EL the Famous

i find it blasphemy that zenlunatic's referring to the 80's joe toys as the 'old classics'. three words: kung. fu. grip.

12 fucking years!?

crazy, huh?

oh hell yes. i'm optimistic as hell for what lies ahead, just a little weirded out to move on from all my colleagues and friends.

after 12 years of driving to and from this building, today is the last time i'll be doing it. hung-over after a rousing going away bash last night nonetheless.

it may be his work on suddenly susan...

So since Richard has now met Locke before he was born, will he remember him when he goes to test young Locke?

...i think the reason he went to test young locke, was actually the result of his conversation w/ old locke on last night's episode.

all this time stuff is a bitch to keep with, but i'll be damned if i'm not still riveted. des is the man.

no doubt. be safe everybody.

premium movie channels

Bottled water

$2+ coffee

Concert tickets that cost more than $30

need the internet for job-hunting, same thing for accessbility via cellphone. the cable...my kids would stage a coup w/out noggin/sprout, but if need be we'll heave it.

i sat through an uplifting presentation about unemployment benefits today...huge assembly room FULL of people. i've been pretty upbeat about this whole thing most days, but wow...that was a total downer.

my tip, don't just focus on stockpiling your $...build your network. outside of my severence, 12 years worth of contacts is what's keeping me from feeling hopeless.

Happy Birthday (spankings)!

shit's about to pop

that's awesome.

Doctor Doom and freakin' Dracula, on the moon? hell yeah.

i agree, but WTF is that about?

i totally missed this, but read the transcript...hope he leads as good as he gives a speech. if so, we're going to be alright. first item on his agenda: find el famous a new job.

Listen #2 - I'm liking it. Not groundbreaking, but a nice mid-album rocker.

Seconded.

I like that album cover.

ditto. the cover for HTDAAB was total weaksauce.

if i had the $, i'd buy just about everything in quimby's. what a great store.

Replacements - Tim Introduced me to my favorite band and songwriter.

same for me, except 'pleased to meet me' instead of 'tim'.

holy. balls. excellent news.

New York Seltzer was a favorite of mine when I was like 14. Actually, I just thought it might be cool to be known as the kid who drinks New York Seltzer all the time - I didn't like it all that much.

 

replace that soda w/ snapple and 14 w/ 19 and i'm in.

holy shit, that stuff was bad.

please see my mcrib post from yesterday.

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The drink was developed in 1919 by the Schoenhofen Brewery of Chicago as a non-alcoholic product for the Prohibition era. It was popular for decades as a soda fountain syrup, trailing only Coca Cola in popularity. However, after Prohibition ended in 1933 the Schoenhofen Brewery made Green River a second priority to alcoholic drinks. The Brewery then closed in 1950. It was a fountain drink during the '60s in some drugstore fountains.

 

The drink is now produced by the Clover Club Bottling Corp. of Chicago. It is frequently marketed as a nostalgia item and can be found in some 1950s-themed restaurants, all Hackney's restaurants, or more generally in supermarkets during the days leading up to St. Patrick's Day.

 

The ingredients of the drink are: Carbonated water, high fructose corn sweetener, citric acid, natural lime oils, yellow #5, and blue #1. There is also a diet version, without sugar.

 

The name for the Creedence Clearwater Revival album Green River was inspired by the drink according to Tom Fogerty.

there was a local golf course my buddies and i would play on back in grade school/junior high...they had it on the fountain there. hard to explain what it tastes like, but it was awesome. it came back in two-liter format sometime in the 90's, but it wasn't the same.

green river...from a fountain.

Nels on the otherhand i didnt bother to talk to because he had his button shirt unbottoned and no undershirt it was kind of weird.

Not going to lie, it scares me a little too.

sorry dude. I haven't had one since i was 14 or something. Just trying to understand what holds that thing together is enough to rule me out. I prefer my bbq sandwiches to utilize something referred to as "pulled pork". I also prefer that said sandwich not come from McDonalds.

let me be absolutely clear. i take my BBQ very seriously and there are most definitely countless sandwiches of a BBQ variety far superior to the mcrib...same would go for hamburgers and/or sandwiches based w/in the dead animal category. that said, i also love the fact i can get a rib-based sandwich (w/ pickles nonetheless) for cheap and on the fly. perhaps, i love the BBQ so much, that i can find something to love in all of it...like women...or nature.

NOTE: replace 'BBQ' w/ 'burrito' and you pretty much have my rationale for enjoying taco bell so much.

The McRib is in fact rib-less, correct? Who's the blasphemer now?

rib-meat. seriously, nobody fuck w/ the mcrib...i'll quit/phase myself off the board.