Been a busy month and going to be a busy week, but things'll pick back up soon enough. Meantime, SNT. General theme: Talk about your upcoming vacations or plans for summer. Because that's a lot of fun. To talk about, I mean.
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First comment?
Here's my contribution to the All-Day Saturday thread...even though it is still Friday here.
Plans for the summer: Trying to find a job! I just graduated from college, and I've got to find me some money. So no vacations for me.
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 05/20/2006 12:24 AM EST
boo!
Chestnuts roasted by DJ @ 05/20/2006 12:35 AM EST
THIRD!
And...it's Friday. WHHAAA??
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 05/20/2006 12:40 AM EST
yeah, not even eleven o' clock here in Idaho and SNT
So far the only summer plans are my cousins graduation in two weeks and The Pharcydes "Drop" as my retro tune for crusing this summer.
Chestnuts roasted by mrjayberry @ 05/20/2006 12:52 AM EST
Friday Night SNT?
That's even better than Red Lobster Fridays! Which are almost as good as Taco Bell Tuesdays!
Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 05/20/2006 12:52 AM EST
SNT! Not only do I get to participate now, at the beginning of Saturday, but I don't work tomorrow night, so I may well be here then too!
A little something in the spirit of the SNT (and Somethin' Funny's Taco Bell Tuesdays and Red Lobster Fridays): Anybody have weekly traditions like that? Back in my Freshman year, every Tuesday was Poker Night and every Thursday was Movie Night. Now, the days all seem to run together--six random, blah days and one SNT day!
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/20/2006 12:58 AM EST
Damn, that made it seem as though all I do is go to restaurants. Those are not my traditions.
My only weekly ritual is spending my Saturdays cleaning while watching DVDs. Usually a season of a show, or a trilogy of movies of some sort.
Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 05/20/2006 01:01 AM EST
my friend was in town just the other day and we where talking about weekly traditions. We had two, Thursday was Smackdown night(wrestleing and root beer or orange floats) and Tuesday was Michelle night. Michelle was some girl he liked and we would take her out and hang out(well for him most nights were Michelle night but I got to go on Tuesdays)
Chestnuts roasted by Mrjayberry @ 05/20/2006 01:02 AM EST
Summer plans: No school! This is the first Friday without homework hanging overhead in forever. Maybe a weekend in Vegas, hopefully. We got the grandfolks out there a puppy that I'm eager to see. I also am planning to use the school-less time to make and implement some decidings about the work/school/living situations (thrill-o-rama, I know). Seeing late movies on hot nights and trying to avoid withdrawl from favorite shows. Eating Italian ice and not leaving the couch for hours at a time (not mutually exclusive).
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/20/2006 01:05 AM EST
This summer like the last I get to go through summer classes... Damnit... But I get out a year early for the low price of 2 destroyed summers. Luckily there's enough time when I get out because I planned a 4-5 day flea marketing trip! SWEET!
Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 05/20/2006 01:18 AM EST
Summertime, yay! Uh, I plan to read everything you post (take your time we've got 3 1/2 months) and in the time not spent doing that I am building a new studio, just finished painting the walls today (the ceiling is next). I hope to go some where, most likely Michicagn (how exotic!). Doing new artwork, reading, writing, watching movies, the ususal.
Chestnuts roasted by Do Not Touch, Willy @ 05/20/2006 01:20 AM EST
In the fall im going to plan my daily roadtrip to Atlanta for Anime Weekend Atlanta, :3
Chestnuts roasted by DashiKun @ 05/20/2006 02:28 AM EST
We're planning on moving back to the States so I can finish school, so we're sort of saving up for that...except we found plane tickets to Paris for 40€ a piece, so we're going to frickin' France for 4 days. Should be fun.
Other then that, I'll probably be working maditory over-time like I have been for the last month, because my company moved, and who ever took care of the logisticts of it all were utter idiots. ROS, oh yeah!
Oh, in a couple weeks, we're going to a church married couples retreat. It should be fun, and hopefully nothing like Marge and Homer's.
Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 05/20/2006 04:52 AM EST
My folks are flying over from the States to visit my husband and I for a weekend. Then, presuming I can get the time off, we're hopping over to France for a week.
I haven't seen my family in several months, so I'm looking forward to it.
Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 05/20/2006 05:09 AM EST
Saving up money for Japan and hitting up the booze. Well, I might sneak in a camping trip or something like that here or there, but no major vacations.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 05/20/2006 05:33 AM EST
Me? I'm desperately trying to get my grad school and my scholarship foundation to talk to one another so I can register for summer classes, while simultaneously applying for a second job AND picking up random contracts for manual labor around campus, and occasionally emailing all my friends who are all hundreds of miles away for the summer. Yup, it's summertime, and the living is GOOD GOD SOMEBODY PLEASE STAB ME WITH A SPORK.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/20/2006 07:43 AM EST
Plans for summer: Get drunk and par-tay! And visit Greece, if there's enough time.
Chestnuts roasted by dudefromfinland @ 05/20/2006 07:59 AM EST
You know, I used to love that Rainbow Bright zoo movie.
As for summer plans, I'm gonna sleep a lot, and build a Ghostbusters proton pack. That's all.
Oh yeah, and the library just got in some Mork And Mindy DVDs. I'm kinda looking forward to those, and they'll kill a few hours of my summer.
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 05/20/2006 08:23 AM EST
1) Work
2) Start going to the gym on a regular basis again
3) Watch Big Brother 7: All-Stars! Whoo!
Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 05/20/2006 09:39 AM EST
My big vacation happened last week, went to Hilton Head where all the important non-immediate relatives live. Beat Hans at mini golf. Went on a trolley tour of Savannah with a sardonic trolley conductor. While in Savannah we passed this haunted bed&breakfast that my grandparents stayed in and they have this creepy mannequin standing at the window where the chick supposedly fell to her death...or WAS SHE PUSHED?
I'm also pretty geeked to not be a nanny for the first time in two years. 10 hour days taking care of someone's kids is not for me.
Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 05/20/2006 10:10 AM EST
Whoa, looks like a marathon session awaits us on the FNT/SNT.
Plans for the summer: (1) Not sure (2) something (3) watch T.V.
This is me and Mrs. Manimal's 5 year anniversary so something big is bound to happen. Probably go to Charleston, S.C.
Also, I will be up in NY (messina) with Pops Manimal to pick up the niece and nephew. Along the way: GETTYSBURG and ANTIETAM!! \m/
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/20/2006 10:13 AM EST
Summer fun- Waking up late, playing with my dolls, I mean action figures! Then getting bored after a couple of days and longing for school to start. So sad.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 05/20/2006 10:17 AM EST
Summer plans? Bleh. I started my semi-summer term last week. Because my school is in New Orleans, the students were all scattered during fall term while they tried to unflood the city and such. So they're having this condesnsed term for people to catch up if they didn't take classes or didn't take enough/the right classes. I'm taking the absolute max number, 12 credits (it's smashed into 7 weeks), which requires special dean permission and all, hooray!
After that is over, I'm driving back to New Mexico to sleep a little in the remainder of my break. And apparently an archtect friend of my mother's (I'm studying architecture) has some work for me now that I can draft on the computer. So yah, work.
I'll most likely also be working on jewelry also. Those of you who like pretty shinies, click on my name. Etsy is a pretty cool site, everything on it is hand made. Plus, you can buy the work of a genuine x-e blog enthusiast (me)!
Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 05/20/2006 10:21 AM EST
Eh, my summer will probably consist of the traditional drinking and swimming and swimming and drinking. There's talk of me and a couple girls from work possibly making a trip to Hershey Park, but who knows. At some point once the new excursion schedule is out I gotta find someone to sucker into taking a ride on the Reading Railroad with me.
I'm just trying to make it through the weekend first. My cat went into the hospital yesterday with a urinary track infection, but he's fine now and I can pick the sweetie up tomorrow morning. But my dog is on her last leg, and she's getting put down on Tuesday. Very sad, but I knew it was coming.
Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 05/20/2006 11:10 AM EST
Talking about vacations is a depressing subject for me. The only vacation I was EVER on, was going to Ocean City MD for about a week with my best friend and her parents. It wasn't even that great because her stupid posessive boyfriend at the time had to come down also and so we were sneaking around, trying not to let her parents find out, though they did. It was kinda sucky...
But yeah, this summer is just going to be the same ol' shit, different day. I always take vacation from work on my birthday but that's not until August 24th.
I don't even have any plans for it.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/20/2006 11:36 AM EST
I'm taking classes this summer, but I still have an open enough schedule to enjoy my summer a little. Sometime during the sweltering heat of July, the boyfriend and I will be taking a mini-roadtrip (3 hours) down to Orlando to go to Wet n' Wild, because we have leftover tickets from our last Orlando vacation, back in late March, when it was unseasonably cold.
Other than that, no particular plans, other than frequent trips to the beach and maybe catching up with my best friend, who just graduated from high school and will have some time on her hands.
Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 05/20/2006 12:19 PM EST
Summer plans? Summer is the busy season hera at the ol' Gallery of Art at Anadarko. (had to plug to justify both my position and 'net hookup.) We get to talk to people from all over the nation, and around the world. Just making new freinds and trying not to strangle the ones who ask about "the tribes who still live in teepees." Drop on by if you're road tripping through the Sooner State this Summer. I'll be the dumpy guy at the computer.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash, the bane of the tourist industry @ 05/20/2006 12:29 PM EST
This summer Hubby and I are going to LBI with his family like we do every year, I usally can not wait for it, but this year I fear it. My In Laws are going to drive me batty telling me how to take care of my son and trying to take over. I'm hoping I get the courage to have a nice little talk with them before we go.
I'm also hoping that DH and I will get our house rented before summer so we can move back home near people we know, my friend is home for the summer and I can't wait to have a social life again
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 05/20/2006 12:46 PM EST
Next Friday, I'll be departing from the safe, inviting bosom of the buckeye state to spend 10 days on the coast of Maine. It'll be 10 days filled with fishing, boating, clam-bakes, and (if Matt's appraisal of the region is accurate) Pepsi.
Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/20/2006 12:55 PM EST
I'm going to Monster Mania in August. I couldn't go this weekend. Corey Feldman, Roddy Piper!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Rixliss @ 05/20/2006 02:53 PM EST
I had the Red box of French Fries in the McDonalds Changable line.
I would always pretend he was HeatMan from Megaman 2 since he looks exactly like him.
Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 05/20/2006 03:36 PM EST
I want video download of the TMNT anti-drug PSA.
Please?
Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 05/20/2006 03:49 PM EST
I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey!
That was the most quotable psa ever.
Pot, yaknow, marijuaaaaana-
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This summer i am...
I'm one of dem newyork actors, so this summer i am just doin more of that. no fancy vacations planned...yet-
Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 05/20/2006 03:50 PM EST
Mystie- Sorry to hear about your dog, I don't know what I would do if I had to put my fuzzy buddy down. I'd probably commit seppuku. It would be the only honorable choice.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 05/20/2006 04:22 PM EST
Plans for summer? Read "The Golem's Mighty Swing," "Glamorous Disasters," and "Teenagers from Mars." Also, I'm gonna go to Myrtle Beach in late June.
Chestnuts roasted by Der Super @ 05/20/2006 05:05 PM EST
Little Brother and his wife wonder what they're going to do when the time comes for their old grey cat to move to the next world. Sister-in-Law wants to go the whole Egyptian route, Mummification and all. But my Big Sister (living with them cause she doesn't play well with others) thinks that's over the top. Sis-in-law wants to shave everyone's eyebrows, even if it means shaving Big Sis's in her sleep. In-Law's Caddo, not Egyptian, but is a history buff.
Little Brother, in typical fashion, wants to freeze-dry the cat and display her in a typical pose. Big Sis is creeped out a might at that one. "But then we can move her around the house every so often, and place her in her favorite spots." I hope he's kidding.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/20/2006 05:10 PM EST
None. Unless you count work and school, of course. And I don't.
Wow, that was easy. Last year I would've been able to add a lot more to the discussion. =\
Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 05/20/2006 05:16 PM EST
I am hoping to make a small, or *fingers crossed* a huge move this summer. Either was I am going back to Seattle for a bit 'cause my oldest sister is turning 30, and we gotta embarrass her properly. I am also now registered for 2 different schools in 2 states, for the fall. So, I need to pick a place to live soon.
And, in high school I lived in the sticks and we'd skip last hour on wednesdays and drive to another small town, but this one had a burger king. And we called that, Whopper Wednesday.
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/20/2006 06:18 PM EST
I'll probably go to Toronto and New York for a vacation. I'm definately going to New York in Decemeber too.
In fact, I went to Boston and New York in January and recently had a long weekend in Copenhagen.
That's one of the great things about living in England, we get loads of vacation time and Europe is on the doorstep. I do like New York though.
And also if England get to the World Cup final, I'm going to Germany, even if I have to sell my house.
Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 05/20/2006 06:19 PM EST
Pffth.
I have no plans what soever.
Besides spending all my free time on the internet.
Man this week is gonna rule.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 05/20/2006 07:05 PM EST
I need to get a proper job this summer.
So I can have money for college in the fall.
Which I don't wanna do, because I feel weird about getting a late start. Some folks my age are already graduating and I haven't even started.
But my brother loses his financial aid if I don't go. There are worse things I could do, I suppose.
Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 05/20/2006 07:47 PM EST
I haven't had a real vacation in years. By that, I mean taking a trip somewhere. Offtime from work, I lay around the house and do basically nothing. Glamorous, yeah I know. I don't feel the desire to travel anymore, it all feels like work to me. I'm sure I'd feel different if I were married or had kids, but since I don't it all feels like alot of effort for something I likely wouldn't enjoy since I'd just feel alone doing it by myself.
That, plus I make alot less money than I used to. I work for a certain airline based in Atlanta, and we had 3 pay cuts last year. In addition to that, I've been on a 32 hour shift for the last year, so money is tight, not that I care so much. The 3 day weekends make up for it. Of course, having no cash means I spend all that time at home, heh. Most people take the reduced hour line to take classes or work another job; I'm probably the only one doing it just because I'm lazy.
Chestnuts roasted by The Kraken @ 05/20/2006 08:18 PM EST
I am very much looking forward to the summmer...because for the first time in my entire life, I'll be having a normal, QUIET summer. No tourists making noise in the hotels and apartments on either side of me. No drunken kids starting fights on the street at six AM. No praying a classic car won't run me down as I try to get to the boardwalk to blow money at the arcades I probably shouldn't be blowing. No fighting for hours at work with 500 different people from three states and five European countries. I've looked forward to this summer since I moved to Oaklyn in February - a summer in a nice, normal little town where June, July, and August are just a warmer time of year, not the be-all and end-all of the universe.
And with all that, I actually AM taking a vacation. I'm visiting my best friend, who lives in the Berkshire mountains in northwestern Massachussettes, in late July. I'm looking forward to that, too. It'll be just her, me, and her folks. We're gonna hit local mini-golf courses, check out her local Six-Flags, mall-hop, and hang out and do our own commentary for her DVDs.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/20/2006 08:57 PM EST
Damn, where the hell is everyone? It's SNT time, bitches!
Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 05/20/2006 11:21 PM EST
Speaking of Six Flags, I'm hoping to go to Great Adventure sometime within the next month, or when El Toro opens, whichever one comes first.
Last night (friday) was my Frat's Formal...it's kinda like a prom, but much more private. And BOY did I get drunk (open bar). I just want to thank XE that this was at a Holiday Inn and everyone stayed in the hotel and no one drove anywhere. I'm currently feeling my first hangover troughout today. Lots of crazy stuff happened, I just don't wanna do anything right now.
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/20/2006 11:22 PM EST
sorry mystie, I'm tired, a few more beers and I should be good.
my dogs are the only pets that don't make me sad when they die because they live a long time and I always expect. Excepet Scottie he died while I was at grandmas when I was seven. That was sad.
Chestnuts roasted by mrjayberry @ 05/20/2006 11:50 PM EST
Let's get this bitch on 'til the break of dawn like hot buttered popcorn.
My summer will consist of slaving away at near-slave-wages at a movie theater overrun by teenagers.
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/21/2006 12:08 AM EST
Well, as nutso as it sounds. I'm playing Final Fantasy XI this summer. Yeah, two (three?) years late, sue me. I'm actually playing on a PS2. Had to trade my slimline for a chubby and everything. You do not want to know how much money I sunk into this rig. But for my favorite series of all time, I glady empty my coffers.
If anyone needs the services of a theif from Bastok, hit me up. My name supposedly means Airport Fireplace. I rule and suck simultaneously.
Chestnuts roasted by the proud Knegative is now the lowly Kukoro @ 05/21/2006 01:07 AM EST
Well, I'm going on a cruise with my parents (I'm 14), as well as going to Universal Studios and to my grandpa's place in Texas. That's basically it.
Chestnuts roasted by TOM @ 05/21/2006 01:16 AM EST
Matt-I actually searched for the Ghoulie movies for a while. Even worse is Ghoulies IV was the first one I saw then I worked backwards. Never did find the orginal though.
Chestnuts roasted by mrjayberry @ 05/21/2006 01:19 AM EST
100 min since the last post...looks like people took tonight off. Summer for me is going to be a 5-day weekend in July to go to Florida for the girlfriend's family reunion. Looking fwd to that, as well as the ragtop rental car. Other than that, it's slaving for the MAn, taking the C line t owork each day. Such is I.
Chestnuts roasted by J. Gatz @ 05/21/2006 03:00 AM EST
Looks like the doh-mani curse struck again. At least it was not both our faults this time, dohopki.
Matt, you S.O.B., thanks to you I watched Heartbeeps yesterday. It wasn't that bad at all just pointless. John Williams doing the music and Stan Winston doing the make-up lend the project a lot more credibility than it should have.
Bottom line: Robot movies do not compute.
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/21/2006 09:33 AM EST
I spent last night protesting The DaVinci Code with a couple of friends of mine (not that we care, mind you. We did it just because we though it would be an interesting experience). The protestors, though a little fanatical, are absolutely nice people. My sign: The DaVinci Code? More like the DUMB-Vinci Code.
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/21/2006 10:41 AM EST
y'all know it's BITNERMAS!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by crazyrememberer @ 05/21/2006 11:25 AM EST
I didn't have anything interesting to add last night! I should have posted to mention about how the Dad from Little People, Big World bragged about being an Ewok in "one of the Star Wars movies" but I checked the credits and it wasn't Return of the Jedi, if you catch my drift. It's still cool as hell, actually. Now I'm watching the "Geeks, Freaks & Sidekicks" ep of Child Star Confidential because I wanted the skinny on the kid from Dick Tracy...child actors do NOT have it easy. Nothing will ever soften my dislike of Dustin Diamond, though.
Sad to hear about your pets, Mystie.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/21/2006 12:37 PM EST
Manimal - If you are really going to Antietam, you will be right down the road from me. 
Ryan - Sounds like my summer. Maybe it's a curse on our names or something?
J. Gatz - We have the same livejournal layout. :o You'll have to take my word on it, since I don't really wanna post the link.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/21/2006 12:45 PM EST
Holy crap! I had no idea it was Bitnermas. And me without all my unreleased He-man toys.
Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 05/21/2006 01:27 PM EST
Hey Manimal, next time you want to want to avoid our curse, get everyone to talk about lotion. Worked for me
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 05/21/2006 01:30 PM EST
I'll be going to Ireland for a family wedding in August. I'm the oldest of 18 cousins on my mom's side, but since they're all in the UK and my brother and I are in the US, we never get to see them. So that'll be nice, especially now that it's been 4 years since we were last over there. A few more of them will have crossed that threshold between annoying, time-wasting child and moderately interesting adult you can actually have a conversation with.
Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/21/2006 01:44 PM EST
dohopoki: I remember the lotion thread. Good times. Good times. I mean, I still don't use lotion, partly because I'm a guy and partly because my skin is naturally as soft and silky-smooth as the inside of your mom's purse, but good times nevertheless.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/21/2006 05:27 PM EST
Tonight being the last Sopranos is contributing powerfully to the Sunday funk. Next week will be worse, I suppose. Thankfully there's always X-E...I've already read the Double Dragon, Rainbow Brite and Popples articles. As a completely superfluous aside, I was also reading some old archives from another site in a similar vein as X-E and they don't hold up near as well. X-E archives improve with age
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/21/2006 06:09 PM EST
Has anyone ever mentioned that the seemingly anonymous kid on the back of the Rainbow Brite cereal was Brian, the only person on earth who can see Rainbow as evidenced in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)?
Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 05/21/2006 06:35 PM EST
Summer plans? Must be effin' nice. Once I close on my house I'm spending my entire effin' summer priming every wall of my new house because the current owners are craetons who watch "Trading Spaces" way too much. A black bedroom. Need I say more?
Oh, yeah. And drinking in my white-trash-o-rific $200 Wal-Mart pool next to my goldfish pond.
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/21/2006 09:14 PM EST
My biggest regret is that I left off an "o" on the dohO-mani curse. That entire post was filled with little errors now that I look back on it.
Ryane,I will be a big, "HELLO RYANE" when I reach the Dunkard Church.
DUMB-Vinci Code shouldn't be funny but it is!
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/21/2006 09:15 PM EST
Manimal -- you'll love Antietam. Went when I was in college with my Civil War prof. Great trip, better than Gettysburg. Great museum and visitor center. Go down to Harper's Ferry if you get a chance too, give you a good feel for the Light Division's force march. Oh, and check out the huge photo when you walk into the visitor's center. It's a reproduction of the only photo of the AONV on the march.
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/21/2006 09:22 PM EST
Just got back from Florida visiting my brother. We went canoeing in this awesome spring and there were manatees there. It got me pretty pumped. Now I'm just hanging out until July, then going to Oxford for study abroad until August. Summer is cool.
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 05/21/2006 10:19 PM EST
There IS one more new Sopranos ep! I thought there was, but there being no ep next week threw me off. Awesome!
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/21/2006 10:20 PM EST
I graduated from college in December, and while I have a contractual job I am still looking for the big one. At least I have a part-time job to help me out, because contractual writing can be sporadic.
Also, I will be heading out to Baltimore in late July to catch the White Sox (Baltimore is the closest to Raleigh in terms of cities the team frequents in the AL). I might go to zoo in Washington also, I have been hearing lots about the new panda cub there.
Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 05/21/2006 10:38 PM EST
Looking forward to another exciting hurricane season in Miami. Making some paper off of the post destruction lawn work. Working at a uniform store for private schools so I can get yelled at in Spanish by rich trophy wives driving Escalades.Probably hitting up South Beach occasionally, and occasionally walking through the nude section with my aviators on. Start clubbing now that I can vote.
hmmmm. I guess its not going to be too bad, its wierd growing up in a place where everyone else wants to vacate to. Everyone my age can't wait to leave to college.
Chestnuts roasted by maqzun @ 05/21/2006 11:26 PM EST
Looks like HBO's taking Memorial Day weekend off... then shows end, but THEN June 11th is the perfect storm of HBO shows. Deadwood and Entourage come back, and Lucky Louie and Tourgasm premiere.
It's enough to make me forgive HBO for pushing back Deadwood. Oh, HBO... you know I can't stay mad at you, baby.
Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/21/2006 11:35 PM EST
Dumb as it is at times, I'm eager for new Entourage...and Tourgasm is sure to be kickass. When does new Extras come back? Just caught the Simpson's ep that Ricky Gervais wrote...Pretty funny, especially the song.
Saw some Superman edition Life cereal at the store, plus some Cap'n Crunch as well.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/22/2006 01:02 AM EST
Through the magic of YouTube, I have found the My Little Apocalypse Pony clip from last sunday's Robot Chicken, not to mention most of the other awesome sketches, like tonight's FF7 burger store sketch.
Another great one from tonight that's sure to pop on this site and ours: Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles
"I just cowabunga'd in my pants!"
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/22/2006 01:46 AM EST
Ah, Robot Chicken. How happy you make me. Numa numa numa.
There's this emo kid I work with that's convinced children today would be better if they had more Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters. My office is the best ever... except someone stole my Birdie magnet.
Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 05/22/2006 07:27 AM EST
Dohomani Lotion. At fine nostalgia websites everywhere. Endorsed by the Greased-Up Deaf Guy.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/22/2006 12:06 PM EST
Check it out! Star Wars Potato Heads!
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/22/2006 12:08 PM EST
We're going to Fire Island the 1st week in July for vacation. Except we're not staying on Fire Island, because we can't afford it, so we're staying at a hotel in Commack, Long Island and taking the ferry over every day.
Labor Day weekend we're driving down to do the Jersey Shore thing. We're staying in Tom's River and going to the beach at Point Pleasant.
Hmm. For hardcore Massachusettsites/Red Sox fan; we spend a lot of time in hated Yankee country...
Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 05/22/2006 12:14 PM EST
Ummmmm... are you still selling Mystery Boxes?
http://209.50.251.48/mystery.html
I want one.
Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 05/22/2006 12:29 PM EST
Camp, Mission Trip with church, class, workshop, etc.
Busy Summer.
Chestnuts roasted by Dixon Deeper @ 05/22/2006 12:40 PM EST
LemurCat
I'm gonna spend my summer envying those who can afford to own their own home.
Oh, I kid. The black bedroom does sound creepy.
Also, AI finales this week....can't wait. I have decided that I wish for Taylor to win, 'cause I cannot imagine how they're gonna market him. And as unfair as it is, The girl reminds me of Katie Holmes, after hooking up with Tom Cruise and that's scary.
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/22/2006 02:11 PM EST
Being that life sux I'm gonna be workin this whole summer. Which means I'm gonna spend the weekends in long lines at great adventure and in traffic trying to get whereever the hell people convince me to go on my weekends off. I just know the woman is gonna drag me to dorney park. I've come to hate that place. 1st of all the ride there is too long and the rides when you get there are boring! Man this summer is gonna succcckkkk!
Chestnuts roasted by PRSense @ 05/22/2006 04:43 PM EST
STarted my summer the last weekend of April. Went to South Beach. Figured since we're turning 30, and it's all down hill from here, might as well go down in a blazing glory.
May end up going back there again in July.
Bachelor party in Vegas for 4 days at the end of August. Hope to drink enough 151 to loosen me up so I get some nerve to actually speak to some females.
I hate being a computer nerd.....
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 05/22/2006 04:51 PM EST
Darth Galvatron - No, no, no, don't hate being a computer nerd.
Those are the best! click this
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/22/2006 08:59 PM EST
Came across this promising sounding remark from Ratner regarding X3: "I was less interested in trying to make my mark than [in making] a movie that fit into the trilogy.''
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/22/2006 09:19 PM EST
If X3 ends up not sucking, I'm going to send Brett Ratner a bouquet of flowers, along with a sign to hang up in his office that says "Thank You For Not Sucking." And under the circle-and-slash will be a picture of Chris Tucker with his mouth wide open.
And if he lives up to expectations, the flowers and novelty sign will of course be replaced by a thoughtful arrangement of lead piping, nitroglicerine, and an assortment of rusty nails.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/22/2006 11:34 PM EST
I already took my summer vacation.
I went to Canyonlands National Park for a weekend of off-road adventures with some friends from work (the only kind I have in Idaho). We drove a 100 mile trail over a couple of days, and it was really pretty in a desolate sort of way. If Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" inspired you with visions of desert vistas, Canyonlands and Arches National Parks should be on your list of places to visit.
What cracked me up about that trip was the contrast everyone had between their "work" persona and their "recreation" persona. We left from work, and in some cases you could just watch the weight of responsibility leaving them. Slumped shoulders and downcast eyes gave way to happy faces and sprightly gaits. Stark professionalism (we deal with nuclear waste and the government, after all) changed to drunken stupors. A good time was had by all. The only downer was the wind, and the fact that our campsite was bare rock. I had to load about 200 lbs of rock into my tent to make it stay put, since I couldn't stake it down. Still, one of the guys got a pretty funny video of me taking the tent down. All you see is a rock come whizzing out the doorway every few seconds, and you can hear my steady stream of profanity.
Another thing that cracked me up about that trip was the contrast in the general atmosphere. At work, not long before the end of the day, we had to endure a briefing from our supervisors on stair safety. Some genius at the head office in Pittsburgh tried to carry the top of a desk down some stairs by himself, with predictable results. I feel sorry for his injuries, and I hope he makes a full recovery. I also thought he was an idiot for being so reckless, and making me take time away from my real work for a stupid briefing when I'm overloaded and working overtime. BTW, overtime sucks when you don't get paid for it; being salaried sucks. Anyway, my attitude was so different less than 48 hours later. My friend made the mistake of removing the top from his Jeep for the trip. I was half-loaded, hanging on for dear life, standing up in the Jeep, with no safety belt or anything hold me in but brute strength and a roll bar, bouncing down a rough trail at 20 or 30 mph. Talk about risky! At work I'd never even THINK of doing something so crazy.
I went back to work for a day, then spent almost a week in the Seattle area. I got sent there for work, so I just used the free plane ticket to go to an area that I've never visited before. Seattle seems like a pretty nice town, but vacationing by yourself is kind of sucky. I felt like such an alcoholic the two times I tried to go to bars. Plus, I'm not used to homeless people constantly pestering me for handouts. It's super annoying. Perhaps I should have more compassion, but mostly I just wanted to wear a sandwich board that said "I'm not giving you a dime, because I know you'll just blow it on booze."
I'll spend the rest of the summer working a shit-ton of overtime and looking for another job. It's becoming a race to quit out where I work. The hiring process takes almost a year because a)it's a government contractor and b) the government does an extensive background check on you. That being the case, we're losing people faster than they get replaced. The rest of us have to try and pick up the slack. Since it also takes at least a good six months (or more) to learn enough of the bullshit rules we have to follow, even when new people get on-site they're useless for a long time. We're supposed to have about 60 experienced people out there to support starting up a major process line, and right now we've got about 30. Those of us who are left are crumbling under the workload, and we're all desperately trying to get out. A guy that started the same day as me just gave his two-weeks notice today, and I'm insane with jealousy. GRR!
Wow, I started out totally cheerful and now I'm completely whiny. Sorry.
Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 05/23/2006 01:10 AM EST
Wow, I just realized that I again made an excessively long post.
At least I'm prompting a new blog entry. I have a tendency to write a lot here because my life in Idaho is pathetic, and I have no one outside of work to rant to. Matt has a tendency to post a new entry shortly after I post one of my long diatribes, meaning no one actually reads them. Actually, I'm not sure anyone would read them anyway. Regardless, I say it's high time for a new thread.
Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 05/23/2006 01:15 AM EST
Newly discovered dinosaur named for Harry Potter: Dracorex hogwartsia, a member of the pachycephalosaur family, honors Rowling's use of dragons in her wildly popular children's book series. The name comes from the Latin words draco (dragon), rex (king), and hogwartsia (after the fictional Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry in "Harry Potter"
.
Pretty cool!
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/23/2006 01:32 AM EST
Ryane
Oh, if it were only that simple....
spaz307
If it makes you feel any better, I read the whole thing. I frequently need a distraction at work, so this is the best place to get it.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 05/23/2006 10:06 AM EST
Speaking of Youtube, I found the commercial for Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow. The audio was featured on a recent Retrocrush podcast, it makes you wonder how long the toy would be fun for. Also, the stereotypical farmer hick voiceover is a riot.
Mr. Bucket was featured on a podcast recently too; a toy game where you put his balls in the bucket. The ad writers must have had a lot of fun!
Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 05/23/2006 11:47 AM EST
Quick question. How do you link your name to a website? Like if I had a myspace page?
I know, I probably shouldn't be asking, but I do not specialize in HTML, at all. I do mostly other computer nerd work.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 05/23/2006 12:51 PM EST
Darth - here ya go
(A HREF="put your address here"
Darth Galvatron(/A)
Instead of the ( ) put those pointy bracket things 
That should work. That's how I did my link, so I doubt it would be any different in the "name" section.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/23/2006 01:16 PM EST
hehe, ok I have no idea WHY there's a smiley face in that. There wasn't when I previewed!
Well, anyhow, the face is supposed to be a ) which you then turn into a pointy bracket... hopefully that works. *shifty eyes*
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/23/2006 01:20 PM EST
For those of us not going on vacation, at least we have the X. And a future article from Matt after he recovers from his Disney excursion.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash from a disclosed locaton @ 05/23/2006 02:10 PM EST
I'm going to biloxi soon.
Chestnuts roasted by james"captian morgan"bowen @ 05/23/2006 02:52 PM EST
Animaniacs is coming and this isn't the first place I hear about it?!? Click my name for what details there are about it.
Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 05/23/2006 05:42 PM EST
Whoa- way late with this (damn MAY and all of its exam preparations at school). But for summer, I am looking forward to being UNEMPLOYED WITH PAY! Yup, my first deserved summer off after a first year of teaching. I plan to ROAD TRIP all over the place with the boyfriend- we are giving up our apartment in July and are officially going to live in the car and on friend's couches allllll summer- no rent! Going to split our time between friend's houses, parent's houses, cabins in the woods, cabins on the lake, the car, and a $70 tent. I cannot wait to do whatever the hell I want to do- play guitar, read, swim, and have some fun....until of course, September starts and I need to have a job and a real place to live again.
I want to see X3 very badly, but it is a 2 hour drive EACH WAY to get to the nearest English movie theater here...so, I might not see it for awhile, and I am worried about visiting the XE Blog for this week's SNT and read every single surprise the movie had...any chance of this SNT being one full of nice *spoiler warnings*? Does X3 merit that? I remember that the whole 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' stuff got kind of ugly on here...
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/23/2006 09:06 PM EST
Darth G if you want your name to link to a site you just paste the url into the "Homepage" field. If you want to link within your post you should use html, especially to shorten a huge url that will screw up the size of the page.
RAS, it has come up in previous threads, though not recently.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/23/2006 11:06 PM EST
I just got back from a seven day cruise. It was primo.
Chestnuts roasted by super_dex @ 05/24/2006 04:47 AM EST
ah ok, thanks Squee, I feel better knowing I just missed it.
Tom is that you?
Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 05/24/2006 10:19 AM EST
I am such a doofus. The homepage thing didn't even occur to me. Thanks for the info, Squee!
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/24/2006 10:46 AM EST
Thanks guys. I know there was a myspace group for this site. Or was I just imagining it?
Ryane I'm a doofus too, it's ok....we're all a little doofy inside...
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 05/24/2006 11:44 AM EST
We're spending most of this summer painting and renovating the house. I'd almost rather take a bullet to my left nut than paint. I think it's because I suck at it. I spend hours upon hours priming & painting a room only to look upon the finished product and think, "well, that looks like crap".
My parents bought my family season passes to...DOLLYWOOD! Actually, we enjoy it and they have a pretty awesome wooden coaster. My son and I have been 3 times already this year and we plan on going much more. They will probably revoke our passes since we have completely taken advantage of them. We are going to Williamsburg/Busch Gardens in July for a big expensive wedding bash that my spoiled niece is having. Good times are better when they are paid for by someone else!
Chestnuts roasted by freudguy @ 05/24/2006 12:08 PM EST
Hurrah! I found my old Fallout 2 CD, and it works for XP with a minimum of cursing and tweaking! Well, now I know what I'm doing with my summer...
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/24/2006 01:40 PM EST
That homepage thing works. Now I can be like everyone else!!
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 05/24/2006 02:22 PM EST
I'll probably go on my annual coaster trip. Last year it was Ohio to hit Cedar Point and King's Island. This year, I'm thinking either Florida for Islands of Adventure and Busch Gardens, or LA for Magic Mountain...
Chestnuts roasted by Scottyflamingo @ 05/24/2006 03:08 PM EST
I be rite here in front of my pc
Chestnuts roasted by xefan @ 05/24/2006 03:36 PM EST
Doofs unite! Time to overthrow the Undoofed! Rise up and.... (wanders off, distracted by something shiny)
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/24/2006 04:29 PM EST
The Wizard is coming to DVD! Click here for more!
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/24/2006 07:23 PM EST
Always happy to help 
I wanted to post this last night but I was getting spam blocked: Any of the resident King fans watch Desperation? I've still got to watch the very end (and haven't read the book in a long time) but I think they did a pretty good job. Perlman's all sorts of creepy. Also, Stephen Weber has aged really well. Tom Skerritt, not so much.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/24/2006 07:32 PM EST
Did you here Scottyflamingo that Cedar Fair just bought King Islands and the rest of Paramount parks.
Chestnuts roasted by Unknown @ 05/24/2006 09:09 PM EST
Hahahaha.. I love how they stole the videos from X-E to use on their article about The Wizard DVD.
Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 05/24/2006 09:52 PM EST
Mystie-Well, if ur gonna include clips in ur review of that movie, the "brests" clip is an absolute essential. And it doesn't really makes sense to rip your own clip when it's already available.
However, I still think that they could've included some of their own clips that Matt never used. Would've made the thing more original. But hey, you know ur big when other people are trying to copy you.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 05/25/2006 03:00 AM EST
The Wizard is finally coming to DVD? It is 7:48 AM, and my day has been MADE! Yes.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/25/2006 07:48 AM EST
Wizard, on DVD!?!? I am way happy about this. I never saw it, and I bet I'll enjoy it now, more than I would have way back when the Powerglove looked like the most outrageous toy EVER!
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/25/2006 11:34 AM EST
My ska band's going on tour through the Midwest this summer. Other than that? Nothing.
Chestnuts roasted by Timmy @ 05/25/2006 03:42 PM EST
Man, Thursday is almost over and this is only the fifth post today? If you people are getting away from your computers and going out in the fresh air just because it's summertime, I'm going to be very disappointed in all of you.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/25/2006 08:45 PM EST
nope, did not see "Desperation"...I think someone taped it for me, so I will get to see it pretty soon I think. I'm sure it was pretty well done, just as all recent King movies on ABC are "pretty well done" meaning that I don't think you can really do a King story justice within the confines of network TV. Although the confines of a big-budget motion picture are also hard to fit a King book into.
Of course, "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" were the recent exceptions to the rule...but then again, "Shawshank" was a novella, not a book, and "Green Mile" was an already serialized novel.
I still think, that with the success of The Matrix Trilogy, LOTR, and yes, the Star Wars prequels...that a three-installment telling of "The Stand" would be just insanely perfect!! And there are def. enough King fan(atic)s out there to wait for all three movies and come back for them. I really don't think "The Stand" on ABC was that great...but that's just me.
And that's my beef with King movies on ABC...although, he must be getting as ASSLOAD of moolah; that's for damn sure!
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/25/2006 09:39 PM EST
Heading to New York City in a couple weeks. Going to see the Yankkes play the Red Sox and Oakland A's. Absolutely can't wait for the whole trip in general.
Chestnuts roasted by ctindex @ 05/25/2006 10:37 PM EST
Plans for the summer?
Well, I'm thinking of taking fencing lessons. I'm waiting on an e-mail to see how much the beginner course is.
Who knows, maybe I'll have a three way fight with Westley and Inigo.
The Wizard on DVD!!!
Back in the day, that movie was all about SMB3 to me. I was blinded to the big N's advertising and god-awful script. How times have changed. (Thanks in no small part to X-E. Thanks Matt!)
Chestnuts roasted by CWH @ 05/26/2006 08:31 AM EST
So I learned something about chemistry this morning. See, last night around bedtime, I had a sour stomach, so I found me some Pepto Bismol tablets left over from freshman year, which I thought were chewable. As it turns out, they were technically chewable, just not quite as chewable as I had hoped. Not tasty. So I rinsed my mouth out as well as I was able and went to bed.
And then this morning I woke up with a foul taste in my mouth...and my tongue was black. Woke me right the hell up, let me tell you. So I rush to my computer, trying to imagine what fiendish breed of flesh-eating bacteria could have gotten ahold of my precious tongue. As it turns out, though, a little research reveals that bismuth, the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol, reacts with your saliva to bake bismuth sulfide, a black, foul-tasting compound which is essentially harmless.
The moral of the story: it is scary when things happen to your tongue without warning.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/26/2006 08:31 AM EST
Hey. I haven't posted in a little while. I just haven't had much to say. That hasn't really changed, I just miss you guys.
As for summer plans, I may or may not be going to my husband's cousin's wedding across the country. We're trying to save up for A LOT of stuff, and a couple $400 plane tickets weren't in the plans (I've been watching the fares for months now.) My husband talked to his aunt early this week and she is going to buy one of our tickets for us with points, but when I asked my husband if she was going to buy two tickets (and we pay her for one) or if she's going to just buy his, he answered with an idignant, "I don't know!" Like, what kind of anal-retentive person would ask a question like that? Arrgh. And this was right after I told him two days before that I wasn't sure I wanted us to pay for me to go, and then he gives the aunt the go ahead with no questions asked (meanwhile getting frustrated with me for being frustrated with him.) So, no cool vacation plans unfortunately. Gee, I guess I had more to say than I thought...
Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 05/26/2006 09:56 AM EST
Jedoc -- been there, done that. Always brush or scrape your tongue after taking Pepto chewables. Tis why I prefer the capsules or the liquid, but the chewable travel oh so well.
Pepto tends to make something else black, too, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, I had a rather pleasant surprise at 5:30 this AM. Apparently Cartoon Network runs old Mr. T cartoons then. I unfortunately missed the last ten minutes to go catch the train though.
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/26/2006 10:06 AM EST
Nice- I remember when I discovered that "Captain Planet" came on at 5:30 AM when I lived in Korea.
Tonight is the opening of "X3- The Last Stand"...again, I plead the XE blog faithful to give advance warning of spoilers as I live in a desolate rural wasteland that does not allow me to see the damn movie without driving 2 hours EACH WAY.
I can't wait for summer so I can get out of here, and live out of my car.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/26/2006 11:43 AM EST
"Rosebud" is the name of Prof. X's chair.
There, I just saved you 90 Spider-Manless minutes.
I was going for a more accurate quote, but with Mystique, one can't really say the film is "boobless."
Now with gas prices and all, quite a few of us won't be able to hit the road as much as we would like. As a public service, I ask:
What "road trip" movies wouldst thy fellow X-posters recommend? To seed the discussion I offer....
Beavis and Butthead Do America.
National Lampoon's Vacation.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. (admit it, you've seen this one)
Fandango.
any takers?
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/26/2006 12:26 PM EST
Road trip movies, eh? Interesting.
I reccommend "Sideways" as a newer option, and "The Wizard" as my older option...
"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" as my stoner option.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/26/2006 12:59 PM EST
"Great. Just what this country needs. A cock in a frock on a rock!"
I had a lesbian roommate in college. She loved Priscilla.
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/26/2006 01:09 PM EST
Good road trip movies:
The Sure Thing (John Cusack)
Perfect World (kevin Costner)
Crossroads (Britney Spears) just kidding
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/26/2006 01:40 PM EST
Hoo boy! Road trip movies?
The ultimate is Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, of course.
Lord of the Rings is like one big twelve-hour road trip. O Brother Where Art Thou is awesome. Dogma's a good'un. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a road trip movie, albeit a futuristic one. The Wizard of Oz is a road trip movie in the past.
I want to watch a road trip movie now, damnit.
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/26/2006 09:24 PM EST
My Own Private Idaho AKA the original Brokeback Mountain. j/k, haven't seen BBM yet. I want to though.
Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 05/27/2006 01:07 AM EST
Well Jedoc I've hit the spam blocker a number of times, maybe I'm not the only one. Here's hoping I get through now!
*mild Lost spoiler*
Clancy Brown returned in the most kick ass capacity imaginable! Didn't see that one coming. *endz*
I really want to go to Dollywood thanks to Travel Channel. Thanks to recent blog stuff I really want to go to WDW too. Looking forward to some trip coverage 
Road movies...Cannibal! The Musical, Beyond Thunderdome, Magical Mystery Tour, Blues Brothers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thelma and Louise. If I may expand the parameters a bit I'll throw in Carnivale and Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Cord.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/27/2006 02:33 AM EST
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Chestnuts roasted by Ralph- @ 05/27/2006 12:40 PM EST
Go-go Gadget Mattel Superman Inflato-Suit!
"You can tell it's Mattel, it's swell(ing)!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/27/2006 01:47 PM EST
i like to take mental vacations. that way i can visit NYC circa 1984 and see the ghostbusters, and Hill Valley in 85 and check out my man Marty.
Chestnuts roasted by trips @ 05/27/2006 01:47 PM EST
Hehe, it's the next Saturday. We could just keep using this thread as the SNT.
Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 05/27/2006 03:05 PM EST
SNT would be an amazing title of a funk/soul song.
(can you mesh, funk and soul?)
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/27/2006 03:21 PM EST
Nay I say! New SNT! Chant with me!
NEW SNT! NEW SNT! NEW SNT!
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 05/27/2006 03:26 PM EST
where oh where is matt?!?!
WDW perhaps??
Squee: CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL IS AMAZING!!!, your the only other cat i know that likes it besides myself...
AAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNDDD...IS ANYONE ELSE AS EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW MARIO WORLD FOR NINTENDO-DS AS I AM?!
AWWW COME ON, LET YOUR GEEK FLAG FLY!!!
im gonna get some milk cartons printed with matts pic on it, i need an update!!!
hope everyones enjoyin summer so far, stay indoors!, watch nerdy but good horror flicks, fuck the great outdoors!!
your my kinda people, heh heh
El-Josh-0
Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 05/27/2006 03:59 PM EST
I'm hoooome. Yep, back from Disney World. We had a really great time, and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that I took over 800 pictures. Thank God for supersized camera cards. The trip was everything I'd hoped it'd be -- a place to get lost in a sea of mouse and candy. Great rides, goofy characters and enough souveniers for a self-imposed spending limit for the next six months.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/27/2006 04:01 PM EST
YAAAAAAY!!!!!
WELCOME BACK MATT!!!!
im gonna speak for everyone when i say we all missed you dude, NOW GIVE US SOME GREAT PICS/VACATION STORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh You Know I Love You'se!!
El-Josh-0
Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 05/27/2006 04:08 PM EST
Rad. Welcome back.
Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 05/27/2006 04:10 PM EST
YAYYYY! Matt's back! And right before I leave for Air Force training.
(waves terrifying claws in a gesture of wubb.)
Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 05/27/2006 04:12 PM EST
Yep, Im Postin Again, So Shoot ME!!
MATT: I was wondering if you have the original rom for the game that SMB 2 is based on, cant remember the name iand i cant find the article that you mention it in, drop me a line if you have it, oh and if anyone else wants to trade some rad roms/movies/episodes(im looking for some venture bros.) get at me at maptosleepwalking@hotmail.com
and fuck it, if your interested in chattin it up look me up on msn also!!
COME ON, ENTERTAIN ME, IM SOOOO SOO BOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEED!!!
El-Josh-0
Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 05/27/2006 04:12 PM EST
Welcome home, Matt!
I had a feeling you were at Disney, you lucky bum, you.
Can't wait to see some pictures!
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 05/27/2006 04:20 PM EST
Welcome back, Great One. Sounds like you had a good trip. Hope you got to ride the Tower of Terror and the Haunted Mansion.
JoshC: I, too, love Cannibal the Musical. In spite of my pull as VP of my school's theater club, I couldn't get them to do a stage version for the Spring musical (and I pitched it three or four times).
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/27/2006 05:14 PM EST
Welcome back, Matt! How long did you last before you hit your french frie maximum level? I think I hit mine on the third day the last time I was down in Wally World ... er I mean Disney World. Can't wait for your review, dude.
Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/27/2006 05:24 PM EST
omgz, I didn't know ANYONE ELSE BESIDES ME like Cannibal! the Musical!! Wo0t!
leik, w0Wzerz!
Chestnuts roasted by Your best guess here @ 05/27/2006 06:33 PM EST
Hey JoshC...two seconds on Google = "Doki Doki Panic"...two more seconds yielded the ROM...this is your mission, should you choose to accept it. Good Luck.
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/27/2006 06:36 PM EST
I don't know anyone who doesn't like Cannibal (except me) so perhaps you're not as lonely as you think. It was talked up so much that when I finally saw it...eh. It's like a lame in-joke.
Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 05/27/2006 07:12 PM EST
Did someone say I should panic?
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 05/27/2006 08:05 PM EST
doho doho panic!!
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/27/2006 08:52 PM EST
Welcome back Matt.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 05/27/2006 10:03 PM EST
SNT, anyone?
Not that I ever participate all that heavily, but it's still one of those traditions for me.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 05/27/2006 10:35 PM EST
Welcome back Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/27/2006 10:44 PM EST
So, how goes it?
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 05/27/2006 10:46 PM EST
Welcome home, Matt...
So when is the inevitable Disney World article going up?
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 05/27/2006 10:56 PM EST
Let's see the pics. Your 15.5 seconds of rest are over now.
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 05/28/2006 12:30 AM EST
Woo! Welcome back! Looking forward to seeing a few of those 800.
Cannibal! really works best with the audio commentary. It's the only commentary I've ever heard (excluding Orgazmo) where they have to take a break because the weedman shows up.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/28/2006 12:49 AM EST
Fuck, Ghoulies IV is on FLIX right now, and I don't get that damn channel. Oh well, I guess it's back to He Got Game...
Welcome back Matt! You know, if you have to limit your spending for six months...you came out ahead of the game!
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 05/28/2006 02:16 AM EST
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention this but...well...welcome back, Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 05/28/2006 02:46 AM EST
Yay! Matt's back. I missed the SNT. Even though I never post on it. Just knowing it's there is enough.
Chestnuts roasted by Gadget Mouse @ 05/28/2006 06:05 AM EST
Matt's Back! And it's got a tan!
Here I is, at work, because this weekend starts the "Summer Hours" here at the Gallery. Memorial Day Sale going on, 40% off original art and 30% off jewelry and crafts. Act like a tourist, and I'll mock you behind your back! Mention you heard about us on the 'net, and maybe the boss'll spring for a better computer!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash, enjoying industrial-strength air conditioning @ 05/28/2006 03:08 PM EST
Matt, you've got a lot of nerve coming back here after what you pulled. You old pirate.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 05/28/2006 03:08 PM EST
Can't believe I missed Bitnermas, and I was there from the beginning, oh well, am I still in time for Bitnerannakuh?
Chestnuts roasted by whitemale_98 @ 05/28/2006 03:45 PM EST
I wonder if Matt was there during Star Wars weekend and waited about four weeks just for souveniers. While flying back from Disney World a week ago, I talked to a girl who waited that long just for brother to get a Darth Goofy Plush!
Chestnuts roasted by Unknown @ 05/28/2006 06:00 PM EST
I celebrated Bitnermas, but it's only 5 more shopping days till Bitnerwanzaa!
And WB MATT! Finally.....when is that article coming up??
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/28/2006 06:06 PM EST
Oh, I am so excited to see WDW stuff, Ive only been once and I need to go again, is 2 years too soon to go on a second honeymoon?
Welcome back Matt!
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 05/28/2006 07:41 PM EST
Welcome back, Matt- you lucky dog, you. Can't wait to live vicariously through your pics/report. I only went to WDW once, and it was for ONE day at ONE park, so I feel the need to go again whenever the wallet allows me.
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/28/2006 07:47 PM EST
About Girly links:
I like my little pony
Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 05/28/2006 08:09 PM EST
I will beginning my summer witha trip to Berlin PA. this Sunday to pick up my new Shih_tzu puppy "Dottie Jean the Beauty Queen" I also know the 7 11 by the Woodbridge mall with the slurpees...my aunt used to live in the apartments over in the background of the picture you posted...Green meadow or green something i can't remember....
Chestnuts roasted by mandy _28_78 @ 05/31/2006 08:12 PM EST