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Quote from: morpheus on March 27, 2009, 07:03:08 AM
I guess this goes in this thread... http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cool-paints/cool-paints.htm

"Cool Paints" means, naturally, that dark-colored car paints will be banned in the state of California.  Gil's gonna have to get rid of his Black Crown Vic.

A sounder idea.

Quote from: Tonker on March 25, 2009, 03:37:13 AM

Quote from: Wheezer on March 25, 2009, 01:41:14 AM
Assuming that there is nothing new under the sun in the Annals of Swinishness, does anybody care to be an additional admin for this small but tender bit of Facebook effrontery for when I'm further ToS'd?

I'd happily do it if I had any idea of what the question was.

Seriously... sure, sign me up.

Thanks, Tonk.  I have a sneaking suspicion that my Medicine Name, of all things, may be taken to task.

Assuming that there is nothing new under the sun in the Annals of Swinishness, does anybody care to be an additional admin for this small but tender bit of Facebook effrontery for when I'm further ToS'd?

Quote from: Tank on March 24, 2009, 06:43:48 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510360,00.html

QuoteWith NBC's programming a disaster, [Zucker] is almost single-handedly ruining a once-great brand.

That one's not too far from the mark.

I suppose I got the vassal and overlord the wrong way around with that one.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on March 17, 2009, 11:53:47 AM
Best.  Looking.  Cast.  EVER!

That Stephanie Jacobsen never fails to remind me of tortellini.  I'm fervently hoping she's killed off on T:SCC tonight.

Quote from: Tank on March 18, 2009, 01:04:36 PM

Quote from: Slakee on March 18, 2009, 01:03:25 PM
Plus, your wife can never give you shit (not sure that she does anyway) for posting on Desipio.

Congrats man!

She's let him drag her along to multiple Desipio gatherings.

Frankly, I'm not sure what's wrong with her.

I didn't have the heart to mention this in the Dead Pool (L.Z. niftar over the weekend, A"H), but perhaps the synchronicity is auspicious.

"Around this time Ziprin and Joanna started a greeting card company, Ink Weed Arts, employing Smith, as well as future experimental filmmakers Bruce Connor and Jordan Belson. Lionel and [sic?] Smith designed unique 3-D cards, based on hand-drawn images of the Tree of Life. In a 1973 interview with Paul Cummings for the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, Connor is candid about the quixotic nature of the Ziprin's commercial enterprise:

" 'When I came here to New York I think in '51 or '52 I met Lionel and Joan Ziprin. I designed some greeting cards for them. At that time they were making what we call 'studio' cards. Harry Smith was designing three-dimensional Christmas cards. They were satirical, with a little bit of black humour, and totally unpopular. They were called Ink Weed Studios. They were totally disorganized as business people. They were not a business. They were very much involved in Kabbala and magic theory, and Tibetan mysticism as well. Harry Smith was very much involved in that. They would tell me stories, fantasies. Lionel gave me a book of Kabbala that was all in Hebrew. I could not read it, but he said it was good for me and it was good luck to have. And it has a mandala image in it.' " (http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=256)


OK, that drifts a bit yang, but anyway, the three-dimensional cards reportedly didn't work.  But they did cost $20,000.  One might say, "yah, give these smooth-jazz types what they want" and just feed them a steady diet of fickle lamaist hoodoo imagery.  Still, I wonder what they'd make of it if the radio spots were all laid down against a background of selections from "Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy," Moondog, recitations of the founding documents of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, etc.

Good luck.

Quote from: Fork on March 12, 2009, 11:31:02 AM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on March 12, 2009, 09:24:19 AM

Quote from: Fork on March 12, 2009, 09:22:28 AM
Apparently, among the SBNation bloggers, there has been discussions about banning.

Guess who is calling for network-wide bans.

Where have you heard this?  Any place we can all see?

Geez. Look at chicagokill (one of SCH's owners)'s comment.

"Sorry for the trubba!"

404'd.

Quote from: MAD on March 13, 2009, 10:09:36 AM

Quote from: Dave B on March 13, 2009, 10:02:50 AM
I think the first time Erin Andrews comes to Wrigley this year, she should go to Al in the LF bleachers and deliver a bologna sandwich wrapped in wax paper. He would soil himself.

He'll say "I know who you are.  You're Pam Oliver, right What's Twiki up to nowadays?"

That miserable swine.

One vote in from Christopher Bollyn's imaginary nemesis.

[Edit.--And another from fresh IP space.]

Paul Harvey, according to WGN radio.  Who's tallying the scores?

Pig brain mist continues to perplex.

Quote from: Tank on February 27, 2009, 04:26:20 PM
Thread cured made all misty-eyed...

Quote from: MAD on February 24, 2009, 10:41:56 PM

Quote from: Wheezer on February 24, 2009, 10:38:33 PM

Quote from: Canadouche on February 24, 2009, 10:27:54 PM
I live in a country where it's fairly hard to buy weed ... because those who use it tend to grow their own supply. 

This reminds me of a story involving the Windsor border crossing, a large box, and a Mercury Lynx (which was really a tough little car).

But no hydroponic lamp?

It was a goodwill mission.

Quote from: Canadouche on February 24, 2009, 10:27:54 PM
I live in a country where it's fairly hard to buy weed ... because those who use it tend to grow their own supply. 

This reminds me of a story involving the Windsor border crossing, a large box, and a Mercury Lynx (which was really a tough little car).