i'll be in seattle feb 11, anything i should do?

Come see us! How long are you going to be there?

whee! friday through sunday are you far? is there anything i need to see [besides the library] if i don't get to see you?

Will you have a car in your possession? touristy things- * space needle * Experience Music Project * underground tour * the Fremont Bridge troll strange and wonderful things- * Uwajimaya grocery store in the International district * Boeing surplus store- strange salvage things from Boeing aircraft business * Belltown pea patch garden- cool garden in the middle of downtown (not quite as beautiful this time of year, but still cool) * Frye Art Museum (cooler than Seattle Art Museum, in my opinion- if you'll be in Seattle on Friday night, Tracy and the Plastics is playing there!) * Wing Luke Asian Museum What kind of food do you like? More later...

also, if you like the rock and roll, the "experience music project" is supposed to be very cool. i've never been there. skeptical. but many, many people whose opinions i trust say that it . . . errr . . . rocks.

oh fuck nevermind L

neato i don't know about the car yet the boeing surplus sounds really cool is there a way we could meet?

Sorry- just got back from Portland. YES. If Dave is phobic, I'll come by myself or with Cleo. Wheee!

i was sort of hoping you would email me or drop me yours so i can bug you.... something i should give you my phone number so we can do that 'hear the voice of someone you've already given a voice to in your head for a long time' weirdness

Send me your email...

dave,glad to see your alive.

did you get it?

...look,its that time of night when v sees strange movies on t.v.,,,,so v needs to shut down right now,hope y,all dont mind.But v will be whuppin ass 24 hours from now.

i have added my funny picture to tbone's website to show you my weird new glasses and in order that you mightmight recognize me. good luck. i am not going to point to it. k.

I'm with you, dawg. I just posted some pictures of Fluffah sporting his new one eyed look. Fluffah hates us.

heather,the cool glasses right now are small, rectangular and rimless.,but they tend to make me look a bit Jewish.Ten years ago it was "John Lennon" Grandma glasses.20 years ago it was "Elvis" style.Its no fun looking Jewish when your Russian Orthodox,but I do get a discount on salt beef and latkas in Yiddisha shops.

...food of the Gods,before you die,you need to try...

GET OUT OF OUR CONVERSATION.

I'm starting to feel like it would take three sorabjite cats to make a whole one, judging from all the missing parts documented in the photo gallery. WE ARE THE BIONIC CAT BUILDERS!

heather sure is purty

aw

She is a cutie-pie, no doubt. Yes, the continuity among the sorabji cats is somewhat alarming. How have we all been chosen by these fucked up cats? Or, conversely, are these cats fucked up because they are owned by us?

I'm thinking we should get group pet insurance. Or there should be a warning somewhere: Sorabji may be hazardous to the health of your feline. Right now Loki is having a war through the window screen with one of the crows. I pointed out to him that he's lucky the screen is there, because it's a war he probably can't win.

for those of you unaware.... http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

and tbone's website is where...? you know where to find me.

http://www.dirtyredcommie.com/gallery/v/sorabji

since i'm here. i was searching the web for pictures of giardia lamblia (an intestinal parasite), and i found this site: giantmicrobes.com. disease plush toys, basically. cute and just in time for valentine's day.

neato!

agatha,so how come you keep butting in to MY conversations?...most of yours bore the pants off me.

oh, SNAP! In other news, I'm digging on the "stuff on my cat" website.

My cats love the plush microbes. Mr Bell has gone through three ebola.

my cat is never impressed by the toys i buy her, and she never seems to go for anything larger than a golf ball. her absolute favorite toy is a broken tv antenna that she chases around as i drag it across the floor. five minutes after i posted that link to the microbe dolls, i got a call from my aunt telling me my mother was in the hospital. but no microbes were involved - she had a bleeding colon and had to have it cauterized. it had something to do with the polyps she'd had removed recently. i wonder if they make polyp dolls.

Sarah, you're alive!!!!! all microbes aside, it's good to be back. I am thinking of moving to Oklahoma, speaking of microbes.

Cats, as a rule, don't like things that you buy for them, unless those things are foods. What's in Oklahoma to move to?

cleopickles loves crumpled bits of paper and the wire toy at sem's house. she used to like the fort that sem bought for her, but not so much now that space ghost isn't around. sometimes she plays with the toy that platy and loki sent her. henry, on the other hand, LOVES toys: mr. hedgehog, winnie-the-pooh, puppy kong (preferably with some pb inside), mean kitty, mini tennis ball, the cloth bones, and this colorful stuffed thing. he also plays with his bed and my shoelaces and cleo's crumpled paper. the other day he tried to pull his blanket out of the crate and dragged the whole thing across the kitchen floor.

"OKLAHOMA"!...What a musical!,see if I can remember the words..."Where the wind comes blowing out your asshole,where the wind comes blowing out your ass"...,spect droopy will correct me on this...and Im told its a real good place for flying kites.

...and regarding cats "Tia",v,s Cat,ate 5 household (large and fat)spiders today,thats somthing to be proud of dont you think? can your Cat do that?...Tia also jumps on my back and trys to bite into a vein in my neck,a bubba Vampire if ever I saw one...and how come all Sorabjis have Cats?

kazu,my Cat Tia Maria likes eating moths and spiders,but first, I have to open my wallet,to let them out.

...oh,and Tia sends regards to you all...and can you send her some spiders,fat ones.

WOW,Tia likes spiders,I had to lift her 6 foot up the hall stairway to get one last night.,gone in one gulp,just the legs hanging out.,still kicking.before Tia,my house was full of massive spiders,now I have none.Cats are awesome...but they do tend to regard your toes as mice at 3 a.m.

daniel, didn't i just talk to you on the phone not too long ago? right after we got back from st. louis? or was it email? why are you moving? well, the good news is, if you do move to oaklahoma you'll get better looking, but the bad news is, you'll become a retard. my cat is too cool to play with toys, he just guards the front of the house all day and wrestles with other cats, leaving chunks of cat hair on the front mat. our dogs love all manner of toys, especially plush toys and ropes and frisbees and anything plastic. oddly enough, even though they're both retriever mixes, they don't care much for balls or fetch. leroy has mellowed out a bit finally. he likes to play rough with other dogs and chase squirrels, but he's lost his title as The Destroyer to lulu. if her tail doesn't destroy it, her teeth will. if there's a hole to be dug, lulu's your girl. if there's a plant to uproot and drag around the back yard - lulu again. need the protective tarp ripped off of your back patio furniture? lulu's got it. lulu will disembowel any plushie in under 5 minutes. we have a drawer full of plushies, we give her a new one every other day. figure it's either that or she'd probably chew her way through a fence or a door, maybe some brick... we don't care, it's fine - we buy 'em at yard sales or goodwill. dave picks up the stuffing, or what's left of it. she poops the rest out. luckily dave picks that up too. you know those dog toys that claim to be extremely durable for even though stongest chewers, or the toughest dog toy? it takes lulu all of a few minutes to destroy them. if there's anything left of them, we take them back for a refund because they claim to be indestructable. they don't know lulu. half black lab, half great dane. 9 months old, 75 lbs, 110% puppy, jaws of steel. the only one she can't yet put a dent is the Kong. those things are brilliant. i wish they made them in purple.

heather, how are you enjoying Seattle?

to begin with, there are 39 casinos within 100 mil radius of the intentional community I am considering. So as a counselor for gamblers and family members, well, there's much work. OK just got powerball three weeks ago, and theOK lottery is new as well. So, job security and retirement. The only thing is ... no ocean. But I did find a neat house a couple hundred feet up a bluff (one of them thar windy uns 'spose, sorta close to the indy uns...) overlooking a great stretch of river good for trout and floating. Today I moved about sixty feet of fence in the garden, a muddy sticky snowy thing to do. So it's a thought, this springtime shit. When a young man's thoughts turn to finding a cheaper place to live that has work for an old man tired of cold weather; no hurricane, no flood, well an occasional tornado or brush fire... Sons want me to move to a)Thailand, or b)Costa rica. May be I can't get my meds there. But the cat will be happy anywhere.

...regarding Cats,when do Cats get all there teeth? Tia my 3 colour Cat only has fangs and its 6 months old,I expect a Cat to take the flesh off my fingers...most of the others did,the worst I had was a ferrel (wild) cat,I think it ran off and blew itself up with a bomb,it was indeed a CAT FROM HELL.,I must have lost 3 pints of blood in the 2 weeks it was at my place.I think its name was Kruger,as most of the time it was trying to kill me.

heather lucked out, weatherwise. winter in seattle doesn't get any better than this. a week ago, it was darkness, deluge, windstorms, flooding and mudslides. i just bought an '06 kia spectra5. well, mostly bought. pending final, final, uber-final approval, i'll pick it up tomorrow. stomach in knots. am i making yet another ginormous financial mistake? don't answer.

I wanna get on the waiting list for a 2009 Honda Insight. Probably can't get on the waiting list this early, but that's when I plan on getting rid of my Accord. (Fiance's nephew turns 16 then. He'll need a ride.) Sadly I don't think any better alternative fuel vehicle will be available by then. Pity.

my sister has a SMARTcar, it's pretty fucking cool. Can you get those in the states yet?

oh, uh, that was me, btw. Losing track of my internet names ohgod

You can get them in the states, but I thought they topped out at around 40mph? I was thinking of getting one for around town, actually.

Er, sorry, 65kph.

I had to blow hthr off today. I'm sad. Manicpanda- HA!

Ya got your conversions mixed up. She's never had a problem with the speed, since the limit on all highways is 100k (62mph) and the average driver has no reason to go over 120k (74mph). They can do those speeds just fine. It's a little slower to accelerate, but neither of us are concerned with horsepower and that shit, especially in comparison with the benefits. She's sick of getting stared at though.

those things are freaky looking. like if you had to lock up the brakes, you'd go into a forward roll. i got the car. it's mine, for better or worse. i got the blue one. agatha says it looks like a chick car. sigh.

I would say it looks more like a lesbian architect car, actually. The smartcars are pretty funny looking. I realize now that I was thinking of the zap cars, which do have some severe speed limitations.

I quite like it, but its a girly car ;) I got my learner license a couple of weeks ago - I am the oldest learner driver in the world. I had my first lesson and nearly took out a supermarket wall. Woohoo. The pandyr thinks we're going to buy this: http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/ and finally be grownups.

No, moonit, I am the oldest learner driver in the world. How old are you?

can we at least settle on metrosexual? thanks. i'm pretty much unimpressed by all the new cars in my price range. it's like with cheap sneakers, they're all a bit garish and/or chintzy. but it has the 100,000 mile warranty and it gets 35 miles per gallon. that ford is sick. what is it, like a tricked out escort?

whoa, it's a falcon. they haven't made falcons here in the states since the 70's. i can't believe they put the driver's seat on the wrong side. that's just plain ignorant.

huh. i used to know a guy who had an old white ford falcon van with one modification: he removed the rear roof and sides with a blowtorch so it looked like a pick-up truck. cutest thing you ever saw.

i've seen those vans with the pickup bed. i think they actually made some stock that were essentially pickups. kinda like the volkswagon truck. when i lived in california, i remember seeing a convoy of those falcon vans on hwy 49 between sonora and angels camp. must have been a couple dozen, all in mint condition.

again, huh. i never knew they made a truck. i was also basing this on the fact that the first time i met him and followed him on a road trip to a little brain-dead texas town called springtown, there was no back - meaning you could see the seats and the guys sitting in them from behind. and he was a welder who made bbq smokers out of scrap metal. i found this site with falcon, dodge, and corvair trucks. none of them look like this guy's (travis was his name) truck. for one thing, his was really beat up (maybe making it easy to mistake for a van that had been chopped). and it didn't say "econoline" on the side, it had a stylized "falcon" that ran diagonally down the side of the door. i still don't feel like getting a car. i think i might like a handcycle. i'm always seeing people zipping around in one of those things, even the streets of downtown. there's even one that will convert a wheelchair into a handcycle (cyclone, bottom of page) (otherwise i'd have to tie my chair onto the bag of my handcycle with a rope or something, i guess). but the "shark" looks cooler. or a burro. i live a block down the street from a horse stable. it'd be perfect.

I am confused by your truck talk. Do you mean van or ute? The one thing I think would freak me out the most if I ever actually get to your country is the driving on the other side of the road thing. It's actually quite scary. Aggie, I am 30.

Driving on the other side of the road is cool. The first time I did it was when I visited Ireland. I'd been awake for 24 hours, then we hit the ground in Dublin and I drove for two hours on the wrong side of the road down highways and busy city streets, with the manual stick shift on the wrong side of my body. That were fun. :)

seattle was great. amazing weather just for me. so sad i didn't get to meet any of the dave./agatha family... one day! awesome food mm... library maybe i will put a pointless picture of me on the thing, complete with no landmarks or anything *grin*

wow, that is a bitchin building. books + cool architecture = happy heather. as soon as we can afford it, we're going to get solar for our house, and buy a hybrid. we watch this website: http://www.greencarcongress.com/ i like the "go yellow" idea a lot. i'm not sure why hybrids have to be so ugly though.

I drove on the wrong side right here in the USA. It was great fun. All it took was some Nyquil and a sinus infection. I like ugly cars.

the library alone would have been worth the trip [ah, mr koolhaus] i had a really wonderful weekend. lovely seafood.. i have the same feeling about hybrids, and unfortunately i don't think that they are ugly in the good way. oh yeah! and hot pot donuts. yum. does it center a bit around food? quite possibly.

hot pot? or top pot? i like hot pot myself. hee

ANTI,Tell me,how how much does propane gas cost in th U.S.?...in England its half the price of gasoline...for to to convert your engine in England is;$1750 for a 4 cylinder,and about twice as much for an 8,the 6 is half way between,if you get my drift...look,fact is my good ol, Lex 400, Does shit gas milage but is still a very fine car,as I dont do much miles each year,I am on the verge of a propane conversion,but I dont have a problem with more input from your good selves.

clearly i have no idea. yummy donuts in pretty colors, i know that! i should have brought some home.

heather,do they run on propane gas?

i want lovely seafood :(

do what run on propane gas? donuts? no. donuts do not run on propane gas.

it's "do whut".

Well, I was posting on Lexus cars,but no matter.

perhaps you should post on a lexus board with others who are interested in the subject do whut whut

Hee hee lexus board! I was really sad that I missed you, Heather, but this weekend was just not happening. That would be "top pot." I'm glad that you enjoyed the donuts! They are very cakelike, which is how I like my donuts to be. did you friend ever feel better? http://www.toppotdoughnuts.com/ Tell us what else you did. Whut?! Moonit- I'm 38, booyah!

We're looking to buy a house in the next year, and I'm going to get a bit more on the loan and install solar. The only risk is hail, but I think I can rig a powered awning that's triggered by NOAA weather reports of hail risk. Wouldn't that be just ubergeek?

hail damage - that's what insurance is for.

I prefer ubergeek. Much more fun.

heather,go out and buy a Lexus right now, BUT, it will give you one problem,it WONT break down on you,it happens to be the best car in the world,its why I own one...at this moment in time v has had 120 cars,and the Lex is the best of all time.

why don't you buy me one? i spend all my money on poptarts. hundreds, thousands, millions of poptarts.

im debating a new vehicle. not new. but new to me. on the fence A) sensible, economy car with zero style, but bitchin gas mileage and reliability B) entertaining my desire for a car that perhaps may not be the most sensible in the reliable or gas mileage dept but looks and makes me feel bitchin. it sounds like the stereotypical "mid life crisis" crap, whatever the fuck that means. however, i've always entertained choice A with my vehicle purchases and some close to me think I deserve to entertain the option B at least not for a short while. get it out of my system as I can always go back to option A. with option A im looking at subaru 4wd wagons or nissan maximas with option b, im looking at certain muscle cars from the 70s with rebuilds. on the fence i sit.

my parents recently had to give up their '05 Nissan Maxima for business reasons. They said it was a great car.

Antigone, if you were truly ubergeek, you'd go geothermal.

...look,you can only go "geothermel" if your genetics are in in Iceland,v did a track on my genetic history,and it looks like 2000 years ago v was Finnish

heather,look v allwas tends to think of you as very slim,I mean you post as a slim person,so whats with the the "pop tarts" stuff?...v also eats "pop tarts"....the stuff that makes your middle big?...for me its Sherry or Port,now I dont regard myself as fat,but I have not seen "Mr.Wobbly" for some time.

dave,if you want Winter in London,its too dry for Farmers,we dont get fog anymore,and we blame it most on the U.S.A.,as mostly you say "nothing will slow the U.S."....v saw today,when the Greenlnd ice shets melt,your high tide goes up 25 foot.

i am wondering what it means to "post as a slim person" though you caught me in my lie, i have not had a poptart in a very long time i can't wait until it's warm again

I still want a burro whom i will name "cadillac".

heather,you still post as a slim person,I just dont see you as an iconic fat person,like "Mamma Cass" of the pop group,did she die of cancer?,,,I expect droopy can give me the name of the group she was in,the name of it escapes me.

droopy,goes to show burros need longer legs...and as far as I know "burro" is also a form of music in some Hispanic area that I cant remember.It tends to have a "clop clop" beat.,about 1926?,in S,America? Veneszuela?

mamas & the papas. she died of a heart attack, but it was originally reported that she died by choking on a ham sandwich. never heard of "burro" music. conjunto music is sort of clop-clop sounding.

I thought it was a tuna sandwich.