Sick trolling People should be disemboweled, quartered, and fed to piranhas in public along with 5 generations of family members for destroying our tranquility.

Paul Williams is the real GOAT <-NYT gift article about an upcoming celebration of his work. Head of ASCAP since 2009, too.

 islander wrote:

 I'm not worried about that. They're a good bunch of guys. I could tell by the tone of his voice when he gave me the quote that he felt bad.

 SeriousLee wrote:

Half the back pocket budget. Hope your mechanic isn't reading the forum!

 SeriousLee wrote:
Glad too hear that.  

 GeneP59 wrote:
My thinking was, If it's over a grand please let it be under 2 grand. I need it for my job so i'm ok with under 2 grand. Not happy, but ok.
Got a call from the garage...appraisal is close to a grand. Emergency brake locked and cooked the pads. But the car didn't feel sluggish and only made noises occasionally. So i probably ran it for 2 1/2 hrs after i first heard the noise. Oh well. It is what it is. Now i need a stiff one.  

 maryte wrote:

 SeriousLee wrote:

I just came here to say, "Oh, look, ANOTHER one!"

Oh look...it's the MPP... Multiple Personalities Party!

 GeneP59 wrote:

Me too! 

 SeriousLee wrote:

Hope it’s just a minor repair.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
It's my work car that is at the garage. Been making funny noises since yesterday. Hopefully they get a look at it this coming week. In the meantime...vacation. Forced vacation. Been under the weather for over two weeks, so can't complain.

 SeriousLee wrote:

Oh, man. Two days ago, one of my pro bono freelance gigs handed me two Benjamins because it's coming into the holidays and I work for free but they take care of me a little. Yesterday JFW had a flat tire and I had to buy two new tires so on the bright side, I'm only down net $75.

 SeriousLee wrote:
It’s the frakin’ karma balancing out life.  

Why does the car always break down when we come into a little extra money?

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

Nice...cool post actually.


I have just returned from another trip to Valencia.
I urge everyone to make a trip to Spain if only to see how beautifully designed modern buildings can be - in places like Germany and Italy and Netherlands modern buildings are in large part just the same square boxes of varying heights with outer skins of different textures and patterns. 
In Spain you will see curves and shapes not seen everywhere. And then there is the food, and the good-looking people. When a waitress moves and looks like a super-model one cannot help but tip generously.

The point of this post however is to mention that on my return my new fountain pen was awaiting unboxing.
It's a broad Lamy Safari, in burgundy, so not a Rolls-Royce but a good, reliable entry-level Mercedes Benz.
It's a delight to write with...and takes me back many years to when my daily-driver was a Royal blue Schaeffer with a nib that I modded to a width of about 1mm. It was as smooth as Cornish cream to work with, made a full A4 page of writing look like a document of major historical importance, and somehow seemed to make me want to write stuff.
It was not an economical tool in terms of ink consumption, though.

Bottles of sepia, carbon black and shimmering deep lilac ink are on their way...

 Steely_D wrote:

I don’t do the news feeds 

 GeneP59 wrote:

You could just skip the R_P newsfeed aggregator and that's half the postings right there.

 kurtster wrote:

And the beat ghost on..