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Art Vandelay

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  1. Back in my day we didn't have Wendy's in the Union. Or any other chain restaurant. We had nothing but generic food offerings like "Mexican" and "Deli". That's the way it was and we liked it!!! #surlyolds
  2. If this story is true, it's disgusting, and no one should have to witness that on a flight, or anywhere else in public. That said, people that turn to Twitter for everything annoy the shit out of me. If she was being "sexually assaulted" (her words), then don't you think it's worth waking up the person in the aisle seat so you can go and alert a flight attendant?? Or just press the fucking "Call Flight Attendant" button directly above your head?? WTF. Also, it was a "nearly 5-hour flight" and she never once got out of her seat? I'm calling b.s.
  3. I'm in Burma!...you most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.
  4. That’s right, Elaine. White lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.
  5. Definitely something I would've done in my 20s. Hell probably even in my 30s.
  6. And Who Do You Love is a Bo Diddley song.
  7. It's because of the flatness of the earth.
  8. You stole my Jesus fish, didn't ya?!
  9. The Doors for me as well. I can still appreciate some of their songs but I rarely listen to them. I probably listened to them way too much in college in the early 90s when the movie came out. Also Dave Matthews Band. Another is REM, although I wouldn't say I can't stand them, I'm just kind of indifferent to them now. I went from being a huge fan in the late 80s through the early/mid 90s to almost never listening to them anymore, even though I still own a lot of their music and still appreciate their importance as a band.
  10. Thank you. I started noticing this years ago at work. Bugs the shit out of me.
  11. "Full stop" to assert an opinion. Or worse, "Period. Full stop." Well shit, I was going to challenge you, but since you pulled out the old full stop I guess it's game over. Full stop.
  12. Stomach bug, apparently
  13. UT class of 1955. Hook'em and RIP \m/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/26/514228407/alan-bean-apollo-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-has-died-at-86 One of the U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon has died. Alan Bean died on Saturday in Houston after a short illness. He was 86. With Bean's death, only four moonwalkers are still alive (Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt). Bean was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 12, which made the second lunar landing in 1969. He flew in space one more time, but he really made his mark in what he did after NASA. Bean spent 31 hours on the moon, collecting lunar samples and deploying several experiments with mission commander Pete Conrad. They also checked up on Surveyor 3, which had landed two years earlier. Enlarge this image Astronaut Alan Bean during the Apollo 12 spacewalk on the moon's surface. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., who took the photo, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr./NASA They were busy but, as Bean recalled during a 2016 NPR interview, "as I ran along, I remember ... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here. ... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself." After Apollo, Bean commanded the second Skylab mission in 1973 — orbiting the Earth for 59 days. Later, he was in line to fly the first shuttle flights. But he gave it up because "the more I thought about it the more I realized there were young men and women at NASA in the astronaut office that could fly the shuttle as good as I could or better, but I was the only one interested in trying to do this other job." That other job was to paint. So he left NASA. He had an engineering background and was a test pilot in the Navy, but took art lessons at night and it was something he always wanted to do full-time. For more than four decades after his space career, he chronicled the six missions that landed on the moon. He said, "I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings ... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about." In painstaking detail, he recreated what it was like to be on the moon, using actual moon dust and ground-up remnants of Apollo spacecraft. Before starting each painting, he'd spend weeks studying photographs and videos, and calling fellow astronauts to probe their memories. Those materials and memories are what Bean brought back from the moon, but he also left something behind — his silver astronaut lapel pin. He had thrown it as far as he could into a crater. He said he thought about it often, "and when I look at the moon at night, think about that pin up there, just as shiny as it ever was, and someday maybe somebody will go pick it up."
  14. Yep. I've never seen them live but my girlfriend, who is a huge CC fan, always insists on playing a live album of theirs in her car and it is absolutely brutal to listen to. And it's 100% because of Duritz's refusal to sing the melody. It's really annoying.
  15. SugarAh, honey, honey You are my candy girl And you got me wanting you Honey Ah, sugar, sugar You are my candy girl And you got me wanting you
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