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Kingdom of Late Shifting (WARNING- CONTAINS SCARY BALLOON MAN)

  
  

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alas
21:21 / 06.02.05
I find it intriguing that you and I and Haus must have popped on here virtually simultaneously.

I do need those things, but I'm not hungry either. Before I started feeling ill, we went to a tremendous Chinese new year banquet with a group of people from Shanghai, and now I am feeling quite, well, not in the mood for even a little broth.

Here is a list of oddly poetic subject lines from my spam files.

But the latter, frowning
Frighten dukedom
Connivance
You might transmute
Cerberus
Between
Cry was heard from
Alyssum
Waterbury desire
Pastiche lank
Oh, fool that I
Aristocracy taketh
Vectorial Babyhood
Special offer for Microshit
 
 
alas
21:36 / 06.02.05
hey, where'd everybody go? or is this just a stunned silence in response to my found spam poem?
 
 
Saint Keggers
21:39 / 06.02.05
Im here... I just thought your last post was my post and every so ofter I'd click refresh to see if someone else had posted after me...which was actually you.
 
 
alas
22:01 / 06.02.05
I'm still here, too--I am working on some projects and the superbowl is flushing along in the background. Ads and all.
 
 
sleazenation
22:03 / 06.02.05
and I have just arrived...
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:05 / 06.02.05
Hello Sleazenation!

The only good think about the SB is that I saw the batman begins trailer with more than the net version.
 
 
alas
22:05 / 06.02.05
hey sleaze; how are things? I've just been whining about the fact that I think I'm getting the flu. AND I just realized, again, that the first superbowl was the year I was born. So my next birthday looks like this XXXIX.

Nothing like Roman Numerals to make you feel Old.
 
 
sleazenation
22:08 / 06.02.05
And I am fortunately innocent of superbowl coverage...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:08 / 06.02.05
So, I understand that it's a bit like Rugby League, but a bit more dressy, yes?
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:08 / 06.02.05
If thats your age you may feel old...I however am a porn movie. XXX
 
 
alas
22:10 / 06.02.05
A bit. Sir Paul McCartney is apparently going to bare his breasts at halftime.

Do they do that in Rugby League? Bare their breasts and Shock SHOCK! the Good People of Our Great Country, I mean?
 
 
sleazenation
22:13 / 06.02.05
Now if we want to talk about rugby - well I'm more on for the Union game - although England's performance this weekend was pitiful...
 
 
alas
22:15 / 06.02.05
Keggers, I always suspected you were celluloid. Old school, you know.
 
 
sleazenation
22:17 / 06.02.05
---- shuudering thought of the moment - I does indeed look like Tony Blair is aiming to make some kinds of records for the length of a sitting prime minister - but to be the longest sering primeminister he would have to beat Robert Walpole's record of 21 years - which would keep him in the post intil at least 2018...
 
 
alas
22:19 / 06.02.05
All I know about rugby I learned watching the All Blacks play, umm, I think it was England. Once. It's a much cooler game, in my estimation.

George Will or someone unlikely said that u.s. football represents all of America's worst qualities--periods of violence punctuated by committee meetings.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:20 / 06.02.05
Oh yeah..old school Super 8 all the way!
 
 
sleazenation
22:22 / 06.02.05
Whereas Rugby is sometimes described as being a ruffians game played by gentlemen... a game where the odd punch in the face will be greeted with derision...
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:23 / 06.02.05
Rugby is sounding more and more like Christmas at my grandmas.
 
 
sleazenation
22:24 / 06.02.05
Your grandma sounds like my kind of host...
 
 
alas
22:24 / 06.02.05
2018! Dude, I'll be, like, LII then!

Believe it or not, there was just a credit card commercial on featuring England Rugby.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:25 / 06.02.05
You say that...but you aint seen her smash someones face into the cranberries!!!
 
 
sleazenation
22:28 / 06.02.05
Rugby/credit card ad is probably because the six nations is on at the moment... its kind of like an annual superbowl for rugby union - but there are only 6 teams involved and they are all national sides... It used to be the 5 nations and that gave the whole competition an added dynamic of beingbetween the five celtic nations....
 
 
alas
22:32 / 06.02.05
It also had Gladys Knight in it. It was something about having all these specialty cards that advertise your favorite obsession. Seemed to imply "nothing is too weird for us to shamelessly exploit as a niche marketing scheme that gets you loaded with debt and finance charges, and us whistling all the way to the bank. Which we, by the way, own."
 
 
sleazenation
22:34 / 06.02.05
When mastercard starts using Michael Jackson as the posterboy for the child/sex trade I will truly know that there is nothing that Credit Card's won't look to make a buck off...
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:43 / 06.02.05
One White Glove... 10$
Plastic surgery....10 000 000$
Llama....6000$
Monkey....3000$
Paying off the parents....priceless.

What ever you want to do...there's Bastardcard.
 
 
alas
22:55 / 06.02.05
hee hee. You made me cough out loud, keggers. (Technically, the phrase should be "laugh aloud." But, well, I'm not woman enough to take on the task of imposing a more prescriptive approach to the grammar of text messaging abbreviations.)
 
 
sleazenation
22:57 / 06.02.05
Ah.... now I'm listening to the shipping forecast - the most relaxing radio it is possible to have...
 
 
alas
23:02 / 06.02.05
I love the shipping forecast. And the great thing about the BBC online, is I periodically catch it while I'm working on other things. Falling slowly.
 
 
alas
23:04 / 06.02.05
I've been reading Life of Pi, of late. I don't want it to ever end. Being out in the middle of the Pacific, watching a Bengal tiger sleep, it's so wonderful. Not quite as relaxing as the shipping forecast, but meditative.
 
 
sleazenation
23:04 / 06.02.05
...German Bight, losing its identity...Fastnet, 2, moderate becoming good later...
 
 
alas
23:06 / 06.02.05
What happens when a German bight loses its identity? These are the Big Questions, after all, the ones we so often lose sight of.
 
 
sleazenation
23:06 / 06.02.05
And off to bed... night all...
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:07 / 06.02.05
G'night Sleazenation!

Ah Life of Pi...never read it. I guess I should.
 
 
alas
23:08 / 06.02.05
'Night. Peasant dreams. (Which I guess means I hope you dream of ruddy faced Russian women with their arms deep in black rye dough.)
 
 
alas
23:11 / 06.02.05
Well, you should be aware that I don't read books for plot, at all, really. So most of the books I love are regarded as verrrry sloowww by many people. This book begins with a meditation on the three-toed sloth, in fact, so it is after my own heart in terms of pacing and excitement. But it does have an actual plot--there is a shipwreck and all. (But no pirates, so far. . . .)
 
  

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