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Lateshift, Episode 247

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Saint Keggers

03:54 / 12.07.07

In this episode our intrepid posters find..um...other posters? (but not the poster of Farah Fawcett)

This Sunday

04:06 / 12.07.07

Finds some of them over in the Comics Forum, at the moment. Which is a rarity.

Saint Keggers

04:10 / 12.07.07

Hello D.N! How's you?

I rarely venture into the comic books forum. I feel quite out of place there having never really collected comics. (except for the Punisher and Nomad when I was back in highschool)

FYI Wine, when accidentally left in the freezer transmutes itself into wineslushy! And there's nothing as good on a hot and humid summer night than wine you can eat with a spoon.

alas

04:13 / 12.07.07

hey. i think that was my first foray ever into comix...

This Sunday

04:16 / 12.07.07

I'm doing pretty good. Spent a good portion of the day having people tell me how wonderful I am (another rarity), so I'm all smiley and everything.

Don't worry about being out-of-touch, in the currently-collecting/buying sense. It's more a general 'how should people read' thread. Alas just showed up, which surprised me, to make some interesting points.

Dude, you have no idea how soon I'm going to try wine-slushy! It's already illegal to sell alcohol now (stupid blue laws!) or I'd go out to the grocer's and buy a cheap bottle right now.

Hi Alas!

Well the laws here state that you cant sell alchohol after 10pm. Fortunately all the wine I consume is homemade so I can drink at any hour of the day. (wine and cheerios? Not such a good idea)

Saint Keggers

04:21 / 12.07.07

and for the wine slushy, I recomend turning the bottle in the freezer every so often so that it doesnt turn into a solid mass inside the bottle.

This Sunday

04:25 / 12.07.07

Bourbon does something similar, but without the solidity problem. Of course, I'm going to do something horrible and probably have corned beef and hash with it.

Hoping it's not your last time in Comics, alas.

Saint Keggers

04:30 / 12.07.07

Y'know, strange as it may seem, I dont think I've ever had bourbon. Regular whiskey, yes. But not bourbon.

This Sunday

04:38 / 12.07.07

I know a number of people who get very whisky-vs-bourbon, but I move between them pretty easily. When I'm at a place where I don't know what they've got, I tend to just order whisky blindly, because brand-to-brand, white label or bourbon or whatever, it's usually alright. It's my acolohic version of ordering a Philly cheesesteak when at a new restaurant.

Which reminds me, I've got to cook something pretty soon here. So little time, so much laziness to cram into it.

alas

04:40 / 12.07.07

(Venger, you must be keg boy...yes?)

DN, we'll see! I should be asleep right now. Someone is drumming next door, which is all jovial and everything but it is 1:40 AM...

Saint Keggers

04:41 / 12.07.07

sigh. I could really go for a nice whisky now. Just sitting outside, enjoying the night air, glass in my hand. Yeah, that'd be nice.

Saint Keggers

04:42 / 12.07.07

(Venger, you must be keg boy...yes?)

Thats it! Ruin the secret identity! You can tell you dont spend alot of time in Comix.

This Sunday

04:50 / 12.07.07

See, Venger, if you'd been a wee bit slower in posting, I could have changed my sign-in and majestically appeared to announce I was and you weren't. Of course, then I'd have to masquerade for a month.

I could use some celebratory whisky, tonight. Someone actually did send me a beer care package -one bottle of stout with 'in case of emergency' taped to it, but other than that (now empty) bottle, I'm being pretty lazy about alcohol. Grocery run tomorrow, though.

Saint Keggers

04:52 / 12.07.07

" Someone actually did send me a beer care package -one bottle of stout with 'in case of emergency' taped to it"

That is teh awesome.
It sure beats gettting flowers or a singing telegram.

This Sunday

05:05 / 12.07.07

Not too long ago, a friend of mine asked why she ends up with guys who will buy her flowers when they've screwed up, but won't pay for drinks when they go out. There is, of course, no good answer.

Saint Keggers

05:11 / 12.07.07

I think your friend should make it clear to the people she dates..forget the flowers buy her drinks when they screw up.

This Sunday

05:18 / 12.07.07

I blame the people who write social-behaviour handbooks, personally.

'Beer is one of the world's most appropriate apology gifts...', 'Walking around in your underwear with in front of guests you've just met is not the best way to find out if they're cool with that'... the sorts of things that should be concretely settled before issues of which fork you eat seafood or steak with, or what country's require you to change hands for that fork and the knife.

Saint Keggers

05:21 / 12.07.07

IF they're not cool with that then they should have thought of that before agreeing to be guests at my wedding.

This Sunday

05:27 / 12.07.07

IF they're not cool with that then they should have thought of that before agreeing to be guests at my wedding.

I'm assuming they already saw the pic included with the invite, though. So, y'know, clearly cool with it by that point.

Saint Keggers

05:30 / 12.07.07

alright, It 's 2:40 here, time for me to head off to sleep. G'night all.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:13 / 12.07.07

Not too long ago, a friend of mine asked why she ends up with guys who will buy her flowers when they've screwed up, but won't pay for drinks when they go out. There is, of course, no good answer.

Well, perhaps because when they screw up they want to make a specific gesture to apologise, but when they go out they do not realise that your friend wants to treated as not having economic agency of her own. Drink-buying is an etiquette minefield, but a conversation about it might turn up some interesting things.

This Sunday

07:36 / 12.07.07

It's my personal opinion that trying to discuss anything that begins with 'why do I always end up with...' is a minefield, in and of itself. If I didn't suffer from chronic foot-in-mouth disease, that might not be the case, but even so.

I do think presuming people know you want X is generally not actually going to make them understand what you want. But, (in the most facetious way possible) we all know, talking to people is what takes all the fun out of relationships. Shouldn't have to say, they should just know. Or something.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:20 / 12.07.07

I quite agree - and there's a terrible sort of oppression in the idea of romance - that one should just know these things, and expect others just to know them also, and that trying to establish what the expectations on either side actually are is somehow invalidating what should be a mystical mutuality of intent. Screw that noise, really.

Saint Keggers

03:01 / 13.07.07

Happy Friday the 13th!

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:20 / 13.07.07

Hey, Hat. I still have some hours to go before that dreaded day.

Saint Keggers

03:24 / 13.07.07

Lucky you. At 12:01 the aliens attacked. Whoops. I think I ruined the suprise. Ignore that and continue as you were.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:33 / 13.07.07

Oh, as if I can't see the bulbous insect brain-sucker jammed in your ear.

This Sunday

03:36 / 13.07.07

Well, I mean, we all see it happen to our neighbors, but to us? To me?

Saint Keggers

03:42 / 13.07.07

Oh. Yeah, um..about that. That's not from the aliens. I was just sorta experimenting when I was younger. Y'know how it goes, alchohol, strange drugs, promiscuous ear sex with icky creature-things created in your uncle's secret laboratory. Let this be a lesson to you kids. Always use protection. In this case, a shotgun, chainsaw or the lost pages of the Ghayat al-hakim.

This Sunday

03:47 / 13.07.07

Well, y'know, you really ought to use protection with strange new alien lifeforms, too. Even when you take it in the ear. That myth that you can't get pregnant that way? Just a myth,

Though, I suppose you could sorta luck out and get one of those alien STDs that give you superpowers.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:53 / 13.07.07

Only in an Adam Warren comic, I'm afraid. And spermicidal jelly will not prevent xenomorphic pregnancy within one's brain.

Saint Keggers

03:59 / 13.07.07

Even if I eat it by the tub full?

This Sunday

04:01 / 13.07.07

Sadly, all the typical methods and preventatives seem either entirely useless or only partially effective. I gather Donald Sutherland has some experience with overcoming brainsexxing gone bad, but as of yet, he has not returned any of my phonecalls or faxes.

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