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I try to have a monkey photo for every occasion.

I'm actually looking forward to this Easter. It's my neices first one. It'll be neat watching her gum a Butterfinger.

That is a visual that I didn't really need. *gak*
Although gumming a Butterfinger is probably safer than letting her aspirate jelly beans.

Speaking of Easter, a friend & I went to an art show last weekend that was all art about and made with Peeps. Loads of fun. I picked up this kick-ass painting. And I've got some great ideas for Peep art for next year. (Though maybe next year I'll avoid the Peeptinis. There's nothing quite so disturbing as a sugary pink chick floating in your drink.)

Jon -- You should get some Peeps for your niece. Nice and gummable. But leave the Peeptinis to the big kids.

I seem to remember having a sugary pink chick floating in my drink one time in Houston - but when I woke up, my shirt front smelled like cheap perfume and my credit card was maxed out.

So yeah, stay away from them.

Sorry, Commish. My bad. I was a little reckless in those hazy days. I vaguely remember the in-room caviar bath, but that's about it.

It'll be neat watching her gum a Butterfinger

For Easter this year I'll be chewing gum and eating a Butterfinger at the same time. Maybe I can shove a Peep® or two in their too to make it more, um, Eastery.

Old bugger's had a few too many Peeps himself, I think.

Hubby actually saw some silly person dragging a large cross up a nearby hill while he was out running errands Monday. He thinks that a temporary Velcro self-crucifixion followed, but he couldn't swear to it.

I HEARBY HIJACK THIS THREAD FOR PURPOSES OF SWAP DISCUSSIONS!

That painting is awesome, aine. Actually, I wish I'd known about it last week...yesterday I was helping a reporter at work with a story about Peeps. I ended up digging up lots of odd Peeps-related esoterica.

Towerbrave's mix has been in heavy, heavy, heavy rotation on my iPod. Excellent stuff there.

If any of you swappers want to trade with a johnny-come-lately please let me know. I have the feeling that there might be more musical kindered spirits here than I got through the MeFi swap. My MeFiSwap mix and cover art is here.

And even though no one asked, here's my track listing:

A Mouth Full of Teeth and More Style than Cezanne:
Chef Intro-Apocalypse Now
Necessito-Some Girls
Youngest Child-Spottiswoode And His Enemies
Sparkle Like Your Shoes-Tremulous Monk
A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free-Elliott Smith
Everybody But You-Ralston
Losing You-Bob Schneider
The Last Great Balloon Race-Mike Nicolai And Friends
We Will Fly-Naked Blue
You Must Be a Loser-The Bellefuries
Just Like Jim Brown (She is History)-Pierce Pettis
Songs We Used to Sing-Edie Brickell
Between Your Lines-Holly Williams
Every Time I Say Goodbye-Christopher Williams
when they really get to know you they will run-Pedro the Lion
Me Died Blue-Stephen Delopoulos
Paint the Town Beige-Bill and Bonnie Hearne
Big Bottom-Hayseed Dixie
Pretend I'm Elvis (For Just One Night)-Terry Scott Taylor
Love is Everywhere-Bob Schneider And The Tosca String Quartet
Anyway-Dynamite Hack

ColdChef, your disc is number one in the Large American Rental Car's cd player! Lots of things I've not heard before, but I like them quite a bit. Noteworthy: Ralston, and the Elliot Smith tune.

That version of Big Bottom just about made me drive into a tree laughing.

WhoooHooo! USA! USA! USA!

I may actually trade with you people again next time. Your track lists don't have enough, you know, despair.

I'm glad you're enjoying the mix, Mr.Chef, I have your's playing as I type. Like Tizzie, I nearly fell off the sofa at the Big Bottom track. Great artwork too!

One person on my list is still missing in action however. Dude, I know where you live. ;)

*sniffle*

I'd love to comment on how great the mixes from my group are, but I haven't received any yet. (Slackers.)

Fifty Peeps in 60 minutes.

Jonmc, your life is calling.

The Spring FesMix! Those who have 'em, enjoy 'em; thems that don't and want, speak!

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood 1. Le Tigre/One The Verge [cranky-sweet lipstick-lesbian electro-totem] 2. Bif Naked/Moment Of Weakness [I saw an interview with Bif Naked when “I, Bificus” came out, and she has this sort of unsettlingly powerful vacancy about her coupled with a overwhelming sense of lush sexuality, like a sort of tattoo-covered pagan earth-goddess] 3. TheSTART/The 1234 [Aimee Echo is just unbelievably good, both fey and knowing at the same time] 4. Gorillaz/19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) [get the cool... get the cool shoeshine] 5. Paula Abdul/The Way That You Love Me [subtly sophisticated, but dressed up as pop] 6. Anna Fantastic/Baby Baby You’ve Been Acting Crazy [unabashed soul-disco] 7. Jamiroquai/Virtual Insanity [these guys were dismissed as remedial whiteboy brit-funk, but you can’t help but hear the Stevie Wonder] 8. Snow/The Plumb Song [Remember “Informer”? “A licky boom boom doowwwwn”? This is THAT guy! A nice rolled-down windows song] 9. Swing Out Sister/Twilight World [like molten crystal gold in a river] 10. Sheryl Crow/Steve McQueen [a badass chick singing about legendary badass? *totally* badass, moneyjane’s theme? and check out those Steve Miller “woo-woo”’s] 11. Dusty Springfield/Son Of A Preacher Man [a diamond-thin slab of America’s red-clay heart] 12. Urge Overkill/Sister Havana [I know Sister Havana, her name is Anita, and she lit me up like a Corona Especiale once upon a time] 13. IIO/Rapture [sleek, slithery house - care for an apple, sir?] 14. Kelly Llorenna/Tell It To My Heart [lightning quick dance-mix cover of a Taylor Dayne classic] 15. X/Los Angeles [A dark and lovely queen of elves gave me this, it’s as spare and arid as the Mojave] 16. Cake/Short Skirt Long Jacket [In St. Louis, there is a two-week period between middling winter and blazing summer that we used to call “black miniskirt season,” kind of like how the eskimos have 40 words for ‘snow’] 17. Beastie Boys/She’s Crafty [...and she’s just my type!] 18. Arc Angels/Shape I’z In [Good time shout-it-out bar rock by masters of the craft] 19. Ugly Americans/Piece of Heaven [I saw Dave Matthews just after their first single came out and they sucked, but these guys opened for them and rocked the friggin house] 20. Marit Bergman/Adios Amigos [you can just tell she’d be fun to follow around for a night, or a decade - let’s go] "The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase." -E.B. White

Paula Abdul? Dear. Sweet. Lord.

Sorry, aine. Mine will be out soon. I swear it on the monkey christ's life. With nails and shit.

Over the past week or so, I've been able to feel a very strong pulse in my knees. Without touching them.

I could be wrong, but I don't think this is a good thing.

Quityerbitchin! I've had bloody mucus and grit leaking from my eyesockets for a week now and you don't hear me complainin'.

Paula, baby!!!

My mix kung fu is unstoppable.

For a week last June, they mated every day.

Look who came to Lebowskifest, man! And look at Scott's face! Priceless.

Classic!

He really should have come in character and entered the costume contest, though...

That's just like...your opinion, man.

Seriously, that's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. If I was a celebrity, this is the kind of shit I'd do.

Plus, I'd show up at kids' birthday parties, squeeze the mom on the ass, take a HUGE slice of cake, and drop a roll of twenties wrapped in a rubberband on the way out. If I was a celebrity.

Wow, I did just that the other day.

Except I'm not a celebrity, so it was a roll of ones.

I want some pictures of Tizzie and The Dude.

Except I'm not a celebrity, so it was a roll of ones.

In my case it was a roll of nickels. It's all very sad.

coldchef - I wish you were a celebrity! That would be hysterical. Some woman on the phone saying "...and then all of the sudden, right in the middle of Bradley's party, James Woods* walked in, grabbed my ass, cut a piece of cake and put it on a plate, left a wad of money, and just walked out with his piece of cake. No, seriously, it really happened....I am NOT making it up!"

*your actual celebrity mileage may vary.

When I was 8 years old, Jack Klugman did just that very thing. My Mom still gets jumpy around my birthday.

I want some pictures of Tizzie and The Dude.

I was not at this fest, she said with regret.

I'll be there next summer, though - July 23 in Louisville!

I can totally see James Woods doing that. The ass-grab, the wad of bills, taking the cake...

If I'm gonna be famous, lord, let me be that kind of famous.

I did it.

I DL'ed my 10000th mp3 the other night. If there's anything you monkeys want form the list let me know. Just to make up for MIA mix CD's.

The list is apparently dead.

Try later or tommorrow.

Both of us tried today, Chef, there's the problem. You try on Thursdays, and I'll try on Tuesdays.

Worked fine for me. Maybe it just likes girls better.

That is a list of amazing magnitude, and I can say that because I'm a girl and I got to see it.

MY GOD! I switched gender in my sleep, because now I can see them!

That's one long muthafucking list.

Like I said, just copy and paste a list of tracks you want (and a mailing address) and I'll send a CD.

9694. Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paridise (3:19)
9695. Weird Al Yankovic - It's All About The Pentiums (3:34)
9696. Weird Al Yankovic - Pretty Fly For A Rabbi (3:02)
9697. Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana (3:42)
9698. Weird Al Yankovic - Yoda (3:59)

I'm not requesting a cd, I'm pointing out potentially embarrassing tracks.

Also, I already have all of these songs on my computer.

CC, brothaman, I know there's shit you want on that list, just let me know. And you know me well enough to know I havno shame when it comes to musical taste.

Its still dead for me.

Too much testosterone, I s'pose. Sometimes it oozes out my pores and gets on the keyboard.

I scanned the list for you, yhbc. Not much in the way of the barbershop, a cappella, sissy singing in the dorm stairwell stuff you love so much.

Okay, but is the musical theater genre properly represented? A you know, I have the utmost confidence in your qualifications when it comes to musical theater.

Touché.

Damn, Jon, that's a hell of a list! I'd completely forgotten about Ronnie James Dio and Elf. That made me laugh pretty hard.

It's funny 'cause he's shorter than me.

A chance to reclaim my MIA mix CD!

But wait, is it worth throwing away my jonmc voodoo doll and years of bone-chilling enmity?

hey guys.

i launched a zine today with some friends...

Adam Psyche (sexy techie)
After reading your profile, they let you on CNN?
funny stuff

Where's our foreign correspondent? Is Romakimmy going to give us up-to-the-minute reports on this Pope situation?

Very nice, adam!

That was possibly the most cogent and coherent Catspike comment I've ever read.

This will not stand!

As the SO lives within spitting distance of St. Peter's, we went to Piazza San Pietro for the rosary last night.

Eerie and moving, even for this recovering Catholic. I don't think I've ever seen a group of Italians that large with their cell phones turned off and refraining from smoking.

Still waiting for the bells. Is it really tacky of me to hope he holds off on croaking until I get off work & make my way back to the So's place?

Why, tizzie, you seem to have a downhome Vatican arising right on your doorstep.

Also, a victorious Illinois basketballer just explained post-game that he had prayed at half-time for the Lord to come and watch the game and the Lord responded. Now while I'm not surprised God wants a break from watching the popedeath, I'm guessing he goes more for Brazilian soaps than March Madness.

Also, nice, adam.

From the articles above: A ‘young-Earth’ view admittedly receives the scoffing from a majority of the scientists. But Paul warned us in 1 Corinthians 8:2, ‘And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.’ Compared to what God knows, we know ‘next door to nothing!’ This is why we should be so careful to let God speak to us through His Word, and not try to impose our ideas on God’s Word.

Gotta love that logic.

I'm still constantly amazed by college graduates that I know that can't understand how I can possibly think that the Bible is open to interpretation. I'm all, "You know how many people have rewritten this book over the thousands of years it has existed?"

And they're all, "Uh, yeah, but God TOLD them what to rewrite."

And that's usually when I walk away. Wanting to weep.

Oh, and after the pope died today, my mom called and asked me for a favor. I went to the Catholic Church here in town and rang the bells outside like I used to do when i was an altar boy. I tolled them for about half an hour. A few people stopped their cars and prayed while I was ringing. A few cried.

I felt pretty dishonest while I was doing it. I'm a good son, but a lousy Catholic. But, I justified it by thinking to myself that caring for the dead who I didn't really care for in life is what I do every day of the week, so why should this be any different.

I don't know if I mentioned here that I'm now a practicing undertaker. Family business.

Ringing the bell was weird and I felt really odd doing it, but then something even stranger happened.

The bell at the Methodist Church started ringing. And then the bell at the Baptist Church. And they rang for just about as long as I did. I don't know what to make of that, but I started crying when they did. So...there's that.

Hopefully the next pope will be the kind of person that inspires the kind of respect that this one received today. I'm not hopeful, but I'll try to have faith.

I'm a lousy Catholic too, ColdChef - but a lousier believer in creation, Liam. And you're right - that atrocity is spittin' distance from Chez Tizz, heh.

Good for you ringing those bells, my friend. I have lost that comforting, childlike faith in the Church that (sounds like) your mom and my mom share. But I am not about to Pope-bash today. I suspect that he was as good a Pope as he knew how to be. Requiescat in pace.

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