Girlfriend in Tacoma
Feb. 7, 2008 at 10:38am
ohhhhhh, community...
(I heart the council)
It's gottten to where, I look forward to Wednesdays the way most look forward to Fridays.
What started as a chance for some Tacoma bloggirls to get together for some quality reality TV watching has become a chance for five women of substance to get together and sound off on topics as varied as bad mesh hats (YAY! Ricky's gone! Not Sweet P!!) cupcakes and coffee, the blogosphere and its impact on Tacoma, and our city itself.
One moment a few weeks ago, we recounted backgrounds in our typical manner, where chats over-lapped and enthusiasm flowed like Zin. And the disjointed overlap blended, after which was this in-sync sort of sighed moment of connectedness where we all agreed, "Tacoma's just right" --like we were Goldilocks and Tacoma was the bears' house, specifically the baby bears' items... or something. I like to think its a symbiotic relationship, where the house thrives just as we do, and that same symbiosis reflects in the give and take that is our conversation.
Sometimes we disagree, sometimes it's hard to get a word in edgewise, sometimes the volume rises to alarming loud, ebullient levels. And that's where it gets fabulous.
If we were at our individual homes, tapping away on our computers while watching TV, we'd possibly find a chat room or email string or instant message that might simulate the environment.
And yet, it wouldn't, at all. And I think the big difference is the volume that the Council of Loud-Mouthed Women can achieve. I think another big difference is the personal presence of each of us, the energy, the intelligence, the humor, and the varied experiences each of us bring to the table (or couch) -it's a crazy-cool fun time, where topics that are superficial, deep, catty, and meaningful are covered, where wine is sipped and treats are munched while contestants stress out and cry (or celebrate) on the TV.
Ensie, Cassioposa, Tacomamama Jen, and Tacoma Chickadee were just names on a screen prior to the first show of this Project Runway season, and now I consider them friends. I've been a part of quite a few other virtual communities in the last decade, and it's always seemed a bit...weird to me to make a personal connection with the "friends" that I talk to or hear from daily.
But I think the Tacoma blogosphere is different. I feel like there's a whole, big, real group of people I share my city with, even outside of our crazy little "Council". It's 'way more than a disjointed group of screen names, and it's all really cool.
And makes me want to take part in more meet-ups.
comments [170] | posted under blogosphere, friendships, Tacoma, TV
Comments
 by Erik on 2/7/2008 @ 11:43am | I've been a part of quite a few other virtual communities in the last decade, and it's always seemed a bit...weird to me to make a personal connection with the "friends" that I talk to or hear from daily.
Nice post on meet ups. You might try adding a picture to it. The i feed Tacoma web page works pretty well for this. |
 by intacoma on 2/7/2008 @ 11:50am | You just wait Erik, RR, and I are going to hit up hooters or something, pics soon! |
 by jenyum on 2/7/2008 @ 12:04pm | I don't think we have any pictures of the Council of Loudmouthed women. Bringing a camera would make it seem too much like work. |
by Erik on 2/7/2008 @ 12:16pm | I see.
However, you can always find a random image of the internets that may be demonstrative. 
Ok. Not a pefect fit perhaps but ou get the idea. |
 by ensie on 2/7/2008 @ 12:22pm | My sentiments exactly.
There's also the fact that this is a PJ wearing, low maintenance event much of the time. Not exactly a photo opportunity. |
 by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 12:56pm | oh, no, I think the pic of Bush and the three hotties is *just exactly* us. ...ummmmm.... or not. (I'd add images if I knew how, but I'm pretty galsch-durned technically impaired, as the council can attest!) (BUT-- I did just download some of my images on flickr, whoo-hoo, go me!!!)
(and, yeah, I wanna see the hooters pictures. BUT I want the boys in orange hotpants with tight tees over chicken-filet boob enhancements.) ...I just got a fab idea, though-- a cobbed together group shot with the final five runway-ers' heads superimposed on our bodies :D |
 by izenmania on 2/7/2008 @ 1:06pm | I have to see intacoma every day. I do not want the image of him in orange hotpants encouraged. |
by intacoma on 2/7/2008 @ 1:21pm | 
high five! itsa nice |
by ensie on 2/7/2008 @ 1:24pm | This is going downhill fast. |
by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 1:32pm | oh.
my. god. (that just looks painful) (wait...is that you, intacoma?)(I jest, of course I jest.) |
by jenyum on 2/7/2008 @ 2:04pm | Yeah not so much on the Dixie Chicks picture. More like this |
by izenmania on 2/7/2008 @ 2:17pm | This is going downhill fast.
I blame Erik. |
 by AP on 2/7/2008 @ 2:28pm | I vote for a group photo of all of us, each in a different colored Borat suit. Only problem is I can't seem to find any of these suits for sale. I hear they are called over-the-shoulder-nutslings, but this isn't helping my search. Pretty rare item. |
by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 2:50pm | I think you can get plus-sized banana hammocks at Castle that might just, given a slight tug&yank with a slightly twitching shoulder adjustment, fit the bill. Bonus-- Hooters is a mere jog away. Chicks dig over-the-shoulder-nutslings.
Alas, my banana/walnuts combo existeth not, so I'm thinking I'll trade in my Borat suit for a brightly colored muu muu? Will that work?? |
 by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 2:54pm | Have we reached the bottom of the hill yet? |
by izenmania on 2/7/2008 @ 3:49pm | Oh no. Certainly not. There's always lower for us to go. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 3:50pm | I was afraid of that. |
by Erik on 2/7/2008 @ 3:57pm | I think everyone is waiting for RR Anderson to post something. |
by AP on 2/7/2008 @ 4:09pm | Second. |
by jenyum on 2/7/2008 @ 4:20pm | What do you mean? Something like this?
 |
by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 4:25pm | *laughing my ass thin* -- I'm thinking RR can totally go shoulder sling with that. May never make another baby after that point, but ... well, ya know. Some experiences are worth their consequences...
(gah, that's one disTURBing camera angle.) |
by AP on 2/7/2008 @ 4:47pm | I still remember reading that thing nice and close up and truly questioning myself at the same time. |
by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 4:50pm | zooming...zooming....zooming...... (meanwhile, a co-worker steps behind you to ask if you'd like a Starbucks.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 5:33pm | Oh, jenyum, you didn't ... |
by izenmania on 2/7/2008 @ 5:41pm | I'm afraid she did... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 5:59pm | InTacoma, let me say this before you possibly try something crazy and scar izenmania forever, that is not a photo you need to top ... |
by jenyum on 2/7/2008 @ 6:12pm | I'm dangerous when I'm bored. Blame IE for crashing every 3 or 4 file transfers all day long.
Besides, I've been trying to burn that image out of my eyeballs since it first showed up. |
by jcbetty on 2/7/2008 @ 9:06pm | It's like looking up in the sun, it's never gonna go away. The damage in permanent. And this is the funnest thread, EVER. |
by intacoma on 2/7/2008 @ 10:14pm | tacomachickadee dont worry, jenyum wins :) |
by izenmania on 2/7/2008 @ 10:25pm | And unfortunately in this instance, when jen wins, EVERYONE loses. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 10:51pm | Have we reached the bottom of the hill YET? I know, I shouldn't ask this again ... dangerous ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/7/2008 @ 10:52pm | On the bright side, I laughed so hard I just about fell over. |
by ensie on 2/7/2008 @ 11:48pm | Please, God, let it be the bottom! |
by izenmania on 2/8/2008 @ 7:43am | Well, we've reached the point where, looking at the last comment, I can no longer see RR's hairy legs peeking down at the top of the screen. So we're either moving in the right direction, or it's time for another disturbing image of a feed tacoman...
 |
by tacomachickadee on 2/8/2008 @ 7:44am | I knew I spoke too soon. |
by izenmania on 2/8/2008 @ 7:46am | At least I'm fully clothed. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/8/2008 @ 8:04am | Thank you. |
by jcbetty on 2/8/2008 @ 8:47am | hee! that's a nice wake-up image for me... |
by izenmania on 2/8/2008 @ 8:49am | That is what happens when one guy goes to see Rocky Horror Picture Show with three girls. He loses all rights to control his facial decorations. |
by intacoma on 2/8/2008 @ 9:19am |  BUSTED |
by tacomachickadee on 2/8/2008 @ 7:44pm | Don't hate me ... but I so don't get the icanhas cats. I must have missed a boat. |
by izenmania on 2/8/2008 @ 7:48pm | I was afraid that maybe this thread would fade away because it had fallen off the Recent Activity listing. But no... it must not die! It can not die! It will not die! |
 by NineInchNachos on 2/8/2008 @ 7:59pm | sorry I couldnt comment sooner. I have been bed ridden with projectile vomiting.
I was feeling slightly better. |
by jcbetty on 2/8/2008 @ 8:22pm | he he he. sorry to have been the bringer-back-er (kinda') of the sick. But we had a good hoot on your behalf, NiN! (Chickadee-- yeah, I kinda' don't get the cat, either.)(But I thought it was just me.) (And then I was gonna put a picture up of me with hair styled by the kid, and thought that would just be....wrong.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/8/2008 @ 8:24pm | I refuse to ask the question of death.
And NIN: Sorry you have the plague. Just consider it nature's way of preparing you for being projectile vomited upon once the wee one comes. |
by NineInchNachos on 2/9/2008 @ 9:50am | Just consider it nature's way of preparing you for being projectile vomited upon once the wee one comes.
lets give this a name. Let's call it "huckabee" |
by jcbetty on 2/9/2008 @ 10:05am | heh. Only if the vomit contains yellow and black fuzzy things. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/10/2008 @ 3:50pm | Ohh nooo! If above photos weren't enough, now I have mental pictures of puked up bees. |
by jcbetty on 2/10/2008 @ 5:13pm | better than the ubiquitous carrots, noodles, and bile... |
by izenmania on 2/10/2008 @ 9:37pm | ubiquitous carrots
Not exactly ubiquitous, but still another classic moment in izenmania history. That carrot was TERRIFYING. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/10/2008 @ 10:22pm | Dude! Did you set that up or just HAVE that!?!?!? |
by izenmania on 2/10/2008 @ 10:27pm | We grew that. My family had a plot at a community garden over by N 26th and Pearl a number of years ago (back before I could grow a beard), and that... thing... came out of it. It was a fearsome beast. So thick and... stumpy.
Making the picture all the more perfect is that my No Fear t-shirt was crinkled, so all you can see is FEAR. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/10/2008 @ 10:43pm | Dude. That's YOU!?!? You kinda look like my "baby" brother did at around years 10-12. See him now at www.youtube.com/adamthealien
Oh, and I love that you did the Proctor community garden. I'm kinda getting to be a community garden geek at the moment ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/10/2008 @ 10:50pm | And I think i just like calling you "Dude" ... hmmmmm ... |
 by KevinFreitas on 2/11/2008 @ 6:29am | izenmania, the Dude:
 |
by izenmania on 2/11/2008 @ 7:00am | I spent an entire day at work like that. |
by jcbetty on 2/11/2008 @ 8:06am | Fun, fun fun.
That carrot picture is *such* a Harry Potter moment (who knew "He who must not be named" was a vegetable?) --the second picture looks like it coulda been pulled from an audition tape for "Queer Eye", dude. (But I'm happy to see the milk, for it does a body good.) |
by izenmania on 2/11/2008 @ 8:14am | I wonder if maybe someone hasn't seen The Big Lebowski... |
by jenyum on 2/11/2008 @ 8:31am | 
The Dude Abides |
by jcbetty on 2/11/2008 @ 9:35am | oh, hell, yeah, there's a Big Lebowski moment there, too... I guess, due to a lack of penis, certain cultural references fly over my head unless pointed out directly. |
by jcbetty on 2/11/2008 @ 12:38pm | (and that is a rad painting.) |
by izenmania on 2/11/2008 @ 1:24pm | I think that's right around the point of:
"I need my goddamn johnson!" "What do you need that for, Dude? |
by jcbetty on 2/11/2008 @ 2:13pm | I can quote The Truth About Cats and Dogs and When Harry Met Sally relatively reliably. And, many lines from many Disney CG movies. And Shrek. And occasionally lines from random songs.
But don't ask me to quote lines from Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, or Reservoir Dogs. Can't do it. (though I can come up with the odd "Step Into Liquid" line.)(odd.) |
by jcbetty on 2/11/2008 @ 2:13pm | ...and I need to change that avatar image... but to what?? |
by izenmania on 2/11/2008 @ 2:41pm | I'd suggest a picture of you staring at the camera with pants on your head, but it's been done...
I mostly stick to Big Lebowski, Bill & Ted, and Red Dwarf quotes. |
by jcbetty on 2/13/2008 @ 12:47pm | see, the other two sources, I might recognize (I've seen a Red Dwarf a-thon or two, and have seem the Bill&Teds quite a few times.)
...still stalking the perfect Avatar image... |
by jcbetty on 2/13/2008 @ 9:11pm | (right about now, somebody needs to pop an outrageous image up, or I'm afraid this thread may die... then again, with a couple of those images up there, that may be for the best...) |
by jenyum on 2/13/2008 @ 9:19pm | Not really outrageous but I always thought it would make someone a good avatar:
 |
by izenmania on 2/13/2008 @ 10:22pm | I was out drinking with zastica tonight and he mentioned a great image for the thread. Hopefully he gets around to posting it.
Also, apparently Steph DeRosa can never look at me the same way again because someone showed her this thread (and specifically my makeup shot). I think it demonstrates the sheer power of our ridiculousness. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 1:35am | ...I fear I may have shown her that in my zeal, to spread the zany-ness (or is that inZanity??) also b/c I suspected she'd have fab naughty photos.... Don't hate me... (didn't Kelly Broderick (Broderick? hell, I dunno, woman from weird science) say that, followed by, "for being beautiful" ??? --Just for that, I may try to re-size a photo of me being particularly non-beautiful...)
--umm... pretty cool, Jen. I may have to be, Betty Sassy Britches, in my next life... Hyphenated, Sassy-Britches? To show I'm a modern woman?? |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 1:37am | OOoh, Jen, I nearly missed the "R" in that sign ... hee hee. |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 7:43am | 
Some people find it objectionable. Others think I should never have gotten rid of it. Me, I just think that along with the makeup shot and the Dude shot it makes a wonderful trifecta of "...wha?" for anyone trying to determine my personality from photographs. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:33am | Kelly Brock. It just hit me in the memory like a UFC sucker-punch to the temple.
ummmmmm....yeah. About "big facial hair" --anything that pairs "big" with "hair" is usually just kind of.... wrong. I'm sure I have some scary, scary pix of me I can post... I know there were some doozies that came out of my last birthday (hmmm, how to resize???) -will play around with something. (heh. she says, and goes quiet.) |
by jenyum on 2/14/2008 @ 9:37am | Jessica, if you want a quick way to size down just put the photos in your flickr account and click on "all sizes." The small size should be just right for the forum. |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 10:14am | anything that pairs "big" with "hair" is usually just kind of.... wrong.
I disagree. I find that sometimes "big" and "hair" is exactly what one needs. Example: 
If that picture is wrong then I don't want to be right. Action Hair! |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 11:02am | snorting. But in a good, laughing a laugh that got stuck up my nose kind of way.
will post pix of me, big hair v not big, once I get back from taking kid to the SuperMall for a SuperValentines SuperTreat. (Oy.) |
 by zastica on 2/14/2008 @ 11:49am | This is all I've got for now: versus  |
by NineInchNachos on 2/14/2008 @ 12:28pm | gentlemen plz! it's turning into a SiteCrafting sausage party.
The ladies need to step up. |
by jenyum on 2/14/2008 @ 12:35pm | I think enough people have seen my big hair. It only just went away about three months ago. |
by jenyum on 2/14/2008 @ 12:42pm | I think it was |
by jenyum on 2/14/2008 @ 12:44pm | ur. Edit function not working too great, Kevin. It just deleted most of my post. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:32pm | ummm... (jeny, the hair wasn't *that* big-- I thought it was quite nice. Very nice, now, but even then it was nice...)
NiN-- I'm trying to step up, the good lord knows, I'm *trying* Zastica-- nice. Makes much more sense now that I see the second one-- at first, I thought you were trying to prove a point via contrasting Izen... okay. I have a bunch of pictures *and* a poem, but I can't figure out wtf I'm doing. to tease y'all... a poem... Big hair, big air, bad hair, worse hair. Bottle cap meets flat-ish chest, Big chest meets a big mess. Here's the way the party should go: four naked girls, one happy beau. (I. Will. Figure. Out. Posting. GD. pix. from. My. Flickr.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:35pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:36pm | |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:36pm | (big hair, times two.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:37pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:37pm | (big air) (and lotsa' bootay, in an action shot.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:38pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:39pm | (bad hair, courtesy of the Kid) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:40pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:40pm | (the kid, having a Joe DIrt moment, winning the Oscar for "best use of sweat as a styling aid") |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:41pm | (and that was supposed to be "worse hair." --editing seems to have a bug.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:42pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:42pm | (bottle cap meets flat-ish chest) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:43pm |  |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 3:52pm | That is some quality wind hair.
Here is why I now own a hat: 
Henges are windy! |
by Erik on 2/14/2008 @ 3:56pm | 100 Posts. Congrats to "Girlfriend in Tacoma" and Feed Tacoma for what it is worth.
 |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:56pm | my sister lived near there! --I was stopped in my posting frenzy, and have the end of the poem to go...
the last shot was "big chest meets a big mess" and now, the grand finale: Here's the way the party whould go: four naked girls, one happy beau. (drumroll, please) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:57pm |  |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 3:58pm | (and Eric, we owe it all to you and your "shut up and sing" picture!!) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 6:22pm | OK, feeling a little left out of this photo posting blitz, so I finally got myself a flickr account ... and while it ain't of me, it's a fun pic from Thanksgiving that keeps me laughing. And since that's what this thread has evolved into ... he he ...
 |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 7:02pm | "pardon me, Miss, but you have a lion on your head..."
(random. Funny.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 7:13pm | Does it surprise you at all that this was the same holiday where my dear auntie put her backside through my parents' wall? While climbing it? In case you missed it, it's just too funny not to share again. And it seems oddly fitting for this thread ... and follows my trend of not posting anything with me in it ... he he. Well, apparently I can't embed video, damn, so here's a link ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5pCkyEdi0g If the link doesn't work, try www.youtube.com/adamthealien and go to page 2 and click on "The Wall" video. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 7:18pm | On the video topic, I highly encourage checking out the pirates and other First Night fabulocity that's currently on brother's main youtube page ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idom2MBDPWk
(Did you see that "fabulocity" word ... eh? That's a new one for me ... hee hee) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 7:34pm | Ooooh. I see "FabuloCity" as being the new slogan for T-Town. Forget grit, we've got "FabuloCity." --Go, now, trademark that!!!
(will view vids as soon as kid and I finish cookies.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 7:44pm | Sadly, the .com seems to have 20-year campers, and the blogspot has an "attempt" from 2004 ... grrr ... |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 7:50pm | bastards!! |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 9:04pm | "And since that's what this thread has evolved into ... he he ..."
Me, I say that this thread has stayed exactly on topic the whole way through. It started about the growing community surrounding feed»tacoma, and has become one of the strongest examples of that community. So many posts here are either politically driven, or personally driven and fade away. Here we have an ongoing discussion that feels less like a regional pseudo-political forum and more like a bunch of friends sitting around BSing with each other. "I feel like there's a whole, big, real group of people I share my city with, even outside of our crazy little "Council". It's 'way more than a disjointed group of screen names, and it's all really cool." We really have ceased to be just a place to come talk about our communities, and have become a place to come for a community that is uniquely our own. And it makes me happy. (also... fabulocity.com is taken, but fantabulocity.com is wide open :-) ) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:21pm | I suppose, then, (in that case,Izen) -this is a wickedly successful thread of nutsack-holder shots, bad hair days, and randomness that has taught me how to post pictures (YAY!!!)(that was a Kermit the Frog, arms flailing YAY!!! by the way) AND has given me-- and hopefully will continue to give me-- some really good giggles.
Bring. It. On. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 9:24pm | Dammit ... fantabulocity ... why didn't _I_ think of that. You bested me there Sir. Izenmani. Dammit. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 9:26pm | Oh, you had to bring up nutsacks again. Oh my ... I resist from asking the downhill question ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 9:28pm | I heart Kermit. |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 9:28pm | I'm just drunk enough right now to think of things like that. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:48pm | (so...bummed...I missed First Night, (and sure I'll be bummed to miss tonight's Sinsational V-Day) (and the wall made me laugh. Alot. And avoid shimmying up walls.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:51pm | (and missed, like, seventy eight posts!) --Izen-- keep drinking, if it makes thoughts like that flow! (oh, wait, no, I retract that statement, for I know that post thought-flow, one sometimes wonders... I said wha'??? Where??? When??? Are you *sure???)(not that that's, like, happened to me, or anything...)
(oh cheeekadeeeeeeee....what is the downhill questions??? Do I wanna know??? And wtf is it with me and triple question marks?????) |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 9:55pm | Y'know, I keep thinking that I am done posting pictures for a while because you've all seen enough of me, and then I read what other people are writing and go "shimmying up walls? I do that... and I have a picture of me sitting on one to prove it!" |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 9:57pm | what is the downhill questions???
I believe it is the eternal "have we gone as low as we can yet?" Which must not be asked, because whenever it is, we just go lower. Hmm... there is an open bottle of wine from last night sitting right over there... |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:57pm | toward lion fun...
|
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:59pm | when centerpieces go "fantabulocity"
|
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 9:59pm | (oh hell. Just... hell.)
(RE-size, Dude.) (duh.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:02pm | Betty -- see izenmania's posts to answer why I can't post "that question again" and/or scroll up to just before the Borat pic and the NIN pic to what I said and you'll understand ... I dare not ask again ...
Izenmania ... you're starting to scare me, Dude. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:02pm | (as to eternal question... it's like, "this is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends, some people (bahm) started singing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because this is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on...") (total brainworm, that)
(must... sleep...eventually...) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:05pm | ummmmm. yeah, and for the record, not one of you flipped me shit for a. "what *is* the question*s* and b. no closed asterisk on the *sure*??? --mmmhmm. y'all are slackin'. |
by intacoma on 2/14/2008 @ 10:08pm |  Make sure you feed your kids wheaties and keep taking them to the ymca |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 10:10pm | *points to the bit where I talked about my drunkenness*
I performed at a wine store dinner tonight, and was paid primarily in food and wine. So I'm not going to catch every apostrophe error just now. "Izenmania ... you're starting to scare me, Dude." Me? What did I do? Or is it just the thing where half the time we seem to be vaguely sharing a brain? |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:15pm | Ooooh!! Yeah!! Wildside wines, yeah? Fun? Good?
--I'm so happy to see that twisted, twisted, bizarre piece our friend back-from-the-dead-inTacoma posted... it's, like, one half me, only not white, and big, and Eastern Euro-muscled, and one half the dumbass non-conjugating nimrods at Shutterfly customer service. It's Sublime. (freakin' outsourcing, man.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:16pm | (but, uh, for the record, I do NOT own testicles.)(and wee little weight dude apparently, err...does.) |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 10:17pm | He may be back from the dead, but he's not back from the dead enough to come to work. Slacker.
Yeah, the Wildside thing was fun. We were largely background music, until the end when the only people left were really drunk and singing and dancing along to John Denver's Country Roads. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:26pm | Or is it just the thing where half the time we seem to be vaguely sharing a brain?
Smack on the dot. Maybe it's a Lute thing? Did they drug us all during orientation? Implant us with a microchip? It's starting to weird me out ... but that doesn't explain why Betty reads my mind ... hmmm ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:26pm | Of course, maybe it's the wine ... |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:29pm | suh-wheeeet! I'd sing, too, if I were drunk enough to forget that, at the best of times, I have the voice of a mid-pubescent toad (and now, sick with some sort of vocal chord tickle-itis, it's just...sad.)
(bed. me. now. tired.) |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:30pm | um, for me, maybe it's the fact that my mom did her time as a Lutheran, so it's, like, genetic? -Ish?
(bed. me. NOW. tired.) |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:31pm | Hmmm ... it might just be the wine ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:31pm | bed. ME. tired. NOW. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:32pm | Could be genetic though. But my dad did spent two years en route to Catholic priesthood ... |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 10:33pm | Perhaps its not that we were all here and then discovered that, by coincidence, we also have a lot in common (in our brains). Perhaps it is that we were all drawn here because we were already seeking out our own kind.
It can't be the Lute thing, because there were way too many people there that were just goobers. The group of people that I really fit in with there was a relatively small percentage. |
by jcbetty on 2/14/2008 @ 10:44pm | awwwwww. group pre goodnight hug. WHat wsweet sentiments are being voiced in vino veritas!!
(and then I'll go all 39 year old mom on your asses and say, TO BED already, the morning's gonna come earlier than you know!) |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 10:46pm | I am waiting for someone in London to wake up. Then I will go to bed. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:50pm | JC: Shhhh ... I'm not looking at the clock ... shhhh ... |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:53pm | izenmania: stay out of my brain! |
by tacomachickadee on 2/14/2008 @ 10:55pm | Oh, yeah, and intacoma: Do I need to go across the alley and tell yo momma you've been slackin'?!?!?!? ;) |
by izenmania on 2/14/2008 @ 11:01pm | I still get confused sometimes if I just glance at the screen because I used to go by the screen name jcizenman... throws me for a second. |
by intacoma on 2/15/2008 @ 4:37am | tacomachickadee and izenmania feel free to read up on tonsillitis feel free to come by and ill be sure to give it to you. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/15/2008 @ 6:57am | I was teasing! And I've had my share of that stuff thank you very much. I'll let you keep it. |
by izenmania on 2/15/2008 @ 7:41am | I feel an urge to post a bunch now just so that I can no longer see that image from the bottom of the page... |
by jcbetty on 2/15/2008 @ 8:00am | oh. man.
yuk. (antibiotics are occasionally our friends. Modern medicine is here to help.) |
by izenmania on 2/15/2008 @ 8:03am | You just stay home, IT. We don't want those tonsils here. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/15/2008 @ 10:42pm | Now that IT's tonsils are out of view .... I miss this thread. |
by izenmania on 2/15/2008 @ 10:45pm | Further research indicates that they are not, in fact, his tonsils. Still gross, though. |
by tacomachickadee on 2/15/2008 @ 10:46pm | Why am I not surprised ... |
by izenmania on 2/15/2008 @ 10:51pm | To take us further from the tonsils, though...
The innocent boy... 
And the devil inside...  |
by tacomachickadee on 2/15/2008 @ 10:59pm | Um, thank you?
Man ... need to snap pics of the kids' funny faces this weekend me thinks ... |
by izenmania on 2/16/2008 @ 12:04am | I'm starting to run low on ridiculous pictures from my past... |
by intacoma on 2/16/2008 @ 7:11am | I never said that photo of the tonsils were mine, if you would have clicked on the wikipedia link you would have seen that photo, mine were very similar minus the really bad white sores. Sorry tc next time we will have to have a photoshoot at my place. I was put on antibiotics and am nearly 100% now so all is good. |
by jcbetty on 2/16/2008 @ 8:08am | YAY! We'll have more sick and wrong pictures of nuggets! |
by tacomachickadee on 2/16/2008 @ 8:57am | No. Was. Kidding. Teasing. Don't. Show. Tonsils. Please. No. The HORROR! |
by jcbetty on 2/16/2008 @ 12:45pm | (I was referring to... ummm... boy-nuggets. Covered, of course, a' la Borat and wee Indian dude.) |
by jcbetty on 2/16/2008 @ 12:46pm | (and, uh, yeah. Best to keep eyes... umm... how to say it... normal? ) |
by izenmania on 2/16/2008 @ 1:39pm | Admittedly I do have one picture with a very noticeable, err... bulge. It's a great picture, actually, except that my harness caused my pants to be pulled tight in an unfortunate manner. Nothing a bit of cropping can't fix. |
by jcbetty on 2/19/2008 @ 3:58pm | then again, it could also make for a fun shot, cropped tight (hee!) |
 by Steph DeRosa on 2/26/2008 @ 8:36am | Well shit. I had no idea you guys were having so much fun in here. I might have to dig out some naughty photos. |
by Steph DeRosa on 2/26/2008 @ 8:37am | ha...guess I need an avatar? |
by izenmania on 2/26/2008 @ 8:38am | Only if you want to be cool like us. |
by AP on 2/26/2008 @ 9:52am | The monster thread lives! |
by jcbetty on 2/26/2008 @ 10:13am | all hail the monster! *kowtow* (Steph-- lovin' the tree, Shel Silverstein is my hero...but it looks kinda'...phallic... and green...) |
by Steph DeRosa on 2/26/2008 @ 10:37am | I'll do anything to support the phallic movement.
What phallic movement? Oh, the one I'm going to start. Right NOW. |
by izenmania on 2/26/2008 @ 10:58am | Well, phallic has been kind of the theme of the thread... |
by jcbetty on 2/26/2008 @ 11:17am | ...and it is nearing St Patty's Day... so green phallus is timely... |
by izenmania on 2/26/2008 @ 11:21am | but it's all bendy... and dripping something red... that can't be healthy |
by jcbetty on 2/26/2008 @ 11:57am | well, yeah, there's that, and I was kinda' thinking either antibiotics or bury it, but...well... *shrugs* |
| Post Reply: |
About
musing her way through arts, culture, dining, shopping, exercising, and parenting, all while wearing a pungent, truffle-like aroma.
Recent Posts
| 11/20 | ...the Hell? [2] |
| 11/5 | smells like...hope? [1] |
| 10/17 | yeah, no, not dead. [2] |
| 9/14 | on kids, bikes, and cars... who's right? [12] |
| 9/9 | The mayhem begins... [3] |