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My forensics team just discovered yesterday that the comment thing has been broken for the past couple weeks. It's fixed now. My profound apologies to anyone who typed up a long spiel and had it get ganked.
Now then, on to more pressing shit. Eventually it comes time in life to get a job where you have to attire yourself at a level above the t-shirt/jeans combo. I've had about five quote-unquote professional jobs in my life-time, and of those, none of them have required me to dress in anything above corporate casual. Never had to wear a tie to work, thankfully. But what I find so hilarious about this is that no matter how many new shirts I buy myself, I always seem to have no more that five outfits that I deem work-worthy, one for each workday. Even if I have, say, eight shirts, I'll only keep five in rotation. It's some weird psychological thing, I guess. Like whenever I have more than five shirts, suddenly the extra shirts seem eminently unwearable, and I can't imagine how I ever brought myself to wear them in the first place.
Another funny thing about the corporate casual trend is that when you work in a big ugly office park, as I do, and you go to the asteroid belt of restaurants surrounding the office park on any weekday around noon, it's like Attack of the Office Clones. All you see is a sea of people that look exactly like you. Same goatee, same cheap-ass short-sleeve plaid Target Merona® shirt, same ironed Dockers, same corporate security badge. It's nigh on unsettling to see so many males that look like their mom dressed them.
So, did comments on the whole Queens of the Stone Age thing not work, or am I dumb? I need closure on this.
- t holland October 07, 2004 17:25Oh yeah, sorry about that. The whole comment thing has been broken for a couple weeks. It was choking on apostrophes, which is why the comment "fuck johnny ramone" was able to go through. No apostrophes in that. Apostrophes are like kryptonite when you're dealing with webservers.
The answer was Black Flag's "Slip It In". My co-worker known as The High Lord of Boundaryshire knew the answer, but declined the prize.
- Yarbolio October 08, 2004 11:52I'm surprised none of Yale's cohorts that really dig the punk rock that the kids are into these days got the answer. I used to listen to that shit all the time in high school and now just recently revisited it. (Thanks to the Yale of Kaul) If you think about it, Black Flag is some pretty elemental shit as far as punk rock goes. Right in there with Descendents and The Misfits. The Henry Rollins singing pose has been adopted as routine procedure for any discussion regarding the early 80's punk genre around the mutual workplace of Yale and myself. I happen to believe that this would make a great "secret handshake" for the die hard Black Flag/Rollins Band aficianados.
- The H.L.B. October 08, 2004 13:06hey, I have that Tijuana Christmas record. Sleeve only!
- t holland October 08, 2004 14:09Hey Yale,
Don't see an email link here so this is the only way I know how to get in touch.
I used your Watt quote on my page, thanks.
Also... I forgot to mention that I was at the show in Northampton last May (2003) where Watt screamed "MURPH!" and shit his pants.
-b @ wmamsf
- Bruce October 08, 2004 14:56Did I ever tell you, Yale, that I've seen Hank Rollins a couple of times at the Trader Joe's near my house? The first time, he was in line having what looked like a deep conversation on something he really knew a lot about while the TJ's guy was scanning his goods. The other time, he was rolling out of the parking lot in his Benz while I was rolling in with my Corolla. I wasn't quite quick enough to give him a cool, "What's up, Hank?" as our driver side windows passed each other...
- mhaze October 08, 2004 18:02