the one we lost last year. Hence, the boys. They are both under two years old, knew each other (and got along well) in the shelter, still have their claws (so they can go outside, with supervision) and are already spayed. They are a little bit more active than we remember cats being - I was not aware that cat activity increases geometrically when the number of cats increases mathematically, but it seems to be the case. They seem to think that they've come to live in Disneyland, only with more staircases to race up and down. They kept us up all night last night, and are currently gathering steam for night two in their new home. They are in excellent health, and could be around for another twenty years.

We love it. Things are looking up now.

So, all things considered, I'd have to say I had a Good Summer. Hope everyone else did, too!

Apropos of nothing : slightly obscure 9622-related ( I think)comment from mathowie recently on The site That Must Not Be Named (but in discuss thread 15705, if yer interested) :

"Whatever you do, don't call your site a community for monkeys that like to throw poo.

When the fans of those sites get mad at you, things get really ugly"

Now who's been bothering the nice man? Fess up! (unrelated to 'Fes up', which is much groovier.)

That's a weird comment. I wonder what it means?

And Commish, those cats think that bird looks mighty tasty. They might as well have little cartoon bubbles over their heads with that bird on a platter with a bit of parsley tastefully garnishing the plate.

I'm sorry to hear your leg is not 100 percent yet. Perhaps that is the parrot's role - for that pegleg effect?

Crash, heh. I'm glad I looked it up, you stinker.

(assuming you meant me and not the sheep.)

I was not aware that cat activity increases geometrically when the number of cats increases mathematically, but it seems to be the case.

I got a second cat last year and you'll find, sadly, that the same holds true for the litter box.

I think the Owie was just goofing around about the "poo" angle, and maybe implying that the monkey thing is kind of stupid, which it, well, is.

And congrats on the kittymen, mr. bc.

In matters of style, one needn't necessarily check one's 9622 sensibilities at the door...

...maybe implying that the monkey thing is kind of stupid, which it, well, is.

*cries*

Congrats on the new kitties, Commish. They're adorable.

And Cyrano's not kidding about the litter box thing.

I spent my college years in Indiana. Tizzie's photo above encompasses everything there is to do on a Friday night.

But what about the pink houses?

Actually, I know a joke relating to Indiana:

Why is there a bridge across the Ohio River?

So the Hoosiers can swim in the shade.

Hence Indiana's motto and license plate tagline:

"Indiana: It's Goat-tacular!"

Brittney's vacation sure looks more exciting than mine.

Not a goat in sight.

Welcome back, tizzie. I hope you sent the goats my warmest regards. And I apologize to them about the lube incident.

To everyone else, esp. the Adam Ant fans, sing along with me:

Save the Gorilla!

wait wait wait

Isn't Adam Ant busy freaking out in public?

Yeah, the story said "Sponsor Adam." I assumed they meant AA.

ha!

Being publicly insane is not a full time job, kaf. An hour or two a day, especially if the cameras and witnesses are around, and you can pretty much "normal out" for the rest of the afternoon.

I picture him kinda like Randall P. McMurphy, but with a little more face paint. You know.

And tiz, add my voice to the chorus: much love to the goats.

My country ass used to have two goats. As pets.

Two of them. They had a goat house and used to lick their salt lick.

I'm the redneckest person ever.

And these goats were named...?

(I'm secretly hoping for Bo and Luke.)

I was just entering data about a Metal band called "Godiva."

For some reason, if you say "Godiva" over and over in an Australian accent it becomes incredibly funny.

Goats make great pets. My friend's little brother had two of them for a while too. Those fuckers are fun to chase around.

Don't remember names though.

"(assuming you meant me and not the sheep.)"

Of course.

Are Godiva Australian?

I'm imagining them as some druidy chicks dressed up in Xena garb, all kunkunkunkunkunk and growrrrrowwrrr, the rich mid-era Spinal Tap-esque lyrics getting lost in their thick furlike hair, which sticks to their half-inch-thick pancake makeup and makes them all look like Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull, except, y'know, hot.

It is quite possible I've said too much.

Actually, they appear to be swiss, like Krokus.

yodel-ay-oooo

(chunka-chunka-chunka-chunka)

I love that picture of Martha Stewart feeding goats!
I too had a goat as a youngster. Middie Goat. As oppossed to MIDI goat, although I'm sure she did make funny bleating sounds.

I also did some animal feeding a few weeks ago.

And fer chrissakes commish, get better already! (BTW, I got lots of "normal" croquet in this summer)

There is no "normal" croquet, really.

I had no idea Krokus was Swiss.

I'm imagining them as some druidy chicks dressed up in Xena garb, all kunkunkunkunkunk and growrrrrowwrrr, the rich mid-era Spinal Tap-esque lyrics getting lost in their thick furlike hair, which sticks to their half-inch-thick pancake makeup and makes them all look like Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull, except, y'know, hot.

I had a friend in a chick-metal band in London called 'Hell Bent For Leather' back in the early 90's. This paragraph describes them well, as I recall them. They trod that fine line between amusingly deliberate self-parody and outright suckage. But I recently unearthed a long-lost review I wrote of one of their gigs, and that was pretty good, anyway.

So after a day spent teaching algebra to people that need a calculator to figure seven minus five (No. Really.), I came home to two different email buddies lamenting that I haven't got my rant on in a while. I obliged them with my most splendiferous ranty finery, then got to thinking about learning to pilot my own little Heart of Pyrite through the egosphere, i.e. start my own sucky little blog of rants. Not that any or *you(plural)r* blogs are anything less than addictive daily reads, but mine could likely suck-start a Harley with high compression. At any rate, what's the best way to do that, for someone who's formerly tech-savvy but anymore mostly, uh, reads the 'net for the articles?

You mean Focus, jonmc.

tsk,tsk.

Wait, I got it. Two.

No, I mean Krokus. I am aware that Focus were swiss as well, tho. Maybe they could do an album "Focus Plays Krokus" full of blinding instrumental covers of "screaming in the night" or something.

You could do what I did, notsnot: trip over to Blogspot, stake out a claim, write up a few lengthy yet insipid ramblings, and then abandon it with, for lack of a better word, abandon.

Aren't the Cardigans also Swiss?

No, they're swedish.

Celtic Frost is also swiss. For such a peaceful country, they really dig violent music.

I hear Sweden is filled to brimming with superhot babes who think Americans are tough-talking gunslingers and at first dislike us immensely until we actually meet them, at which point they see that we're not all bad and, when you think about it, kinda cute and smoochable.

"Nina? Lena? Would either of you care for another gimlet?"

Plus they have the meatballs.

Them Swede's make a good meatball, I must admit.

Art films, blonde hair, and long days in steam-windowed pubs eating herring and drinking hot wine - oh my!

9622.net: Plus they have the meatballs.

Only a matter of time until this spreads to Sweden. I am SO going.

Bjork is also Swedish, yes?

here is a goat in a tree. just because.

no, I am Icelandic.

Be that as it may, fes, they predatorial viking broads would probably still give me the go-by.

And bjork is icelandic.

Only a matter of time until this spreads to Sweden. I am SO going.
True, a Swedish friend Ulreka explained it to me like this when she was comparing dating rituals. Want dick, go to a bar buy my own drinks(not the guy) pick out a guy and tells him lets go f- , easy as that, and come morning, he knows "the routine"; no long goodbyes, see ya, & don't come calling either. Sure things have changed this was about 10 years back. Also the guys I knew where pretty shy when we would go bar hopping and said it were way easier in Sweden than Dallas.

Also Swedish: Millencollin, who released an album that may intrigue youse guys.

Pssst.

I got myself a new place.

Be sure to come say hi.

"Love does that."

Oh dear gawd. Read it here first.

Can we safely assume, Brittney, that there will be significantly more "darting-past-the-webcam-while-wearing-interesting-jammies" at this new site?

Want dick, go to a bar buy my own drinks(not the guy) pick out a guy and tells him lets go f- , easy as that, and come morning, he knows "the routine"; no long goodbyes, see ya, & don't come calling either.

Operation Romeo Drop: The Second Coming!

... or perhaps a few "dog-ate-the-leash-you-had-used-to-drag-your-half-sized-amputee-fooling-around-on-his-mistress boytoys around" webcam shots, at least?

'Cause you know, that could be interesting.

(Jeezus, tizzie. That story is every country song ever written. What's in the water there?)

Moonshine, chico, moonshine.

Speaking of moonshine: When is TonyBangs going to be touring the MidWest/MidSouth? I'll hang posters in Deep Ellum for ya.

Yeah, I realise that had nothing to do with moonshine. Bugger the bug off.

tsk.tsk. on me then. Krocus? When you mentioned yodelling, well.......only one rawck band I could think of from the 70's......

ah, love does that? eeegadzooks! Hope the Cinci tourist board doesn't get a hold of this and make a poster of it. [note sarcasm]

Lynch film coming soon!

And thus another contender for "Thomcatspike Award for Extraordinary Linguistics" gallumphs grimly forward to be heard...

Won't be this year, ufez. I got a couple things in the queue ahead of any tour talk.

Talk about a reward, though. I want nothing more than to get back out on the road and bust some shit up in towns I've never seen before. That's a righteous idea there.

And I haven't been down that way in almost a decade. I am due, my friend, due due due.

I ate green potato chips today.

Not moldy, green on purpose chips, they were.

Yes, but were they better than a skinny little one-legged man hopping around with a dog leash trying to choke you because he didn't want to go back and live with his wife or finish up doin' time in Texas?

That is now the standard to which all other things must measure up.

Were they those guacamole flavored Lay's jon? B/c those things have been my bane lately.

And chiquito, anytime you need a place to crash and someone to help with a show in the next, oh, couple of years, let me know. I'll either be in Dallas or Austin.

Speaking of travelling and Dallas, you still coming up here in a couple weeks Ufez?

If his answer is yes (hell, even if it's "no"), any other monkeys still wanna drop in and hang out? I need an impetus to clean this shithole of a house up.

Since you asked, notsnot, TypePad is great. Very easy for technically-inept people like me (yeah, I know I edit video on computers for a living, but I can't program) to get a good-looking, well-designed blog up and running. It's a hosted service (no complaints whatsoever about the hosting so far), and the owners and employees are all bloggers. They're really good (and fast!) with tech support too. Let me know if you're interested, and I can e-mail you a 20% discount coupon.

I've been using it just over two days, and I'm blown away with it. The design is clean, the usability TOP NOTCH (you can drag and click whole sidebar elements)--and the code it produces is flawless.

And they host it all, too. Your publishing tool is also your ftp app and server--all in one! I fucking amazed at the sheer power of the thing, and all of it runs smooth as silk. All this shit for just over $10 a month.

May I have your attention please?

I am now officially sick of looking at my own butt.

Will someone else please post a picture of their own?

For my job, I just had to do a buncha research and entry on the band Autopsy. I need to listen to a childrens record or something just to cleanse my mind. And I like death metal.

Tizzie, speak for yourself, you saucy goat-feeder, you.

And there's already analbum called "Shit Fun"? Well, that ruins my great movie idea.

Really. The script for The 24 Public Mutilations pretty much writes itself.

"analbum"

This shit just writes itself.

Or better still, "24 Public Mutilations - The Musical" featuring the hit "analbum."

Genius.

I am now officially sick of looking at my own butt.
Butt it was way better than the Prez's a few threads back :D

Here ya go, tiz

WooooHOOOO! Happy Birthday, Romakimmy!

(cute butt!)

Happy birthday to romakimmy. and her ass.

I think it's a Visa thing, not a birthday thing.

Either way, congrats roma. I'll drink one to you and one to Juve tonight.

[looks at 9622.net’s birth day calendar scratches head]
kidding, not that astute, yet.
Happy Birthday Kimmy’s ass; am I getting this correct: it's your Italian ass’s birth date. Or actual, should we be thanking your parents too for that ass?

Ahhh, Ufez, that's it! She got her work permit.

And wow, there's a lot of other *juicy* info on our little Romakimmy's blog!

I still stand by the cute butt remark.

My happy ass as of today is 100% legal.

And, yet, the thoughts it inspires...not so much.

My happy ass as of today is 100% legal.
From Operation Romeo Drop1, recall, sister could pass as her twin, it's the Olson Twins:P

Woah.
I'd never leave that behind. Well done.

*ponders Operation Romeo Drop #1*

*checks Alitalia website*

Belated thanks, all. I spent my first full day of work permit goodness in bed with a migraine that made me wish for a auger to drill through my sinuses or amputation at the neck. Gah.

"Dottore! Amputate at the neck if you have to, but SAVE THAT ASS!"

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