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January 07, 2004
SpoFi Boston meetup this weekend? Either the Pats game or Hot Stove Cool Music? Our motto: "Isn't it about time for another A-Rod post?"
posted by Bryant to navel gazing at 03:23 PM - 51 comments
Oh, thanks for the link. Here I was going to sleep happily tonight when I could be pondering this: "The Fabulous Penetrations featuring Peter Gammons"
posted by yerfatma at 04:25 PM on January 07, 2004
Boo, sold out. Oh well. Sadly, I actually was more interested in seeing Kay Hanley than I was in seeing Theo Epstein. My shame is public now.
posted by Bryant at 04:32 PM on January 07, 2004
I wanted to go to it too. Apparently Trauser (Theo Epstein's band) does a lot of Pearl Jam songs.
posted by jerseygirl at 05:00 PM on January 07, 2004
not cool. can you not link to goatse.cx like that? I'd hate to see someone half paying attention to their status bar actually click that at work.
posted by jerseygirl at 06:15 PM on January 07, 2004
Don't you get it jg? That was funny on /. 3 years ago. Why wouldn't it still be a riot? Either way, tubgirl's way more up-to-date and even that's old. Somewhere out there, kids are just being born who will do even more disgusting things in front of a camera someday.
posted by yerfatma at 06:50 PM on January 07, 2004
is that a fork imposter up there or did he just reregister?
posted by goddam at 07:50 PM on January 07, 2004
damn. good eyes. didnt even see that.
posted by jerseygirl at 07:53 PM on January 07, 2004
goddam & jerseygirl = cagney & lacey
posted by lilnemo at 10:00 PM on January 07, 2004
Which one was the fat one, again?
posted by hincandenza at 10:41 PM on January 07, 2004
What about a Seattle spofi hookup? Except the only other Spofiteaner from Seattle that I'm aware is vito90, whom I've already met. :)
posted by hincandenza at 10:42 PM on January 07, 2004
Ahem. Bellingham (Washington) is in the house. And I haven't met either of y'all.
posted by jeffmshaw at 11:30 PM on January 07, 2004
Which one was the fat one, again? i think they were both kind of frumpy.
posted by jerseygirl at 07:54 AM on January 08, 2004
maybe towards the late spring/early summer we can have a boston spofi meet up or something. when the temperature outside is fit for human occupation. well i am off to warm up my car, put on 16 layers of clothing and wrap my head in a scarf. good old weatherbug is reading a balmy 10 degrees now. 39 days until pitchers and catchers report...
posted by jerseygirl at 07:59 AM on January 08, 2004
no way, lacey was a babe.
posted by garfield at 09:01 AM on January 08, 2004
Yeah she wasn't too bad. Hm. HEY! Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter was on Cagney and Lacey!
posted by jerseygirl at 09:57 AM on January 08, 2004
Robert Hegyes, the pride of Metuchen, NJ.
posted by goddam at 10:20 AM on January 08, 2004
I wasn't implying frumpiness. Just some kickass perceptive cop-like skillz boyyyyyy! Sorry, was channeling Tim Hardaway there. Or was it Flavor flav? 
Yeaaaah, Boiyyyyyyyy!!!
posted by lilnemo at 11:49 AM on January 08, 2004
oh my god, he has a viking hat on.
posted by jerseygirl at 11:53 AM on January 08, 2004
oh my god, he has a viking hat on. but the oversized clock on a chain is okay?
posted by lilnemo at 12:21 PM on January 08, 2004
it's flava flav, i expected the clock.
posted by jerseygirl at 12:33 PM on January 08, 2004
Don't be playa-hatin' on the Flav. Dude was waaaaay ahead of his time.
posted by rocketman at 12:54 PM on January 08, 2004
did someone say flava flav clock?
posted by goddam at 12:55 PM on January 08, 2004
woah.
posted by lilnemo at 01:20 PM on January 08, 2004
If the alarm for that clock was him shouting "YEAAAAA BOYYYYY!", I would SO buy that for one of my friends. Also, it would have to be about $50 cheaper. Man, these lockerroom threads just go completely off the rails...
posted by grum@work at 02:03 PM on January 08, 2004
grum, click on the little square on the far right (next to "click to hear flavor flav wake you up")
posted by goddam at 02:09 PM on January 08, 2004
"Get up, a get get down!" oh yeah, i'd throw that thing against a wall.
posted by jerseygirl at 02:29 PM on January 08, 2004
"Get up, a get get down!" Classic Flav. I'd prefer if he did something unique and original just for the clocks. Something like: Get up Beeyotch!
posted by lilnemo at 02:47 PM on January 08, 2004
Oh.My.God. If my fat tax return comes this week, I am SOOOOO ordering this. But how the hell is $85 the clearance price?!?
posted by wfrazerjr at 06:52 PM on January 08, 2004
Since we've devolved, I gotta brag about my Rolling Stones bootleg finds lately. You will never know the good life until you hear a studio outtake of Keith singing "Gimme Shelter." Screw Clapton, Richards is god! Usenet rules your face. I mean, where else are you going to find The Beatles' "The Twickenham Sessions"?
posted by NoMich at 10:42 PM on January 08, 2004
911 is a joke in my town.
posted by yerfatma at 08:07 AM on January 09, 2004
bass... how low can you go?
posted by forksclovetofu at 10:09 AM on January 09, 2004
I got a letter from the government the other day. I opened it and read it, it said they were suckers.
posted by rocketman at 11:08 AM on January 09, 2004
5-0 say "Freeze!" and I got numb.
posted by garfield at 11:31 AM on January 09, 2004
Can't truss it!
posted by lilnemo at 01:25 PM on January 09, 2004
A brother like me said, "Well, Farrakhan's a prophet that I think you ought to listen to: what he can do for you, what you ought to do is follow for now . . ."
posted by yerfatma at 01:48 PM on January 09, 2004
How to fight the power? Cannot run and hide - but it shouldn't be suicide.
posted by rocketman at 02:11 PM on January 09, 2004
Yo! SpoFi Raps.
posted by jerseygirl at 03:13 PM on January 09, 2004
It seems me people have been watching too much Channel Zero. Don't make me take your set and throw it out the window, gee.
posted by jeffmshaw at 03:23 PM on January 09, 2004
Ice Cube is down with the PE Now every single bitch wanna see me Awesome.
posted by wfrazerjr at 07:14 PM on January 09, 2004
You know, on the page with the Flava Flav clocks ... you can kinda mix your own stuff with the four sampled Flava pieces. I like to mix the "Bass fo' yo face!" with the classic "Yeeeeeaaahhhh, boooiiiiiii!" My staff thinks I'm nuts, though.
posted by wfrazerjr at 07:18 PM on January 09, 2004
You guys are starting to remind me of the guys in Office Space when they listen to gangsta rap and dance. Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:46 PM on January 09, 2004
posted by jerseygirl at 10:47 PM on January 09, 2004
geto boys are the greatest, jg. why do all your posted pics look like X's to me? are you trying to tell me something? On another note, the quote fiestas for the last week have come courtesy of flava flav and eddie izzard. Now there's a supergroup I'd pay to see. "I say, that's an awfully large clock you have hanging there!" "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah, boiiiiiiiiiiii... uh... girrrrrrrrrrl... uh..."
posted by forksclovetofu at 11:58 PM on January 09, 2004
i dont know. i blame netscape.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:03 AM on January 10, 2004
At first, I thought he IMDB might have a method of blocking "hotlinking", which is essentially what JG is doing (putting the picture in her comment, but making IMDB carry the bandwidth load). So I'll give it a try myself: In preview it works, even when I add in the height and width (shrinking it by 50%) and border tags(removing them) and then make it a link to itself. In fact, JG's picture comes back as well! If it fails on "post", then there is something going on during the display of the regular web page (but not in preview mode) that is smashing these picture links.
posted by grum@work at 11:40 AM on January 10, 2004
And now both pictures work (for now).
posted by grum@work at 11:40 AM on January 10, 2004
Not for me grum.
posted by billsaysthis at 03:09 PM on January 10, 2004
And now they don't work again. This is very weird.
posted by grum@work at 03:52 PM on January 10, 2004
Yah, it looks like IMDB is definitely blocking any hotlinks like this now.
posted by grum@work at 03:53 PM on January 10, 2004
I ended up going to Hot Stove Cool Music last night afterall. Good time for charity. Saw some ball players. Saw some good bands. Took some pictures. Gammon's band was actually really good. Scott Spiezio's band is pretty good (did an Alice in Chains cover well). Jack McDowell's wasn't my cup of tea. The lead singer of Theo Epstein's band is awful. Instrumentally, the band was great, vocally... bleh.
posted by jerseygirl at 06:27 AM on January 12, 2004
Hot Stove Cool Music sold out, sadly. Already checked.