Independence Day at Twi's

I think the 2012 super ETs / post singular humans are trying to communicate through the firework audio compression artifacts!

The Ion Storm-esque sound of the recorded whistler seriously spooked me the first time I played it back. Kind of sounds like, "Peace? No peace!"

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I had a vividly detailed, thematically complex and conclusive dream last night.

Minx was in it. Relax, Minx, your clothes were on. You had something like gills, though. You were the underwater executive for some futuristic Sea World that was part of a vast entertainment complex.

You kept tabs on this very friendly, cute and lovable, shell-less giant squid thingie (all bright polka dots and happy tentacles) and some kind of semi-pleioasauristic sea dragon.

I was mostly, POV-wise, an analog of young Elijah Woods in his pre-pube child film star incarnation, in a plot construct based on some movie he did where he and his younger brother sought to escape a lethally abusive father-in-law via a homemade airplane.

In the end, Kraken Girl (something feminine about 'her' and how you dealt with 'her') and Sea Dragon (perhaps more boyish?) were let out to play together (people feared they'd fight, whereupon the dream alchemized an abrupt happy ending as irresistible and overwhelming as it was simple and magical: we all (good guys and bad guys, the latter which had grown so legion as to give Kill Bill chills) turned into water butterflies and off we flew through Sea World and the other underwater portions of Walt's Dizzyland.

All of which seemed to define and resolve some recent do-or-die existential crisis I've been going through (with suicidal overtones of significant pale).

Along with being custodian of sea exotica, you were also Number One Sidekick/Pal for me (Elijah Woods) and my little bro (soft-eyed red-haired lads from the old flyaway movie, rarely with us for long but always going ahead somehow and giving us some edge to stay away from psychodaddy and his vicious pedophilic murdering cohorts.

I think you mostly wore underwater PJs in prints resembling the kraken's cute, soft, shell-less, polka dot surface, as if your wardrobe were a chromaphoric response to Kraken Girl. Most of the time you were half entangled with Kraken Girl, swirling around in a sea of polka dots, typically at high speed off to do something or other to the giant cybernetic control board you had complete charge of.

Oh yeah: the whole time I was sitting in a theater watching a movie.

Woke up just as the movie was over. (Not in the theater; that would be a plot cliche in a book, of course.) Just in my bed, realizing I'd had an unusually vigorous and thematically prolonged dream of enormous complexity.

100 years from now, we may have entertainments that wodk in and on so many levels and yet fully integrate with their strata so they are mentally consumed wholistically.

(Scientist points to product in hand, coyly labeled, the Gibsonator, and says, "This makes the stuff that dreams are made of." Gibson's ghost, still outraged at Gib's unauthorized cryogenic 'burial', rolls over in its frost cell and says, Clods. I would have simply called it 'The Bird' or, rarely, 'rara avis'. Kenmeer puts a final parentheses in place and seals it all up.)

Oh. There was some restaurant upstairs that was your almost sole nourishment. Awesome food and they delivered underwater to sea girls amid kraken (I hate the word tentacles here; I'll call them 'feelers') feelers. It was sort of a running gag throughout the dream flicker.

Yes! you were *very* cute in your Kraken pyjamas! But now, go and begone from my dreams forevermore. Persons who take umbrage at well-intended chocolate cake remarks are not to be part of my Golden Year Dream retirement plan. Dirty old men like me can't dream with complete freedom while warding off reactionary priggishness, however kind and cute its PJ'd package.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:
Took a bike ride around town. Oh but the white trash! Down by the ball diamonds there were thousands of hatchbacks containing millions of explosives out in the parking lot.

Police had to break up a fight. Seems one idiot's toddler had wandered out into the war zone and had been walloped by a stray zinger or zooper or some such. Guy was going from hatchback to hatchback, pickup to pickup looking to kick him somebody's ass.

I stayed out on the border. On the boundry. Cruising with my iced $5 latte from Starbucks. Brubeck thru my earphones.

Watching the police interfere with brother Darwin's good work.

Bike riding is an awesome way to reach the best firework venues! The tricky bit is not getting crushed after the fireworks when all the semi-drunk drivers try to leave at once.

I barely saw any fireworks--went to a July 4th party some friends were having and played a drinking game called "Mexican". Which had ridiculously complex rules that no one could keep track of--not even me and I was sober.

EDIT: And now two minute later I am debating if I should spend $55 on an advanced copy of Anathem or hold out for a cheaper one. These guys are ranting about how the book is in NEAR FINE condition, which I could care less about as long as the printed words inside are still legible.

Do they allow them to shoot them there? Just yer average drunken citizen? See, here, all the people from Utah come up, buy a shitload of fireworks, crowd into these places and start setting them off. Not just sparklers. Almost any firework is legal in Wyoming. Their cars form a circle round the firing area. Okay, so ya got yer hatchbacks full of fireworks all open, each its own super-firework, fuses faced inward. Do any of them go up? You bet! Do any of these drunk people take care of their kids? No!

The police? In an area where anyone who can pass a pee test makes $35 an hour in the oil field ($20 for jobs where you don't have to do anything), our police force is generally ummmm ... substandard.


The city spends loads on its display, which no one watches.

I think setting off your own fireworks is illegal here.
Yeah, by best venues I meant directly under the base of the mountain where they launch the fireworks from. You look straight up into fireworks, while hanging out with fire trucks all gathered there waiting for the mountain to get lit on fire. (Which has a better than 50-50 chance of happening on any given year.)

So you get your fireworks, your fire drill, and your wildfire--all in one sitting and totally for free!

Of course, your Darwin Awards fireworks show sounds quite entertaining too.

And no, I haven't gone to sleep yet. Apparently I can't quit Gran Turismo anytime I want. They have this online component now, see...

Ah well, drinking a Mountain Dew and waiting for the first showing of Wall-E to open at 10:20am. Beat the crowds and sleep through the hot part of the day. God bless 3-day weekends!

where the heck is everyone?

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Originally posted by TwiliteMinotaur:
Independence Day at Twi's

I think the 2012 super ETs / post singular humans are trying to communicate through the firework audio compression artifacts!

The Ion Storm-esque sound of the recorded whistler seriously spooked me the first time I played it back. Kind of sounds like, "Peace? No peace!"

i, of course, being also from another planet (perhaps the non-Pluto adamantium non-asteroid) can understand them perfectly.

I am finding that dating a woman with a kid is a balance between the need to find time and somebody to watch the kid when you want to have fun but on the plus side it keeps her from obsessing totally over the relationship because she has a greater responsibility as a mom.

This girl is pretty cool though, and is drawing out the sketch for my new tattoo. I am finding we have a lot more in common than I had with the last one in some ways.

I went out Thursday night to see her at work at the club. Being the night before a holiday it was packed, and being July in Florida it was steamy. By the end of her last set she came over and when I put my arms around her we were both slippery with sweat. It was great!

The club manager asked me about working at the club on the gay Sunday nights they are starting up. He was jokingly asking about me being a dancer there. I am trying to get on working security, security work on gay nights is cake work anyway. I also went out and applied for a weekend security gig at the casino. Since it is on the reservation the casino is the only late night place that serves booze until 6am in the region. It is also expensive as hell so you get a lot of drunk assholes with way too much money.

After visiting the place last night I am not sure I'd want to work there anyway. Bad music, bad dancers, bad attitude. Casinos are depressing places anyway imo.

canceled stupid mcaffee virus today. I was going to do it at the end of the month, but they forced my hand. My sub was up mid Aug and I did not want to renew. They actually renewed it today. Hate the whole automatic renewal thing.

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canceled stupid mcaffee virus today. I was going to do it at the end of the month, but they forced my hand. My sub was up mid Aug and I did not want to renew. They actually renewed it today. Hate the whole automatic renewal thing.

I had to dl an anitvirus for the first time in years with this new online job and I have to use outlook. I got avg and have been happy with the performance. I have no idea how good it is as an antivirus but seeing as I usually run nothing and am just careful not to dl anything dangerous I haven't really needed it.

for mrsk -

so a few weeks back I met Alexis and was supposed to take her to dinner sometime. She didn't call me back to set a time so I wound up meeting the girl I am seeing now. When I did see Alexis I pointed the girl out and told her our dinner was off. Tonight my gf walks into a bar and winds up right next to Alexis, who recognized her and started giving her a lot of attitude. I came and saved her from Alexis and said hello. All I got in return was the "Fuck off and die" glare from Alexis. I am trying to figure out how she can be so pissy when we never even dated.

AVG for free is excellent.. Used for a number of years, but this year upgraded to their paid version (its still V cheap, and gives me full, real time spyware / trojan etc etc protection).. also figured I owed them soe money by now.

We're busy preparing for a week away at a friends in Norfolk from Monday.. and off to do a photographic scavenger hunt all round covent garden today

Edit - she's a girl *nodding and grinning* You agreed to a date, and thats MORE than enough for feelings of ownership *laughing*
You do pick em though.. are there any entirely sane women in your city?

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Originally posted by editengine:
for mrsk -

so a few weeks back I met Alexis and was supposed to take her to dinner sometime. She didn't call me back to set a time so I wound up meeting the girl I am seeing now. When I did see Alexis I pointed the girl out and told her our dinner was off. Tonight my gf walks into a bar and winds up right next to Alexis, who recognized her and started giving her a lot of attitude. I came and saved her from Alexis and said hello. All I got in return was the "Fuck off and die" glare from Alexis. I am trying to figure out how she can be so pissy when we never even dated.

You'll never find sane women, but that's not the problem. You're acting too sane. A little crazyness gets a lot of respect. Walk into the bar with a lawn and leaf bag stuffed inyour back pocket, pull out a measuring tape and start measuring her. Carefully. Shoulder to elbow. Elbow to wrist, and so on.

Then, right in front of her, call the hardware store and say you're gonna need to order 20lbs of lime.

:-)))))))
the men on this Board

let's put them all back and find some reggeler guys

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Originally posted by MrsK:
You do pick em though.. are there any entirely sane women in your city?

who the hell wants to date them?

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Originally posted by Aisha:
:-)))))))
the men on this Board

let's put them all back and find some reggeler guys

Whatever ....

If we ever do a Florida meat I want to see some of the guys turned loose on a bar full of these women.

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Originally posted by editengine:

If we ever do a Florida meat I want to see some of the guys turned loose on a bar full of these women.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ha

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Originally posted by Aisha:
:-)))))))
the men on this Board

let's put them all back and find some reggeler guys

no no Aisha... our men on this Board are far more normal than IRL guys...

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no no Aisha... our men on this Board are far more normal than IRL guys...

I agree. I'd also like to request that everyone stay out of the shed, as I have some cat skins drying in there.

Yeah. I've got no more room for 'em on the picket fence either, Arch.

here in the future it's trog's birthday.

happy birthday trog.

all the best.