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Twas the Lateshift before Christmas...

 
  

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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:09 / 25.12.07
Any creatures stirring?
 
 
This Sunday
04:31 / 25.12.07
I'm up and about. And quite excited as we're very close to being allowed to spring my friend from the hospitalization he's been enduring for nearly a year now.

It's not really christmastime unless I get mincemeat, fruitcake, and a chance to rescue someone from some absurd annoyance.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:36 / 25.12.07
Why was he hospitalized?

PS: ew, fruitcake.

PPS: ew, fruitcake.
 
 
This Sunday
04:42 / 25.12.07
Flesh-eating bacteria thing + low immunity due to diabetes. He's had a huge amount of reconstructive surgery, was in coma for an age (and woke asking if there was new Adam Warren before asking how long he'd been out, of all things) and now he's nearly walking again, and so very close to being allowed to re-enter the outside world. Any day now.

They made him prove his competence by making him take a wheelchair down to a corner store, buy food, and then cook it, as part of being approved to leave. Which is something I'd never really have imagined they would need to make sure of, but I guess they have their reasons.

Really puts everything I complain about into sharp perspective. As in: I should just shut up, sometimes.
 
 
Papess
05:04 / 25.12.07
mmm, mincemeat

gah, my son is still up and it's two o'clock in the morning. He has finally conceded and admitted that Santa does not exist. Still, I wish he would sleep so I can put out his presents. Damn, I am so tired but I can't sleep till he does and then I do the presents...Christmas is hell.
 
 
This Sunday
05:21 / 25.12.07
Just remember it's for a good cause, Papess. I'm not entirely sure what that good cause is, but I think it's somewhere between tradition and helping the economy.
 
 
eye landed
06:21 / 25.12.07
hello. im not really sure what lateshift is about. is it about drinking alone on christmas eve (despite my confidence in family matters tomorrow), or does it involve actually posting from work, or is it just a hangout for a bunch of regulars who dont know me?

best wishes to your chum, daytripper, and good luck on the mincemeat (usually found in my aunts tarts around here).
 
 
This Sunday
06:36 / 25.12.07
Thanks, corecase. I wouldn't worry much about any purpose to shifts. They just are.

One important factor, though, would seem to be that you're never drinking alone if you're shifting, you're drinking with the shift. (Truth; at least half the lateshift seem to be imbibing some form of alcohol during any given moment of lateshifting.)
 
 
eye landed
06:51 / 25.12.07
alcoholism is a sign of maturity. justification of solitary intoxication is a sign of alcoholism! thanks, buddy. have a rileys scotch ale (tm) on me.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:02 / 27.12.07
Hello and happy un-christmas to everyone!
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:56 / 28.12.07
I watching Heroes Season 1 & reading the Barbethread that goes with it -- way better than DVD commentaries!
 
 
Liger Null
23:58 / 02.01.08
Anybody there?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:16 / 03.01.08
ME!

I'm there.

Here. Or thereabouts.

Just watched Apocalypto. FUCK, that was great!

I'm wankered.
 
 
Liger Null
00:20 / 03.01.08
Hey Stoatie!

Is Apocalypto actually that good or are you just being facetious? I'm wary about it myself.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:25 / 03.01.08
No, I'm not taking the piss. It's actually fucking brilliant. I kind of wanted to hate it, but it just wasn't going to happen. Really, REALLY good film.
 
 
Liger Null
00:29 / 03.01.08
Hmmm, I'll have to check it out then.

The SO brought over a collection of Micheal Gondry Videos the other day. It's been a nostalgic thrill to once again watch actual music television of the kind you don't see on MTV anymore.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:32 / 03.01.08
Nah, watch it. It's like a cross between First Blood and Deliverance. Only with subtitles.

I'm torn between going to bed and finding some funny shit to watch. The last couple of days have been a drunken blur... not sure if I should carry that on or call a halt to the proceedings.

How was your new year?
 
 
Liger Null
00:37 / 03.01.08
Boring, except for the Gondry Videos. I didn't get to go anywhere, we just sat around my apartment being bored.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:42 / 03.01.08
I attempted to have a quiet night in, but it didn't work out. Ignatius and Lilly were having a party, and The Cesarians were playing (seriously, check out their shit on that link- they're ace) and somehow I ended up being out all night taking drugs. Which wasn't the plan, really. I even tried to avoid all the midnight hugging people stuff, 'cos I wasn't really in the mood, but people were STILL doing the hugging stuff when I came back. I suck at being a misanthrope. It always goes wrong.

Seriously, though, check out that link. They're a great band.
 
 
This Sunday
00:45 / 03.01.08
I may have to find a copy of Apocalypto to borrow and watch. Despite the vouching of one marvelous Stoatie, I remain slightly wary enough I don't want to pay for the experience. Just in case.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:46 / 03.01.08
Really. It's awesome.

And a happy new year to you too. And you should ALSO check out the Cesarians. Everyone should.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:48 / 03.01.08
Check out the song Running Horse on their MySpace.

DO IT.
 
 
Liger Null
00:51 / 03.01.08
I always end up with a quiet evening in by default. Getting kind of sick of it actually, I always get invited to a party or have some kind of plans that invariably fall through. I could start a really tediously personal and boundary-shattering rant about why that is, but I don't really see the point.

Anyhow, see any good cartoons lately?
 
 
Triplets
00:51 / 03.01.08
Hugs not drugs, Stoatie...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:53 / 03.01.08
Squidbillies is the obvious answer to that question, Liger!

Have you clicked on that link yet???

But yes. Squidbillies. Until season two of Metalocalypse, that's as good as cartoons are gonna get. Though I did do the traditional thing of watching A Space Ghost Christmas on Christmas Eve. It's not Christmas without it, really.
 
 
This Sunday
00:53 / 03.01.08
DO IT.

Bookmarked for when I have a better connection than the one I'm tapping into from down the street.

And a Happpy New Year! to you, too, of course.

I'm doing the happy dance since I just found out an excerpt from a longish short story has shifted to the magazine running the whole story. Doesn't net me any more money, but still! Yippee! and such.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:54 / 03.01.08
Hugs not drugs, Stoatie...

Surely hugs AND drugs is the best possible scenario?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:55 / 03.01.08
I'm doing the happy dance since I just found out an excerpt from a longish short story has shifted to the magazine running the whole story. Doesn't net me any more money, but still! Yippee! and such.

Fuckin' nice one! I'm raising a beer to you right now. Fuck the money, it's the "people getting to read the story", surely?
 
 
Liger Null
01:00 / 03.01.08
Have you clicked on that link yet???

It's not working (at least not the music part)!!!!

*stomps around, tearing out hair and gnashing teeth in frustration*

I guess it's time to shell out the extra jack for a better internet connection.
 
 
Liger Null
01:00 / 03.01.08
Oh, and congratulations Deca!
 
 
This Sunday
01:01 / 03.01.08
That's it exactly. The excerpt felt like a weird teaser for something they may not otherwise get to see the whole of, and, yes, there's just the big ol' boost for people getting more of my stuff. I don't really get the 'I write for myself' thing. I may write for an audience similar to me, but hopefully there's more of them and we don't share the same face or social security number, y'know?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:02 / 03.01.08
Really not working?

Shit. I don't understand internets. 'tis all electrickery to me. I actually am Catweazle. (Fuck, I'm not even forty yet but I'm OLD. I'm REALLY OLD. I hate being old).
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:03 / 03.01.08
so...

...Daytripper, do we get to read it?
 
 
Tsuga
01:04 / 03.01.08
Try clicking on "open player in a new window" option, Liger. That song sounds kind of like like Neil Diamond Klezmer or something.
And also, congrats to Decadent.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:05 / 03.01.08
YES! Tis the klezmer that makes them so good. Klezmer makes everything good.
 
  

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