Last night Phlome had an unexplainable urge to visit Best Buy. That’s where it all started. He didn’t know what he wanted there, but he was sure there was something he needed. So we went DVD shopping. We were looking for “Rounders”. Best Buy didn’t have it in stock (or it was hiding behind some other movie.)
On the way into the store Phlome mentioned a special release of Showgirls, and how the movie is building a cult following because it is such a bad movie. I laughed. That is, until I saw the special edition.
This special edition includes:
2 Showgirls VIP shot glasses,
a deck of Showgirls VIP playing cards,
the special edition Showgirls VIP DVD,
and a selction of games which include the Showgirls VIP pin the pasties on the stripper game with Elizabeth Berkley poster, pasties, and Showgirls VIP blind fold.
The other games are drinking games which require NONALCOHOLIC beverages, according to the instructions. Each of the special Showgirls VIP instructions cards, has on the back a different picture of Elizabeth Berkley from the movie.
The Showgirls VIP special edition DVD includes commentary from the SCORES girls, a strip tease tutorial w/ the SCORES girls, and of course commentary from the dude that started all the buzz. (I don’t know his name - not the writer or director, but the dude that started the cult following by airing special viewings w/ his commentary.) All this for only $29.99.
So I bought it.
And I watched it.
And I regret it.
My only consolation: I got 2 new shot glasses and deck of cards. And an Elizabeth Berkley pin up poster. And pasties.
*sigh*
Sleepwalker is coming down after all! Yippy!
I know I’m so easily excited. But seriously, I haven’t seen her in probably a year or so. And even then it was rather brief.
She will of course be escorted down with her loving beau, Luigi. I can’t wait.
We have no specific festivities planned, just general revelrie and some swimming. I don’t doubt that there will be a tad bit of FUBARing this weekend.
There was a specific request to dine at the luxuriant Bone Daddy’s. My mouth is watering already thinking about their BBQ ribs.
Another suggestion by my dear beau, was to visit Deep Ellum a bit. The Art Bar specifically. $5 cover at the most, and they oftern let us ladies in free. It’s a fun place with 80’s music. It is also attached to a few other clubs that include a hiphop/dance floor area, a bar only area, and alounge that sometimes has live music. The final attached club, Clearview, charges an additional cover, and always has a live bad or two. But we generally don’t venture in there, being as phlome and I aren’t live local band afficianados.
Another draw to Deep Ellum, is that I need a new tongue ring. I want something kind of like this. I also want to get a clear one, that doesn’t stand out so much at work.
I forgot to ask, Sleepwalker, how long will you be able to stay with us? Are you heading back north on Monday? or do you have to head up Sunday? My apologies again for waking you with my early call. 
And I also apologize to your dear Luigi, though I do know his real name, I blanked and Luigi was the only thing coming to mind, which I thought might be a bit silly. “Hey Luigi, this is Ninsi, is Sleepwalker around?”
Anyway, that’s about all I have for now. Though I’m terribly tempted to call in tomorrow with a stomach ailment. We’ll see how the rest of today goes…
There are pros and cons to being anonymous. The pros are you can vent and bitch and yell about anyone or anything and not risk hurting individuals feelings, and conversely you can say really sweet lovey things and not worry about embarrassing yourself. The cons are of course, then you can’t get credit for the great insights you publish, you can’t share your senseless fun postings with friends and you loose accountability. These are just a few of the many pros and cons of anonymity.
Today I’m not going to bitch and rant. Today I’m gonna talk about the good things. The happy things in life. For some reason these topics seem less interesting, and people don’t enjoy them as much. We like to know that others suffer like we do. Misery loves company. I think it’s also a very american habit to make the bad times, rough spots, and negative experiences into commical events. It’s our way of dealing with pain.
But not today. Today you must suffer through my joy.
Ok, so I won’t make you suffer. If you want to read on, please do. Otherwise your welcome to stop reading my post here.
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Go check out Phlome’s Tubing Pics.
I have conference calls all morning. I may blog more later.
I just want to mention, that I stood on the tube just fine, a couple of times, they just took pictures when I was falling.
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Ok, so today I am not at all motivated to do work. I’m just in that rut that happens every now and then. I have no issues w/ my place of employment; I’m just bored w/ it. I think I’m restless. I’m ready for some excitement.
So Sleepwalker, please tell me you have exciting news! Are you coming to big D this weekend for celebratory festivities? (In case it hasn’t been made obvious, this invitation extends to everyone who can read this - well everyone who knows us and is reading this - if no one at Shady Manor knows you, then you may not be invited, but you can always double check with us). I need something more exciting than a cook out this weekend. Not that there’s anything wrong w/ a cookout.
*sigh*
6 flags. I would love to go to 6 flags for an evening this weekend. Anybody game? I need me some speed. Or something. Water park perhaps?
Racquetball tonight - maybe that’ll be enough adrenaline. Back to work to waste another hour.
But before I start, I should first introduce a new member of our lovely cast of blog characters: Redhead.
Now, back to the point at hand. While checking out the filmography of my favorite midget (if I had a favorite midget anyway, he would be it): Warwick Davis, no it’s not mini-me. Mini-Me may be my least favortie midget (again if i were to make a list of my favorite midgets, he would be at the bottom). Anyway. Point being, not only is my fav midget in the movie w/ one of my favorite versions of Val (see fj for detailed discussion), he also plays Prof. Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies. But here’s the big one, Warwick is lined up to play Marvin the Paranoid Android in the 2005 theatrical release of….wait for it….yeah I know you’ve probably already figured it out: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!!!!!!!
I know for a fact that I have at least a few loyal Hitchhikers reading this blog. So please, let me know what you think. Here’s IMDBs list of the current casting. And here is the Official Website. I’m terribly excited, it looks like they’re having fun with it, and that is the important part!
Ok - so I made it through the week alive. Barely. I’m glad it’s over, now i’ve just got to deal with expenses and receipts. I may have to refer to my AMEX statement for some of the receipts. I hope that works for our accounting department.
Tubing was fun. I enjoyed it and would do it again, but probably not another full 6 hours. Unfortunalty I bloke my flipflop and lost my sunglasses along the way - but these are minor and fully expected. I would have been very surprised had I made it home with both. As it is, I’m surprised I made it home w/ our float trip mascot: Eugooguley (pronouned: yu-goo-gull-ee - think Zoolander). Eugooguley is a rather ugly insect type stuffed creature that I got out of the HEB grocery store claw machine. Only took 3 tries (75 cents). Though it was certainly not the most appealing critter in the claw machine, it was the only one that was not stuffed in between other critters.
I’m quite certain that several of my fellow tubers will have trouble remember some things about the tubing trip. Alcohol induced memory blockage. It took Donut and I about 10 minutes to get Phlome to remember the hot dog stop along the way, and even then all he remembered was the mustard.
I must have gotten drunk at some point along the way - I drank enough, but I aslo ate, and drank water, and was sober by the end of the trip. I’m glad I didn’t get myself plastered. I was one of the fortunat few that didnt’ feel like complete shite when we got home.
I’ll leave the rest of the updating to other folks.
Oh, and rumor has it that we may have a new blog-friend…Phlome, what’s the status on WelJim?
Off to Austin for business today. Probably won’t be able to update much this week.
Tubing over the weekend. Still rather frazzled!
Next weekend is Sleepwalkers b-day party in Dallas - come celebrate with us!
$89 NW Arkansas Regional, AR (XNA) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW)
- Depart 7:00 p.m. or after, Friday, July 30, 2004 or
anytime Saturday, July 31, 2004.
- Return anytime the following Monday, August 2, 2004 or
Tuesday, August 3, 2004.
- Friday evening travel may not be available in all markets.
- Tickets must be purchased by this Friday, July 23, 2004,
11:59 p.m. (CT).
- Fares displayed are for round-trip coach class travel.
I guess it’s to be expected when I was a cheerleader for half of my high school career.
Of course if I take the test, focusing more on the last 2 years of HS, I get this:
Wing Stop has the best french fries in the entire world. I swear they coat them w/ crack. And the only thing that makes them better is Ranch Dressing.
Yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm. Had me some crack fries and ranch dressing last night, while the boys chowed down on Hot Wings and Lemon Pepper wings. I ate a few of those too.
Ranch dressing makes everything fried that much better. I don’t think I’ve come across a single fried food item that doesn’t taste better with ranch dressing.
Restaurants that strongly encourage or require eating w/ your hands should provide nail brushes in the restrooms. I hate it when all that gooey sauce gets up under my nails. You can’t really get your nails clean w/out a nail brush.
My high school love sound track was provided by Alanis Morisett:
You Oughta Know: 1st HS bf, the song came out several months after we broke up - you probably don’t want a play by play w/ the lyrics - it would make for an annoyingly long post
Ironic: “It’s meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife” My prom date. That was the only line in it really. I had more of a thing for him then I ever admitted to anyone else. After all I was always the other girl. He had a gf who he was very devoted to (as devoted as you can be when you’re regularly cheating on her w/ the same girl).
Head Over Feet: “You are the bearer of unconditional things You held your breath and the door for me Thanks for your patience/ You’re the best listener that I’ve ever met You’re my best friend” That was FJs prom date. He and I dated on and off a couple times. In high school, then the summer after high school. There was never really a spark between us (for obvious reasons, he is now living w/ his husband in Boston), but I wanted so badly to love him, and for him to love me, he’s just a great guy, the perfect catch.
And then, not in that kind of love way, but Hand in my Pocket always made me think of FJ.
While looking up the lyrics so I could share them with you, I found this link:
Alanis Morissette Lyric Generator.
Anybody else got any artists that provide(d) sound tracks to certain times in your life?
Oh yeah, and here’s my John Cusack: sorry I wasn’t say anything, it’s that other John Cusack movie i haven’t seen:
Which John Cusack Are You?
As the gf of an admitted card carrying geek, I should alwasy be clued into cool shit. And if there’s something that’s cool, and he merely mentiones it’s existance, that’s just not enough. For example. At work I use Internet Explorer. Well I’ve always used internet explorer, cuz it always works for me. I know other browsers exist, and I know that some things are viewed better in other browsers etc. etc. But I’ve never really spent much time thinking about it. Mozilla is one of those other browsers I’ve never really thought much about. I figured it was a Geek thing (the same way I think of Linux). It’s something geeks use, and really not meant for those who don’t have a certain degree of in depth computer expertise/knowledge. Well today I downloaded Mozilla becuse Leif told me to.
Now maybe it’s the newness and all, and maybe I just feel more special and geeky because of my preconceptions associated w/ required geekiness for use of mozilla, but this shit is cool.
Why did my bf not encourage me to use mozilla before hand? Just the other day he mentioned his preference for mozilla due to the tabs option, that sounded kinda cool to me (much like macs sometimes sound kinda cool to me). But now I see it is fun.
Crap, now that url button on MT that lets me click on it to insert a url link is gone - is that because of mozilla? hmmm, gonna take a bit of getting used to… my page looks a bit off in mozilla too.
how do i open new tabs w/ in a window?
never mind - figured it out
Coming back to the Party Monster discussion.
Phlome and I were discussing hosting a Party Monster theme party (aka Club Kid party). Or maybe a club kid outing. We can all pitch in on purchases of tons of make up and hit some vintage/thrift stores - and get all freaked up then go do something.
Maybe for halloween? that gives out of towners some time to seriously consider traveling down here (or if there is a more centrally located volunteer who would like to host). Plus around halloween it will be much easier to find face paint etc.
Anyway that’s just my rambling…