Swap time! Time to affirm or deny, my brothers and sisters - in, or out?
So far? ana, arto, eyeballkid, fes, jasntmason, valerie (tape is GOOOOOD!) and vers. So? Discounting Miguel's all-too-typical last-minute mea culpa, that leaves 10 silent monkeys. Say it! Say "I have a Master, Fes! SAY IT!!!"
I gotta know. I gotta know by Tuesday night. There's still time. Those who remained silent initially? A simple raised hand, a sallow smoke in the distance, a whisper into a fist and puffed into the breeze, may suffice.
Posted by at November 03, 2003 12:11 AMI don't physically have a master disk, but I have all the songs ripped and the order mostly figured out. My only excuse: I have to go get blank CD's, as i used my last coupla to make enough space on my hard drive for the ripped songs.
Shai Vidiot! And notsnot, your lack of Master will be overlooked, provided your mix is sufficiently jamboolean.
Who else, then?!
Posted by: Fes on November 3, 2003 01:23 AMjust a minder - if you haven't participated in a Swap before, send me your snaily address.
Posted by: Fes on November 3, 2003 01:26 AMOK, it's a deal. I'll swap you my immortal soul for the two guys in the picture.
That is what you were offering, right?
Posted by: tizzie on November 3, 2003 08:27 AMWhat the heck am I going to do with an immortal soul? But tell me you've a Master, Tizzie, tell me and all these pleasures shall be yourssssss......
"Shai" is a Dorsai greeting and/or exclamation, means something like true, pure, the actual. Like a Platonic Form.
::in under five words, anathema expertly outs Fes as a total SF nerd who probably attends Trekkie ("Trekker, dammit!") conventions::
Posted by: Fes on November 3, 2003 11:22 AMI don't dress up, I'm just a fan of the show.
*sobs, rubs klingon ridge-head latex appliance*
Posted by: Fes on November 3, 2003 01:08 PMI'm out but I was never in.
This is more a testament to a state of being that it is relevant to current discussion. But I just thought I would say hello.
Posted by: readymade on November 3, 2003 01:10 PMI'm still in. Then out. Then I do the Hokey Pokey and I shake it all about. That's what it's all about.
Posted by: Mars Crash on November 3, 2003 05:13 PMEither in, or out? I prefer a bit of the old in-out, in-out. Well, I was Alex from A Clockwork Orange for Halloween, and I can't seem to get out of character.
Posted by: notsnot on November 3, 2003 05:15 PMI'll have to bail. I leave for vacation on Wednesday and haven't had a chance to put it together. I thought I would this weekend. I was wrong. Sorry.
Posted by: salmonberry on November 3, 2003 05:36 PMLest my prior post be too cryptic, I'm in with the In Crown. I go where the In Crowd goes.
Posted by: Mars Crash on November 3, 2003 06:50 PMIn.
Got nothing but a playlist, but I'm so very, very in.
Posted by: brittney on November 3, 2003 07:44 PMI'm out, I'm afraid. In fact, terrified.
In previous swaps, I sent out commercial CDs - which was cheating - and I was amazed by the quality and work of the CDs I received in turn. So I'm already feeling guilty enough.
People: I want my first CD (* in a virgin's whiney voice*) to be at least as good as the worst I've ever been sent.
Sorry, dammit!
Posted by: Miguel on November 3, 2003 09:16 PMI was out. With the girls, for a girls night out. A cocktail night out, but you knew that.
I'm still not in. Not unless that would tip Miguel into the in column - if it would, I'd be in. Would it?
Posted by: tizzie on November 3, 2003 10:08 PMRegrettably, I am offically "out". I just have too much going on right now to commit to getting CDs out on schedule. UN-officially, I will still try to make the CD I had planned on for barter purposes - I was really looking forward to more musical goodness from Mars Crash, Fes and Vidiot, and to the potential of additional goodness from the other Crash and Brittney (I had no such high hopes for Miguel, though) ;)
In case I don't get around to it, though, I'll just mention here that my planned CD was going to open and close with songs from the Dresden Dolls, a group that has been getting quite a bit of attention up this way. They're also very nice young people, so if you like either Missed Me or Coin-Operated Boy (which I just found out is now available for free download on the Dolls' own site, so I don't have to host that one!), please go out and buy their debut CD, m'kay?
Posted by: yhbc on November 3, 2003 10:37 PMI'm still counting on your help, ana! Hell, I've even installed ichatAV and all that shite.
Don't go turkey on me now!
Posted by: Miguel on November 3, 2003 11:11 PMAllrighty! We're looking at three swap groups of five. I'll post the names later today or tonight. In the meantime, I need delivery addresses from the following: brittney, crash_davis, darshna, notsnot, valerie and vers. Send them to my hotmail address, OK? Discretion guaranteed.
Say, Friday the 14th for deadline?
Cyrano - you're the last holdout. In or out, my friend?
Posted by: Fes on November 4, 2003 10:34 AMI'm in. Sorry for the tardiness, but they seem to expect me to work when I'm at my job lately.
Posted by: Cyrano on November 4, 2003 11:13 AMPah! Brigands.
okeydokey, then...
"those who cloak themselves in nothingness"
anathema
arto
crash
notsnot
vers
"those who translate light into heat"
brittney
fes
ufez
valerie
vidiot
"those whose clarity rends the Void"
cyrano
darshna
eyeballkid
jasntmason
mars
Still need those addresses. Official emails to swappies pending until then.
Posted by: Fes on November 4, 2003 11:23 AM"Those who cloak themselves in nothingness"?
Fes, you on the crack again?
Posted by: Crash on November 4, 2003 01:55 PMNo!
Why, did someone say I was? Because they are totally lying!
Seriously!
*cough*
That wasn't me!
Posted by: Fes on November 4, 2003 02:28 PMBut I didn't. And I think that's really a tribute to the sort of willpower that crack can give you that I have naturally.
Plus, the Klingons also have the Cloak. So it could have been either, really.
Our IT guy told me that.
*cough*
Posted by: Fes on November 4, 2003 03:15 PMBah! Back in *my* day, kids, it was the Cloaking Device. And the Romulans invented it, then traded it to the Klingons, and... hey, gimme back my lunch money!
'Sa little too cold out here to cloak myself in nothingness anyway. Can I wear a coat, and then nothingness underneath?
Posted by: arto on November 5, 2003 12:12 AMSorry. I forgot. And I don't have a cd burner. See you in 3 months!
Posted by: mikro on November 5, 2003 09:36 AMthose who cloak themselves in nothingness and those whose clarity rends the Void should have just received their swap recipients. I'm waiting on a couple addresses for those who translate light into heat, soon as they come in those will go out, too. Deadline to mail your disks in Friday, November 14. Those who fail to send disks will be harrassed by (a) demons, and (b) kaf.
Burn!
Dub! (valerie only)
Posted by: Fes on November 5, 2003 10:13 AMMaster Kafkaesque hath e'er held a priviledged place in our esteem. Unto his passing, we shall be pleased to welcome him amongst us.
Dude. That is so boss. I can feel your malevolence from here!
Posted by: readymade on November 5, 2003 01:18 PMUgly rumor alert: If you look closely at Festicus's cape, there's a Hello Kitty logo just underneath the pentacle.
Posted by: Vidiot on November 5, 2003 02:23 PMThat's no Hello Kitty, it's a Hello Cthulhu!
The last of the swap group address lists have been sent! Swap on!
Posted by: Fes on November 5, 2003 02:28 PMI heard that Festicus sometimes assumes the human form to play "Festicus of the Eventide" at the Columbus, Ohio Friday Night "Vampire: THe Masquerade" LARP.
Posted by: Ugly Rumor Factory on November 5, 2003 02:33 PMFesticus has been reported to occasionally postpone tormenting mortals in order to catch reruns of Angel on TBS.
Posted by: Rumors Abound! Magazine on November 5, 2003 02:36 PMI heard a rumor...
they say Festicus has a broken heart.
Posted by: Bananarama on November 5, 2003 02:38 PMFesticus killed Vince Foster. AND Linda Evans! And he winged Rowdy Roddy Piper in a drive-by.
Posted by: Drudge Report on November 5, 2003 02:48 PMFesticus is the father of Bat Boy and has been spotted in Brazil with Elvis and Saddam Hussein.
Posted by: Weekly World News on November 5, 2003 03:03 PMFesticus refers to soft drinks as "sodies."
Posted by: Rumors: Cash or Trade on November 5, 2003 04:11 PMFesticus has been pegged early to play the starring role opposite Mariah Carey in "Glitter II: Shiny ass shit, mofo!"
Posted by: Access Hollywood on November 5, 2003 05:00 PMFesticus is so huge in Europe, dahling, he *is* Portugal.
Posted by: Edutainment Tonite! on November 7, 2003 07:02 AMFesticus is so suave and debonair, he's continental.
He pays his minions in Euros.
Posted by: Bank o' Zurich on November 7, 2003 08:31 AMIf you decoupage him, he looks fabulous at dinner parties.
Posted by: Martha Stewart on November 8, 2003 02:43 PMDecoupage? No, I think Festicus should be bronzed. All of him, or at least his hoo-ha.
Posted by: The Docent on November 8, 2003 04:27 PM[kid creole]
I'll never be...I'll never be..
like Festicus.
Festicus. Festicus.
Cause I'm free....
[/creole]
Posted by: jonmc & the coconuts on November 8, 2003 09:26 PM...as a bird now
And this bird you cannot chaaaaaaange
Lawd knows I can't change!
Because of the picture at the top of this thread, I guess this goes here.
Big news this morning is that Nick Clooney has announced that he is running for congress in my district in Kentucky.
Nick Clooney, brother of Rosemary and dad of George. Announcer on AMC, corny columnist in the Kentucky Post. This is what Ahhhnuld has wrought.
In all honesty, he's got my support. How else am I ever gonna meet/swoon over George??
Posted by: tizzie on November 24, 2003 09:09 AM
Vote for his dad? Vote for his *dad*?
In my day we swooned over celebrities the old-fashioned way, by way of needlessly complicated kidnapping and laser-weapon plots involving underground nuclear bunkers disguised as Parisian sidewalk cafes, and of course ninjas. Lots and lots of ninjas.
Unfortunately, said plot backfired and I wound up meeting Roger Moore instead of Diana Rigg. Bugger.
Posted by: arto on November 25, 2003 04:06 AMI'd make a lousy Ninja, and my last trip to stalk George really didn't work out all that well.
Posted by: tizzie on November 25, 2003 11:54 AMNeither did that link, heh.
http://www.citybeat.com/2003-07-30/cover3.shtml
It also is unlawful to dye a baby chick, duckling or rabbit and offer it for sale unless six or more are for sale at the same time.
Well, duuuuuh. That's just good value.
NOW what am I gonna do with all these eggs and tomatoes?
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